LMH Mixtape #6: Flying and Shooting

With musical styles that ranged from pop to march, metal to orchestral, the Flying and Shooting episode was a wonderful demonstration of retro VGM variety.  KeyGlyph's commendations list gets a little crazy for this installment, and she sincerely hopes yours does too!

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KEYGLYPH'S AWARDS & COMMENDATIONS, JUST BECAUSE

Instant new favorite:  Herzog Zwei - Sleight of Hand
Other instant new favorite:  Silver Surfer - BGM II
Other other instant new favorite:  Lightening Force - Fighting Back

New brewed favorite:  Pop'n Twinbee - Village Sky
Other new brewed favorite:  1943 - Air Battle
Other other new brewed favorite:  Lightening Force - Metal Squad

Infinite Loop Award*:  Top Gun - Missile Select
Megazord Award**:  Lightening Force - Evil Destroyer

* a shorty that never seems to get old, no matter how many times you loop it
** a song you could assemble a Megazord to

Track listing and original episode:

http://legacymusichour.blogspot.com/2010/12/legacy-music-hour-episode-6-flying.html

Episode 135: Flying and Shooting 3

Flying scrolling shoot 'em up games is the focus of Episode 135.  Jams.  Straight up jams.  Twinbee 3.  Can't beat it.  The best.  This whole episode is jammed out though.  Full track listing below.

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

Magical Chase - Hitoshi Sakimoto (YmoH.S) - Rampish Chase (1st Seal: Bridge 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 - 2nd Warp - Konami/Ultra Games - NES - 1989

Episode 63: Flying and Shooting 2

For Episode 63, Brent and Rob return to an old topic: flying shoot 'em up games.  Brent talks about his big childhood crush on Madonna, while Rob reveals a much more unique childhood crush.  Who did little Switchy have a crush on back then?  Listen to the episode and find out!  It also seems as though Brent currently has a big crush on Genesis music.  And even aside from all the crush talk, this episode on flying shooters strangely ends up becoming a pretty romantic episode overall.  You'll see.  Cheers!  Full track listing below.

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

Darius Twin - Norihiro Furukawa (Wiz. Master), Pochi - Padi - Taito - SNES - 1991

Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar - Toshiharu Yamanishi - Sand Hell (Stage 4A) - Technosoft - Genesis - 1992

Gunstar Heroes - Norio Hanzawa - Good Night, Baby! - Sega/Treasure - Genesis - 1993

Air Zonk - Daisuke Morishima, Matsukui - Stage 1: Toxy Land - Red Company/Hudson Soft - TurboGrafx-16 - 1992

Battle Ace - unknown - gameplay - Hudson Soft - SuperGrafx - 1989

Earth Defense Force - Tsukasa Tawada, Yasuhiko "Zep" Takashiba (arr.) - Naval Battle - Jaleco - SNES - 1992

Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warship - David Wise - Golden Warship Complete - Rare/Tradewest - NES - 1990

Xexyz - Hirohiko Takayama - Area Music (Armour) - Atlus/Hudson Soft - NES - 1990

Insector X - unknown - Skylight Tune (Round 2: Plateau Area) - Hot-B (dev.)/Sage Creations (pub.)/Taito (licensed by) - Genesis - 1990

Gokujou Parodius! - Shinji Tasaka, Motoaki Furukawa, Kenichi Matsubara, Seiichi Fukami (comp., arr.), Satoko Miyawaki (arr.), Kazuhiro Senoo (arr.), Hideto Inoue (Keroppi Inoue) (arr.), Nobuyuki Akena (arr.) - Farewell Love - Konami - Super Famicom - 1994

Forgotten Worlds - Tamayo Kawamoto, Ippo Yamada (arr.) - Round 3 (Dust World 3) - Capcom/Sega - Genesis - 1989

Sky Kid - Junko Ozawa - Sky Kid March with Introduction - Namco/Sunsoft - NES - 1987

Phelios - Yoshinori Kawamoto - Staff Roll - Namco - Genesis - 1990

Star Soldier - Takeaki Kunimoto - Stage Music - Hudson Soft/Taxan - NES - 1989

Axelay - Taro Kudou - Colony - Konami - SNES - 1992

Episode 33: Running and Shooting

Music from "Run and Gun" games is the focus of Episode 33.  Brent and Rob play tracks from games like Contra III, Gunstar Heroes, and Rolling Thunder 3.  Rob also makes an interesting noise with his nose at the top of the show, so listen for that and enjoy it.  Full track listing below.

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

Gunstar Heroes - Norio Hanzawa - Empire: The Final Assault - Sega/Treasure - Genesis - 1993

Alien Soldier - Norio Hanzawa - Title Theme - Sega/Treasure - Mega Drive - 1995

Code Name: Viper - Harumi Fujita (?) - Area 3 and 4 - Capcom - NES - 1990

Atomic Runner - Masaaki Iwasaki (Koremasa), Adzusa Hara, Tatsuya Kiuchi, Hiroaki Yoshida - Let's Go Go - Data East - Genesis - 1992

Jackal - Shinya Sakamoto, Atsushi Fujio - Stage 2 - Konami - NES - 1988

Midnight Resistance - Azusa Hara, Tatsuya Kiuchi, Hitomi Komatsu, Hiroaki Yoshida, Hitoshi Sakimoto (arr.) - Home, Disappointment and Counterattack - Data East - Genesis - 1990

Sunset Riders - Motoaki Furukawa, Masahiro Ikariko (arr.). Hideto Inoue (arr.) - Draw Your Gun! (Forest Stage 2) - Konami - Genesis - 1993

Contra III: The Alien Wars - Miki Higashino, Masanori Adachi, Tachihi Iwase, Aki Hata - Cease Fire “Return in Glory” (Ending) - Konami - SNES - 1992

Rush'n Attack - Shinya Sakamoto (Rusher Sakamoto), Iku Mizutani (Iku Iku Mizatani), Satoe Terashima (Hevimeta Satoe), Masanori Adachi (Nanada Adachi) - Stages 1, 3, and 5 - Konami - NES - 1987

ESWAT: City Under Siege - You Takada (Dolphin), Takayuki Nakamura (Middle Village) - Opening Theme - Sega - Genesis - 1990

Ikari Warriors - SNK Sound Team - Stage Music 1 - SNK - NES - 1986

Rolling Thunder 3 - Rose & Dick Boy!!! - Bad Shade - Namco - Genesis -1993

Journey to Silius - Naoki Kodaka, Nobuyuki Hara, Shinichi Seya - Stage 1 - Sunsoft - NES - 1990

Alien Soldier - Norio Hanzawa - Sidelimits - Sega/Treasure - Mega Drive - 1995

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero - Yusuke Takahama (Takaha) - Mission 01 (Amazon Jungle) - KID/Taxan - NES - 1991

Dinosaurs for Hire - Paul Gadbois - Stage BGM 2 - Sega - Genesis - 1993

Commando - Tamayo Kawamoto - Title Theme - Capcom - NES - 1986

Rolling Thunder 3 - Rose & Dick Boy!!! - Bad Bob - Now Production/Namco - Genesis - 1993

B.O.B. - Michael Bartlow - Organic Life - Electronic Arts/Gray Matter Interactive - SNES - 1993

Episode 6: Flying and Shooting

In Episode 6, the hosts explore music in the flying-shooter category.  They present classic tracks from Technosoft, Konami, Hudson Soft and more.  Full track listing below.

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Key: Game - Composer - Track - Company - Console - Year*

*The year specified is the year the version that we played was released.  For example, as some music from the same game may vary between Japanese and North American versions, generally, we play the North American version, which may or may not have been released the same year it was released in Japan.

Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar - Toshiharu Yamanishi - Metal Squad (Stage 8) - Technosoft - Genesis - 1992

Life Force - Miki Higashino, Hidenori Maezawa (arr.), Shinya Sakamoto (arr.), Satoe Terashima (arr.), Atsushi Fujio (arr.) - Burn The Wind (Stage 4) - Konami - NES - 1988

Top Gun - Kiyohiro Sada (“Charly” Sada), Kazuki Muraoka (“Jah!” Kazuki), Kouji Murata (“Lazy” Koji) - Missle Select - Konami - NES - 1987

The Guardian Legend - Masatomo Miyamoto (Miyamo), Takeshi Santo (Shant) - Area 21 - Compile/Broderbund - NES - 1989

Blazing Lazers - Masatomo Miyamoto (Miyamo), J.T.S, Masanobu Tsukamoto (Mats), Sydon Inoue (Sydon), Ozono, Keiji Takeuchi (Takeuchi) - Area 4 - Compile/Hudson Soft - TurboGrafx-16 - 1989

Legendary Wings - Tamayo Kawamoto, Manami Matsumae (arr.), Yoshihiro Sakaguchi (arr.) - Area 2 - Capcom - NES - 1988

Thunder Force III - Toshiharu Yamanishi - A War Without the End (Ending) - Technosoft - Genesis - 1990

Pop'n TwinBee - Kazuhiko Uehara, Masahiro Ikariko, Tomoya Tomita, Nobuyuki Akena, Saiko Miki, Masae Nakashima, Harumi Ueko, Yukie Morimoto, Michiru Yamane - Village Sky - Konami - Super Famicom - 1993

Herzog Zwei - Naosuke Arai, Tomomi Ohtani - Sleight of Hand - Technosoft - Genesis - 1990

Air Fortress - Hideki Kanazashi (Escaper Kanagushi) - Inside the Fortress - HAL Laboratory - NES - 1987

Blazing Lazers - Masatomo Miyamoto (Miyamo), J.T.S, Masanobu Tsukamoto (Mats), Sydon Inoue (Sydon), Ozono, Keiji Takeuchi (Takeuchi) - Final Boss - Compile/Hudson Soft - TurboGrafx-16 - 1989

Star Fox - Hajime Hirasawa - Main Theme (End Credits) - Nintendo - SNES - 1993

Darius Plus - Hisayoshi Ogura - Enter Your Initials - Taito - PC Engine - 1990

1943: The Battle of Midway - Kumi Yamaga (Jungle Kumi) - In-Game BGM 1 (Air Battle) - Capcom - arcade - 1987

Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar - Takeshi Yoshida - Stranger (Stage 5 Boss) - Technosoft - Genesis - 1992

Starship Hector - Takeaki Kunimoto - History 1 - Hudson Soft - NES - 1990

Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar - Takeshi Yoshida - Evil Destroyer (Stage 1 Boss) - Technosoft - Genesis - 1992

Life Force - Miki Higashino, Hidenori Maezawa (arr.), Shinya Sakamoto (arr.), Satoe Terashima (arr.), Atsushi Fujio (arr.) - Destroy Them All (Stage 6) - Konami - NES - 1988

Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar - Toshiharu Yamanishi - The Sky Line (Stage 3A) - Technosoft - Genesis - 1992

Gradius - Miki Higashino, Hidenori Maezawa (arr.) - Free Flyer (Stage 4) - Konami - NES - 1986

Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar - Toshiharu Yamanishi - Love Dream (Maniac Ending) - Technosoft - Genesis - 1992

Silver Surfer - Tim Follin - BGM II - Software Creations - NES - 1990

Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar - Toshiharu Yamanishi - Fighting Back (Stage 1A) - Technosoft - Genesis - 1992