Video Game Theme Remixes/covers

[ghostdog]

So I've been listening a lot to various remixes/covers/arrangements from old games. Especially those from early 8-bit and 16-bit consoles and DOS had some bitching music and can be rearranged to rock/metal/acoustic/electronic/symphonic , with some awesome results. Any other suggestions ?

One of my favorites is a medley from Golden Axe. Really this dude has done a fantastic job :




Shadow of the Beast (Amiga) already has awesome music but this remix is damn great :




Castlevania of course. Most of this game series fantastic music can be covered into boner-inducing epic metal tunes. This one is from Castlevania II (NES) I believe, but of course it has been reused many times in the series:




There are some awesome acoustic arrangements too. Legend of Zelda (NES) :




I couldn't leave out one of my favorites, Ninja Gaiden (NES) :





I've found many more gems, I'll be posting them here later. I haven't really delved into more PC-centric releases from early DOS games. I'm searching this stuff from memory and frankly most DOS music was nonexistent to shit, unless you had a good sound card etc, which I didn't. I'd like to hear some suggestions.


DISCUSS!

 

[markec]

6581 is a band that plays old gaming soundtracks.

 

[APGunner]

The Black Mages and FF soundtracks.

 

[ghostdog]

^ Yeah those Black Mages covers are very good. I especially like the Boss Battle Remix from FFVII


Turrican in a great rock/metal version :




Excellent cover of Schala's Theme from Chrono Trigger :




Contra Twin Guitar Medley rocks :

 

[dunno lah]

It's crazy how Konami recorded so many orchestral suites for Gradius:


My go-to guy for Castlevania in Rock:

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

 

[Ninjerk]

There's lots of good OCRemix tracks. I haven't really kept up with the "albums" much for years. I think the Chrono Trigger album was pretty good.

 

[Rpgsaurus Rex]

I couldn't leave out one of my favorites, Ninja Gaiden (NES) :

Bangin'!

 

[ghostdog]

When I search for a specific theme's cover my favorites are usually some crazy fan's cover.


Batman (NES) had a great soundtrack :





Chrono Trigger's "Wind Scene" :





Altered Beast "Rise from your Grave" :

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Start by checking out these CDs, particularly the "Back in Time" compilations.

 

[Grimwulf]

These guys do some fan remixes and original tracks on video games. Some gud, others not so much.

 

[made]

This would probably be the most widely known cover (Lazy Jones, C64)



And this the most shameless one (Agony, Amiga)



OCremic and Remix64/Amigaremix are full of amazing stuff, those people at least give credit where it's due.

 

[made]

And let's not forget this humble effort by yours truly:

 

[Ninjerk]

ghostdog Wind Scene

 

[Unkillable Cat]

From the top. The Xenon 2 theme was originally released as a single in 1988:



Which was then used in Xenon 2: Megablast:



But here's the thing, the original is the theme to "Assault on Precinct 13" (1976):



So in effect, that's a remix of a downsampled mix of a mix sampled from John Carpenter. And not even a good one.

 

[ghostdog]

ghostdog Wind Scene

In the same vein :


FF VI - Terra's Theme




FF VII - Aerith's theme :

From the top. The Xenon 2 theme was originally released as a single in 1988:
....
So in effect, that's a remix of a downsampled mix of a mix sampled from John Carpenter. And not even a good one.

yeah. It's funny how much stealing has been committed both by and to video game composers.

Basically all of Doom's 1 and 2 music is lifted from various metal bands, but it's so fitting and well done, you can't blame them.

Also Ninja Gaiden's ending theme is basically based on the classic Romeo & Juliet theme. This is a nice cover :

 

[G.O.D]

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/video-game-music-remixes-and-covers-thread.87093/

ghostdog - I started a similar thread a while back, you may want to check it out.

 

[made]

Cool find, UC.

Turns out there was also a disco version of that song back in '83:


Can't blame them; it's a catchy melody.

 

[Akratus]

 

[G.O.D]

/dump

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Cool find, UC.

Turns out there was also a disco version of that song back in '83:

Can't blame them; it's a catchy melody.

Agreed, it's catchy as hell. But the Disco version feels...flat. It could easily be updated to something catchy, yet with a strong disco vibe to it.

 

[dunno lah]

I think I've posted some of this guy's Castlevania covers in different threads here, before he became famous thanks to making Souls covers (and mostly through VaatiVidya's word of mouth).





Oh yeah, let's put a little more Wind Scene in this thread.

 

[Gerrard]

Wasn't there a thread like this already?

 

[Perkel]

and now something unexpected:

 

[Ninja Destroyer]