STAGE 32: HANDHELD GAMES

Retro VGM Revival Hour

It’s almost impossible to overlook the impact of handheld games, there’s no question that a huge part of our gaming lives recently have centered on gaming on the go with actual hand-held systems. Playing amazing games anywhere we want is the goal of any gamer but as much as the hardware might change or upgrade, its the games that we look forward to everytime we dig into our suitcases, book bags or even fanny packs. An experience that could only be amplified by the great music these games have is why this episode of the retro VGM revival hour is dedicated to Handheld game music. =====Game - Composer - Title - Year - Company - System==== 1.) Mega Man Maverick Hunter X - Toshihiko Horiyama, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takehara, Makoto Tomozawa, Setsuo Yamamoto, Kento Hasegawa, Seiko Kobuchi & Shinya Okada - “New-Type Airport (Storm Eagle Stage)" - January 31, 2006 - CAPCOM - PSP 2.) Sylvan Tale - Saori Kobayashi - "Overworld 1” - January 27, 1995 (Japan Only) - SEGA - Game Gear 3.) Trip World - Manami Matsumae, Masayuki Iwata, Tsutomu Ishida, Atsushi Mihiro & Shinichi Seya - "World 1” - November 27, 1992 (Japan & Europe Only) - SunSoft - Game Boy 4.) Power Pro Kun Pocket 7 - Shoichi Tanaka , Yoshihiro Tagawa, Watanabe Kino, Naoyuki Sato & Tomoaki Hirono - "Guts’s Over!" - December 2, 2004 (Japan Only) - KONAMI - GBA 5.) Kirby's Block Ball - Sukezo Ouyama & Ryoue Takagi - "Mr. Shine and Mr. Bright's Stage (5th Stage)” - 1995 - HAL Laboratory/NINTENDO - Game Boy 6.) Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow - Masahiko Kimura & Michiru Yamane - "Cursed Clock Tower”- August 25, 2005 - KONAMI - Nintendo DS 7.) Electrocop - Bob Vieira - "Level Theme” - 1989 - Epyx/Atari - Atari Lynx 8.) Ys: Memories of Celceta (aka "Ys: Foliage Ocean in Celceta") - Hayato Sonoda, Takahiro Unisuga, Saki Momiyama, and Tomokatsu Hagiuda - “The Great Forest of Celceta” - September 27, 2012 - Nihon Falcom/Sxeed Games - Playstation Vita 9.) Mother 3 - Shogo Sakai - “Serious” - April 20, 2006 (japan Only) - HAL laboratory & Brownie Brown/NINTENDO - GBA 10.) Ganbare Goemon: T?kai D?ch? ?edo Tengu ri Kaeshi no Maki - Yasuhiro Ichihashi - "I Am Impact!" - June 23, 2005 (Japan Only) - KONAMI - Nintendo DS 11.) Shinobi - Yuzo Koshiro - “Rush, First Step & Distant Thunder” - April 26, 1991 - SEGA - Game Gear 12.) Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth - Atsushi Kitajoh & Toshiki Konishi - “Footsteps of Time” -June 5, 2014 - Atlus - Nintendo 3DS 13.) Xanadu Next - Falcom Sound Team - “Evildoer" - June 20, 2005 (Japan only) - Nihon Falcom/Nokia - Nokia N-Gage 14.) Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 - Kazuhiro Nakamura & Go Shiina - “Break Through with the Sword“ - January 29, 2009 (Japan Only) - Alfa System/Bandai Namco Games - PSP 15.) Mega Man Xtreme - Toshio Kasino & Story Utsumi - "Magna Centipede” - October 20, 2000 - CAPCOM - Game Boy Color 16.) King of Fighters R-1 - Shinsekai Gakkyoku Zatsugidan - “Fairy (Chizuru Kagura’s Theme) & Psycho Soldier Remix ’97 (Athena's Theme)" - March 16, 1999 (Japan & Europe Only) - SNK - Neo Geo Pocket 17.) Zan Gear - Motoi Sakuraba - “Age of Heat Haze“ - October 23, 1990 (Japan Only) - Wolf Team/Nippon Telenet - Game Gear 18.) Medarot 5: Susutake Mura no Tenkousei: Kabuto ( AKA “Medabots 5") - Kinuyo Yamashita - "Hardness Ten” - December 14, 2001 (Japan Only) - Natsume/Imagineer - GBC 19.) Guilty Gear Petit - Daisuke Ishiwatari -"Holy Orders” - January 25, 2001 (Japan Only) - Arc System Works/SAMMY - WonderSwan Color Edgar Velasco: @MoonSpiderHugs FB: www.facebook.com/groups/vgmrevivalhour/ Tumblr: retro-vgm-revival-hour.tumblr.com/