Most Memorable Arcade Music

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What are some of the stand out tracks for you folks? Memorable and awesome music from some of your favourite arcade games. I'll start with:

Gun Frontier has an amazing OST by Zuntata. Most memorable and unique track for me is the Stage 2 music. It starts out peaceful and quiet and keeps building up with the action!



Rapid Hero / Arcadia - Stage 2 music - totally over the top and epic - just like the game itself!



J.J. Squawkers - Stage 2 music (again) - Probably the most relaxing arcade track in history :)



Breaking the stage 2 streak with one of my favourite CAVE shooters:

Mushihimesama - Stage 3 music. Almost has a Prog Rock sound to it. Music suits the stage perfectly! Love this track.

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A lot of my preferred games are precisely because I like the soundtrack. In many cases the game itself might not be all that great but if the soundtrack is good, I'll enjoy it.

Pink Sweets Stage 6 is my goto answer for this question.


More Cave. Muchi Muchi Pork boss music sticks in my head


Non Cave, not a great game example: Mitchell's Super-X
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most of my playing back when i was a youf was with headphones on ...!

I'll throw in the obvious sf2 , it has it all really as well as the soundbites to make it more memorable, love it and was one of the only game soundtracks I wanted to pick up.
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Hnnnnggggggg... I'll make an effort and not list any fighting game music. :awe:

I absolutely love the Genpei Toumaden soundtrack.



And the Rastan soundtrack.


(that's a medley)
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Espgaluda stages 1 and 3 come to mind, especially when it starts the stage one track during the run to the final boss. Deathsmiles Hades Castle is another one that sets the tone for the stage particularly well.
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Oh, and this is the most epic track in any shmup ever:

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Nice choices so far! I'm ashamed that I missed this one!

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Outrun music is something i've never been mad about.it has grown more over the years so I will give it that.
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For me the best Outrun music is this one from Outrun 2 -




It isnt my favourite SHMUP ever, but i do love the soundtrack from Raiden FIghters. Especially this track:

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Very high quality throughout. The final stage is the best IMHO, at 9:25.



Just great too. Original sound track start at 5:17
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DaveyD wrote: It isnt my favourite SHMUP ever, but i do love the soundtrack from Raiden FIghters. Especially this track:

I didn't know the arrange.

The original track :



SNK Chopper 1 OST :

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I always love Konami's sountracks:


Classic Konami greatness:


Cave's best soundtrack ever imho:
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The thread was incomplete without Ninja Warriors and the CarltonGuile theme ;)
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Yup, Guile's theme goes with everything :lol:






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Powerstone Wang Tang (Tong An) Stage. Love this game and the whole OST!

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I like a sample used in death smiles.
Does anybody know the original song of this ?
For example: i found the same sample in a rap song
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