Taz-Mania Longplay (Sega Genesis) [QHD] 

Personally, the hardest level is the 2nd River Level on Hard Mode.

Way to hard for an 8year old

I beat this game back then as an 8 year old

The way he flipped switches already made me smile!

There's a sequel, "Taz in Escape from Mars". Better presentation, even more brutal.

Which games are retro games exactly?

I made Sega rich on how many controllers I've busted over that mine cart stage.

Same! The fact it made an specific sound when the monster sticks its tongue out used to disturb me back when I was a kid

The music is interesting because it's actually an earlier instance of procedurally-generated music that changes depending on what's happening on-screen. It's just really badly implemented with way too many different styles that don't gel together at all in terms of beat or disparity.

Yeah it was very hard i never finished it back then when i was a child, came here for nostalgia

I was sure Taz-Mania came bundled with the Mega Drive at some point - thanks for confirming my suspicion (and my commiserations!)

The Master System/Game Gear version is just as bad...

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays the master system and game gear versions are different from each other. The MS one was developed in Japan, and is decent. At the least it doesn't deserve to be confused for the game gear version (or the Genesis version for that matter).

the music in this game barely even sounds like music lmao it all just sounds like unorganised noise

The mine cart stage.

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The sound is abhorrent - they clearly tried to go for something akin to the soundtracks which accompanied the cartoons, but fell way short. It's just a bunch of off-key and discordant notes...

They were trying to capture the essence of the cartoons with this I think, but MAN does it come off as bad! I had to laugh at your apt description of this being a terrible DOS game with poorly implemented Adlib support--I'd add it sounds like a DOS game with a broken sound card or malfunctioning drivers, haha. That, or dying speakers.

Okay, to answer your question: the reason why the sounds are so awful is because they were attempting a new approach with the soundtrack where all the music would be context-sensitive depending on what enemies were on screen or what Taz was doing. As an example, when the walking enemies are on screen, you get a weird drum beat that's supposed to resemble feet tapping along the ground. The problem is that this was the first time anyone was really attempting something this complex and each of these little musical cues are really poorly matched to the actual background music for the level that plays, often times being totally out of rhythm or just plain jarring to the ear. Furthermore, the Genesis sound chip didn't really have enough channels to be able to cope with so much going on at once, so it's not uncommon for you to end up with music just cutting out altogether for a few seconds and things like that. Pitfall 2 is an example of a game that did dynamic soundtracks before this one and it did it much better because it wasn't trying to overlap a bunch of sounds over itself.

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays did they exclusively watch the 60s cartoons with bill lava music or something lmao