The brilliant Shadowgate soundtrack by Hiroyuki Masuno has been Revamped and improved with better quality, updated text, accurate tracklist and visual background: th-cam.com/video/r88PrbmekGA/w-d-xo.html
I'm 43 and this music reminds me of being lost, desperate, full of useless inventory, and yelling at the TV until my mom came in and told me to shut it off. Oh and my 19 yo just came in and asked what I was listening to, his friends over Skype could hear it.
My grandparents would play this while slowly thinking through the puzzles. Then that torch music would come on…. Everyone one in the room starts freaking out OMG LIGHT A TORCH!!! Flipping through the damn cards. When we didn’t have any we’d just randomly fly through each room till we found one.
"You have opened a magic portal into deep space. You are immediately sucked through. The lack of air causes you to quickly lose consciousness. The Grim Reaper quickly embraces you!!"
The writer of Shadowgate had a very warped DnD experience with a very sadistic DM. One of those DMs where *everything* can instantly kill you but, fear not, an impish dwarf hovers near to resurrect you and allow you to proceed along your quest, to venture into the *next* room full of death traps...
"Five to find, Three are one, One gives access, The bladed sun" Such a classic game and OST. This is ONLY game I ever called the Nintendo Counselors/Help Line on. And they did help my friend and I pass this one part.... :-) Great memories.
Why doesn't this have more likes? Shadowgate was a great game all around. I played this game for a day and a half (A day being a couple of hours after school) before I 'Opened" that skull in the beginning. I knew I had a new favorite kind of game. EDIT: Deja Vu was it's 1940s counterpart, a great game too!
@@kevinstachovak8842 I also like Jeroen Tel, David Wise, and Yuzo Koshiro (god, he's so good). But I have to agree with Shroctopus here. This music is really great and very underappreciated. Tim Follin, Rob Hubbard (another favorite), et al are all very well known for good reason. But it's really great to find this hidden gem as well. It definitely inspired me.
one of the best and most underrated, unappreciated games of the 8-bit era. my nephews are 9 and 7, around the same age my brother and I when we played it. sadly, they were bored within the first 10 minutes when they couldn't find the key to the front door. "why don't they just give you the key? do i have to kill something first? why isn't anything moving? i don't like these graphics." sigh....
Joey Clemenza I remember finding the dragon and I thought it was soooo epic how it played out in my mind of a guy dashing for a Shield and putting it up to block fire
🤣🤣🤣 I know the feeling of having to explain the excitement of how one's imagination is seized in this point and click rpg to today's tech junkies. Remind me to give you a link to a fanfic someone wrote about this game, it's hilarious and stays true to the spirit of the game.
Shadowgate was so trecherous, unforgiving, and the music reminds me of the feeling of lostness and despair, omg i cannot handle it at age 38 the game, its too hard, i wanna cry lol. Omg this game is just so dam impactfull, it just hits me in a way i dont want to feel again, a fantastic game to the point of, i wont do this to myself status. lol
This game used to scare the crap out of me when I was a kid, I used to hide behind the couch when my mom and sister played it. I couldn't play it until I was in grade seven and the death screen still scares me lol
Domi Shimito I lost sleep over the death screen when I was little but as I aged and got used to death this uninvited and deja vu became my favorites of that era I bought the most expensive version of shadowgate for pc when I heard about it now I wish they would do the other 3 as well
Déjà Vu here myself. Though having seen Uninvited as an adult... That would had terrified me more. Other scary / creepy NES games include Sweet Home, and Solstice.
Loved this game as a kid, that damn torch music always gave me a heart attack!! It's fun to play through this game even now, funny how you can beat it in 30 minutes but took me 3 to 4 months to get through it back in the day lol
Up there with the Castlevania, Zelda, Final Fantasy, Megaman, etc. all time greats. Thanks for this. There is some metal remix of the game's music that is just bad ass too. Most of the time they are overdone but the metal remix I'm talking about starts with the "Entryway" track.
I was at a store with my grandmom when I was about 6. She said my little sister and I could both pick out a game each to bring home. I don't remember what I picked, but I saw Shadowgate and wanted that so bad as well. I convinced my sister to ask for it (she really didnt care one way or the other) and I felt so smart at getting both games I wanted. Turns out it was a solid plan because my entire family loved this game. We went out and bought a Nintendo Adventure Game guide book with a full walkthrough of this in it so we could beat it. We ended getting Uninvited and Deja Vu as well. I still consider this to be one of the greatest adventure games of all time.
This soundtrack is truly perfect. If you do not enjoy this old school generation of NES madness, you are stupid. Yes I know, that's insulting, but it's also the truth.
Thanks, I just think I am doing the work of something relatively original and new for NES music, at least that can get people's attention for listening to this music, and putting out the music to games that barely get recognition too! :)
+WiiGuy's 8BitStereo where is your source for this music mine used to be under-groundgamer before that got shut down. zophars domain looks neat but I wish it was compiled in a large folder.
When I was little I hid the game cover away because I was so afraid of it. >.< It was a scary ass game but it was so hard NOT to watch as my parents played it.
So nice!! One of the best scores of any game. The music in the Spinx room and the Wraith room used to TERRIFY me! It was awesome! Great job my friend! Proud to be a subscriber!
classic game awesome text adventure game, like a maze can be bloody scary if you dont know what you are doing. but good soundtrack too i so love shadowgate have to really use your brain for this game.
ooh i'm so excited to haer one more times some tunes of my childhood.it was translated in french and it was a pleasant and....a scary game !! Torch out !!!
I love the whole soundtrack but I think I like Courtyard the best. Funny when you hear the Danger song even now I want to relight another torch so the song stops. Lol
I was like 8 years old when I played this game, and though it was the most fun NES game I remember playing, the music was scary as fuck. The music is truly brilliant, though. Fucking love this, thanks so much for posting!
***** - The last track has been confirmed as the "Goblin Room" theme by the game developers. Zojoi is the original Shadowgate dev team. They came together and did a huge overhaul/remake of Shadowgate. Kemco gave them the music resources from the NES and Zojoi have listed them all as ringtones. If you give the "Goblin Room" a listen, you'll see it's the same song. www.zojoi.com/ring-tones/ Whatever the reason was that they removed that room. It's interesting that the music for the room was completed. Seems like the room was originally supposed to have been there, but who knows when Nintendo/Kemco decided to scrap it. It'd be neat to figure out if the room itself had any data stored in the code.
Oh wow! No doubt was an inspiration. It's way too similar to be coincidental. One of the other tunes also has a pretty strong Erik Satie feel to it as well.
@Frizzurd I don't hear the similarity, but it would be pretty funny if you can find somebody that's done a decent cover of the song and see if you can sneak it onto a compilation of Christmas music lol
Yes! There are three of these games to the NES: Shadowgate, Deja Vu and Uninvited. If you liked Shadowgate and Deja Vu, you will definitely like Uninvited too. Give it a try!
@Stimulator7 They're ports of the classic so called 'Macventures', a couple of point and click adventure games for 1980s Macintosh computers. They were all black and white with no music, the NES versions would have colored graphics and full soundtracks.
The Goblin room theme always interested me awhole lot because its a room that was never used in the NES version but in the MAC version it was used.It was basically an all death purpose room basically a trap.Love the theme.
the unused track is for a room called the goblin room which was takinout for the nes version hints why you move into the door way and u get crushed they made it a trap instead the last track for that but when the 25th anniversary edition comes out that room will be in there because that version is based of the nes one
Yes, I want these videos to list the NES developer/converter when it's a port of a game on another platform, as was the case for this game, but this is back when I was still getting my info down.
Fucking danger music used to freak me out so much as a kid. i would run from the living room crying when my dad was playing and he was running out of torchlight.
The brilliant Shadowgate soundtrack by Hiroyuki Masuno has been Revamped and improved with better quality, updated text, accurate
tracklist and visual background: th-cam.com/video/r88PrbmekGA/w-d-xo.html
A dark and mysterious soundtrack that perfectly suits the game. Good memories from the mid-90's.
I'm 43 and this music reminds me of being lost, desperate, full of useless inventory, and yelling at the TV until my mom came in and told me to shut it off.
Oh and my 19 yo just came in and asked what I was listening to, his friends over Skype could hear it.
It'd be cool if they actually started playing the game. Games like this have the spirit that the modern COD sludge never will.
My grandparents would play this while slowly thinking through the puzzles. Then that torch music would come on…. Everyone one in the room starts freaking out OMG LIGHT A TORCH!!! Flipping through the damn cards. When we didn’t have any we’d just randomly fly through each room till we found one.
The music when your torch is going out still horrifies me to this day.
brooo, it was so scary af, we were all like 7 years old getting nightmares from it 😹❤️ good old days..
This is really up there among the best game soundtracks of all time.
Absolutely, fantastic soundtrack.
Indeed.
Still some tracks give me the creeps; Even today as a grown up.
Very atmospheric game.
Great soundtrack, but not even close to the best of all time. Not even close. Not even the best on the NES.
@@High_Priest_Jonko Amazing! It's already 6 years since I wrote that.
Just hearing it now after years of every type of ost and compilation, and I'd agree with you
"You have opened a magic portal into deep space. You are immediately sucked through. The lack of air causes you to quickly lose consciousness. The Grim Reaper quickly embraces you!!"
Me: Holy shit do I ever remember that part as a kid, Scare the holy hell out of me @ that age in a video game!!
SPACE REAPER!!
Oh fuck I remember that exactly! Freaky-ass memories lol
The writer of Shadowgate had a very warped DnD experience with a very sadistic DM. One of those DMs where *everything* can instantly kill you but, fear not, an impish dwarf hovers near to resurrect you and allow you to proceed along your quest, to venture into the *next* room full of death traps...
That scene freaked me out and still makes me feel a sci fi sting about this game of puzzles and sorcery
Probably my favorite on the NES. Such a great soundtrack + countless replay ability to get through it faster than your previous run.
3:34 It’s now time for Gaming in the Clinton Years
Thank you my good sir
~~Skating battletoads through a chessboard~~
Came here because i was watching a stream of the game and recognized the song
classic
Nobody tell Caddicarus!!!
"Five to find,
Three are one,
One gives access,
The bladed sun"
Such a classic game and OST. This is ONLY game I ever called the Nintendo Counselors/Help Line on. And they did help my friend and I pass this one part.... :-) Great memories.
The nostalgia in this is tremendous.
Why doesn't this have more likes? Shadowgate was a great game all around. I played this game for a day and a half (A day being a couple of hours after school) before I 'Opened" that skull in the beginning. I knew I had a new favorite kind of game. EDIT: Deja Vu was it's 1940s counterpart, a great game too!
Yup, this is one where I needed help. Excellent game
The last to invoke, the platinum horn :-)
one of the best game soundtracks of all time. Man this mesmerized me as a kid.
And the way this game made me perceive life was incredible. It almost overlapped into my own life at the time, It felt like I was really in the game.
I thought I was weird, but no. Certain NES releases had great soundtracks. Tim Follin and Nobuo Uematsu were my fave game music designers
@@kevinstachovak8842 I also like Jeroen Tel, David Wise, and Yuzo Koshiro (god, he's so good). But I have to agree with Shroctopus here. This music is really great and very underappreciated. Tim Follin, Rob Hubbard (another favorite), et al are all very well known for good reason. But it's really great to find this hidden gem as well. It definitely inspired me.
Astyanax also had a really good soundtrack.
3:34 is such a good song for making a gaming review show from the 90’s
Here I was just sat listening to an old game soundtrack and what should come up but Gaming in the Clinton Years
one of the best and most underrated, unappreciated games of the 8-bit era. my nephews are 9 and 7, around the same age my brother and I when we played it. sadly, they were bored within the first 10 minutes when they couldn't find the key to the front door.
"why don't they just give you the key? do i have to kill something first? why isn't anything moving? i don't like these graphics."
sigh....
Joey Clemenza I remember finding the dragon and I thought it was soooo epic how it played out in my mind of a guy dashing for a Shield and putting it up to block fire
🤣🤣🤣
I know the feeling of having to explain the excitement of how one's imagination is seized in this point and click rpg to today's tech junkies. Remind me to give you a link to a fanfic someone wrote about this game, it's hilarious and stays true to the spirit of the game.
the "graphics" actually look pretty nice for 8 bit era
the remake from iforgetwhatyear is pretty good.
Shadowgate was so trecherous, unforgiving, and the music reminds me of the feeling of lostness and despair, omg i cannot handle it at age 38 the game, its too hard, i wanna cry lol. Omg this game is just so dam impactfull, it just hits me in a way i dont want to feel again, a fantastic game to the point of, i wont do this to myself status. lol
This game used to scare the crap out of me when I was a kid, I used to hide behind the couch when my mom and sister played it. I couldn't play it until I was in grade seven and the death screen still scares me lol
Domi Shimito I lost sleep over the death screen when I was little but as I aged and got used to death this uninvited and deja vu became my favorites of that era I bought the most expensive version of shadowgate for pc when I heard about it now I wish they would do the other 3 as well
Don't worry as you get older death wouldn't scare you but become welcoming.
I got interested in death and I work at a morgue now.
To me the scariest nintendo game I owned. But it was the one game I would only play by myself. Go figure.....the music is still scary and I am 31 lol.
i understant you so much !
Same lmao
When the Dragon 1st burned me alive...
Moment i knew i must fulfill my Quest
Déjà Vu here myself. Though having seen Uninvited as an adult... That would had terrified me more.
Other scary / creepy NES games include Sweet Home, and Solstice.
I cut myself off at 8pm because bed time was 10pm and I was afraid I'd have nightmares.
Loved this game as a kid, that damn torch music always gave me a heart attack!! It's fun to play through this game even now, funny how you can beat it in 30 minutes but took me 3 to 4 months to get through it back in the day lol
That torch music freaks me out too lol. I haven't played this game recently but I want to sometime soon.
5:42 It's a sad thing that your adventures have ended here
Up there with the Castlevania, Zelda, Final Fantasy, Megaman, etc. all time greats. Thanks for this. There is some metal remix of the game's music that is just bad ass too. Most of the time they are overdone but the metal remix I'm talking about starts with the "Entryway" track.
The whole OST has good tracks (NAViGaTR's theme lol), but Hero of Stormhaven is so amazing.. especially in stereo!
I was at a store with my grandmom when I was about 6. She said my little sister and I could both pick out a game each to bring home. I don't remember what I picked, but I saw Shadowgate and wanted that so bad as well. I convinced my sister to ask for it (she really didnt care one way or the other) and I felt so smart at getting both games I wanted. Turns out it was a solid plan because my entire family loved this game. We went out and bought a Nintendo Adventure Game guide book with a full walkthrough of this in it so we could beat it. We ended getting Uninvited and Deja Vu as well. I still consider this to be one of the greatest adventure games of all time.
This soundtrack is truly perfect. If you do not enjoy this old school generation of NES madness, you are stupid. Yes I know, that's insulting, but it's also the truth.
what you expected hasent happend.
Stimulator7 Deja Vu?
You are doing God's work.
Thanks, I just think I am doing the work of something relatively original and new for NES music, at least that can get people's attention for listening to this music, and putting out the music to games that barely get recognition too! :)
+WiiGuy's 8BitStereo where is your source for this music mine used to be under-groundgamer before that got shut down. zophars domain looks neat but I wish it was compiled in a large folder.
Twilight is one of the best NES songs of all time!
Impressive work here. I've never heard this chilling and memorable score sound so clean. Thanks very much.
The Kemco point-and-click trilogy are some of the finest the NES has to offer!
this game & uninvited really scared me when I was little, still give me the chills when I look at the cover :P
I used to be scared of when the torch would run out and death would come for me!
When I was little I hid the game cover away because I was so afraid of it. >.< It was a scary ass game but it was so hard NOT to watch as my parents played it.
"Eh make it suck" ~When a PC game is usually ported
"Wait... What if we made it MORE awesome?!" ~The guy who came up with the soundtrack idea
3:34
GITCY: It's good for your spleen.
This game was tricky back in the day, no internet to get walk-throughs or hints, just word of mouth
8:44 was a favorite track if mine as a kid. It's so atypically upbeat compared to the rest of the soundtrack.
Maybe because it's close to the end.
The grim reaper theme FREAKED me out
Edit: wow I'm watching this in 2019 anyone else?!?
One of the best soundtracks in gaming!
Same! Between this and double dragon 2, crystalis, and Fester's quest, my childhood was well rounded despite the strife.
I am here in 2020
I enjoy this soundtrack so much even now, November 2020.
@@ngx982 thanks for bringin me back lol
This game scared the shit out of me during my childhood.
So nice!! One of the best scores of any game. The music in the Spinx room and the Wraith room used to TERRIFY me! It was awesome! Great job my friend! Proud to be a subscriber!
Thanks for your kind words! I enjoy hearing people being satisfied! :)
Excellent choice! Actually they even made a great echo-effect from the start in this game :D
I love this game so much! I played it constantly as a kid. The music brings back great memories. ❤
Easily in my tops 5 games. Nostalgia at its finest!!
If there's one thing I will forever remember, its the frame rate drop 3 frames from the very end of the game. I love it!
5:42
It's a sad thing that
your adventures have
ended here!!
Ok, this got me right in the feels. Love it
Quite simply the greatest video game soundtrack of all time.
one of the best 8bit Soundtrack
I'd love to see games like this on the 3DS.
classic game awesome text adventure game, like a maze can be bloody scary if you dont know what you are doing. but good soundtrack too i so love shadowgate have to really use your brain for this game.
ooh i'm so excited to haer one more times some tunes of my childhood.it was translated in french and it was a pleasant and....a scary game !! Torch out !!!
I've always loved this soundtrack. So spooky and vibey.
I love everything about this game...this is probably my second favorite soundtrack on the NES...
The best NES Soundtrack that no one ever talks about! Thanks for posting this.
I keep coming back to listen to this, one of the best 8 bit soundtracks of all time.
I love the whole soundtrack but I think I like Courtyard the best. Funny when you hear the Danger song even now I want to relight another torch so the song stops. Lol
I was like 8 years old when I played this game, and though it was the most fun NES game I remember playing, the music was scary as fuck. The music is truly brilliant, though. Fucking love this, thanks so much for posting!
I still almost shit my pants when the "torch out" music plays. I have this on real NES, not playing with emulator :)
me too,a gift from my parents and how scary was i !!!
3:35
When you're gaming in the clinton years
Nice work
***** - The last track has been confirmed as the "Goblin Room" theme by the game developers. Zojoi is the original Shadowgate dev team. They came together and did a huge overhaul/remake of Shadowgate. Kemco gave them the music resources from the NES and Zojoi have listed them all as ringtones. If you give the "Goblin Room" a listen, you'll see it's the same song. www.zojoi.com/ring-tones/
Whatever the reason was that they removed that room. It's interesting that the music for the room was completed. Seems like the room was originally supposed to have been there, but who knows when Nintendo/Kemco decided to scrap it. It'd be neat to figure out if the room itself had any data stored in the code.
The Subterranean Cavern song (my favorite of the bunch) sounds like it was heavily inspired by Gnossienne No 3 and Gnossienne No 1 by Erik Satie.
YES
Twilight never sounded so damn good
EPOR
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aburg10s EPOR! !#🔫
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The “Banquet Hall” theme really creeped me out back in the day and I just realized that it still does! Damn.
As soon as I read this comment, this song started, and it freaked me out!
“Danger” is so great
Twilight keeps playing in my mind when I'm doing my shores!
3:34 The theme that plays when Clinton stalks on you
I love this!!! It's 1990 for me, again!
Just want to say that after jamming along to the "Danger" section, "Danger" is mad funky, and would make a great cell clock alarm.
Awesome job. It would be cool if the downloads offered a lossless FLAC option.
I suck at this game, but my swedish friend LOVES THIS GAME!!!!! Took him 18 years to finally beat it with a walkthrough.
1:07
really sounds like a speed-up version of Herb Alpert's:1980.
Not 100% if this theme was inspired by that song.
So true!
woah, nice catch.
Oh wow! No doubt was an inspiration. It's way too similar to be coincidental. One of the other tunes also has a pretty strong Erik Satie feel to it as well.
@Frizzurd I don't hear the similarity, but it would be pretty funny if you can find somebody that's done a decent cover of the song and see if you can sneak it onto a compilation of Christmas music lol
Great game amazing sounds and game play miss those days a true one a billion ☝️💯♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️
Loved this game so hard; it always seemed to be a bigger thing than it's parts and had some great atmos!
Hero of Stormhaven
My favotite too
This game huanted me for so long, it took me forever to beat it ^^
Love this game too, awesome soundtrack
Still one of the most frightening soundtracks of all time
Whoa, you changed your channel name. Threw me for a sec there haha
I wish the AVGN would review this game, The Uninvited, and Deja Vu.
This!
Yes! There are three of these games to the NES: Shadowgate, Deja Vu and Uninvited. If you liked Shadowgate and Deja Vu, you will definitely like Uninvited too. Give it a try!
@Stimulator7 They're ports of the classic so called 'Macventures', a couple of point and click adventure games for 1980s Macintosh computers.
They were all black and white with no music, the NES versions would have colored graphics and full soundtracks.
Because he reviews bad games.
These games are AMAZING. 🙄
The Goblin room theme always interested me awhole lot because its a room that was never used in the NES version but in the MAC version it was used.It was basically an all death purpose room basically a trap.Love the theme.
THE TORCH IS LIT
One of my favorite NES games, the PC remake was awesome too. Really the this classic justice
That music you hear when your torch starts dying. Gives a sense of urgency
the unused track is for a room called the goblin room which was takinout for the nes version hints why you move into the door way and u get crushed they made it a trap instead the last track for that but when the 25th anniversary edition comes out that room will be in there because that version is based of the nes one
Love this game so much
SHADOWGATE OST IS PERFECT & FUN 👍👍👍
3:34: Theme of Gaming in the Clinton Years
this game was release when George Bush was the President
5:05 When your cell phone battery drops down to 5%.
3:34
Gitcy
When that "danger" song kicks on and you have almost no torch left.... Curses!
8:44 - and then it was awesome!
I would play this game when i was little with my family, was the scariest game ever to me
Sees Shadowgate...Instantly subscribes...
I remember when i was really young kid and played this, i called nintendo hotline for tips in the 1st screen of the game...
me and a friend did the same thing, racked up $600 in phone charges.
This game shaped my childhood.
ICOM Simulations as the developer is correct imo since they made the game on PC first and Kemco just fitted it to the NES
Yes, I want these videos to list the NES developer/converter when it's a port of a game on another platform, as was the case for this game, but this is back when I was still getting my info down.
Fucking danger music used to freak me out so much as a kid. i would run from the living room crying when my dad was playing and he was running out of torchlight.
Loved loved this game 🤟🤘
this game scared the hell out of me when i was a little kid
Once beaten by man now beaten by animal what am I?
the best in the series
3:34 Gaming in the Clinton Years
Ugh, don't remind me. Navigatr.... bleh.
Dr. Earthworm Robotnik 5:43 Gaming in the Trump years.
Despite being a game released when George H.W. Bush was President.
excrono 6:55 gaming in the game master 2035 years!!!
"You walk into the room, a secretary in a blue dress is sitting in your chair..."
NO BS I played this game a ton . I once did a full longplay with no saves when I was like 13 years old .