

Yuzo Koshiro’s personal twitter account is: !/yuzokoshiro. They released “Protect me Knight!” on XBox360, Yuzo Koshiro wrote the music for it. Yuzo Koshiro is currently the CEO of an independent game developing company called Ancient Games, here’s the twitter account for it (been inactive for a while): !/AncientGames_EN. I forget which songs he worked on specifically, but I remember when he was revealed as one of the composers during the Brawl development blog updates, my friends and I were super stoked. Also, to answer your other question about whether he was one of the many composers that worked on Brawl’s soundtrack, yes, he was. I was curious of this about a year ago, and looked into it, turns out he’s been up to a lot. You guys were curious about what Yuzo Koshiro is up to these days after making amazing music from the MSX through the Genesis era. I know we poke fun at the Genesis/Mega Drive’s sound capabilities, but in all honesty there are numerous outstanding soundtracks on the system, and at the very least you can say the platform has a distinct “sound.” Chiptunes all have a general NES/Game Boy feel, SNES music is all over the place, but Genesis, ah yes, you always know when you’re listening to that. Granted, they do eventually loop (because again, as cart titles they must) but the journey through the loop is a bit fresher than many other contemporary games.


One thing I neglected to mention about many of the titles featured this week is how they grow and change – instead of simply repeating the same 40 second loop (as was often the case with cartridge-based music), many of these songs behave like genuine music, with a chorus, bridge and so on. Our first look at the 16-bit Sega console focuses on lesser-known titles like Mean Bean Machine, along with classics ToeJam & Earl and Revenge of Shinobi.Ģ3:55 – Sunrise Blvd (Revenge of Shinobi)ģ9:30 – Blobby Blob Disco (OverClocked ReMix)
