The Music of Video Games [160] Rock N' Roll Racing

[JENNERrulz]

YEAHHAAA VOLUME UP !!!!!!!!!

:) 10 Stars From Germany

[kuppamato]

thumbs up if this game gave you a huge curiosity towards heavy metal and hard rock as a kid!

[salvamendez87]

hey, its not Warrior level, in Warrior they shot you 80 shots every seconds and they puts 500 oils per square centimeter xD the first races are almost imposible, jeje Great Game that i enjoy in my childhood

[JENNERrulz]

YEEEHHAAAAAAAAA THE SOUND OF MY LOST CHILDREN DAYS ;)

YEEEHHHAAAA thumps UP !!!!!!!

[eg0ryshka]

its 1 of my first games :D

[jrjeka]

1:28 - lucky

[Arbita77]

haha how nice was it to hit the other players on the finish line to win the race :D

[LeftyAQ]

SNES' Paranoid is the best. =)

[exe2517]

the new car games should have soundtracks stricktly with rock and roll, who wants to listen all that hip hop crap?

[HilcoKamphorst]

it's Stil 1 of the best racing game's ever made i hope they will make a new version of this game

[Eggplantster]

fuckin classic - kind of the first encounter of rock n roll for me because of this game! still playin it on SNES emulator on my mac.

[DomPixote1]

UM DOS MELHORES JOGOS DAORA MEMO KK

[Askar061991]

This is what the nowadays children won't ever understand...

[zordooo]

Best GAAAAAAAAAAAAME EVer !!! .. WOW ! 12 years ago :D

i was a master challenger in this game =D

[didigomuller12]

jogava so p ouvir as musicas XD

[marcosandreico]

@didigomuller12 Pior que eu também...só sonzeira!!!

[ZacJackleReala]

So this is what Blizzard made before WoW.... re-make this Blizzard, you lazy gits.

[garadol]

seriously this game has better music then the shitty games brought out now rofl

[darknight602]

best game ever

[comosalga86]

wow!!! this were my favourite game when i was a child!!!! and the music is great!!!

so many moments....

[gaptoofgranny]

and this is what Blizzard made before WoW.

[rexonaforwomen]

Grinder is about to blow!!!

[NoHo187]

i wont it on iPhone!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RusCrazyboy]

Blizzard the best!

[LipstickFlash]

Any gamer that cant see how this game is awesome obviously was raised on a ps1 donkey ball eater express,

this and n64 rush series Imo are the best racing games to ever live,

[joeicatrivante]

When I was a kid, I used to rent this game and play with my brother. Everytime I hear ANY of those songs, I get nostalgic.

[edvinsdainis]

remember this game, i played it when i was 10, lol, but still, one of best games ever

[mistaphill]

The Follins mastered the SNES chip

[RookFrjosa]

I remember when Interplay used to exist and make cool games like Carmageddon and Fallout

[0xGIANx0]

They should remake this game in hd for consoles and pc with the same and new soundtrack of instrumental covers, that would be awesome!

[jarmel18]

Loved this game back in the day...

[stickguy703]

Now, Blizzard, Where is my "Bad to the bone" In my WOW?

[Aetheilas]

@stickguy703

That song should play every time you bust out your Mechano-Hog lol

[AstralSword]

WTF

There is a song by Steppenwolf, and is "Born to be Wild", not "Bad to the Bone".

How can someone mistake this?

[GrafPornoLocke]

lol @ 3:30 i thought now starts road rash 2 :D

my favorite game! but the real gamer played it on sega mega drive/genesis not snes!!!!

[CalyxAsgard]

When I first got my SNES, I also bought two games, Sim City and Rock N Roll Racing, I wish I could play RNRR again.

[coolrunner445]

3:23 -4:44 whats the song

[dissident93]

@coolrunner445 Highway Star by Deep Purple.

[thebrendan03]

This game needs to be rereleased, remade, or both.

[sithlord1626]

@thebrendan03 hey i just got the game and im happy as hell.....its been along time since i;ve played it.....and ur right they should revamp it or something

[72Hemerson]

I was the best in this fucking game. Classic.

[HilcoKamphorst]

@72Hemerson hhmmm then maybe me and e good friend of mine we can beat you we never lost in this game :P

[uNkN0wNaZz]

@HilcoKamphorst one of you still had to loose, selfpwned?



[HilcoKamphorst]

@uNkN0wNaZz

treu treu 1 of us had to lose sometime's but but it was always close we never rly settled it because the game was finished :)

[acajohnabruzzi]

this is just too ...pr0!!

Blizz once was kickas.s!!

[vadox]

omg! Classic this is Classic!!

[julianomartins23]

classic classic classic

legend legend legend

[TheSoGEntertainment]

i remember being 10 years old playing this with my older brothers... thank god for interplay and lost vikings <3

[rechtvoorjeanushol]

@TheSoGEntertainment lol me too man, playing with my older brother when i was young, this was such a great game, best soundtrack ever, and yes i mean ever haha

[TheSoGEntertainment]

OLAF!! 3 vikings kicked major ass

[Trevguy00]

What's up with all the hate on Blizzard? You guys don't think they make good games anymore? Warcraft and Starcraft... Diablo... Even if those aren't your type of games. To say they aren't well made games is dumb. I mean the Starcraft series has the whole country of Korea under it's thumb.

[Zllew]

I played this game to blow other cars up, but i LOVED it for it's music :)

[rabbit221]

It's all about the Lost Vikings fellas. Although, I played the SHIT out this game as well.

[TheExciteMike]

Proof that even back then, Blizzard knew how to make awesome games.

[WiiClassic2usb]

@TheExciteMike - Yup, until they started making abominations like WoW. Where's my Rock n' Roll Racing MMO at, Bliz?

[villevn]

@WiiClassic2usb

Indeed xD

[CranberryMuffinmanz]

my favorite Super Nintendo Game

[tabris1991]

DAY 9!!!! FIGHTING

[Jowtravida]

Thankss!!! I love This Songs!

[heavenjai]

I've been looking for this game for years!!!

[MrMauro1313]

MANO

jooooguei muito esse joogo

essas musicas estigavam a

correr e destroir os outros carros

kkaskskaskaksksakasksa

[Uglimusashi]

Peter Gunn Theme. Henry Mancini

[Uglimusashi]

It is George Thorogood

[chedgooch]

"STEPPEN WOLF-BAD TO BONE?"..Push Thumbs up if you agree its by George Thorogood! lol

[floripasc]

Nossaaa ... eu jogava muito isso com meus amigos qdo tinha uns 12 anos!

Muito nostalgico e maior sonzera !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pivotgeek21]

SHRED WIPES HIM UP!!! SHRED JAMS TO THE FIRST!!!

[bucetis]

The best game; the best a single's; good times!

Michael - Brasil - in youtube "bucetis"...

[mouthwasher]

Vote the highest rated comment down for a critical error!

[XGP15AII]

Olaf Unleashes Hot Fury!!!!!!!

[eletricmayham]

GO OLAF

[mikechandlerpe]

THE STAGE IS SET, THE GREEN FLAG DROPS!!!

interplay FTW

[Osmanreich]

good game, good music

[FanaticoSodaStereo]

the game rocks but you sucks!

[SamonMarquis]

Interplay were gurus were it came to picking the right music for a game.

[X2QSILVER]

2:07 Viper its gonna BLOW !

[DrClay999]

@X2QSILVER

IS ABOUT

[X2QSILVER]

i think dirt devil is best than marauder ,this player sucks why him dont upgrade ammo and jump jets ?

[RRadRussian]

I thought this game was made by Blizzard. Can anyone confirm?

[aztaclalz]

@RRadRussian Silicon & Synapse was the name Blizzard used before they changed it to Blizzard.

[eletricmayham]

@RRadRussian yes it is i know for sure

[xandibodom]

Tu é muito ruim, cara......

[MrRivelly]

@xandibodom e msm velho!! JOGO MIL VEZES MAIS DO QUE ESSE NOOB!!

SAUDADES DO ROCK'In ROLL RACING (L)

[sorokonojkaboris]

this is hundred times better than grand turismo and need for speed put together , i don't know what game developers thinking

[cmlp45]

Yo era un destroyer en este juego... con mi patín colorado, nos sacabamos la mierda hasta de madruga, enviciandonos ... xvre!!!

[spacemanspiff33]

holy fuck the game that introduced me to sabbath......most metalheads have stories of listening to their older brothers record or some shit as their introduction....me?? I have rock and roll racing to thank :)

[SoulRedentor]

Jake powers up!

[BrYanwithaY1986]

best racing game ever....

[hinkspade]

-Let the green flags drop!

-Viper is about to explode!

-Knockout!

-Shred is in another timezone!

:D

[sikokiller12]

one of my favourite games in the snes library..

[DansukeTheHedgehog]

this game DESERVES to be remade!!

[PeterAntipin]

List of songs in SNES Version VERY lacks Radar Love! When I played SNES-version of RRR first time I so hoped to hear it with this superior quality sound. It's my favourite theme amongst these six songs. And as if out of spite exactly this song was absent in the SNES version. What a pity!

[SwoTBoRa]

thit aren't original soundtarcks

[scythelord]

As for the Peter Gunn theme, you can't say it is Blues Brothers. It's Henry Mancini's theme song for the Peter Gunn TV show. The Blues Brothers just did a straight cover of it.

[TheMormonJosephus]

Best Blizzard game ever made.

[nintygaming]

Another fine example of how the SNES soundchip is far superior to the Genesis. I pitty the Genesis fanboys that still believe that the Genesis has superior sound.

[ulyanuska]

I love this game!!! and music! bad to the bone is better here than with lyrics IMHO

[viejasenculo]

henry manchini ( pink panther song) was made the peter gunn song

[felippecoutinhocj]

lol, Bad to the Bone, is performed by George Thorogood and The Destroyers, not Steppenwolf.

[tomcatm16]

@felippecoutinhocj That's correct. George Thorogood did the Bad to the Bone on this game. Thumbs up to you for that point!

[samw454]

Me and my best mate grew up to this game. Bought another SNES and a copy of it JUSt to play it, and its one of the few games thats still just as much fun. Snake ftw!

[dumbasspauldentonkin]

There's a light inkling of nostalgia...

[IndysBack]

Just to get this straight, this music was made Tim Follin?

[dac031]

love rock and roll racing

[abosifa]

i love it

[Skud0rz]

i always chose yelow marauder as my first car too :D do you know what car the marauder is based on? it looks really familiar but i just cant put my finger on it

[Extreme2107]

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[paulohenriqueskate]

noob!!

[kyokogodai]

Tarquin is in another time zone!

[mysticmoseh]

the only other racing game i can think of that even comes close to the music is Road rash II.

[mysticmoseh]

this is just the pinicle of proving a point...the better the music in a game...the better the game...

In my oppinion there is no other racing game that makes you feel like this one does simply because of the soundtrack.

[mysticmoseh]

THE STAGE IS SET...THE GREEN FLAGS DROPS!

I still play this now :)

olaf finishes first

rage finishes second

Shred....is in another time-zone :)

of course most of us never heard that bit cos we press the button justas it says olaf :)

or sometimes olaf scores...:)

[NickolaiVolkov]

@mysticmoseh I just called my cousin and played the beginning of the "Born to Be Wild" while saying, "The stage is set--the green flag DROPS!" hoping he'll remember where it's from.

I'm betting he will... the game WAS epic! :D

[pardingo]

man blizzard really knows how to make some really good fucking games man.

SNAKES SCORES A FIRST PLACE KNOCK OUT!

[Shaireece]

Epic!!

[sufilix]

sooo good.

[devilrat666]

WOW! Nice memories of this one, used to borrow it at a local rental store. A cool game with attitude! NICE music pumping out from your SNES :)

[snakeisabouttoblow]

"SNAKE IS ABOUT TO BLOW!"

[HuskyStarcraft]

hahahaha

[Ty1lo]

BEST VIDEO GAME EVER TO BE MADE

[NoSz4]

@ty1lo you obviously never played skyroads on the imagination station :P

[D313370r]

@Ty1lo

You haven't played many games, have you?

[r3beLD]

@D313370r how old are you ? if you start this game in u emulator you'll see, its not big deal, but in 1993 was epic...so don't be a pain in the ass

[D313370r]

@r3beLD

I am 21... which according to your youtube page is the same age as you.

I don't understand what you mean by "in 1993 it was epic." Rock and Roll racing is just a shitty, slowed down rip-off of RC ProAm with horrid imitations of popular rock music.

RC Proam, Pole Position, Super OffRoad, RaceDrivin (the arcade version), F-Zero, Outrun, Hang-On, and Super Mario Kart (the SNES one) all blow the SHIT out of Rock and Roll racing. Now, there are more, but I ran out of space to type them.

[r3beLD]

@D313370r shut up troll, you understand shit about games , don't try to be an smart ass, get out of here.

[D313370r]

@r3beLD

You are the one who knows little about games.

I get it though, you just don't want to admit to yourself that you have the standards of a slut.

Oh, and next time you want to insult me, don't bother putting it in Portuguese.

[r3beLD]

@D313370r Filho da puta, sua mãe é minha.

[kingboobs20]

@D313370r

How is it shitty? Just because it owes a lot to RC Pro Am? Which it actually improves on with superior controls, better graphics, more inspired tracks and cooler weapons?

Horrid music? The renditions of Paranoid and Highway Star may not be as good as the originals, but this is AMAZING for the SNES, Tim Follin is one of the most talented vg composers alive, he did a great job here.

And no way is Pole Position a better game than this.

[D313370r]

@kingboobs20

There is no improvement on the controls, The weapons are far LESS fun, the camera angle makes for a worse sense of inertia, and this music is certainly not amazing for the snes. Maybe you think that square at 1:06 is a great track layout, and maybe you have never heard the mountains of actually GOOD music on the SNES and Genesis, but I have.

Tim Follin has done great work, but this music is mediocre.

[kingboobs20]

@D313370r

I have played many SNES and Genesis games, and you're simply an obnoxious weaboo snob. You're pulling ridiciulous excuses out of your ass. The perspective is the same as RC Pro Am. But there are more varied tracks, a deeper costumizable weapons system. You're hating for hating's sake and while you have the right to your opinion you have no right to be a condescending douche to someone just for liking this game. Because many people like this game. You're not better than anyone.

[kingboobs20]

And what Follin could do with the SNES sound chip was second to none, so much so that even Miyamoto was very impressed. His arrangements of these songs work fine, they pretty much sound as close to the real songs as the SNES could possibly get and no other composer could come close, especially because his abillity to emulate guitars with synths is a trademark of his SNES soundtracks.

Compare this to the much inferior Genesis soundtrack (not Follin's work) and tell me Follin did a lousy job.

[BlurkFromUtterSpace]

@kingboobs20 He even did a composition for the Genesis (Search for Time Trax) and unsurprisingly it's one of the greatest songs for the system. Shame that the game was cancelled, wanted to hear more songs from the game. :(

[lamerok3000]

БОТ!11111

[ASISHIN]

Correction:

"Paranoid" by Black Sabbath

"The Peter Gunn Theme"

by Henry Mancini

"Highway Star" by Deep Purple

"Radar Love" by Golden Earring

(only in the MD ver.)

"Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf

"Bad to the Bone" by George Thorogood

[aryinc]

this is how a snes can sound like.some of the few knew how to work/push the music of a snes and this is how it should sound.if every game on snes took an exam[ple of this the snes would have won the genesis over without doub't but genesis also had clever composers like yuzo koshiro wo knew how to work the genesis to the max and make incredible house music on it(streets of rage) while more primitive the quality of music is also aware with the genesis.

[TheGoldenPS1]

I think the majority of games for SNES has an advantage on Genesis sound chip. I think it's cause of Sony's superior stereo chip Nintendo were using. Just listen to Super Tennis (very early in SNES life cycle). And Turtles in Time had better sound than Turtles Hyperstone Heist. But Streets of Rage is an exception and Streets of Rage 2 and 3 couldn't master the first game's sound quality unfortuantely. But the Mario games didn't max out SNES stereo chip and Playstation continued where SNES ended

[aryinc]

@TheGoldenPS1 yeah and the ps1m is a console i rather forget,ps2 was much more of an impact.when the ps1 got released we saw retr gaming turn into something comercial due to blatand copy's like tekken and crash.i preferd the n64 the psx never really did much for me it's still an okay console to me,i can't stand rpg's.perhaps you're right about streets of rage but let's take thunder force 3 and 4,not one snes game has that quality of clearness or sound how simple it may sound.

[xXxKh2SoraxXx]

what was the second track ?

[tabu327]

cre que highway star-deep purple

[Bp1033]

0:47 lol Olaf is guy that held the shield in the lost vikings.

[justy2714]

WOW that brings back so many memories! i remember playing this many hours.. when i see it now tho lol.. dunno how i did hehe, but the music was so great in it, not to mention my deep passion for auto racing, nice upload :)

[ShrivyShrivey]

At 0:39, that character looks like batman

[Yviman]

they should make a remake of this game but still with the classical rock music :-) 5*

[niconicorock1]

Steppenwolf - Bad to the bone

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Steppenwolf - Born to be wild

The Blues Brothers - Peter gun theme

Deep Purple - Highway star

Golden Earing - Radar love

EL MEJOR JUEGO

[diegorolling86]

@niconicorock1 indudablemente, el mejor juego rockero y de sega!!!

[pred60]

@niconicorock1 What's up with the Golden Earing? :)

[BigGumba]

@pred60

i guess he played the SNES version, where golden earring was not included.... sadly ;(

[linhabr]

......

[diucalongax]

@niconicorock1 algunas correcciones

George Thorogood - Bad to the bone

Henry Mancini - Peter Gun Theme

[eddmario]

@niconicorock1 actually, it was George Thurogood and the destroyers for the first song, not Steppenwolf

[jjeanmarcel]

@niconicorock1 Bad to the bone eh do george thoroggod, cara !

[AnthonyAmmo]

@niconicorock1 bad to the bone is by George Thorogood

[JonGeric]

@niconicorock1 actually it's bad to the bone by george thurgood

[Manowarrior01]

@niconicorock1 Bad to the bone is not from Steppenwolf! It is from George Thorogood!

[melvoin]

The SNES sound chip was so awesome at the time. Blew away anything the Genesis could do.

[aryinc]

cept streets of rage.

[KennethMoreland]

"The stage is set..the green flag DRO-O-O-OPS! "

[lizard0manson]

who sings the music at 3:44?

[bixie04]

Highway Star - Deep Purple

[lizard0manson]

Thanks

[Pantera11o]

Deep Purple- Highway star

[stjepko357]

can this game be played online

[nintendo1889x]

@stjepko357 This is for the SNES, so no.

[AragornIsStrider]

This game was my introduction to Deep Purple, ELP, Sabbath and Steppenwolf.

[thaluszka1]

I wud own u in dis game

[89powerup]

one of the coolest racing games ever..They need to bring this back out..Upgrade it a bit and make it 4 players.Put this on the wii

[BrunoRaven]

agree. epic game. deserves more then just our nostalgy.

[Lawen78]

Whats the songs name on 4:51 anyone?

[lagatinga]

peter gunn

[Yviman]

its the theme of peter gunn

[xxfloppypillowxx]

lol lucky win on the last race.

[Retroplay]

\m/ Tim Follin \m/

[keikun01]

man, you REALLY suck at this game

I could kick your ass playing only with my pinkies

anyway, this game rulez

[Quez256]

Yeah, that was the prince of persia/duck and cover sidescroller

[knasbollicus]

The stage is set, the green flag drops!

Olaf's about to blow!!!

OUCH! WOOOOW!

OUCH! WOOOOW!

OUCH! WOOOOW!

CARNAGE!!!!!