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Maybe you were like us and spent every waking minute of afterschool afternoons playing with your joystick.

Wait… let me rephrase that.

You remember the classic game consoles of 70s and 80s? Right after Pong, but before the Sony Playstation.

Atari 2600. Nintendo Entertainment System. IntelliVision. ColecoVision. And the minty Commodore 64.

Mario Bros. Pac Man. Donkey Kong. Missle Command. Kaboom! Pole Position. Sword Quest. Pitfall. Breakout. Adventure.

Forced to get my gaming groove on with an über-sexy TI-99 4/A, being raised in my family allowed me the special privilege of loading games from a cassette tape! Of course, we gave up on Texas Instruments the day we saw an Apple Macintosh at the mall - been a total Mac geek ever since, proud to say.

The soundtracks to these video games were annoying, low-res, and spare - quite unlike the fully scored orchestral masterpieces of today’s 5.1 game consoles. But there was something about them - a quirky romance, if you will - that warms our digital hearts.

So at Burst Labs this past week we set about creating some new classic videogame scores. Never forgetting our love of the joystick and trying to honor our past, we composed our new retro videogame music collection, Degenerate Gamer, using sound cards directly from these old games, low-bit resolution recording techniques that were all the rage at the time (well, it’s all they had), and by partaking in the Gamers Diet - Mountain Dew and Doritos.

Video Game Production Music Highlights

From the cute and cuddly department, we bring you 4 undeniable tracks full of rainbows and mushrooms and gold sparkle flowers :

Adorable Pixels
Bits & Pieces
Bonus Round
NoFriendo Entertainment System

And we have manic and crazed energy tracks, too :

Dungeon Maze
Frenzied Arcade
4 Bits To Freedom

How about some dramatic adventure :

Snake Raid
Mythical Adventure

And the requisite modern quasi-remix take on the classic sound of video games :

Final Fantasy Football

License This Music

Please feel free to license our classic video game production music where irony, sarcasm, humor, or genuine warm-hearted musical nostalgia are required. Batteries not included. [dh]

UPDATE : looking for a great emulator to play some classic Atari 2600 games? Try Stella.