that's basically how we got nobuo uematsu i guess
he's self-taught, was in a prog rock band at at least one point, and when making music for NES games had to basically toss out any hope of using guitars or drums in favor of simple square waves and noise
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@Facet and then you get this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psahbJJCPuU
probably the most technically impressive thing ever done with the SNES, beating out star fox even
(give it a minute, the vocals come in about a minute or two in after a lengthy intro)
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@Felthry Haven't had a moment to look at it, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess Phantasia intro.
@Facet Naturally!
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@Felthry This is basically exactly what I think of when I consider that kind of thing. Lots of early games tried to synthesize guitar and stuff, but in here I can just hear the main line as an attempt at synthesized vocals, and I wonder what the words would have been if they were. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04T-pUYN1bA