Hi everyone, just want to clear up some confusion around this music. I was the lyricist on this project for Sony music, Japan. The album was recorded many years ago in Japan, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. I wrote the lyrics to Second Chance sung by Joseph Williams, Lead singer of the band Toto and son of film Score composer, John Williams. Masahiro Ando from the very well-known Japanese jazz fusion band T square wrote the music. I also wrote the lyrics on like the songs Like the Wind and Freedom to Win. The music was again written by Ando and sung by Pauline Wilson from the Hawaiian band Seawind. The reason these songs are on the soundtrack for the video game Is a little unclear except for the fact that T Square often composed music for Formula One. Back then Formula One was extremely popular in Japan and Ayrton Senna the great Brazilian Formula One driver was a mega star in Japan mostly stemming from his close association with Honda. Ando created a solo album with me as lyricist and Tadashi Namba producing and Sony Music Japan also decided to buy the songs and use them on the video game soundtrack as well. This was approximately 28 years ago. Amanda 🎶🩵
They released Toybox Turbos to "test the waters", and after they saw there was an interest, Codies got the licence to Micro Machines again and released the alright mobile game. But they made some weird decisions when porting that game to consoles with Micro Machines World Tour, limiting a car to a character and focusing on the Battle Mode instead of the Racing we came to love from Micro Machines V3 and V4, so yeah... they literally made one of the best MM with Toybox Turbos and then the worst MM even with World Tour. I hope one day they'll revisit the franchise, but might take a while, if ever, specially since EA acquired Codemasters
I always thought that the Gran Turismo 2 Soundtrack was way superior than the first Gran Turismo, little that I knew, most tracks that I adore were actually from the Original Japanese Version of Gran Turismo 1, so technically the ones that I like from GT 2 were from first Gran Turismo, so i was thinking wrong all the time :-)
The Saturn version blows the arcade version out of the water, the Saturn soundtrack is better than the Arcade soundtrack, but the arcade version has better graphics hands down.
la nostalgia de jugar esto a mis 7 años regreso, a dia de hoy no puedo dejar los juegos de carreras y este fue el juego que me metio dentro de este mundo hace ya casi 11 años
