Song: Theme of Cody (Cody's Theme)
Game: Super Street Fighter IV
Arranged by: Hideyuki Fukasawa
Today I chose Cody's Theme from Super Street Fighter IV both because I think it's dope, and not a lot of people understand where it came from. At first you hear it and think that Hideyuki Fukasawa really knows how to make a sick jam, but if you listen closely you'll notice that it isn't an original piece at all. It is however heavily altered.
In the early 90's Capcom put out an arcade beat em' up called Final Fight. The two main characters of that game are Cody and Guy, who you may now recognize as Street Fighter characters. The mayor of Metro City, Mike Haggar, gets a call that the Mad Gear Gang has kidnapped his daughter. It's up to Cody and Guy to rescue her!
At some point Capcom decided it would be cool to have Cody and Guy transfer over to street fighter starting with the Alpha series. This is what makes Cody's theme doubly cool. It's an arrangement of the original Final Fight's opening theme.
If you watch the above video you'll be able to hear the sweet sounds of Final Fight. The soundtrack was contributed to by seven different composers, so credit for it could go to Manami Matsumae, Yoshihiro Sakaguchi, Yasuaki Fujita, Hiromitsu Takaoka, Yoko Shimomura, Junko Tamiya, or Harumi Fujita.
Cody is my main in Street Fighter IV, and I love listening to his theme. It gets me super pumped up, so if I ever need to get things done I can always crank up Cody's Theme and get down to business.
Note: In case you don't know anything about Street Fighter IV, there have been four major iterations of the game. Cody came in during the second iteration Super Street Fighter IV.
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