16 January 2013

Episode 116: Boss Music 2

Boss Music is the focus of Episode 116, as it was for Episode 42.  Konami kind of dominates this episode and Brent hums along to the music with his fingers.  Full track listing below.



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

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse - Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto, Hidenori Maezawa - Big Battle 1 (Dracula's 2nd Form) - Konami - NES - 1990

Chrono Trigger - Yasunori Mitsuda - Last Battle - Square - SNES - 1995

Wolfchild - Matt Furniss - Stage 5 Boss - JVC/Core Design - Genesis - 1993

Pop'n TwinBee - Kazuhiko Uehara, Masahiro Ikariko, Tomoya Tomita, Nobuyuki Akena, Saiko Miki, Masae Nakashima, Harumi Ueko, Yukie Morimoto, Michiru Yamane - Big Boss Battle - Konami - Super Famicom - 1993

Bucky O'Hare - Tomoko Sumiyama - Boss - Konami - NES - 1992

Ghostbusters - Kazuhiko Nagai (Nav.) - Boss Theme - Sega - Genesis - 1990

Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar - Takeshi Yoshida - Simmer Down (Stage 3 Boss) - Technosoft - Genesis - 1992

Mouryou Senki Madara 2 - Tappi Iwase, Miki Higashino, Hirofumi Taniguchi - Triumphal Return of the Beast - Konami - Super Famicom - 1993

King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch - Shinya Sakamoto (Rusher Shinya), Satoe Terashima (Brilliant Satoe), Kinuyo Yamashita (Yamako), Kiyohiro Sada (Charley-Sada) - Boss Theme - Konami - Famicom - 1986

Contra: Hard Corps - Hiroshi Kobayashi (H. Devi Kobayashi), Akira Souji (Akiropito), Kenji Miyaoka, Michiru Yamane (Chiru2 Yamane), Akira Yamaoka (Gajokai), Hirofumi Taniguchi (Nitachigu) - A Spirit of Bushi - Konami - Genesis - 1994

Body Count - Steve Collett - Stage 4 Boss - Probe Software - Mega Drive (Europe) - 1994

Crisis Force - Kenichi Matsubara, Yasuhiko Manno, Jun Chuuma - Boss 1 - Konami - Famicom - 1991

Mighty Final Fight - Setsuo Yamamoto, Yuko Takehara - Mad Belger (Final Boss BGM) - Capcom - NES - 1993

Little Nemo: The Dream Master - Junko Tamiya - Nightmare King Battle - Capcom - NES - 1990

Pokémon Red Version - Junichi Masuda - Battle (VS Gym Leader) - Game Freak/Nintendo - Game Boy - 1998

10 comments:

  1. Another great episode, lots of "boss" =p music!

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  3. Speaking of light gun games -- the theme song for Safari Hunt for Sega Master System came to mind. I wonder if it's the first video game instance of a hip-hop record scratch sort of sound?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tFRVzfxye0

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  4. Good job Brent on the hard work on Castlevania 3. I've been playing that game a lot myself since December or so. I'm working on a no cheat speedrun using only Trevor. As you can imagine, it's been quite the undertaking. Especially the subterrainian levels. And yes. Those birds. Yuck.

    Gardens of Taxco! Every time my family goes to Los Angeles we eat there. Good stuff. "It tastes like the shrimp was borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn in it." They poorly but magically performed songs at our table.

    That Mouryou Senki Madara bass is perfect. What a fantastic arrangement. I'm not surprised that this track is so good.

    Math rock: See Don Caballero - What Burns Never Returns
    all you need to know.

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  5. Triumphal Return of the Beast is officially my "JAM".

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  6. Darren DeLuxe (aka Pete R)January 17, 2013 at 11:53 AM

    Great again. The sylvan giant that is Mouryou Senki Madara keeps yielding tuneful fruit.

    If you guys are still open to topic suggestions, how about a Churches/Temples episode, with music from appropriate stages/levels/areas?

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  7. Glad you liked the year focus idea, whether it was originally from me or not!

    I think most people call the Pokemon track something like "Fight vs Gym Leader" or "Gym Leader Battle".

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  8. Rob - check out this Lightening Force remix: http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02585/

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  9. Good episode, liked the in-between tracks chatter.

    I had an idea for a theme, that may not really stand up to a whole episode, but music from sim games (Like from Sim City et al but also any other simulation game)

    They all seem to have pretty decent music on a low key mood

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  10. My favorite boss music is this Nobou Uematsu classic from Final Fantasy Legend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mot_rLWwohY#t=2m16s

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