{"id":2272,"date":"2015-06-21T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2015-06-13T02:21:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T00:21:13","slug":"ost-295-sparkster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/?p=2272","title":{"rendered":"OST #295: Sparkster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/295-Sparkster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2274\" alt=\"295-Sparkster\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/295-Sparkster.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/295-Sparkster.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/295-Sparkster-300x70.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Composer: Kazuhiko Uehara, Masahiro Ikariko, Minako Matsuhira, Michiru Yamane &amp; Akira Yamaoka<br \/>\nSystem: Super Nintendo<br \/>\nYear: 1994<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Als Konami noch ein beliebter Hersteller kultiger Videospiele war und nicht alle paar Wochen neuen Bockmist verzapfte, da versuchten sie neben all ihren <b>Castlevania-<\/b>s, <b>Contra-<\/b>s und <b>Gradius-<\/b>en einen neuen, knuddeligen Spielehelden zu etablieren. <b>Sparkster <\/b>deb\u00fctierte erstmals in dem exklusiv f\u00fcr das Mega Drive erschienenen <b>Rocket Knight Adventure<\/b>, bevor sein Name f\u00fcr die unvermeidliche Fortsetzung als Spieletitel herhalten musste.<\/p>\n<p>In der Super-Nintendo-Version d\u00fcrfte der wohl beste Konami-Soundtrack schlummern, der in Vergessenheit geraten ist. Vorrangig geh\u00f6rt die Instrumentation zum besten, was je aus der Nintendo-Konsole erschallte. Die Qualit\u00e4t der Instrumentensamples ist schlicht fantastisch und deckt sowohl klassische Orchesterkl\u00e4nge als auch satten E-Gitarrensound ab. Deshalb h\u00f6rt sich <b>Sparkster<\/b> manchmal mehr nach <b>Contra\/Probotector<\/b> an, w\u00e4hrend ihr an anderer Stelle eine \u00e4hnliche Atmosph\u00e4re wie in <b>Starwing <\/b>sp\u00fcrt.<\/p>\n<p>Besonders gelungen sind der kurze Continue-Loop, der mit seinen synthetischen Bl\u00e4sern eine grandiose Epik erzeugt, und die harte, rockige Musik der Steel-Works-Stage, die als das obligatorisches YouTube-Beispiel herhalten muss.<\/p>\n<p>Wie stark die Instrumentation ist, beweist im \u00fcbrigen die Mega-Drive-Adaption: Dort h\u00f6rt ihr die gleichen Musikst\u00fccke, die jedoch aufgrund des YM2612-Sounds bei Weitem nicht die gleiche Faszination ausstrahlen.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Soundtrack-Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen [Original]<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vgmdb.net\/album\/5836\">La Compil Player One [Compilation]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_87633\"  width=\"576\" height=\"324\"  data-origwidth=\"576\" data-origheight=\"324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zS2_ygq0hLY?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Sparkster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2276\" alt=\"Sparkster\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Sparkster-1024x707.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Sparkster-1024x707.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Sparkster-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composer: Kazuhiko Uehara, Masahiro Ikariko, Minako Matsuhira, Michiru Yamane &amp; Akira Yamaoka System: Super Nintendo Year: 1994<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-score","category-personal-top-365-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}