Episode 168: Nintendo Power

This month, Brent and Rob picked two issues of Nintendo Power each, and chose music selections only from games featured in those issues.  They talk about top selling games, video game help hotlines, and other stuff relating to the early 1990s.  Thanks to user Julian (hoo-lee-ahn) for providing The Legacy Music Hour with his old issues of Nintendo Power.  Full track listing below.

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

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves - Paul Webb - Duel 2 - Sculptured Software/Virgin Interactive - NES - 1991

Little Samson - Kazuhide Sasuga, Yukimari - Golem’s Theme - Taito - NES - 1992

Navy Seals - Matthew Cannon - Level BGM - Ocean - Game Boy - 1991

Super Bowling - unknown - Practice Mode - KID/Technos - SNES - 1992

KickMaster - Yusuke Takahama - Final Boss Pt 1 - KID/Taito - NES - 1992

Gargoyle's Quest II: The Demon Darkness - Yuki Iwai (Yuki Satomura) - Dark Forest of Hidon - Capcom - NES - 1992

Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth - Dota Ando - Kissing Ziggy - Cyclone System/Asmik - NES - 1991

Casino Kid II - Kenji Eno - Ending - Sofel - NES - 1993

SimCity - Soyo Oka - Budget - Nintendo - SNES - 1993

Contra Force - Tomoya Tomita - Level 1 - Konami - NES - 1992

Super Mario World - Koji Kondo - Athletic - Nintendo - SNES - 1991

DinoCity - Hiroshi Kimura - The Cave of Soil - Irem - SNES - 1992

Smash T.V. - Jon Hey, Marshall Parker (arr.) - Stage Theme (Loop) - Beam Software/Acclaim - NES - 1991

Wings 2: Aces High - George Sanger - Flight Theme 1 - Malibu/Namco - SNES - 1992

Kirby's Dream Land - Jun Ishikawa - Float Islands - HAL Laboratory - Game Boy - 1992

LMH Mixtape #30: Free Play 3

Episode 30 was another free play, but it was also a landmark moment in Legacy Music Hour history.  Settle in for the jams and witness the birth of a legend.

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KEYGLYPH'S AWARDS & COMMENDATIONS, JUST BECAUSE

Instant new favorite:  Ranger X - Unknown (Sound Test 09)
Other instant new favorite:  Midnight Resistance - Surging! Power (BGM 1)
Brewed new favorite:  Super Bomberman - Level 3
Other brewed new favorite:  Advanced Busterhawk GleyLancer - Stage 1

Now that I've found it, I can't live without it:  Super Spike V'Ball - Daytona

This song has lyrics:  Midnight Resistance - Surging! Power (BGM 1)*
This song also has lyrics:  Blaster Master - Level Three**

* VGM Karaoke begins at 01:11:50 in the original episode
** VGM Karaoke begins at 01:15:28 in the original episode


Track listing and original episode:

http://legacymusichour.blogspot.com/2011/05/legacy-music-hour-episode-30-free-play.html

LMH Mixtape #29: Title Screen Music

Batman.

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KEYGLYPH'S AWARDS & COMMENDATIONS, JUST BECAUSE

Instant new favorite:  Mig 29 Soviet Fighter - Title Screen
Other instant new favorite:  Journey to Silius - Title Screen
Brewed new favorite:  BioMetal - Main Theme
Other brewed new favorite:  Goal! Two - Title Screen

I'd like some toast with that jam:  Mig 29 Soviet Fighter - Title Screen

MVP Award:  The "Title Screen" title


Track listing and original episode:

http://legacymusichour.blogspot.com/2011/05/legacy-music-hour-episode-29-title.html

Episode 167: Computer Game Music

For years, the boizz have avoided a whole faction of game music that is somewhat similar to video game music, but also quite different: computer game music.  Often times, people think that VGM and CGM are the same thing, but they're not exactly, and the Legacy Music Hour was created to showcase video game music, particularly from the 8-bit and 16-bit era.  But, for this one time only episode, Brent and Virtua Rob (the boizz are back) finally take a journey through music from games for the Commodore 64, Macintosh, PC, and more, and also stay fairly close to the time period that coincides with the third and fourth generation of video games.  So to mark Rob's new form, here's a very unusual edition of the Legacy Music Hour.  Full track listing below.

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

Tropic Island - unknown - Main BGM - momodera’s BRAND - Macintosh - 1996

2400 A.D. - Jeroen Tel - gameplay - Origin - Commodore 64 - 1988 (unreleased)

Quarth - Kazuhiko Uehara, Yasuhiko Manno, Yuji Takenouchi, Tomoya Tomita - BGM 1-1 - Konami - MSX - 1990

The Light Corridor - Alberto José González - Alien (In-Game Theme Music 1) - New Frontier/Infogrames - ZX Spectrum - 1991

Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! - Dan Kehler - The Health Spa (Char Donay) (Hard is Good, Right?) - Sierra - PC - 1993

Speedball - David Whittaker - Title Screen - The Bitmap Brothers/Imageworks - Atari ST - 1998 (Europe)

The 7th Guest - George Sanger - Downstairs Puzzles - Trilobyte/Virgin Interactive - Macintosh - 1993

Green Beret - Martin Galway - Loader - Imagine Studios/Konami - Commodore 64 - 1986

Tetris Max - Peter Robert Wagner - Peter Wagner Music (T-Maxx) - Steve Chamberlin - Macintosh - 1993

Gauntlet III - Tim Follin, Geoff Follin - Title Screen - Software Creations/U.S. Gold - Commodore 64 - 1992

Sanxion - Rob Hubbard - Loader (Thalamusik) - Thalamus - Commodore 64 - 1986

Beyond the Ice Palace - David Whittaker - Main Theme - Elite - Amiga - 1988

Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo: YU-NO - Ryu Umemoto, Ryu Takami, Kazuhiro Kanae - Bonds - Elf - PC-98 - 1996

StarRay - Nirto K. Fischer - Title Screen - Hidden Treasures/Logotron - Atari ST - 1988 (Europe)

Hot Rod - Jeroen Tel - Intro - Activision - Commodore 64 - 1990

LMH Mixtape #28: Sonic the Hedgehog

Writing the usual sort of unbiased third-person introduction was almost impossible for KeyGlyph this week.  Why is that, you ask?  Because for her -- as well as countless other gamers -- the music from the Sonic the Hedgehog series holds some of the nearest and dearest spots in her VGM-loving heart.  This mixtape may send you through loop-de-loops of nostalgia, or it may take you to previously unknown zones; either way, there's simply no denying that the LMH Sonic the Hedgehog focus was way past cool.

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KEYGLYPH'S AWARDS & COMMENDATIONS are TEMPORARILY CLOSED


Track listing and original episode:

http://legacymusichour.blogspot.com/2011/05/legacy-music-hour-episode-28-sonic.html