Stage 1 theme (1:26) was used by a local AM radio news station as background music when I was a kid. Heard it first on the radio before I even played the game. I didn't listen to news, my grandpa did. Miss you, gramps.
I wonder why you say that. It doesn't sound very final fantasy at all to me. Konami is famous for it's drum synthesizer. Square didn't have anything like that. It's also very punk, as most Konomi games were at the time. Square never leaned that far into rock on their tracks, even when they were at their most aggressive. Well, in the 8 and 16 bit days. I played XII2 one time and there was some mess in that game for audio that was a weird death metal travesty.
IT could be the Japanese rock tinge to it. The Japanese definitely have their particular take on rock music that's a little different than american rock. I feel like it's a little more melodic.
This takes me back to being 10 and on summer holidays, at my friend's house, parents have kicked us out of the front room so we're in his bedroom playing on the shitty TV with the lights out, the gloomy music, gloomy graphics, the summer sun setting through the window, twilight streaming in... Everything aligned perfectly to create that atmosphere.
Stage 4 brought me back to a nicotine stained shitty apartment with my addicted mother and random strangers. My older brother and I used sit as close to the TV as possible to try and block out the environment. Not even sure how we ended up with the game to be honest as neither one of us had any money. I just remember putting in the cartridge and being one hundred percent blown away. The gameplay, the music, the cutscenes, and everything else that came with this amazing game kept me locked in for literal days. My brother and I refused to do anything else until we beat this game. It was such a satisfying feeling finally beating Joker that I can easily say that this title is responsible for me falling in love with video games at the age of 6. I was always the kid that just wanted to just game and not get caught up with any drama or bullshit. It might be silly to some, but this game honestly shaped my life a bit for the better. Thank you Sunsoft.
I stayed locked in my room playing video games and watching movies to avoid my mom and stepdad's abuse and bullshit. you're not alone in that department pal.
It remembers me to my Grandmother cooking and I playing Batman and enjoying of the music and sounds, my father run away from us and my mother really young to have a son, just playing video games used to make me still believe in there a better future and started to like the idea of a better future full of technology like cyberpunk
I bet Lars Ulrich used those drums as inspiration for the fast section on The Day That Never Comes. It sounds pretty similar. Then again I'm probably wrong.
I dunno Gremlins 2 might be better (also Sunsoft) and there's also New Ghostbusters 2 (which we sadly did not get in the US, odd considering it was made by Hal America lol ironic).
@@marhansgamingchannel4732 Soon Scott Pilgrim will join the list (I mean, it's technically more based on the original comics, but it carries the title of the movie and was released to promote it so I feel like it counts)
One of those rare cases where a movie based on a comic book is actually good. One of those rare cases where a comic book based on schizophrenia is actually good. one of those rare cases where Schizophrenia based on a flighted rodent is actually good.
Especially at 13:04. It almost makes you think about the fun lots of us had in our childhood, then 13:15 comes up and it just makes you think how the times have changed and how those days will never come back, or how these days and the coming days ahead will never be the same.
All of it's good,Sunsoft and Konami games typically had the best,smoothest music. Capcom was more on melody,Nintendo...hm...they tried to be imaginative,but ultimately fell short.
SonicSlicer Nintendo did create classics like Super Mario and Legend of Zelda don't forget. And even games like World Cup had amazing tracks as well. It just depends on what your style is
My mind is blown by the drums. We have bass drum, tom-tom's and snare drum. This is not a simulated sound this is a real sound sample that sounds like drums. They even have *2* different drum fills where it does a small drum roll and then goes down the toms. THIS IS AMAZING AND SOUNDS BETTER THAN SNES GAMES IN THIS RESPECT.
The death music wraps this soundrack up so perfectly. This is by far my absolutely favorite retro video game music. Maybe even my favorite of all time. From front to back it's classic shit.
This was at a time when Sunsoft didn't use their trademark PCM bass sample yet, and them using the triangle wave for a bass makes the tone of some of these compositions really darker then what Sunsoft probably intended, but I find it pretty cool.
EYTPS they actuallt used some kind of drum sample for this, wich I noticed as I watched an oscilloscope version of this and noticed that 5 channels was being used rather than 4.
I think this was the last game before Sunsoft started to use bass samples (“Fester’s Quest”, which came out after this game, was the first I think to use bass samples, even though here it’s different than the one commonly used in later games and doesn’t sound as loud and clear)
This Batman game by SunSoft has strong Ninja Gaiden vibes, especially in music. Ninja Gaiden games also has sampled drum beats. I think SunSoft intended to test sample playback with this Batman game, so they could decide should they use sampled bass or not.
Even as an adult, 2 decades later, this version of the OST lives in my head rent free. Also, 11:38 greatest Game Over music of all time, and best track on the album.
I just played this over the weekend.... man, what memories....I used to have an old stereo with 10" subwoofers connected to my NES...best sounds ever....now I have all my consoles connected to my BOSE system....still awesome in surround sound.....
How to forget this legendary game? Totally unforgettable! My respect for the composer(s) of all these songs, specially the main one recognized and more liked for the gaming community (streets of desolation) #Respect
20 years ago games were so magic without internet . Every new level was so cool. We didn’t know what is awaiting us until we go through levels.. now you can watch anything on internet .. games music films.. it’s still good but not as special as it was 20 or more years ago.. Art is mostly business now
Also, no shortcuts available..we had to make sure the adaptor didn't get too hot.. difficult days were adventurous and entertaining..the new generation has it easy
@@ishanbhowmick4807 What about hoping that the game you bought actually let you get to the end? That it didn't just trick you with an invincible boss because you got a bad copy?
@@DeskoDev - Unfortunately this upload has the tracks in fake stereo (the NES audio channels are split and panned slightly left and slightly right). But the original NES was mono.
@@excrono - Intentional stereo in the original tune is good (the original Gameboy was stereo). But applying a fake stereo effect makes a lot of the NES 'instruments' sound wrong. The composers often used two channels for one lead sound, with a delay effect applied to the second channel for depth. The technique relies on both channels being mono in order to sound right. Fake stereo splits these channels apart into left and right and it screws up the intended sound.
yeah me too when i was a kid i have it her i remember the old days how iwake up early to play or late in the night before and after dinner before to go to the bed i play her and outside was dark amazing old days i still remember the stage 1 song and the level the best time and game i wanna back to my old days again too was just amaizng on shitty tv and shitty graphics but was so fun to tryhard to finish the levels
When I first heard this as a kid, I thought: "Where was *ANY* of this music in the Tim Burton movie?" Today I think: "Man.. this music is so great. That game was hard..."
I remember playing this game with a friend all summer, we'd trade off the controller when one died and we'd try to get as far as we could. This soundtrack is amazing.
1:25 brings me back to being a kid playing this in the early 1990s, loving this shit out of this game while somehow not giving a shit my friends were all playing snes or genesis
This brings back to my childhood memories when world is so good without social media and phones 🥺 missing that time , nothing can beat this soundtrack, I still remember i didn’t understand why joker is greatest villain in that time but nowadays i understand why joker is goat 🃏 the colour hair dye , the suit , the painted clown face !!! 💯
in my opinion this is quite an exceptional set of pieces. I have been listening to this and megaman 2 ost quite a bit. Prologue and Stage 1 are masterpieces in my opinion. The rhythmic work on Prologue is very impressive, and the melody work on stage 1 is just amazing.
This music is so nostalgic. I remember thinking it was so good as a lil kid and still feel that way. Amazing what they could do with just midi back then. 🤘🏽
I remember playing the shit out of this game as a kid back in the late 80's early 90's... eating batman cereal with the batman piggy bank XD. Wow how time flys by.
Haven't played this in 20 yrs. (or even thought of it.) Shot awake at six a.m. with that Stage 1 music in my head. Never forgot it I guess. Just was locked away.
Stage 2 - Duck tales Stage 3 - Brinstar (Metroid) Stage 4 - Castlevania Intermission - Cant remember where I heard that but sure I did Boss theme - Contra
Stage 2: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6V3KDQh9DVI.html Stage 4: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NBeiRu6CquA.html (fast forward to 3:56) I dont know about the other tracks, but I know these two songs were inspired by the tracks above. Both songs (and both artists) are used as inspirations for MANY video game artists
Thanks for publishing! That music make me return 30 years ago ! Today i was whistling the stage 3 music. My brother sent me to this tipe of video. This is a real treasure ! Pure gold ! i use to remember the title music, prologue, the intermission and the game over music. I never finished the game. I think i was 4-4. Do you remember when the nes used to bug so you'd have to blow in the cartridge ? A million thanks to make me smile more than 13 minutes !
OH MY GOD 🤣😂🤣😂!!!!! To show you what a nut I am, two days ago I woke up with that first song in my head, lol, right? It took me a day to remember from where and now here I am 😂. THANK YOU SO MUCH for taking the time to do this, I really appreciate it....and YOU lol. That's fucking great that all came together for me 😂. Fucking 2022, YES!
This soundtrack is so awesome. It was such a head trip popping the game in, pushing the power button and hearing that second note drag on that you thought the game crapped out, so you take the cratridge out to blow on it and jiggle it in place when you push it down, only to realize thats the soundtrack. Man, good times.
My feverant hope is that michale keatons return as batman in the flash leads to the obliteration of the DCEU and earases everything after batman returns.... as god intended.
It is so paradoxal how a small, 8-bit 300kb MIDI tune surpasses these modern 10MB soundtracks... I mean I can feel that there is more soulness put into these chipsets..
0:01: Title Theme 9:36: Stage Start 0:38: Information Theme 10:15: Boss Battle 1:26 / 3:39 / 5:25 / 7:38: Stage Theme 13:04: Stage Clear, Ending, and All Clear 11:35: Life Lost 11:38: Stage Failed and Continue
