A collection of my favorite videogame music. Note that most of them are from games I played so I might miss some great ones from games I never played.
NES
Silver Surfer (1990)
Level 1
Tim Follin & Geoff Follin
Reminds me of modern Mega Man titles x)
Despite how shit this game is, it is unreal that an actually NES can play music this epic and fast.
Just in case there are people who don't know, Tim Follin also went on to create Contradiction: Spot the Liar, and he composed the music for it too.
If Iron Man and Silver Surfer teamed up...they would be ALLOYS!
Sounds like music from the Tom & Jerry game on NES. I've discovered that composers was the same.
Only in Soviet Russia can you beat this game.
What a awesome theme, I'm really surprised!
THe only thing tougher than this game is actually trying to play this on a musical instrument.
My NES can do that? O_o
Honestly, pretty much anything by Tim Follin qualifies for this list. The kind of sounds that guy could squeeze out of NES and C64 sound chips are just insane.
thought this was gonna be a nostalgia-based entry but no,this is actually a hidden gem of a track.it's got nice beats and sounds
It is the keygen music from what I remember. :)
Yep! Tim Follin and his brother Geoff made some of the absolute best music for the C64, NES and SNES. Total legend.
Those drums. That bass. That everything. Jesus....
did these guys make the music or Pictionary on NES too?
Both were composed by Tim Follin, tho the guy got some help from his brother Geoff on this one. The guys definitively had a very distinct style, and all of his stuff was really advanced for the systems they worked on.
It's a shame that this game is fucking IMPOSSIBLE!!!
is that... a silver boner?
This is the only song I really know. Fucking hard.
Damn. This is LEVEL 1?
pretty good for nes!
bella!!!
I think the best music comes from the hardest games to make you want to try again just to hear the epic music.
To get this out of the NES sound chip is insane. The only soundtrack that can probably match it for complexity on the NES is Journey to Silius :P
wow never heard this until today....AWESOME!!!
if you dont play and pass a ultra hard game you are not a gamer
WOW!! 8O why is some of the best music from some of the worst games?
@Aerobatics22 The graphics are good, the story is good, the music is good. But what turns of me and likely many other people off is the very insanely hard difficulty that's based around extreme reaction times.
@electricmastro are you crazy? battletoads was awesome
@ispitthetruth Maybe games are considered bad if they are really bad, just look at Battletoads, it's practically unplayable.
@tbone2004 LMAO ;) perfect. One of my fav AVGN episodes
Such a hard (and kinda shitty) game, but this is fucking epic.
@gott957 you gotta admit AVGN is pretty funny when he talks about how Silver Surfer is supposed to be a badass yet he DIES from EVERYTHING lol
@gott957 this game makes Castlevania look like stealing candy froma baby in difficulty.... Battletoads is just plain psychotic difficulty ; p
Holy crap this is incredible for an NES game.
Ehh, the box art almost took my attention from the music. Well, can't help my female brain. *blushes*
This song would have been so much better in Contra.
that's true, while the game was considered a shmup with "no room for error", Tim Follin's music made the game worth the time (and patience) playing SS,
0:01 YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! 0:07 *Randomly pulling strings* 0:01 - 3:10 AWESOMESAUCE. Nuff said.
"I am Silver Surfer... I control the universe, and my own god damn groove, baby"
Heh that's funny I completely forgot I've listened to his music and watched the interview with Tim Follin floating around youtube a while ago. Thanks for the info.
The Solstice theme is the intro theme from the video game Solstice for the NES. They should have it here on Youtube. From what I understand, the Follin brothers have composed music for a lot of obscure NES games and a lot of Commodore 64 games. They're great composers, nonetheless.
What's the "Solstice" theme? What else have they worked on?
Not bad music for this game. I suppose we need to look past AVGN's review of it to enjoy the music. Touch the ceiling you die. Touch the side you die. Go too far to the left you die! Too far to the right you die! you die, die, die ,die ,die ,die,die,die,die,die...! Come to think of it...that's like 80% of all the side scrolling shooter games I played. And alot of them rocked!!
People should get their own opinion instead of listening to that guy. Besides, avgn is just a character so you have to take his review with a pinch of salt.
For all the negativity surrounding this game, the soundtrack is mindblowing.
lol people say this game sucked just because of the avgn review... it wasn't bad. a little unfair but not any more then e.g. castlevania or battletoads so get over it... this tune rocks btw
this is better than a huge lot of SNES tracks, seriously
It's hard to focus on the music when you're putting controllers through the TV in frustration. Level 1 is the only stage song a lot of people actually heard.
this game is ASS!!!
Totally rockin'. Too bad the game was utter dogshit.
so retro
YES FINALLY ... AGAIN
I had this featured on my channel a couple weeks back. Glad it's here!
The Follin brothers brought video game music to life. First time I heard the Solstice theme, I thought it was a real guitar/organ.
man this game is really damn hard but this song is really cool.
Ah, this game was impossible!
This sort of reminds me of the keygen music.
Energetic music I must say.
its been done already :) Fantastic Four - Silver surfer
Silver Surfer... could a Silver Surfer movie work?
Such an unusually hard game...