In this installment of Pixelated Audio, we're taking a stroll through the soundtrack of Blades of Steel. Originally, Konami released this fact-action hockey game in the arcades in 1987 but it really gained popularity a year later when it was converted to the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988. However, most of us (at least your hosts) tend to forget that two sequels were released: NHL Blades of Steel '99 and NHL Blades of Steel 2000 which we’ve got some tunes from as well.

Composed by:

Arcade/NES: Shinya Sakamoto, Kazuki Muraoka, Atsushi Fujio, Kiyohira Sada

GameBoy: Hidehiro Funauchi, Akiko Itou

GameBoy Color: Matt Simmonds

Nintendo 64: Kazuhiko Uehara (sound producer), Nobuyuki Akena (sound director), Takahito Uenishi (SFX), Mitsuteru Furukawa (Sound programmer)

PlayStation: Kazumaru Yui, Norikazu Miura

Tracklist

00:00:00 - Game Start / Warm Up (NES)

00:05:23 - Selection Theme (NES)

00:13:04 - Intermission (NES)

00:16:52 - Bonus Game Unused (NES)

00:17:26 - Bonus Game (Arcade)

00:18:16 - Won Finals (NES)

00:20:26 - Game End (NES)

00:21:50 - Team Selection (Arcade)

00:23:55 - Team Selection (Amiga)

00:25:26 - Game Start (DOS)

00:26:17 - Game Start (C64)

00:27:09 - BGM 1 (GB)

00:30:09 - BGM 2 (GB)

00:31:39 - BGM 3 (GB)

00:35:15 - BGM 8 (GB)

00:39:54 - BGM 1 (GBC) - NHL Blades of Steel

00:45:43 - BGM 2 (GBC) - NHL Blades of Steel

00:49:17 - BGM 4 (GBC) - NHL Blades of Steel

00:52:16 - Menu Music (N64) - NHL Blades of Steel 99

00:56:56 - BGM 3 (GBC) - NHL Blades of Steel 2000

01:00:23 -  BGM 4 (GBC) - NHL Blades of Steel 2000

01:02:26 - BGM 6 (GBC) - NHL Blades of Steel 2000

01:04:52 - Menu 3 (PSX) - NHL Blades of Steel 2000

01:08:34 - Menu 4 (PSX) - NHL Blades of Steel 2000

01:15:57 - Ending (NES)