The Music of Video Games [264] Skitchin'

[wouter2103]

BADASS

[jeffrielly]

Thumbs up if your here because of alphaomegasin

[mistertitanic]

@jeffrielly Here, have a thumbs down instead.

[MisterGasMan]

AND epic music

[MisterGasMan]

BEST game for the Genesis ever!

Played this forever

[labidala]

I love this damn game

[RookFrjosa]

This game is SO 90's.

Also known as cool.

[DeathMeds]

Loved this & Road Rash ;)

[BLOWNoAWAY]

Possibly one of my favorite things about this game are the signs that you will see every so often. Dont Drink and Skitch! or Buy Things!

[JohnnyV83]

@BLOWNoAWAY Don;t forget the sign that simply said "CAR"

[BLOWNoAWAY]

@JohnnyV83 Indeed haha, this game was amazing.

[jimpargon]

This game is fucking awesome, I wish they did this for a PSN download with HD graphix and guitar remixes to all the tracks.

Same game, same music. Epic.

[fur8ar]

Love the music, without it it wouldn't be half as good a game!

[Mahalie729]

Spicy Placenta

[rcoupvc]

Crunchy Bumpkin

[DIOSANO]

Yes yes yes.i loved this game.5 Stars for upload.

[Pilot177013]

Psycho Deep Fry... wasn't that one of the songs on here too?

Loved this game... it is way up there with Road Rash 3. They just don't make games like these anymore, but you'd think they would with all the rag-doll physics out there these days. They really ought to do a remake with wild down hill sections and ramps and stuff. I used to do downhill rollerblading when i was 15, and would love to see something like this come back out on playstation or something. Rated 5/5.

[tech951]

Cheese Grater!

[grotrev]

smog dog

[menofdarkmage]

i still play this game XD

[jsteel120]

Quite possibly one of my favorite games Ever.

[tech951]

Plus the sound of the baseball bat HAhHAhHAhAh most hilarious sound EVER

[cndavenp]

chuck wagon

[dt5741]

dude pantera all the way! i can only imagine what these tracks would be like if they were ripped by a real band!

[aryinc]

they where,those are real instruments recorded and mimimalized by the genesis if í''m correct.

[esperlutz]

sounds like some funky mr bungle.

[AICJDR]

Great track = Smells Like Tuna

[Mapleholic]

what a rockin soundtrack

[Wasp1984]

Sad how they never did a remake of this. I'd love to see a PS3 version of it, using the full engine from the console like Metal Gear Solid 4 did.

[Bugrovskiy]

cool games cool

[captnwar]

if you like the metal funk sound of this game, you may like the band INFECTIOUS GROOVES... many albums, many great covers too

[powerofrecall]

This game is the 90s. Love the grunge style and counter-cultureness of it. If you're not a Genesis/MegaDrive fan, you might not realize what a technical accomplishment this game is... the Sega had zero zoom hardware so it's doing the whole thing in software, faster than its cousin Road Rash games, all while throwing more on the screen at a higher framerate with more responsive control.

[powerofrecall]

Also nice technical touches-interesting use of shadow/highlight to wring out some more onscreen colors and provide those silhouette/spotlight effects, pitched pcm samples in the music.

This game looks positively amazing next to Road Rash 3 which was AFTER this and looked, sounded and played like a turd.

[TruthBeyond]

"Zero zoom", it's called sprite scaling. Road Rash 3 sucked ass (wierd digitized bikes) but I loved the first two.

[powerofrecall]

When I say "zero zoom" I mean it had no hardware sprite scaling. No hardware to do this.

I code Genesis as a hobby--the way it is done is essentially software doubling pixels horizontally and doubling horizontal line draws, which multiplies the size of the sprite. It definitely consumes CPU to do this. The road shown in the old EA games is either a palette effect (very doubtful!) or a trick on a layer using hscroll to draw it out alternately to create a 3D effect.

[powerofrecall]

Other games that use similar applications to achieve an effect like this are Batman & Robin and Treasure games like Dynamite Headdy and Gunstar Heroes.

[ShaneDignan]

I loved a lot of the music in this one, but it it sounds radically different than most of the music on the Genesis. It almost sounds like it's not produced by the YM2612's synthesizer and was based on really low-quality samples of actual guitars or something like that. The sound was always kinda garbled, but it sort of fit the style of the music.

If it actually used samples, that would explain why the cart was so big (in terms of ROM).

[powerofrecall]

It is using pcm samples on the guitar stuff. Pretty damn inventive really. All the 2612 is doing is the bass and the keyboard type lead.

[Wolfschtein]

What amazes me is that no-one's ever made any covers or remixes of this awesome music. As of right now, however, there's a remix of Cheese Grater on this site by supralightning.

[duality870]

I agree, I was thinking the same thing awhile back.

Do you think you'd be interested in collaborating ?

Or anybody that's interested in collaborating, message me. We can work something out.

[Wolfschtein]

I can't make music for the life of me. ;(

[duality870]

Oh, man.

Well, if I DO end up rounding up some people who are interested in this project, you're definetly somebody who's going to have to take a listen to the material :P.

[Djdave]

first level song is the best. makes me want to smoke meth and make a nu metal band called thunderwood

[Wasp1984]

What no one understands about this game is that Skitchin's music was no doubt influenced by the Grunge rock scene in the 1990s. Thats why the music sound the way that it does. I had no idea what grunge was back then. But after hearing bands like alice in Chains, and SoundGarden. I paid close attention to the guitar riffs and I was like "OOOOOOOOH, Skitchin has the same sound!". If they remade it, they wouldn't give the same its own music. They would just throw in shitty license songs.

[gizmo4eva]

The Spider-man game "Maximum Carnage" also contained a hip, grunge soundtrack too (by Green Jelly).

[Wasp1984]

lol I totally remember that one too.

[BiggNife119]

Silken Liver Slipper and Chug Wagon, man. Good stuff.

[JoyRiderMax777]

The best game i was playing hours, hours and hours!!

The best soundtracks, great!

[randyc420]

i remember seeing the graphics for this game and it blowing my mind

[Chimaira1908]

where's cheesegrater?

[xxx823]

havent played dis in ages

[boygenius7]

Yooo u guys are bringing back so many memories. The track that stands out in my mind till this day is the track with the hard bass in it.

[fraglessone]

Skitchen's music alone used to make me want to play the game. It's still one of the greatest titles i've ever owned.

[kryptlagoon]

why does the music sound diffrent than normal??

[patg316]

huge fan of both Road Rash and Skitchin......music is better for Skitchin on Genesis, but soundtrack for Road Rash 3D on Playstation was tight (lots of Soundgarden).

[thefriendsociety]

fuck road rash 3D soundtrack moar like an advertisement for mtv's bullshit alternative to good rock

[AuSeMao]

My favorite song was spicy placenta.This game was my favorite game of all time and had some of the best video game music ever.

[SoldatCrinale]

smog dog was my favorite.

[NoUsernameAvailable]

This game had such a kickass soundtrack for it's day... this game and road rash were two of my favs.

[cybernet3000]

So, it's like Road Rash only for roller blades? Awesome ^^

[Musica8bits]

This music reminds me some C&C tunes.

[aryinc]

man the bass in this game is really roaring,the elements of this game its music are great it has some really grunchy music and some groovy music ala pantera.

[Phillies64]

Heh. I had fun with this game.

[bashildy]

Skitchin' and Road Rash were great times on the Genesis. Too bad the race-combat genre ended up getting divided up into seperate genres in the next-gen era.

[doppleganger4827]

Well, wasn't this game definently giving all the kids the right idea. =P