—Lavender Town
Junichi Masuda - Lavender Town [from Pokemon Green Beta]
the only suicide this music caused was of the laughable idea that one can become the “master” by spending a lot of time and money imprisoning animals and forcing them to fight each other
—Sagat
Isao Abe - Sagat [from Street Figher II (SNES)]
many times have i felt the peculiar vibrations recoil violently throughout my skull without my permission
—Lux Tizer
Norihiko Yamanuki - Lux Tizer [from 7th Saga]
i have somehow found myself trapped in an endless, mysterious landscape. i don’t know if i shall ever return…
—Title Theme
Martin Galway - Title Theme [from Parallax]
if such a thing were possible and if i didn’t find the very idea detestable, this could possibly be the objectively best piece of game music
—Track 2
Michal Szpilowski - Track 2 [from NightShade (Atari XL)]
any time i wish to steer myself away from my own roots and all the terrible baggage they bring, they find some way to emerge out of all of my cracks and seams and frustratedly begin asserting themselves…
Mamoru Samuragochi - Mansion Basement [from Resident Evil Director’s Cut DualShock]
i am completely sincere in my belief that this is the true sort of use for digitally sampled “symphonic” instruments
—Bloody Street
Masato Araikawa, Takayuki Sasaki - Bloody Street [from Galaxy Fight (Arcade)]
to me, this encapsulates the extent of the cultural contributions made by videogames
—Last Areas
George Sanger - Last Areas [from Faceball 2000 (SNES)]
finally, the last halls of this terrible midi maze…the tension is palpable…
Robert Prince - Easy 2 [from Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure]
apparently Mr. Prince took a short break from writing every piece of music in a 12-bar blues progression and wrote one of the most adorable melodies i’ve ever heard
