/vr/ - Retro Games

https://youtu.be/-peEeGK77Us

God, what a crock of shit the Genesis' sound chip was.

Might as well rename this thread 'terrible genesis music.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGWSijvWxFI

>>8886428
Sometimes I forget just how shitty the Genesis sounded.

>>8886426
>no cap
>>8886428
>Genesis

>3 replies
>1 poster

>>8886426
Don't try to start a bait thread here, Bomberman theme is fucking iconic.
It's an example of good 7 second loop which doesn't annoy you much. Hudson did similar thing for their Nuts & Milk game where it's basically 2 notes arranged in three different ways.

Now for what I'd call bad is this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_I694s490Q
It's unfitting and ear-piercing boss theme for a rather quality game. Considering the bosses have plenty of health, you'll be listening to this a lot.

>>8886426
Master System games. All of them.

>>8886435
It gets worse.
https://youtu.be/cuUbj70QfnE

Gonna post a "gem" like this
https://youtu.be/iUv0cPZN38c

>>8886464
this slaps ngl

>>8886426
Doesn't it gain more instruments once you collect the hidden item of each stage?

>>8886426
The game has 16k of ROM, what the hell did you expect?

>>8886449
>>3 replies
>>1 poster
the poster count doesn't update when you hit Update instead of refresh

>>8886428
Jesus christ. I'm glad my parents got me a SNES.

https://youtu.be/Mf0lisBZQP8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us89iCZJuCQ

Manic Miner on the Zed Ecks Speccy, like mum used to make, fockin' lush

wtf is this creepy as shit

same OP, same replies. Are these just bots?

>>8886498
No, it's just schizo talking with himself

beep boop

>>8886498
i swear to god ive seen this exact thread at least twice a year.
I think I gotta stop going on this board soon

>>8886520
You have. This is either a bot or a persistent autist.

No vidya "music" is worse than Drago's palace from Rygar. It's four notes ad infinitum.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hZhQvsk9eOU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGWSijvWxFI

>>8886574
>>8886435
>>8886428
I like these. Also >>8886574 and >>8886435 are the same thing.

>>8886491
While yes, it's bad-sounding, it seems like they were trying for a gamelan-sound. While gamelan is most commonly associated with Indonesia, similarly arranged music is common throughout SEA (excepting Vietnam, likely due to Indic culture having a far lesser effect on it in its history).

Here's an example of gamelan as an accompaniment to Indonesian ballet telling of the Ramayana, the story which inspired Journey to the West (and subsequently Dragon Ball):
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OMwyMNkSNDw&t=86

Here's a performance of the monkey chant, also from the Ramayana:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=C6GxZ1I45oQ

And here's a video game song that was obviously inspired by gamelan in general:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=D0kj5JH8jCk

And, from the same game, the monkey chant in particular, which is EXTREMELY fucking obvious (yapyapyap!):
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LjrrPqAcKfs

>>8886435
It's very notable in being those kinda songs that you have to immediately drop down the volume of the TV of
SADX was another one, especially with how quiet the opening starts, then the title screen music just comes absolutely blaring

>>8886524
People are quick to go to "bots" as the answer, but persistent autist is likely the answer
On Gamefaqs there was a lot of autists caught making the same yearly threads, some others, years apart, but the same exact thread
Why? Who the fuck knows?

>>8886752
>Why? Who the fuck knows?
The obvious reason is that they're starving for somebody to validate their shit take but either nobody cared earlier or the mods deleted their thread (and they deleted his thread twice that I've seen). So you try again with a different audience a few months later.

>>8886697
Shut the fuck up nerd, this thread is for shitposting and consolewarring

>>8886464
Anon what are you talking about this is a banger

>>8886796
Had I ended the post with "Genesis sucks!!!" would it have been fine?

>>8886426
not bad music

yes it is repetitive, but you could literally play the entire game without getting tired of it

>>8886971
Bomberman II takes it and improves on it in every way.

>>8886426
how is this bad music? I think you may just have a small dick and can't look at women without having cops called on you

>>8887021
>6 second loop good because.... it just is ok?

>>8887657
It just is. There isn't much to say about 6-second loop, but what kind of music do you want in such game? It shouldn't distract you from gameplay and it shouldn't annoy you during 50 levels. It does the job.

>>8886490
>Jesus christ. I'm glad my parents got me a SNES.
>Wow, this one game sounds bad! Therefore the whole library must sound bad!
Play more games on both consoles retard. I bet you don't know about all the gems and legitimately unique games on the Genesis.
Hell, dumbasses like you probably don't even know all the great stuff on the SNES either and just stick to Mario, Zelda, and Square games, right? Probably never even tried the SMT games on there or the SNES Fire Emblem games, Rendering Rangers etc. I especially doubt you've even tried a Turbografx-16 game either, you basic ass bitch.

>>8886426
The “7 second loop” was commonplace in early 80s video games. Donkey Kong, Mr. Do, Dig Dug, all fine examples of this. There were occasional exceptions, such as Pitfall 2, Mappy, New Rally X, with more sophisticated music, but I don’t think that quality of music became standard until the mid 80s.

>>8887657
It's a catchy little beat that plays while you're playing the game. It serves its purpose well enough, it's not ear-gratingly out of pitch or annoying to hear.
It's an arcade game, not some epic adventure like SMB or Zelda that needs a full track to set the mood.

This is like the 5th time OP's tried this thread. Everytime he got BTFO'd but for once he was smart enough to start the thread when week end tourists are around.

Here is another kickass 7 seconds loop like Bomberman's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMuGdql2Fug

and 3-4 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypiq3orXX-w

>>8886426
>no cap.
*barf*

>>8886426
"japanese" BOMBAMAN!!!!
oh yeah obligatory op is a fag

>>8886426
fr fr fr no cap cap no shot bussing dab lit

>>8886426
7 secs is all you need, you got filtered by sovl

>>8886560
In contrast, the first theme of the same game is very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDwivbWwnt8
/thread

This is some of the funkiest shit I've heard, damn

https://youtu.be/keogHIpDByI

>>8887010
Bomberman PCE did it first and better

>>8889070
https://youtu.be/xtdj_mlD3_4
famicoomers not even trying

I found this on a bad video game music playlist and ended up liking it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li5mXnHyg9w

>>8889048
Most-to-all the other music in it is fair-to-good but Dorago's palace is the fucking worse.

>>8889083
If you like that, you should look into the Japanese band Demi Semi Quaver. I found one of their CDs (remember those?) in a bargain bin of used albums for a buck, bought it because it looked fucking bizarre and for a buck ytfnot? I brought it home, listened to it and loved it.
Here's the opening track on that album:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nv5EvZ-tYNI

>>8889368
Fuck, I posted a 30 second clip. F that. Here's a full one, sorry.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ers9losZ-84

>>8886428
>>8886439
>>8886490
>pick a theme which was a really hurried conversion with no effort put into making it actually sound good on the Yamaha YM2612 Synth
>WAOOW THE GENESIS SOUNDS SO BAD!

This is what Doom on the 32X was supposed to sound like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FehpU0sjXrQ

>>8886796
Fuck you, it was informative.

>>8888028
based kondoposting

>>8887657
Thought it was 7 seconds?

>>8886450
Sounds semi-avantgarde. I kinda dig it.