Monday, March 7, 2011

Ninja Gaiden II music is ROCKING

The Ninja Gaiden series of games is pure evil.  The level designers of these games must have been masochists to design such sadistic set pieces.  Each enemy, platform, pitfall, and obstacle were precariously placed to ensure maximum frustration.  This was an era where you got your $50 money's worth from mastering a handful of ridiculously hard levels and Ninja Gaiden was the king of such level designs back in 1990.  If you were a souless robot, you could beat such a difficult game in about 15 minutes but of course it took normal humans many many more hours to master it.  Many controllers were probably broken by pure rage form this game but those than persevered through the game were treated to entire animated cutscenes and a involving plotline which was an amazing feat.  It was one of the first games to involve ANY story on the NES! Most NES games were as simple as "you are this guy, you want to kill this guy, GO!".  In Ninja Gaiden it was "You are Ryu Hayabusa, you want Ashtar dead, GO!" but with supporting characters, a love interest, sacrifices, and plot twists! Sure it's no novel, but it was a novel idea for a video game at the time.

The point is this was a difficult but rewarding game that featured a ROCKING soundtrack. The only problem with the music is that it rocks SO hard it messes up my playstyle.  If you want any possibility of beating this game you need patience, but it's so hard to stand around to survey situations with such bumping tunes!  I had a hard time picking a track from Ninja Gaiden II specifically...that is until I found out about The Nintendo Drummer's Youtube page.  He did an amazing job covering the drums that I felt no need to include the original NES version of the song as his drums take nothing away from the original song but add new life to it.  I encourage you to check out his youtube page. He's done 16 drum covers for NES games and I'll definitely bring him back into my blog again! Enjoy Ninja Gaiden 2's music taken from Act 2 Scene 2 covered by The Nintendo Drummer!

Anyway, how rocking is this shit?!
Posted by Con Queso at 3:27 PM

33 comments:

  1. UnknownMarch 7, 2011 at 3:57 PM

    i love oldschool game music remixes

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  2. Aaron M. GipsonMarch 7, 2011 at 5:17 PM

    This was actually pretty dang impressive, nice post, man!

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  3. Kicking RocksMarch 7, 2011 at 5:55 PM

    now the music in that game is just too awesome!

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  4. BassislvMarch 7, 2011 at 6:57 PM

    what an amazing song, thanks for posting this one

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  5. AnonymousMarch 7, 2011 at 7:18 PM

    I agree about the map designers thing, that game was so frustrating...

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  6. AnonymousMarch 7, 2011 at 7:22 PM

    Awesome drum cover I love 8 bit Nintendo songs :D

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  7. Lendo KharMarch 7, 2011 at 9:58 PM

    I love 8 bit music, I think I skipped Ninja Gaiden 2 because I can't remember that theme, I think I went from 1->3.

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  8. AnonymousMarch 7, 2011 at 10:59 PM

    For some reason, I really enjoyed this post. Probably because it's so different than the stuff on my blog. I even googled Ninja Gaiden after reading it. LOL

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  9. bey0ndthinkingMarch 7, 2011 at 11:35 PM

    Love the lil running guy on the right!

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  10. MalkavianMarch 8, 2011 at 12:19 AM

    FUCK YEAH Ninja Gaiden 2 Rocked and that music was just epic, also HATE the freakin falcons in the game. When i finished that game i felt like A GOD. A GOD I SAY

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  11. elexerdelexMarch 8, 2011 at 5:43 AM

    hahaha when I played the original Zelda Ocarina of Time lately I was sucked in by the music and I downloaded it all!!!

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  12. Patti D.March 8, 2011 at 5:57 AM

    didn't know about this nintendo drummer. thanks for the link!

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  13. T. BanacekMarch 8, 2011 at 9:23 AM

    Ninja Gaiden 2 was pretty epic. I guess I'd forgotten how epic the music was too.

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  14. loveblogginMarch 8, 2011 at 9:30 AM

    great stuff, keep it up

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  15. appleciderMarch 8, 2011 at 9:54 AM

    old, but definitely better music than the newer games

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  16. JungMarch 8, 2011 at 10:30 AM

    Ninja Gaiden 2 was too much for my child mind to handle.

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  17. GMarch 8, 2011 at 2:53 PM

    loving the old school vibe

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  18. ShutterbugMarch 8, 2011 at 3:50 PM

    Love it! It is rocking!! :)

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  19. AnonymouseMarch 8, 2011 at 6:13 PM

    ragequit

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  20. BrutMarch 8, 2011 at 7:40 PM

    Gotta love Ninja Gaiden 2.......

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  21. JaylanMarch 8, 2011 at 8:47 PM

    i really dig all the game music you have been posting

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  22. RetroSpiderMarch 8, 2011 at 11:01 PM

    Dude ninja gaiden had really good music. Check out OCRemix if you haven't already I saw some good remixes on there.

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  23. The Game Store GuyMarch 9, 2011 at 1:19 AM

    I think the worst part is that I couldn't even THINK of the music until I listened to it again. All I remember was how angry that game made me.

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  24. The VikingMarch 9, 2011 at 6:08 AM

    That shit is pretty rocking ^^

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  25. Ante BabajaMarch 9, 2011 at 10:26 AM

    that music is so sick

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  26. The Angry VegetarianMarch 9, 2011 at 4:42 PM

    That was awesome. I just found something new to subscribe to!

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  27. Jessica ThompsonMarch 9, 2011 at 7:04 PM

    Great post! I'll be checking back soon! alphabetalife.blogspot.com

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  28. IsaacMarch 10, 2011 at 12:57 PM

    haha true story. Even the original NEs versions are insanely hard

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  29. killerkunMarch 10, 2011 at 3:08 PM

    Killer song!!

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  30. BartMarch 10, 2011 at 7:50 PM

    fucking epic drums. and i totally miss this game. it was hard as fuck last i remember.

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  31. YellowNiceTechnoMarch 11, 2011 at 5:11 AM

    Nice find! Following

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  32. ErikaMarch 17, 2011 at 3:00 AM

    Ninja Gaiden <3

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  33. TheNintendoDrummerMarch 13, 2012 at 2:52 PM

    Thank you so much for featuring my channel.

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