Adventure Games: The Musical!

[Datadog]

Does anyone else find it interesting how easily adventure games can get away with having musical numbers and songs? I've seen it done in a few other genres too (like in some Square RPGS,) but rarely do adventure games come under fire for it.

Anyway, I thought it might be fun to start a thread where we post up game songs that we like and want to share. There's quite a bunch out there, and you can also post up songs from other game genres too if you like. Or if even if it's not really a song, but a really, really, really great piece of music, that can count too.

I'll get the ball rolling with some of my favorites...

Curse of Monkey Island - A Pirate I Was Meant To Be
Gabriel Knight 2 - The Opera (video contains SPOILERS)
Sam and Max Season 1 - The War Song <-- my personal favorite

[Collector]

There is the Troubadour opening song after the credits of Conquests of the Longbow. Another reason that a talkie version would have been nice.

Conquests of the Longbow Intro

[Jules]

KQ7's Land Beyond Dreams is one of my faves.

Uploaded by our dear own BBP.

[Rath Darkblade]

If ye try ta fight us, you will get a nasty whackin'!
If ya disrespect our singin', we will feed ya to a kraken!

Genius. I wonder why they don't make them like that any more.

[Datadog]

The Ballad of Freddy Pharkas

and...

The Ballad of the DEMO of Freddy Pharkas!

[BBP]

Grim Fandango - The Rusty Anchor

And I love the little bit of Oklahoma! that Gabe sings in GK3, prompted me out to watch the movie.

[Jules]

The Ballad of Freddy Pharkas

and...

The Ballad of the DEMO of Freddy Pharkas!

Forgot about that one! Definitely a goodie.

[Datadog]

Grim Fandango - The Rusty Anchor

I've played that game so many times and this is the first time I've seen that!

[Rath Darkblade]

Grim Fandango - The Rusty Anchor

I've played that game so many times and this is the first time I've seen that!

Show Glottis the "Rusty Anchor" card (before he rushes off to gamble and get blotto ) and you'll see that song too!

[BBP]

Not to mention the poetry you can score from Olivia for it...

Another favourite:
Skeletons In My Closet - The 7th Guest.

And I love the theme song from Putt-Putt Saves The Zoo, which was also by The Fat Man. Just don't tell anyone.

[Datadog]

Gonna stretch the adventure game rule a bit by bringing you another of my all-time favorite video game songs.

Portal - Still Alive (by Jonathon Coulton)

[BBP]

Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly Ending Song
Never played the game, but I watched the playthrough with much interest.

^^ Thanks for the link Jules!

[Maiandra]

Gonna stretch the adventure game rule a bit by bringing you another of my all-time favorite video game songs.

Portal - Still Alive (by Jonathon Coulton)

I love that game and that song. The humour was a great surprise. As was the fun physics (kind of). If anyone who normally only sticks to adventure felt like branching out a little, without too much of a shock to the sytem, that's a great game for that.

This isn't technically a musical number, since it's not sung by any of the main characters, but I love The Archaeologist Song from Laura Bow 2. It's hilarious.

[Collector]

Weeping Willow Song
Dance of the Bones

[Datadog]

Classics. I'd forgotten about the Archaeologist song.

KQ6's bone number reminded me of this version:

Monkey Island 2 - The Bone Song

If I recall, the order of the lyrics to that one change every time because it becomes part of a puzzle later on (so obviously, the lyrics never make sense.) But I'll always dig the skeletons' dance. They're just so enthusiastic!