This 1990 NES Soundtrack Just BLEW Me Away

TIM, IT WAS JUST PICTIONARY

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[galelululu]

something I’ve noticed about Tim Follins songs is that they all start with “hehe im a little nes song :)” and then play a couple things you Didn’t Think The NES Could Do and then becomes a full-on modern chiptune track

[ChatookaMusic]

This is a man who realized there is no separation between "real music" and "videogame music" this man was just making music

[juanmoralesvideo]

Well... When a jazz musicians says "it's hard to transcribe that" we all should be starting panicking.

[SejhaIsHere]

RIP Geoff Follin, He helped his brother Tim a lot on many albums. It's good to know more people are learning about these guys.

[benjaminskatzes]

I’m so happy that Tim Follin is finally getting the recognition he deserves after all these years.

[BaggyCatEntertainment]

So, so surreal to find this - recommended because I've been watching Charles for years, such a great, great channel. Btw it's me Tim F. Pretty sure I don't deserve a whole video Charles but thank you so much for this, it's a massive compliment coming from you!

[AronFigaro]

Tim Follin and Software Creations is responsible for a huge amount of the technical depth of NES music. They worked with CAPCOM, they worked with Sunsoft, they worked a bit with Konami, everyone learned from their greatness.

[jarsenberg]

I love when NES music gets appreciation like this. People often relegate early video game music to "bleeps and bloops, " as if vgm had no value until the technology developed further, but there are so many amazingly crafted melodies and tracks in these early games. It still blows me away what these unsung hero composers managed to accomplish in this era with such constraints. They deserve way more recognition.

[mikegrisafi]

I redid the Solstice theme with guitars like 15 years ago! Omg what fun that was to work out...I actually had a brief talk with Tim when he came across it shortly after I put it up and he was talking about how my version was actually faster than intended due to US using 60hz power vs 50hz used in UK where he composed all these masterpieces. He also mentioned some of the coding tricks he would do involving phase and weird PWM stuff to literally make sounds those chips were never intended to do. What an absolute genius!

[TheXtremeBoltGuy]

That's Tim Follin for ya. Absolutely insane music design

[bunnyrape]

For anyone who doesn't know, he made absolutely absurdly impressive stuff using the single-channel, single-bit *buzzer* on the ZX Spectrum. Check out his work on Agent X, for example. Tim's wizardry on full display.

[GXAPlayer]

Tim and Geoff Follin's music is such a fun rabbithole to look into. Time Trax, Rock and Roll Racing, Spider-Man and X-Men in Arcade's Revenge, Plok, Silver Surfer, the list goes on...

[Nintendrew]

Thank you for bringing more attention to this legendary composer!

[andrewtintle]

Tim is one of my all time favorite video game composers. As a kid I had “silver surfer” for the nes and that soundtrack is branded into my brain from all the hours spent trying to beat it. It’s a masterpiece. Thank you for making this video!

[owenwexler]

NES Pictionary music director: "OK Mr. Follin, we need you to compose a theme for the NES Pictionary game's title screen... nothing too crazy or anything."
Tim Follin, levitating 14 feet above the ground as smoke and flames begin to billow up epically behind him: "Got chu."

[Frog_Puppet]

A few things about NES sound:

The first four of the five sound channels are pretty much fixed tones:
The first two are PWM wave channels, the third is a triangle wave, and the fourth is a noise channel.
The fifth channel is actually a PCM sample channel, so some games do actually used sampled sounds, such as bongos in SMB3.

[sock]

The theme to Solstice is amazing. I didn't think NES music could be that complex before hearing it.

[Novous]

I love every time a new person discovers the wonder of Tim Follin.

[LilDeuceDeuce]

I haven't even watched the video yet but I feel confident saying nothing makes me happier than watching Charles Cornell talk about Tim Follin, because Tim and Geoff Follin are both incredible

[JosephTavano]

Limitations demand creativity, and the NES music chip brought out some of the best and most creative conpositions.