Contra 3: The Alien Wars [Music] - Ground Zero

The background music for the first stage. Very bittersweet, yet aggressive.

Composed by: Masanori Adachi, Miki Higashino, "Tappy" Iwase.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Contra
• The
• Alien
• Wars

[straightMKchamp]

This song helped make a great 1st stage

[GUSTAVTT]

sounds like METAL SLUG!

[omegablast]

@GUSTAVTT In that case, Metal Slug sounds like Contra...

[blaster00000]

@GUSTAVTT the darker version of metal slug being that the metal slug series has a more comedic atmosphere

[Akyla0177]

I was such a proud little owner of this game for the SNES <3

[MrPyroguru]

Very military like especially right here:

2:10

This is my favorite!

[kyo221]

@GUSTAVTT

and reminds me of Final Fight theme at 0:59

[Lugo428]

This also works for a zombie apocalypse.

[mrbrockpeters]

This soundtrack is so freaking good and grandiose for the 16 bit technology implemented it. It's super ambitious. If this piece were made into an orchestration I wonder how much better it could be? This music totally established the ambience of insanity for the first level. You knew what you were in for after the first 10 seconds of music, that this game would be an epic ride!

[richardsdead]

My Euro-Australian copy of this game was redubbed "Super Probotector" and had different sprites (the two main guys were robots) but was otherwise the same. CLASSIC engrish in the instruction booklet!

[Karmoon7]

@AgentDC76

Well thanks for the recommendation - I listened to some Axelay stuff, it's really good. Quality stuff indeed.

I personally slightly prefer Thunderforce IV music (despite that using the Megadrive sound chip), or that from Macross Scrambled Valkyrie (but only because the music from that is inspired by the series itself).

Thanks again :)