{"id":91305,"date":"2019-04-02T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/04\/yuzo_koshiro_confirms_hers_involved_with_segars_forthcoming_mega_drive_mini"},"modified":"2019-04-02T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T22:00:00","slug":"yuzo-koshiro-confirms-hes-involved-with-segas-forthcoming-mega-drive-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/02\/yuzo-koshiro-confirms-hes-involved-with-segas-forthcoming-mega-drive-mini\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuzo Koshiro Confirms He\u2019s Involved With Sega\u2019s Forthcoming Mega Drive Mini"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1c287d1ba96b7\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1c287d1ba96b7\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Yuzo Koshiro\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1c287d1ba96b7\/yuzo-koshiro.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1c287d1ba96b7\/yuzo-koshiro.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Yuzo Koshiro\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Yuzo Koshiro is something of a legend with gamers of a certain age. He\u2019s responsible for some of the most iconic soundtracks of the 16-bit era, composing the tunes that made games like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/megadrive\/revenge_of_shinobi\">Revenge of Shinobi<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/megadrive\/streets_of_rage\">Streets of Rage<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/actraiser\">ActRaiser<\/a><\/strong> so memorable.<\/p>\n<p>During his glittering career he\u2019s worked on loads of other games too of course, but his connection with the Mega Drive has arguably made him a figure of affection for many players; those same players will no doubt be over the moon to learn that he\u2019s involved with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/04\/guide_where_to_pre-order_sega_genesis_mega_drive_mini\">Mega Drive Mini<\/a>, a micro-console that\u2019s launching this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/03\/sega_mega_drive_mini_launches_worldwide_this_september\">September<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m proud to join the Genesis mini project doing music for the menu lined up the great games. I programmed the music dedicated to YM2612 sound chip playing authentic Genesis\/MegaDrive sound with many soundbanks chosen from actual games in the menu. I hope you guys like it!<\/span>\u2014 \u53e4\u4ee3\u7950\u4e09 (@yuzokoshiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yuzokoshiro\/status\/1113104634908794885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The stars really are aligning with this new console, and it should hopefully put to rest all of the bad memories we have of those ghastly Sega clones that have been clogging up store shelves for the past decade. With M2 handling the emulation and the one and only Yuzo Koshiro doing the menu music, this could be a real rival to the NES and SNES Classic Editions.<\/p>\n<p>Now we just need to know what the remaining games are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuzo Koshiro is something of a legend with gamers of a certain age. He\u2019s responsible for some of the most iconic soundtracks of the 16-bit era, composing the tunes that made games like Revenge of Shinobi, Streets of Rage and ActRaiser so memorable. During his glittering career he\u2019s worked on loads of other games too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}