Audun’s Pick - Last Action Hero
Audun wanted to share a rip of his. It’s the complete soundtrack collection to Last Action Hero.
LAST ACTION HERO
(NES/ Game Boy/ SNES/ Genesis/ Game Gear/ Amiga)
47 tracks, 1:34:31. Samples-
Game Boy - Ending
SNES - Parking Lot
Genesis - Last Action Hero
Amiga - The Warehouse
Audun ‘Akumu’ Says-
Now let me just start off by saying I hate each and every one of these games. More than words can explain, more than God himself probably allows humans to hate something. Throughout my life, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been my biggest movie hero and I love almost all his movies… believe it or not, making Arnold pregnant has always been a fantasy of mine, so Junior was a highlight for me personally.
With the release of Last Action Hero, my absolute favorite from Schwarzenegger, the gaming magazines started a huge hype campaign, seeing that every console would have a release for it. Posters, previews with promising words and countdowns absolutely swallowed my sanity and I had to have the game. In Norway, only the Super NES version was released, but according to CVG (Gaming Mag), that was the version to get according to the preview. So on launch day, I got that game for 90 bucks which was the price, my entire savings that year in my young life. It is to this day, the only time regret alone has made me openly cry for hours.
The game was released on nearly all consoles, NES, Super NES, Genesis, Game Gear, Game Boy, and Amiga. The SNES and Genesis share soundtracks, as do the Game Boy and Game Gear, while NES and Amiga have exclusive soundtracks for their games. All the console releases are composed a man named Shahid Ahmad (composer of Jet Set Willy and Resident Evil Gaiden) while the Amiga game, which was developed by a completely different company is composed by Mike Clarke. The best one out of these I would say is the Game Boy\Game Gear version, followed by the Amiga soundtrack.
As mentioned— I grew up with the SNES game, and therefore I find that soundtrack the most catchy, though it is a horrible mess in reality. The Genesis version however is a showcase of how bad the Genesis soundchip really is if the composer has no idea how to use it, and sounds like the whole soundtrack is constructed by HVYRYFF farting and stiffening his asshair and playing guitar with it. The NES game sounds like a blend of Color Dreams soundtracks and Star Wars on NES, it has some good points actually, and doesn’t suck all over. The Handheld games have the strongest soundtracks, with some truly catching tunes and actually sounds like the composer tried a little bit to make good music. Amiga has extremely generic rock sounding tunes, but nonetheless they are enjoyable.
So here you got it, I have probably given more effort to ripping these games (I had to complete every game released to find suiting track names…) than the company who made them, but in the end, it was worth it, right?
No.
Good Bye Cruel World.
-Aku
Wikipedia entry on Last Action Hero.
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Thanks Audun! If anyone has anything else they’d like to share, let me know and I’ll be sure to post it. I know I’m behind, but there’s several compiliations that gentlemen from the shizz have prepared, and I’ll get around to talking about them all within the next couple weeks.
4 years ago
