Red Mosquito • View topic - 16-bit Video Game Music (SNES and Genesis/Megadrive)

Juvenal · **Posted:** Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:20 pm

Firstly, apologies if this is in the wrong section. It kinda straddles both OB and this place.

So, anyone else here share my (very nerdy) love for the music in these old school consoles? I know Megaman's music is rightly praised, but what about the 16 bit generation? There are some great tunes to heard farting out of the old speakers:

And just for shits and giggles:

Naturally I've left off loads (including Sonic 2, whose music is superlative). Any other favourites?

windedsailor · **Posted:** Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:38 pm

that earthworm jim tune starts off like a kanye song.

dimejinky99 · **Posted:** Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:40 pm

Little known fact. Michael Jackson wrote and recorded the music for Sonic the Hedgehog but when he heard the finished product on the game asked them to remove his credit for it as it is was nowhere near sounding as good as he wanted it.

EllisEamos · **Posted:** Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:40 pm

dimejinky99 wrote:

Little known fact. Michael Jackson wrote and recorded the music for Sonic the Hedgehog but when he heard the finished product on the game asked them to remove his credit for it as it is was nowhere near sounding as good as he wanted it.

windedsailor · **Posted:** Wed Jan 12, 2011 11:10 pm

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StoneIrons wrote:

I've never played that game, but this is excellent.

corky · **Posted:** Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:10 am

some amazing music in this game

awesome music for the main villain

kinda the opening/main theme

awesome bass here

and the amazing opera scene

corky · **Posted:** Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:19 am

and i forgot this incredible one. so peaceful

the verb to trust · **Posted:** Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:08 am

Dudes, Imma gonna own this thread.

Rebar · **Posted:** Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:46 pm

/thread

Alex · **Posted:** Thu Jan 13, 2011 4:57 pm

the guy from japan is really into video games

AndySlash · **Posted:** Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:21 pm

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

wrong thread

AndySlash · **Posted:** Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:35 pm

chino · **Posted:** Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:26 pm

AndySlash wrote:

pretty much anything from the Castlevania series... but my personal favourite is

the verb to trust · **Posted:** Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:32 am

Guys stop posting 8-bit songs in the 16-bit game thread. DON'T U KNOW THE DIFFERENCE!?!?!?!1

the verb to trust · **Posted:** Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:51 am

So that X-men game track that StoneIrons posted is by a composer called Tom Follin, who was one of the few early video game composers you could call a genius without irony. Guy got some ridiculous sounds out of the limited hardware of every system he wrote game music for, whether it was the commodore 64, nes, snes or genesis. He was on a different level. Couple of my favorite 16-bit songs of his (other than that X-men track):

Another guy you could call a genius--Yuzo Koshiro. He got some great bass sounds out of the Genesis FM Synth. His work on Revenge of Shinobi is pretty great, but he became a legend for his work on STREETS OF RAGE, which is the one video game series soundtrack that challenges Mega Man for that sense of momentum and propulsion.

BONUS: Yuzo Koshiro did a DJ set of his music from Streets of Rage (called "Bare Knuckle" in Japan) at a club in Tokyo in 2002. Pretty righteous. Here's part 1 of 5