Alex Kidd in Shinobi World (SMS, 1990)

Game info: Wikipedia
Listening: collection release (disc 2, tracks 40-53), emulated audio (missing unused tracks)

Credits

Music Compose: XOR (real name: Tadahiko Inoue)

Info

And here’s the other one, an overseas-only installment in the Alex Kidd series for the Master System. This soundtrack is mostly cute, pleasant chiptunes, befitting a cute mascot platformer game, but I wouldn’t characterize any of the music as super substantial. I think you can see some hints of what XOR would later do in MegaMind here, though.

Recommended tracks:

  • The main loop of “OPENING” is pretty simple but sounds a lot bigger to me than it actually “is” through the use of echo and contrasting layer tempos

  • NOT USE 1” is easily the most MegaMind track on the soundtrack

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