Sega Genesis

1989

FM Synthesis

Owes it's popularity to the DX7 keyboard, which has become synonymous with 1980's music. Frequency modulation can approximate a much wider array of instruments and sound waves by altering a wave's frequency in accordance with another wave, known as the modulator.

Ecco: The Tides of Time

Sega, 1994

Creator Annunziata worked with the music team on the soundtrack, playing them songs by Pink Floyd to illustrate the feeling he was aiming for.

Ecco: The Tides of Time cover art.

Sonic the Hedgehog cover art.

Sonic the Hedgehog

Sega, 1991

Composer Masato Nakamura (known for being the bassist and songwriter of J-Pop band Dreams Come True) treated Sonic as a film and designed the music around the atmosphere that he felt from the images of the stages