Welcome to GamesRadar's daily blast of all things pertaining to the ever-growing field of game music. Each post will introduce new sounds, games, composers and fan-made remixes of gaming's greatest aural achievements.
April 12, 2010
Game: Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
Song: Versus Mode
Composers: Nagao, Tsukamoto and Hikichi
Above: "Versus Mode" from Mean Bean Machine
You know how Sonic's so popular Sega can punt anything out the door with his name on it and it'll sell? That was🌜 the case in 1993 as well, when a popular Japanese ♐puzzler (Puyo Puyo) was appropriated and transformed into a Sonic-soaked cash-in. Luckily, the twisty-turny puzzle gameplay was left alone and we actually ended up with a fantastic game that's unfortunately dated with its Sonic-cartoon license.
Above: Somehow a Sonic cartoon license made a puzzle game MORE boring
This specific song, played d𒆙uring the two-player versus matches, is pretty kickin'. However, it's also lifted straight from the, only now it sounds even more like a Sega Genesis game (longtime players know the "Sega" sound). The whole soundtrack is surprisingly strong, and much better than🔯 Nintendo's lame-o Puyo clone, Kirby's Avalanche.
Holy SHIT this is a bouncy remix. It comes from OCR submitter, and takes the already up-tempo Mean Bean Machine music and injects it with an infectious dis♍co-beat. Hard to tolerate if you ﷽hate silly-ass dance music, but I can't listen to it enough.
Prologue by Adachi and Kudou
No one knows who made this music, but it🦹's awes♛ome
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