Well, I like all the classics like early Megaman, Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda, Hitoshi Sakimoto, anything from Falcom (Y's, Xanadu, etc).
There are some truly oddball compositions out there that are dear to me, like a lot of the work of Zuntata, which was an in-house band for Taito in the 90's. Similarly, a lot of the weird, sample-based music from the Amiga-era, from people like Chris Huelsbeck, Dave Wittaker and Rob Hubbard.
In recent years, from Japan I've really gotten into anything that Yoko Shimomura has done, and Michiru Yamane upended/revitalized some of the later Castlevania's music in the best way possible.
I will always go to Koichi Sugiyama's Dragon Quest music whenever I want to turn someone on to truly beautiful game compositions (chills), or just relax. Also Matt Uelmen's music for Diablo 2 and Torchlight games also veers toward more contemporary genre's, but is atmospheric, masterful and provides a really well-done alternative sound for what we usually get in interactive media.
Some super strange stuff that just sticks out as not belonging anywhere else: Katamari Damacy's OST, the VibRibbon soundtrack, the Neverhood soundtrack by Terry Taylor, the hidden gem that is the "Moon: Remix RPG Adventure" soundtrack (seriously a great one; check it out).
I have a lot of game music and it's my primary soundtrack while I work.

Needs Katamari music dubbed over it

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Man, I loved katamari damacy. This is a great video. I got to check out that weird dream one with the guy sporting goat horns.

This reminds me that I need to play Katamari again!

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I like the clickypop music. It kind of reminds me of Katamari Damacii's Blue Orb

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Another game apparently I've missed out on... along with Katamari for the PS2. Then again I never had a PS2

Maybe I should hunt these down now. I tried PCSX2 for the first time last week and I was surprised that it can actually... play games quite well!

Looks like someone played a little too much Katamari Damacy.

Na na naa.. Katamari!

You definitely aren't wrong, Croccydile. Tech demos are cool, but it's up to developers to come up with creative and compelling ways to use these tools. Engineers are there to just give you the tech, but they aren't game designers or artists. That's why I didn't think anything of Natal until Peter Molyneux came out and introduced us to Milo:
http://www.videosift.com/video/E3-2009-Project-Natal-Lionhead-Milo-Project
While I agree that this is still a tech demo, it's at least an original glimpse into what is possible with it.

Surely we won't see how well this will do until real developers get their hands on it, but personally I'd love to see what could be done with it when given to the brilliant creators of, say, Katamari, Flower, Eden, Boom Blox, etc. There will be a lot of crap, as there is on the Wii, but it might be worth sifting through it to get to the truly unique interactive bits of genius.

As far as the consumer goes, I don't think the price of entry on this is going to be much more than a normal controller. Since it uses the already available Playstation Eye. It should be very accessable, which may give it an edge when convincing developers to create for it.

I think that Zero Punctuation dude might have some competition.
(I'm not kidding)

Someone send him Katamari Damacy!

Reminds me of Katamari Damacy!

Yeah, I've heard that Katamari is really good. The most fun/interesting casual game I've played in a while has been the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series for the Nintendo DS. If you happen to have one of those, you should definitely check it out, it's a ton more fun than one would think at first glance.

I grew up on consoles, I barely touched PC gaming until I tried Warcraft 2...before that it was the NES and SNES. I even remember how excited I was when we get a Nintendo 64, lol. Good times.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
I've also always wanted to try Katamari Damarcy but I think that's playstation only. i'm definetley a console guy and my PC proudly boasts how Y2K compiant it is on the bootscreen, so it's not the freshest machine around.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Never had a Dreamcast, so I'm afraid I didn't.

I showed that Passage game to one of my good buddies and to my girlfriend today, they both loved it as well.

I like a pretty huge range of games, from RPGs to FPSs and some RTSs as well once in a while, but it all just depends on my mood. Usually I'm just into gaming as entertainment, but sometimes there are games that manage to be both massively entertaining and still make you think about things or care about the reality the characters are involved in, and those are probably the games that make me like gaming the most (though they're extremely few and far between).

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
I just recently bought an xbox, and as much as I enjoy violence and reckless driving, it often leaves me wanting. I think there's so much more room for art. I recently heard of a game that was audio only, and you put on your headphones or surround sound and play. how cool is that?

ever played Shenmue?

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
I especially liked that "Passage" video, as I'm sure you could tell by my comments on it. I think sometimes people forget that video games are themselves something we can use as a form of artistic expression.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Hey, Thanks, JAPR! What do you think of this one, i sorta thought you might like it when I saw it...

http://www.videosift.com/video/Egger-Pixels

Check out my pimp hand, eh?