Lunar: The Silver Star – JC Cawley https://jcawley.ca The Official Website Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:16:04 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://jcawley.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-JC-LOGO-512-Fat-Colour-32x32.png Lunar: The Silver Star – JC Cawley https://jcawley.ca 32 32 Kong’s T’day Tune #23 https://jcawley.ca/tday-tune-23/ Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:15:55 +0000 http://jcawley.ca/?p=530 I’ve put together a list of 60 tunes that have stuck with me through the years, inspired by Jeffrey Canam (@GrahfMetal)’s Twitter rundown of his top 100 favourite video game tracks. I’ve attempted to limit myself to a couple songs per game, but there are exceptions.

I’ll post them here and on Twitter every Tuesday and Thursday using the hashtag #KongsTdayTunes.

#23

Who else loves overworld and map themes? The original Sega CD version of Lunar: The Silver Star has this wonderful overworld theme that really captures the feeling of setting out on a bold adventure. Being one of the first games I ever played on CD, the quality of the music they could pack onto the disc damn near blew my mind.

Track: “Second Overworld” (YouTube Link)
Game: Lunar: The Silver Star (Sega CD, 1992)
Composer: Noriyuki Iwadare

]]> Kong’s T’day Tune #40 https://jcawley.ca/tday-tune-40/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:24:25 +0000 http://jcawley.ca/?p=423 I’ve put together a list of 60 tunes that have stuck with me through the years, inspired by Jeffrey Canam (@GrahfMetal)’s Twitter rundown of his top 100 favourite video game tracks. I’ve attempted to limit myself to a couple songs per game, but there are exceptions.

I’ll post them here and on Twitter every Tuesday and Thursday using the hashtag #KongsTdayTunes.

#40

Lunar: The Silver Star might have been the first voice-acted game I ever played. It was mind-blowing. For better or worse, it was also one of the earliest examples of Working Designs’ localisations laden with irreverent popular culture references. And the damn game came on a CD, so it had great tunes!

Even though this Saturday morning cartoon-style opening is corny as hell (and the song itself is corny as hell), I just had to highlight it here, because it was such a change of pace from the usual video game introductions and soundtracks to which I had been accustomed in 1992.

I don’t sing this song to my dog, but I do sometimes take her on adventures, and she very rarely holds items for me.

Track: “Opening” (YouTube Link)
Game: Lunar: The Silver Star (Sega CD, 1992)
Composer: Noriyuki Iwadare

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