07 December 2022

Episode 255: Beyond 16-Bit 8

Beyond 16-Bit 8, that's a bit of a confusing title, no?  Anyway, you know how it is.  Every now and then, the Legacy Music Hour does an episode that features video game music from BEYOND the fourth generation of video games.  And yet, like other beyond focuses, this episode ends up sounding pretty retro.  Rob gets serious at one point about a subject near and dear to him, by the way, speaking of bygone eras, so brace yourself for that.  And, well, have fun listening to some of this "modern" music, and actually, some of these tracks really are from brand new games that came out this year, so there probably shouldn't be quotation marks there.  Full track listing below.



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

Lizard - Brad Smith - Marsh - Brad Smith/InfiniteNESLives - NES - 2018

Pebble Beach Golf Links - Yumi Satake (Yumi Kinoshita) - BGM 2 - T&E Soft - Sega Saturn - 1995

Elechead - Tsuyomi - Saved the Moon (Alt. Ending/Credits) - NamaTakahashi - Nintendo Switch - 2022

Boku no Tennis Jinsei - unknown - Clubhouse - Bimboosoft - Sega Dreamcast (Japan) - 2001

Premier Soccer - Miki Higashino (Miki Y.) - Tra gli sport mi piace soprattutto li calcio. (Finals BGM 2) - Konami - arcade (Japan) - 1993

Virtual Mahjong II: My Fair Lady - panama Co., Ltd. - Game 1 - Micronet - Sega Saturn (Japan) - 1998

Donut Dodo - Sean Bialo (CosmicGem) - Construction Site Chaos - pixel games/Flynn’s Arcade - Nintendo Switch - 2022

Kirby and the Forgotten Land - Hirokazu Ando - Metro on Ice - HAL Laboratory/Nintendo - Nintendo Switch - 2022

CrossCode - Deniz Akbulut -  Rookie Harbor - Radical Fish Games - PlayStation 4 - 2020

Castlevania: Lament of Innocence - Michiru Yamane - House of Sacred Remains - Konami - PlayStation 2 - 2003

Coaster Works - unknown - Failed - Bimboosoft/Xicat interactive - Sega Dreamcast - 2000

Nanashi no Game - Masayoshi Soken - Nameless Theme - Epics/Square Enix - Nintendo DS - 2008

Baldr Force EXE - Hanoi no Ossan - Let’s Just Relax - HuneX/Alchemist - Sega Dreamcast (Japan) - 2004

Lovely Planet - Calum Bowen) - Lovely Village - QUICKTEQUILA/tinyBuild - Xbox One - 2016

Sylphia - Keiji Takeuchi, Satoshi Shimazaki, Katsumi Tanaka, Einosuke Nagao, Tsuyoshi Matsushima - Ending - Compile/Tonkin House - PC Engine Super CD - 1993

Snatcher - Keizou Nakamura, Masanori Adachi, Kazuhito Imai, Masanori Ouchi, Akira Yamaoka - The Entrance to Hell - Konami - Sega CD - 1994

Pebble Beach Golf Links - Yumi Satake (Yumi Kinoshita) - Tutorial - T&E Soft - Sega Saturn - 1995

Natsuki Chronicles - Yousuke Yasui (flaggs Inc.), Kazuhiro Kobayashi (SuperSweep co., ltd.) - Hacked Grey (Stage 4) - Qute - Xbox One - 2019

6 comments:

  1. Sylphia blew my mind,

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  2. Kumori (TrueMortgage)December 12, 2022 at 12:18 PM

    Great episode! The pain of hearing about the despairing state of SF2 competition was offset by the joy of my fresh haircut. Cant wait to drop in next time I'm in Port Town!

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  3. Have listened to the Baldr Force track a half-dozen times since the episode dropped. Especially this morning when it's raining outside, and the coffee is good...

    I also enjoyed the Pebble Beach tracks, Sylphia, and the Nanashi no Game selections in particular.

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  4. Akira Yamaoka ? the Silent Hill guy ? : o

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  5. Well Brent, stop being a whiny bitch and f---ing play Phantasy Star. It won't make you lose a limb or anything. At least, do it for the memory of the creator Rieko Kodama, who recently passed away and was one of the pioneer female game designers.

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  6. That Lovely Planet track was fire!

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