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Minibosses Rock Nostalgic

Posted by emmett on from the insert-coin-to-continue dept.

skia writes "Chock full of yummie old-school NES goodness and metal guitar/drum beats, The Minibosses play your favorite songs from Metroid, Castlevania, and even Contra!" I've been listening to this for the past hour or so, and it's very cool. They've been around for a while. My friend Erik says he heard of them on Zophar's Domain.

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  1. Don't forget the Aphex Twin! by rogerbo · · Score: 4

    Want more video game beats?

    Find Aphex Twins, "Pac man power pill" and
    "tetris medley".

    Knowing this guy he's probably done some more
    video game inspired music but those are the only two I know of.

  2. Game music is goood!! by Krilomir · · Score: 5
    Most people don't even consider it music, but I do. You don't believe it if you haven't tried, but you can download tons of game music from mp3.com or napster. Just try a few search for Final Fantasy, chrono trigger, super mario, metroid, zelda, etc.

    Unfortunately, most of the napster stuff is copyrighted and only sold in Japan and from expensive import websites.

    Here are a few good links to sites that sells game soundtracks:
    Game Music Online
    SoundtrackCentral
    synSONIQ

    I haven't bought anything yet, but I consider buying a few ablums from Game Music Online.

    Before I knew about these sites or napster, I downloaded MANY game midi files from the web. Believe me, they sound great with SBlive! if you have the right soundfonts installed.
    Videogame Music Acrhive - more than 10.000 midifiles I think, PC, SNES, NES, Genesis, Commodore 64 - you name it!.

    I'm glad to see people like Minibosses do some game music and make some of it free. Can't wait to here it (I'm a big fan of the Metroid soundtrack!).