One Song That Defines SEGA?

[stevearcade]

Hey guys,

My group (http://www.facebook.com/opusscience) has been asked by RadioSEGA to make a couple of tracks to use as theme tunes on their shows. The idea is it will be an original piece of music, but have nods/salutes/key musical phrases from two or three tracks that are unmistakably SEGA tunes.

We have some ideas, but are canvassing opinion from the retro gaming forums for further ideas.

So what are your thoughts? If you had to pick one song from a SEGA game that is truly iconic and sums SEGA up, what song would it be.

Your thoughts and opinions are greatly appreciated.

Cheers.

 

[cmonkey]

For me it would be any one of the three main Out Run tunes or the tune from Green Hill Zone (Sonic).

 

[IDCHAPPY]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNAAA

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

 

[Alpha1]

Daytona or Virtual Racing.

 

[Alpha1]

Quartet

 

[Alpha1]

Outrun. Magical Sound Shower and Splash Wave

 

[Milky]

Space Harrier's main theme or Afterburner's "Final Take Off"?

 

[cosine]

For me, it's either Outrun or Daytona USA.

 

[ZedEx48K]

For me, it's either Outrun or Daytona USA.

This!

 

[Jope]

+1 for Outrun. Make mine Splash Wave. :-D

 

[Chihiro]

Daytona.
Pete2013-12-30 10:35:18

 

[samusaran]

For me it would be any one of the three main Out Run tunes or the tune from Green Hill Zone (Sonic).

What he said

 

[Ordyne]

Any outrun tune or fantasy zone

 

[Retroruss]

Daytona, Outrun, Hotrod, surely also you must elbow the SEGA words from the start up of the Mega Drive lol!

 

[stevearcade]

surely also you must elbow the SEGA words from the start up of the Mega Drive lol!

Oh, that's a must! Already done it on one of our other tracks

http://soundcloud.com/opus-science-collective/moon-beach

Thanks for all the suggestions guys. Seems Magical Sound Shower and Greenhill Zone are taking the lead across various forums, Facebook and Twitter, with Daytona in a strong 3rd place.

 

[IndyJones]

any of the outrun tunes gets my vote with space harrier 2nd

 

[AndyGeezer]

This is partially why there is so much anger towards sega racing classic (daytona in an LCD cab) as they took all vocals of the word Daytona. It defines sega in the 90s while space harrier/out run/afterburner did in the 80s.

 

[stevearcade]

Hey guys, following the feedback from this thread and others we've run across various retro gaming and SEGA forums, we ended up cooking up this.

We really appreciated all the feedback we got from across the internet in planning this track. We tried to get other suggestions in, but for various (mainly musical) reasons, we had to leave them out as they simply didn't fit quite right.

But in the end, we have Magical Sound Shower, Green Hill Zone, Streets Of Rage, Space Harrier, Afterburner and a couple of little salutes to some of our favourites. There's a sneaky synth line in there at times from a Golden Axe track and the credit roll music from Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap.

Hope you like it.

 

[cmonkey]

That's brilliant! Well done! It encompasses everything that was good about the 80's and 90's Sega games!

 

[DanP]

This epitomises SEGA for me these days