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IMHO there's a lot of Genesis games with great music...BESIDES the obvious ones like Streets of Rage, Shinobi, Castlevania, Sonic, Thunderforce, etc....
Here are some games that had aweosme tunes but were never called out for having good music....
Batman
Midnight Resistance
Master of Monsters
Y's 3 - Wanderers from Y's
Elemental Master
I felt that Dynamite Headdy had some great music, as did Virtua Racing, and VF 2.
Herzog Zwei.
Ristar. Huge shame it never got a sequel, easily one of the top 5 16bit platformers with very memorable music. I probably like the aquatic world music best.
I was going to say Ristar as well, I might as well put in that Target Earth had some amazing music.
ºTracer
Wings of Wor had exceptional music. I miss the old games that had sound test in the options; now every game, no matter how shitty the music, has a damn music cd out.
Pulseman. :)
Hard Corps
Earthworm Jim
Gunstar Heroes
Ranger X
Lightening Force
Global Gladiators
Gauntlet IV
Out Run
I'll third Ristar. What an amazing musical score.
Nadia.
Hard Corps ,Sword of Vermillion and some of the music in the first X-Men game
Burning Force has great music, and I doubt anyone else will step up for it. Go, listen!
Warsong
Shadow of the Beast
Hey, we got some good tastes in Genny game music here. Listed all of the ones that popped in my head as I loaded this thread.
Lightening Force
ThunderForce III
E-Swat
- Sword of Vermilion! Hell yes! One of the best 16 bit soundtracks of all time!
- Castle of Illusion
- Shining in the Darkness
- Gaiares
- Valis 3
- Wonderboy in Monster World. One of my all time favorites. How I wosh for an OST. :(
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Originally posted by Tain
Herzog Zwei.
That game is on the top of my list. Technosoft could pump out some great techno music, from the Z-80 soundchip.
Another game's music that I highly enjoyed, was Phantasy Star II. Every once in a while, I find myself humming the opening theme song to the game. It's a shame that the Sega Smash Pack on Dreamcast, butchered the soundtrack to Phantasy Star II.
I don't know about "underrated". I'll simply post what I think is good okay?
I agree with Ristar and Lightening Force. Great tunes!
The Sonic games all have some good music. Sonic 1 -- great stuff, couldn't get that STH theme out of my head for years, but the level music is great too. Identifiable, pleasing to the ear. Skipping to Sonic 3, I love the blue/red orb bonus stage music.
I'll add something new -- Ecco the Dolphin, the Genny cart version. The music perfectly fits the game.
Comix Zone is definitely tops.
And I'll second Ecco.
Ecco, yeah... and Shining in the Darkness. Both are great.
Granada had ass kicking music.
That People's Court theme in Batman cracks me up, but that game had rad music.
Burning Force...Didn't that have the same music every other level? I only liked the first level tune, if I remember right.
I keep reading that as "Grandpa." I must be tired.Quote:
Granada had ass kicking music.
Warning: No one's said it yet, even Sidez...
ALIEN SOLDIER
Can't forget Rocket Knight Adventures and, dare I say it--Steel Empire.
Everybody already listed what I wanted to mention. Damn.
Definitely Valis 3
Alisa Dragoon
Wings of Wor
Sonic and Knuckles
Sonic 1 and 2
Alisia Dragoon
Atomic Robokid
Castle of Illusion
Dynamite Headdy (especially this one!)
El Viento
Golden Axe 2
Last Battle
Quackshot
Shinobi 3 (overshadowed a lot by Revenge of Shinobi)
Rolling Thunder 2 (godly soundtrack)
Street Smart (ditto)
Shinobi 3's sdtk is easily one of my all-time favorites. Revenge's is nice, but Shinobi 3's is superior. Sorry Yuzo.
Super Fantasy Zone
That game had cool remixes of those seriously happy songs.
Magical Quest had some good music.
I always thought Phantasy Star IV had some nice music
No one mentioned Strider yet.
How could I forget that...
Midnight Resistance's BGM is actually better than that of the arcade (which sounds a bit tinny).
Forgotten Worlds has some great BGM, especially in stage 3.
Rolling Thunder 2 & 3
Ninja Warriors (if it's OK to count a Sega CD game)
Alien Storm
Granada
Burning Force (especially Day 3's main theme)
Wings of Wor
Air Buster
Phelios- quite close to the arcade BGM
Strider (Why has no one else mentioned it yet? :confused: )
Thunder Fox
Space Invaders '91
Junction
Mercs (esp. stage 4 of arcade mode)
Raiden Trad
Street Fighter II SCE
MUSHA (An amazing use of 4 Meg... not only is the music this good, but there's an intro to rival many CD-Rom games. Overall, it seems like an 8 Meg game.)
Oh yeah...SF2:SCE's music was pretty awesome...much better than the SNES versions' and sounded truer to the arcade....
Funny how Capcom mangled the voices in the Genesis version but made the music so good.
I agree with Nadia, and with everyone picking Burning Force, I'll also mention Phelios as having great music.
Super Fantasy Zone
Phantasy Star 2, 4
Monster World 4
Sword of Vermillion
Comix Zone
Sol Deace
Aww naw, can't believe I forgot it.Quote:
Originally posted by Plasma
Warning: No one's said it yet, even Sidez...
ALIEN SOLDIER
Can't forget Rocket Knight Adventures and, dare I say it--Steel Empire.
I'll second that.Quote:
Originally posted by Melf
- Sword of Vermilion! Hell yes! One of the best 16 bit soundtracks of all time!
Thinking about the title screen theme, and the theme that plays at the beginning when you enter the destroyed town gives me chills.
Good topic, I could go on for ages. But among those that aren't talked about often enough....
Sub-Terrania
TMNT : Hyperstone Heist
Ristar
Dune : Battle for Arakkis
Ranger-X
Shinobi III
~Quinn
Landstalker had some great music. The music in Sword of Vermillion was just beautiful.
RISTAR!! Best music ever! Play with me!