Favourite soundtrack (in a shoot-em-up)

bolda · Post by **bolda** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:46 pm

kelp7 · Post by **kelp7** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:39 pm

nice topic, dunno how i didn't see this. i like a bit of a good soundscape, the only one that really hits the mark for me is Hubbard's in-game tune for Delta on the C64. Just.... amazing. Astounding piece of work.

Duddyroar · Post by **Duddyroar** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:56 am

Radiant Silvergun and Gradius V are both untouchable in my book (and both by the legendary Hitoshi Sakimoto. I also love the OST to Axelay on the SNES, and the opening track of Psyvariar is pretty great too.

Devious · Post by **Devious** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:37 pm

It is not considered a shmup by some but,

Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold

has some awesome music in it. I had to get the level cheat codes so I could hear the different sound tracks pronto!

khisanth · Post by **khisanth** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:41 am

Lightforce definitely !

Rez gets my blood pumping too!

Wil · Post by **Wil** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:54 am

Under Defeat has a great, archetypal, Japanese, jazzy-rock soundtrack to accompany the carnage. Love those sort of soundtracks.

mikeb · Post by **mikeb** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:58 pm

Love all the Konami shooter soundtracks - esp Vulcan Venture and Salamander 2*. R-Type Delta has an astoundingly good soundtrack. Lots of old Toaplan shmups have top tunes - Slap Fight, Flying Shark, Truxton et al.

Zuntata (Taito's in-house 'band') did some sterling work on stuff like Raystorm/Layer Section and the magnificent rock-opera cacophany of Darius Gaiden - it's completely mental but I truly love it

* Edit, musn't forget Gyruss - first ever stereo sound in an arcade game and they coudn't have picked a better tune to showcase it...

Mr L · Post by **Mr L** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:54 am

Bit late to this one but Gynoug - class considering it was the 16bit era.

liveinabin · Post by **liveinabin** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:31 pm

Gradius V is an astonishing soundtrack. I've got the soundtrack but I've never played the game. Didn't know the composer was so prolific. I'll have to pick up the rest of his stuff. I'm a big game soundtrack fan.

I also love Sanxion's wonderful loading music by Mr Hubbard. Great song. Bloody irritating game.

Bub&Bob wrote:Just have a real nostalgic love for the music on the C64 version of Terra Cresta - dunno why, just do!

Oh hell yeah. Every piece of music in that game is brilliant. I have it on my iPod

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