Songs that sound like a video game

theonering84theonering84
in Everything Else
For all you closet musicians, as I am, you have a particular interest in songs that sound like video game music.  Whether it be the synthesizer, guitar, or anything else, it sounds like a game.  For me, Rush - Tom Sawyer (the guitar solo) is very obvious.  And then, I think that many Genesis songs from their 80s albums sound very similar to video games.   I'm not talking about soundtracks from GTA.  I mean sound effects in songs that actually sound like retro games.  What do you think?  What songs do you think sound or remind you of a video game? 
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  • Silent HillSilent Hill
    I always wondered about the sound effects used in this song -



    Totally sounds like Perfect Dark to me and the song came out before the game.
  • xMaGuSxxMaGuSx
    Do samples count? This is 10000% from eternal champions



  • IchinisanIchinisan
    Rammstein - Sehnsucht



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  • theonering84theonering84
    Originally posted by: xMaGuSx



    Do samples count? This is 10000% from eternal champions



     

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    Lol yes, sounds like a scene from Zelda or an rpg of some sort.  Nice.

     
  • theonering84theonering84
    Originally posted by: Silent Hill



    I always wondered about the sound effects used in this song -

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    Totally sounds like Perfect Dark to me and the song came out before the game.





    The background melody DEFINITELY sounds like Perfect Dark, and even a bit like Goldeneye but just a few seconds of it.
  • MuNKeYMuNKeY
    This count?





    ...pretty deliberate tho. Plus I happen to like SoaD so nuuh!
  • Hogie1418Hogie1418
    There's 20 seconds to this song that I feel would be awesome in a videogame . Starting at 2:46 



  • Webhead123Webhead123
    The intro to Through the Fire and the Flames by DragonForce always reminded me of something you might hear in a game like Castlevania: SotN.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jgrCKhxE1s
  • TulpaTulpa
  • G-TypeG-Type








  • PhilosoraptorPhilosoraptor
    Baba O'Riley by The Who.
  • YelirYelir
    Are you into something a little heavier? I would say this track would fit nicely in a Mega Man 3 level.



  • pegboypegboy
  • dra600ndra600n
    Originally posted by: Philosoraptor

    Baba O'Riley by The Who.




    You may need to say "teenage wasteland". Everyone I know looks at me like I'm speaking a foreign language when I say the actual song name  
  • Trj22487Trj22487
    Der Kommisar intro and synth line...I feel like a lot of 16-bit game music took inspiration from that track
  • G-TypeG-Type
    As a kid, I always thought that the Brain salad surgery album sounded almost like it could have been the soundtrack to Tron
  • TulpaTulpa
  • BrachabreBrachabre
    The synth lead (0:00 - 0:55) sounds like a game and the chorus always reminds me of Lambchops' "song that never ends" (0:55-1:15):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twmLXr8EjpU



    The synth lead here (0:23-0:35) also sounds like a game:

    https://youtu.be/EwyeOsNj19k?t=23s
  • TulpaTulpa
  • leatherrebel5150leatherrebel5150




    at around the 40 second mark
  • leatherrebel5150leatherrebel5150
    Pretty much any of the weather channel music reminds me of videogames. A lot could have been in Donkey Kong Country games or Hal's Hole in One golf on SNES (I played that golf game a lot as a kid). At around 1hr 15min mark there are some syth guitars that have that Goldeneye from N64 sound.



  • Silent HillSilent Hill

    Originally posted by: pegboy



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m...





    That song and PT.2 are fantastic. Thanks for the link!
  • Trj22487Trj22487
    The music of Milli Vanilli "Baby Don't Forget My Number" has always reminded me of Donkey Kong Country, or Rare music in general, for some reason.
  • The HiryuuThe Hiryuu
    Pluck any random Casiopea song and it'll probably sound like it belongs in a Sonic game.
  • Trj22487Trj22487
    I've often heard people say that The Beatles "Flying" sounds like it would be in Pokemon
  • CZroeCZroe
    Originally posted by: MuNKeY



    This count?



     

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    ...pretty deliberate tho. Plus I happen to like SoaD so nuuh!

    ...then you should probably know that this isn't SoaD.   They are called "The Rabbit Joint" and this particular misattribution has been going on since the days of Napster.
  • CZroeCZroe


    The beginning sounds like something from the Mega Man X series.
  • GandlinGandlin
    There's a lot of songs I could pull from Nine Inch Nails vast arsenal of music. I'm a huge fan but this one came to mind first, particularly the start and around the 1:45 mark...

  • MuNKeYMuNKeY
    Originally posted by: CZroe

    Originally posted by: MuNKeY



    This count?



     

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    ...pretty deliberate tho. Plus I happen to like SoaD so nuuh!

    ...then you should probably know that this isn't SoaD.   They are called "The Rabbit Joint" and this particular misattribution has been going on since the days of Napster.





    I seriously did not know this, lol of course I didn't get into SoaD till Toxicity and I've seen this diddle under their name and it sounded like them so I went with it. Learn something new every day.  
  • CZroeCZroe
    Originally posted by: MuNKeY

     
    Originally posted by: CZroe

     
    Originally posted by: MuNKeY



    This count?



     

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    ...pretty deliberate tho. Plus I happen to like SoaD so nuuh!

    ...then you should probably know that this isn't SoaD.   They are called "The Rabbit Joint" and this particular misattribution has been going on since the days of Napster.







    I seriously did not know this, lol of course I didn't get into SoaD till Toxicity and I've seen this diddle under their name and it sounded like them so I went with it. Learn something new every day.  

    I'm pretty sure they were deliberately trying to sound like SoaD.   The people who renamed the file and uploaded it to Napster that way we're obviously trying to share it with SoaD fans, so I'd say that it worked! Similarly, half the stuff out there that says "Weird Al" on it is just a Weird Al-style parody that got exposure by getting Weird Al fans to download it. C

     
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