27 March 2013

Episode 126: Town Areas

Episode 126 is sort of another RPG focus, although there are definitely some non-RPG games out there that have non-level town areas in them (The Lone Ranger, Castlevania II, etc.).  Anyway, the music in this episode is really, really good.  Pound for pound, one of the most musically solid episodes in a while.  Towns are generally a safe place in a game, so you can also listen for that, and decide whether or not the music sounds like "safe" music.  Rob is crying in the photo.  Full track listing below.



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

Light Crusader - Aki Hata, Katsuhiko Suzuki - Town - Treasure - Genesis - 1995

Shining Force II - Motoaki Takenouchi - Lively Town - Camelot Software Planning - Genesis - 1994

Super Mario RPG - Yoko Shimomura - Going Shopping in Seaside Town - Square - SNES - 1996

Crusader of Centy - Motokazu Shinoda - Town - Nextech/Atlus - Genesis - 1994

Phantasy Star IV - Izuho Numata (Izuho Takeuchi) - Motavia Town - Sega - Genesis - 1995

Tenshi no Uta: Shiroki Tsubasa no Inori - Motoi Sakuraba, Shinji Tamura, Ryota Furuya, Hiroya Hatsushiba - Town 3 - Telenet Japan - Super Famicom - 1994

Rent A Hero - Hiroshi Kawaguchi - Town Music 2 - Sega - Mega Drive - 1991

Uncharted Waters - Yoko Kanno - In Lisbon - Koei - SNES - 1993

Dynamite Headdy - Katsuhiko Suzuki (Nazo² Suzuki), Aki Hata, Norio Hanzawa (NON), Yasuko, Koji Yamada - North Town's Theme - Treasure - Genesis - 1994

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link - Akito Nakatsuka - Village - Nintendo - NES - 1988

Might and Magic: Gates to Another World - Rob Wallace, Brian Howarth - Town - New World Computing/Electronic Arts - Genesis - 1991

Mouryou Senki Madara 2 - Tappi Iwase, Miki Higashino, Hirofumi Taniguchi - Karamazov's Mythology - Konami - Super Famicom - 1993

Tun Shi Tian Di III (Conquering the World III) - unknown - Castle Town - SKOB - Mega Drive (China) - 1995

Final Fantasy II - Nobuo Uematsu - Illusionary World - Square - SNES - 1991

Last Bible III - Hiroyuki Yanada - Megalopolis - Atlus - Super Famicom - 1995
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6 comments:

  1. KennyMarch 28, 2013 at 5:25 AM

    Jammin empisode, great music. Love Motoaki Takenouchi, ever since loving Landstalker back in the day

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  2. Ryan @ SavingPrincessMarch 28, 2013 at 4:02 PM

    Sad Brent burned the 7th Saga town track in the last RPG Part 1 episode... that would have mixed in nicely here.

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  3. TomMarch 29, 2013 at 8:28 AM

    There has been a serious lack of 8-bit music in these parts recently! Only one track this episode, 4 in 125, 3 in 124, 3 in 123, and 2 in 121. There were a decent amount of Famicom tracks in 122, but I'd love to hear some more NES / Game Boy / Master System tracks represented in future episodes!

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  4. RAGNARJuly 23, 2015 at 7:59 AM

    Shining Force 2 and Crusader of Centy tracks are the jaaams

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  5. AnonymousJune 11, 2016 at 2:45 PM

    Brent said he was really proud of the tracks he picked, but overall, I say Rob had the better tracks.

    My favorite in this was Light Crusader - Aki Hata - Town - Treasure - Genesis - this was Rob's track. And the Motovia track from Phantasy Star 4 was really strong as well (also Rob's track). Rob takes this one.

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  6. GregMarch 4, 2017 at 1:19 PM

    I want to share with fellow users a man who has uploaded thousands of videos of himself dancing to video game music. At one time he was uploading around 10 videos a day. The tracks he dances to range from classic to modern games. The following video is him dancing to the Zelda 2 town theme. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BeXlDgJZXN8

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