Great games with great chiptunes.

[Nick420]

I have a new found love 4 all things chiptune and want this thread to fill up with games that have great gameplay and great chiptunes so anyone can check in here to get a chiptune fix.

I don't know anything about chiptune composers or anything so please leave the composers name if you know it.

I'm gonna start us off with,
VVVVVV composed by Magnus pallson

What a fantastic game! Totally love it, and the tunes! Could have been a bit more difficult would be my only gripe. If you havnt played it, check it out!

I would have put super meatboy aswell but I'm not sure if the music qualifies as chiptunes but I love the music in that game too so if you know a game with tunes like that don't hesitate to post

[cools]

Comic Bakery (C64 version).

[Sumez]

I like the soundtrack for the Scott Pilgrim game.

[grobda]

chiptunes is anything from a videogame that doesnt use samples or recorded music? broad spectrum to choose from

ghosts n goblins is a fave of mine; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA0k35s71Bg and shinobi has some cracking tunes that have even been remixed into dance tunes - orig http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_6Jwgd8b6E remix - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhnCCfNwa0Q

[JJXB]

bit of a C64 chiptune guy myself. so stuff like the Quedex Loader Tune,The Myth Title theme, The Last Ninja 2's "The Mansion" loader theme and Ocean Loader v5 are all strong tracks without remixes in the first place. but i can still appreciate some remixes like Almost anything from instant remedy

[Nick420]

Yeah ghosts and goblins is great, hard as nails as well; just how I like em
All great stuff I especially like that comic bakery tune, and that parallax tune is where it's at!
Keep em coming!

Do you know of any more modern games that use music like this? Like super meat boy or the likes. In the mean time I'm off to get parralax and comic bakery and give them a whirl, thanks

[CIT]

I think Gimmick! for Famicom has some of the best 8-Bit chiptunes. The cart was produced with an extra chip for more intense sound and channels.

A friend of mine made a Stereo Remix, check it out:

Gimmick Soundtrack Stereo Remix

[Ebbo]

Tower of Heaven. Just beautiful stuff.

[antron]

M.U.L.E. opening theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6L6MhSgpgo

[drunkninja24]

Journey to Silius, soooo good:

Title Theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkWYvENgxwA
Stage 1/5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjG2ZjPqzzE
Stage 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6sjYt6EJVw (surprising length for an NES game track)
Stage 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBj0m_B-zK8
Stage 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgmH6J5GGxE

Love this game and soundtrack sooooo much

[ChainsawGuitarSP]

Don't normally care too much for 8-bit music, but I love the shit out of Magic Jewelry.

[Obiwanshinobi]

Zanac
Penguin Adventure
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Metafight/Blaster Master
The Guardian Legend

Do you know of any more modern games that use music like this?

Cave Story - you can download it for free, as well as the music player.

[Sumez]

https://8bc.org/music/Maskinoperat%C3%B ... agen+live/

(give it a while to get started - especially the last parts of the mix are awesome, so skip into it if you're impatient)

[Sumez]

Also not a game, but equally great chiptunes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjoyRs1BTAQ

[Nick420]

I think Gimmick! for Famicom has some of the best 8-Bit chiptunes. The cart was produced with an extra chip for more intense sound and channels.

A friend of mine made a Stereo Remix, check it out:

Gimmick Soundtrack Stereo Remix

Yeah i played this for a while yesterday. Good tunes indeed I found the game slightly on the frustrating side but still good. played it until the fourth world. I have no main internet connection at the moment as im in the process of moving house. Using mywi on iphone for all dl'ing so i cant download a 50mb file at the moment but il be sure to check it out as soon as i get properly connected again.

M.U.L.E. opening theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6L6MhSgpgo

This one made me lol! And seeing that electronic arts logo reminded me of a game i used to have for the megadrive...The Kings bounty! It had the most god awful music though, it just went on and on in an endless loop lol. Its actuallly a brilliant game though.

Tower of Heaven. Just beautiful stuff.

This has a nice happy ring to it Il have to give the game a try.

Zanac
Penguin Adventure
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Metafight/Blaster Master
The Guardian Legend

Cave Story - you can download it for free, as well as the music player.

Yeah ive actually been playing through this recently with my girlfriend, were at the part just after balrog robs the store key off the old lady lol. Great game, I love just flying around the place with the leveled up machine gun haha.

https://8bc.org/music/Maskinoperat%C3%B ... agen+live/

(give it a while to get started - especially the last parts of the mix are awesome, so skip into it if you're impatient)

I cant see how you play this, im guessing you have to download it. Il have to wait til i get reconnected. :-/

Also not a game, but equally great chiptunes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjoyRs1BTAQ

This sounds nuts lol, but in a good way

Tower of Heaven. Just beautiful stuff.

This.

Journey to Silius, soooo good:

Love this game and soundtrack sooooo much

And this FTW so far, Absolute quality, gonna play these two now, Ive a feeling this thread is gonna keep me busy for a while

[trunk]

Here are some that I like:

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Fortified Zone (I like them all but here is one)
Jackie Chan's Action Kungfu NES stg 1
Jackie Chan's Action Kungfu NES stg 2
Jackie Chan's Action Kungfu NES stg 3
Jackie Chan's Action Kungfu NES stg 4
Jackie Chan's Action Kungfu NES stg 5
Jackie Chan's Action Kungfu NES stg 6
Castlevania 2 Belmont's Revenge - Cloud Castle
Castlevania 2 Belmont's Revenge - Crystal Castle
Castlevania 2 Belmont's Revenge - Rock Castle
Castlevania 2 Belmont's Revenge - Plant Castle
Streets of Rage 2 Game Gear(I like them all too)
Technotris - Tetris Famicom by BPS
Shinobi 2 Game Gear

There's so much good music out there. Great thread!

[cools]

The Terminator on SMS was great.

[Specineff]

Journey to Silius, soooo good:

Consarn it, DrunkNinja! You beat me to it.

But pretty much anything I've played by Sunsoft has really good tunes: Super Fantasy Zone, Silius, Batman on the Genesis and NES, Blaster Master... would their Neo Geo games count?

Rocket Knight Adventures, too. Stellar use of the Genesis soundchip. Even better than Ristar, IMHO.

[Obiwanshinobi]

The thread needs more Linus Åkesson's chipophone.

Speaking of "great gameplay", who actually plays Raf World/Journey to Silius in this day and age? I thought it was mediocre at best. Good reminder why Contra was such a popular run 'n' gun on the NES.

Rocket Knight Adventures, too. Stellar use of the Genesis soundchip.

Seems to be using samples, though. I doubt it's all synthesized in real time from the scratch, which is what chiptunes are kind of about.
At least to my ears the line dividing non-chiptunes from chiptunes lies somewhere between this track from GunHed and this "demake".