Top 5 Favourite TG16 Soundtracks

[graffias79]

Threadsurrection

My favorites in no particular order:

Ys (I'll cheat and count I, II , III and IV as just Ys.  They all blow me away)
Gate of Thunder
Dungeon Explorer
Air Zonk
Bonk's Adventure

[nosorrow]

No particular order overall (can't bother choosing only five, sorry!):


Ys III/I & II/IV in that order - each OST's amazing

Dracula X

Nexzr

Aldynes

Rayxanber II/III

GunHed

Devil Crash

Soldier series (i.e. 3 different games)

Gate of Thunder

To a lesser extent: Lords of Thunder (reminds me too much of Joey Tafolla or Joey MacAlpine music, i.e. great shredders of the 80s), Spriggan 1 and 2, Sylphia and first stage music of Terra Cresta II (love that track!).

These rank among my favourite OST's ever. Btw, I have absolutely no nostalgia whatsoever for these titles, having grown up in a household with NES + SNES. That says a lot about the quality of the soundtracks found on the system.

[cr8zykuban0]

mine? hmmmmm
1. lords of thunder
2. soldier blade
3. blazing lazers
4. military madness
5.ninja spirit

[Otaking]

1. Winds of Thunder
2. Lords of Thunder
3. W.O.T
4. L.O.T
5. Breeze of Thunder

[KingDrool]

I've always been more of a fan of the Chiptunes than the CD audio.

Dungeon Explorer
Bloody Wolf
Bonk's Adventure
Alien Crush
Lords of Thunder

And I'm gonna throw in Keith Courage as an alternate. Granted, it's essentially two tunes with a couple of transitions between, I was still blown away the first time I heard the audio quality.

[clackattack]

Gotta say that Ys takes the cake for me as well, theyre all too good to pick a particular one! ...followed by: 2-Lords of thunder, 3-Ninja Ryukenden, 4-Rondo of Blood, 5- Splatterhouse

[mitsuman]

How has no one said Lord's Of the Rising Sun? I love the music on that game!

Here's mine, in no order:
1) Lord's Of The Rising Sun
2) Neutopia
3) Dungeon Explorer
4) Legendary Axe
5) Vasteel

[sosoyo180]

1. Winds of Thunder
2. Lords of Thunder
3. W.O.T
4. L.O.T
5. Breeze of Thunder

^this guy knows soundtracks

[_joshuaTurbo]

CD -
Ys Book I&II
YS IV
Gate of Thunder
Lords of Thunder
Terraforming

HuCard-
Air Zonk
Aeroblasters
Ninja Spirit
Shockman
Legendary Axe 2

Nobody else has any Top 5 love for the PCE Double Dragon II soundtrack??

I see DDII as a hit and miss some of it's music tracks are good while others are just terrible......

I love Double Dragon II and it's soundtrack for the PC Engine, unfortunately it didn't get a release outside of Japan. 

[johnnykonami]

I have memories of putting the Gate of Thunder CD in my CD Walkman back in the day, along with whatever other CD games I got depending on what was newest.  I agree with Vasteel, also. (I miss it so much!  I hope I can get another copy one day).

Has Last Alert been mentioned?  It's not just all voice talent y'know!

I also really like the music on both Macross games, particularly Love Song.

Oh, and Exile.  Exile has some amazing tracks in it.

[ctophil]

No particular order overall (can't bother choosing only five, sorry!):


Ys III/I & II/IV in that order - each OST's amazing

Dracula X

Nexzr

Aldynes

Rayxanber II/III

GunHed

Devil Crash

Soldier series (i.e. 3 different games)

Gate of Thunder

To a lesser extent: Lords of Thunder (reminds me too much of Joey Tafolla or Joey MacAlpine music, i.e. great shredders of the 80s), Spriggan 1 and 2, Sylphia and first stage music of Terra Cresta II (love that track!).

These rank among my favourite OST's ever. Btw, I have absolutely no nostalgia whatsoever for these titles, having grown up in a household with NES + SNES. That says a lot about the quality of the soundtracks found on the system.

Cool, I thought nobody in this thread was ever going to list Dracula X.  You would think that more people would list it as one of their top TG-16/CD soundtracks. 

Anyways, I haven't played too many games yet, since I'm a new collector and all.  But here is my obvious list.

Turbografx-16 Hucard:

1. Dungeon Explorer
2. Bonk's Adventure
3. Neutopia I
4. Neutopia II
5. Legendary Axe


Turbografx-CD:

1. Castlevania: Dracula X
2. Ys Book I & II
3. Ys III: Wanderers from Ys
4. Exile
5. Dungeon Explorer II

[esteban]

I have memories of putting the Gate of Thunder CD in my CD Walkman back in the day, along with whatever other CD games I got depending on what was newest.  I agree with Vasteel, also. (I miss it so much!

Has Last Alert been mentioned?  It's not just all voice talent y'know!

...

Oh, and Exile.  Exile has some amazing tracks in it.

I like Red Alert/Last Alert tunes

Also, Exile = HiNRG + _________ = awesome. 

[jordan_hillman]

Nobody else has any Top 5 love for the PCE Double Dragon II soundtrack??

I see DDII as a hit and miss some of it's music tracks are good while others are just terrible......

I love Double Dragon II and it's soundtrack for the PC Engine, unfortunately it didn't get a release outside of Japan.

Always good to here some fellow DDII love out there. The PCE port was the sole reason for my initial interest in TG and PCE.

[johnnykonami]

Nobody else has any Top 5 love for the PCE Double Dragon II soundtrack??

I see DDII as a hit and miss some of it's music tracks are good while others are just terrible......

I love Double Dragon II and it's soundtrack for the PC Engine, unfortunately it didn't get a release outside of Japan.

Always good to here some fellow DDII love out there. The PCE port was the sole reason for my initial interest in TG and PCE.

My friend picked up DDII on SCD years ago, and it had some pretty cool music remixes for sure.  Still, I think I prefer the NES version both in terms of music and gameplay.  Even over the arcade version!

[Prosolis]

 I don't have a top 5 yet.. still getting to know the PC Engine. Notable soundtracks encountered thus far:

Bonk's Revenge
Dracula X
Sapphire

Once I finish modding my system, I will definitely check it out the titles everyone has listed.