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Akvod on 21 May 2009
EL_PATRAS said:

is the duke nukem theme 16-bit? just imagine it is

 

 

Now, to return the favor, I'll post a re-doing of the song I chose:



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Akvod on 21 May 2009

 



richardhutnik on 21 May 2009
Darth Tigris said:

Are you SERIOUS???  We've almost filled up one page and nobody, NOBODY, has included even one track from Yuzo Koshiro???  I'm literally ashamed of the VGC community and YOU SHOULD BE TOO!  Just one each from four games (and that was HARD).  Seriously, take time to listen to the full playlists if you have time.  Doesn't get any better than this.

 

Full Playlist:  Revenge of Shinobi

 

Full Playlist:  Streets of Rage

 

Full Playlist:  Actraiser

And for the last, a medley!

 

Full Playlist:  Super Adventure Island

You're welcome.  Oh, and one more thing:  /thread

Yuzo was AWESOME in Streets of Rage 1 and 2.  If he did 3, I thought he was off his game.  He is proof that you could get good music out of the Genesis.  Not as much as the SNES though.


Anyhow, here is the music from Streets of Rage (series):

 

Some awesome music there.

 



outlawauron on 21 May 2009

Bleh. I can't stand midis. Good for nostalgia and nothing else.



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richardhutnik on 21 May 2009
Pipedream24 said:
All this love for the SNES and the Genesis and the poor TG-16 is being left out in the cold.

Y's book 1&2 is my favorite gaming soundtrack without question. I'm not a huge fan of gaming music but I still have some of it's tunes stuck in my head almost twenty years later.

And don't forget Gates and Lords of Thunder. Both of these games had awesome soundtracks as well.

 

Y's did have GREAT music.  The intro sound is awesome.



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richardhutnik on 22 May 2009

I believe this needs its own post. I give you... Daddy Mulk, the opening song to Ninja Warriors in the arcades in the early 1990s. It came home, and appeared on MegaDrive CD I believe. Anyhow, here is the music (more details below):


This was performed by the group Zuntana. Taito hired an actually band to create music for their arcade games. They released their own CDs to, and did perform their music live, as they did with Daddy Mulk in this YouTube clip:


They also did the music for Darius I believe.



richardhutnik on 22 May 2009

And I will make a note of Technosoft. Here is music from Herzog Zwei:


And here is some from Thunderforce II:



SnesTea on 22 May 2009

 

Definitely Final Fantasy VI's battle theme (FFIII for SNES)



Kasz216 on 22 May 2009

Oddly I do. Despite the better sound quality... so little sounds as cool as 8 and 16 bit midis.



Bladeforce on 22 May 2009

I miss both 16bit and 8bit music! Forget your Next Gen Orchestrations give me wonderful 16bit tunes like Secret Of Mana, Tales Of Phantasia, Super Castlevania and thats before i've gotten onto anything Amiga or 8bit (SID, Atari etc)

Long Live the chip tunes!



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