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Gaming's most incestuous soundtracks

Eight aural accounts of videogame music keeping it in the family

Words: on August 12, 2009
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  • FETALJUICE - August 12, 2009 11:09 p.m.

    Super Mario Bros. 3's Water Land (3rd world) map music sounds extremely similar to any Legend of Zelda's Great Fairy theme.

  • yes - August 12, 2009 10:40 p.m.

    The warp whistle melody is also Ocarina of Time's title screen song.

  • Unoriginal - August 12, 2009 10:16 p.m.

    Love the article Love VG music Love, Love the format of the music articles.

  • linkganon - August 12, 2009 10:02 p.m.

    if i listen to any video game music, it has to be an actual song like songs from need for speed, they are actual songs, not special game songs.

  • beigean - August 12, 2009 9:21 p.m.

    King of Dragons: youtube.com/watch?v=vOdUqZ9jX08 Mega Man X - Spark Mandril youtube.com/watch?v=gQ8W5NBFv9Q It sounds like the composer revisited a melody he liked from the older game and updated it to fit Mega Man.

  • TURbo - August 12, 2009 9 p.m.

    Only a man like Brett Elston with Rainman recall memories could do an article like this on videogame soundtracks.

  • Schnipke - August 12, 2009 8:58 p.m.

    The ds remake of ffIV has the same intro song as ffXII and the menu song sounds a lot like the one for ffVII, and no I don't usually pay attention to video game music, I just instantly recognized those tunes.

  • KREATIVEassassin - August 12, 2009 8:38 p.m.

    Awesome article. The embedded audio clips are also great.

  • ClusterShart - August 12, 2009 8:17 p.m.

    Koji Kondo FTW

  • atomgrad - August 12, 2009 8:15 p.m.

    How incredibly esoteric. This is guaranteed to be in the next TDar.

  • Jordo141 - August 12, 2009 7:39 p.m.

    Mega Man "stole" from Ghosts n Goblins? Not cool. Brett, you must of spent a long time on this article...

  • n00b - August 26, 2009 6:45 p.m.

    you forgot to say that link's warp song was the base for the opening theme in ocarina of time how could you miss that

  • wiigamer024 - August 19, 2009 2:48 p.m.

    Luigi's Masion is acually where I first heard Tokata's Song, THEN I heard it just about everywhere else...

  • dweller - August 15, 2009 2:39 a.m.

    Crap. It took an article for me to put together that a Castlevania tune is in Contra: Hard Corps. Still like the original Vampire Killer better though.

  • The_Tingler - August 14, 2009 11:12 p.m.

    I don't know if the Doom one really counts, as those secret levels were actually Wolfenstein levels and so it's not surprising they share the same music. In Telltale's Sam & Max Season One, the tavern theme from Bone makes an appearance if you find and look at the Barrelhavern Tavern sign.

  • MoChilla - August 14, 2009 10:03 p.m.

    I swear I heard something like that totoka music in banjo kazooie. Maybe around gruntildas lair?

  • VMPSaberwolf - August 14, 2009 11:17 a.m.

    I remember and owned shadowgate and uninvited. Shadowgate took me years to beat since there were no gamefaqs around then. Got close to beating Uninvited but never did, but saw a walkthru in Nintentdo Power so I at least got to see the ending.

  • TheWebSwinger - August 13, 2009 8:27 p.m.

    Brandine: Cletus! Not in front of my parents! Cletus: Now, now, hun. They're my parents, too.

  • hazent - August 13, 2009 5:21 p.m.

    mech gyver is gay

  • Felixthecat - August 13, 2009 1:41 p.m.

    Obviously the best place to find most of the ones from Kazumi Totaka is SSBB.

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