"Ending 1" from Adventure Island 3 on the Nintendo Entertainment System (1992)
Composer(s): Miyoshi Okuyama, & Hirohiko Takayama
Album: No Official Release
Publisher: Hudson Soft
Developer: Now Production
I've never played any of the Adventure Island games, probably because six-to-twelve-year-old me didn't want to play a middle-aged man running around a series of islands in a hula skirt; I prefer my nearly naked men to be wielding spears and lances.
Like a lot of ending themes from NES (and some SNES-era) games, the ending theme to Adventure Island 3 is an entirely original theme that wasn't compiled from songs earlier in the game or the series. What I like about this song is how the melody line takes on the galloping role that is typically handled by the bass line. There's another flittering tone there in the middle doing runs of a sort, tucked in between the galloping piano (MIDI piano?) and the wonderful clapping percussion line. "Ending 1" is a pretty short song, looping after only 25 seconds, but for me, it's one of those songs that doesn't let you realize you've been listening to the same melody six times over the last three minutes.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
I'll Leave Behind
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