The video game music repository KHInsider has had a huge week. Visitors going to the main page at downloads.khinsider.com today were greeted by a massive list of 71 games that had been added on March 11th. But visitors scrolling down further may have been shocked to find that this fairly simple, ad-free site has been uploading far, far more soundtracks than that. March 8th was a particular standout day for KHInsider, with well over a thousand soundtracks uploaded.
As might be expected, KHInsider is putting out such big numbers in part because it is accepting uploads of any game, not just famous ones. Of course, this only increases the odds that any visitor looking for some obscure title of their title change might, incredibly enough, be able to find those very sounds. Few may remember the action/puzzle hybrid game Clever & Smart, based on the Spanish comic Mortadelo y Filemón, for the Amiga and Commodore 64. But for those who do, it is now possible to relocate the soundtrack from those games. Chamisio, who uploaded these soundtracks, also had rips of the music from 1990 Monty Python’s Flying Circus game from those platforms, a shoot-em-up scroller.
The biggest name retro title on the upload list is probably Mortal Kombat II, or more specifically, the versions of that game which were released for the Game Gear, Game Boy, and Master System. Of course, a substantial accounting of every game that’s been recently added to the database, let alone the hundreds of thousands that have been added since the site got started all the way back in 2015, is quite impossible. For those curious about whether KHInsider has recordings of your favorite game, your best bet is just to go check out the website yourself. There’s a decent chance that however obscure you may think your long-forgotten ear worm is, it’s in there somewhere. I’ve always been partial to the soundtrack for Tetris Attack for the original Game Boy. Those songs in particular were added on July 29th, 2023. Thanks, Tailikku.
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