The Music of Video Games [40] Journey to Silius

even while Genesis was out, certain composers were still doing amazing things with the NES's sound chip, and bringing in some tricks C64's sound chip popularized. but the Gen basically has the NES's sound chip onboard alongside the metallic Yamaha chip. the best-sounding games combined both chips for music. like in Gunstar Heroes, a lot of the soundtrack's instruments use the NES-type chip for really wild things, added to the newer Yamaha tones.

at 1:01 - Terminator reference.

-kidThunder

Actually, this game was originally going to be based off the First Terminator Movie, but Sunsoft Lost their license.

Exactly. The license was given to Bethesda Softworks who were actually behind every game based on the first Terminator movie. It was a shame that Sunsoft their license and if they haven't this was going to be popular video game, along with the first Batman game on NES. Not to mention, the Sunsoft games on the NES were generally hit or miss.

-kidThunder

the game was supposed to be a terminator game, but sunsoft lost the license

It's up there with Mega Man 2

Get to da choppah!

Sunsoft had a talent for making the old NES sound good. The hilarious thing is that even with the NES's audio capabilities falling fall short of the Genesis, this game made a lot of the 16 bit stuff at the time sound pathetic. I just wish that other companies thought about the sound in their games like Sunsoft did. With games like Silius, Batman, Batman return of the Joker etc, that company showed that the old 8-bit console could rock hard if it was allowed to.

@JoelJW a LOT of 8bit games give the genesis sound chip a run for it's money. it could synthesize better but everything on the Genesis had that really gross "metallic"y sound.

NES had the best music