13 July 2011

Episode 37: Movies

Lights, camera, video game music!  Brent and Rob take a look at some of the finest 8-bit and 16-bit era music from games based on major motion pictures.  So grab a bowl of popcorn, maybe a box of Red Vines, and enjoy the feature presentation!  Full track listing below.



Game - Composer - Song - Company - Console - Year (North American release unless otherwise indicated)

Rambo - Tohru Hasahe, Minki Motoyama - Headquarters/Safe Zone - Acclaim/Pack-In-Video - NES - 1988

Rambo III - unknown - Missions 2 (Part 1) and 6 - Sega - Genesis - 1989

Ghostbusters - Kazuhiko Nagai (Nav.) - 1st Case: Home Sweet Home - Sega - Genesis - 1990

Batman - Naoki Kodaka, Nobuyuki Hara - Stage 1 - Sunsoft - NES - 1989

Gremlins 2: The New Batch - Naoki Kodaka, Nobuyuki Hara, Shinichi Seya - Ventilation Shafts - Sunsoft - NES - 1990

Platoon - Jonathan Dunn (New) - Title Screen - Sunsoft/Ocean Software - NES - 1988

Super Back to the Future II - Hitoshi Sakimoto - Round 3-1 - Toshiba EMI - Super Famicom - 1993

The Terminator - Matt Furniss - Time to Escape - Virgin Games - Genesis - 1991

Willow - Harumi Fujita - House, Item and Dialogue Theme - Capcom - NES - 1989

The Karate Kid - Hirohiko Takayama - Daniel in Okinawa - LJN - NES - 1987

Godzilla: Monster of Monsters - Masatomo Miyamoto - Earth - Toho/Compile - NES - 1989

Die Hard - Junichi Saito, Masaki Iwamoto, Hitoshi Saito - In-Game - Activision/Pack-In-Video - NES - 1992

A Nightmare on Elm Street - David Wise - Town of Elm St. - Rare/LJN - NES - 1990

Jurassic Park - Sam Powell - River - BlueSky Software/Sega - Genesis - 1993

The Goonies II - Satoe Terashima - Caves - Konami - NES - 1987

Dirty Harry - Steven Samler, Elliot Delman - Alcatraz - Mindscape - NES - 1990

Top Gun: The Second Mission - Hidenori Maezawa, Yuichi Sakakura, Harumi Ueko - Missle Arm - Konami - NES - 1990

The Untouchables - Keith Tinman - Title - Ocean - NES - 1990

Total Recall - David Warhol - Earth - Acclaim/Interplay - NES - 1990

3 comments:

  1. I don't know if Sega CD music is off limits on the podcast but Spencer Nilsen Batman Return tracks on the Sega CD are awesome (all original and nothing from the movie)! Just check out this track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E5tQz7S43U&feature=related

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  2. Man, that Top Gun track kicks hard ass.

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