Weeks 22-23: Skate or Die! / Skate or Die 2 / Sphere Brain / Verytex
SKATE OR DIE! (NES)
8 tracks, 10:37. Samples-
Originally developed by Electronic Arts, Skate or Die! was ported to the NES by Konami in 1988. Series’ composers are credited as Rob Hubbard, Kyle Granger, and Christopher Grigg.
Wikipedia entry on Skate or Die!
SKATE OR DIE 2 (NES)
14 tracks, 27:49. Samples-
Unlike the original, Skate or Die 2: The Search for Double Trouble was released straight to the NES in 1990 and was not ported to other systems. Rob Hubbard was the lone composer for this title. The title track is amazing…
Wikipedia entry on Skate or Die 2.
SPHERE BRAIN (C64)
5 tracks, 22:33. Samples-
Sphere Brain is a German C64 game from 1995. Being a significantly later title for the system, it’s quite shrouded in obscurity. It doesn’t even have an entry on lemon64, and it took me some effort to find the disk image so I could play through the game and name all the tracks.
The music is quite nice. I found it randomly from a sid archive and the music stood out amongst a lot of the other soundtracks I was browsing.
Composed by Tero & Toni Hilpinen.
VERYTEX (Sega Genesis)
12 tracks, 22:15. Samples-
Released in Japan only in 1991, Verytex is a scrolling shooter for the Sega Mega Drive. Developed by OperaHouse and published by Asmik.
Composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto, Masaharu Iwata, and JKL Furukawa.
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