Episode 128: Launch Games

For Episode 128, Brent and Rob focus only on titles which were released the same year their respective consoles were released, exploring the way composers approached working with new hardware.  And, they do it chronologically, so you can hear the technological progress over the years.  Full track listing below.

Download and listen NOW

Game - Composer - Track - Company - Console - Year

Donkey Kong - Yukio Kaneoka - Title BGM - Nintendo - Famicom - 1983

Donkey Kong Jr. - Yukio Kaneoka - Level 1 BGM - Nintendo - Famicom - 1983

Great Soccer - unknown - Main Game - Sega - Sega Mark III - 1985

Bikkuriman World - Shinichi Sakamoto - Round 1 - Hudson Soft/West One - PC Engine - 1987

Shanghai - unknown - Round 3 - Hudson Soft/Activision - PC Engine - 1987

Victory Run: Eikou no 13,000KM - Takeaki Kunimoto - Race Music 3 - Hudson Soft - PC Engine - 1987

Super Thunder Blade - Koichi Namiki (Pretty K.N), Sachio Ogawa (Sting Saito) (arr.) - Stage 1 - Sega - Mega Drive - 1988

Super Thunder Blade - Sachio Ogawa (Sting Saito) - High Scores - Sega - Mega Drive - 1988

Super Mario Land - Hirokazu Tanaka - Ending - Nintendo - Game Boy (Japan) - 1989

Makai Toushi SaGa - Nobuo Uematsu - Forbidden Tower - Square - Game Boy (Japan) - 1989

Super Mario World - Koji Kondo - Vanilla Dome - Nintendo - Super Famicom - 1990

Zan Gear - Masaaki Uno - Spring of His Life - Wolf Team/Telenet Japan - Game Gear (Japan) - 1990

Final Fight - Manami Matsumae, Toshio Kajino (arr.) - Mad Gear Gang - Capcom - Super Famicom - 1990

Actraiser - Yuzo Koshiro - World Tree - Enix - Super Famicom - 1990

Soukoban - unknown - gameplay - Riverhillsoft - Game Gear (Japan) - 1990