playing "sid1.Beat to the Pulp" on repeat

i'm glad you were able to get one of them, hopefully you'll be able to get the others at some point. i was looking at online JP resale sites, and they're there. but most of them are waaaay overpriced unopened ones obviously from scalpers. it's pretty unfortunate most ended up in their hands instead

(no problem, i figured it was a mistake lol)

i'm happy you enjoyed the game! and thank you for your kind works about the soundtrack... i had a lot of fun trying to do my best malice mizer impersonation for it🧛🍷

i injured the palm joint on my left thumb recently and wore a supporter brace so i had to opt out of getting the artfully-prepared pretty pretty princessbutt photo that my nailist usually takes after finishing lol😩

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yeah! i really do see the REAL appeal of it, and i'm proud of the quality the entire R&D team brought out with its specific design goals. i just wish that target market was more finely aimed at when it came to its distribution. that and ofc being localized internationally.

i'm glad you like it😄 i wanted to create something that was at least on the same level as the neogeo pocket's own awesome menu tune, haha.

i'm glad people have showed renewed interest in the Game Gear Micro, as esoteric as it is lol. unfortunately it was only released in japan & as of writing is no longer sold.

that said, the menu music is available on CD as part of SEGA's 60th anniversary album collection! www.sega.jp/special/60th...

Game Gear Micro (Which one do U play today? -Menu Music B-) YouTube video by RAMDRAGONS

yeah! it has two menu themes in fact: I created the initial bootup one, and Shinichi Sakamoto (of Wonderboy in Monsterland fame) created the alternate one that plays after cycling thru the games... it's a really nice and clever-sounding track too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mNT...

Game Gear Micro (Which one do U play today? -Menu Music B-) YouTube video by RAMDRAGONS

yeah! it has two menu themes in fact: I created the initial bootup one, and Shinichi Sakamoto (of Wonderboy in Monsterland fame) created the alternate one that plays after cycling thru the games... it's a really nice and clever-sounding track too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mNT...

not offhand as the sequence is essentially in code, but musically it is a simple enough song that i can manually write up a piano-oriented staff version of it haha

The Game Gear Micro should've been a gachapon prize instead of a retail release

Think about it, considering the different colors had different games built-in, you could encourage people to collect them from the Gacha

that honestly was my favorite one out of the bunch too. it was also the one that i saw was the most well-used when i visited back home😆

yeah... one of them was missing a battery cover too, and they were all taped up as a result lol... i guess that's the only flaw of them when treated as everyday toys, but otherwise i was happy my nephew was enjoying them

just to elaborate: i gave my siblings back home the whole set, & told to let their kids have at 'em & not leave them on a shelf. when i flew home recently i saw they were beat up w/scratched screens. but my nephew impulsively played them. i couldn't ask for anything better.
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i'm glad you enjoyed my interpretation of "old-timey 'champagne music'" in a toy

thank you! i like "champagne music"... as much as it drove me caca coocoo hearing it every evening in the household lol

thanks! the whimsical "champagne music" stuff from that show really is fun stuff that imo more game composers oughta have a basic grasp on, at least for something like a cutesy platformer lol

i wonder if it boils down to its master system roots, and possibly the original dev resources just touching on that feature as a mere side note

i’m really happy about that, since i always envisioned game gear micro to be some sort of easily-bought trendy accessory toy charm for kids off a UFO/gachapon instead of a limited collector thing that sits on a shelf.

hopefully they consider another run, as that’s what i would absolutely dream for

i’m really happy about that, since i always envisioned game gear micro to be some sort of easily-bought trendy accessory toy charm for kids off a UFO/gachapon instead of a limited collector thing that sits on a shelf.

hopefully they consider another run, as that’s what i would absolutely dream for

I hope they consider another run of them someday, since I always envisioned it as some trendy accessory that can be easily bought in something like from a UFO/gachapon machine instead of some limited-quantity collector thing

thanks! yeah apparently people didn’t know that the game gear was capable of hard-panned stereo. i guess just because it only had one built-in speaker. but it is, and needless to say i took full advantage of that

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btw if you want to know the inspiration of my game gear micro menu track:

LAWRENCE WELK.

yes as much as i always parrot the finer arts like 3rd wave ska or latin freestyle or miami bass or denpa song… i still have a soft spot for sappy light music. i blame my parents always watching his show, lol

yeah still gonna flex the fact i made menu music for legit sega console hardware

one of my life career goals was to work on audio for toys. believe it or not i originally didn’t aspire to be a game composer as much as i wanted to just mess around with soundchips.

but this at least hit both realms😁

btw sorta-central Tokyo (read: within the shutoko limits) does have one diamond exchange! right at the Yokohane's Heiwajima next to the associated PA there. it's so well-disguised & flat relative to the surrounding buildings though, at least compared to the typical high-grade elevated diamonds in US

tbh that kinda reminded me of the IRL border of northwestern chiba… i used to live in (and still travel to & from) Abiko where I could just go from the elevated city limits to an overused local road within flat-out rice fields just to access the Joban expressway. so that wasn't NEARLY as jarring lol

yeah that is definitely quite the choice. i think the funniest thing i've seen so far though is seeing vids of Kawazu Nanadaru loop bridge (which is IRL located right in the figurative middle of nowhere in Izu peninsula)… plopped right next to the fringe skyline of the city. that made me HELLA rofl

if i had to plot what i roughly think forza's japan map feels like relative to actual tokyo, i would imagine all the red (anything beyond Shutoko C2 until the west portion of C4 Ken-O) just completely thrown out, with magical portals for either E20 or E1 / E1A… and daikoku jammed right into ariake

[...] there's not really a sudden skyscraper skyline in actual tokyo like there is in saaaay chicago. instead it just merely feels like you're just somehow eased into central tokyo without noticing.

west tokyo really is ridiculously big, i'd compare it more to f-zero's Mute City than anything else.