Video game music: the readers’ favourites

Friday, June 12th, 2009

My recent blog post exploring some of the PC Pro team’s favourite retro game themes sparked plenty of debate – and a whole hatful of fantastic suggestions from readers. So here’s a run-down of some of your favourite gaming music:

The first clutch of responses perhaps gave away the age of some readers, with plenty of people citing C64 classics: Ryan Thomas reminisced about the superb music that often accompanied Ocean games, as well as the themes from Shadowfire, Parallax and Zoids, which is featured in this fantastic video, which crams 100 C64 themes in to frenzied, synth-filled 10 minutes and probably took weeks to assemble.

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