The Making Of Solstice for NES 1/2

[yermomsboxx]

Great NES soundtrack? Of course a Follin was involved...

[Demendred1605]

the biggest thing that stood out to me was the music

[MagnaderAlpha]

Damn, the music in this game was awesome! I actually loved that about old 70s and 80s fantasy, how they had that innate connection to both medieval music and progressive rock. I enjoyed that era of fantasy more than, say, the modern era where there's nothing buy overly orchestrated "epic" music(which is more generic, IMO, because epic music isn't just used for fantasy, but action and period pieces too, so it's less intimate of a style for fantasy).

[frankduxvandamme]

I just beat the game for the first time this afternoon. great NES game!

[sydbarrett1]

this is pure class. thanks for uploading. does anyone have info on what tim follin is up to now?

[taitaisanchez]

this game is great.  :|

[DGMRuadeil]

awesome! Thanks for uploading!

[WhoMelissa]

Solstice was made by a BRITISH company? I never would have guessed!

[stripedhyenuh]

omg Tim Follin looks SO YOUNG. What was he like 19 or 20?

[DGMRuadeil]

@stripedhyenuh he's from 1970 so he must've been around that age ye..

[sinephase]

thanks for this :)

[helikestv]

This game drove me batshit as a kid - that scream when you die haunted my dreams. But yeah, I really wish there were more making of videos for the old games.

[yequalsx]

RIP Mr. Follin, thank you for creating one of the best gaming soundtracks ever. You maybe the reason why I obsess over Celtic music now.

[BradTheProducer]

@yequalsx He's not dead, he just retired from making game music.

[NesGamer105]

@BradTheProducer But why?

[Uberjetsu]

@BradTheProducer DAMMIT they shoudla got him 3d dot game heroes :(

[lolKbgTgm6621what]

@BradTheProducer Tim Follin and Rob Hubbard, two of the greatest game musicians ever, both of them retired far, far too soon. It's a shame the industry doesn't afford the same amount of respect to musicians as it does "lead designers" (newsflash - any reasonably imaginative five year old can "design" a videogame, and pretty much any 20 year old can fine-tune the balance with a bit of thought) and graphics artists (wow, you know what a color wheel is and can put up with 3D Studio Max, who cares).

[chetter]

man, this is priceless. amazing that 1. you bought this video (no disrespect) 2. you were able to salvage it and 3. they made the vid to begin with.

as a humor joke, if you move on to 1:30, i think the pres and the programmer are wearing the same suit, probably purchased on the same day, for the same dev diary :)

Thanks!

[NinjaPBrown]

This was seriously one of my favorite games ever. Amazing seeing a short documentary on how it was made. That's incredible.

[rygar8bit]

ha got the solstice 1990 nintendo championship poster looked at the bottom and said to look for the making of solstice video and bam on youtube fantastic

[Speednik]

Us Brits, we aren't good at bigging up our own work.

[BlackVortex]

love it, if only i knew how they made the music O:

[bockwurstification]

would have liked to play it with the char in version 3 :D

thx for the upload!

[Bildi7v]

Thanks x 1,000,000 for uploading. This is awesome beyond words.