Incredible NES Soundtracks: Guardian Legend

[DRock7977]

I Love this music prob best of any game ive played every single song is epic these old games have fantastic music which todays games usually arent even close too.

This is one of my favorite games too on Nes just amazing gameplay both spacetype and then you could walk around.

And what i also like with these older games you couldnt decide difficulty no it was 1 difficulty mostly and it was pretty damn hard not like most of todays game where you just run through them.

[Reymonidas]

holy shit, just hearing the intro song immediately gives me the goosebumps. Thanks so much for posting.

[notoriodtc]

i remember when this game first came out i was in grade school...... and in college it was the first game i downloaded after i got nesticle. Best music of any video game ever and flat out one of the best games ever.... i had some epic battles with that damn eye thing that leaves those bars laying around many a time down to no health before i ramped it up for the win.

[zcylosis]

i downloaded this game to my psp now i could play it for years to come xD

[DynaDash]

I beat this game when I was 5, and I still play it from time to time, I'm 25.

And still one of the hardest games out there. *cleans tears*

[ultremilo]

Has anyone ever heard the album of Ash Ra(krautrock band), blackouts, reminds me a little of guadiand legend soundtrack.

[Nihontopride]

Love the music in this game. I use to think it was so hard when I was a child, now that I'm collecting retro games from the NES days and later, I realized it wasn't so tough. secret to staying alive.... Even if you take damage that would kill you, get some live before the bar slides to empty, and you'll have some life left (or a full bar if you get the blue power tanks) Game was easier after I noticed that, but still a challenge.

[GhostOne22]

the best NES game ever and the best nintendo model

[refw]

Fucking horrible. I`m impressed you dare to destroy a magnificent game with this crap.

[Gallospacca]

La miglior colonna sonora mai creata per un videogioco? probabilmente si...ma solo dopo quella di Tetrisphere per N64.

[TheDemoniusX]

The title theme is so beautiful to this day. brings a tear to my eye. The ocean music rocks too!

[Rockboy58]

The game over-remix sucks. Or to say it more respectedly, i don't like it myself. But i do like the forest corridor-remix. And i have to say something about part 5:54-6:09, it looks some kinda place from an old series (a series that doesn't exist).

[Cayjin]

Truly one of the most memerable, epic, fun and challenging games I have ever played. Just hearing the music brings back so many good memories.

[bobbob0213]

You know some guy sat there and made that music..its amazing what the mind can come up with...and man this brings bk gd memories <3

[Marvinsiemsen]

I really love this game, one of the best games ever made =D

[hedonist73]

Did anyone else go insane as a kid trying to figure out the "Ask the round creature for help several times" hint? I never figured it out... had to wait til the internet was invented to beat the game :-(

[NESCartFan]

@hedonist73 Yup, two YEARS we waited until someone told my cousin, who told me... lol!

[pyr666]

@hedonist73

thats right up there with the freaking carnival level in sonic 3 -,-

[Mr13blueglowz]

if they remake any of the old nes games it has to be on the wii because the wii was made by nintendo company but it would be cool if they could make it for any other console

[t0ni900]

Aqua Corridor is the best one, awesome game, brings back memories.

[taekwonspider]

hearing these songs makes me feel like a kid wanting to play it yeah!

[NESCartFan]

One of the best NES games, hands down, and the most sentimental for me. :-D

[AlessDaze23]

@NESCartFan quoto!!!

[C2daORRUPT]

@NESCartFan most sentimental for me as well. it was my dads favorite game and he always watched me play and celebrated when i beat a boss. and if i ever couldn't decide what game to play he always said "guardian legend"

[plasmapunk]

@C2daORRUPT sounds like a good childhood. :D

[djbuddyleeconspiracy]

When this game came out, I think I was 8 or 7. Thanks for the memories.

[MrFAMU7]

Awesome mix!

[darkartiste78]

I had commented on another posting, but I so want this game redone for one of the newer consoles!

[boyadisorn]

KILLER GAME I LOVE IT

;-) was my first video game

[IconicFiber]

mine too!

[tdark987]

Odd...the first part of the Area 0 music (0:51) sounds extremely similar to Zelda 2's overworld theme. First time I heard that part I thought it was a remix.

[bobbob0213]

ahhh love this game. I bought an X-box with all the game systems on it and was browsing it and found this game! Happiest day of my life lol. Brings bk good memories when the whole family would come and watch u play lol. To bad now a day games dont bring ya together v.v

[ahyde01]

This will always be my all time favorite NES Game. I got the original NES for my 13th birthday in 1989. I will always miss this game.

[danipatri82]

:) this is THE GAME :) W NES!!!!!

[Megadeth502]

Deth to PS3 and XboX360 and that stupid Wii

LONG LIVE NES!

[Megadeth502]

OMG THIS IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE NINTENDO GAME i remember playing this when i was like 3 or 4....with my folks and all my aunts and uncles...seriously i love this game, soundtrack is easily a 10/10

[NixonTech2071]

I just looked it up, this game was released before the legend of Zelda. I think someone needs to give credit for the design of some levels, seriously one of the best games with the most awsome artwork and labelling styles out there. Guardian legend is a 5 out of 5 indefinitely.

[phantomzx3]

love this game and i still have since it 1st came out and still works.

[zaphod77]

Bah. The game is fairly easy if you know what you are doing. Most bosses fall apart when sabered. :) TGL mode does considerably up the ante, though.

Grimgrin is easy if you make smart use of the Repeller weapon. Just use it as a shield.

Anyway shame on the original video poster leaving out the incredibly catchy first overhead tune.

[Descent82]

DeluxeDookie, you get a +1 from me for that comment. All of these "next gen" games are pure unadulterated shite.

My friend's son plays all these Ps3 shit games and I tossed him TGL and my password to get to Red Grimgrin.

He said he felt like less of a gamer after that.

[iLO80]

I wouldnt necessarily say shit but they're not challenging. Today's games are interactive movies that one eventually finishes with no problem. Todays games are more about finding items, achievements and online play. My favorite part of this gen is the latter, online-play but I love me some shmups like TGL and platformers/side-scrollers like Megaman which frustrate yet feel satisfying once complete.  All the props to those who complete this game. Music is A+.

[HiroKawazu]

Hard? What you guys smokin' , I completed this game several times as a kid, It's one of the best NES games ever, with epic music!

[txsfarmboy]

I agree, this game was faaaaaaar too hard. Had to use the NES Advantage controller to beat it, which had a slow motion button (which would rapidly pause and unpause the game). I was also not a fan of having to jot down the 32 character codes every time you wanted to save your progress. God help you if you messed up a character and had to replay any of the insane boss battles.

[patogdc]

I remember the multi-eyed skull boss

never could get past that, not even with game genia. I always played in TGL mode, so idk if the normal mode was this though.

[patogdc]

one of the hardest games in existence

[toocool3]

All the best game music was made in the 80's. Now everybody just copies.

[shdwsn9]

this game was a beast back in the day, fucking blue eye forest boss

[8bitownsyou]

Guardian Legend is my #1 NES game

[gamerlvl510]

4:37 is my favorite stage but it was very confuse where to go at one point. [I think after 2 forest corridor.]

[ryublack15]

great song & music . i hope they make remake

[Amisbro]

Quick! Where's a petition to get this game on the various DLC avenues like wiiware, XBLA and PSN?! The whole gaming culture needs to see this amazing game!

[deluxedookie]

i wish, and i cant wait to hear it sucks cuz its too hard.

[Amisbro]

Hard? Please the problem with games out now is most are too EASY cos we had to "dumb them down" for little kids! God if I hear one complaint about the insane difficulty I'll lose my mind!

Practice people Practice!

[deluxedookie]

reason this gen of games suck, all made for kiddies i miss the old days when they just made a game and thats all not trying to be a epic movie or have cool trailers.

[TheSeloKIA]

agreed, older games are alot better because of the difficulty

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

TGL is UFB! I fucking love Compile and every game they ever made.

[chevylatino]

You are the guardian of Earth and your saga will become The Guardian Legend.

[daiatlus79]

this game needs a remake.. my only fear is that it would be crap like a lot of remakes... Altered Beast 3D anyone?

[LegendaryOryx]

you could say the same for golden axe and gauntlet - daiatlus79

[beast6228]

This was a very intense and mature game, I guess you would call it an rpg game because it had a pretty good story line. Either way, it had awsome music and gameplay. I never beat it either.

[HuYacKeR]

AMAZING GAMES

FAVOURITE <3333333

[KMNthuree]

this fag killed the good song with the gay remix stupid fag!

[piposarcade]

Remember the cheat for all boses only.( TGL) in pass intro

[Maser209]

great now the aqua theme is stuck in my head again

[ahyde01]

Hahaha. All of these themes are now restuck in my head. Probably wedged in there permanently from all of the time I spent trying to beat this game when I was a kid.

[lordsmokeadoob420]

Guardian Legend is one of my favorite nes games.

This and Blaster Master helped break the genre mold of games.

as well as having some really big fucking bosses.

[kurojin97]

amen to that one....two underrated games......the music on them, anyway........

[headfonez]

If you liked The Guardian Legend, check out the new game Space Story at Kongregate

[magnificusx]

The intro theme is so damn beautiful :3

I've loved this game since I was a child, and I still have it; in good use for the NES ^^

TGL FTW!!!!

Including the Aqua Corridor theme FTW

[DragoSmash]

Aqua Corridor,Crystal Corridor,Forest Area & Intro FTW ^..^

[DecepticonLeader]

This was and still is my favorite NES game. The music is definitely superior to other NES games and the gameplay was amazing! My own personal favorite music is the one from the crystal corridor but the other themes are not far behind. Great game! :)

[vees1337]

best NES game ever..

[Sairin13]

I finally beat this on NES a year ago, I just picked it up out of the drawer and decided to take it down. If you want to experience real deep emotional pain, have your NES freeze on you after beating one of the late game corridors.

[danmccloud]

I had this game when I was like 7 yo. A great one indeed and the music so full of feeling. I specially like Aqua Corridor.

btw, cool remixes man.

I never beat it, damn hehe maybe I give it a try later. x)

[Hellstinger]

Aqua Corridor RULES!!

[DynaDash]

Guardian Legend is like Jazz, not popular, but overall superior to everything.

[sweetheartgolden]

they should have remade this on the ps3 or the wii

[SAGAIA2]

That "they" is Compile. They went bankrupt in 2001. They were mostly known for their Puyo Puyo puzzle series (Kirby's Avalanche is a Puyo Puyo game) and their awesome shooters such as this, Zanac, MUSHA, Blazing Lazers, etc.

[leon5x]

Just played it yesterday on Emulator; so fucking hard to beat it although i saved 100000 times ^^; i think today i would not be able to beat it on NES without saving ^^ the bosses are to hard :D This games ROCKS!

[YRPNova]

I just checked out some of your remixes. They're pretty cool. I hope you do more Guardian Legend remixes.

[astarock29]

In my opinion this game is the best nes game, element by elemnet ..Hours of gaming with great grafics incrible game play full of new elements back then ,as maps leveling up each weapon apart from the character great bosses too and the sound track composition is outstanding..The BEST OF THE BEST BUT NO THE MUST POPULAR..

[systirr]

indeed

[batmanjokergorden]

astarock29...... You took the words out of my god damn mouth! It is in my opinion, BETTER than metroid. Not saying metroid isn't good, metroid is freakin awesome, but GL just blows metroid away!

[8bitownsyou]

agreed

[herbie400]

my favorite beat is 7:30

[dan18ny]

simply beautiful

[ronreco1180]

Damn I remember beating this game without the Game Genie.......so hard but was worth it long ago.

[vortex36]

I Remember My Brother Would Hide the Control from me every time I wanted to Play this when i was Like 5 or 6

[batmanjokergorden]

Hey give your brother a punch in the arm for me. My brother was the same damn way! When him and my cousin got together to play games back then, they wanted all little kids out of the room, which included me! Pissed me off so much, that I eventually became a better video gamer than him. lol hahaha

[vortex36]

Yeah I'm a better gamer than my brother now too. He cant touch me at any game now. I Got Him Back Last year When I Moved out and took his computer while he was on vacation

[MrTotebag]

i loved this game as a kid and still love it

[U581]

me too remember me when i was a kid

[myrgoth]

damm u dont have forest song here :/ it is best in my apinion ^^

[Artificialraven]

haha. Thats got a video all to itself. search "Beware the Forest's Mushrooms" and look for my entry :D

[blacktigerwu]

Yeah Guardian Legend had awesome music the password music and the forest was my favorites.. Legacy of the wizard had good music to.

[goatblower]

You should warn people that this video could give people a fucking seizure!

[Artificialraven]

haha well it's about the music, not the video XD Don't look at the screen if you have epilepsy.

[goatblower]

I don't I was saying that it might.

[hekboogie]

awesome music.this game is probably the most underrated game of all time.

[Arieken]

Agreed. I lost track of the game and couldn't remember the name. I wrote down descriptions of it on search sites for games and even did google searches for it... nothing came up. Luckly the 100 nes games in 10 min showed me the game. THANK GOD or whoever is out there :P

[xBlitzerx]

One of my top 5 NES games. Mainly because of the soundtrack. Great vid!

[myRoxas]

thanks not many ppl know this hidden gem in gaming history

we are one of the few :)

[xjager513]

what a great soundtrack , probably the best nes soundtrack there is.

i actually redid a guardian legend artwork you can check it out on the "art of daniel montuoro" myspace page or xjager513 at deviant art

anyway great soundtrack

[goomba000]

Thanks for posting, great sound quality. Your remixes are very well done too.

[AgentCirrus]

a game befroe its time, still to this day never seen or heard anything like it, i remember doing other things like cleaning my room and putting on the soundtest (holding AB on 2nd controller then pushing reset)

[goomba000]

me too ! loved the sound test. My favorite is "Crystal Corridor". "Organic corridor" and the intro theme are pretty awesome too. Hell the whole soundtrack makes me want to travel back to the 80s.

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

Arguably the best NES game ever made. (But I'm not gonna argue.)

[mrdiagomigcombr]

there was something that put me stuck in the game: the mysterious way to unseal the 4th corridor.

The just passed through because of a walkthrough I watched in this site.

Overall,I consider this game medium in difficulty. The one-eyed bosses were annoying.The items that destroy all enemies should be saved for the crystal corridors be beaten more easily. There is one boss in the forest corridor that puts the player´s resistance in exam.

[mrdiagomigcombr]

the boss in the forest: the pattern is ok to do, but do it on non-stop and moving the controller quickly... ,that´s the resistance I´m talking about.

The excess of recharging items is a defect, but doesn´t make the game easy enough to be like the little mermaid(nes)

The soundtrack is as good as in Konami games, like Castlevania series.

It´s very creative,original

and melodic several times.

Controlling a bikini woman is exciting.

That´s one of the most amusing games I´ve ever played.

[ShadowEX121]

This game was awesome and easy to beat once you figured out the pattern for each boss.

yes this soundtract is awesome.

[slmtblogspotcom]

I think Irem must have taken all the good programming out of Deadly Towers and put it in here instead. :D

[GrugNorg]

Great vid dude brings back great fond childhood memories, you rock!

[R0B0TRON]

Compile games always have the best soundtracks.

[Dastrax]

this was an AWESOME game, too bad it was IMPOSSIBLE to get to the end without cheats lol

[cloudvii40]

Dude, this game is easy as shit. Fun, but easy.

[iLO80]

? Right. With the Game Genie and emulation maybe.

[GrugNorg]

no i beat it when i was 9 u just arnt very good. game genie bitches!

[hcnuup]

Yes indeed, I was like 6-7y-old and as a Finnish kid I didn't even know English and I still found that game pretty easy.

[cloudvii40]

Rofl, this came was cake, still fun, nubs

[freaklonghair]

great job. the music was a big part of making a good game great! if your able to make TGL ringtones i love to download some

[LotDW2007]

OMG where can I download the remixes?

[starsoldier1]

I love this game, thanks for the remixes!

[Teddyskmh]

That is nice.

Or how the german says:

Das ist geil!!!!

[Maser209]

i love the aqua corridor song

[hazeri]

Yes, exactly that one :).

So in short if you still dont know wich one i mean, i have uploaded a "musicvid" of the one i mean.

[Artificialraven]

Ah yeah it is what I was thinking about. That song is awesome but unfortunately I was under time restraint and I wanted to get my personal favorites while keeping my own remixes included. Honestly there isn't a bad song in this game, thats why it's an Incredible NES Soundtrack.

[hazeri]

Don't want to be a jerk now because its a great sample piece you've put together from one of my favorite games of all time. But where is the "Deep Blue" theme? :), The Title screen and the Deep Blue theme really rocks this game's 8-bit circuits. Good job putting it together

[Artificialraven]

Which one is the deep blue theme, is that the song when your walking around the water sector?

[Neyd00]

Hey, I liked that mixes, The music from that game was cool, I liked it.

[LadyDeath25]

wow all i know is this game music brings back so many memories. Thanks for sharing this with all us Guardian legend fans.

[kacken123]

the remixed forest corridor version is fukking great!!!!

[Artificialraven]

Yeah its one of my favorites. It's a shame I didn't equalize that song because now it sounds louder and more distorted than the tracks in this video :(

[catamayo85]

this game has some sick music, i especially love the aqua corridor

[Freedomcall82]

did you create the music or is that the original work of the nintendo music for guardian legend?

[Artificialraven]

Each song is original work from the Nintendo game. However boss theme 1, forest corridor and organic corridor have my remixed versions in it. The game over song is remixed too.

[ansont]

great stuff... more more more :)

[MarioSupersonic]

sweet