Many of us recall iconic video game music with great love, affection, and often a big dose of nostalgia. Zelda, Final Fantasy, Megaman, Sonic, Mario.... so many spring to mind which raise the energy, emotion, and tension while playing. However we've all experienced brain-jarringly horrific music as well, and here we have 7 examples of the worst crimes against music in video games courtesy of the (highly recommended) youtube channel outsidexbox.

In the video, they share some aural atrocities, some sadistic soundtracks, and some seriously balls-ed up BGM. Here's more:

For every brilliant, memorable piece of videogame music, there's something that sounds like it was mashed out on a Casio Tonebank keyboard by someone who did all their musical training in kindergarten. Listen on for the empirically the worst pieces of music ever to grace a sound chip.

Here's a few classic tracks to cleanse your soul (if it's not too late):

Akira's theme from Virtua Fighter 2 on the Sega Saturn:

World 2-1 of Super Mario Land on the Nintendo Gameboy: 

One of the glorious tracks from Sonic 3's multiplayer levels: Azure Lake: 

 

Do you have any examples of bad music to add to the list? 

More from the (frankly bloody excellent) outsidexbox
 

 

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