So portal's kickass little end credit song reminded me: I've been meaning to ask about other cool/funny little songs developers have created for their games.
The ones I know about are:
Still Alive (Portal) Mechanical Man (C&C) Medieval Man (warcraft) Worms bonus tracks (Worms) Hell March, No Mercy, Smash (last bit, first sucks ;P ) (C&C Red Alert) Last Ninja Wizball Marathon themes
what have i missed out on? Also - awesome bits of music like the Marathon 2 and Marathon infinity intro tunes, Halo (done to death i know but it ruled when it first came out).
The bonus tracks on the original worms games were hell funny.
And imo the game with the best music ever is Metal Gear Solid 2, the music direction by Harry Gregson Williams is one of the greatest pieces of game music ever produced.
With the Red Alert theme, are you referring to the Misirlou take-off that was at the end of the RA soundtrack disc after a long silence? It was based on the tune of No Mercy from CnC1 (and if you listen to Airstrike also from CnC1, it's the same tune too).
2. In the player at the bottom click on CNC Series and play a track called No Mercy. Then listen to a track called Airstrike. They're both from CNC1. Marvel at how skillfully Frank Klepacki remixed the same tune into two completely different songs.
3. Then find a track called Smash on the list. It was the last track off the Red Alert soundtrack disc. Ignore most of it. Watch the time. Shortly after Smash finishes, at around 4:55 the bonus track will start. It is yet another remix of No Mercy/Airstrike in the style of Dick Dale's Misirlou (the signature guitar track from Pulp Fiction).
4. Add that track to your list of cool/funny computer game songs.
Hell March - C & C Red Alert: [media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=RHycoOExCPE[/media] There is also one of the worms intros thats an awesome rock tune but I cant remember which one - its the one where the worm is gearing himself up as the music plays.
This says Chase HQ loader, but it was really a generic loader for Ocean games. Ocean Loaders 1 & 2 were by Martin Galway, 3 was by Peter Clark and 4 & 5 was by Jonathan Dunn. I think the music here is from Ocean Loader 5.
weee found the Marathon themes on youtube :DD Marathon 2: Durandal - [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el5yD2Ayokw[/media] Marathon Infinity - [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXwevR52t5k[/media]
if you're a Halo fan and you've never played Marathon, seriously, go get em, Bungie released them for free a little while back. See where Halo came from :)
and wizball! damnit forgot about that theme! FILTH RAID!
It's been so long since I heard that. Gave me goosebumps...
The only song from any game that I used to hang out to listen too (waaaay back) was on the C64, a game called Parallax - the song went for about 15 - 30 minutes.
The only other good one that I used to enjoy was mentioned above - Blood Money for the Amiga.
Quote from Warlock;324681: The only song from any game that I used to hang out to listen too (waaaay back) was on the C64, a game called Parallax - the song went for about 15 - 30 minutes.
You can find 30-odd remixes of the Parallax theme here. Not to mention thousands of mixes from other C64 games, mostly very good stuff!