VG-RESURRECTION - Site Update

The Year in Retrospect

russjman — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:56:44 -0700

I cant believe that its been almost a year since i posted anything. Its been a whirlwind of worries, apathy, sprinkled with little financial hardship. The good thing is that i was able to get through it with the help of the people love, those who for some reason still like my company despite being poor and irritable.

I have a few things in store for this site(music mostly), and a related project in the works. In the next couple of days i'll have some tracks that i myself have been looking for for years, and was pretty much the catalyst for me making a site like this, as well as some recent music from a few games that have successfully sucked me in throughout this year.

Drop me an email for any requests, or if you enjoyed anything found on this site.

Super EDF by Tsukasa Tawada

russjman — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:11:33 -0700

This is one of the games that fueled my search for retro games online, and to the discovery of gods gift to game nostalgists like me: ROMS. Anyway this reminds me of a story that relates to this game, and its music of my childhood. When i was junior high, i had a group of friends whose entire reason for being around each other was because of the video games we loved to play(One of tm was Makio, from the Thunder Force 4 post). I had sleep overs at my other friends house, Jerry, at almost a weekly basis. Super EDF was one of the games that i had brought over for every one to try out(I was the only one with an SNES, Jerry and Makio would not defect from the Genesis camp). During one of the brief and rare moments that we were not playing, or watching someone else play a game, we decided to have an arm wrestling competition. So during the match we would have one of the people not involved play music from the sound test. I was like a little chubby frosted flakes fuled Hulk O' Maniac.

The game itself is quite good, incorporating RPG elements into the selectable weapon systems. Fortunately the music actually does the game justice. Tsukasa Tawada composed the sound track to this game, as well as Pokemon Colosseum. Its too bad that most of the games he composed music for have never made it to western shores.

The music is J-pop influnced, with a futuristic military funk to it. Midnight Intercept is a testiment to the funk; i only wish was as funky to be able to play the bass line.

Tracks of note are:

There arent that many tracks; but it is a shooter, so its not that unsual. Super EDF Soundtrack

Final Fantasy 4 Soundtrack, and Cybernator Soundtrack uploaded

russjman — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:08:05 -0600

Cybernator is a 2-D, side-scrolling, action game relase by Konami in the US in 1994. It was released fairly early on in the life of the SNES, so in comparison to most games of the time on this system, this had fairly impressive visuals, and a great future-funk styled soundtrack. The contols were a bit clunky and slow, but it was a very well made game( as most Konami releases are). This was also the predecessor to Metal Warriors. Check out "Fully Set for Penetration" (great title :P), "Living Possibility", "No Time, No Shield", and "We've Gotta Do It".

Cybernator Soundtraxck

I certainly hope that all you good people who have stumbled on to my site already know, or heard of, the Final Fantasy series. Final Fantasy 4, released as Final Fantasy 2 in the US, is aguably one of the best Final Fantasy games ever released. This is for a number of reasons, the biggest being the story and the music. This game was my first foray into videogame RPG's, and sent me into a nearly 10 year console RPG binge. The score for this game has be remixed and redone by countless people already, including The Black Mages(the side project/band of the oringal composer, Nobuo Uematsu). The music is quite extensive, but do yourself a favor and check out "Dancing Calobrena", "Illusionary World", "Red Wings", and "The Dreadful Fight".

Final Fantasy 4 Soundtrack

Enjoy

its ALIVE!!!

russjman — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:36:58 -0600

VG-Resurrection has be been....resurrected! :P
After a slew of hosting issues, lack of time, and and loss database info, it is finally up. It looks pretty much the same, but much easier to update and manage than before. It still needs a few tweaks here and there but its looking pretty good.