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There are a thousand douche bags out there who love FF music and the like, but what about the old gen? Sure, some people think the sound of the old system sounds like poop, but I think even it had it's gems.
So, what are your top tracks?
Today mine are the Theme, Fullmetal Fighter, and For the love of... from MUSHA
Green Hill Zone, Sonic the Hedgehog 1. When I think of the Genesis, that is the track that comes to mind.
Anything from the Streets of Rage series, specifically Streets of Rage 2. I actually have the soundtrack to that somewhere, I have no idea where I got it or where it is now though....
But before I bought the soundtrack CD to that game, I recorded the audio off the TV with a tape recorder so I could jam out to that music on cassette. I was a loser in 1992.
The music that starts up when the opening to Phantasy Star 4 plays (the little bit before you press start). It makes me misty eyed...
Star Light Zone, Sonic 1
Chemical Plant Zone, Sonic 2
Opening medley, Phantasy Star II
Ode to Sharla, Toejam and Earl 2
Opening Theme, Flashback
Stage 1 and boss 1 of SoR2 for a predictable #1.
Shinobi III had some great stuff as well (was that also Yuzo?)
Can't go wrong with stage one of Earthworm Jim either. Hi, Tommy Tallirico. :D
Four of my favorites that come to mind...
Master of Monsters: I didn't know the Genesis was capable of such great music, & you can choose your own track during your turn.
Thank goodness for the great music, as this is an extremely long & difficult game. Especially campaign 2 which I miraculously finished.
Sword of Vermillion: Been a long time since I played this one, but I remember being very impressed with the Dungeon music, & especially while visiting the towns.
Castle of Illusion: Fantastic music throughout this classic.
Ghouls N Ghosts: In particular the level where you first enter the castle & immediately fight few Red Demons, after a brief skirmish with some junk dragons. But I enjoy the tunes from the entire game.
Nope, not Yuzo although I think it's as good as his RoS stuff. I forget the names but the game's music was done by three people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheebs
I will have to think about my top picks although some that haven't been mentioned yet are Ecco: The Tides of Time (title) and Wonder Boy in Monster World (snow area). I assume we're not including Sega CD.
Hill top Zone, Sonic 2
Stage 5, Streets of Rage 2
THe ending them, Streets of Rage 2
Labryinth Zone, Sonic 1
Stage 4, Shinobi 3
Before they took it down, I DLed the entire soundtrack to MUSHA from Sega Xtreme and burned it to a CD. It's a really great piece of work that I'd love to hear redone with modern equipment.
Brilliant soundtrack for a mediocre game. The music is worth a soundtrack alone. I especially love the opening theme (from the intro) and the castle one. The dungeon themes - there are three of them I think - are also incredible.Quote:
Originally Posted by warnpro
One of my favorites of all time. Tokuhiko Uwabo outdid himself there. that article is missing a few games, I think.Quote:
Castle of Illusion: Fantastic music throughout this classic.
From ROS I love Chinatown and My Lover most, but the whole soundtrack is awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
I love the Ecco scores, but they're so much better on Sega CD. Spencer Nilsen should never have stopped making game music.Quote:
I will have to think about my top picks although some that haven't been mentioned yet are Ecco: The Tides of Time (title) and Wonder Boy in Monster World (snow area). I assume we're not including Sega CD.
WBIMW has an awesome soundtrack that I actually prefer over the Turbo CD version (Dynastic Hero). The sound quality of the CD score may be better, but the actual compositions pale next to the Genesis version.
Lightening Force -Ruin
Contra: Hard Corps -Gekokujoh Norakura
Rolling Thunder 3 -Bad Situation
Phantasy Star IV -Behind the Circuit
Shinobi 3 -Japonesque
Road Rash -Pacific Coast
Sonic & Knuckles -Mushroom Hill Zone
Ristar -Splash Down!!
Streets of Rage -second stage
etc. Yeah, some proper track names there. I think the best soundtracks generally have a distinctive MD sound (like PS4) and would've sounded completely different on another system.
Herzog Zwei music, including the intro and during gameplay. I love it.
Masayuki Nagao, Hirofumi Murasaki, and Morihiko Akiyama - who were all originally from a company called Santos, which Sega bought out in 1991.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
Some of my picks (track names from the Project 2612 sets):
Mega Turrican - Stage 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 5-1
Super Hydlide
Warrior of Rome II - Strategy, Unknown (Sound Test 03), Unknown (Sound Test 04), Unknown (Sound Test 18), Unknown (Sound Test 22), Unknown (Sound Test 23)
Ninja Gaiden - Rounds 4-1 & 4-2, Round 5
Battle Mania Daiginjou
Socket
Cosmic Carnage - Cylic's Stage, Zena-Lan's Stage, Naruto's Stage, Talmac's Stage, Unknown (Sound Test 05), Unknown (Sound Test 06), Unknown (Sound Test 07), Unknown (Sound Test 09)
Devilish - Intro, Stage 1 - Graveyard, Stage 4 - Air Passage, Stage 7 - Prairie
The music was composed by Kamiya Studio. Uwabo was the sound director.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
Lightening Force had a smattering of excellent tunes. The Omakes you could hear after you beat the game were great IIRC.
Interesting. I had no idea. I only recently knew about Santos at all from GDRI.Quote:
Originally Posted by CRV1
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Originally Posted by kingoffighters
Beat me to it. It's one of the best sound tracks I've heard on the Genny.
Murasaki (now with Wavemaster) confirms he worked for Santos in this interview with Sega. He started working there in May 1991. While there, he worked on MD Toki. Then he says Santos became a wholly-owned subsidiary in December 1991.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
Murasaki, Akiyama, and Nagao worked on the 1994 Neo Geo mahjong game Janshin Densetsu, which is based on a 1990 arcade game Santos did called Mahjong Quest. I hope someday I'll be able to ask Murasaki about that.
But back to the topic, I just realized I included Cosmic Carnage on my list, though it's for 32X. Since it uses the Genesis sound hardware, I guess it still technically counts.
I always liked the Marble Zone theme from Sonic 1 more than any of the other tracks.
Stereo Protect from PulseMan
I've always had a soft spot for Mystic Zone's music in Sonic 2, other than that I can't think of too many titles that haven't been mentioned already.
Was Herzog Zwei's music really that good? Maybe I need to play that again, I really don't remember it.
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by kuro
Title theme from Ballz.
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Originally Posted by Ballz
Mojo's Stage: X-Men
wait, what? my ipod tells me yuzo did the music for shinobi 3...or...super shinobi or whatever it's called.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
the first stage and boss music from pulse man are really awesome. i believe the opening stage music is used in one of the recent pokemon games, too.
Galvantic Gear-MUSHA
Biowall-Lightening Force
Intro-Splatterhouse 2
Standard battle theme- PS4
Factory stage/ Final stage- Castlevania Bloodlines
Pretty much all of Sonic 2's tracks and a few of the two player competitive tracks in Sonic 3
*-neo
Vapor Trail: The main theme.
Street Fighter II SCE: Ken & M. Bison stage BGMs.
Jewel Master: 1st stage BGM
Galaxy Force II: Not a good conversion of the game itself, but they did get the BGM right.
Streets of Rage 1: All tracks, especially stages 1/2/7 and the end-of-level boss BGM.
Streets of Rage 2: "Go Straight" (first scene of stage 1), "In the Bar", "Never Return Alive" (boss), and the ending BGM.
Streets of Rage 3: "Fuze" (Stage 1 1st scene), Mona & Lisa boss theme, "Crazy Train" (boss battle- Jet & Rocket), "Bulldozer", "Shinobi Reverse" (Yamato), "Dub Slash" (Stage 2 1st scene)
Shadow Dancer: Bonus stage BGM
Strider: All BGM
Revenge of Shinobi: All BGM
Shinobi III: All BGM
Rolling Thunder 2: "Residence of Terrible", "View of Dynamism", "Showdown"
Rolling Thunder 3: "Dammbad", "5 Black Vol. 5", "Bad Joke", "No Way Out", "Bad Bob", "Bad Night", "Bad Elf 2"
Darius II: All BGM (as close to the original as you can get in an 8 Meg cart)
Cadash: All BGM (sounds nearly arcade perfect)
Gaiares: All BGM
Musha: All BGM (This is how metal should be done in a shooter. It's actually better than the original Dodonpachi's soundtrack)
Spring Yard Zone - Sonic 1 :D
Mega Turrican
SOR 2
Castlevania: Bloodlines
This thread made me go back and watch this last night, incidentally:
Super Shinobi is Revenge of Shinobi. Shinobi 3 is Super Shinobi II.Quote:
Originally Posted by rama
Anything from Ristar or Streets of Rage 2, the song that plays during the Sonic 2 level where Sonic is standing on the wings of Tails' plane, the song that plays during the second level of Castlevania Bloodlines (with the awesome water reflection).
The soundtrack from X-Men 2 is surprisingly good.
I love my Sega Tunes version.
How is that? Is it just the soundtrack ripped from the game, or is it an actual score?
I have the Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack.
Its really really good. Sounds really good in my car.
Also my fav track was the intro to Lightning Force. I swear its a Metallica track.
It's a full score. It uses all of the guy's original instruments and runs through each character's version of the theme for each stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
Apparently the musician was somebody from a band called "Information Society." I guess he knew what he was doing.
There we go:
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Ice Cap Zone.