Video Game Soundtracks Released On Vinyl

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Video game soundtracks released on vinyl. 198x vinyl soundtrack 39 99 198x is a coming of age arcade epic telling its story through an impressive breadth of retro genres platformer racer rpg shooter and brawler all jam packed into a rather familiar place. Collection of video game music that s available on vinyl. You can find a list of most of the labels who release vgm vinyl records as well as some distros who offer large selections of vgm vinyl on our subreddit wiki here. Note that the release schedule prior to 2011 is likely incomplete especially on a week by week basis.

According to jayson napolitano at destructoid there were roughly 119 video game soundtracks released on vinyl in the 80s. Of what s been released so far these are 10 best video game soundtracks you can own on vinyl. I ll try to add all that i can find. In 1984 haruomi hosono released the first generally recognized video game soundtrack album video game music and the practice.

Feel free to message me if you find anything missing. The practice of releasing video game soundtracks on vinyl records began in the 1980s fell out of favor in the 1990s and 2000s as vinyl records were replaced by other storage media and experienced a resurgence of interest in the 2010s due in part to a vinyl revival. Releases with music from multiple games are sorted at the end of the list and are sorted alphabetically by release title. Similar to the hero of time re recording for the zelda vinyl this also historic video game revolutionised rpgs with its multiple endings focus on character development and a detailed battle system the music was as grand in scope as it could possibly be back then in 1995 and its legacy is established as one of the greatest video game soundtracks of all time.

Vinyl recordings of video game music find their origins in the 1970s with albums such as yellow magic orchestra s self titled. But this dramatic number gave way to just over 40 in the 90s.