30 March 2011

Episode 22: Classical Music

Classical music is the focus of Episode 22 and Brent and Rob deliver a wide variety of video game music ranging from Baroque-sounding to 20th Century-sounding.  Black tie not required, but welcome.  Full track listing below.



Game - Composer - Song - Company - Console - Year (the version we played was released)

Actraiser - Yuzo Koshiro - Birth of the People - Enix - SNES - 1991

Rygar - Michiharu Hasuya (T. Hasuya) - Gran Mountain - Tecmo - NES - 1987

Puyo Puyo - Masanobu Tsukamoto (Mats) - Baroque - Compile - Mega Drive - 1992

Actraiser 2 - Yuzo Koshiro - Death Field - Enix - SNES - 1993

Columns - Tokuhiko Uwabo - Clotho - Sega - Genesis - 1990

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - Koji Kondo - Forest of Mystery - Nintendo - SNES - 1992

Famicom Wars - Hirokazu Tanaka - Game Over - Nintendo - Famicom - 1988

Secret of Evermore - Jeremy Soule - Storekeepers - Squaresoft - SNES - 1995

Mother - Hirokazu Tanaka, Keiichi Suzuki - Game Over - Nintendo - Famicom - 1989

Secret of Mana - Hiroki Kikuta - What the Forest Taught Me - Square - SNES - 1993

Castlevania Legends - Kaoru Okada, Youichi Iwata - Underground Watercourse (Stage 5) - Konami - Game Boy - 1998

Wordtris - Paul Mogg - Stage C - Spectrum HoloByte - SNES - 1992

Actraiser - Yuzo Koshiro - Sky Palast - Enix - SNES - 1991

Faxanadu - Jun Chikuma - Mantra - Hudson Soft - NES - 1989

The Battle of Olympus - Kazuo Sawa - Crete - Broderbund - NES - 1990

Solomon's Key - Michiharu Hasuya (Michiharu Hasutani) - Room Theme 2 - Tecmo - NES - 1987

Columns - Tokuhiko Uwabo - Filthy - Sega - Genesis - 1990

Actraiser - Yuzo Koshiro - North Wall - Enix - SNES - 1991

Actraiser - Yuzo Koshiro - Piramid-Marana - Enix - SNES - 1991

1 comment:

  1. Surprised to not hear a single Uematsu track here. There are some great Final Fantasy tracks that would've fit well, and I feel more variety would've been a better choice than so many songs from one game (Actraiser). Very pleased to hear something from MOTHER, though.

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