8-bit and chiptune

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

8-bit and chiptune · The first game consoles had no recorded music. A sound chip produced simple waveforms, and the composer had to program every note. Nintendo's NES had five channels: two square waves for melody and accompaniment, a triangle wave for the bass, a noise channel for percussion and a channel for short samples. For Super Mario Bros. (1985) Koji Kondo wrote melodies that suit running and jumping and can repeat endlessly. Hirokazu Tanaka gave Metroid (1986) a lonely, dark atmosphere. On the Sega Mega Drive, FM synthesis was heard. With it Yuzo Koshiro brought club and house music into the game in Streets of Rage (1991). Later a music scene of its own grew up around this sound: chiptune.

Listening

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  Green Hill Zone · Masato Nakamura, 1991
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  Go Straight · Yuzo Koshiro, 1992
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  Monty on the Run · Rob Hubbard, 1985

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• Film Music Map^NL Map

See also

• Kōji Kondō
• Toby Fox
• Masato Nakamura
• Rob Hubbard
• Synthpop
• JRPG and orchestral Japanese game music