Akira Yamaoka is the best video game music composer ever

[Zephyr Alexian]

but Super Mario Bro.s is the Stairway To Heaven of video game music.

Aye, in a gentler time when the forests echoed with laughter and the piper called all to join him.

Other notables are the Ghost in the Shell vid-game music, some of the Madden years, and the first Halo had good stuff.

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[Mr Sparkle]

Final Fantasy has had some good stuff too.

It can get a tad pretentious for my tastes, like it thinks of itself as "more than a videogame"

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Aye, in a gentler time when the forests echoed with laughter and the piper called all to join him.

Does anybody remember laughter?

 

[Zephyr Alexian]

Elaborate.

Aside from just the music, the W-S's on the Sega Genesis version of Spidey always made me laugh for some peculiar reason.​

 

[Zephyr Alexian]

It can get a tad pretentious for my tastes, like it thinks of itself as "more than a videogame"

Tinseltown's running out of ideas to exploit; a film adaptation of this is inevitable.

 

[kainedamo]

What games are these from? Is this the guy who did the intro for MGS2? Cause that was pretty awesome. Likewise the intro for Tekken 2 on the original PS.

No dude. Akira is mostly known for his work on the Silent Hill series.

 

[Kipobe]

but Super Mario Bro.s is the Stairway To Heaven of video game music.

Koji ****ing Kondo, bizzlenitch!

This guy did some of the world's most memorable video game themes, and mostly in the dark era of video games, let alone video game music. Then when Nintendo made console gaming a household thing, he turned the limited blips and beeps into masterpieces which are copied time and again almost everywhere, and with several different franchises too.

I saw this video on the internet where these guys took Mario themes and played them on a huge xylophone before a crowd. The crowd went bananas, because anyone who was around in that era knows what that music can do to you. Girls were stripping, guys were drinking... okay, none of that other stuff happened, but it was on the verge if they just played like, five more minutes.

Regardless, that guy is awesome, and he's still doing it today... now with full orchestras. John Williams even remade some of his stuff and put out a CD. That's like, the biggest freaking honor. Fitting too, since in the video game world, Kondo is to games what Williams is to movies.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

one of the best pieces from a game is the death music for the character aeris(aerith) from FF7