How Pokémon 8-bit music was inspired by classical music

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's soundtrack for the original Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow games is iconic. In spite of the restricted hardware offered by the Gameboy, Masuda managed to produce some highly efficient music, and he did so with a little motivation from his favourite classical composers.

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0:00 Intro.
0:21 Gameboy's limited soundchip.
2:02 Counterpoint vs. Homophony.
3:29 Celadon City.
4:12 Pallet Town.
5:45 J.S. .
7:45 Raid: Shadow Legends.
9:06 Lavender Town.
10:37 Viridian Forest.
11:24 Stravinsky & Shostakovich.
12:14 Mt. Moon.
13:18 Pokémon Tower.
13:41 Junichi Masuda.
15:03 I composed a chiptune piece.

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How Pokémon 8-bit music was inspired by classical music

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20 Comments

  1. Interesting. We shall see what all of the gens are based on. I like the trainer theme here

  2. Pokemons music from that era thru gen 4 is some of my favorite music of all time. Their ability to make such music with so little in the beginning
    is also fascinating. These are later games but Route 1 in fire red/leaf green gen 3 wild pokemon battle music are some of my favorite song of all time period.

  3. I was studying this exact subject these days. This video came in such a good time for me.

  4. Hope this video does well and we get more video game music analysis! There is a treasure trove of music theory goodness there. Legendary thumbnail

  5. I never even thought about how the GameBoy’s music engine worked. I gotta say, the way Masuda wrote those pieces is absolutely genius though.

  6. I’ve noticed some Romantic-era influences in the music of XY, most prominently the Surf theme.

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