/vr/ - Retro Games

Never played Streets Of Rage before, time to make it up. Figured I'd play them on Genesis. Got through 1 and 2, loved the gameplay, loved the music.. I knew that the OST is something special because of how it blended both complexity and funkiness with that shitty-gritty Genesis sound. But it was Streets Of Rage 3 OST that struck me the most. I've been digging in games for years and decades but this is like the only fucking game in existence (at least retrogaming existence) that is so self-conscious about its artistry and not being a "background music in kids' game". I know it's not everyone's cup of coffee because it's dirty and raw as fuck and sometimes outright scary with its dissonant aggression but goddamn I'm really amazed by it. This could easily be released on something like Warp Records in 1994 and be regarded as an essential and influential electronic album, if it wasn't a "background music for kids' game". If you make a soundtrack on an simple 5 channel Yamaha chip, in an era where a lots of records made back then nowadays sound cheaply dated - well then excuse me mr. Yuzo Koshiro but you deserve a thread on /vr/.

To prove my point that the OST can be regarded as fresh 25 years after its release: Yuzo did a Streets Of Rage set on a Red Bull Music Festival and it fucking blows my mind how some passages are up to todays' EDM/IDM standards. See it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW03QgubN0M

tl;dr SOR3 OST is groundbreaking 10/10
inb4 some of the parts were automated/randomly generated

Full OST here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRrf-WxRsgs