Matt Furniss

Let's move on to our second original track, and it is from the game The Lion King, developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment, and it was found on the Sega Genesis Mega Drive, Game Gear, and Master System, the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and Game Boy, MS-DOS, and Amiga.

This is To Die For from the Sega Genesis Mega Drive, originally composed by Hans Zimmer and arranged by Matt Furniss.

[upbeat music] That was To Die For from the Sega Genesis Mega Drive, from the game The Lion King, originally composed by Hans Zimmer and arranged by Matt Furniss.

The Lion King is another platform game licensed by Disney and of the same name as the nineteen ninety-four animated film.

You'll play as Simba, playing through several key events from the film, pouncing on enemies, and roaring to stun them or solve puzzles.

It's chirpier and a bit more toy-like, which oddly suits a game about sweets and tool worlds.

Then finally, the Mega Drive conversion with Matt Furniss arranging the material for Sega's sound chip.

Here's the Mega Drive, uh, title.

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He is much more well-known for some of the later stuff.

And, um, uh, who else was I thinking about at the time? Uh, Matt Furniss was also much more well-known for, like his Genesis work.

But, but yeah, yeah, that's true.

I still, I still kind of lump them all in because they're all those European composers from the, the earlier days.

Sound desk, and that's the nice thing about today.

Uh, Matt Furniss wrote, uh, the music for the 64, the Spectrum, and the Amiga version, so it's a fair fight between the chips.

We'll start with the Commodore 64 and its SID chip.

Here's the 64 title tune.

different.So, um, sound desk and to keep it fair, we're playing the music from the same stage on all three, the one called The Pit.

Dan Forden wrote the arcade music, and on the Mega Drive, it was arranged by Matt Furniss at Probe using the Mega Drive's Yamaha FM chip.

Here's the Mega Drive.

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