In this installment of Pixelated Audio, we’re taking a stroll through the soundtrack of Blades of Steel. Originally, Konami released this fact-action hockey game in the arcades in 1987 but it really gained popularity a year later when it was converted to the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988. However, most of us (at least your hosts) tend to forget that two sequels were released: NHL Blades of Steel ’99 and NHL Blades of Steel 2000 which we’ve got some tunes from as well.
Composed by:
Arcade/NES: Shinya Sakamoto, Kazuki Muraoka, Atsushi Fujio, Kiyohira Sada
GameBoy: Hidehiro Funauchi, Akiko Itou
GameBoy Color: Matt Simmonds
Nintendo 64: Kazuhiko Uehara (sound producer), Nobuyuki Akena (sound director), Takahito Uenishi (SFX), Mitsuteru Furukawa (Sound programmer)
PlayStation: Let us know!
Tracklist
00:00:00 – Game Start / Warm Up (NES)
00:05:23 – Selection Theme (NES)
00:13:04 – Intermission (NES)
00:16:52 – Bonus Game Unused (NES)
00:17:26 – Bonus Game (Arcade)
00:18:16 – Won Finals (NES)
00:20:26 – Game End (NES)
00:21:50 – Team Selection (Arcade)
00:23:55 – Team Selection (Amiga)
00:25:26 – Game Start (DOS)
00:26:17 – Game Start (C64)
00:27:09 – BGM 1 (GB)
00:30:09 – BGM 2 (GB)
00:31:39 – BGM 3 (GB)
00:35:15 – BGM 8 (GB)
00:39:54 – BGM 1 (GBC) – NHL Blades of Steel
00:45:43 – BGM 2 (GBC) – NHL Blades of Steel
00:49:17 – BGM 4 (GBC) – NHL Blades of Steel
00:52:16 – Menu Music (N64) – NHL Blades of Steel 99
00:56:56 – BGM 3 (GBC) – NHL Blades of Steel 2000
01:00:23 – BGM 4 (GBC) – NHL Blades of Steel 2000
01:02:26 – BGM 6 (GBC) – NHL Blades of Steel 2000
01:04:52 – Menu 3 (PSX) – NHL Blades of Steel 2000
01:08:34 – Menu 4 (PSX) – NHL Blades of Steel 2000
01:15:57 – Ending (NES)
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