MIDI Week Singles: "Mitsurin" - Dragon Spirit (TG16)

 

"Mitsurin" from Dragon Spirit on the TurboGrafx-16 (1988)
Composer: Shinji Hosoe
Album: No Official Release for Turbo Grafx-16 Music
Publisher: Namco Ltd, NEC Home Electronics
Developer: Namco Ltd.

I promise you I didn't intentionally choose the same song from Dragon Spirit that I chose from Dragon Spirit: The New Legend almost six years ago.  I was listening to this song and thought pretty much the same thing as I thought then, that this song screams 1980s from beginning to end.  The biggest difference between this song and the one from the NES version is that "Mitsurin" is a little more subdued and just a little less flamboyant and exciting.  It makes sense that the sound chip in the TurboGrafx-16 has smoother sound quality compared to the NES, as it was running a more powerful system and was afforded more audio channels.  It also doesn't completely loop at 0:40 like the NES version and develops a bit more by throwing even more instrumentation in.  I am a bit sad that every version of this song from the TurboGrafx-16 game cuts off right at 1:09, and I couldn't find an extended version, but that's what the replay button is for.

This is still a hella fun song though, so we're using it again.

~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian

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