The worst video game music..ever!

[rkotm]

What is some bad examples of game music (namely old school)?

Example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Fmk3dUYu8 WHATS YO NAME???!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIxl_YzcBrs Seinfeld on SNES???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2S2_kLodIc HELP IM LOST IN SPACE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSRTXQGJVmw&NR=1 Like rubbing metal and pans together

Any rivals to these??

[Tupin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbCNKq7A5i4

Horrible. I would rather have no music...

[alec006]

What is some bad examples of game music (namely old school)?

Example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Fmk3dUYu8 WHATS YO NAME???!


Are you kidding, that's an awesome song, that's one of the best parts of the Rush series.

Ask for horrible music...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GflY6rsGTu8

Seriously, with all the instruments the Chinese could have used on the NES, WTF?!

[Rob2600]

I just came across this: Tagin' Dragon (NES) title screen

http://youtu.be/mMSIFhn4muE


Of course, there's always the Winter Games (NES) speed skating intro "music":

http://youtu.be/zD2fa8VlTE0

[joshnickerson]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbHxJlryPfA

My dead wife could do a better job... and she's dead!

[Battlehork]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbCNKq7A5i4

Horrible. I would rather have no music...

That's a mad sick ringtone bro

I've always been partial to the pornotastic music in Wolfenstein 3D SNES http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NM01Jy8di0
Might not be HORRIBLE, but it's still horribly inappropriate

[Rob2600]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbHxJlryPfA

I just heard that for the first time and literally laughed out loud at how horrible it is.

It's amazing to me that Nintendo, Konami, Capcom, Sunsoft, Tecmo, and a couple other developers could create such beautiful music on the NES, yet so many other developers could only muster up this putrid audio vomit.

[Kitsune Sniper]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbHxJlryPfA

My dead wife could do a better job... and she's dead!

... Yeah, I disagree with this one. I like the minimalist approach used here. It's very... I dunno, ambient, and simple. Sometimes it's not about what the music is, but what it's meant to be. Check out this version being played through an actual musical instrument:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFtHkyB7slY

I'm sure people will post music from Terminator 2 (NES) since everyone seems to hate the game's music, but I loved that soundtrack.

I can't really think of any truly bad music right now.

[Gameguy]

The Hunt for Red October on the NES. Give it a minute to get to the gameplay music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCAG1ilw_sM

[Dore]

This one is pretty freakin' bad. Garbage music to compliment a garbage game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6adxuUWK7gE&feature=related

[Gameguy]

Here's another one, it just keeps looping throughout the entire game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHJv7W1ZOzw

[kupomogli]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfu0XBf8kmk

[buzz_n64]

Robocop 3- NES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYWebKs0EGs

[Nightowljrm]

Colordreams games.
Hydlide.
Bubsy 3D.

'Nuff said.

[dgdgagdae]

Here's another one, it just keeps looping throughout the entire game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHJv7W1ZOzw

I love this comment:
The fact that the music makes you think that Indiana Jones is driving an ice cream truck is bad enough to not warrant playing it even once.

[SpaceHarrier]

Not bad at all in and of itself.. but this version is wretched.

The Imps Song
Doom
32x

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqf-gcOp7bI&feature=related

It actually sounds like intermittent diarrhea

[Damaramu]

Saw the title of this thread and I immediately thought of the music for the first 9 levels of Fatal Labyrinth. Funny enough though, I really like this game.

I dunno why I love this game so much, I guess I'm a glutton for punishment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb3naLwsVic

[Blitzwing256]

you're all doing it wrong:

terminator and hydlide's music is a symphony compared to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTTR6U2a9dg

[Kitsune Sniper]

Robocop 3- NES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYWebKs0EGs

This is a tad unfair. The music sounds a lot like a C64 tune, so it's not... exactly "nice" to those of us who didn't grow up with the system. It's decent. :P


you're all doing it wrong:

terminator and hydlide's music is a symphony compared to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTTR6U2a9dg

MORSE CODE SYMPHONY.

[Doonzmore]

This is a tad unfair. The music sounds a lot like a C64 tune, so it's not... exactly "nice" to those of us who didn't grow up with the system. It's decent. :P



MORSE CODE SYMPHONY.

I agree. There are moments in that intro that don't sound like and Nes game at all and the game itself contains a pretty decent soundtrack.

To the member who posted The Hunt For Red October, I found a complete copy of that game over the summer for 2 bucks and I had to turn the volume down. I've hardly ever done that before. Could have been an interesting submarine schmup.

The only game I've ever actually muted is Rocky and Bullwinkle for the Nes, so that gets my vote. I also found the boss music in Bio Hazard Battle (Genesis) to be really out of place.

[CapnCrunch53]

I love this thread. :love:

Another SNES game with that Seinfeld quality... Chessmaster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqPX5J5xyqc

[c2000]

I never understood why the music in Streets of Rage 3 was so bad, being by Koshiro and all..he must have had a bad day. (or a BIG trip)

[aryoshi]

All of the music from Action 52 comes to mind. That is my absolute most hated game on the planet and the music gives me an instant headache. The title music and the Cheetahmen tune are tolerable but everything else is just.. ughhh.

[Graham Mitchell]

Fuck I can't believe nobody mentioned this yet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lwTiTrte2c

Not only is it the worst music on the Famicom, it's the worst GAME on the Famicom. 1942 and Hydlide are a close second for me.

[Guru of Time and Space]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2S2_kLodIc HELP IM LOST IN SPACE
Any rivals to these??

Are you fucking joking me? That Rad Gravity shit kills it, no joke.

Also, that Terminator music is SICK. Very awesome minimal synth approach, broaden your horizons people. Not everything has to be catchy as fuck synth rock Falcom ripoff shit.

-GoTaS

[Rob2600]

That Rad Gravity shit kills it, no joke.

Also, that Terminator music is SICK. Very awesome minimal synth approach, broaden your horizons people.

I agree about Rad Gravity's title screen music being well done, but that Terminator music is just wrong. I understand what the composer was trying to do, but it turned out poorly. By comparison, certain areas in Metroid and Ninja Gaiden capture minimalism perfectly.

[buzz_n64]

[QUOTE=Kitsune Sniper;1854876]This is a tad unfair. The music sounds a lot like a C64 tune, so it's not... exactly "nice" to those of us who didn't grow up with the system. It's decent. :P


I think it's quite fair as the Robocop game music has regressed instead of progressed. Plus, this isn't a freaking C64, and I've heard WAY better tunes come out of the C64 than Robocop 3.
The first Robocop for NES had good music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84IhZuT7PPE

[PresidentLeever]

Robocop 3? The title theme in its entirety sounds amazing on the NES.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z754_a_aAHA

[VG_Maniac]

The music from the first stage of Blaster Master 2 on the Genesis. It's sad that Sun Soft would go from making such kick-ass music in the original NES Blaster Master, to this garbage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyshfH-XFT4&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL05EE379F08E17C12

[PresidentLeever]

The music from the first stage of Blaster Master 2 on the Genesis. It's sad that Sun Soft would go from making such kick-ass music in the original NES Blaster Master, to this garbage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyshfH-XFT4&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL05EE379F08E17C12

Yeah, the composition is OK I guess but it's really misusing the MD sound chip. Probably made by a western composer, all I could find was "Sound Images".
It's not all bad though, I quite like the Stage 7 and Title music.

Super Fantasy Zone and Batman are much better examples of Sunsoft music on the MD.

[ishashobar]

Classic bad music from classic bad game. (It never ever stops. Ever.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSwvQkBPD3Y (vhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSwvQkBPD3Y)

[exit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2S2_kLodIc HELP IM LOST IN SPACE

Are you kidding me? That music sounds like something that would have been used in Maniac Mansion, it's just soo damn chaotic, it's awesome.

[aryoshi]

I agree about Rad Gravity's title screen music being well done, but that Terminator music is just wrong. I understand what the composer was trying to do, but it turned out poorly. By comparison, certain areas in Metroid and Ninja Gaiden capture minimalism perfectly.

Metroid's music was so simple but so awesome, especially in Kraid's lair. Simple bleeps, blips and bloops turned out to be a masterpiece.

[Rob2600]

...certain areas in Metroid and Ninja Gaiden capture minimalism perfectly.

Metroid's music was so simple but so awesome, especially in Kraid's lair. Simple bleeps, blips and bloops turned out to be a masterpiece.

Yeah, Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka's music was fantastic. (Metroid, Kid Icarus, Dr. Mario, EarthBound, etc.)

[PresidentLeever]

yo, is this good or bad?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkW2SajFiHE&feature=related

[buzz_n64]

yo, is this good or bad?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkW2SajFiHE&feature=related

Good.

[staxx]

Michael Jackson's Moonwalker on the Commodore Amiga (Look it up on youtube and watch a long play you will see what I mean after a whiule)

[jwmollman]

I don't know if this is considered horrible music, but that "noise" at the beginning of a battle in Phantasy Star III is just awful. That "dan-un, dan-un, dan-un" sound will go on forever until you press a button to get the battle actually started. You can notice how the video uploader edited it to get to the actual battle music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7AbFYuOIaQ

[lazyhoboguy]

This game called klustar on the gbc has like awful versions of nursery rhymes that loop endlessly.

[backtrax]

Here's another one, it just keeps looping throughout the entire game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHJv7W1ZOzw

Your not kidding! this one hurts my ears goggles!!

[Sysop]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbCNKq7A5i4

Horrible. I would rather have no music...
The music reminds me of the ZX Spectrum, Jet Set Willy in particular.

[Sunnyvale]

Nobody has posted this steaming heap of crap yet? Top of the list, by a mile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-yZ7_enlWA

[CelticJobber]

I can't believe nobody's mentioned the Dolphin Park song from Wave Race 64. It's so candy-ass sounding that it hurts. And it's basically a rip-off of the old Mary Tyler Moore tv show's theme.

http://youtu.be/S3qbEGVIthI?t=1m08s

[Famidrive-16]

Quite possibly everything from Captain Novolin. All the worst twangy SNES vomit you can think of in one package

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usbnRhWVBD4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCCIGWtTTjk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mo_DnL9xJc

[SteveSpeeze]

11th hour for the pc

[k8track]

Cubis, for the Atari 2600.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpuufCCy81U

[Jim]

X-Men 2: Clone Wars for the sega genesis. Maybe not the worst music, but definitely among the most annoying...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVbHxllfdPw

[Vlcice]

Why has no one posted Hong Kong 97 yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oka1XfJuSc8

[BlastProcessing402]

There was one year when the WWE games on PS2 and especially on Gamecube had so many incredibly annoying licensed songs in there that I pretty much had to keep the TV on mute. If I never hear about that terrible singer's polyamorous friend again, it will be too soon.

[buzz_n64]

Why has no one posted Hong Kong 97 yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oka1XfJuSc8

That song's actually kinda catchy, I like it.

[djshok]

What is some bad examples of game music (namely old school)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSRTXQGJVmw&NR=1 Like rubbing metal and pans together

Any rivals to these??

Wow that Sonic Spinball music is bullshit. It's from the Genesis collection for Xbox 360, the sound is TERRIBLY emulated. The original doesn't sound even close to that. I don't know why those officially licensed emulators never get the sound right.

[WoodyXP]

Just about anything off the Action 52 carts.

[chrisbid]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHFnjM00b7w

rotterdam nation, Ridge Racer for the PS1


no excuses for the hardware here, that is redbook audio