Saturday, September 25, 2010

Chiptuned: Yuzo Koshiro




Yuzo Koshiro is one of those composers who doesn’t get nearly enough recognition. He should be up there with the likes of that final fantasy dude, and the super Mario brothers/Zelda/starfox guy, and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that he hasn’t composed music for games that cull that kind of recognition. He did do sonic the hedgehog, but it was game gear and master system versions, not the ones that appeared on genesis, that was reserved for the likes of Masato Nakamura and Michael Jackson.

Yuzo Koshiro had a few cult hits in the 80’s notably the Y’s 1 and 2. His huge breakout was with Streets of Rage, which was has a sound track that is very much inspired by electronic music of the era. What was even more amazing was what he was able to do with the sega sound chip, which usually made some of the most disgusting noises in the universe.



Example of the bad



Yuzo Koshiro’s The Street of Rage.


Any ways Streets of Rage is one of the earliest examples that I can recall of an EDM soundtrack in a video game.


1 comment:

  1. Shit! That Jurassic Park just bought back memories. Do one on the guy that did Ninja Gaiden. He was a bad ass!

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