gonna do this here 30 day video game music list thing during July because why not?

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 1 

Day 1 - Title screen music
Main Title - Deus Ex

Oh my God! JC! A song (that was for some reason the first one to pop into my head for this first prompt)!

youtube.com/watch?v=Rm9PJNF3sE

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 2 

Day 2 - Opening level music
Main Theme - Space Harrier (arcade)

Welcome to the Fantasy Zone! Get ready (for this absolute banger)!

youtube.com/watch?v=-_Tam9lv1K

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 3 

Day 3 - 8-Bit music
The Starlit Wilds - Shovel Knight

[pulse][b]β€”CATCH HERβ€”[/b][/pulse]

youtube.com/watch?v=hZCX7Et0Rf

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 4 

Day 4 - Music from a console exclusive series
Super Bell Hill - Super Mario 3D World

Mario and friends all gain yet another fursona and also there's some really good music playing the whole time

youtube.com/watch?v=wFxzHKx1BY

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 5 

Day 5 - Hub world or overworld music
Sailing With The Coffee Pirates - Wandersong

Wandersong is one of my favourite games and this bit where you're guiding a ship around the ocean with your song is particularly memorable to me
whenever you move the ship the sound of everyone aboard singing along with the music is dynamically played (as heard about halfway through the linked song)

youtube.com/watch?v=NjmWRPLh-N

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 6 

Day 6 - Music that makes you feel relaxed
By the Wall - Machinarium

Machinarium has such a great art direction all around and this track in particular makes me sink into my chair immediately

youtube.com/watch?v=ulmFS5oEiX

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 7 

Day 7 - Music from an indie game
First Steps - Celeste

Celeste is excellent and difficult and my hands exploded for a little bit right after putting the controller down when i finished the main story but it was worth it

youtube.com/watch?v=N8OHSXvneO

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 8 

Day 8 - Music from a shooter (first or third person)
Heretic, Hero - Halo 2

Halo is a series that i've recently remembered how much fun and wonder i had playing the first three games
also i really like the bit in this song that's just 'A Walk in the Woods' from the first game

youtube.com/watch?v=i5jPy-GmyU

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 9 

Day 9 - Music from a licensed game
Theme From Battery - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Chaos Theory has such a good soundtrack that it was released two months before the game itself was

youtube.com/watch?v=PIwLHyggjB

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 10 

Day 10 - RPG battle music
Pepper Steak - OFF

Purification in progress...

what a bizarre and fascinating game

youtube.com/watch?v=-9oLfi81tU

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30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 11 

Day 11 - Puzzle game music
Lonely Rolling Star - Katamari Damacy

Katamari Damacy is totally a puzzle game, right?

youtube.com/watch?v=7_QydNXI_o

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30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 12 

Day 12 - Music that makes you feel sad
Dirtmouth - Hollow Knight

Hollow Knight has one of my favourite world atmospheres in any game i've ever played and the soundtrack is such a big part of that

youtube.com/watch?v=MyZylLMiFe

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 13 

Day 13 - Music you like from a game you don't like
Lights, Camera, Action! (Studiopolis Zone Act 1) - Sonic Mania

Sonic is a series that i appreciate the style of but the gameplay just doesn't work for me in a fun enough way
anyway all of the music in Sonic Mania is great and i think this one is my favourite track

youtube.com/watch?v=MMwM6hLEye

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 14 

Day 14 - Music featuring vocals
Inside - Sayonara Wild Hearts

Sayonara Wild Hearts is one of the best games i've ever experienced and i wasn't even the one playing it
had a hard time picking which track from it too because they're all so good

youtube.com/watch?v=lct1dnTt_y

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 15 

Day 15 - Boss battle music
Metalmancy (Death Metal Remix) - Crypt of the Necrodancer: The Synthwave Cuts

Crypt of the Necrodancer makes me type in a rhythm for a while after i play it

youtube.com/watch?v=sdz3fTCv1u

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 16 

Day 16 - 16-Bit music
Title Screen - Time Trax (Mega Drive/Genesis)

Tim Follin did the soundtrack for the Mega Drive version of the game and it's a shame that it was never officially released at the time

youtube.com/watch?v=rRyy0yn2Qx

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 17 

Day 17 - Music you never get tired of
The Shard (Puzzle) - Mirror's Edge

Mirror's Edge is one of the few games that i've replayed all the way through more than once and the part with this track in particular is where i'd stop to just listen for a while

youtube.com/watch?v=1_XmY09uRJ

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 18 

Day 18 - Music in a game released in the year you were born
The Imp's Song - Doom (1993)

"Don't interrupt me."
– Bill Gates

anyway this song slaps

youtube.com/watch?v=re0A23CSvp

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 19 

Day 19 - Cover of music by a different artist
Like a Dream - Alex Roe (Majula - Dark Souls 2)

Majula was originally going to be for a different day but i was having trouble coming up with something for this one until i remembered this
it's more remix rather than a straight cover but i say it still counts

youtube.com/watch?v=5yowioThaX
(youtube.com/watch?v=D8ShsHeYke)

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 20 

Day 20 - Music from a racing game
Rainbow Road - Mario Kart: Double Dash!!

It's called a road, it's called the Rainbow Road
It is a road that you go

youtube.com/watch?v=FHdEjH_7YY

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 21 

Day 21 - Music you associate with frustration
I'm Dead - Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

Morse code modules do not work well with my brain

youtube.com/watch?v=RU6qCgtMKO

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 22 

Day 22 - Town/village music
Vergen by Night - The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings

Magic Gerald the doubleswordman does a thing
i don't remember exactly about what happens in The Witcher 2 but i do remember this song a lot

youtube.com/watch?v=9a-DmxpXhQ

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 23 

Day 23 - Underrated music
Cellular Skies - Axiom Verge

Axiom Verge has a really good, kinda weird soundtrack and i don't know if it's underrated but it had to go somewhere on this list

youtube.com/watch?v=4kmlmuyzBp

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 24 

Day 24 - Music you constantly have stuck in your head
City Ruins - Rays of Light - NieR: Automata

NieR: Automata maybe went on for a bit too long but that just meant i got to listen to the excellent soundtrack more

youtube.com/watch?v=2FzyKtct4e

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 25 

Day 25 - Music that gets you pumped
BFG Division 2020 - DOOM Eternal

DOOM 2016 and DOOM Eternal's soundtracks mostly both go into this category so here's a song from the first put into the second

youtube.com/watch?v=UfkxMR_QmG

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 26 

Day 26 - Music you like from a game you haven't played
Redial - Bomberman Hero

Bomberman but a single player only 3D platformer from the 90s? never played it but the soundtrack is pretty nice

youtube.com/watch?v=Fv-2XIhmxP

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 27 

Day 27 - Music from a handheld game
Open Sesame Oil!/Open Sesame Tofu! - Mother 3

Colin's Bear Animation

youtube.com/watch?v=ahklLaDDCC

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 28 

Day 28 - Music that makes you nostalgic
Minecraft - Minecraft

C418's soundtrack to Minecraft just fills me with so many comfy memories

youtube.com/watch?v=qq-RGFyaq0

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 29 

Day 29 - Final boss music
Sabotage - Hacknet Labyrinths

"UHHH? oh no OH NO OH SHIT OH [i]FUCK[/i]"
– me

youtube.com/watch?v=B3152iS8EC

30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 30 

Day 30 - Credits music
Credits / Closing Theme - Half-Life

SUBJECT: FREEMAN
STATUS: HIRED
AWAITING ASSIGNMENT

youtube.com/watch?v=bwhFs8vIJ_

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30 Day Video Game Music Challenge day 11 

@LaserScheme Katamari Damarcy's music is so good

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