Re: Games I Play Only To Listen to the Music

On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 10:19:28 -0400, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
wrote:

On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:43:46 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

* Lord of the Rings Vol 1 (Interplay, 1990)
    More specifically, the 1993 'enhanced CD-ROM Cinematic
    Multimedia" edition, which a had CD-Audio soundtrack. The
    game itself sucked, but the music was great.

Yeah, I remember this game's soundtrack. It sounded very good but it
also didn't fit very well with what was going on in the game I
thought.

Yeah, it was an incredibly bombastic and energetic soundtrack, which
felt very out of place for the game, which had slow turn-based combat
and a lot of wandering about through fairly empty maps. But it was one
of the first games I owned that had a CD-Audio soundtrack played by
(IIRC) a real orchestra, and it was so heads-and-shoulders above
any other game music that it left a tremendous impression on me.

Are there any games you fire up just for their tunes or am I the only
one who does this?

Gaming soundtracks are very important to me but I don't fire up a game
just to listen to the soundtrack. I have the soundtracks in my music
collection so I don't really see the point of doing that.

I have a lot of soundtracks in the music collection (in a variety of
formats) too, but -because I have so many of these games permanently
installed on my hard-drive- it's often easier just to launch the game
than dig through the folders to find the specific WAV, MIDI, FLAC or
MP3 file. With the bonus that it gives me an excuse to play a video
game ;-)

Since most people probably HAVEN'T dedicated a terrabyte to just
storing old DOS-era games, it's not surprising most people don't have
the same habits as I do.

However, I did used to this when I was a kid on my C-64. I remember
waiting for the Pool of Radiance to load just to hear that opening
intro song as one example.

Awww. I only played "Pool of Radiance" on Apple and PC, and neither
had music :(

Although given the limited sound capabilities of both platforms (at
the time) that was probably for the best.