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I still think Total Annhilation had one of the best soundtracks of any video game ever recorded, including The Elder Scrolls. It was Jeremy Soule’s magnum opus.

• korijn 8y ago
  That first one reminds me of a theme from Shadow of the Colossus! https://youtu.be/57jIlw6HmCE https://youtu.be/57jIlw6HmCE from 15:10 onwards
• im3w1l 8y ago
  It's quite cool that you could insert the game cd into an ordinary music player and have the background music play. Shows how proud they must have been of it.
  • qu4z-2 8y ago
    That was a moderately common thing in those days. In particular, iirc, there used to be a cable between the CD-ROM and the sound card that let you play audio off the CD without having the (limited) CPU needing to get involved, deal with audio encodings, etc. The CD would have a data track followed by a bunch of audio tracks, then the game can just say "Play track 5" and carry on with its business. At least, that's my understanding. I was pretty young in those days and some of this is reconstructed "Oh, right, that would make sense". The downside is that if you find a dump of only the data track/files it's hard to reconstruct the full experience of abandonware games. FireFight just isn't the same without the background music.
  • BLKNSLVR 8y ago
    Quake soundtrack. Reznor perfectly matched the soundtrack to the mood of the game. I still listen to track 5 as a standalone piece of dark moody brilliance. 22 years later.
• beefok 8y ago
  Couldn't agree more. I still listen to this soundtrack while working. :)