The Arcade/Coin-Op Music Thread

[Aarzak]

As a sister companion to the thread over at the Genny board, I thought (and I am, and soon I will) that I'd make this thread so we could share and reminisce our favorite (and least favorite) coin-op BGM's/OSTs or otherwise comment on what's currently playing (in your playlist, IPod, in your noggin) and recommend some games which you think have good muzak.

As I grew older, and came to realize that many of the Genesis games I played throughout my childhood were originally coin-ops, I became more and more fascinated with Sega's 2D coin-ops of the '80's and early '90's. As I play more and more them to this day, I'm still amazed by what I see, despite their age. I lieks teh scaling and rotation, lololol. More importantly, I'm amazed by what I hear. Often because the Genesis' renditions of some of these coin-op soundtracks are strikingly close (such as "Golden Axe" and "Afterburner II"), but more because of the great, synthy compositions of these games. Some examples include:




and this from a game I just played for the first time (on Genesis) this past weekend, whose soundtrack caught my ear even on the Genesis port:

[Elusive]

I will e-punch anyone who doesn't love the Space Harrier theme.



Groovin' Daylight from Scud Race is brilliant.



Sling Shot, the Beginner Course theme from Daytona USA 2 is also heart-stoppingly cheese-awesome. Yes, I'm destructing mine grammar.



I uploaded this myself, as it can't be found on YouTube (omg): Sonic Boom's Game Over (Name Entry) theme. It's just a nice ending theme