Bonus!
I put together a little treat for all of you! I compiled some of my favorite NES music tracks into one kick-ass playlist! 37 tracks–one full hour of pure NES in-game rock.. This is music that I listen too all the time to drive me and push me forward to get crap done!
It was all about Megaman 3, Gradius, Castlevania, Super Mario 3 and Metroid.. the adventurer’s beeps!!
Totally agreed! I know it wasn’t that popular, but I loved Castlevania II also!
Grargh! what a terrible night to have such a pain in the ASS! needless to say, Castlevania and I didn’t speak ’til the SNES one, and even then it was a limp-wristed attempt compared to SOTN later on. but SNES is a whole other area I thinks, even though the Sega had the best music
Great comic and that mix tape is killer! It’s surprising that such good music could come out of such a relatively primitive system. I guess it was another thing that made the NES so great, and why it still has a big fan base.
I also think that the fact that every kid had an NES at the time. It was all common ground :)
You keep taking me back to my childhood. So good.
Thanks!
With music like this playing in the background, I could conquer the very Universe itself.
Do it!
Chiptunes :)
Yep, the originals!
Awesome! Thanks for the compilation :D The music was all pure awesome! I think the Dr Wily castle stage 1 music from Megaman 2 is my favorite NES music of all time :D
Now to check out that compilation you zipped up!
Rock out! It’s great working music!
It really depends, some games did great music, others did terrible music, they didn’t care. The good games made you want to play with the music on, they drove you to play, maybe even found yourself humming the music at school or work.
Bad music did sound nothing more then blips and beeps, made you want to turn the volume down and just listen to the radio instead.
I’d like to add, I don’t know how they really did it, but Earthbound Zero (Mother), somehow managed to keep the music fairly non-chiptune-ish. It was a lot softer and smoother then a lot of the harsh, jagged sounding music in a lot of NES games.
I fully embrace the harsh jagged sounds of NES games. I love it. Even the a lot of the SNES music was too slick for me.
Gabe, yer officialy the shit! Thanks fer tha tunes, Ipod Update time!
Awesome! I’m glad you like them!
Blaster Master! Man, I don’t know who was doin’ sound and music at SunSoft, but kudos to them, they made that lil’ NES sound processor dance! I used to record NES game music using the condenser mic on my shitty lil’ Radio Shack tape recorder and listen to ‘em at night, goin’ to sleep chasing digital baddies in my head. Then I got me a Genesis and a lil’ Sanyo boombox with a line-in, and was able to jack the Genesis directly in from the oh-so-cool headphone jack on the front. Year before I left for college, walking around on a frozen wharf in -40˚ weather at 2 in the morning, graveyard shift security, listening to tracks from Thunder Force IV, Altered Beast and Forgotten Worlds on my dime-store ‘walkman’. Kept me goin’ fer years!
Dude! Dead on! Blaster Master! Thunderforce IV! Forgotten Worlds! All great!
It would be amazing if Nintendo re-released the NES some day, the the SNES!
They did a rerelease of the NES http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_(Model_NES-101) like the SNES http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SNES-Model-2-Set.jpg.
Tremendous as always, Gabe. Have you considered having more graphic defecation in your strip? You might be too classy for the room here.
Hey, someone has to do it :)
ah, I still remember the days of playing Nintendo as a tott. My folks say it even helped me read at an early age since I wanted to know what the silly symbols mean. I even still play the good o’ classics through emulators today. Nothing can beat them. :)
I do to! I actually made a bucket list of games to beat :)
Yeah, back in the NES and SNES days, every adult I knew seemed to think the musical tracks were all a bunch of nonsense noise. I couldn’t believe they didn’t hear the same awe-inspiring melodies that I did. They would make fun of it by going “BLEEP BLORP BLING BLONG!” and tell me to turn it all down.
Whadda they know anyways?!
You might be interested in this, Gabe. Super Bat Puncher: http://morphcat.de/superbatpuncher/
Some fun music in this game.
Wow! That game looks great! It kinda reminds me of this game: http://youtu.be/94PJOMvgAJM
As I recall it, my Mom ended up really liking the music from our NES games, but only because she heard them so often. Sometimes she still likes to quiz us by naming a video game we had or a cartoon we watched and we have to hum or sing the lyrics from one of the songs, heh
Wow! What a Mom! Maybe she can adopt me :)