What is your favourite computer game soundtrack?

Shadow of the Beast - Amiga
The Last Ninja - C64
Monty on the Run - C64
Harlequin - Amiga

I agree with Bigpops, its quite unusual to find games now days that have a unique soundtrack created solely for that game. To often now game soundtracks are just a collection of in favour artists. It seems to be the RPG genre that holds onto the games soundtrack, mainly with orchestral scores. Which reminds me, all the Bioware RPGs had great scores.

In the past you could pretty much guess whether a piece of music was from a C64 or an Amiga game etc (same could be said for early consoles), they had a certain distinct sound and certain limitations had to be worked around to get something good from them and some of the stuff created despite those limitations was purely brilliant and unique. The sound of a console or home computer was a much a part of it as the graphics etc in the past, it was unique to that particular machine. That cant be said anymore, new consoles dont sound different to each other which isnt really a suprise when music is streamed from CD or file rather than created by hardware onboard.
 
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Would have to go for Final Fantasy VI/VII/VIII/IX (aargh! too many good 'uns), GTA Vice City and C&C Red Alert - Hell March was such a classic :D

And good old Settlers 2 if you remember the midi songs! :D
 
Quake - 11 tracks of Nine Inch Nails Atmospherics :D

Nest to that would be the Total Annihilation soundtrack, one of the most complex and original soundtracks ever made for a PC game.
 
I'd struggle to decide between Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 & 3 or Vice City(any of the GTA series really with the exception of GTA2), at least those are the only games where I actually remember the soundtrack after I've played the games. Vice City has a lot of quality 80s tunes but I think THPS 3 just wins out overall.

Probably the most impressive thing about the original GTA soundtrack is that if memory serves it was just one guy told to go off and do his own thing pretty much and most of the tracks are actually pretty good.
 
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