I promised myself not to get sucked up into this thread, but since I enjoy
a MAME break every day at work...
* METROID
Well, for the obvious reason...
* XEVIOUS
Without question, one of the most idm. Minimal, spacey, repetitive, and
lots of high frequency metal clinkiness.
* MR. DO RUN RUN
Not the annoying monotonous digi-calliope of the original Mr. Do but the
rather shuffly Residents-y soundtrack to one of the weirder Mr. Do
offshoots, where Mr. Do runs around a mostly flat board eating up dots and
various fruit while trying to enclose these little beasties into enclosed
right-angled shapes, QIX style. Mr Do's signature bouncy bullet adds nice
texture to the oddball soundtrack
* PAPERBOY
Probably the most "urban" of any memorable video game soundtrack.
MORE COWBELL!
* REACTOR
ROCKS! Nice crusty digi-guitar in some low-freq laser pulse.
* MAD PLANETS
Nice crunchy texture to the music, and the decimation of planets.
* Any Williams game (DEFENDER, ROBOTRON, JOUST, BUBBLES, ETC)
* SINISTAR
"Beware... I Live". This practically invented "Come To Daddy".
* OMEGA RACE
Its tempo-changing single-note half-step alternations made the
industrial/EBM genre possible.
* Q-BERT
Not as much for the music as the army of digi-wet-plunger sounds of
hopping, and the random blabberings of Q-bert, Slick, Sam, Ugg, and
WrongWay
Sigh. Did I mention that Bentley Rhythm Ace did a song for a video game?
"Theme From Gutbuster"
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