Favourite soundtrack (in a shoot-em-up)

woody.cool · Post by **woody.cool** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:44 am

Best sound track in a shooter? - has to be Rez for me.

The Master · Post by **The Master** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 8:04 am

Polybius.

Steve Halfpenny · Post by **Steve Halfpenny** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:45 pm

Chris Huelsbeck - Turrican I - III and the Super games. Add Apidya (II - sic) to that. That last one seems to be forgotten now.

Nearly all Konami games seem to have great music - Gradius and Salamander series; all incredible stuff. But Gradius II and V's soundtracks stand out for me.

ToxieDogg · Post by **ToxieDogg** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:07 am

Dudley wrote:Coming soon to RG:

Best Driving game (in a shoot em up)

Roadblasters?

Anyway, back on subject.....

My vote for best shoot'em up soundtrack goes to either Viewpoint or the arcade version of Flying Shark

Blue Triangles · Post by **Blue Triangles** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:46 am

For me,

Thunderforce III on the Megadrive, Super Aleste (anyone remember that?) and Paradious on the SNES all stick out in my mind as having great soundtracks.

I've played tons of shmups in the past, but none of their soundtracks spring to mind.

Tapey297 · Post by **Tapey297** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:22 am

Can't believe No-one else has said the Music from Xenon 2: Megablast by Bomb the Bass

ToxieDogg · Post by **ToxieDogg** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:44 pm

Incidentally, if you can count any of the Metroid games as shoot 'em ups, I love the soundtrack for Metroid: Zero Mission on the GBA....especially the updated version of the classic intro screen music.....really sets the mood and lets you know you're in for an epic adventure.

Overheat · Post by **Overheat** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:27 pm

For me the best soundtrack I've heard in a shoot-em-up is the amazing Bio-Hazard Battle on the Mega Drive - the pumping bass soundtrack on some levels juxtaposed with the simple yet effective melodies on the others - it's a beautiful balancing act and makes the Mega-CD's AV outputs even the more useful!

Brilliant game too - one of the best shmups I've played in a long time

C=Style · Post by **C=Style** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:57 pm

Definitely ANYTHING from RAIZING, Souky has an incredible soundtrack as does Battle Garegga, Dimahoo and Kingdom GP. They just the best music for shumps ever and in particular a track entitled Spiral Locus which was featured in Mahou Daisakusen and Armed Police Batrider, nothing else has got my adrenaline pumping so hard in a shmup as that tune has. Stab n Stomp from Battle Garegga is another favourite.

Spacepatrol · Post by **Spacepatrol** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:06 am

Star Force (arcade) has awesome music especially when it channges as you get the power up.

Other great soundtracks: Delta, Nemesis/Gradius, R-Type and slap fight.

Lentini2001 · Post by **Lentini2001** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:16 am

R-Type Delta

Thunderforce III

Agony & Project X and Stardust (Amiga)

Baki · Post by **Baki** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:41 pm

For me,

Soukyugurentai - Saturn

R-Type Final - PS2

Rez - DC

Chaos Field - DC

The louder the better!

paranoid marvin · Post by **paranoid marvin** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:12 pm

One game that I still whistle to this day is Sky Kid - does that make me a bad person?

mick_aka · Post by **mick_aka** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 5:07 am

Soldier Blade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSjoB7OD794

or

Thunderforce IV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lkgkf0lS3k

Both stick in my head like crazy, even play the soundtracks in the car.

retrogamer48k · Post by **retrogamer48k** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:22 pm

doom i love that soundtrack

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