Hard Rock Minus Guitars

Back in the day, video games could rock without featuring anything close to a real guitar. It's actually a testament to those composers' ingenuity that they could conjure something from those sound processors that sounded unmistakably like an electric guitar. This episode is an eclectic mix of some of those remarkably hard-rocking soundtracks. (Long live Barbara the Bat!) Track listing: 0:17: Launch Octopus / Mega Man X / Setsuo Yamamoto 3:02: Overdrive Ostrich / Mega Man X2 / Yuki Iwai 4:56: Volt Catfish / Mega Man X3 / Kinuyo Yamashita 6:26: Operation Thunder Zone / Thunder Zone (Desert Assault) / Hiroaki Yoshida (a.k.a. Maro) and Akira Takemoto (a.k.a. Raika) 9:56: Burning Heart / Battle Mania Daiginjou / Junichi Masuda 12:34: Ragnarok Canyon / Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (Super NES) / David Wise 17:38: Mission 2 / Carrier Air Wing / Manami Matsumae 19:45: Corneria / Star Fox / Hajime Hirasawa 25:39: Russia / Aero Fighters / Naoki Itamura 28:57: Hurry Up (Ray's Theme) / Fighter's History / Gamedelic 31:43: Bluefin Tuna (Galford's Theme) / Samurai Shodown 2 / SNK Sound Team 34:37: For Metro City / Final Fight 3 / Katsunari Kitajima 39:27: Flugelheim Museum / Batman (Genesis) / Naoki Kodaka 42:03: Epilogue / Heavy Barrel / Azusa Hara and Hiroaki Yoshida 44:00: Bloodlines / Castlevania: Rondo of Blood / Akira Souji (a.k.a. Akiropito) 47:43: The End of Raging Waves / Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City / Yuzo Koshiro 50:10: Dawn of Ys / Ys IV: Mask of the Sun / Naoki Kaneda 53:35: Ginza / Shin Megami Tensei / Tsukasa Masuko 57:19: Gorgeous Musical Castle Part Two (Goe Goe Spark) / Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon / Shigeru Araki, Yusuke Kato, Saiko Miki and Yasumasa Kitagawa 60:39: Southern Island / Wave Race 64 / Kazumi Totaka 63:13: Break Point Champs / Windjammers / Tomoyoshi Sato and Seiichi Hamada 65:32: Ending Theme / F-Zero / Yumiko Kanki and Naoto Ishida Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe