This afternoon I was feeling fairly crappy so decided that all I needed to pick me was to listen to the classic all American GIJoe'ness of Guile's stage from the classic Streetfighter 2 games.
It's a piece of music I'll always associate with my teens while reallly getting into console gaming and the big arcade buzz around the time of the early 90's probably more so than other due to an intense summer in 1992 of playing the game solid with my brother and friends and wasting numerous quarters on the Championship Edition in the arcade whenever I could find it.
I guess with the setup of the game and it's popularity it was probably natural for this game to produce more powerful feelings than other titles around this time however Guile's stage definitley had something over all it's rival's perhaps it's gun ho 80's style vibe that pushed you to take on those Sonic Booms and Flashkicks with even greater disregard for your own saftey than usual. Although special mention must go to Ken & Sagat's stages as well.
It seems there have been several remixes over the years like this one...
http://www.ocremix.org/songs/Street_Fighter_2_Guile(R.A.H.mix)_OC_ReMix.mp3
with all the classic bits stil there juiced up with some other bells and whistles that are quite enjoyable.
So I guess I'd like to hear about other people's choices of music from gaming yesteryear that seemed to bypass the march of time and remain with them even today.
Or I suppose this could also morph into a large scale discussion & dissection on all the different music produced from the mountain of Streetfighter games over the ages.
Either way I'd be quite happy.
It's a piece of music I'll always associate with my teens while reallly getting into console gaming and the big arcade buzz around the time of the early 90's probably more so than other due to an intense summer in 1992 of playing the game solid with my brother and friends and wasting numerous quarters on the Championship Edition in the arcade whenever I could find it.
I guess with the setup of the game and it's popularity it was probably natural for this game to produce more powerful feelings than other titles around this time however Guile's stage definitley had something over all it's rival's perhaps it's gun ho 80's style vibe that pushed you to take on those Sonic Booms and Flashkicks with even greater disregard for your own saftey than usual. Although special mention must go to Ken & Sagat's stages as well.
It seems there have been several remixes over the years like this one...
http://www.ocremix.org/songs/Street_Fighter_2_Guile(R.A.H.mix)_OC_ReMix.mp3
with all the classic bits stil there juiced up with some other bells and whistles that are quite enjoyable.
So I guess I'd like to hear about other people's choices of music from gaming yesteryear that seemed to bypass the march of time and remain with them even today.
Or I suppose this could also morph into a large scale discussion & dissection on all the different music produced from the mountain of Streetfighter games over the ages.
Either way I'd be quite happy.
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