So, over the past few days I decided to dig around in the gaming past, last but not least my own, when I finally came across the shiny diamond whose name I forgot over the past 15 years. I’ve been gaming ever since I was little, in fact probably ever since my state of mind could have been considered ‘reliable’, whatever that may mean for 4-5 year olds. Boulder Dash I however played quite a lot on my uncles C64. Still, conscious gaming started with the good ol’ NES. We all remember classics such as Zelda and Zelda II (especially Zelda II, I curse you Shadow Link!) but also other games such as Duck Tales, Super Mario World II + III and of course Tetris. What about the others though, the non mainstream games that were simply godly, but not only that – they too had godly OSTs attached to their far superior game play when compared to their ‘competition’, if you even dare to name them such.
So, what game is it that I’m talking about? None you’re likely to know, unfortunately. The games’ name is ‘Ufouria’, a RPG for the NES created by Sunsoft in the late 80′s / early 90′s. The game was known as ‘Hebereke’ in Asia and never made it to the US to my knowledge. Lucky as I was however, I’ve had it and gotten to play it. Needless to say I loved it and still love it. I just recently played through yet again, after 13-14 years. What delightful memories 8-bit melodies can behold! One would not believe it.
Well, I couldn’t find the games OSTs when I looked for them, not for ‘Ufouria’, nor for ‘Hebereke’, so I looked around and learned how to extract music files out of NSF files and converted them into MP3′s. With that not enough however, considering their rarity, I in the same run learned how to use Windows Movies Makes (what a hard task!) to share my glory achievements with the world.
Well, the result would be this for instance:
Glorious, is it not? I also took the time to upload the remaining tracks the game included, not necessarily worse than the one I posted above, but as it’s been my favorite it only deserves to remain in this post, lastly cause it’s melody been stuck in my head since forever. Whoever likes old NES games and has some spare time to spare here and there should definitely pick this game up, it’ll be well spent time, that I can gurantee.
The video can viewed on youtube itself by following this link.
