TGON Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 So what was yours? Mine would have to be these: Kirby Canvas Curse Drawcia Sorceress: Pokemon D/P Cynthia Battle: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ftninja Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Oh god. This'll bring back memories. The first VGM I ever really paid attention to was from Kirby's Adventure (NES). Green Greens: And I'd heard the song before I even played the game, so I didn't know where it came from. But when I got a hold of Duck Tales, I made a yaiz face. Moon Stage: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollgagh Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 how about "listening to" I hear VGM whether I like it or not also tgon are you like 12 or something sheesh for me it'd probably have to be the (yeah it´s a LP but I can´t find the music by itself) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris ~ Amaterasu Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Original Mario Land theme (Mario Land Soundtrack) Many many hours Still to this day, listening to this conjures up images of jumping on those mushroom platforms, and jumping on those black round things. Even after my memory of what I actually did fades, this will always remain >.> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k25AtvtaqX0&feature=related =D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamut Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Hard for me to tell - I've always loved vgm since Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt (my first game). I want to say that Terra from FF6 was the big one that got me recording vgm with a tape recorder though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chernabogue Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Mmmh, I think it was Super Mario Land 2. Yeah, the "athletic theme" is awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC2151 Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Definitely when I was seven, The Ballad of the Windfish. Ballad of the Windfish, man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ectogemia Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 That's a tough one since just about all of my childhood was spent playing games. I remember loving Mario 3's and Kirby's Adventure's music, but I started to play music around 8 or 9 which is around the time I first tried Lufia II and FF6. I remember just turning on Lufia II and listening to the select a file music for a loooong time. No one has ever or will ever use an SNES harp to better effect than the guy who composed that game's music. Although, I didn't REALLY get interested in VGM until I downloaded some Uematsu sheet music for piano. I still have those 12 year old pieces of paper sitting on my music stand right now, and I play Terra's theme pretty frequently even today. EDIT: Oh wow. I just listened to a random Lufia II youtube song... turns out that's the melody I've found myself whistling but unable to place for about a decade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAsOyTeOpng&feature=related Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BardicKnowledge Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 Hard for me to tell - I've always loved vgm since Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt (my first game). I want to say that Terra from FF6 was the big one that got me recording vgm with a tape recorder though. Hahaha, this! Thought I was the only one who recorded via minitape recorder as a kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGON Posted October 16, 2010 Author Share Posted October 16, 2010 also tgon are you like 12 or something sheesh 14 to be exact Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Vagrance Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 This + pretty much the rest of the DKC2 soundtrack, which is still one of my favorites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuketheXjesse Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 Ha, mine is definitely this one. I remember seeing some ad for buying the soundtrack when I was a kid and wanting it so bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ectogemia Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 Actually, now that I think about it, Nintendo Power sent me some "thanks for reading our shit" thing about a decade ago where I got to pick between like 5 things for free. I picked the Banjo Kazooie OST... which is not the best.. but I guess that goes down as the first OST I ever got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XZero Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 There were so many memorable songs for me on the NES, but the first song I distinctly remember busting out the tape recorder for was the Super Mario 64 credits song. A few years later when my family got our second computer, I had my dad buy a microphone and a long cord for it so I could stretch it all the way to the TV to record the soundtrack for Super Mario RPG. That was also the first CD I ever made for myself. Going back and listening to it brings back all sorts of memories, even if the sound quality is crap. EDIT: Ectogemia, you just reminded me, the first music CD I ever owned (VGM and in general) was the Banjo-Kazooie OST I got for preordering B-K at Best Buy in late-May, 1998. The second CD I owned was the Super Mario 64 OST, which was free with a Nintendo Power subscription renewal. And the third was my Zelda: Ocarina of Time 4-track sampler CD for picking up the game at K-Mart on day one. So many great memories of being 12... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doulifée Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 I want to say that Terra from FF6 was the big one that got me recording vgm with a tape recorder though. good lord yes. Flashback, FF6, secret of mana, marioworld, dune 2, super bomberman... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ectogemia Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 There were so many memorable songs for me on the NES, but the first song I distinctly remember busting out the tape recorder for was the Super Mario 64 credits song. A few years later when my family got our second computer, I had my dad buy a microphone and a long cord for it so I could stretch it all the way to the TV to record the soundtrack for Super Mario RPG. That was also the first CD I ever made for myself. Going back and listening to it brings back all sorts of memories, even if the sound quality is crap. EDIT: Ectogemia, you just reminded me, the first music CD I ever owned (VGM and in general) was the Banjo-Kazooie OST I got for preordering B-K at Best Buy in late-May, 1998. The second CD I owned was the Super Mario 64 OST, which was free with a Nintendo Power subscription renewal. And the third was my Zelda: Ocarina of Time 4-track sampler CD for picking up the game at K-Mart on day one. So many great memories of being 12... Although the NES is easily my favorite system, I really grew up with the SNES and N64. About 99.999% of the reason I love video games so much is that I'm a complete nostalgia junkie. Seriously, if I had one wish, it would be to be a kid again. Since I don't have any wishes, I'll just have to be an adult who acts like a kid not enough of those around, that's for damn sure. Hah, you reminded me of this... remember when Ocarina of Time came out, and Nintendo Power had this offer where you could buy your very own REAL!! ocarina for $60? My friend bought one, and he still has it in his room today like 11 goddamn years later. 1990s > 2000s > 2010s (1980s > 1990s!!? dare I say?) I'd hate to be a kid these days, growing up on Halo and CoD and that crap. There's just no charm to anything anymore. Except maybe Minecraft. OK, definitely Minecraft. And totally random aside: Anyone remember that super-fast, arpeggiated, delayed harp song from Secret of Evermore in the ancient Roman place? It's not on the OST!! I played through on a ROM and savestated it while that song was playing just so I could hear it, hah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linkspast Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 This + pretty much the rest of the DKC2 soundtrack, which is still one of my favorites. /thread 890 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinslayer Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 I would say that probably the first song I can remember jamming to specifically was the Underground theme from Super Mario Bros. However, the first soundtrack I found memorable and helped me to track the game down again whenever I forgot the title would be Plok Also, anything from the Donkey Kong Country Series... This was also a memorable soundtrack from my childhood from the game Smartball Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gario Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Surprised this one hasn't been mentioned yet. Danced to this one in front of my TV for hours. Seriously. No surprise that I've made more than one arrangement of it, on my own time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Frazier Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 I distinctly remember humming themes from Mega Man, Double Dragon, Ninja Gaiden, Bionic Commando, Faxanadu, and other NES classics while riding my bike around the neighborhood and to/from friends' houses (usually after playing said games). And that was only last week! No, seriously that was when I was a kid like 20-some odd years ago. Got really into soundtrack listening when Sega CD and Saturn discs had the listenable soundtracks. Many hours spent listening to Lunar: Silver Star Story, Sonic CD, and Sonic 3D Blast. Oh and the Castlevania: SotN "black disc" tracks, haha! First purchased soundtrack? Final Fantasy VI Disc 3, so I could listen to "Searching for Friends" whenever I wanted. Later found it was a bootleg SM version, boo! But I have an original Squaresoft edition now, yay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC2151 Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Fuck Phoenix, nowadays I go around the damn university humming Sting Chameleon to myself and other such songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDX Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 i dont have a specific song, but... lego island <3 Actually, now that I think about it, Nintendo Power sent me some "thanks for reading our shit" thing about a decade ago where I got to pick between like 5 things for free. I picked the Banjo Kazooie OST... which is not the best.. but I guess that goes down as the first OST I ever got. Really? That's probably one of one my favorite soundtracks (Though not as a standalone ost, it's perfect in game). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subz1987 Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 It was probably Sky Chase Zone from Sonic 2. That song really stuck out among the other songs in the game. That and the credits theme from Sonic 3 was what got me into VGM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altermentality Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Hahaha, this! Thought I was the only one who recorded via minitape recorder as a kid. Well... that makes three of us For me, it's gotta be the Donkey Kong Country games, some of the very first games I ever played. That music blew me away as a very young child and was woven into the fabric of my mind forever. It's just brilliant. I had a bunch of MIDIs of it saved onto my family's computer when I was quite little. That's the reason for my DKC2 sig; playing it at such a young age, it had a huge effect on me musically and artistically and is possibly the very reason why I'm here. ...And also Earthworm Jim. I didn't realize that the Moonlight Sonata was anything other than that song that played on the Villi People level until my dad told me it was classical music. It went on to be my favorite song of all time, anyway. But the original stuff in those games was also great, with New Junk City being a special favorite of mine. And of course, the art style of those games was one of my biggest all-time influences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Emerald Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 I'm surprised that no one has mentioned pokemon yet. Pokemon Red was one of my first video games, and the music was(is) just amazing to me. Some pieces of music from Generation 1 STILL have not been remixed right, imo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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