Hey old heads, remember the first time you heard this theme and realized, thanks to the power of the SNES sound chip, video game music was never going to be the same again? This blew my socks off as a kid!
For all of you in the 8-12 age group when you were playing Snes, I love you all. We are part of a brotherhood, an era in video gaming that unites us in the brief moment of time that is of Legend. Never forget that!
The SNES was the first game system I bought with my own money (age 11) from selling extra NES games. I bought the console with Mario World right after it came out and had money left over, so I picked up Actraiser too. Two of the best games ever!
This was the first game on the SNES where the soundtrack amazed me. That symphonic sound was like nothing else at the time. And it's still one of the best from that system.
i was 11 when playing this game. sold baseball cards to get enough money to get a SNES. my dad would rent games every now and then on friday nights if we had earned the right. he rented this game. we had never heard of it. our minds were blown!!!! i ended up trading a pair of used Nike Airs to a friend for his Act Raiser so we could finish it. this game was EPIC!
This game, Soul Blazer, Castlevania 4, Super Metroid, Contra 3, Axelay...I played from beginning to end more times than I can count. Greatest era of video game history.
Speaking of Contra 3, it was already a badass game, but the music really set it over the top. I was just thinking about that the other day. That damn 3rd board music, the place with the smoke stacks in the beginning. That music is so damn awesome.
Don't forget F-Zero, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy II (actually 4), Mega Man X, U.N. Squadron, Street Fighter II Turbo, etc. etc., it was an amazing era of 2D games.
I used to rent this game so often as a kid. I loved the soundtrack so much that I would put my radio cassette player up to my TV speaker and record it on A blank cassette. Specifically the Egyptian music and the ice music. Life was so great back then.
This is one of my favorite games of all time, but the soundtrack is my favorite for a game of all time. I don't remember alot of soundtracks from games but I remember every tune on this title, track for track. God, I miss those days... Legendary.
Got my hands on this cartridge two years ago and played for the first time, great experience and so satisfying to beat the gauntlet of bosses in the end. This soundtrack is super impressive and immersive even after all these years, kudos to the composer!
Masterpiece of a game, truly ahead of its time. The soundtrack is amazing, and the mix of platform and real time simulation gameplay works great. It is sad its sequel was so subpar that the series sank into oblivion since then.
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Well, Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma had as core this very game. They are more part of the same lore than the sequel of Actraiser (which was more like a prequel)
My favorite time frame of.the industry. It was innocent and delightful. I was in your age group and the snes Legend of Zelda was my all time favorite game. I really loved ActRaiser although it's sequel was poorly done. The music behind this game is definitely one I instantly found to be beautiful especially and was the kinda Egyptian themed level with the snakes. It had a lonely chilling but blissful effect.i was shocked to see this so THANK YOU. Ciao
Goddam - this soundtrack is still awesome even in this day and age of current next gen consoles. I remember playing an imported copy of this game on my Japanese famicom. 99% of all the written text was in Japanese but it didn't stop me enjoying this one game bit. Fantastic graphics, stunning soundtrack.
I loved this game. It was the first one I bought for my SNES and I never get tired of hearing the soundtrack. I loved building the little villages and seeing the people running around.
Yuzo Koshiro is a master. Actraiser is marvelous but Actraiser II managed to get even better, yeah we miss the drums in the first part but instead, we hear the same epicness of the timpani, more arrangements in the strings and the brass. Tortoise Island is one the saddest pieces I've ever heard!!!
This game was ahead of it's time both in the sounddepartment and gamedesign. I still have the pricetag on my SNES-copy, I (or rather, my parents) paid 300 SEK ($35) for it back in 1995. Even not counting for inflation, that's money well spent.
Haven't played Actraiser, and I'm here because of Yuzo Kushiro's tweet saying that he had thought no one would be able to surpass his Actraiser soundtrack in terms of the sound quality on the SNES, but Yasunori Mitsuda did with the Chrono Trigger soundtrack. As a Chrono fan, I can attest to how fantastic the Actraiser ost sounds.
Something about this song 20:23 captures trekking through this frozen wilderness, now only inhabited by demons, dreams and the faintest of echoes from the past, so well. How long has it been since this world was last animated, thousands, millions or billions of years? How many iterations has life, man and civilization here undergone? An ancient, sleeping and frozen world is about to be unthawed and awoken. ActRaiser along with the Quintet Trilogy was more than just a game, they really had a story to tell. My favorite song from the game.
I remember 9:53 coming in like a bull in a china shop, that level was so cool ... All those perfect fifths* and horns doing their thing and then those dominant chords at 10:17. Holy macaroni synth horns ...What a composer.
+Sagan Blob's Logos For the longest time, I thought I was the only one who thought that! If 20th Century Fox had made Actraiser into a movie, the logo theme would just transition so smoothly into the ending theme for a great opening credit sequence (probably with clouds and landscapes in the background, showing off the world).
I grew up with a snes but only a handful of games from it. Never even knew this game existed until a few years ago. When playing it on the SNES it honestly was the only game i've played that made me feel like a kid again. After playing DKC for the 50th time, and game hopping, it wasnt until actraiser i felt fully immersed and no care in the world other than what was on my screen. Amazing game, very rich and tasteful, in fact I think this version holds up over its remake.
My favorites were, and still are Filmoa, Blood Pool, Aitos, Powerful Enemy, Pyramid, North Wall & the opening theme. I'd love to hear Hollywood Symphony Orchestra perform these! Or some other loud, ass kicking orchestra..
It's amazing how diverse this soundtrack is. Most SNES games focused on a particular "sound" using the warbling sounds, synths, orchestra hits or lots of percussions and this one did all of the above. It reminds me of so many of my other favorite game soundtracks from that era!
Certain parts of the "Satan" and "Silence" tracks are taken directly from the Kraken battle scene and also the fight scene of Perseus vs Calibos in Clash of the Titans (1981).
Heyo all, this was a LAUNCH TITLE, think about that, thats how fucking good game music was right from the start, Super Mario world and this just stuck with me for-fucking-ever.
Being a Genesis fanboy, when I seen Yuzo Koshiro (Streets of Rage) did the score, I was interested. Then I played... Favorite SNES game Period. Not the best, but when you mix Castlevania and Populous.. it just clicked for me
The instruments used in this soundtrack clearly must have influenced Castlevania IV but the latter‘ s compositions are even more imaginative, sophisticated and memorable I think. The title track, Prologue and game ending tunes are just insanely amazing. CV4 has the best game music I have ever heard - on par with Tim Follin’s Amiga Ghouls and Ghosts tunes 🙂
All I hear is myself climbing the Northwall tree jumping on green bubbles while avoiding eyes, thrown axes, bees, birds with worms, and such.... But yeah it does make me think much more of Holst than Star Wars, but also makes me realize how Holst may have influenced the most overrated composer of all time (sorry John Williams fans... I understand you're all about it for the whole experience, not just the music, but the hype this dude gets is a bit much for music that works well for its purpose but it's definitely not the most amazing, mind-blowing music of all time like the fans make it seem).
If you like the composer check out the Sorcerian soundtrack here on TH-cam. 1987 on a PC system exclusive to Japan. It sounds so good. On par, or better than the SNES. (My first console was a PS1 so what do I know)
Who else came back here to the soundtrack of this awesome game after the announcement of the Actraiser Remake? (Raises hand) I can't wait to hear the soundtrack fully orchestrated.
This awesome soundtrack brings back great memories. I had the Japanese version and had to play it all in a language I still don't understand. Wish I bought the PAL version when it was cheap.
23:32 should apparently be The World Tree; even though "sekaijuu" can mean both that and All Over the World, the track plays while ascending the giant tree in Northwall.
i remember this game is one of the 1st earliest released game for SuperFamicom (SNES). Trivia. When The sound composer for Final Fantasy 4/5 (Square) heard this, he got overwhelmed and decided to change all his musics under development. Because he knew ,at that point, his musics for FF4 would be far behind to Actraiser (by Enix). and then, finally FF4 released with good musics (only a bit behind to Actraiser).
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Hey old heads, remember the first time you heard this theme and realized, thanks to the power of the SNES sound chip, video game music was never going to be the same again? This blew my socks off as a kid!
For all of you in the 8-12 age group when you were playing Snes, I love you all. We are part of a brotherhood, an era in video gaming that unites us in the brief moment of time that is of Legend. Never forget that!
Hell yes!
The SNES was the first game system I bought with my own money (age 11) from selling extra NES games. I bought the console with Mario World right after it came out and had money left over, so I picked up Actraiser too. Two of the best games ever!
Randy Miller III we have something in common. My first game was Super Mario and the second one was Actraiser I remember I got Fatal Fury as well.
this made me sad and happy at the same time. :)
Iseekknowledge replayed this a few days ago, still really fun and the music is catchy. (still own my original snes copy from when I was a kid.)
This game really stood out to me as a kid. It just felt like it was a level above everything else at the time.
This was the first game on the SNES where the soundtrack amazed me. That symphonic sound was like nothing else at the time. And it's still one of the best from that system.
Yup. same here. I still play Actraiser almost everyday on my mobile phones.
wally prichard it’s available on mobile devices!?
Damn dude this hits home in so many ways... Legendary music for a legendary game!
The best on most systems Music rivals some more advanced systems
Still one of the best vidya soundtrack out there...
i was 11 when playing this game. sold baseball cards to get enough money to get a SNES. my dad would rent games every now and then on friday nights if we had earned the right. he rented this game. we had never heard of it. our minds were blown!!!! i ended up trading a pair of used Nike Airs to a friend for his Act Raiser so we could finish it. this game was EPIC!
This game, Soul Blazer, Castlevania 4, Super Metroid, Contra 3, Axelay...I played from beginning to end more times than I can count. Greatest era of video game history.
Speaking of Contra 3, it was already a badass game, but the music really set it over the top. I was just thinking about that the other day. That damn 3rd board music, the place with the smoke stacks in the beginning. That music is so damn awesome.
fuckin a right it was.
Absolutely.
Don't forget F-Zero, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy II (actually 4), Mega Man X, U.N. Squadron, Street Fighter II Turbo, etc. etc., it was an amazing era of 2D games.
Genesis does
I used to rent this game so often as a kid. I loved the soundtrack so much that I would put my radio cassette player up to my TV speaker and record it on A blank cassette. Specifically the Egyptian music and the ice music. Life was so great back then.
I used to do that too! But with Final Fantasy 3.
@@CM-xs2eb what a great time to grow up in.
5:02 always sounded like a Castlevania track, Yuzo at his best
yo i literally searched the whole internet because i heard this exact snipped somewhere :D
that is the very same thing I thought when I first heard it!
Feels like something straight out of PoR, in particular
Indeed, I'm kinda I've heard this somewhere in Circle Of The Moon.
I remember playing this game in front of my parents and even they were impressed by the quality of the music.
“Birth of the People” has been living in my mind for about 30 years now.
I have a feeling my love of Vivaldi comes from "Birth of the People". Literally played this game just to hear that song, as a kid.
Same, it's a favorite track among all games from my childhood. Dunno about Vivaldi, though. Is it not an original composition for Act Raiser?
Yea I'm pretty sure it's original but very baroque-esque and more of a gateway drug than the real deal hehe
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I still whistle this jam
Haven't played my Viola in 20 years :( Treble Cleff always got the best parts though.
Birth of the People is so heartwarming.
This soundtrack is not only amazing for how it used its limited orchestra. It stands up as a true symphony when played live.
37:45 sounds a lot like in the 20th Century Fox intro xD
good catch!
This is one of my favorite games of all time, but the soundtrack is my favorite for a game of all time. I don't remember alot of soundtracks from games but I remember every tune on this title, track for track. God, I miss those days... Legendary.
I actually did not play this gem until its Virtual Console release on the Wii back in the day. My favorite gem of the SNES lot of VC games.
Same here. Love discovering these old games that I either did not have the hardware for back then or were created before I was born.
16:12 Pyramid Marana so good so good
Got my hands on this cartridge two years ago and played for the first time, great experience and so satisfying to beat the gauntlet of bosses in the end. This soundtrack is super impressive and immersive even after all these years, kudos to the composer!
Greatest soundtrack on the SNES bar none and performed by the greatest composer in 90s gaming - Yuzo Koshiro. Masterpiece.
Masterpiece of a game, truly ahead of its time. The soundtrack is amazing, and the mix of platform and real time simulation gameplay works great. It is sad its sequel was so subpar that the series sank into oblivion since then.
Well, Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma had as core this very game. They are more part of the same lore than the sequel of Actraiser (which was more like a prequel)
My favorite time frame of.the industry. It was innocent and delightful. I was in your age group and the snes Legend of Zelda was my all time favorite game. I really loved ActRaiser although it's sequel was poorly done. The music behind this game is definitely one I instantly found to be beautiful especially and was the kinda Egyptian themed level with the snakes. It had a lonely chilling but blissful effect.i was shocked to see this so THANK YOU. Ciao
I lost count how many times my dad and I completed this game back in the day.. good times. Soundtrack never got old!! Fillmore act 2 boss tune FTW.
Goddam - this soundtrack is still awesome even in this day and age of current next gen consoles. I remember playing an imported copy of this game on my Japanese famicom. 99% of all the written text was in Japanese but it didn't stop me enjoying this one game bit. Fantastic graphics, stunning soundtrack.
This is my absolute favorite SNES game.
Man, "North Wall" soundtrack is so beautiful...
I would just sit still and revel in that song's beauty as a kid.
I put the game on pause as a kid just to hear the music.
I loved this game. It was the first one I bought for my SNES and I never get tired of hearing the soundtrack. I loved building the little villages and seeing the people running around.
Shame they fucked up in the second one and got rid of the town building!
This easily goes in my top Five Snes soundtracks. Uematsu gets a lot of credit but people sleep on Koshiro.
Yuzo Koshiro is a master. Actraiser is marvelous but Actraiser II managed to get even better, yeah we miss the drums in the first part but instead, we hear the same epicness of the timpani, more arrangements in the strings and the brass. Tortoise Island is one the saddest pieces I've ever heard!!!
Super Adventure Island soundtrack was up there, but this game is one of my top 10 all time
I wonder if you can see Uematsu's name on title screen 🤔
It has to be #1 on the SNES my friend. Yuzo's masterpiece
This game was ahead of it's time both in the sounddepartment and gamedesign. I still have the pricetag on my SNES-copy, I (or rather, my parents) paid 300 SEK ($35) for it back in 1995.
Even not counting for inflation, that's money well spent.
Haven't played Actraiser, and I'm here because of Yuzo Kushiro's tweet saying that he had thought no one would be able to surpass his Actraiser soundtrack in terms of the sound quality on the SNES, but Yasunori Mitsuda did with the Chrono Trigger soundtrack.
As a Chrono fan, I can attest to how fantastic the Actraiser ost sounds.
Wow. What a game. I remember giving up and coming back to it a few months later and being mind blown by such a game!
Something about this song 20:23 captures trekking through this frozen wilderness, now only inhabited by demons, dreams and the faintest of echoes from the past, so well.
How long has it been since this world was last animated, thousands, millions or billions of years?
How many iterations has life, man and civilization here undergone?
An ancient, sleeping and frozen world is about to be unthawed and awoken.
ActRaiser along with the Quintet Trilogy was more than just a game, they really had a story to tell.
My favorite song from the game.
One of the best soundtracks ever. I loved this damn game. I want it brought back. The first game.
Birth of the People has been stuck in my head for days now, and it's so dope when you find out the music you've been looking for first try, haha.
The song birth of the people while in the city building part of the game is my favourite track. Love the starting melody
Birth of the people is my favorite from this soundtrack all these years later I come back to listen
Today, we celebrate.
I remember 9:53 coming in like a bull in a china shop, that level was so cool ... All those perfect fifths* and horns doing their thing and then those dominant chords at 10:17. Holy macaroni synth horns ...What a composer.
5:06 so good
+chris hayate LET'S PLAY SOME FOOTBALL!
I hadn't played this game in over 10 years but as soon as I heard that it all came flooding back to me. So awesome.
My nipples got hard when this track started
But this plays in only one level
@@xinfr4z893 in japan version the song from Filmore/Fillmoa act 1 also plays in act 2 but I think the song used in eng version fits better.
I like the opening theme. It feels very heroic.
Castlevania, Star Wars and 20th Century Fox rolled into one soundtrack. Noice.
Also Disney. Peaceful World is dangerously similiar to It's a Small World.
One of the BEST games ever made
I played this, Contra, Megaman X, Mario World, Chrono Trigger, Legend of Mana and Terranigma almost daily on my SNES…
THIS IS ETERNAL. Left my heart in Fillamore.
Man, this brings back some good memories! This is the first game that I completed and was sad that it had ended.
One of the best soundtracks I've ever heard in a video game, and the game itself was also stunning, especially for such an early SNES title :)
The beggining of The Ending soundtrack sounds like the 20th Century Fox theme.
so true. i listened to orchestrated variation of this and i thought exactly the same thing
LOL it really does.
It sounds Exactly like it.
Sagan Blob's Logos The Ten Commandments of Charlton Heston
+Sagan Blob's Logos
For the longest time, I thought I was the only one who thought that! If 20th Century Fox had made Actraiser into a movie, the logo theme would just transition so smoothly into the ending theme for a great opening credit sequence (probably with clouds and landscapes in the background, showing off the world).
The stunning contrast of Northwall
I grew up with a snes but only a handful of games from it. Never even knew this game existed until a few years ago. When playing it on the SNES it honestly was the only game i've played that made me feel like a kid again. After playing DKC for the 50th time, and game hopping, it wasnt until actraiser i felt fully immersed and no care in the world other than what was on my screen. Amazing game, very rich and tasteful, in fact I think this version holds up over its remake.
The track Sacrifices. Damn.
+Jordan Scribbler Yeah when you finally unlocked music on that level --- still sends shivers down my back to this day when I hear it.
5:19 - If this isn´t Castlevania music, I don´t know what is! XD - love it!
I can hear this entire soundtrack in my head with a real Symphony Orchestra 👽🤘🏼💕🎵🎶🎵🎶#epic
My favorites were, and still are Filmoa, Blood Pool, Aitos, Powerful Enemy, Pyramid, North Wall & the opening theme. I'd love to hear Hollywood Symphony Orchestra perform these! Or some other loud, ass kicking orchestra..
No Birth of the People love?
There is an ActRaiser symphonic soundtrack if you’re still interested.
By far, the best SNES soundtrack. Actraiser is a gem of a game.
There are nostalgic feelings, sure, but this is a legit great soundtrack, even now.
Greatest game ever made.
Filmore action scene 1 was my aural introduction to the SNES. And what an impression.
It's amazing how diverse this soundtrack is. Most SNES games focused on a particular "sound" using the warbling sounds, synths, orchestra hits or lots of percussions and this one did all of the above. It reminds me of so many of my other favorite game soundtracks from that era!
Some of these songs are downright awesome.
Certain parts of the "Satan" and "Silence" tracks are taken directly from the Kraken battle scene and also the fight scene of Perseus vs Calibos in Clash of the Titans (1981).
Heyo all, this was a LAUNCH TITLE, think about that, thats how fucking good game music was right from the start, Super Mario world and this just stuck with me for-fucking-ever.
Very many movies in the past don't was have a Soundtrack like this compositions. Just amazing Game and unforgettable. #SNES
Angelo Badalementi, Julie Cruise, Twin Peaks, and "The Voice of Love" brought me here.
Reborn again with Actraiser Renaissance!!
Being a Genesis fanboy, when I seen Yuzo Koshiro (Streets of Rage) did the score, I was interested. Then I played... Favorite SNES game Period. Not the best, but when you mix Castlevania and Populous.. it just clicked for me
easily in the top 10 games of all time for me. they just dont make games like this anymore...
maxstone9999 - Just generics/full of grafics games nowadays.
@@enriquegomez8114 this is so not true
Jonasz Przybycień - At least most of them.
Back then, games were ORIGINAL. imo.
Very Urgent and Martial Sounding, enjoy it a lot.
Set your alarm clock to 25:01 and ENJOY THE DAY!!
The instruments used in this soundtrack clearly must have influenced Castlevania IV but the latter‘ s compositions are even more imaginative, sophisticated and memorable I think. The title track, Prologue and game ending tunes are just insanely amazing. CV4 has the best game music I have ever heard - on par with Tim Follin’s Amiga Ghouls and Ghosts tunes 🙂
blood pool casandora is my favorite.
サントラ持ってます。スーファミで進化したサウンドにびっくりしたのがFFⅣとこのアクトレイザー。ラスボスより強いやついっぱいいた(笑)
Just now, I'm playing this game for Nintendo switch version.
awesome soundtrack
5:07 my favourite music from actraiser
It was the soundtrack, then the gameplay that amazed me. Downloaded renaissance, very different, but let's see how it goes.
23:32 Damn... pure Star Wars worship.
lel Hearing it as I read your comment.
All I hear is myself climbing the Northwall tree jumping on green bubbles while avoiding eyes, thrown axes, bees, birds with worms, and such.... But yeah it does make me think much more of Holst than Star Wars, but also makes me realize how Holst may have influenced the most overrated composer of all time (sorry John Williams fans... I understand you're all about it for the whole experience, not just the music, but the hype this dude gets is a bit much for music that works well for its purpose but it's definitely not the most amazing, mind-blowing music of all time like the fans make it seem).
ゲームの名曲にはアクトレイザー入るなー。宮廷音楽ぽいのがすごくいい。オープニングからフィルモアまで最高。クラシック聴いてるみたいだよ。30:56が好きだなぁ。ずっと聴いてれる。
If you like the composer check out the Sorcerian soundtrack here on TH-cam. 1987 on a PC system exclusive to Japan. It sounds so good. On par, or better than the SNES. (My first console was a PS1 so what do I know)
Im about to give probably the best comment you could give to a game, this sounds like its from castlevania and thats pretty much god tier music.
Ohne Worte. Unvergessen.
Who else came back here to the soundtrack of this awesome game after the announcement of the Actraiser Remake? (Raises hand)
I can't wait to hear the soundtrack fully orchestrated.
The slap bass in filmoa is kick ass
23:32 Good action starts here 🙂 🎶
they just make a remake of this game lets go guys !
amazing ost, and a huge game
One of my all-time favorite vidya
4:53 Check out this COOOOOOOOOL effect!
This is now on vinyl!
www.wayorecords.com/en/68-actraiser
Another amazing soundtrack by Yuzo Koshiro
If you told me this was performed by an orchestra I would not doubt you.
In my opinion snes always had the best sound in effects and music
If you don’t get chills when listening to the very first track, preparing you.. you don’t belong here lol
2:38 SkyPalece is so Mystic.Diminish Chords are used.
ONE OF THE SICKEST GAMES
This awesome soundtrack brings back great memories. I had the Japanese version and had to play it all in a language I still don't understand. Wish I bought the PAL version when it was cheap.
georgetm2 Did you beat the game in Japanese? How the fuck did you manage to do such thing? lol
@@patrick22014 I wanna know as well. Casandora act 1 boss is impossible without spaming magical stardust.
23:32 should apparently be The World Tree; even though "sekaijuu" can mean both that and All Over the World, the track plays while ascending the giant tree in Northwall.
Yggdrasil
I will forever cherish this soundtrack, particularly for how ridiculously derivative it is.
"Oh, you like Batman? Star Wars? James Horner? ME TOO!"
And disney's "It's a small world" is disturbingly similiar to Peaceful World.
And Ending is a like a super-extended version of 20th Century Fox theme.
Birth of the people is the intro song of extra credits and history for you people who don't know
What I don’t understand is why other combo city building and fighting games haven’t sprout up like this. And no mobile games don’t count
Aside from SolSeraph, Dragon Quest Builders, Dark Cloud....yeah not much like this out there.
Magnificent.
i remember this game is one of the 1st earliest released game for SuperFamicom (SNES).
Trivia. When The sound composer for Final Fantasy 4/5 (Square) heard this,
he got overwhelmed and decided to change all his musics under development.
Because he knew ,at that point, his musics for FF4 would be far behind to Actraiser (by Enix).
and then, finally FF4 released with good musics (only a bit behind to Actraiser).
Dayum! Well either way, two of the best soundtracks of all time.