Game - Composer - Song - Company - Console - Year (North American release unless otherwise indicated)
Magical Chase - Hitoshi Sakimoto - Rampish Chase (Stage 1: Wall Town) - Quest/NEC - TurboGrafx-16 - 1993
Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar - Toshiharu Yamanishi - Don't Go Off (Course Select) - Technosoft - Genesis - 1992
Kingyo Chuuihou! Tobidase! Game Gakuen - Yasuyuki Suzuki - Shoot 'em Up - Jaleco - Super Famicom - 1994
Vortex - Justin Scharvona - Training - Argonaut Games/Electro Brain - SNES - 1994
Phalanx - S. Yamaguchi - Under Water - Kemco - SNES - 1992
Gaiares - Shinobu Ogawa - Mission 2 - Telenet Japan - Genesis - 1990
GG Aleste II: Lance Bird - Imami Pon, BA.M - Weapon Select - Compile/Sega - Game Gear (Japan) - 1993
Thunder Blade - Koichi Namiki (Pretty K.N) - Thunder Blade (BGM1) - Sega - arcade - 1987
TwinBee 3: Poko Poko Dai Maou - Atsushi Fujio (Sukenomiya), Hidehiro Funauchi (FK-King), Katsuhiko Suzuki (Flamingo)), Jun Funahashi (Dog-Man) - Evening Glow of T3 (Ending) - Konami - Famicom - 1989
Fire Shark - Masahiro Yuge - Vice in Tokyo - Toaplan/DreamWorks - Genesis - 1990
Galaxy Force II - Katsuhiro Hayashi - Beyond The Galaxy (Scene A) - Sega - arcade - 1988
Air Diver - Y.W, Ondai Yuri - Australia - Seismic/Copya Systems - Genesis - 1990
Detana!! TwinBee - Hidenori Maezawa, Michiru Yamane, Masae Nakashima, Kiyoshi Murai (arr.), Mikio Saito (Metal Yuhki) (arr.) - Crossing the Sea of Clouds (Stage 2) - Konami - PC Engine - 1992
D-Force - unknown - Desert - Asmik/ISCO - SNES - 1991
Gyruss - Atsushi Fujio, Yuichi Sakakura, Harumi Ueko - Stage 2 - Konami/Ultra Games - NES - 1989
Magical Chase - Hitoshi Sakimoto - Rampish Chase (Stage 1: Wall Town) - Quest/NEC - TurboGrafx-16 - 1993
Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar - Toshiharu Yamanishi - Don't Go Off (Course Select) - Technosoft - Genesis - 1992
Kingyo Chuuihou! Tobidase! Game Gakuen - Yasuyuki Suzuki - Shoot 'em Up - Jaleco - Super Famicom - 1994
Vortex - Justin Scharvona - Training - Argonaut Games/Electro Brain - SNES - 1994
Phalanx - S. Yamaguchi - Under Water - Kemco - SNES - 1992
Gaiares - Shinobu Ogawa - Mission 2 - Telenet Japan - Genesis - 1990
GG Aleste II: Lance Bird - Imami Pon, BA.M - Weapon Select - Compile/Sega - Game Gear (Japan) - 1993
Thunder Blade - Koichi Namiki (Pretty K.N) - Thunder Blade (BGM1) - Sega - arcade - 1987
TwinBee 3: Poko Poko Dai Maou - Atsushi Fujio (Sukenomiya), Hidehiro Funauchi (FK-King), Katsuhiko Suzuki (Flamingo)), Jun Funahashi (Dog-Man) - Evening Glow of T3 (Ending) - Konami - Famicom - 1989
Fire Shark - Masahiro Yuge - Vice in Tokyo - Toaplan/DreamWorks - Genesis - 1990
Galaxy Force II - Katsuhiro Hayashi - Beyond The Galaxy (Scene A) - Sega - arcade - 1988
Air Diver - Y.W, Ondai Yuri - Australia - Seismic/Copya Systems - Genesis - 1990
Detana!! TwinBee - Hidenori Maezawa, Michiru Yamane, Masae Nakashima, Kiyoshi Murai (arr.), Mikio Saito (Metal Yuhki) (arr.) - Crossing the Sea of Clouds (Stage 2) - Konami - PC Engine - 1992
D-Force - unknown - Desert - Asmik/ISCO - SNES - 1991
Gyruss - Atsushi Fujio, Yuichi Sakakura, Harumi Ueko - Stage 2 - Konami/Ultra Games - NES - 1989
holy crap, that GG Aleste soundtrack..oh man!! what else have the composers worked on??
ReplyDeleteHey guys check my album please http://kynsum.bandcamp.com/
ReplyDeleteEvening Glow of T3 has to be an overwhelming favorite for track of the year. It has an amazing concentration of musical ideas and expression in only 1:41 running time. There is an emotional depth that is hard to explain, but very real. Thank you Brent and Rob F for finding this one. Certainly, this is one of the great all time ending themes. I have listened to this one on repeat for literal hours. It is truly jam.
ReplyDeleteFun Trivia Fact:
ReplyDeleteThe "Flying and Shooting" genre is actually officially called "Shoot 'em up" by the "hardcore" gaming audience that play them almost exclusively. The casual term for the game genre in that audience is "shmup". It's generally known that they're best played with a joystick and buttons vs. a gamepad.
The evolution of the genre is called "Bullet Hell" which are the advanced Shmups that are ramped up in difficulty and are generally about avoiding the enemies bullets rather than shooting, though they were not really popularized until the post-16 bit years.
/themoreyouknow
Twin Bee 3 was a pretty easy vote for me, but I REALLY like Vortex. The arpeggio splashes sound amazing in stereo (the tune ain't so bad either).
ReplyDeleteKenny is humming Street Fighter. Or Jimmy's Neutron Grill.
ReplyDeleteI think GG Aleste II was released in North America as Power Strike II, as described on these sites: http://www.mobygames.com/game/game-gear/powerstrike-ii and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Strike_%28series%29#Power_Strike_II_.28Game_Gear.29
ReplyDeletePower Strike II came out in Europe only. There wasn't a version of GG Aleste II that came out in North America.
DeleteI was listening to the Thunder Blade track on YouTube when I found the channel of "SlapSamurai753x." Almost exactly 10 years ago from my posting this, he uploaded a video of himself playing the bass part from that track. It's worth a listen. (He starts at the second go round of the fake loop, so he doesn't repeat himself before the slap part begins. Also, he plays some other parts that aren't in the track played on this episode.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4W4uZEJMcs
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