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Who likes pipe organs? This episode offers up some of the best pipe organ (or pipe organ-like) music in the history of video games. In almost every instance, this instrument is used to signify the sacred, the profane or some horrible combination of the two. Is it a cliche? Sure. But it’s one this podcaster can be okay with. Listen to the saxophone-specific episode of Singing Mountain: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/best-saxophones-video-games Track listing: 0:15: Ultimecia’s Castle / Final Fantasy VIII / Nobuo Uematsu 2:34: Manoria Cathedral / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda 3:42: Door of Journey / Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals / Yasunori Shiono 4:56: Title Theme / Gauntlet II / Hal Canon, Brad Fuller and Earl Vickers 5:23: Nature / Front Mission / Yoko Shimomura and Noriko Matsueda 7:11: Divine King Tower / Kenji Ito / Romancing Saga 3 9:08: St. Eva Grand Church (God of Decadence) / Breath of Fire II / Yuko Takehara 11:34: Shrine of the Master / Soul Blazer / Yukihide Takekawa and Kazz Tomaya 14:40: Armageddon / Live a Live / Yoko Shimomura 17:06: Golbez, Clad in Darkness / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy IV 21:18: Ganon’s Tower / Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Koji Kondo 24:02: Cackletta’s Theme / Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser’s Minions / Yoko Shimomura 25:43: Ultimate Koopa / Super Mario 64 / Koji Kondo 28:30: Drawcia Sorceress / Kirby: Canvas Curse / Jun Ishikawa and Tadashi Ikegami 29:59: The Place Where Evil Sleeps (Cordelia’s Theme) / Panel de Pon Harmony / Masaya Kuzume 33:53: Beyond the Colosseum / Demon’s Crest / Toshihiko Horiyama 36:09: Wandy’s Castle / Pac-Man All-Stars / Unknown Composer 37:48: Portal to Open Grounds / Radical Dreamers / Yasunori Mitsuda 40:19: Reincarnation / Shin Megami Tensei IV / Ryota Kozuka, Kenichi Tsuchiya and Toshiki Konishi 45:59: Simon’s Theme / Castlevania IV / Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo 49:27: After Confession / Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow / Masahiko Kimura and Michiru Yamane 52:00: The Gears Go Awry / Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin / Michiru Yamane and Yuzo Koshiro 53:55: A Toccata into Blood-Soaked Darkness / Castlevania: Curse of Darkness / Michiru Yamane and Yuka Watanabe 59:28: Healed by a Hymn / Dragon Quest VIII (PS2) / Koichi Sugiyama 61:41: Hey You, What Time Is It? / Treasure Hunter G / Hitoshi Sakamoto 62:59: Shrine / Shining in the Darkness / Masahiko Yoshimura 64:17: The Saint / Dragon Quest VI / Koichi Sugiyama 66:01: Please, God / Breath of Fire 2 / Breath of Fire II / Yuko Takehara 67:06: Pray for the People’s Joy / Yasunori Mitsuda / Xenogears 69:22 Safety in the Sanctuary / Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past / Koji Kondo 70:50: Safety in the Sanctuary / Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds / Ryo Nagamatsu Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe
It’s almost impossible to overlook the impact of handheld games, there’s no question that a huge part of our gaming lives recently have centered on gaming on the go with actual hand-held systems. Playing amazing games anywhere we want is the goal of any gamer but as much as the hardware might change or upgrade, its the games that we look forward to everytime we dig into our suitcases, book bags or even fanny packs. An experience that could only be amplified by the great music these games have is why this episode of the retro VGM revival hour is dedicated to Handheld game music. =====Game - Composer - Title - Year - Company - System==== 1.) Mega Man Maverick Hunter X - Toshihiko Horiyama, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takehara, Makoto Tomozawa, Setsuo Yamamoto, Kento Hasegawa, Seiko Kobuchi & Shinya Okada - “New-Type Airport (Storm Eagle Stage)" - January 31, 2006 - CAPCOM - PSP 2.) Sylvan Tale - Saori Kobayashi - "Overworld 1” - January 27, 1995 (Japan Only) - SEGA - Game Gear 3.) Trip World - Manami Matsumae, Masayuki Iwata, Tsutomu Ishida, Atsushi Mihiro & Shinichi Seya - "World 1” - November 27, 1992 (Japan & Europe Only) - SunSoft - Game Boy 4.) Power Pro Kun Pocket 7 - Shoichi Tanaka , Yoshihiro Tagawa, Watanabe Kino, Naoyuki Sato & Tomoaki Hirono - "Guts’s Over!" - December 2, 2004 (Japan Only) - KONAMI - GBA 5.) Kirby's Block Ball - Sukezo Ouyama & Ryoue Takagi - "Mr. Shine and Mr. Bright's Stage (5th Stage)” - 1995 - HAL Laboratory/NINTENDO - Game Boy 6.) Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow - Masahiko Kimura & Michiru Yamane - "Cursed Clock Tower”- August 25, 2005 - KONAMI - Nintendo DS 7.) Electrocop - Bob Vieira - "Level Theme” - 1989 - Epyx/Atari - Atari Lynx 8.) Ys: Memories of Celceta (aka "Ys: Foliage Ocean in Celceta") - Hayato Sonoda, Takahiro Unisuga, Saki Momiyama, and Tomokatsu Hagiuda - “The Great Forest of Celceta” - September 27, 2012 - Nihon Falcom/Sxeed Games - Playstation Vita 9.) Mother 3 - Shogo Sakai - “Serious” - April 20, 2006 (japan Only) - HAL laboratory & Brownie Brown/NINTENDO - GBA 10.) Ganbare Goemon: Tōkai Dōchū Ōedo Tengu ri Kaeshi no Maki - Yasuhiro Ichihashi - "I Am Impact!" - June 23, 2005 (Japan Only) - KONAMI - Nintendo DS 11.) Shinobi - Yuzo Koshiro - “Rush, First Step & Distant Thunder” - April 26, 1991 - SEGA - Game Gear 12.) Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth - Atsushi Kitajoh & Toshiki Konishi - “Footsteps of Time” -June 5, 2014 - Atlus - Nintendo 3DS 13.) Xanadu Next - Falcom Sound Team - “Evildoer" - June 20, 2005 (Japan only) - Nihon Falcom/Nokia - Nokia N-Gage 14.) Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 - Kazuhiro Nakamura & Go Shiina - “Break Through with the Sword“ - January 29, 2009 (Japan Only) - Alfa System/Bandai Namco Games - PSP 15.) Mega Man Xtreme - Toshio Kasino & Story Utsumi - "Magna Centipede” - October 20, 2000 - CAPCOM - Game Boy Color 16.) King of Fighters R-1 - Shinsekai Gakkyoku Zatsugidan - “Fairy (Chizuru Kagura’s Theme) & Psycho Soldier Remix ’97 (Athena's Theme)" - March 16, 1999 (Japan & Europe Only) - SNK - Neo Geo Pocket 17.) Zan Gear - Motoi Sakuraba - “Age of Heat Haze“ - October 23, 1990 (Japan Only) - Wolf Team/Nippon Telenet - Game Gear 18.) Medarot 5: Susutake Mura no Tenkousei: Kabuto ( AKA “Medabots 5") - Kinuyo Yamashita - "Hardness Ten” - December 14, 2001 (Japan Only) - Natsume/Imagineer - GBC 19.) Guilty Gear Petit - Daisuke Ishiwatari -"Holy Orders” - January 25, 2001 (Japan Only) - Arc System Works/SAMMY - WonderSwan Color Edgar Velasco: @MoonSpiderHugs FB: www.facebook.com/groups/vgmrevivalhour/ Tumblr: retro-vgm-revival-hour.tumblr.com/
It's time to have your whip handy and make sure you stock up on plenty of holy water, because you're about to face the master of darkness himself, DRACULA! And what better way to Overcome his incredible armies of the dead than to have these amazing tunes playing through the background, reasuring that his end will soon be near. Todays STAGE is all about CASTLEVANIA, so make sure you never experience a horrible time to have a curse wherever you go Track List Game - Composer - Title - Year - Company *Castlevania - Kinuyo Yamashita & Satoe Terashima - "Wicked Child (Stages 7-9)" - September 26, 1986 - KONAMI - NES *Castlevania II: Simon's Quest - Kenichi Matsubara , Satoe Terashima & Kouji Murata - "Bloody Tears (Street - Day Time)" - August 28, 1987 - KONAMI - NES *Castlevania: The Adventure - Shigeru Fukutake, Norio Hanzawa & Hidehiro Funauchi -"Battle of the Holy (Stage 1)" - December 15, 1989 - KONAMI - Game Boy *Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (Akumajou Densetsu) - Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto & Yoshinori Sasaki - "Mad Forest (Block 3)" - JP/ December 22, 1989 NA/ September 1, 1990 - KONAMI - NES *Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge - Hidehiro Funauchi - "New Messiah (Crystal Castle)" - August 1991 - KONAMI - Game Boy *Super Castlevania IV - Masanori Adachi & Taro Kudo - “Block 1-1 (Theme of Simon)" - October 31, 1991 - KONAMI - SNES *Castlevania: Rondo of Blood - Akira Souji, Keizo Nakamura, Tomoko Sano & Mikio Saito - "Overture (Introduction)" - October 29, 1993 (Japan Only) - KONAMI - PC Engine (The TurboGrafx-16) *Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Michiru Yamane - “Dracula’s Castle" - March 20, 1997 - KONAMI - PlayStation & Sega Saturn *Castlevania Legends - Kaoru Okada & Youichi Iwata - "Boss Battle" - March 11, 1998 - KONAMI - Game Boy *Castlevania: Bloodlines - Michiru Yamane - "Reincarnated Soul, Part 2 (Stage 1)" - March 17, 1994 - KONAMI - Sega Genesis *Castlevania 64 - Masahiko Kimura, Motoaki Furukawa & Mariko Egawa - “Opposing Bloodlines (Introduction)" - December 31, 1998 - KONAMI - Nintendo 64 *Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness - Masahiko Kimura - "Castle Center" - November 30, 1999 - KONAMI - Nintendo 64 *Castlevania: Circle of the Moon - Sotaro Tojima & Hiroshi Mitsuoka - “Clockwork" - June 11, 2001 - KONAMI - GBA *Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance - Soshiro Hokkai & Michiru Yamane - “Offense And Defense" - September 16, 2002 - KONAMI - GBA *Haunted Castle - Kenichi Matsubara- "Don't Wait Until Night (Heart of Fire)" - February 1988 - Arcade *Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow - Michiru Yamane, Takashi Yoshida & Soshiro Hokkai - “Epilogue" - May 6, 2003 - KONAMI - GBA *Castlevania: Lament of Innocence - Michiru Yamane - "Lament of Innocence (leon’s theme)" - October 21, 2003 - KONAMI - PS2 *Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow - Masahiko Kimura & Michiru Yamane - “pitch black intrusion" - September 30, 2005 - KONAMI - Nintendo DS *Castlevania: Curse of Darkness - Michiru Yamane & Yuka Watanabe - “abandoned castle (the curse of darkness) " - November 1, 2005 - KONAMI - PS2/XBOX *Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - Michiru Yamane & Yuzo Koshiro - "Crucifix Held Close" - December 5, 2006 - KONAMI - Nintendo DS *Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia - Michiru Yamane & Yasuhiro Ichihashi - "Chapel Hidden in Smoke" - October 21, 2008 - KONAMI - Nintendo DS