Ghouls 'n Ghosts
T. Kawamoto, Unknown-
From the Commodore 64 conversion of the Capcom arcade game.
By 1988 the Ghosts 'n Goblins franchise had left Elite Systems and arrived at Software Creations, now home to the rising musical star Tim Follin. His work for this game on all platforms was a tour de force with some original tunes and some arcade ports (this tune appears on all versions in some form - on the ZX Spectrum it's the title screen, but on other platforms it's Stage 2 - Village of Decay). Anyway, it seems to have ended up sounding quite Leonard Bernstein-y - purely by accident!
Tim routinely generated echo effects on his music by the manual method of playing the same notes but delayed on a different channel. This score achieves the same effect in the same way.
Composed by: Tamayo Kawamoto, this score based on an arrangement Timothy J. Follin
Arranged by: Chris Abbott & Alisdair J. Pickering
Orchestrated by: Alisdair J. Pickering
Arrangement © High Technology Publishing Ltd.
By 1988 the Ghosts 'n Goblins franchise had left Elite Systems and arrived at Software Creations, now home to the rising musical star Tim Follin. His work for this game on all platforms was a tour de force with some original tunes and some arcade ports (this tune appears on all versions in some form - on the ZX Spectrum it's the title screen, but on other platforms it's Stage 2 - Village of Decay). Anyway, it seems to have ended up sounding quite Leonard Bernstein-y - purely by accident!
Tim routinely generated echo effects on his music by the manual method of playing the same notes but delayed on a different channel. This score achieves the same effect in the same way.
Composed by: Tamayo Kawamoto, this score based on an arrangement Timothy J. Follin
Arranged by: Chris Abbott & Alisdair J. Pickering
Orchestrated by: Alisdair J. Pickering
Arrangement © High Technology Publishing Ltd.
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OSTs
C64 (from Archive.org)
ZX Spectrum (from Archive.org)
Amstrad CPC (from Archive.org)
Atari ST (from Archive.org)
Amiga (from Archive.org)
Mega Drive/Genesis - not Tim Follin and shows how far he deviated from the arcade in the other versions!
Other C64Audio (and friend) project remixes
Enjoy the arcade OST in YouTube playlist form!
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You didn't see this Michael Jackson version by Binster coming!
This tune featured on level 1 of some versions, replacing the arcade
The Follin title tune for some versions is spooky AF.
Marcel Donné is talented AF. Perfect match! |
Quite a few covers of this original Follin tune
Another echoey version... but I never quite got the ending right!
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PC Engine version is much closer to the arcade than the Genesis
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From the Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded
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Other musical notables
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