I could never get past the first level either, but man the sound test. If The Lion King had tracks like this then I wouldn't be nearly as salty at the hippos as I am to this day.
@геннадий яковенко геннадий яковенко Он разносторонен и его саунд получается всегда к теме. Здесь просто ритмичный экшен и динамика зашкаливает! Браво, Кьюд!
One of the most advanced SEGA Genesis soundtracks, fuckin' love it. I actually had the pleasure to speak with Jesper Kyd who composed it and he mentioned he used his own new tricks to get this advanced (for the time) sound on the Genesis' soundchip. Really distinct and awesome, much like the game itself.
@Birm True, harsh grimy synths and all that, why I loved it. @Bradley I think he used custom sound chips built into the cartridge. Anyone who wants to check out other cool stuff he did with the Genesis, look up his demo song "Zyrinx" for the Sega 32x. I really wanna get me a 32x....
First time listening to this. This OST went in a completely different direction. Instead of trying to emulate the cartoon's soundtrack (would have been impossible to do orchestral music on the Genesis/Mega Drive, the SNES could do it easily) Jesper Kyd composed a new soundtrack that played to the strengths of the console's sound chip. Wow.
Yeah, it was the right way to go about it. The SNES game (by Konami) does a soundtrack more like the show. It's OK, nothing amazing. The thing I always thought was weird is the Genesis game feels more like a Konami game than the SNES game does. Huge bosses, great graphics, crazy FM music, ridiculous-but-fair difficulty--in a lot of ways it is very Konami-like. The SNES game is just a boring beat-em-up platformer thing.
Yeah, it is really weird. The SNES game is beautiful and sounds just like the cartoon, but the actual combat is so boring. I need to get my hands on the Genesis version of this.
***** Be forewarned, the Genesis version, while more fun than the SNES version, is extremely hard, and long. REALLY long. DUSTINODELLOFFICIAL described it as ridiculous-but-fair, I don't see how it's fair at all, just ridiculously hard. XD
Gender Neutral Chibi Thing Long? it can be "easily" beaten in one sitting, as many games from that era. No one will say that it's not hard, but it's nothing impossible or cheap.
I would say it's on the longer end of a game from that era, though. The overhead shooter level is ludicrously long. Aside from that it's nothing absurd but the difficulty level makes it feel brutal. I agree though, that the difficulty is steep but fair and the game is "learnable." Which is why I maintain it's more like a Konami game than the game Konami actually released on SNES. A tough game but winnable once you understand its patterns and strategy. I have yet to beat it but I feel it's because I haven't put enough time into it, not because it's impossible, and I'm a big fan of that in my games. I sometimes think gamers are spoiled today with autosaves and no real game overs. Game overs build character! Having to start over from the beginning made me the man I am today! :)
It's fkn wild to hear what the Megadrive soundchip could actually do when fully utilised. Like, when this game came out in 95 you could've played this soundtrack in any nightclub and people would've loved it. Jesper Kyd's the fkn man, man.
This shit was so good that when I played it after it came out, i remembered the music, but was too mad at the game I rented being too hard to enjoy it lol. Remembering it now on proper sound hardware, I am completely blown away how insanely good this OST is. It's completely removed from being on Genesis or a console, it's just absolutely incredible on it's own.
Jesus they really didn’t have to go that hard for a Batman title on the Sega Genesis, but I’m sure glad they did. This blows the SNES’ soundtrack out of the water by a long shot
This game is the Ultimate demonstration of the Genesis power AWESOME PIXEL ART, AWESOME CONTROLS, AWESOME SPECIAL EFFECTS AND OUTSTANDIG SOUNDTRACK!!! BEST BATMAN GAME EVER CREATED!!!
@Death1121 What makes me sad is I feel like this theme was so bad ass that it should have been either a sub boss theme or a standard boss theme. It really didn't need to go that hard in the first level but it did and it was awesome.
I used to think that the best soundtrack of a game was the soundtrack of Blizzard’s Diablo ll game which Matt Uelman was the composer. Now l realise that the soundtrack of Sega’s The Adventures of Batman and Robin game is the best ever
Am I the only one who thinks this game feels very Batman Beyond (even if it came out before Beyond), like, the soundtrack, the gameplay, even the atmosphere.
So many times I played this game just for listening to its music. It’s 2023 and six years after l wrote this comment, l can still say that this is the most exciting game and best soundtrack ever.
I'm still in awe that Kyd was able to do that RIDICULOUSLY thick chorused bassline at 16:05. It's incredible. I think he might've programmed the chorus manually by duplicating the channels and giving them stereo separation & slight detune until he had to use more channels for accompaniment in the rest of the track, which is a trick only a demoscener could come up with, and probably more effort than required for just a licensed Batman game lol. I don't think I heard this technique used again until I heard aryx.s3m years later. The way different European composers utilized the sound chip so differently from the rest of the world is just awe-inspiring.
This was one of my favorite games as a kid. I loved playing this with my brother back in the day. The graphics still amaze me even now. The soundtrack is just fire🔥🔥🔥. It gives me chills. Was this game hard for anyone else as it was for me?
@@digimaks I'll likely never be able to beat it, but I never not have a blast playing it. just a fantastic game, and one of the greatest games of the 16 bit era.
@@sleepnaught How far are you through? Imho, the last level is not the hardest; methodologically, it's more manageable and predictable than level 3 electric onslaught.
@@ПавелКорешков-ь4г Not very far. The farthest I ever get is the flying shoot em up level. The previous level usually kicks my butt which costs me all my lives, and I'm terrible at shoot em games.
@@sleepnaught 2-2 auto-scroller? Don't give up. It's not a "proper", classical shmup; a rather unusual experience. I'm too terrible at shmups (I usually give up beating level 1 in all shmups, the sense of grind is simply overwhelming), but I can beat this 2-2 section without losses quite easily. Health management is the key. Learn which enemies drop hearts and grab them often. Use overcharge powerup properly (wait to recharge, shoot in proper rythm) to clear the whole screen and destroy the overly tanky jets (in clouded section) quickly, before they team up. The level is long and uninspiring imho, but the flying fortress boss is absolutely hillarious! (A lot of health and weapon drops; you could absorb a lot of cheap damage, prioritize your picks) BTW, the previous ("elevator") section is one of the most predictable in the game ))) It's really easy to exploit. Again, health management. EACH barrel drops a lot of health -> don't shoot them high above; wait till it drops, evade, destroy -> restore health; herd the punchers to one side, switch position, dive-kick, shoot them in the back. With this simple tactic you'll have a lot of health to absorb all stray bullets from shooting guys - but still kill them first. Also the shooters always spawn in the same positions; stay in that spot, in most cases you'll be able to kill either left/right one before he decends; the green weapon is preferrable for this (less spread, quicker kill), but you should prioritize the choice based on the main threat of this level - the turrets during the boss encounter; they're hard to hit when swaying in late phase, but very dangerous with their zoning effect. You should decide if you can steadily hit them with greens, or rather fallback to red weapon stack, with less DPS but higher cheap damage.
back in 1995, I was 11 years old, I've play through this game many times, i enjoy the music. 25 years later, i'm 36 years old now😢 , I still enjoy the music, unbelievable, Those electronic music is still good in 2020.
This games sound track is SO FUCKING AWESOME. As a kid I'd get fucking goosebumps from its awesomeness. I still do! It's just an awesomely intense soundtrack that really makes you feel like you're fighting a horde of baddies! It's awesome!
I found this linked from talk about Jesper Kyd's work on the 40K Darktide soundtrack, and it is blowing my mind that he was writing equally awesome music 30 years ago for the Genesis. The OST for a Batman game, of all things, going this hard?! This man's entire body of work deserves more recognition!
Jesper Kyd here created the best soundtrack ever for the mighty Sega Megadrive/Genesis, this imho even surpasses the also amazing Streets Of Rage soundtracks by Yuzo Koshiro. Its been 26 years since the release of the game, someone should definitely release this on vinyl, CD, cassette, ANYTHING!!!!
Everytime play hotline miami feels like Adventures of Batman and Robin. 90s hit and 2010s both great techno and synthwave sound feated too much badass.
I remember playing this on SEGA when I was 8 yo and banging my head so hard to this! And then I got into industrial/EBM. This OST kickstarted my love to such type of music.
I played this recently on my big screen Mega SG setup with the home theatre (and sub) cranked. Amazing experience that is even better than what it would have been in the mid 90s on your average 26" CRT TV and puny speakers. We have it good these days! In particular 16:05 gave me a huge grin as the subwoofer started to shake my walls and get my blood pumping. Totally recommended.
Wow its 2022 and just stumbled upon this gem of a sound... Not too many games have great soundtracks, this one by Jesper Kyd ranks amongst the top old school console compositions by Jeroen Tel and Jonathan Dunn.
You know, Jesper put alot of work into this game. I can tell because they run super long and often times I complete certain levels before I hear the full songs.
Easily one of the best soundtracks of any genesis game. Could never get past the joker boss as a kid and that blockbuster rental was never long enough.
I mean just listen from 45:10... Holy fucking hell. When I was playing this as a teenager, I was cranking it out of an OG Genesis through a 600watt quadrophonic sound system with giant speakers in our finished basement, on a 32-inch Trinitron via s-video, lights dimmed. For my friends and I it was absolute audio-visual bliss. Friggin' pounding soundtrack and insane sprite effects, rock hard challenge, good levels. Bliss.
In this game the composer has known how to use the FM synthesis where the main instrument is the Yamaha YM2612 and has not tried to emulate real instruments like others do, failing miserably
Amongst one of my favorite games and OST of all time. As you progressed, the bosses got waaay more difficult and the music much more sinister. When I think of the genesis and its capabilities, this is one of titles that truly stands out.
Why the F was this game so hard!?!?!?! I replayed the first level so much as a child that the music is burned into my brain. Such a banger of a soundtrack!
All that music is so superb- it was literally far ahead of its time! Can't even imagine it is made on same YM sega's sound chip! Sounds like modern-age synth! Absolutely superb!
Wait, what? Jesper Kyd composed this? Holy shit. I've always loved and remembered music from this game and always been a fan of Jesper's work, but to find out the first Jesper Kyd tracks I heard were these ones! How delightful.
It`s very simple thing) Jesper came to us from the Danish demo scene team SILENTS if you didn`t knew ;) Here we can easily notice even some parts that later were used in the game "SubTerrania" th-cam.com/video/OZTnR3FpUEA/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=RetroDemoScene
can you fucking believe that this game was almost ubiquitously critically panned at the time of its release, scoring MULTIPLE one out of five reviews? I swear to god the only reason they rated it that way was because they couldn't beat the first fuckin level
seriously if you want to get mad at some bullshit go read the wikipedia page for this and check the review section. all just whining idiot reviewers complaining the game is "repetitive" (because contra, a universally loved game, is super varied or something right) and people whining about how its UNFAIR that all the enemies gang up and attack all at once. this game deserved better, best goddamn batman game ive ever played, at least in the 16 bit and prior era
This game is just brilliant, as a Batman fan I was expecting a game that will be just like other Batman games but then the Sega logo showed up in the TV screen and music starts. My eyes lit up and that intro played. Hell yeah! It’s the type of music you’ll never expect from Genesis game let alone Batman game. Damn! Up there with Streets of rage 2 ost. Beats Nintendo version with a pinky finger
in my childhood, I was really impressed with this soundtrack! Batman&robin was stood out around other sega games because of this music! Still genius sound
This reminds me a lot of Streets of Rage 3's soundtrack, except this sounds way better on a technical level. I guess I thought that the Genesis couldn't handle really complex, atonal music like this. I was wrong.
+ben owen What? Motohiro Kawashima's tracks are the only well composed tracks in the game. Yuzo's tracks were composed by a music generating program that he wrote. They're fucking awful!
I came back to listen to this now that I have Sennheiser HD600 headphones... And man does this sound AMAZING through them! I remember someone saying this soundtrack is a good benchmark and he was right.
![[SEGA Genesis Music] Alien 3 - Full Original Soundtrack OST](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/S5RiwtCX14k/mqdefault.jpg)
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It is NUTS that the title screen music goes on for nine minutes.
He was feeling it 🤣
And not in a loop either, its an complete track
Big Boss is ridiculous. That's got to be the fattest bass out of the 16 bit era.
Even if u couldn't beat the 1st level. You still got your money's worth in the sound test alone.
This music goes outside of itself. Doesnt make me even think Genesis. It transcends outside of its body.
why is this accurate
I could never get past the first level either, but man the sound test. If The Lion King had tracks like this then I wouldn't be nearly as salty at the hippos as I am to this day.
I beat the whole game and to be honest the game is so chaotic but the music just makes it 5 times more intense it’s insanely good
25 years later this sountrack is still f***ing amazing
Agreed!
The graphics are still fucking amazing.
its pretty trippy tbh
@TheRealRetroKid 2022
In 2022, I managed to beat the game on an Analogue Mega SG, without save states. First time I played it was in 1999. My life is now complete :D
One of the bests soudtracks of all video game history.
Fax
And most underrated
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Only people from the 90s can understand
This is literally the sorta soundtrack you'd hear in Batman Beyond, the successor to BTAS, and its near perfection
Jesper Kyd really knew how to make the genesis sound badass.
It was Jesper!!!? Wow, I would never suppose... It's damn acid, totally not his style:)
@геннадий яковенко геннадий яковенко Он разносторонен и его саунд получается всегда к теме. Здесь просто ритмичный экшен и динамика зашкаливает! Браво, Кьюд!
Understatement my friend.
@@геннадийяковенко-ц6т Вспомни саундтрек из MDK2, вот где кислота и техно от Джеса зашкаливает!
@@DenZEL_Vertigo Спасибо за наводку!)
"The Genesis has some sound limitations compared to the SNES, but it does do bass well"
Jesper Kyd: Hmmm, this gives me an idea.
It has a lot of limitations, but soundtracks like this make one forget about it...
@@Chalkaspis When the Genesis sound chip is used like this, i vastly prefer it over the snes chip. the synth sound is just incredible here.
@@sleepnaught Yeah, but it only does once in lifetime, while SNES is like that all the time.
@@Chalkaspis I dunno about that, plenty of great sounding Genesis games and some mediocre sounding SNES games.
@@sleepnaught That works both ways.
Always loved this soundtrack and today I decided to try it in car's sound system.
Mother of god the Genesis can do a ridiculous amount of bass.
Haha I have this soundtrack in my mp3 player and it pumps pretty damn hard in my car 😅
Bro I remember sitting on the main title just listening to that music on repeat
One of the most advanced SEGA Genesis soundtracks, fuckin' love it. I actually had the pleasure to speak with Jesper Kyd who composed it and he mentioned he used his own new tricks to get this advanced (for the time) sound on the Genesis' soundchip. Really distinct and awesome, much like the game itself.
That's awesome man! It really shows and still holds up today by my standards! It's so great!
It's not an interview, it was an email conversation over 6 years ago
This soundtrack is so abrasive and harsh it's kinda adorable. Genesis was best with techno.
Can you remember any of the tricks he used? I still remember playing this in 1995 and being amazed as to what he could do with the YM2612 soundchip.
@Birm True, harsh grimy synths and all that, why I loved it.
@Bradley I think he used custom sound chips built into the cartridge.
Anyone who wants to check out other cool stuff he did with the Genesis, look up his demo song "Zyrinx" for the Sega 32x. I really wanna get me a 32x....
ONE OF THE BEST SOUNDTRACKS IN HISTORY
This game was so awesome, but also SO hard.
a two sides story is very hard :'(
fuck yeah
I never got passed Mr Freeze :/
Nah, it's easy enough when you remember the pattern.
6 continues and I still losing :(
First time listening to this. This OST went in a completely different direction. Instead of trying to emulate the cartoon's soundtrack (would have been impossible to do orchestral music on the Genesis/Mega Drive, the SNES could do it easily) Jesper Kyd composed a new soundtrack that played to the strengths of the console's sound chip.
Wow.
Yeah, it was the right way to go about it. The SNES game (by Konami) does a soundtrack more like the show. It's OK, nothing amazing. The thing I always thought was weird is the Genesis game feels more like a Konami game than the SNES game does. Huge bosses, great graphics, crazy FM music, ridiculous-but-fair difficulty--in a lot of ways it is very Konami-like. The SNES game is just a boring beat-em-up platformer thing.
Yeah, it is really weird. The SNES game is beautiful and sounds just like the cartoon, but the actual combat is so boring.
I need to get my hands on the Genesis version of this.
***** Be forewarned, the Genesis version, while more fun than the SNES version, is extremely hard, and long. REALLY long. DUSTINODELLOFFICIAL described it as ridiculous-but-fair, I don't see how it's fair at all, just ridiculously hard. XD
Gender Neutral Chibi Thing Long? it can be "easily" beaten in one sitting, as many games from that era. No one will say that it's not hard, but it's nothing impossible or cheap.
I would say it's on the longer end of a game from that era, though. The overhead shooter level is ludicrously long. Aside from that it's nothing absurd but the difficulty level makes it feel brutal. I agree though, that the difficulty is steep but fair and the game is "learnable." Which is why I maintain it's more like a Konami game than the game Konami actually released on SNES. A tough game but winnable once you understand its patterns and strategy. I have yet to beat it but I feel it's because I haven't put enough time into it, not because it's impossible, and I'm a big fan of that in my games. I sometimes think gamers are spoiled today with autosaves and no real game overs. Game overs build character! Having to start over from the beginning made me the man I am today! :)
This is true synthesizer music. Right there
Fm synth
Imagine if this music played in fm radio
From games that sounded like altered beast to this it's surreal
It's fkn wild to hear what the Megadrive soundchip could actually do when fully utilised. Like, when this game came out in 95 you could've played this soundtrack in any nightclub and people would've loved it.
Jesper Kyd's the fkn man, man.
This shit was so good that when I played it after it came out, i remembered the music, but was too mad at the game I rented being too hard to enjoy it lol.
Remembering it now on proper sound hardware, I am completely blown away how insanely good this OST is.
It's completely removed from being on Genesis or a console, it's just absolutely incredible on it's own.
This game taught me the concept of Anxiety at a very young age. Loved it
Harley Quinns theme is amaaaazing, that growling Sega synth-bass.
Jesus they really didn’t have to go that hard for a Batman title on the Sega Genesis, but I’m sure glad they did. This blows the SNES’ soundtrack out of the water by a long shot
This game is the Ultimate demonstration of the Genesis power
AWESOME PIXEL ART, AWESOME CONTROLS, AWESOME SPECIAL EFFECTS AND OUTSTANDIG SOUNDTRACK!!!
BEST BATMAN GAME EVER CREATED!!!
technically it's pretty impressive, but gameplay-wise I found it hella repetitive and lacking
i wouldnt go that far, the soundtrack is cool but cant compare with any Arkham game, from any other point of view.
you mean that game where you mash the counter button and kill everyone
Yep, one of the best Batman games ever.
I prefer Sunsoft's Batman on the NES.
The FM sounds fantastic!
This is it. Love it!
That ending with Mr. Freeze asking the guard to send a message to batman while the joker cracks up was haunting...or should I say...chilling.
16:05 is what I came here for. This song where you fight the Joker and Harley Quinn has been in my brain lately. Thanks for the bad ass throwback.
sick bass
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Sounds great indeed. It's on par (dare I say even better than) with the Streets Of Rage tracks.
@Death1121
What makes me sad is I feel like this theme was so bad ass that it should have been either a sub boss theme or a standard boss theme. It really didn't need to go that hard in the first level but it did and it was awesome.
I used to think that the best soundtrack of a game was the soundtrack of Blizzard’s Diablo ll game which Matt Uelman was the composer. Now l realise that the soundtrack of Sega’s The Adventures of Batman and Robin game is the best ever
Jasper Kyd has that power. But even since this game came out I have not forgot the music. You don't get that too often.
Very different styles of music though. Maybe unfair to compare?
@@gorgogrottan title games soundtrack dude
Am I the only one who thinks this game feels very Batman Beyond (even if it came out before Beyond), like, the soundtrack, the gameplay, even the atmosphere.
Batman Goes Clubbing
So many times I played this game just for listening to its music. It’s 2023 and six years after l wrote this comment, l can still say that this is the most exciting game and best soundtrack ever.
I'm still in awe that Kyd was able to do that RIDICULOUSLY thick chorused bassline at 16:05. It's incredible. I think he might've programmed the chorus manually by duplicating the channels and giving them stereo separation & slight detune until he had to use more channels for accompaniment in the rest of the track, which is a trick only a demoscener could come up with, and probably more effort than required for just a licensed Batman game lol. I don't think I heard this technique used again until I heard aryx.s3m years later. The way different European composers utilized the sound chip so differently from the rest of the world is just awe-inspiring.
Damn, this soundtrack is fantastic!
This was one of my favorite games as a kid. I loved playing this with my brother back in the day. The graphics still amaze me even now. The soundtrack is just fire🔥🔥🔥. It gives me chills. Was this game hard for anyone else as it was for me?
Yes, it was a bit difficult. Amazing game though. Soundtrack is fire.
Last episode was really hard, the others were someway achievable to pass
I'm shocked by both how good this ost is and the fact that I did not hear about it before !
Whenever Warner Bros/DC actually goes ahead with a Batman Beyond movie than they need Jesper Kyd for the soundtrack.
This is one of the hardest games ever. Shit will drive you insane.
I literally come back at least more than once a week. This playlist is OP.🔥🔥🔥💀💀💀
One of the best games ever made and the music is flawless.
Also very hard game to beat.
@@digimaks I'll likely never be able to beat it, but I never not have a blast playing it. just a fantastic game, and one of the greatest games of the 16 bit era.
@@sleepnaught How far are you through?
Imho, the last level is not the hardest; methodologically, it's more manageable and predictable than level 3 electric onslaught.
@@ПавелКорешков-ь4г Not very far. The farthest I ever get is the flying shoot em up level. The previous level usually kicks my butt which costs me all my lives, and I'm terrible at shoot em games.
@@sleepnaught 2-2 auto-scroller?
Don't give up. It's not a "proper", classical shmup; a rather unusual experience. I'm too terrible at shmups (I usually give up beating level 1 in all shmups, the sense of grind is simply overwhelming), but I can beat this 2-2 section without losses quite easily.
Health management is the key. Learn which enemies drop hearts and grab them often.
Use overcharge powerup properly (wait to recharge, shoot in proper rythm) to clear the whole screen and destroy the overly tanky jets (in clouded section) quickly, before they team up.
The level is long and uninspiring imho, but the flying fortress boss is absolutely hillarious! (A lot of health and weapon drops; you could absorb a lot of cheap damage, prioritize your picks)
BTW, the previous ("elevator") section is one of the most predictable in the game ))) It's really easy to exploit.
Again, health management. EACH barrel drops a lot of health -> don't shoot them high above; wait till it drops, evade, destroy -> restore health; herd the punchers to one side, switch position, dive-kick, shoot them in the back. With this simple tactic you'll have a lot of health to absorb all stray bullets from shooting guys - but still kill them first.
Also the shooters always spawn in the same positions; stay in that spot, in most cases you'll be able to kill either left/right one before he decends; the green weapon is preferrable for this (less spread, quicker kill), but you should prioritize the choice based on the main threat of this level - the turrets during the boss encounter; they're hard to hit when swaying in late phase, but very dangerous with their zoning effect. You should decide if you can steadily hit them with greens, or rather fallback to red weapon stack, with less DPS but higher cheap damage.
There is something about raw gritty unfiltered analogue synths buzzing through your brain that just feels right.
back in 1995, I was 11 years old, I've play through this game many times, i enjoy the music. 25 years later, i'm 36 years old now😢 , I still enjoy the music, unbelievable, Those electronic music is still good in 2020.
That's what classic means.
Same here. Great memories!
This games sound track is SO FUCKING AWESOME. As a kid I'd get fucking goosebumps from its awesomeness. I still do! It's just an awesomely intense soundtrack that really makes you feel like you're fighting a horde of baddies! It's awesome!
Same!
2023 still love this sound track from old games :P
I found this linked from talk about Jesper Kyd's work on the 40K Darktide soundtrack, and it is blowing my mind that he was writing equally awesome music 30 years ago for the Genesis. The OST for a Batman game, of all things, going this hard?! This man's entire body of work deserves more recognition!
Even the soundtrack to this masterpiece kicks ass.
Eric Cartman: KICKAAAS
Jesper Kyd here created the best soundtrack ever for the mighty Sega Megadrive/Genesis, this imho even surpasses the also amazing Streets Of Rage soundtracks by Yuzo Koshiro. Its been 26 years since the release of the game, someone should definitely release this on vinyl, CD, cassette, ANYTHING!!!!
Psycho Station 59:37 the headbanging goes crazy! 🤘
Was just playing this. This S/T is insane!!!
Unforgettable soundtrack as a kid. Never noticed Robin about to curb-stomp the Joker on the cover.
Dark Studio it`s creepy and amazing soundtrack, it`s inacreditable that was done using only six channels of ym2612 without the pcm
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Everytime play hotline miami feels like Adventures of Batman and Robin. 90s hit and 2010s both great techno and synthwave sound feated too much badass.
The BEST gaming soundtrack ever created,period!And one of the BEST games ever created.Absolute masterpiece!
That's an overstatement if I ever saw one. Definitely not the best soundtrack or game ever created but certainly a great game with a great soundtrack.
February 21st, 2021. 4:56 a.m. This game came to mind and here I am. Ah the memories.
I remember playing this on SEGA when I was 8 yo and banging my head so hard to this! And then I got into industrial/EBM. This OST kickstarted my love to such type of music.
What. Jesper Kyd. What. As in Hitman Jesper Kyd. As in Hitman 2: Silent Assassin Jesper Kyd. As in Assassin's Creed Jesper Kyd.
...this is amazing.
Yeah, that guy, and in my humble opinion, this stuff is actually better.
hi
@@DUSTINODELLOFFICIAL His soundtrack for Freedom Fighters is also pretty rad. It's like Vangelis, but more lively.
@@scottkeegan8871 vangelis is awesome. Love that guy.
Ahhh, that's why his name sounds familiar. He did some fantastic stuff for Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.
Dark Studio track is just all kinds of impressive to me. I loved my sega and there were so many awesome soundtracks to so many sega games.
This is the sickest shit I've ever heard. And its a Genesis game. Wild.
Genesis always had such amazing potential for music. It's just that most people didn't know how to make it work, and just did whatever.
One of my favorite games from the Genesis. Remember blasting these tunes in my old CRT TV; good days. Thanks for all the work!
2021 and the main theme still slaps hard as shit
I want to play this game in my grandma’s living room again to try and remember what it felt like playing for the first time
I played this recently on my big screen Mega SG setup with the home theatre (and sub) cranked. Amazing experience that is even better than what it would have been in the mid 90s on your average 26" CRT TV and puny speakers. We have it good these days! In particular 16:05 gave me a huge grin as the subwoofer started to shake my walls and get my blood pumping. Totally recommended.
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Heres two versions that sound better
This is my favorite genesis game, that I'm also totally hopeless at. I struggle getting out of the first level lol
Wow its 2022 and just stumbled upon this gem of a sound... Not too many games have great soundtracks, this one by Jesper Kyd ranks amongst the top old school console compositions by Jeroen Tel and Jonathan Dunn.
Amazing soundtrack! It really captures the dark face of Gotham.
You know, Jesper put alot of work into this game. I can tell because they run super long and often times I complete certain levels before I hear the full songs.
This is the most banger Genesis ost I've ever heard! Holy shit.
That Big Boss theme makes me wanna roll all the windows down in my car and BLAST IT!!!!
Hell Yeah!!
do it!
WOW this sounds brilliant, the scan still looks good but we are all here for the music.
You can put this OST in an industrial night club and it flows easily.
I mean, playing this for hours on end is probably why I actually like that kind of music as an adult. So, I don't think you're too off base. Hahaha
@@Imadumbdoodoohead techno why is called industrial if the fm synth can make those noises
It said he made dark eletronic styled music for this game
Easily one of the best soundtracks of any genesis game. Could never get past the joker boss as a kid and that blockbuster rental was never long enough.
1:00:42 THIS IS SO SOUNDS THE BEST BOSS FIGHT IN HISTORY OF SEGA
RIP RIG kevin conroy
Underrated ost thanks for the upload, always loved the Big Boss theme.
I love the irony of that theme playing on the two most minor boss fights in the game.
I mean just listen from 45:10... Holy fucking hell. When I was playing this as a teenager, I was cranking it out of an OG Genesis through a 600watt quadrophonic sound system with giant speakers in our finished basement, on a 32-inch Trinitron via s-video, lights dimmed. For my friends and I it was absolute audio-visual bliss. Friggin' pounding soundtrack and insane sprite effects, rock hard challenge, good levels. Bliss.
One of the hardest games I played as a youngster, but I loved it. The soundtrack is still amazing!
Never knew was witnessing history while just trying to have fun with by big bro
the only thing this thing is missing, is all the explosions that was constantly happening in the game
In my opinion, this is the only sega game with long osts, because every ost is so long. And its cool!
In this game the composer has known how to use the FM synthesis where the main instrument is the Yamaha YM2612 and has not tried to emulate real instruments like others do, failing miserably
Its fm synthesizer emulated instruments is boring make your own cool sounds
contender for best genesis title track
dark synthwave before dark synthwave
A nine minute title theme?! Dang...
yup, that's stupid nobody stay more than 1 min on a titile screen
@@rinnosukemorichika1196 The music on the title screen plays over into the games first level though.
The bass in the Big Boss track is absolutely out of fucking control, I think it's my favorite sound ever produced by a game console
Damn, this is good. Wish I had played this game growing up. Only Batman on Genesis I tried in the '90s was that trainwreck Batman Forever.
Этот человек сделал такие мощные хиты когда я ещё не родился, лол, какая же шедевральная музыка, и в Subterrania тоже неплохая
Amongst one of my favorite games and OST of all time. As you progressed, the bosses got waaay more difficult and the music much more sinister. When I think of the genesis and its capabilities, this is one of titles that truly stands out.
Why the F was this game so hard!?!?!?! I replayed the first level so much as a child that the music is burned into my brain.
Such a banger of a soundtrack!
Every year at some point I fondly recall this game, even 20+ years later!
That shit is too intense bro it was just a kids videogame geez!
All that music is so superb- it was literally far ahead of its time! Can't even imagine it is made on same YM sega's sound chip! Sounds like modern-age synth! Absolutely superb!
What a masterpiece! Majestic music...
Dark Studio is some heavy shit. Brutal as fuck. I
Wait, what? Jesper Kyd composed this? Holy shit. I've always loved and remembered music from this game and always been a fan of Jesper's work, but to find out the first Jesper Kyd tracks I heard were these ones! How delightful.
+Ryan Ali I also have Sub-Terrania on my channel and I just uploaded a Saturn soundtrack of his, Scorcher
+Ryan Ali It was also the soundtrack for the game red zone on genesis
Red Zone, Subterrania, MDK2... Yeah, Kyd is awesome!
It`s very simple thing) Jesper came to us from the Danish demo scene team SILENTS if you didn`t knew ;) Here we can easily notice even some parts that later were used in the game "SubTerrania" th-cam.com/video/OZTnR3FpUEA/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=RetroDemoScene
@@DenZEL_Vertigo aws pro soccer uses the zyrinx driver as well for music
can you fucking believe that this game was almost ubiquitously critically panned at the time of its release, scoring MULTIPLE one out of five reviews? I swear to god the only reason they rated it that way was because they couldn't beat the first fuckin level
seriously if you want to get mad at some bullshit go read the wikipedia page for this and check the review section. all just whining idiot reviewers complaining the game is "repetitive" (because contra, a universally loved game, is super varied or something right) and people whining about how its UNFAIR that all the enemies gang up and attack all at once. this game deserved better, best goddamn batman game ive ever played, at least in the 16 bit and prior era
this is the best batman game...
arkham wishes it was this game...
This game is just brilliant, as a Batman fan I was expecting a game that will be just like other Batman games but then the Sega logo showed up in the TV screen and music starts. My eyes lit up and that intro played. Hell yeah! It’s the type of music you’ll never expect from Genesis game let alone Batman game. Damn! Up there with Streets of rage 2 ost. Beats Nintendo version with a pinky finger
The Mad Hatter stages had the best music in the game.
in my childhood, I was really impressed with this soundtrack! Batman&robin was stood out around other sega games because of this music!
Still genius sound
Jesper is an absolute legend and we are extremely lucky to have him share his talents with us.
This reminds me a lot of Streets of Rage 3's soundtrack, except this sounds way better on a technical level. I guess I thought that the Genesis couldn't handle really complex, atonal music like this. I was wrong.
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I don't think that was Yuzo, that was another composer. I like SoR3's weird soundtrack but the remixed tracks in the remake are much better.
Well I can't edit my comment but I checked and yeah he did some. xD
Motohiro Kawashima from SOR2's Expander (in)fame(y) did most of SOR3's soundtrack
+ben owen What? Motohiro Kawashima's tracks are the only well composed tracks in the game. Yuzo's tracks were composed by a music generating program that he wrote. They're fucking awful!
Jesus christ this rocks
I came back to listen to this now that I have Sennheiser HD600 headphones... And man does this sound AMAZING through them! I remember someone saying this soundtrack is a good benchmark and he was right.
16:05 Mass Batarang throwing intensifies.
Heard in the game, still a child, in the 90 th and the soundtrack I initiated my love for electronic music