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: Kazumaru Yui, Norikazu Miura
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)
