April 21, 1989
25 Years Ago, We started to play with power, Portable Power!
And it seems that we have not stopped yet
Can you believe it’s been 25 YEARS!! 25 Years ago the Game Boy launched in Japan and melted faces. So this special STAGE 6 is here to Celebrate what an amazing console it was with help from some of these selected tracks. You better put on your party hat and get those balloons ready, because this Game Boy party cannot start without YOU!
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Full track listing:
===========Game – Composer – Title – Company========
1.) Super Mario Land – Hirokazu Tanaka – “Birabuto kingdom” – August 1989 – Nintendo
2.) Batman – Naoki Kodaka & Nobuyuki Hara – “Gotham City” – June 1990 – Sunsoft
3.) Donkey Kong – Taisuke Araki – “Upside Down Critters” – June 1994 – Pax Softnica/Nintendo
4.) Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge – Hidehiro Funauchi – “Praying Hands (Cloud Castle)” – August 1991 – Konami
5.) Final Fantasy Legend II – Nobuo Uematsu & Kenji Ito – “Heartful Tears” – November 1991 – Square
6.) Astérix & Obelix (GBC) – Alberto Jose Gonzalez – “Britania; Act 1” – EUROPE 1999 – Bit Managers/ Infogrames
7.) Mega Man II – Kenji Yamazaki – “title screen/final stage” – February 1992 – CAPCOM
8.) Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors (GBC) – Katsunari Kitajima – “Awakening” – November 8, 2002 – Banpresto/ Infogrames
9.) The Smurfs’ Nightmare (GBC) – Alberto Gonzalez – “Enchanted” – February 28, 1999 – Bit Managers/Infogrames
10.) Donkey Kong Land – David Wise & Graeme Norgate – “Great Girder Grapple” – June 26, 1995 – RARE/ Nintendo
11.) Pokémon Red Version – Junichi Masuda – “The Road to Lavender Town” – September 28, 1998 – Game Freak/ Nintendo
12.) The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening – Minako Hamano, Kozue Ishikawa & Kazumi Totaka – “Sword Search” – August 1993 – Nintendo
13.) Kid Dracula – Akiko Itoh – “stage 6” – March 1993 – Konami
14.) Tetris – Hirokazu Tanaka – “Theme 03” – June 1989 – Bullet Proof Software/ Nintendo
15.) Tintin: Le Temple du Soleil ( Tintin – Prisoners of the Sun) – Alberto Gonzalez – “Title Screen” – Europe 1995 – Bit Managers/ Infogrames
16.) Metroid II: Return of Samus – Ryoji Yoshitomi – “Enter SR388” – November 1991 – Nintendo
17.) Gargoyle’s Quest – Harumi Fujita & Yoko Shimomura – “Breager’s Castle” – July 1990 – CAPCOM
18.) Kirby’s Dream Land – Jun Ishikawa – “Green Greens” – August 1992 – HAL Labs/ Nintendo
19.) Mega Man 3 – Kouji Murata – “Dr. Wily stage 2” – December 11, 1992 – Minakuchi Engineering/CAPCOM
20.) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan – Michiru Yamane & Tomoko Nishikawa – “Stage 4” –
August 1990 – KONAMI
21.) Shantae (GBC) – Jacob Kaufman – “Bandit Town” – June 2, 2002 – WayForward Technologies/ CAPCOM
22.) Turok: Battle of the Bionosaurs – Alberto Jose Gonzalez – “Title Screen” – December 1, 1997 – Bit Managers/ Acclaim
