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kubiiii
Thanks for sharing. Apart from the surge of nostalgia, anyone should listen to the streets of rage soundtrack (1991). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discography_of_the_Streets_of_R... I used to play the game just to listen to the music. It might sound old fashioned now but it was incredible back then.
GotAnyMegadeth
F-Zero and F-Zero X are games I used to play just for the music. They are so metal.

There is an excellent album with all the music played on real instruments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I9h7SkZICg&list=PLF1AF918F7...

xd
You should check out the carmageddon tracks.
furyg3
In the same vein, here is a live speedrun of Mega Man X, accompanied by live music as the game is played. They look like they're having a blast playing this music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnQ7bDGhOLI

I'd often try to get stuck somewhere just to groove to the music while cleaning my room as a kid.

Vaskivo
I was just going to recomment that!

I've been listening to those soundtracks lately, and It's awesome how different they are from each other.

SoR1 has a 80's vibe and is the most "normal".

SOR2 is arguably the best, where Koshiro started to explore new grounds. "Go Straight" is a classic, "Jungle base" shows some jungly house and, my favourite, "Alien Power" just evokes weirdness. Also, "Expander" sounds like a preview of the SOR3soundtrack.

In SOR3 Koshiro worked with a partner, and developed a system that uses procedurally generated samples. It sounds a bit more harsh, with some break beats and bit more noisy. While not so pleasing to the ear sometimes, it is features some really interesting composition. I recommend "Fuze", "Cycle I", "Inga Rasen" and the stressful "Bulldozer".

Also by Yuzo Koshiro, check out out Revenge of the Shinobi. For more FM synthesis goodness, try Thunderforce III in op's link.

ilitirit
The artist behind the music is kind of a legend in Japan. There was a time when he used to play his productions at club events. Granted, it was Game Music Events, but he's basically the only artist people remember.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dOnOKsaQz0

empressplay
Neat site, but most of these games were 16-bit... all these songs are still under copyright though so I worry for the site's longevity...
ANTSANTS
You know you can google "mario roms" and find hundreds of sites hosting the actual games (not just the music) that have been up for years, right? I think this one will be fine.
devja
You can also find these tracks using Google at higher qualities with proper tags/metadata and a complete set of album art.
sndtst
Here's hoping :) If it gets shut down then my total time has only been a few days of programming and about $15 in Amazon S3 bills so I still think it's been worth it. Never counted on other people picking it up as much though, that's been very fun. SNDTST has been played in 95 countries in the last 2 months.
johanx
I really like the website interface. By the way you can find many soundtracks here (about 5500 individual songs) in the archives located here: http://www.hotdogstorm.com/bucky/GameMusicArchives/ They are in NSFE format which can be played or converted to anything else using foobar2000 and the Game Emu Player plugin.
quux
Doom and Doom 2 were 32-bit games...
Drakim
More and more I've started seeing "8-bit" being used as a synonym for "retro". I don't know how to feel about that.
Torn
Also Super Mario 64 was, er, 64-bit
Narishma
Pretty much half of the games in the list aren't 8-bit.
sndtst
Yeah the "8-bit" part came from a (really cool) newsletter called The Happening from the Kickstarter employees. I don't think I made a claim like that. My only standard was non CD, I don't know why I guess it feels like I'm surfacing great music that is harder to hear again. The best example of this I can think of is http://sndtst.com/Continuum I had to trick down and build (on OSX) some obscure utilities and libraries to get this specific Amiga MOD rip into a wav format so I could upload it. I've also be encoding these from the the original VGM, NSF, HUE and SPC files with the great library [Game Music Emu](https://code.google.com/p/game-music-emu/) some simple C I adapted https://gist.github.com/jasonsperske/5ce7f90bf591454a08bc#fi.... This project is really my chance to play with HTML5 audio, Python and (very limited) C (and to have something fun playing in my car and while I program :)
_asciiker_
Thank you, this really brings back nice memories for most of us over 35 ;)
blux
And for us over 30 as well :P ;)
Waevian
Thanks for doing this. :) Awesome selection.
normloman
No love for firefox? It played on safari, but not mozilla.
houli
Interesting. I had a different experience where it played perfectly on Firefox yet would fail to play on Chrome.
anonbanker
Not working under Firefox for android as well.
sndtst
Interesting. I'm really interested in learning more about what you are experiencing. I have been developing this almost entirely in Firefox for OSX and haven't had an issue playing music. I also extensively tested it in Chrome and iOS Safari. Anything you can tell me about your setup? Browser version? OS? flash plugin?(jPlayer has a flash fallback, maybe that's causing issues)
kubiiii
There are so many fine music pieces trapped in video games, from composers no one will ever hear of (with notable exceptions). Check battle of olympus "name entry" (sic). Ok its a very simple tune, but that reminds me of François de Roubaix. Battle of Olympus is famous for its soundtrack but you can hardly find anything on the composer.
lifeformed
I think the player interface needs some tweaking. Putting the pause/play button all the way in the bottom right corner is... unconventional.
netw1z
thanks for this. awesome!
sndtst
Want a fun Easter Egg? Try and guess a game (by URL) I likely don't have it, but if you go there http://sndtst.com/The_7th_Guest you get a page that helps you ask for it to be added (and possibly pester whoever owns the rights to it to let it be uploaded, hint hint The Fat Man)
devindotcom
Nice. I made a small page with a dozen or two songs that I'd ripped from games, years and years ago now, and it was one of the few pages on my old site that got regular traffic. People are always looking for a quick handy resource like this and your version is great. Thanks!
_nullandnull_
Great work. Having a download all link would be awesome.
sndtst
When a song is playing a download link for the OGG and mp3 versions appears to the right of the track. It's really more of an after thought (I created the site primarily as a music streaming site, but the request came up so much I added it.