88b. Robotech Wars: Battle Royale Music Guide

What follows is a list of all the music that appeared in the Matchbox video Robotech Wars episode 2: "Battle Royale." Bold text denotes that this is the first appearance of that piece of music.

ADDITIONAL NOTES: Where "To the End of the Universe" farmed old footage and completely rearranged it with completly new dialogue to make an all new story, "Battle Royale" is more of a direct clip show, stitching together battle scenes from the first three and last nine episodes of the Macross Saga (with many scenes keeping the same dialogue), under the frame work of one of Exedore's briefings to Gloval and crew. As a result a lot of the music tracks from the original scenes are left the same. There are a few changes, but most of them are in the spirit of the original versions and don't bring in any new music.

The big exceptions to these are where some Sentinels music has been brought in. "Expeditionary Briefing" is used for the scenes where Exedore is giving his reports, a slowed-down version of "The Young Warriors" is used for when Rick is setting Minmei and Kyle free form Khyron's cage, and a new piece is used for the scene recounting the battle from Episode 2 "Countdown," where the wounded Zentraedi soldier rises out of his damaged battlepod and starts stomping towards Rick and Minmei in the VF-1D. While the lead synthesizer sounds like it could be either Sentinels or Harlock, I'm presuming it's from the Sentinels because it has a similar sound to the percussion and various other synthesizer sounds used in it that the other Sentinels tracks use.

Robotech Theme
Desolation
To Be in Love (Minmei Doll distortion)
Expeditionary Briefing
Zentraedi Theme
Alien Attack
The SDF-1
The 15th Squadron
Catastrophe
(Alien Attack) Resolve
Zentraedi Stomp - unreleased (Sentinels?)
Musica's Theme
Zentraedi Theme
Expeditionary Briefing
Khyron's Theme
Roy Fokker's Theme
It's You
Catastrophe
Khyron's Theme
Rick Hunter's Theme
Khyron's Theme
Red Alert
The Young Warriors (slowed down)
Alien Attack
Cliffhangers (c)
A New Dawn
Robotech Love Theme I
Battlestations
Red Alert
Intrigue
Alien Attack
Desolation
Reconstruction Blues
A New Dawn
Robotech End Titles

88a. Robotech Wars: To the End of the Universe Music Guide

What follows is a list of all the music that appeared in the Matchbox video Robotech Wars episode 1: "To the Ends of the Universe." Bold text denotes that this is the first appearance of that piece of music.

ADDITIONAL NOTES: Just like Robotech II: The Sentinels and Robotech: The Movie, Robotech Wars is a musical free-for-all, drawing on music written for Robotech, Sentinels, and Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years. It uses 9 Robotech tracks, 4 Sentinels tracks, and 4 Harlock tracks. Of those, two of the Harlock tracks are new to Robotech, and one of the Sentinels tracks is completely new and never heard anywhere before.  I've again picked episode titles from Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years to serve as song titles for the Harlock tracks.

It's also worth noting that both the opening and closing credits are faded in and out, technically making the music on them incomplete. It's common for musical cues to be incomplete, but the two episodes on this video are the only time it's been done for the opening and closing credits.

This episode also used Alien Attack four times, which is a new record. The most times any Robotech episode used it before was three.

Robotech Theme
To Catch a Captain [Harlock] - unreleased
The 15th Squadron
Khyron's Theme
The SDF-1 (sped up)
Alien Attack
Red Alert
The Point of No Return
Alien Attack
Khyron's Theme
The Regent
Expeditionary Briefing
Khyron Rants - [previously unused Sentinels music, unreleased]
Days of My Youth - [Harlock] unreleased
Zentraedi Theme
Alien Attack
The Young Warriors
The 15th Squadron
Firing Line - [Harlock] unreleased
Alien Attack
Crisis
United Earth Government Theme
Robotech End Titles