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Stop using Twitter! Formerly known as <redacted> there. Been in Japan for more than 20 years. Remastering game music with modern plugins at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfw7Y34lS7P9kJGFQ3NGb_Q https://www.patreon.com/c/BoostMixMusic

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 5h

Correcting myself, I found a Japanese one at least, still haven't seen an English one

Ad for SMB1 from Famimaga December 1985, featuring artwork and four screenshots with a price of 4900 yen

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 5h

What I would do for a 3.5mm headphone jack on my iPhone...this is the dongle-less hill I will die on

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 6h

I bought the book The Complete Thoughts of Game Creator by the creator of Puyo Puyo himself, Kazunari Yonemitsu (米光一成), will try to post any interesting tidbits as replies but it is mostly sort of high level principles as short essays/summaries like “how to know if your game is actually fun”

First prologue page showing the author smiling and box of Puyo Puyo

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 6h

If you are scrolling through a list of Famicom games on Wikipedia this is probably not the advertisement art you expect to see for the game "Dough Boy" #famicom

Artwork for the game Dough Boy looks a bit like a war zone with grimacing tough guy holding a rocket launcher while things blow up behind him with a tank seen as well, and three screenshots with price of 5,300 yen listed...by Kemco

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 6h

The late TV legend Ken Shimura playing Famicom Hyper Olympic on "Hachiji da yo" in 1985 dressed as his most famous Tono-sama character, next to Kyonkyon (Kyouko Koizumi) a popular idol singer/actress #famicom

Ken Shimura next to a poster of his most famous character Tono-sama

The full article snippet that has four screens from the TV show

Intensely playing the game (2 player mode?)

The zoomed in screenshot to clearly see Tono-sama and Kyonkyon

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 7h

Bubsy LFG

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah I love these, awesome renditions and cute size

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 7h

"10 Yard Fight is by IREM! It must have some killer title screen music" - wait it had no music at all?? Early Famicom games are hit and miss when it comes to having music...so many of the basic space shooter type games seem to have no music too, trying to find hidden gems...

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 7h

One went for only 3000 yen in September with an additional catalog and bunch of stickers included apparently auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/m...

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah I haven’t played anything like that, I was thinking more like the 18+ stuff that was on PC 98 and had amazing stories like Yu No or whatever, If they were incentivized to keep things more like an R movie with stories and gameplay it might be easier to be mainstream

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 19h

Still my favorite game of the past 5 years or a close tie with Elden Ring. Free update is amazing 👏

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 19h

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 will receive a free update featuring new dungeon, enemies, bosses, costumes, text/UI game localizations, and more surprises

Game has now sold over 5 million units

www.ign.com/articles/cla...

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 19h

I looked up who the mastering engineer was and it was like some guy who was in a metal band and not a professional mastering engineer / yeah that is going to do it with so many AI driven plugins and easy tooling people think it is easy these days. Mixing is hard but so is mastering to do truly well

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 19h

I am not going to name and shame but there is a female singer metal release I was excited about and it has a mastering problem where orchestral parts crackle on my EarPods, a problem when over compressing highly dynamic parts and sort of an amateur mistake I have done myself in old mixes.

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 20h

That artwork is awesome, I love this game too, great news about the release

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently in 1984 all you needed to get lucky was to have a Bouncer arcade cabinet in your pad

A screenshot from Ninja III showing a Bouncer cabinet behind two of the main protagonists

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Just dropped: Exciting Billiard (Konami) Famicom bopping jazz OST, that became an excuse to test the new L4 UltraMaximizer plugin (but I didn't push it very hard...yet...) #gamemusic #famicom youtu.be/5Cx5hbqdxdY

[FC] Exciting Billiard OST Boost Mix / エキサイティングビリヤード BGM / Konami

YouTube video by Boost Mix Music - Game Music Channel

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 1d

My eyes are bad so at first I thought Pengo was happily rolling around in garbage and thought he was a real one

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 1d

I just read in a Twitch chat that Tubi Canada has some different stuff on it - didn't think to change my VPN to other countries and try hunting for more 1980s movies / cartoons / etc, the last time I bothered to do that for Netflix I was still disappointed like usual

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 1d

In a different timeline we would have a NEC DLSite branded handheld a la Switch 2 but with lots more adult and doujin content

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Apple Music recommended me a Swedish stoner/rock/prog band with a female singer that sounds a bit like Bjork - seems up my alley gaupaband.com/bio/ #metalsky

BIO - GAUPA

Members Jimmy Hurtig - DrumsErik Sävström - BassEmma Näslund - VocalsDavid Rosberg - Guitars Bio GAUPA (lynx in swedish) is a rock band from Falun, Sweden. With surreal lyrics, an energetic singer, an...

gaupaband.com

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Here is my favorite one but it is NSFW so labeling it nudity

April 1990 cover featuring...a nude lady, a snake man, and a skeleton with a big ass scythe curved towards the viewer with feature article a strategy guide for Genpei Toumaden

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 1d

All of the PC Engine Fan covers have illustrations by Akemi Takada (高田明美) the Kimagure Orange Road anime artist, it can be tricky to figure out which game the covers have artwork for because it is not necessarily tied to a feature article #pcengine

PC Engine Fan November 1990 cover featuring a red hair girl next to red mecha

October 1990 cover featuring a gymnast, tennis and mahjong all at once

September 1990 issue cover featuring a pool (but not THAT pool)

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Each time I notice Splendid Saga in an ad my heart breaks a little more #pcengine

As usual for the era so many games crammed into one ad: Shubibiman 2, Cyber City Oedo 808, Sol Bianca, Splendid Saga, Ranma 1/2 and Kick Ball

Splendid Saga to be released this winter (it did not happen) with a pretty good potential box art shown.

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 1d

If it was clear like "SuperGrafx is a competitor to NeoGeo" it might have been a better but it would have had to be even more expensive/powerful and timed a year later I guess, or the arcade card power built into a PC Engine Duo released in 1992 instead of 1991. They seemed to be rushing to market?

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 1d

SuperGrafx vs Shuttle PC vs Core Grafx...I need to read more about what was the deal with SuperGrafx having such a short lifespan, off the cuff I feel NEC had brilliant techies working there but the variations put too difficult a task to marketing to clearly differentiate all these #pcengine

Core Grafx shown as 24,800yen, SuperGrafx 39,800 yen and Shuttle PC Engine 18,800 yen with a "jet engine style slick design" and Doraemon randomly making an appearance to the side of the machines being shown in a sort of futuristic pose in front of backdropped mountains and a laser flare effect