The Making Of Solstice for NES 1/2

A short piece on the making of the classic Nintendo Entertainment System game Solstice. This was available exclusively on Hi-8 Cassette from CSG Imagesoft by mailing $3.50 for shipping and handling. I have never found any evidence online of anyone owning it, and I thought I had lost my copy in a house fire in 1992 until yesterday (4/29/2010) when I was beginning packing up to move to a new house. Especially interesting, at least to me, is hearing Tim Follin talk about doing the music, which is among the very best on the NES.

Link to part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhLSNCJCBc

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• Solstice
• NES
• Nintendo
• Entertainment
• System
• CSG
• Imagesoft
• 8-Bit
• Game
• Tim
• Follin
• Equinox
• Player's
• Pak
• Isometric
• View
• Knight's
• Lore
• Hi-8
• 8mm
• Tape

[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.

[Bildi7v]

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

[yermomsboxx]

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

[Demendred1605]

the biggest thing that stood out to me was the music

[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).

[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. :| 

[Uberjetsu]

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

[DGMRuadeil]

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

[DGMRuadeil]

awesome! Thanks for uploading!