Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Computer Game Music

I have a confession to make. I collect computer game music.

Yes, it's true. I have a little over 100 different folders, containing every thing from complete soundtracks to single track treasures. The music takes up about 4 and a quarter gigabytes of hard drive space and is comprised of a variety of stylistically different computer games. However, the bulk of my collection, consists of old Sierra (Sierra On-Line) adventure games.

I am currently organizing each collection, meticulously citing my sources as I make adjustments.

This process seems to never end.

There are titles to verify, track numbers (if ever the music had an order), album titles (if there ever was such a thing; many times, no official soundtrack was ever produced, but rather its form is dictated by the essence of the original game), and of course album art (or in many cases, the picture on the box that the game was sold in).

However, I am nearing the end of my archiving.

Here follows a complete list of my computer game music:

-Adventures of Willy Beamish
-Age of Empires II
-Age of Empires II: The Conquers Edition
-Alice
-Betrayal at Krondor
-Betrayal In Antara
-Call of Duty
-Castle of Dr. Brain
-Code-Name: ICEMAN
-Conquests of Camelot: The Search For the Grail
-Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood
-David Wolf: Secret Agent
-Descent II
-Descent 3
-Deus Ex
-Diablo II
-Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
-EcoQuest : The Search for Cetus
-EcoQuest 2: Lost Secret of the Rainforest
-EverQuest
-Fire Hawk: Thexder the Second Contact
-Full Throttle
-Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
-The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery
-Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
-Ghost Recon
-Ghost Recon: Desert Siege
-Ghost Recon: Island Thunder
-Gothic II
-Grim Fandango
-Half-Life
-Heart of China
-Heroes of Might and Magic IV
-Hitman: Codename 47
-Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
-Icewind Dale
-Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter
-Inca
-Jones In the Fastlane
-King's Quest: Quest For the Crown (VGA)
-King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne
-King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human
-King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
-King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!
-King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
-King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
-King's Quest VIII: Mask of Eternity
-The Colonel's Bequest: A Laura Bow Mystery
-Laura Bow In: The Dagger of Amon Ra
-Leisure Suit Larry In the Land of the Lounge Lizards
-Leisure Suit Larry 2
-Leisure Suit Larry 3
-Leisure Suit Larry 5
-Leisure Suit Larry 6
-Leisure Suit Larry: Love For Sail!
-Lords of the Realm II
-Lost In Time
-Max Payne
-Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
-Metal Gear Solid
-Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
-Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
-Myst
-Myst III: Exile
-Neverwinter Nights
-No One Lives Forever
-Outlaws
-Phantasmagoria
-Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh
-Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (VGA)
-Police Quest II: The Vengence
-Police Quest III: The Kindred
-Police Quest IV: Open Season
-Quest For Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero
-Quest For Glory II: Trial By Fire
-Quest For Glory III: Wages of War
-Quest For Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness
-Quest For Glory V: Dragon Fire
-Rainbow Six
-Rainbow Six: Eagle Watch
-Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
-Rainbox Six: Rogues Spear: Urban Operations
-Return to Castle Wolfenstein
-Rise of the Dragon
-Silpheed
-Sorcerian
-Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter
-Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge
-Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon
-Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers
-Space Quest V: The Next Mutation
-Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier
-StarCraft
-StarCraft: Brood Wars
-SWAT 2
-The Curse of Monkey Island
-The Incredible Machine
-The Incredible Machine 2
-The Incredible Machine 3

-The Island of Dr. Brain

-The Sims
-The Sum of All Fears
-Thief: The Dark Project
-Thief II: The Metal Age
-Undying
-World of Warcraft

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'd love to get the sound track for all the Gabriel Knight adventures. Even now, years later, those tunes pop into my head and I'm flattened with nostalgia.

Are you willing to sell/pass on those tracks?

Chris said...

Anonymous,

So very for taking such a long time to form a reply, but to answer your question: absolutely.

I didn't write this stuff, I have no rights to them. I'll gladly give you these tracks, no charge necessary.

I must mention, I have only a couple...nothing too fancy. From which Gabriel Knight game are you wanting music? 1, 2, or 3?