This week, Sound of Play brings you a musical collage — a constellation of audio memories from the year 2001. Rediscover favourites from 2001 or encounter tunes for the first time. This mix contains excerpts from 132 of the year’s games.
We challenge you to test your knowledge of videogame music by trying to identify all of the games included within, and you can collaborate with members of our community by sharing your knowledge in our forum.
2001 was a crazy year for me, went through several jobs and moved across the country. But I played a *lot* of games that year, so this has been one of the easier ones so far...
GameCube boot tune
ICO
Halo
Something that I swear is a star ocean game but none came out that year that sound that good
FFX
Conker’s Bad Fur Day
Super Monkey Ball
Max Payne
Parappa 2
Shenmue
Smash Melee
Phoenix Wright (not that anyone in the West played that in 2001, English translation was years off)
Crazy Taxi
MGS2
GTA3
Worms World Party
Dynasty Warriors 3 (and lo an obsession began)
Madden 02
Capcom vs SNK 2
007: Agent Under Fire
Zone of the Enders
Myst 3
Spy Hunter
Fallout Tactics (tried to trick us there Ryan, I see you)
Rez
Silent Hill 2
Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance (I really hope it is that, cause that would be an amazing piece of memory dredging if I’m right)
Something Simpson’s
Black and White (closest we’ve been on these to something I’ve actually worked on...)
Spy Fox
Mech Commander 2
Sonic Adventure 2
Golden sun battle theme
9.52 KLONOA 2: LUNATEAS VEIL: GOING TO LUNATEA!!
10.19: Castlevania COTM
15.21: Jak and Daxter
23: SSX tricky
23:47: SSBMelee temple stage
25:44: Devil May Cry
35.05: ZOE
36.52; Wrath of Cortex
39.14: Luigis mansion
48.25 Maximo
GBA title logo
Now, I need to listen to it again because I couldn't find the Mega Man X6 soundtrack and that surely can't be right
0:00 Nintendo GameCube
0:03 ICO
0:12 Halo: Combat Evolved
0:55 F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
1:17 Golden Sun
1:33 Resident Evil Gaiden
1:47 RuneScape
2:30 Sid Meier's Civilization III
2:57 Burnout
3:14 Serious Sam: The First Encounter
3:30 SpongeBob Squarepants: Operation Krabby Patty
3:37 The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
3:57 Wario Land 4
4:23 Final Fantasy X
4:40 Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
5:38 Arcanum
7:01 Dance Dance Revolution 5thMix
7:24 Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil
7:48 Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
7:52 LEGO Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge
8:02 Tropico
8:25 Conker's Bad Fur Day
8:50 Animal Crossing (Animal Forest)
10:16 Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
10:18 Super Monkey Ball
10:36 Rayman Arena (Rayman M)
10:50 Frequency
11:08 Silent Hill 2
11:41 Max Payne
12:40 The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
12:54 Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
13:19 Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis
13:35 Uplink (Uplink: Hacker Elite)
13:48 Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies
14:25 Red Faction
15:04 Myth III: The Wolf Age
15:30 Mega Man Battle Network
15:49 Mario Kart: Super Circuit
16:28 Toki Tori
17:11 Pikmin
17:32 Tribes 2
17:43 PaRappa the Rapper 2
18:40 Shenmue II
18:47 Syphon Filter 3
19:17 Okage: Shadow King
20:06 Tekken 4
20:23 SSX Tricky
20:24 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
20:53 Gitaroo Man
21:20 Super Smash Bros. Melee
21:48 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
22:01 DDRMAX: Dance Dance Revolution 6thMix
22:33 NCAA Football 2002
22:48 Crazy Taxi 2
22:59 Return to Castle Wolfenstein
23:18 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
23:34 Virtua Fighter 4
24:01 Dead or Alive 3
24:21 Twisted Metal Black
24:39 Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
24:41 Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
25:02 Grand Theft Auto III
26:09 Cel Damage
26:40 Worms World Party
27:25 Wave Race: Blue Storm
27:37 Dynasty Warriors 3
27:56 Madden NFL 2002
28:28 Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro
28:47 Spyro: Season of Ice
29:21 NBA Street
29:42 Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge
29:52 James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire
30:18 Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001
30:49 The King of Fighters 2001
31:05 Soul Reaver 2
31:35 Anarchy Online
32:21 King's Field IV
32:38 Zone of the Enders
33:15 Myst 3: Exile
34:06 Sonic Advance
34:32 Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
34:45 XG3: Extreme-G Racing
35:12 Stepmania
35:26 Devil May Cry
35:40 Hot Shot Golf 3
35:49 Sakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning?
36:25 SpyHunter
36:50 Luigi's Mansion
37:45 Bejeweled
38:01 NBA 2K2
38:02 PaRappa the Rapper 2
38:41 Shadow Hearts
39:26 WHITE DAY: A Labyrinth Named School
39:33 Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
40:37 Ikaruga
41:31 Startopia
41:53 Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis
42:16 Advance Wars
42:46 Ganbare Goemon: Oedo Daikaiten
43:05 Project Gotham Racing
43:47 Mister Mosquito
44:26 Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec
44:41 Stronghold
44:55 Dark Age of Camelot
45:10 Gradius Advance
45:48 Maximo: Ghosts to Glory
46:15 IL-2 Sturmovik
46:15 Game Boy Advance
46:34 Dr. Mario 64
47:20 Rez
47:54 Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
48:12 Flower, Sun, and Rain
49:34 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
50:29 MechCommander 2
50:57 The Simpsons: Road Rage
51:11 Fuzion Frenzy
51:26 Black & White
51:37 Spy Fox 3: "Operation Ozone"
52:19 Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles
52:35 Tetris Worlds
52:57 Zoo Tycoon
52:59 Onimusha: Warlords
53:18 Europa Universalis
53:57 The Settlers IV (The Settlers: Fourth Edition)
54:55 Empire Earth
54:56 Fatal Frame
55:19 Clive Barker's Undying
55:52 Klonoa: Empire of Dreams
56:17 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
57:05 ONI
57:19 Ecks vs. Sever
57:40 Sonic Adventure 2
58:57 Conker's Bad Fur Day
