Street Fighter 1 is… rough. Not just to play, which is a whole thing that can be okay at some points and painful the next, but the audio department is rough. The choice to focus on this screeching sound for a majority of the soundtrack was… a choice.
A reminder that this is 1987 Capcom. They made great music at the time.
I want to preface this by saying that I actually like Deadly Towers. But this theme.... You see you die a lot so... Well get used to it. You will be hearing it. A lot. Over and over.
Almost everything on the Genesis. I love that little black box, but thanks to Sega's GEMS Software everything sounded like farts and blown out speakers.
This is kind of a Doki Doki Panic ass fact but the fact that the composer for the infamously shitty RE1 Director's Cut basement theme claimed to be deaf but was actually just faking it the whole time will never not be hilarious to me.
Like imagine him faking a disability and raking in wads of cash when partway through this major project one of the interns fucks up the import to the game and the instruments get jumbled, mangling the track but you can't fucking SAY ANYTHING because you're supposed to be deaf and everyone else is just like "Wow this sounds like straight ass but I'm not gonna tell the deaf guy his music sucks, go ahead and ship it the way it is lol"
Incidentally, if I had a nickel for every time a game's infamously bad music was caused by instruments accidentally getting switched partway through production...
Terminator for the Famicom comes to mind. That one is beyond bad... So much so that if it didn't have any audio, it would be a little less bad (but only a little).
Kiwi Kraze and Double Dragon (both for the Mega Drive) also have very bad soundtracks. But in this case, not because of the songs themselves, but because of the excessive shrillness and distortion used in the tones.
The story behind this OST is pure gold, the composer for the directors cut was a preety famous composer from Japan, a guy that talked about him being deaf and being the "Japaneze Beethoven", the thing is he wasn't and he didn't even compose a bunch of those songs. In this song he accidentaly replaced the MIDI instruments, but he noticed it after sending it, he couldn't change it back again because people would discover he wasn't actually deaf and would destroy his persona. To be totally honest we don't know if this is 100% the story, but its the most likely one, because changing the soundfont of the trumpets to an organ/chorus with reverb makes it MILES better and people were theorizing this since 2014.
Sonic Chronicles has another funny story, this game OST is known entirely for being a big slop, well, we have a perfectly funny stupid and bizarre story, Bioware made an entirely staged soundtrack for this game, orchestrated and all, but for legal reasons envolving copyright (If I remember correctly that original OST (lmao) would use remixes of other sonic music, and this cause a bunch of problems) they had to scrap and remake all of the soundtrack from ground-up. We all know that this game didn't have the biggest of the budgets, so in a desperate move Bioware searched around the internet for a bunch of MIDIS, found ones composed by fans, sloppelly used an untested soundfont and made the messe we all know and love today. The like three good musics in the game were made from scratch tho.
I non ironically LOVE this song, like really really love this song, I love weird music OH COOL FACT, the band that made this music had for a time Sean Lennon on its formation lmao
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