This first music is for the start map in the game. It's pretty fun to play yourself on the guitar, although it would take a pro to make it sound near as good as the original.

Of course who can forget the music of the AOE games, especially for the second game? As if the game itself weren't breathtaking enough they had music that set the mood just right.

This song always got my blood pumping, something pretty important in a game such as this.

Ever since this RPG came out in 2002 I've been whistling its theme now and then while I'm cooking.

The theme music from the first GTA game is a big classic, and it's also very good. It was on one of the radio stations in GTA3 in a censored version (uncensored is uploaded).

It's a bit hard to know what to call this track, sometimes the title is "Grand Theft Auto" sometimes the artist and title is "Slumpussy - Gangster Friday". However I believe it's most well-known with the name I'm uploading it as, Craig Conner is the artist anyway (Da Shootaz/Slumpussy is fake groups).

This intro music is very good.

MI3 was created way back when LucasArts did other games other than Star Wars and it still stands as one of the very best (if not the best) adventure games of all time. I also happen to think that the game has the best version of the series theme song. When Guybrush Threepwood floats to shore on his bumper car, looking up from writing his diary, and this music crescendos as the game title comes forth... kinda makes me happy just thinking about it.

This Amiga game is one big satire of war. The intro music is pretty catchy. I have myself only played the later Game Boy version when I was a kid, though it was too hard for me at the time.

There was two aliens from the planet Funkotron that had a funky theme tune on the SEGA Mega Drive (Genesis).

Was there ever a village that had more evil beneath it?

Remember this stage? Had a submarine in it.

The Zelda games have really nice music, here is a mixup of music spanning from the first game in 1986 to the Wind Waker in 2003. The different musics fade into each other quite nicely, I downloaded this mix years ago (around when WW was new) and sadly never had better artist/title for this mixup than this.

FFX brought the series to the next generation consoles with a big leap forward, to me it might always remain as the best installement in the series with its awesome world, touching characters and ever so sad ending. The intro music really grasps its greatness, at least if you remember the story.

Of course FFIX was not half bad either, and the background music of the black mage village attached itself to my memory.

I never realized that it was just one year (or maybe close to two years?) between the 9:th and 10:th installement of the series. That's pretty amazing even if they had worked on 10 already before 9 was out, sure wish it was like this today too.

If you have never played Fallout 2 you have never played a real post-apocalyptic RPG, and you have missed out on a lot of laughs. And it was HUGE, just look at all this stuff: http://user.tninet.se/~jyg699a/fallout2.html

This was the music you heard on the world map when you had aquired the car. Having a car really helped speed things up.

Link description: Just a link to "The Nearly Ultimate Fallout 2 Guide".

The best track from this classic RTS game.

Or "Bare Knuckle: Furious Iron Fist" as it was known in Japan, was a beat 'em up game for the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis).

Whatever action game you're playing, put on the Quake II soundtrack in the background and you will feel like the baddest motherfucker on earth. I love this music.

The best UT game didn't have near bad music either. It really is a shame they failed so miserably with UT3 (in 2007), the developers completely lost their way. Maybe it wasn't made by the same people? They really should have stuck with their original plan to release a new improved version of UT each year.

It's funny how the UT2004 demo servers are full and brimming with life even today while the UT3 demo servers were empty after only a year.

I never played this the fourth installement of the Mana series. I did enjoy its music though. And I do remember playing the third installement ("Seiken Densetsu 3") which pretty much carries the same feeling as the fourth (I reckon).

The lyrics you're hearing in this track are sung in Swedish. I think that's kinda cool, I've never heard any Japanese game music (or non-game music either for that matter) with Swedish lyrics except this one.

Now that's some cool music.

Most of the Worms I ever played was in the original game (PSX version mostly) though I remember the second worms game was fun too.

The music I'm posting was on the PC CD I believe and later also on the soundtrack. Actually I'm not sure if this was from Worms 2, it might have been from the original game even, or maybe a 2003 remake. But that's not too important.

The lyrics in this tell a little story about someone called Boggy B... a story of courage, honour, and worms.

Age of Empires 2, on the other hand, a great game in its own way, but then I was still a rookie gamer at the time. The music inevitably became memorable from playing the game so much, but I never did appreciate it as particularly good music. It was too... underwhelming. The game was already pretty non-violent as far as war games go, the music just added to that feel instead of revving us up with the thrill of warfare.

Ah, Morrowind. I only played Oblivion, from the Elder Scrolls series. Gotta say, Morrowind's theme has a much more powerful climax than its sequel's. And that map reminds me of Heroes of Might & Magic. On that note, HoMM IV, fantastic music, I'd share a tune but I lost all of them when I accidentally deleted my soundtracks folder.

Lol @ Cannon Fodder. My versions of it never had music, only sound effects (hax). Can't say I missed out, but maybe back then I'd have felt differently about the music. Really is a unique little game and really is hard, indeed.
Same nostalgic feelings for Lotus. Good fun hours I played it with my bro when I was a wee kid. The only racing game I've known of where we need to stop and refuel. I don't recall any of the music, though, must've not left an impression on me. This music you share sounds about right for that game but rings no bells.

Diablo. It had to be here. That there tune is the best of that classic, 'iight.
Blizzard's other beaut' though, StarCraft, I'd have a harder time picking one favorite. I like all the tunes, though I imagine if I had to pick one, it'd be the one you chose, too. The Terran tunes always were my favs.

Once again, kudos for a less famous but just as splendid classic, Fallout. Ah... Per Jorner's golden guide to that gorgeous wasteland of a game world. It's another case where I like all the tunes, particularly so about half of them in that sequel. I can say, though, that my favorite, from the original and that sequel, has to be Khans of New California. It's the most memorable for me.
I'll upload this one since I'm all out of HoMM IV tunes - from the Mark Morgan Vault Archives album, which has all classic Fallout tracks remastered and such.

Quake 2, what can I say? I didn't play that game much and it's probably why I don't remember any of the music. I don't remember some sounds effects though, they were particularly unique. From the sound of falling personnel pods to the gibberish that the Strogg blurted.
On the other hand, I'm much more intimate with Unreal Tournament. All games had great all-around music and those 3 are definitely no less. Tunes that composers ought to look up to. But let me tackle your criticism of UT3. I, too, would've preferred they kept the original template, UT3 was made with a more dramatic feel as it included a more present story - which in itself is a plus for me, but it didn't feel a bit off for UT. That story did, anyway. But I gotta say, it's still a helluva beaut' of a game. Gorgeous, still good music, some of it great. Could've been better, but certainly a triple A title nonetheless.

And... well, that was the last I could relate to. I won't comment on Worms except to say I never took that game seriously enough to take notice of its music. It's fun, but extremely casual, easily bores me.
I listened to some of the other tunes, the ones that stand out where that Legends of Mana title theme and the

Also forgot to mention I do find the Quake 2 tracks pretty darn revving and a great match for the gameplay, even if I remember none.
And that last night when I first found this thread, I ended up doing nothing but listening to the GTA music for hours. It was much to my surprise when I finally looked at the clock and read 6:30.

Here's another one to maximize the value here. I'm picking this tune as it's the only outstanding one in this game, to my ears. But it happens to be 'particularly outstanding'.

This is a victory song from the "Age of Empires game" Age of Mythology. This is actually my favorite AoE game. Great/detailed, long single player campain and lots of fun in multiplayer. Not perfectly balanced perhaps but that didn't matter too much. Big differance between the teams in how you play and do basic stuff. God powers. Great graphics for that time and a advanced map editor.

The music might not be "wow" per-se, but it goes well with the game at least.

The best platformer game with the best music... and it's free! Crazy. In a good way.

If anyone wants to play it you can download it from here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?bbt138y4tb2h11z

Note I haven't checked if that download is valid but the file name and file size matches the one installer I got so it should be good.

And when you put it like that, I can see the faults in UT3. But it would seem like all of them could be resolved with a mere patch. Not that they'd remove the hoverboard, that'd be unlikely - it's not on every map anyway, if I recall right, and I had no problem with myself, was fun in the different kind of ride that it is. I don't have much multiplayer experience with it though so maybe I'm missing the downside of it. The rest though, yeah, they're downpoints, but nothing actually game breaking, seems to me. Given how spruced up the Unreal Engine was for that game and how good the music and overall SFX was, it was a darn fun UT arena experience. Probably more so for multiplayer players, if we set aside those detailed flaws. F-yeah, heh, I don't think they were avoiding censorship so much as trying to be trendy, but I too have always found that F abbreviation to be ridiculously immature.

I liked GTA4 more than GTA SA, but I don't recall the latter all that well anymore. I've no word on GTA 5, but I do know Rockstar has since released Red Dead Redemption and will soon release L.A. Noire, which is looking damn fine. Of course, neither one really means jack until they come out for the PC, for me. Consoles are too rich for my blood.

And that's something to consider, but I really think anyone can impressed by Mafia II's menu score. Sure, I had played the original Mafia and remembered it fondly, eagerly since awaiting the sequel, but the very first time I fired up Mafia II was when I spent the most time listening to that tune, just sitting there in the main menu with the cityscape in the backdrop. Such a drama-of-epic-proportions feel I got right there. Made me predict the story would end tragically, which it did.
How much does anyone really need to know to appreciate the music? How much did we know before playing? We obviously know it's a mobster game from the title. And we can assume the time it takes place in. That's all we need to put context into the tune, I think.

I haven't played MGS Peace Walker so I'm not as able to familiarize myself with its soundtrack. As it is, I'm only sure of this one track that excels.

This game is big, it's the father of all modern RTS games. Sure that's debatable but it is the RTS father in my world.

I remember playing this very early in my life and it really was on a different level compared to the other games I had seen earlier in my life. And it featured real music! Which was rare. And the music was really good. There were plenty of tracks, even plentier if you count those that were in the expansion (almost 70 tracks).

I've picked out four of my favorites and as custom would have it I begin with Act on Instinct.

And yeah, that MGS tune only warms up about halfway, but it's certainly absolutely worth sharing and I couldn't just cut the track shorter. Bad mojo.
I, too, only played MGS 2: Substance. Hasn't been another for the PC since.

Oh yeah, got all C&C soundtracks up to C&C Renegade, for now.
I'd have posted Voice Rhythm from Covert Ops, myself.
>There were plenty of tracks, even plentier if you count those that were in the expansion (almost 70 tracks).
Oh? The released soundtrack albums, game's plus expansion's, total 29 tracks (22+7).

Ah this is a good queue to put up Pharotek from C&C Tiberian Sun, but that collection's all FLAC too.
Guess I'll pick another ol' goody we've overlooked thus far.
Shit be brewin'!

I haven't played this NES game myself but from what I gather from videos of it it feels like it was pretty big for its time. The game's title always reminds me of "Master Blaster" -- a character from the 1985 movie "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" (actually two characters, a little master guy sitting on the shoulders of the larger blaster guy). I like that movie, and I like this music. It's a shame that I can't find it in higher bitrate, if anyone can please upload it. Doesn't mater too much since its bit music but better quality is always a plus.