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Good arcade music?

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I was wondering if you guys knew of any arcade games featuring good/decent music.

By good music, I mean music that is memorable and well composed.

I can only think of these titles at the moment:
- Haunted Castle (aka Akumajo Dracula, part of the Castlevania series)
- Metal Slug 1, 2, X & 3
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Street Fighter II, but I guess that's a given.
Outrun.
I like the Monster Maulers soundtrack a lot, for reasons unknown to me.
Metal Slugs that you mentioned. 5 has a few nice ones as well I think.

Those are the ones my active memory gave me access to ATM.
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the original double dragon
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Gyruss.
But then, it's hard to argue with Bach.



R-Type sticks with me.





I'm sure I could come up with some more if I wasn't half-asleep right now.
But my arcade tastes tend towards pre-music.
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Francis64 wrote:music that is memorable
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Salamander 2
Metal Slug 1-6
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King of Fighter 99
Sexy Parodius
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Midnight Wanderers, the platformer in that 3-in-1 arcade game (3 wonders or smth), along with Chariot (which is its direct sequel, a shmup) and a sucky unrelated block puzzle game.

Oh, Strider too. And Ghouls 'n ghosts. The genesis ports might have done their best, but it just wasn't good enough.
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MisterJones wrote:King of Fighter 99
Sexy Parodius
and more...

King of Fighters 2002
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Last Blade 2
Rage of the Dragons
Shock Troopers 2nd Squad
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I like the music in all the darkstalkers games.

Ikaruga goes without saying, and there's more shooters with nice music, such as Mars Matrix.
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The music for After Burner II was great. Umm I thought the Neo Geo version of super dodge ball had good music, but it's not really that memorable I guess.
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Agozer wrote:
MisterJones wrote:King of Fighter 99
Sexy Parodius
and more...

King of Fighters 2002
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Last Blade 2
Rage of the Dragons
Shock Troopers 2nd Squad
Yay, another music fan of the series.
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Post by Francis64 »

MisterJones wrote:Sexy Parodius
I love the bg music in the Parodius series.
(Mozart, Brahms and many others must be spinning in their graves.)
Agozer wrote:Shock Troopers 2nd Squad
The music on the 1st level is quite cool, but I found the rest was average...

However, pretty good suggestions so far...

- Mortal Kombat series
- Snow Bros
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Double Dragon III (NES)
Megaman 3 (NES)
Wizards & Warriors III (NES)
Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2 (SNES)
Gradius 3 (SNES)


some other games from newer systems... but this thread is about either arcade arcade games, or just stuff before the n64/playstation....
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franpa wrote:this thread is about either arcade arcade games, or just stuff before the n64/playstation....
Correct.

It's the former to be more specific, the music thereof to be even more so.


It's insane how many i strongly agree with but couldn't think of myself.
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Agozer wrote:King of Fighters 2002
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Last Blade 2
Rage of the Dragons
Shock Troopers 2nd Squad
Xcpet for garou and schlong troopers, i disagree
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Francis64 wrote:
Agozer wrote:Shock Troopers 2nd Squad
The music on the 1st level is quite cool, but I found the rest was average...

However, pretty good suggestions so far...

- Mortal Kombat series
- Snow Bros
Yeah, the first stage music in Shock Troopers is made of awesome and win, but like you said, the rest is sorta average. I still refuse to call the rest of it totally bad, though.
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franpa wrote:Double Dragon III (NES)
Megaman 3 (NES)
Wizards & Warriors III (NES)
Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2 (SNES)
Gradius 3 (SNES)


some other games from newer systems... but this thread is about either arcade arcade games, or just stuff before the n64/playstation....
You fail at reading.
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No love for MVC?
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Gil_Hamilton wrote:
franpa wrote:some other games from newer systems... but this thread is about either arcade arcade games, or just stuff before the n64/playstation....
You fail at reading.
There's a special alert for that isn't there?
megamanzer0 wrote:No love for MVC?
Lots of it from me. It doesn't have a lot of original tracks though, that's why it hasn't been mentioned I think.
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Johan_H wrote:
Gil_Hamilton wrote:
franpa wrote:some other games from newer systems... but this thread is about either arcade arcade games, or just stuff before the n64/playstation....
You fail at reading.
There's a special alert for that isn't there?
Probably, but I've never felt like memorizing the URLs for them.
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