Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos (NES) Soundtrack - 8BitStereo
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- Tracklist:
0:00 Title Screen
2:55 Introduction
3:20 Quest Through Kastlerock (BGM)
7:12 Item Obtained
7:14 Life Lost
7:17 Game Over
7:28 Continue (Credit)
7:45 Ending / Credits
9:06 Title Screen (Reprise)
The OST to Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos for the Nintendo Entertainment System, updated into a new "8BS Mixed" format with less echo/reverb and to sound more clear and crisp than ever before, while also providing on screen information to respective composers, arrangers, sound programmers and developers. These mixes also do not represent the original versions, check below for original OST in NSF format! So, welcome to Niko's 8BitStereo! Enjoy the music and share!
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Original NSFe Version (Need Winamp + Notso Fatso plugin!):
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• Solstice: The Quest fo... - Hudba
Here we are, to get revamped with one of Tim Follin's most legendary soundtracks that helped gain his reputation, it's Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos! The fun and challenging isometric puzzle adventure game from Software Creations is a delight and the fact it has a making of video of it with seeing Tim talk about the music and even seeing Stephen Ruddy's sound driver being demonstrated is marvelous! Of course with the fun gameplay and stellar graphics, the discussion with this game always comes back to Tim Follin's soundtrack, most certainly inspired by the bands he listened to growing up (especially Yes for the title screen), the main theme has always wowed people first time hearing it, starting quiet and subtle than blasting into your ears with NES force! The other songs are great as well, despite being a short OST, the main BGM is perfect as you quest through the game, and the Ending theme is superb! It's a game and OST that will forever live on as a standout title especially for its music, thank you as always Tim!
Link to the video you're talking about?
Thanks for the background 😊
I would love to watch that video. Share that link, please
I've always loved this game, and the soundtrack. It's even more impressive that he made such a masterpiece at the age of 20!
❤️🕹️🎮👾❤️
Tim Follin goes hard as always
Possibly the best NES title screen music.
I discovered Tim Follin through the Silver Surfer and Ghouls 'n Ghosts soundtracks when I was young, as I'm sure a large number of others did, and immediately began searching for anything else I could find from him. When I first heard the Solstice opening/title track, I was absolutely blown away. It was first my introduction to prog, really. I used it as my main ringtone/alarm on my first cellphone, the Nokia N70, for nearly 8 years. People would constantly ask me what it was, and I would have the joy of introducing them to Tim Follin. People weren't generally that receptive to chiptune sound, but this track somehow transcended instrumental preference and allowed me to genuinely form a connection with other human beings over a shared interest during a time where I was really struggling to be "social." I can look back now as a fairly well-adjusted adult with a family of my own and say that this track - without a shadow of a doubt - had a big part in helping me become the man I am. It's weird how something so small and otherwise mundane can become so significant in our short lifetime.
Well said. Can you imagine what kind of man you would be if you had heard this song when you were a kid? czcams.com/video/uf1LtRcCPgg/video.html
dat bass
This game was hard as nails! I rented it one weekend and never really figured it out. But that stage music always stuck in my head.
Also, that is one manly, muscular wizard on the artwork!
Such a great soundtrack, especially that banger of an intro track!
100%, this OST is a contender for my all time favorite NES music
Tim Follin truly making a name for himself because of this, on the NES alone, expand to his ZX, C64, SNES and even his one Genesis title and he's always been making banger after bangers! 👍
bro i will never forget the solstice opening jam
Tim Follin is always talented at composing on retro platforms like ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga, NES and SNES!
I can definitely see how Yes was an inspiration for the title. This sounds like a prog rock opera!
Never played the game but I love NES soundtracks so I'm glad I checked this one out.
Happy you can still get to discover and experience the music here! And yup you can definitely hear the inspirations of many Prog and Rock acts through his compositions, but I recall specifically someone said Yes inspired him for this track, hell Tim may have said it himself in some interview out there :P
7:28 heard this theme a lot
Great choice.
Track 3 went from "More Cowbell" to "More King Hippo Yells". I'd recognize that sound anywhere after a LOT of time with Punch Out.
I rented this game like 3 weeks in a row when I was a kid. Drove my brother crazy cause he wanted something different each week, but I just HAD to beat it. I eventually did and I was so happy. I also used to play game music while recording it on cassette tapes, so I had a cassette of Tim Follin tracks recorded off my TV
Do you have those cassettes? If you do could you possibly upload them? I'd love to hear what they would sound like just one of those weird curiosities!
@@Dedicatedtolivinginthepast Sadly, they got lost long ago. I had a case with like 20 tapes of VG music too, including some cringy ones where I would introduce the tracks in-between like a radio host/DJ, lol
@@GRAHFMETAL Ah too bad I can just imagine "And here we have the over world theme from Deadly towwwwwers!" In some kids voice
@@Dedicatedtolivinginthepast Pretty much :D
@@GRAHFMETAL LOL awesome. Wish we had that youthful power in old age - the power to not worry about other's opinions.
One of the greatest intro tracks of all time. The song itself is badass, but the programming is excellent, just exceptionally well executed.
and to think it was programmed by one person.
Shadax’s 8-bit pack abs approve of this video, and Niko and 8BS! 🥰🥰🥰
That mage put a lot of points into strength instead of magic
Straight 18s, baby
Thanks so much for all of the uploads over the years, you are much loved and appreciated!
Thank you very much, happy to have done this for as long as I have, but not so happy it took me basically 9 years to get to the sound and format I wanted with these videos (sound more so, but visually I'm glad I took a step up), but during those years it wasn't a thought I could have done even better, and it's still great so many have enjoyed and stuck around for all this time, and can see this new and better era for 8BitStereo! :)
This is a one of a kind ost. Amazing, thanks for adding it to your library of awesome music!
Software Creations is a game-making machine with amazing music, always coming out of the head of Tim Follin or Geoff Follin, even both! And of course, Stephen Ruddy, being an exceptional sound driver! It is wonderful! Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos, is proof of that, a good game and an unusual soundtrack! 🎼
By far... the best soundtrack ever for NES. I'm hearing this with a big smile remembering my childhood.
this is amazing
It's like the 90's Surprise Symphony! What an incredible Title Theme this is! It's like just give Tim Follin any musical commission, a brief description on the topic and enough freedom, and he will cast a magic soundtrack to make us bump to any beat and enchant our ears with incredible everlasting composures of pure passion and divinity.
I've been following your 8BIT-Stereo since 2012 and I'm still on track, recording and listening to your mixes on my phone at each time I listen to my music! Thank you for everything you have done for us and enhancing the NES musical experience for everybody!
That pretty much nails it about Tim in the most fascinating way possible, he is a legend. And god damn an OG from the 2012 days, happy you are still around and can experience these wonderful OST's again with these revamps!
Tim Follin has no restraint when it comes to title music. Not that I’m complaining, of course. 🤘
A great title theme does wonders for the remembering of your soundtrack (and the game as well, frankly) :)
Thank you for doing this one. If I wasn't running a fever of 102 I'd be jamming out to this all night. As it stands, I'm already disoriented enough that I'm pretty sure listening to it would cause me to transcend reality 😏 Seriously though, at least in my top 3 for game soundtracks.
Hope you're feeling better (very likely I assume, lol), and that this OST gave you a good experience at least listening when in that state! :P
It's starts like, dee dee deet dee, then BLAM!!! The best 8bit sounds ever!
Fantastic. Thank you.
This is the soundtrack of my youth! All hail Tim Follin!
The greatest video game ever made now in 8BitStereo. Thank you!
I remember playing this game and coming so close to beating it. Great music, great memories
For your age you know a lot of NES stuff.
And to think when I originally started this series I was 18, but let's not forgot digging deeper of when I was discovering retro games and the soundtracks when I was basically 13/14, so yeah it's been around for basically half my life :P
Nah cuz that intro feels like what an acid trip probably felt like to some guy in the 70s😂😂
So now I know where that Elden Ring channel where he cheeses the bosses got his picture from lol
Ah, yes. One of those games my stupid kid self couldn't get through. Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania, Contra, no problem. Solstice? Nope.
Jethro Tull themes.
God damn this is a freaking killer sound track. lol
Did he also the do the in game music?
1.4.2024
The title music is out of this world obviously but the rest of the game sounds so boring sadly