ENEMIES EVERYWHERE!!!

Now, Mass Effect 1 isn't that old, but those battle cries.... :D

I've played too few old games to say if I'm bothered by them or not...(backlog backlog backlog)

Some game audio that has aged badly for me:

1. Commodore 64 games. May be partly because I never owned one (three of my friends did), so I didn't create a real emotional connection to SID music. To me they mostly sound like someone making music with fart sounds from his mouth. Still, I recall I was blown away originally by e.g. the <span class="bold">Forbidden Forest music</span>, when my friends were playing it. I was really jealous to my friends.

2. PC games with OPL-2 FM (Adlib or Soundblaster) music. Then again, I didn't like them even back then. Pretty much the only Soundblaster FM music I ever found enjoyable was <span class="bold">this</span>. Otherwise the same comments as with C=64 game audio apply here too. I listened to Roland CM-32L or SCC-1 music instead in PC games, if just humanly possible.

3. Most Amiga game music. I did find it mostly quite enjoyable back then, but was still annoyed by the small amount of audio channels, which usually meant that part of the music was cut out if there were also sound effects during the game. And the audio quality was a bit scratchy and muddy due to low memory.

Also, quite often the "genres" used in Amiga game music were ones I didn't really like. I much preferred the movie-like orchestral music in American PC games, than the silly "Blood Money" or "Xenon 2 Megablast" music in mostly UK/European Amiga games.

Oh my lovely C64. How I miss thee, and the games Archon, Gunship, Silent Service, Jumpman, Mission Impossible, Bard's Tale, and countless other games of my youth. You may have had your games on a cassette tape, and the sound was horrible, but the C64 was my first and still holds a place in my heart.
I wonder whatever happened to my terminal. I'll have to look in my parents attic. I'm sure the plastic melted to some unrecognizable mass, but I will still be able to recognize it. Maybe, give it the burial in the backyard it deserves.

I think it's an important factor. I can admit that the quality of C64 music is bad but it doesn't change the fact I absolutely love it and have a huge SID collection and I listen to it regularly. It drives most people mad so I listen to it when I'm alone and since it's the case most of the time - no big problem here ;)