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5039760 No.5039760 [Reply] [Original]

What are some retro game soundtracks that were inspired by or blatantly ripped off actual songs?

>> No.5039768

A lot of songs in the Mother series are based on American pop/rock songs, these in particular

>> No.5039771

>>5039768
Fuck me, forgot the links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEmxnPT6-LM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlgYRMPg86M

>> No.5039773

Well, Hydlide.

>> No.5039785

Doom is an obvious one.

>> No.5039804

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsyB3eza2N8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME1OzNxDH68 skip to 2:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlHrkuxLuiA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd4VsbM4fOo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my8T7hB992k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoqllL8Vl6o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmY2wf7T428

>> No.5039842

>>5039760
everyone's always telling me the music for all 3 Streets of Rage games were complete rip-offs, but I've never actually heard the stuff Koshiro stole from. Someone got really angry last time I asked

>> No.5039928

>>5039842
>complete rip-offs
1 and 2 yes. 3's OST was completely original and ahead of its time and actually inspired electronic music producers decades later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNllOFIjif8

>> No.5039929

>>5039771
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlgYRMPg86M
this entire channel is full of absolutely disgusting quality audio

>> No.5039934

>>5039929
Here's one with much higher quality audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aFPmqBNg0U

>> No.5039984

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-14W5XTqL5U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-4XsDQYDi4

>> No.5040016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzpuJfF5Vn8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCdUfAE5Rz8

>> No.5040034

>>5039760
Are you implying the Mario theme was ripped off from another song?

>> No.5040048

Here's one most of /vr/ might already know about:

https://youtu.be/-AmN2faZYsQ
https://youtu.be/3D0PgLoiNwQ

>> No.5040051

The dungeon theme from the original Zelda was based on a Deep Purple song iirc

>> No.5040083

Elec Man covered Bon Jovi's "She Don't Know Me"
https://youtu.be/CJdFxTOysjo
https://youtu.be/6Rp6bxsOVk8

>> No.5040096

Surprised this hasn't been posted yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uko0fCp86c

>>5039804
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ [Embed]
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmY2wf7T428 [Embed]
OP said "inspired or blatantly ripped off", this similarity is completely coincidental (confirmed in an interview where Mitsuda revealed he had never heard of Astley).

>> No.5040142
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5040142

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4dC9fi7-h4

>> No.5040301

>>5039804
>that Parappa/Can one

WHAT THE FUCK

>> No.5040307
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5040307

This one is a straight up sample

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pONIGdSLd1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQv3dCkY2Tk

I wanna know if the piano from the first song in BG is a sample as well, because it definitely sounds like one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF-ENkufyCY

>> No.5040329

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtZxFd2vURg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FrknMFjUVw&t=46s

Sounds like it a bit

>> No.5040576

>>5039768
They also sampled a bunch of songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_oc9Ypcb2Q&t=27s

>> No.5040713

>>5039928
>3's OST was completely original and ahead of its time and actually inspired electronic music producers decades later.
Heh, I've always found 3's music to range from unimpressive to maddening. Can't account for taste though I guess. Thanks a lot for the link! Somehow never managed to find that myself.

>> No.5040743

https://youtube.com/watch?v=DvOlRMCPzTk

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SUtziaZlDeE

>> No.5040807
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>> No.5040823

>>5039928
A lot of those are similar but I wouldn't say they're direct rip offs. 1 is a common chord progression with a common stabbing rhythm, and the melody during 6 is actually closer to "Layla" by Clapton as far as feel goes(the chord change is more like the song it's being compared to, though). A lot of the music does sound almost identical but a lot of music from that era had similarities; roots in old funk, jazz and techno, dance or groove heavy, syncopation, newer equipment allowed more complex sequencing and sampling, interpolation of other's music. Even if the dude intentionally borrowed a lot of those ideas from those other tracks it's exactly what other people were doing during that time. I think that's one of the things that makes the music fit so well. The thing that really sticks out about these though is that they sounds very similar to multiple tracks by the same people(Black Box, Royal House), but I hear things in those tracks that I know come directly from other music not in that video. It actually makes me want to look more into it myself, stuff like that's always interested me. Like how Afrika Bambaataa can take ideas from Kraftwerk and turn out one of the hottest dance songs in the 80s.