![]() ![]() ![]() Sensing this shift, some pop artists started to get involved in game composition. Yuzo Koshiro introduced house and techno to the soundtracks for The Revenge of Shinobi and Streets of Rage - while Yoko Shimomura’s music for Street Fighter II became a hip-hop staple, sampled by Frank Ocean, Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, and Dizzee Rascal. The success of Sonic proved games could compete with pop music and suddenly the floodgates opened. So I wanted to write songs like that for Sonic the Hedgehog as a film.” ![]() “There were a bunch of hit songs, like those from Top Gun, Flashdance, and Dirty Dancing. “At the time, MTV and films were very popular,” he told Video Game Music Online in 2011. To write the music for the console’s flagship game, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega hired J-pop star Masato Nakamura - who deliberately distanced himself from the 8-bit, chiptune sounds that had become the medium’s distinguishing characteristics.
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