Watch composer Yuzo Koshiro play his iconic chiptunes through an NEC PC-88
Photo by Yuzo Koshiro / Twitter It's not hard to listen to your favorite video game soundtracks online. Just load YouTube or some other music streaming services, and search there. But that experience pales in comparison to hearing (and seeing) that music played through the hardware it was originally composed on.
Legendary gaming composer Yuzo Koshiro has been posting nostalgia bombs on Twitter, playing songs that he made for games like Streets of Rage, Streets of Rage 2, and the 8-Bit Game Gear and Sega Master System versions of Sonic The Hedgehog. And he's playing them using an NEC PC-88, the 39-year-old PC that was a popular gaming platform in Japan, as well as Koshiro's machine of choice for creating music.
Recorded SOR2 Go Straight from PC88FA headphone out. No...