GC 2008: Samba De Amigo - Ulala confirmed and songs revealed
Posted by Graham. Filed under Europe, G, News, Nintendo Wii, North America. Tagged with Dreamcast, event, Exhibition, Games Convention, Samba De Amigo.
You might have thought that Sega had shown us enough of the upcoming Samba De Amigo for the Wii, and that they had revealed pretty much everything about the game. You would be wrong.
Today, at the Leipzig Games Convention, Sega revealed the game’s track list and some new screenshots featuring the simultaneously lovely and sexy Ulala, from Space Channel 5!
Since Sonic was announced as a featured character in the Wii version of Samba, people have been speculating whether Sega/Gearbox (the developers) would be adding any more fan favourites to the lineup.
What with Ulala coming from a rhythm/music game herself, she was one of the top guesses, and I’m glad to see Sega used their initiative and put her in. Now I wonder if any other Sega characters will feature too? I want to see Ryo Hazuki on this dance floor! ;)
The track list Sega has announced features many of the songs from the original Dreamcast game, plus plenty of new Wii-exclusive tunes to shake your “heiny” to.
Check after the break for more screenshots and that track list.
~Screenshots~
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
~Track List~
* Denotes the song is performed by a cover band
Returning Classic songs from the original Samba de Amigo:
- Vamos A Carnaval- WaveMaster*
- Volare - Gypsy Kings
- Hot Hot Hot - Arrow*
- Salome- Chayanne*
- Tubthumping- Chumbawumba*
- The Cup of Life - R. Martin*
- Samba de Janeiro - Bellini
- Mambo Beat - Perez Prado*
- Livin’ La Vida Loca - Ricky Martin*
- Bamboleo- Gipsy Kings
- Take On Me - Reel Big Fish
- El Ritmo Tropical - Dixie’s Gang*
- Macarena - Los Del Rio*
- La Bamba- Ritchie Valens*
- Tequila - Chuck Rio*
- Soul Bossa Nova - Quincy Jones
- Samba De Amigo - Bellini
- The Theme of Rocky- Bill Conti*
- Mas Que Nada - Jorge Ben*
- Sway- Gimbel and Ruiz*
- El Mambo- Solemar
All-New Wii-Exclusive Songs:
- Baila Me- Gipsy Kings
- Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como*
- Mambo No. 8 - Perez Prado
- Conga - Miami Sound Machine*
- Low Rider - War
- Mambo No. 5- Lou Bega*
- Oye Como Va - Santana*
- Asereje- Las Ketchup*
- Arriba Allez - Bellini
- Magalenha- Bellini and Mondonca Do Rio
- Ran Kan Ran- Tito Puento*
- Groove Is In the Heart - Dee Lite
- Jump in the Line- Harry Belafonte*
- Do It Well - Jennifer Lopez*
- Como Ves- Ozomatli
- Cha Cha- Chelo
- Pon de Replay- Rihanna
- Smooth - Santana*
- Mexican Flyer - Ken Woodman*
- Borriquito - Charo
- Un Aguardiente- WaveGroup
- Solo Tu- WaveGroup
- Tango With Me- WaveGroup
I hope you are all getting nice and excited for the game’s launch in Europe on September 19, 2008 and North America on September 23, 2008.
Comments on this article
There have been 13 responses to this article.
Mexican Flyer! Ulala’s there, so it’s perfect.
Is that the entire song list? I thought someone said they’d be including some classic SEGA songs.
Dr. SEGA Monkey
Posted August 20th, 2008 at 5:36 pm.
Yeah. Carlos Santana songs.
udx
Posted August 20th, 2008 at 6:06 pm.
Anyone else find it rather amusing that not only is Ulala in the game but a song by Deee-Lite is as well?
For anyone unaware, Lady Miss Kier of Deee-Lite tried suing SEGA for supposedly using her likeness as the basis for Ulala. Not only did she lose the trial, but she had to pony up some heavy money to SEGA.
Rather funny how one of their songs eventually DOES show up along with Ulala.
Tsukento
Posted August 20th, 2008 at 6:10 pm.
i want a wii now, with this and house of the dead, im pretty excited actually
joei
Posted August 20th, 2008 at 6:29 pm.
That sounds pretty good … let’s just hope this version will sell more than the DC one …
Psycho_Echidna
Posted August 20th, 2008 at 6:44 pm.
The new look of the game is great including the soundtrack. Burning Rangers song!
Samba de Janeiro is a great song!
Taco Lord
Posted August 20th, 2008 at 7:58 pm.
I can’t believe the few classic Sega songs there are! I will still get it though hopefully they will put the classics as DLC.
SEGA MAN
Posted August 20th, 2008 at 9:57 pm.
The classic SEGA songs were downloadables in the last games. It won’t be surprising to see them as DLC in this version.
Tsukento
Posted August 20th, 2008 at 10:09 pm.
Looks good I hope I will have enough money to afford it.
nam1018
Posted August 20th, 2008 at 10:25 pm.
Sweet. I’ve got it reserved, so when the time comes I’ll be ready to shake a Wiimote like it’s 1999 to a crappy cover of ‘Tubthumpin’!
*na1018, I think it’s $40, so you’ll probably be able to scrape that together.
Gamerschoice
Posted August 20th, 2008 at 11:06 pm.
Looking Good. Here’s hoping NiGHTS get that cameo place reserved again for him. If Dreams Dreams is on the track list (and they’ve decided to keep it in) then there’s no doubt he’ll show up too.
Looking forward to this. :)
DiGi Valentine
Posted August 21st, 2008 at 4:14 am.
I totally called this!
Well, now that we’ve proven that Gearbox loves some of the more obscure franchises as well…I’m definitely hoping for a NiGHTS level, as well as something from Jet Set Radio.
And Shenmue. Imagine…Ryo vs. Amigo in the ULTIMATE MARACA SMACKDOWN.
(As for Sega music? My guess is that both the stages and songs are unlockable, and a “series” is unlocked as a whole. It’s kind of like how unlocking Sonic in Smash Bros. got you Green Hill Zone and Shadow as well.)
nirniva
Posted August 21st, 2008 at 7:53 am.
@Tsukento
What’s better is that the Dee Lite song isn’t even a cover. So, I guess the feud is over, amirite?
(Oh, and sorry for the double post.)
nirniva
Posted August 21st, 2008 at 7:59 am.