"The Ninja Turtles NES Soundtrack Did NOT Need To Go THIS Hard"

[kane_magus]

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"This is wild."

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Charles Cornell posts videos about Mozart, Elton John, and Radiohead?

I sleep.

Charles Cornell posts a video about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Nintendo game soundtrack?

Real shit.

I agree that the game's title theme kicks ass, even though, as a kid, I was upset that it wasn't, you know, the theme, even though it does have hints of it in there. (Also, hmm.)

And the underwater theme for the dam, as fucking crazy hard as that was the first dozens of times I attempted it (and it never wasn't nerve-wracking even after I got used to it), was always one of my favorites from the game. (No, the trauma doesn't set in until the "running out of time" themes start up. Those were my drowning themes as a kid. Though... in the case of TMNT, it was less drowning and more getting blown up by bombs. And this was the height of relief when you finally found that last bomb under the dam.)

I wish he'd gotten to the second overworld theme, from the part where you're hunting for the Technodrome, as that was probably my second favorite track from the game. (Also, hmm.)

I don't think I ever legit beat this game on the original NES, but playing it years later on an emulator, with saves states and such, it turned that I'd literally made it to the final hallway right before the room with Shredder in it, I just didn't know it.

The boss themes were pretty great, too. (And speaking of Shredder, it's just too bad that he didn't get his own boss music in this first game like he did in the second one, which was, of course, based on the arcade game.)

Hell, the whole damn soundtrack was pretty great.

Yeah, it's crazy what they could do with the NES sound chip back in ye olden days.