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Nekemancer · Mar 1, 2015

I had a tremendously hard time getting the King's Field 3 soundtrack for years and years. It's available on youtube now of course, but it took a while to get there.

Here's a playlist for it.

The first song on that list plays, if I recall, only during the start menu if you let it cycle through the various demo screens. It's so different tonally from the rest of the ost, but still a terrific song. The game and soundtrack are incredible, I highly recommend that Souls fans take a few minutes to give it a look and listen!

indigo-cyclops · Mar 1, 2015

Anthesteria:

Phobos 1953 - Inside The Bunker
1953
Subulstrum (Outcry) - Scientist's Apartment,
Architectural Abstraction

I believe this guy also composed tracks for Metro 2033.

CNCOMICS · Mar 1, 2015

The lyrical versions of Guilty Gear XX.

YouTube playlist of both: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1A56CA459D8C44DB

MrBadger · Mar 1, 2015

mcz117chief said:
The game that only I ever played and for about 10 minutes at the very most about 15 years ago.

The weirdest thing about it is that I hum it from time to time and I am having trouble remembering from where it is, it is so darn catchy I just can't stop whistling it or humming it

TRUE STORY !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue74E5L49_c

Getting some Ducktales vibes from this

DangerJuice · Mar 1, 2015

I don't know about NEVER being heard of but.... these gotta get some more recognition.

Bucky O'Hare - Green Planet
Journey to Silius - Title Theme

MetalSlug · Mar 1, 2015

Toy Commander (Not sure how many people will have played this game since it was only on the Dreamcast, but the soundtrack is amazing!)

dracula_x · Mar 1, 2015

Shadow Master

Track 1
Track 2
Track 3

Kurtofan · Mar 1, 2015

Jeremy Soule did some great work on the Harry Potter series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qNjiBqrt58

MvmntInGrn · Mar 1, 2015

daydream said:
Despite me bringing it up often, I don't think anyone has given due credit to the soundtrack of Smurfs' Nightmare, composed by the ever-so-talented Alberto González.

Another World

Really catchy track. Great stuff.

akachan ningen · Mar 1, 2015

CNCOMICS said:
The lyrical versions of Guilty Gear XX.

YouTube playlist of both: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1A56CA459D8C44DB

I've listened to those. They're not very good.

Terareflection · Mar 2, 2015

Vanguard Princess, a pretty obscure fighter that looks similar to Arcana Heart, but plays closer to Street Fighter.

Pretty Cool OST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW-okMVyp9I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imwzPwuVVRo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBHcxszB8tg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KOU2E19w-Q

Dragoon En Regalia · Mar 2, 2015

For those looking for the most obscure Falcom music, how about Selected Sorcerian? These five soundtracks belong to scenario packs developed by the game's fans participating in a competition held by Comptiq (Japanese PC mag from that era) and Falcom. Hiroshi Nishizawa and Daisuke Takahashi, the lead musicians here, each had productive stints in game music for a while after. All this barely qualifies as official, but the Falcom sounds is present nonetheless.

You can find the untranslated, unofficial tracklist here. Use machine translation for names (mostly it's useful for determining who composed what).

EvilKatarn · Apr 25, 2015

Taillight ft. Emi Evans

This is from Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4. Looks like it's a Japanese-only arcade-only racer based off an old long-running manga. The game is very reminiscent of Ridge Racer.

Linking because it's Emi Evans. <3

cj_iwakura · Apr 25, 2015

EvilKatarn said:
Taillight ft. Emi Evans

This is from Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4. Looks like it's a Japanese-only arcade-only racer based off an old long-running manga. The game is very reminiscent of Ridge Racer.

Linking because it's Emi Evans. <3

You could say that about Maximum Tune,period.

It's not completely Japanese only, 1-3 have been localized.

The OSTs are very popular, though. As they should be. Yuzo Koshiro.

KatamariOnTheRocks · Apr 25, 2015

I found this old obscure game called Tony Hawks: Pro Skater and really like this track, I've never seen the game brought up online so I'm guessing its not that popular.

https://youtu.be/h6kNKnb7l-A

Ganondorfo · Apr 25, 2015

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

Rudra No Hihou, it has every classic jrpg tune you all loved during the Snes-Ps1 generation.

Mawlok · Apr 25, 2015

Not sure how popular the original postal was because I never hear it mentioned, but the ost to that game was terrifying. Like lack of sleep after hearing type shit.

novenD · Apr 25, 2015

The Last Express is only semi-obscure, on GAF at least...

But I've never seen anyone mention how incredible the soundtrack is.
It's one of the only games I've played that has a "filmic" soundtrack that doesn't sound like B-grade Hans Zimmer.

Wreck-It Ralph · Apr 25, 2015

Laser Lords for the CD-i.

There's not much music, but what's there is kind of great.

cj_iwakura · Apr 25, 2015

Wreck-It Ralph said:
Laser Lords for the CD-i.

There's not much music, but what's there is kind of great.

It does have an awesome cover going for it.

Enron · Apr 25, 2015

Bremsstrahlung said:
In all my years on the internet I haven't seen any mention of Kaettekita Cyborg Kuro-chan.

It's not quite Mega Man, in fact it's a pretty mediocre game, but it's still pretty fun has some great pieces of music imo

Main Theme
Boss Battle
Act 6 .

Kuro-chan has one of the greatest openings in anime history.

woopWOOP · Apr 25, 2015

Actually I'm not sure if it's that obscure, but I never heard of Palamedes 2 before and the NES soundtrack is pretty catchy.
Youtube link

Justinh · Apr 25, 2015

I'm pretty sure someone has heard this, but I first heard this in an IGN article back in like...'99-2000ish.

From a never-released game called Thornado, or Turrican 64. I had never played a Turrican game before, but the fact it was made by Factor 5 caught my attention.

I listen to this song every now and then. I think it's great.

Lelcar · Apr 27, 2015

Brave Fencer Musashi has one of my all time favorite soundtracks. It's not a super obscure game, but the people who have played it are definitely in the vast minority versus the people who haven't played it.

MrMatt555 · Apr 27, 2015

Temple of Tears

Lumpy Onion · Apr 27, 2015

Front Mission Online has a pretty cool OST. It's essentially remixes of older Front Mission songs....

Madness- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-NCZisIPRY

Player Battle:Normal- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-NCZisIPRY

Player Battle: Heavy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SbDsi9RMO4

Hostiles- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Gs3kAzHkY

BaraSailey · Apr 27, 2015

Rule of Rose has an amazing soundtrack. I don't know how obscure the game is, but I don't know many people who know of it. Here are some of my favorites from the score:

The Attic

Bullying

A Love Suicide

Dryk · Apr 27, 2015

I really enjoyed the Cloudbuilt soundtrack and I really hope the guy gets more videogame work.

Click to expand...

Main Menu
Sinister Gale
Aerial Walkways
Aurora

Rydeen · Apr 27, 2015

A game that seems to have disappeared entirely is Android Assault aka Bari-Arm on the Sega CD. It contains what may be my all-time favorite redbook audio soundtrack of all time. Perfect fusion jazz / electronic / rock sound that I love out of late 80's and early 90's Japanese video games.

https://youtu.be/H526CQqWHSg

komojo · Apr 27, 2015

Demon Blue, an old DOS game that nobody has ever heard of.

The worst-controlling platform game with the best title music.

petran79 · Apr 27, 2015

Pray for Death had the best soundtrack of any fighting game back then.
OST is certainly one of the strong points of Italian developers

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

Nokterian · Apr 27, 2015

Ascendancy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-11W4NP1hM

A 4X game and ahead of its time in terms of gameplay. Soundtrack was spooky but was pretty awesome at the time not a lot of people know this game.

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