Welcome to the last podcast of 2014 about our favourite videogame music – Sound of Play.

For many of us, it’s hard to think of almost any videogame without our minds conjuring up the music that accompanied it. Over the decades they’ve evolved from simplistic monaural beeps and bloops to full orchestral scores recorded in 7.1 surround, but from their earliest days right up to today, soundtracks have played an integral part of our memories of the games we played, and the times in our lives when we were playing them. What we aim to bring you with Sound of Play is a diverse sample of our favourites pieces from the many air-punching, spine-tingling, tear-jerking and grin-inducing videogame soundtracks we’ve heard over the years.

This show’s contributors were: Leon Cox, Karl Moon and Dan Clarke

Community contributors were: Magic Joe F and Alex79uk.

Track listing for this show is as follows:

Sound of Play intro mash-up by Ryan Hamann.

Track 1: Chronos Theme by Tim Follin (Chronos, 1987)
Track 2: Menu Theme by Chris Huelsbeck (Great Giana Sisters, 1987)
Track 3: Theme of Sakura (I Want You To Know) by Setsuo Yamamoto and Shun Nishigaki (Super Puzzle Fighter II, 1996)
Track 4: Sync by Disasterpeace (FEZ, 2012)
Track 5: Pause menu music by Kevin Bruce (Striker, 1992)
Track 6: The Union by Martin O’Donnell (Destiny, 2014)
Track 7: The Forest of Monsters by Masanori Adachi, Taro Kudo (Super Castlevania IV, 1991)
Track 8: An End, Once And For All (Good Ending) by Clint Mansell and Sam Hulick (Mass Effect, 2012)
Track 9: Pain Fade Down by trash80 (Darwinia, 2005)


Sound of Play: 5 was edited by Jay Taylor

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Good show this week, had no idea the Spectrum beeper could do that... (never owned one myself, I went Commodore early on and never looked back)

(I think you've listed the wrong thing for track 4 there)

I was always more partial to the C64 version of Giana Sisters myself...

Flabyo wrote:(I think you've listed the wrong thing for track 4 there)

No, the track is correct it is Sync - I took the mp3 from my own copy of the soundtrack.

JaySevenZero wrote:

Flabyo wrote:(I think you've listed the wrong thing for track 4 there)

No, the track is correct it is Sync - I took the mp3 from my own copy of the soundtrack.

Someone else got in ahead of you and fixed it... (it had the track 4 from episode 4 listed originally)

Yeah it was a bit squiffy but I edited it and that.

Ah, okay, my bad!

Thanks for playing my pick

Another excellent episode. I often work with film / game soundtracks on so this is a great for discovering new stuff.

No problem Joe - thanks for offering up your selection and for listening!