X68K: Bosconian Soundtrack

[@mogimbo]

I just LOVE this soundtrack. Play it a few times a week at work doing creative workshops with 4-5 year-olds. The kids totally groove out to these tracks.

[@KiraPlaysGuitar]

You're really inspiring young minds with the great music. This is all inspired by timeless art.

[@anthonyrotella8791]

yessssss!!!

[@tsuyoizumida]

外人さんがこれ聴いて喜んだり、X68Kの音源スペックについて会話してるとは、凄い時代になったもんですね。

[@gohantabetashi]

古代祐三効果ですね

[@Sakupen-fx]

我喜歡它！

[@Sakupen-fx]

我不是中国人，也不是日本人，我只是用翻译，效果很好

[@take49991]

昔、パソコンサンデーで聴いたとき、カッコよすぎてビックリした曲。

[@3massatunes707]

古代祐三丸出しの曲と懐かしさに乾杯🍺PCM8は当時凄かった〜。

[@rttfgh]

0:00 "Good Morning" (Loading BGM) composed by Hideya Nagata 0:29 "Title Menu" composed by Hideya Nagata 1:15 "Little Wave" (Stage BGM A) composed by Hideya Nagata 2:41 "Red Alert" (Stage BGM B) composed by Hideya Nagata 3:57 "Blast Power!" (Stage BGM C) composed by Yuzo Koshiro 6:16 "Flash Flash Flash" (Stage BGM D) composed by Yuzo Koshiro 10:22 "Blast Off!" composed by Hideya Nagata 10:30 "Get "Lady"" (Level Clear BGM) composed by Hideya Nagata 11:23 "Excellence" (High Score BGM) composed by Hideya Nagata 12:15 "Battle was Gone" composed by Hideya Nagata 13:11 "Dusk…" (Game Over BGM) composed by Hideya Nagata 13:25 "Space Hibabango" (Ending BGM) composed by Hideya Nagata 14:19 "Asteroid Memory" composed by Yuzo Koshiro

[@Elrinth]

at 15:22 Some other spacy theme is played. at 17:10 Space Harrier - Over the Horizon X68000. It was also featured in the Sega Saturn game. This version is better than the one in the game IMO. The Saturn version is probably da best. Yuzo Koshiro also composed music for the Saturn version so. I'm guessing this is composed by Yuzo Koshiro. That means this is the first appearence of this track! I'm curious, does anyone know if the Space Harrier song is ever played in the game?

[@slimtheslime5001]

is it an unpopular opinion to say that space harrier is a bad game?

[@silver-forest-jp]

@@Elrinth these two musics are great too. i think no, these are extra. 15:22 is unused music too.

[@14231aa]

@@silver-forest-jp I hear that 15:22 is played when an illegally copied game disk is booted.

[@LunaTheStars]

@@14231aa I heard it’s just a secret loading screen. One of those tracks that has like a 1/1000 or so chance of being played

[@chrisshep7564]

WHY DOES THIS GO SO HARD

[@user-xu2vt8ew5y]

当時のＧＭでは ハンドクラップ、オーケストラヒット、スラップベースが流行ってたのが判りますなぁ

[@inuyasha2071]

とにかく当時「LITTLE WAVE＝小波＝コナミ」のBGMが凄いと思いました。

[@user-xu2vt8ew5y]

そのコナミもビーマニ２ｄｘで「Small Wave」って曲作ってましたね。

[@thevgmlover]

Those drums for Little Wave are powerful. 😌👌

[@kumasanpapa]

FM音源の得意な音いっぱい！

[@user-gh1ve3jj7c]

FM音源は聴くものを魅了する奇跡のサウンド🎹⚡

[@Toarcade]

This is so excellent! Pure X68k goodness.

[@riskvideos]

6:18 Sounds like the beginning of a level in GunDuel from Retro Game Challenge 2 In the start of the track. Didn't realize Namco was referencing an old port of Bosconian. That's cool.

[@user-tl8ys3ki7x]

当時、x68は50万ぐらいしたよね。 買ってもらったけど、人生の糧になってるのは確か。あの時代にあの機種を触れた自分は幸せだったと思う。

[@deggersoris6340]

そうそう。いまのゲーマーはグラボに10万以上かけてマジかと思うけど、よく考えたら当時10M20MのHDDにやっぱり10万とかかけていたんだよな。

[@CaptAcca]

純正21インチモニタに本体で30万ぐらいだったぞ。 大容量240MBのQuantamn製のSCSIHDDを外付けで20万で追加して50万。 そんな感じだ。

[@villevn]

Tight soundtrack. I don't think I've ever listened to an X68000 OST before, great sound, it's like a mix of the SNES and the Megadrive bass.

[@danmakuman]

All FM like the Genesis, only the percussions are sampled similar to the SNES but better quality.

[@Alianger]

I believe the samples are capped at ~22Khz on the default X68K chipset so it's not better in that regard.

[@RazorEdge2006]

@@Alianger The X68k is better in that regard, because it has a lot more RAM, whereas the SNES is limited to just 64 KB sound RAM. The SNES had to use heavily compressed 8-16 kHz samples in order to fit them into its limited sound RAM. Whereas the X68k can play 22 kHz samples all the time. It's also possible with some software drivers to get the default X68k chipset to play up to 31 kHz samples. But not sure if it was used, since the X68k could just be upgraded with sound cards.

[@Alianger]

@@RazorEdge2006 Alright, cool. I have some rips of samples though (pdx) and they tend to be below 22k, for example this game has 15.6k samples only.

[@RazorEdge2006]

@@Alianger I meant theoretically. In terms of actual X68K games, they usually used samples in the 15-22 kHz range. Whereas SNES games usually used samples in the 8-16 kHz range.

[@owlnonymous]

This has given me permanent Bass Face.

[@bibaxbib]

A really good soundtrack (I listen to it nearly once per day since you uploaded it) !! ;) Thanks for your efforts, thanks to you, we can listen to really great and rare soundtracks easily !! :) Good luck for the future !! :)

Yuzo Koshiro FTW!

[@rubenscaetano]

Thank you for this soundtrack!

[@SpriterGorsal]

Oh my, this is great chiptune music!!

[@ErichWK]

The song around 4 minutes totally reminds me of Galaxy Force 2

[@ichigo_STR_153]

レッドアラートの曲でコンディションレッドになった時が一番アツイ

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

It seems also silly such a great soundtrack could be used to sell a game that was put out many years after the fact but it works so well!

[@linus8976]

永田さんのRed Alertが一番好き。

[@celinesenden4142]

Amazing song

[@user-wx3ln1nh6x]

1:15 Little Wave 今聴いても素晴らしい！名曲！

[@user-ob7on8rq3q]

自分もこの曲が一番好き。当時の友人は皆Flash Flash Flashが好きで、Little Wave好きは少数派だった。

[@tsuyoizumida]

小波…コナミな曲ですね。 グラⅡのどれかとコード進行が同じとかどうとか。

[@naokihada]

「発進」という感じで特に１面でいいですよね。

[@user-xu2vt8ew5y]

@@tsuyoizumida そのコナミもビーマニ２ｄｘで「Small wave」って曲作ってたな～

[@MUSICALZA]

電波のボスコニアンは名曲揃いですね。当時（高校生）の思い出がよみがえる。ラスト17:10～スペースハリアー・エンディング「 OVER THE HORIZON」も嬉しい！！

[@silver-forest-jp]

なんで一介の新聞社がこれだけの技術をもっていたのか謎。音楽もそうだしゲームもそう 当時の好きなソフトウェアハウスは、 1.日本ファルコム 2.電波新聞社 3.Zoom 4.ソフトスタジオWING

[@silver-forest-jp]

日本ファルコムとwingはx68kにはほぼ手を出していなかったので、 x68k限定となると、 zoomと電波がベスト2だよ。よかったー

[@destiniadestinia8444]

@@silver-forest-jp ボスコニアン68版の大半の曲の作曲者はあの永田さん（ys2のサルモンの神殿やムーンドリアの作曲者）ですからね そりゃいい曲書きまっせ。。

[@SpartanFromSpain]

This ost is spectacular!

[@MightyPinto]

6:17 - can't listen to this and NOT jam out...

[@NicholasManuelofMississippi]

6:17 - FLASH FLASH FLASH!

[@mvoproject]

Gradius style of the melody at the start))

[@user-mo2pg8oi5y]

6:17 からの曲が超おすすめ

[@user-ek1bo3py7e]

Flash Flash Flashはやばいｗｗｗｗ

[@celinesenden4142]

little wave is my favorite song

[@darkzones3d612]

My condition: green

[@user-mj1xw1ix3x]

名曲ズラ〜

[@user-xo6wq8wr3x]

잘볼께요^^

[@gunbuckybucketman4578]

Some of these songs have some of Gradius style.

[@user-xb9jx5zx1u]

Little Wave→小波→KONAMI

[@ZacharyDietze]

Probably the closest we’ll ever get to a proper Bosconian Arrangement...

[@craiganderson7085]

The basslines sound very similar to megadrive/genesis tunes :)

[@JemZard]

FM sound chips is pretty much sounded the same. The Sega Genesis uses the YM2612 chip which is the stripped down version of the YM2151 used in X68000 computer, a lot of arcade game cabinets the mid-80s to early 90s, and this game.

[@torrent9666]

2:41 Red Alert Zone Acts 1-3

[@linus8976]

いい曲ですよね！

[@DaveVoyles]

What song is that at 17:10 ?

[@superandroidtron]

It's called "Over the Horizon" and is also played in the X68000 port of Space Harrier.

[@DaveVoyles]

Thank you!

[@Elrinth]

f**k yeah, I need to add this version to my phone.. been using the saturn version as ring phone for a year now.

[@user-jr5gq4nw3d]

ちゃんとビールも届けてくれてたか。。。

[@aaron_aj_knight_95]

FM Synthesis...just like the Genesis.

[@iyatemu]

The x68000 is at a huge advantage compared to the Genesis. 8 FM channels on the 2151 compared to 6 on the 2612 and a dedicated PCM channel so it doesn't have to give anything up for the drums like the Genesis does.

[@danmakuman]

Still not abysmally different. Maybe if they ported those tunes to the Genesis little changes in the arrangement can make it possible, like instead of using the extra 2 FM channels, using the PSG chip in some way.

[@SuperJustinChannel]

Namco also did a new OST for Motos when they ported it to the X68K.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Technically Dempa ported both Bosconian and Motos to the X68K.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I get the impression the music was Dempa's idea.

[@celinesenden4142]

40 anniversary of bosconian

[@Bloodreign1]

The only port of this game with an actual soundtrack, and you see Yuzo Koshiro doing music in it, so you can expect greatness from the soundtrack.

[@Vanux867]

Why did no one tell me that fucking Bosconian got a slapping OST

[@off9443jp]

全部古代さんかとおもってたら違うのですね

[@tsuyoizumida]

むしろ古代氏は３曲とゲスト参加レベル。 メインの永田氏はYs2でもムーンドリアの廃墟やサルモンの神殿など名曲を残された方ですよ。

[@linus8976]

たしかメインの作曲者の永田さんはお医者さんじゃなかったですかね。

[@kf270]

@@linus8976 精神科医だと聞いた。 この作品を作ったころは医学生だったのではないか？

[@OlaAremu]

6:17

[@user-rt3ho1kk1n]

ボスコニアン大好きなんだけど、正直ボスコニアンには勿体ない音楽だなーと思うｗ でも許されるなら好評価10回は押したい動画。

[@user-ek1bo3py7e]

そんなことはｘ68000版をやってからのことですぞ 当時うちも同じ事思ってました（笑）

[@crunchsixfoe]

Is this game even any good? All I know is the soundtrack is amazing!

[@Bloodreign1]

Yes, this game is fun, but only this port has this soundtrack to it, the original arcade version didn't.

[@knm5194]

6:16 6:16

[@ecozones2d627]

Condition: GREEN

[@ecozones2d627]

The shortest and one of the best poems I've ever rrad

[@user-jr5gq4nw3d]

😂😂😂😂😢

[@user-jr5gq4nw3d]

もう発散スケべどうにも良くなってしもうた。

[@user-jr5gq4nw3d]

わ　ワ　和

[@user-tl8ys3ki7x]

FM音源はチップで語るもの（笑）

[@Onyxtheboss6499]

It would have been cool if these songs were remixed in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Especially "Flash Flash Flash".

[@torrent9666]

Agreed 100%

[@masuppu]

サイオブレードとかグラディウスもモロにこれの影響受けてるなｗ

[@user-dd2sy8de7r]

いや、これがグラディウスⅡの曲からイメージを多く貰って参考にしながら作っているんですよ 特に一面とかの曲はグラⅡの一面の曲を思い切り意識して作ったと何かの資料で(説明書？ベーマガ？)当時拝見しました まぁグラⅡだけではなく、当時人気のあった多くのアーケードゲームからヒントを得て玉作りしたみたいですが

[@user-dd2sy8de7r]

ちなみに、ボスコニアンのオリジナルは効果音のみでミュージックがありません

[@linus8976]

こしろんはコナミサウンド大好きで、他の作品でもオマージュを作ってますね。逆に矩形波倶楽部の方々もファルコムサウンド好きなんだろうなって感じることもあります。

[@kf270]

オリジナルもオープニングとハイスコアの時だけは音楽が流れる。 オリジナルが発売された1981年当時はゲーム中は効果音しか流れないのが普通だった。

[@silver-forest-jp]

5:00 あたりのチョッパーベースがめちゃイイの(⋈◍＞◡＜◍)。✧♡