While I certainly can't claim the sort of video-game music aficionado status as some of my friends, I do have at least one claim to obsessive compulsive fame. I sat in front of my Dreamcast with the sound out rigged into my computer for most of a single night in order to record and rip all the background music for Jet Grind Radio.
And while it may lack some of the lo-fi charm of the Tetris songs, Jet Grind Radio had a much smaller cult following for its use of cel-shaded graphics to create a cartoony feel to the lighthearted mayhem cause by vandalism of public places. (It even had the most adorable, "We think grafitti is art, but it's still illegal. Please don't do it." disclaimer every time you started up the game.)
A good chunk of the songs were by Hideki Naganuma who, as far as I can tell, works primarily in video game soundtracks, but included a few high profile cameo songs for a set of levels set in a fictionalized NYC, including Rob Zombie and Jurassic 5. (There is one level that is so close to the area around the Lorimer St. JMZ station that I kept wanting to take my character into the McDonald's that I knew was there.)
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Enjoy,
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