LMH Mixtape #55: Fire and Lava

Lava levels have been a staple in video games since the early days, so of course the Legacy Music Hour needed a fire and lava focus of their very own.  Now get toasty with Brent and Rob F. the Switch's picks all over again, this time in mixtape form, as you carefully platform your way through some of the best video game tunes to feature words like "blaze," "burning," and "inferno" in their titles.

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KEYGLYPH'S AWARDS & COMMENDATIONS, JUST BECAUSE

Instant new favorite: Ristar - Round 3-1 (Busy Flare)
Other brewed new favorite: Gradius II - Burning Heat (Stage 1)

Blatant Favoritism Award:  Sonic 3D Blast - Volcano Valley Zone 2
Somebody please expand these lyrics*: Tetris Attack - Blaze Stage

*Brent's freestyle begins at 00:51:36 in the original episode


Track listing and original episode:

http://legacymusichour.blogspot.com/2011/11/legacy-music-hour-episode-55-fire-and.html

Episode 55: Fire and Lava

In Episode 55, Brent and Rob embrace a hot topic.  Not a controversial topic, just literally hot.  That is, they share tracks from only fire/lava stages in video games.  What a nice, toasty way to get in to the cooler, Fall season!  And, for your convenience, The Legacy Music Hour has included a photo of Omar Sharif at the end of this post.  Feel free to use that photo appropriately.  Full track listing below.

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

Life Force - Miki Higashino, Hidenori Maezawa (arr.), Shinya Sakamoto (arr.), Satoe Terashima (arr.), Atsushi Fujio (arr.) - Planet Ratis (Stage 3) - Konami - NES - 1988

Thunder Force III - Toshiharu Yamanishi - Venus Fire (Stage 2: Gorgon) - Technosoft - Genesis - 1990

Gradius II - Shinji Tasaka, Motoaki Furukawa, Kenichi Matsubara, Seiichi Fukami - Burning Heat (Stage 1) - Konami - arcade (Japan) - 1988

Mega Man 2 - Takashi Tateishi - Heat Man - Capcom - NES - 1989

Battletoads - David Wise - Volkmire's Inferno - Rare/Tradewest - NES - 1991

Sonic 3D Blast - Tatsuyuki Maeda - Volcano Valley Zone 2 - Sega - Genesis - 1995

Rocket Knight Adventures - Masanori Oouchi, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Masanori Adachi, Michiru Yamane - Stage 3 - Konami - Genesis - 1993

Jurassic Park - Sam Powell - Volcano - BlueSky Software/Sega - Genesis - 1993

Ristar - Tomoko Sasaki - Round 3-1 (Busy Flare) - Sega - Genesis - 1995

Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos - Ryuichi Nitta (Shitamachi Kajiya), Mayuko Okamura (Mayu) - Blazing Inferno (Act 4-1) - Tecmo - NES - 1990

Granada - Motoi Sakuraba - Bumpy Road (Stage 8: Volcano) - Wolf Team/Renovation - Genesis - 1990

F-Zero - Yumiko Kanki - Fire Field - Nintendo - SNES - 1991

Blaster Master - Naoki Kodaka - Area 7 - Sunsoft - NES - 1988

Gaiares - Shinobu Ogawa - Mission 5 - Telenet Japan - Genesis - 1990

Tetris Attack - Masaya Kuzume - Blaze Stage - Nintendo - SNES - 1996

Super Metroid - Kenji Yamamoto - Norfair (Ancient Ruins Area) - Nintendo - SNES - 1994

Axelay - Taro Kudou - Burning - Konami - SNES - 1992