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The soundtrack that Hataya and Ogata composed remains appropriately timeless. When citing some of his influences at that time, Hataya reportedly dropped somewhat obscure names such as DJ Frankie Knuckles and British electric band The KLF. It’s also one of the few video game soundtracks of its era which was clearly inspired by house and techno music of the time. It’s an upbeat and highly atmospheric collection of songs designed to capture the mood and spirit of every version of the game’s colorful levels.

As if that weren’t enough, players are treated to a variety of additional songs and sounds that includes a weird and wonderful lyrical track known as “ You Can Do Anything (Toot Toot Sonic Warrior).”Ĭomposed by Naofumi Hataya and Masafumi Ogata, Sonic CD’s original soundtrack is – much like Sonic CD – an evolution of the concepts established by previous soundtracks in the Sonic series. Sonic CD’s Japanese soundtrack doesn’t feature just one track for each of the game’s levels - it features four memorable tracks for each of the game’s levels, one for each time period. Ohshima’s unheard of approach to time travel in a platformer was complemented by a soundtrack is a must-listen for all gamers. Originally designed as an enhanced port of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 meant to show off the power of their Sega CD peripheral, Sonic CD eventually became a separate game led by Soniccharacter designer Naoto Ohshima while Sonic lead programmer Yuji Naka worked on Sonic 2 with a team based out of the U.S. To understand the controversy surrounding Sonic CD’s soundtracks, you need to know a few things about the game itself. No, the most fascinating thing about Sonic CD is that its soundtracks are the source of an utterly bizarre controversy that has yet to be settled over 25 years after the game’s release. Yet, the most fascinating thing about Sonic CD isn’t the way it so perfectly summarizes why Sega is arguably the most beloved console manufacturer that is no longer making video game consoles. It’s a game that utilized the best technology available to deliver a fast, colorful, and ambitious experience that showcased Sega’s desire to do what “Nintendon’t.” Sadly, it was also a game that had the great misfortune of being available exclusively for the Sega CD, an “ambitious” CD add-on for the Genesis that promised to deliver more than the console ever could and is considered one of gaming’s more notable hardware failures. Needless to say, I love this bit of found audio and thought I would share it with everyone.For many, 1993’s Sonic CD represents the best and worst of Sega’s glory days. It is like some ghost guitarist is playing some disjointed song out of their shattered memories. Those background tracks seem so distant and far away from the speaker. Its a strange straightforward warning, but what makes it so creepy is the guitar riffs they have running in the background. They placed a warning message about using this disc in your audio equipment and how doing so could damage your equipment. The one for the Sega Saturn is by far my favorite. I did a quick search on YouTube and found a few examples of audio captured from discs. Only my DVD player on my computer remains. Most of my disc-related devices are either in storage or donated. I am not sure what got me thinking about this phenomenon recently.

Even though I kind of understand why that would happen, it still made me giddy. It was a habit I developed after getting my first CD-Rom computer games and it usually resulted in nothing, but on occasion, the audio from the game would play. One of the first things I attempted to do on the Dreamcast was to put the discs from it into my stereo CD player to see what would happen. The first console I owned that played CDs was the Sega Dreamcast. So sadly never experimented with playing Sega CD audio.