The Bit-Era Jazz

Tunes from Retro Gaming OST that Defined a Music Genre

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Persona soundtrack motherload coming to Spotify tomorrow

Most importantly: Beneath the Mask, the absolute bop

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Donkey Kong Country 2 - Complete Soundtrack

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The King of fighters 95 Full Soundtrack

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Altered Beast Soundtrack - Sega Mega Drive / Genesis

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Terranigma SNES - 1995 Soundtrack  composed by Miyoko Takaoka and Masanori Hikichi

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Virtua Racing (MD/Genesis) 1992 - Composed by Naofumi Hataya

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Shenmue Original Soundtrack

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Alex Kidd in Miracle World (OST) - 1986 Composed by Tokuhiko Uwabo

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El Viento - Sega Mega Drive / Genesis 1991 by Motoi Sakuraba 桜庭 統

El Viento is a platform game. The player has access to an endless supply of bladed boomerangs and eventually up to five spell attacks. Each level ends in a fight against a stage boss.

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Metroid - NES 1986

Composed by Hirokazu Tanaka, the composer said he wanted to make a series of tunes that made players feel like they were encountering a "living organism" and had no distinction between music and sound effects. The only time a melodic theme is heard is when Mother Brain is defeated in order to give the victorious player catharsis. During the rest of the game, the melodies are more minimalistic, because Tanaka wanted the soundtrack to be the opposite of the "hummable" pop tunes found in other games at that time

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A scientist captured an impossible photo of a single atom

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Mortal Kombat OST Soundtrack (Genesis)

Yet another Genesis port masterpiece from Matt Furniss composed by Dan Forden, A funky soundtrack full of drum riffs and vibes, this version if compared to the arcade and the SNES versions is much more powerful and effective, Nostalgic mode ON…

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Theme Hospital OST Soundtrack [PC]

Honestly I’ve spent hours, days, entire months playing this game! super under rated, absolutely fun, the soundtrack was one of the longevity factors and still those tunes are running so many nostalgic retro tears... click play, be ready and prepare the tissues...

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Comix Zone - OST Soundtrack [SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive]

Here we are in the mid 90s, it’s 1995, Comix Zone is one of the most revolutionary and creative beat-‘em-up games of all time but also its soundtrack is well curated with a very high number of tracks with an impressive fine set of arrangements. The style represents very well the mid ‘90s, an alternative rock / grunge feel the also fit perfectly the gameplay... enjoy! 

TRACKLIST

00:00 Sega Logo 00:13 Title Screen 00:34 Into the Zone (Options) 03:46 Introduction 04:25 Episode 1, Page 1-1 08:29 Seen it for Days (Episode 1, Page 1-2) 12:49 Feed My Disease (Episode 1, Page 2-1) 15:45 Episode 1, Page 2-2 18:41 Episode 2, Page 1-1 22:08 Episode 2, Page 1-2 23:45 Last to Follow (Episode 2, Page 1-3) 26:13 Episode 2, Page 2-1 29:27 10,000 Knives (Episode 2, Page 2-2) 31:43 Episode 3, Page 1-1 34:01 Episode 3, Page 1-2 36:08 Episode 3, Page 1-3 39:14 Episode 3, Page 2-1 44:00 Episode 3, Page 2-2 48:50 Episode 3, Page 2-3 50:38 Woe is the World (Boss Theme) 51:57 Battle With Mortus 55:23 Ending Theme 56:41 Results 58:23 Staff Roll 59:55 Game Over Composed by Howard Drossin

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Simcity OST [SNES]

Simcity Soundtrack is hands down the winner for the most nostalgic tunes ever, and this is by the way nothing new into the video games music especially during the '90s, how often those notes get us various swing of emotions that suddenly come back after 25years with a simple listening? well that's what will happen as soon as you will click on play...

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TETRIS Soundtrack OST [Tengen Atari, NES, GameBoy, Amstrad]

Tetris is iconic, “A-Type” also known as “Tetris Theme” is one of the most popular songs ever appeared into a video game. Tetris is also an example of how in the mid-80s developers and publishers started to give importance to the mastering of musical tracks. This OST is a mix of Russian classical and folk songs with some original tunes of which the ones composed by Brad Fuller are the most notables. Here we propose 3 versions plus 2 bonus.. Tetris was released and ported on several platforms and is very interesting to see how not only the game itself and the gameplay was adapted but also the tracks ... enjoy

NES

ATARI TENGEN ARCADE

GAMEBOY

BONUS:

AMSTRAD 

PHILLIPS CD-i by Jim Andron

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Alien3 - OST Soundtrack SEGA Master System

This soundtrack is just dope, hands down one of the most complex and well arranged work over the SMS is also one of the best performances by video game music composer Matt Furniss...

TRACKLIST:

01 - [00:00] - 20th Century Fox Fanfare 02 - [00:18] - Title Screen 03 - [04:21] - Level Start 04 - [04:24] - Episode 1 05 - [09:06] - Episode 2 06 - [15:36] - Episode 3 & 5 07 - [19:18] - Episode 4 08 - [24:48] - Level Complete 09 - [25:26] - Ending 10 - [27:55] - Time Over 11 - [28:01] - Hostages Dying 12 - [29:30] - Game Over 13 - [29:38] - High Score

BONUS: LONGPLAY