Axelay - Unkai

This was released in 1992 by Konami, and composed by Taro Kudou (credited here as simply "Taro"), who is typically a game designer, often for off-beat Nintendo titles such as the first Mario & Luigi, Tingle's Rupeeland, and Super Mario RPG. His only other musical composition credit, also with Konami, is for the excellent Super CastleVania IV soundtrack (credited there as Souji Taro), which he composed with Masanori Adachi. I think one can certainly see the similarities in the music. Unkai is Axelay's first stage theme, and has a very epic feeling to it. The music in Axelay is all pretty spectacular, but what is particularly interesing is that some of the boss themes, this stage included, are variations on the theme of the level they appear in. For a game to have different music for every boss is pretty amazing, but to tackle it like that is just plain cool. --- Add &fmt=18 at the end of the video's URL for high quality.