The Church of the Ecstatic

Church of the Ecstatic 09/18/24 – Video Game Music (and some earworms that wiggled into the ears of their composers

Thu, Sep 19, 2024

While looking up two old video game songs that sounded alike (Phantasy Star III’s Dungeon theme v A Link to the Past’s Hyrule Castle theme, which I play in the second half!) I stumbled across this Cracked article talking about songs that were ‘ripped off’ (Harsh!) in game themes. So naturally, I knew MY theme for the night. 🙂

It was hard digging up good versions of some of these songs, especially since some videos are missing, but I hope you enjoy this little cause-and-effect show of everything from 70’s-80’s pop, jazz, and prog, to Russian classical, to 2000’s nu metal, and the game soundtracks that picked up little riffs, rhythms, and melodies from them – intentionally or not.

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