The Making Of: Earthion – “Working On It Again Reminded Me Just How Incredible The Mega Drive Really Is”

“The Mega Drive is my favourite console of all time”.

The Mega Drive / Genesis certainly hasn’t been short of new software recently, which is remarkable for the console that saw its debut all the way back in 1988. However, few modern projects for Sega’s 16-bit system have generated the frenzied level of interest that Earthion has, and a lot of that is down to the person behind it.

Yuzo Koshiro is a name that will need no introduction to console players who grew up in the glory days of the SNES and Mega Drive console war. He gained international fame thanks to his amazing soundtracks for titles such as ActRaiser, Revenge of Shinobi and Streets of Rage and has written music for countless games since then, including Etrian Odyssey, Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin and Sol Cresta. He also runs the small Japanese studio Ancient, which he established in 1990 along with his mother and sister.

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“The Mega Drive is my favourite console of all time”.

The Mega Drive / Genesis certainly hasn’t been short of new software recently, which is remarkable for the console that saw its debut all the way back in 1988. However, few modern projects for Sega’s 16-bit system have generated the frenzied level of interest that Earthion has, and a lot of that is down to the person behind it.

Yuzo Koshiro is a name that will need no introduction to console players who grew up in the glory days of the SNES and Mega Drive console war. He gained international fame thanks to his amazing soundtracks for titles such as ActRaiser, Revenge of Shinobi and Streets of Rage and has written music for countless games since then, including Etrian Odyssey, Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin and Sol Cresta. He also runs the small Japanese studio Ancient, which he established in 1990 along with his mother and sister.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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