Brent and Rob return to the topic of fighting games, this time straying from any of the Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat games, and instead, digging deeper into some lesser known titles, particularly the Japanese releases such as Yu Yu Hakusho and Dragon Ball Z. Video game music appreciators, get ready… FIGHT! (meaning, listen and enjoy). Full track listing below.
Game – Composer – Song – Company – Console – Year (North American release unless otherwise indicated)
Fighting Masters – Masapi, Shioya (Hiromitsu Shioya?) – Arena 2 – Almanic/Treco – Genesis – 1992
WeaponLord – Brian Schmidt – Dragon Arena – Visual Concepts/Namco – SNES – 1995
Yu Yu Hakusho: Makyou Touitsusen – T.K.O. (Kazuo Hanzawa, Katsuhiko Suzuki, Satoshi Murata) – Treasure – Mega Drive – 1994
Joy Mech Fight – Hideaki Shimizu – Outside the Tower (Blaze) – Nintendo – Famicom – 1993
Yu Yu Hakusho – Yoshinori Kawamoto, Kouji Nakagawa – Reminiscence – Namco – Super Famicom – 1993
King of the Monsters 2 – Toshio Shimizu, Toshikazu Tanaka – Grand Canyon – SNK/Takara – Genesis – 1994
Shin Kidou Senshi Gundam Wing: Endless Duel – Hiroyuki Iwatsuki, Haruo Ohashi – Tower – Natsume – Super Famicom – 1996
Yu Yu Hakusho: Makyou Touitsusen – Hiro Takahashi – Imbalanced Kiss – Treasure – Mega Drive – 1994
Natsuki Crisis Battle – Yuki Sabakuma, Tomo Chan, AKP – Your Selection – TOSE – Super Famicom – 1995
Brutal: Paws of Fury – Doug Brandon – Unknown Track 1 – Imagitec Design/GameTek – Genesis – 1994
King of the Monsters 2 – Toshio Shimizu, Toshikazu Tanaka – Unknown (Sound Test 87) – SNK/Takara – Genesis – 1994
Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension – Takano, Nakajima, Tonkupon, Chatrita – Far Above the Earth – TOSE/Bandai – Super Famicom – 1996
Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden 2 – Kenji Yamamoto – Zangia’s Theme – TOSE/Bandai – Super Famicom – 1993
Street Smart – Jojoha Kitamura – Staff Roll – Treco – Genesis – 1991
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters – Kazuhiko Uehara, Harumi Ueko, Hideto Inoue –Â Enter the Tournament – Konami – SNES – 1993
Yu Yu Hakusho’s unbalanced kiss was an ending song for the anime http://youtu.be/BbamMcg-vJE
There were some great fighters, or at least soundtracks on fighters, on the PC Engine in Japan. Missed opportunity, guys. Also, the Neo Geo. The original King of Fighters (’94) had a fantastic soundtrack, as did Art of Fighting.
That ” Reminiscence” track reminds me of the intro to Jerry Horkheimer’s Star Gazer segments on PBS. So I reminisced through reminiscence. Thanks