Yuzo Koshiro

I have quite the list.

Of course, there is Yuzo Koshiro, who did Revenge of Shinobi.

I like that more than the Streets of Rage stuff because Revenge of Shinobi is one of the first Genesis games I played.

Who is the composer? My name, my mind's going blank, but she did a lot of the Castlevania music.

Yeah.

to make something sound good when you're more limited.

And I think that's probably why Yuzo Koshiro actually went back to the old school way of doing it to make Earthian.

It just,

So ready to end up seeing that one there.

Yuzo Koshiro was in there.

Because that's where we heard an 8-bit version of Green Hill Zone from Sonic 1.

Though this was used in the Master System or Game Gear version of the game.

We've got music from the Dreamcast, PS1, SNES, a couple of PS2 games, and maybe a PC game too.

This one, Ice Groove by Yuzu Koshiro.

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mean another one is like user kashiro give an example earthy okay is an indie game it got pirated.

I pirated it, okay? Alright, I pirated it, but I said to Yuzo Koshiro, a lot of people, I'm not saying I'm the responsible one for it, no, no, someone else, but I pirated it, but I said to Yuzo Koshiro on his Twitter, I think the game was of that much of a qualitative order, I'm going to purchase and I'll buy it because you deserve it.

Yeah, so sometimes there is a level of um uh loyalty or allegiance or respect that's the word i'll use for a developer they're quite a good game and they deserve my money i'll do an earthy on it is probably arguably the best shoot them up on the mega drive ever and it's a new game for it but i think it is probably out there as one of the best if not the best shooting up on the mega drive and it deserves that level of respect we haven't reviewed it yet but we will eventually the fact of the matter is there are there are some developers that deserve our respect and our money and the indie developer scene is something that i like to back and i like to pre-order and i like to fund so for example bitnap bureau who did that terminator 2d no fate over the christmas period last year Some people, and I looked at comments saying, I bought it on Steam and I refunded it the next day because I realized it wasn't worth it to me.

I'll get it when it's on sale.

And and the music's good, too.

Was all of it composed by Yuzo Koshiro or just some of it?

Just checking the Moby Games credits here.

He is the only dude credited for the music.

Yeah, music copyright Yuzo Koshiro.

So, you know, he's got a lot of notoriety in the retro scene.

So this is a Koshiro game for all those who like what he does.

Fitting.

[laughs] Both of those did sound...

I mean, I, I've been wanting to play Mina anyway because Yacht Club, Shovel Knight, Jake Kaufman, I mean, of course, Yuzo Koshiro.

So, uh, I wanna play Mina, uh, especially after you and Kyle talked about it on the episode.

But also Adventures of Elliot sounds really good.

A new version of Addams Family for the Amiga.

And part two of our chat with Yuzo Koshiro, live from Retro Mesa.

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... we've still got a few more to go, but we are doing part two of, uh, Yuzo Koshiro, um, which, uh, yeah, just for me, mind-blowing, um, sitting on stage talking to Yuzo Koshiro about, uh, Streets of Rage.

We cover Streets of Rage games and his Sega career in this part.

Atlas, what are you doing? Make a new Etrian Odyssey for the love of God.

Yuzo Koshiro is sitting next to his phone waiting for you to call him.

Oh, well, Nexus didn't sell at all.

I don't

they've done so much.

Which have incredible soundtracks by Yuzo Koshiro.

Exactly.

Yes.