Classical music in videogames

Input Tune of the Fatman
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one of my favorite '90s shareware games is all classical music run through MIDI and punching chittering wood lice

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There’s tons more Parodius, that’s just the first one I found.

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The Evil Within - Save Room Theme [In-game version] - YouTube

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this quotes toccata and fugue

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does this count since it’s all samples of wagner and bartok and shit

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yes!

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Super Mario World’s Ghost House music has an ostinato (well, several, depending on the underlying chord) that seems to be a metrical inversion of the cadenza for Chopin’s Nocturne in E flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2

^ Timestamped shortly before the cadenza

^ Super Mario World, Ghost House, Koji Kondo

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hello charlotte ep2 contains several pieces from tchaikovsky’s Children’s Album including probably the slowest Neopolitan Song ever recorded

Blue Ice contains several tasteful classical needle drops including an absolutely maddening midi version of ravel’s Lever du Jour which is just the opening crescendo looping every ~50 seconds

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the soundtrack for dungeon encounters is all arrangements of classical music. dvorak, wagner, chopin, mussorgsky and so on

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the Lemmings soundtrack was my intro to a lot of things. this is the version i’m used to:

also there was this which wasn’t mentioned earlier

but yeah the versions of Rondo alla Turca and Dance of the Reed Flutes are my favorite

when i heard a friend who went to the music conservatory’s piano recital and he played this Bach tune i was like “that’s type C!!” afterwards and he rolled his eyes

i saw this one mentioned elsewhere on the internet:

is this just an arrangement that sounds like classical music or an arrangement of something in particular? always wondered that.

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