Today we are going to analyse the music from Spring Yard Zone, the third zone (level) from the game. Sonic the Hedgehog’s soundtrack was written by Japanese composer and bassist Masato Nakamura, who was also part of the Japanese new wave band, DREAMS COME TRUE. ![]() Tee Lopes has done a fantastic job at recreating the symphony of our childhoods as well as creating new emotional twists on original pieces, such as Oil Ocean Zone and Flying Battery Zone. I can say with absolute confidence that Sonic Mania is just as good as the original four Mega Drive games, and is a wonderful sugary treat for anyone old enough to remember the days when Sonic was actually more popular than Super Mario. Would the game live up to my expectations? And would it reach the quality of its predecessors? So when I found out that Sonic the Hedgehog was returning to his glory-days with Sonic Mania, I was incredibly excited to revisit my childhood. I have extremely fond memories of playing these games. I really enjoyed the wonderful sense of atmosphere and sense of narrative that the music created within each Zone. Of course, back then, PAL TVs ran at 50HZ, so the music and gameplay was actually slower and more dreamlike than the speedy NTSC version.Īs I got older, my cousins (who at the time were die-hard Sonic fans) introduced me to Sonic 2, Sonic 3, and Sonic and Knuckles. It feels like a sort of comforting star-lit lullaby it’s almost reassuring even. My favourite piece at the time was Star Light Zone. I can remember each and every zone’s music as vividly and succinctly as one might remember the taste of a 10th birthday cake or the smell of freshly-cut grass on a school playground the sort of nostalgic memories one associates with the happiest moments in childhood. ![]() ![]() Green Hill Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog (1991.) I was absolutely mesmerized by the game’s colourful graphics and especially its sound design and music. I was just three years old when I first ventured into the foray of video-gaming. Yes, I’m talking about the original Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) for the Sega Mega Drive. As someone born in the mid-nineties, I’m old enough to remember the days where playing a video game meant popping in a cartridge and flicking a little red switch to hear a choir chorus of “SE-GA!”
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