LMH Mixtape #224: Beyond 16-Bit 6

It is time, once again, to break free of the third and fourth generation bonds, and venture forth into the land Beyond.  That's right, it's time for another Beyond 16-Bit episode.  Number six to be precise, and there's a lot of great music here to be enjoyed.  For example, golf games have always been a reliable source of great tracks, and that holds true in the "beyond" as well.  "Fujiyama Oriental Golf Club (Japan)" from Neo Turf Masters is a fantastically energetic and jazzy track with a splash of tropical flavor added in for good measure. 

Looking for something "beyond" yet still traditional sounding?  "World 2 (Platforming)" from Regular Show: Mordecai and Rigby in 8-Bit Land by the incomparable Jake Kaufman is a total banger, done in a classic 8-bit style.

How about some high octane "shoot them up" tracks?  Dimahoo and Sol-Feace bring all the fusion energy you'll need to complete your mission.

Additionally, you'll even find a couple tracks with vocals in this episode!  So, take a moment to enjoy this mixtape with its diverse selection of tracks that you wouldn't normally find in a traditional LMH episode.

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MANATREE'S AWARDS & COMMENDATIONS

Instant favorite: Under Defeat - Can’t Come Back? (Stage 1)

Another favorite: Shin Megami Tensei - Devas' Hall (Palace of the Four Heavenly Kings) 

So many favorites: Gunlord - End Credits

Too many favorites: Regular Show: Mordecai and Rigby in 8-Bit Land - World 2 (Platforming)

Track listing and original episode:

https://www.legacymusichour.com/2020/05/episode-224-beyond-16-bit-6.html

LMH Mixtape #216: Beyond 16-Bit 5

Every once in a while the boizz venture outside the realm of the 3rd and 4th generation, and go Beyond 16-Bit.  This marks the fifth time exploring this topic, and the LMH crew have a lot of great tunes to share with you in this episode.  While these are all "beyond" tracks, you would be forgiven for mistaking some of these for 3rd or 4th generation tracks.  The first track of this mixtape is a perfect example of this, with an 8-bit tune from the Menu of the NES Classic.  There's a lot of great modern retro style VGM composers in this mix like Jake Kaufman, Toby Fox, and Eric W. Brown, but there's also classic greats like Tomoya Tomita with "Frosty Wheel" from Kirby's Epic Yarn.  Finally, this mixtape caps off with an absolute banger, "One Night In Neo Kobe City" from the Sega CD game Snatcher, which features some killer saxophone!  So grab your headphones and join us in this journey beyond.

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MANATREE'S AWARDS & COMMENDATIONS

Instant Favorite: Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow - Dracula's Tears 

Favoriting Start!: Undertale - Dating Start!

Another Favorite: Regular Show: Mordecai and Rigby in 8-Bit Land - World 1 (Space Shooter)

And Yet Another Favorite: The Messenger - Bamboo Boogaloo (Bamboo Creek) (Past)

Track listing and original episode:

https://www.legacymusichour.com/2019/09/episode-216-beyond-16-bit-5.html

Episode 196: Beyond 16-Bit 3

Brent’s brothers join in for Rob and Brent’s third-time focus on video game music from the fifth generation and beyond.  Rob does play a significant amount of Game Boy Color games, however, while each of Brent’s selections are from a different console -overall, the episode ends up sounding more retro than one would expect.  NOTE: When Rob mentions Tamayo Kawamoto, Brent would have immediately recognized her name from the work she did on games like Ghouls 'n Ghosts and Legendary Wings, but due to a technical error with the audio feed, Brent didn’t hear everything Rob said.  Full track listing below.

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

Ronaldo V-Soccer - Alberto José González - Main Menu - Bit Managers/Infogrames - Game Boy Color - 2001

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Michiru Yamane - Lost Painting - Konami - PlayStation - 1997

Silent Hill - Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill - KCET/Konami - PlayStation - 1999

Shovel Knight - Jake Kaufman - No Weapons Here (Village) - Yacht Club Games - Wii U - 2014

Hole in One Golf - Iku Mizutani (?), Kinuyo Yamashita (?) - Congratulation - Natsume - Game Boy Color - 1999

Bomberman Max: Red Challenger - unknown - World 1: Zaurus Star - Hudson Soft - Game Boy Color - 2000

YU-NO: Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shoujo - Ryu Umemoto, Ryu Takami, Kazuhiro Kanae - Other World 1 - Elf - Sega Saturn - 1997

The Unfinished Swan - Joel Corelitz - The Unfinished Swan - Giant Sparrow/SCEA - PlayStation 3 - 2012

Alice in Wonderland - Robert Baffy - Stage 11 - Digital Eclipse/Nintendo - Game Boy Color - 2000

The Jackbox Party Pack 2 - Randy Sly - Bidiots Draw Music B - Jackbox Games - PlayStation 4 - 2015

Thunder Force VI - Tamayo Kawamoto - Ruined Green (Stage 1-A) - Sega - PlayStation 2 (Japan) - 2008

Star Trigon - Jesahm - Intro/Title Screen - Namco - arcade (Japan) - 2002

AirForce Delta - Matthew Simmonds - Intro - Climax Entertainment/Konami - Game Boy Color - 2000

The Legend Of Zelda: The Minish Cap - Mitsuhiko Takano - Minish Village - Flagship/Nintendo - Game Boy Advance - 2005

Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion - Alberto José González - Action 4 - Bit Managers/Acclaim - Game Boy Color - 2000

Blaster Master Zero - Ippo Yamada, Tatsuhiko Kasuga (arr.) - Fire the Blaster Rifle - Inti Creates - Nintendo Switch - 2017

Wario Land: Shake It! - Tomoya Tomita - Foulwater Falls - Good-Feel/Nintendo - Wii - 2008

LMH Mixtape #26: Beyond 16-Bit

When the Legacy Music Hour reached its sixth-month milestone, Brent and Rob stepped outside their usual realm and featured video game music from the fifth generation onward. Get ready to relive one of the rare Legacy Music Hour field trips that took you... BEYOND!!!... 16-bits.

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KEYGLYPH'S AWARDS & COMMENDATIONS, JUST BECAUSE

Instant new favorite:  I-War - Main Title Theme
Other instant new favorite:  Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - Kaze no Ne
Brewed new favorite:  Mega Man Network Transmission - Garden System (Needle Man Stage)

Underestimated Earworm Award*:  Wario Land: Shake It! - Just Plains

*a song you thought was only moderately catchy until you realized it had actually been in your head all week


Track listing and original episode:

http://legacymusichour.blogspot.com/2011/04/legacy-music-hour-episode-26-beyond-16.html

Episode 78: Beyond 16-Bit 2

It seems like once a year, Brent and Rob take a brief departure from the 8-bit and 16-bit era to look at music from eras 32-bit and up.  Episode 78 marks that time of the year, and this time, they're joined by former Battletoads Guiness World Record holder and Tetris Attack master, Pablo Bert, and video game music cover artist, Stedman Wilson.  Brent and Rob share tracks from the Sega CD, Dreamcast, Wii, and Xbox 360, while Pablo and Stedman focus more on arcade music of the post 16-bit period.  This episode is almost two hours long, so in this case, it might be more appropriate to call it The Legacy Music Hours, and since it's less "legacy" and more contemporary, you might even call it simply, The Music Hours.  NOTE: With arcade music, the end of the 16-bit era happens earlier than and isn't as exact as how it was for the home consoles, because the development of arcade games progressed at a different rates, and because there is so much variation with each arcade machine, it's a little harder to tell if a game is 16-bit or beyond, so it kind of just depends on the hardware specs of each particular game and the way the music sounds.  In other words, one or two of the arcade tracks played on this episode might be considered 16-bit.  NOTE: Stedman and Pablo played the Dreamcast version of Cleopatra Fortune, because the arcade version they brought didn't sound right.  Full track listing below.

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

Batman Returns - Spencer Nilsen - Lair of Ice - Malibu/Sega - Sega CD - 1993

Eschatos - Yousuke Yasui - Silver Lining - Qute - Xbox 360 (Japan) - 2011

Battletoads - David Wise - Stage 1 - Rare - arcade - 1994

Virtua Tennis - unknown - Beginning A Destiny - Hitmaker/Sega - Dreamcast - 2000

Grid Seeker: Project Storm Hammer - Norihiro Furukawa - Stardust (Mission 5) - Taito - arcade (Japan) - 1992

Violent Storm - Kenichiro Fukui, Seiichi Fukami (Prophet Fuka), Youhei Kishimoto (Kishimaro) - Who'll Be The Hero (Stage 1) - Konami - arcade - 1993

Excitebike 64  - Matt Furniss, Chris Lamb - Kyoto Japan - Left Field Productions - N64 - 2000

Wario Land: Shake It! - Tomoya Tomita - Stonetooth Cave - Good-Feel/Nintendo - Wii - 2008

Mr. Driller 2 - Masaru Shiina - Mr. Driller's Theme (Ardenten Version) - Namco - arcade - 2000

The Terminator - Tommy Tallarico - Future Shock - Virgin Interactive - Sega CD - 1993

Kirby's Epic Yarn - Tomoya Tomita - Outer Rings - Good-Feel/HAL Laboratory/Nintendo - Wii - 2010

Mighty! Pang - Takafumi Wada - China - Mitchell/Capcom - arcade - 2000

Rainbow Cotton - Great Nakamura - Stage 1 - Success - Dreamcast (Japan) - 2000

A Boy and His Blob - Daniel Sadowski - Subterra - WayForward/Majesco Games - Wii - 2009

Mushihimesama Futari - Manabu Namiki - On the Verge of Madness (Stage 5) - Cave - arcade (Japan) - 2006

Cleopatra Fortune - Shuichiro Nakazawa - In-Game Music - Taito/Natsume/Altron - Dreamcast (Japan) - 2001

Episode 26: Beyond 16-Bit

In this very unusual episode, Brent and Rob look beyond the 16-bit era, and showcase music from the Playstation, Wii, Nintendo 64, and more.  Full track listing below.

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Game - Composer - Song - Company - Console - Year (the version we played was released)

Metal Gear Solid - Takanari Ishiyama, Gigi Meroni, Kazuki Muraoka, Lee Jeon Myung, Hiroyuki Togo - Warhead Storage - Konami - PlayStation - 1998

Wario Land: Shake It! - Tomoya Tomita - Just Plains - Good-Feel/Nintendo - Wii - 2008

Nights: Journey of Dreams - Tomoko Sasaki - Sky Concert - Sega - Wii - 2007

Mario Golf - Motoi Sakuraba - Shy Guy Desert - Nintendo - N64 - 1999

I-War - unknown - Main Title Theme - Imagitec Design - Atari Jaguar - 1995

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - Kumi Tanioka (comp.), Masahiro Kataoka (lyr.), Yae (voc.) - Kaze no Ne (Sound of the Wind) - Square Enix - GameCube (Japan) - 2003

Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness - Masahiko Kimura - Invisible Sorrow (Tunnel) - Konami - N64 - 1999

Legend of Mana - Yoko Shimomura - Moonlit City Roa - Square - PlayStation - 2000

Sega Rally 2 - Hideki Naganuma,Tomonori Sawada - Soul on Desert - Sega - Dreamcast - 1999

Sigma Harmonics - Masashi Hamauzu - Hope Given "Dance of the Dog's Howl" - Square Enix - Nintendo DS - 2008

ICO - Michiru Oshima - Castle in the Mist - Sony Computer Entertainment - PlayStation 2 - 2001

Mega Man 9 - Ippo Yamada - Thunder Tornado (Tornado Man Stage) - Capcom - WiiWare - 2008

Halo 3 - Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori -  Rock Anthem for Saving the World - Bungie/Microsoft - Xbox 360 - 2007

Kirby's Epic Yarn - Tomoya Tomita - Cool Cave - Good-Feel/HAL Laboratory/Nintendo - Wii - 2010

Star Control II - Burke Treischmann, Dan Nicholson, Riku Nuottajärvi, Eric Berge, Erol Otus, Marc Brown, Aaron Grier, Kevin Palivec,Tommy Dunbar - Hyperspace - Accolade - Panasonic 3DO - 1992

Mega Man Network Transmission - Shinji Hosoe, Ayako Saso, Yousuke Yasui -  Garden System (Needle Man Stage) - Capcom - GameCube - 2003

Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean - Motoi Sakuraba - Gentle Wind - Namco - GameCube - 2004

Super Mario 64 - Koji Kondo - Dire, Dire Docks - Nintendo - N64 - 1996

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Koji Kondo - Windmill Hut - Nintendo - N64 - 1998