backstreet boys and sonic 3d ?

[sega fan]

well i was going around a video game midi site and i selected the end credits song and something about it felt familiar and then it hit me as at the time iwas thinking about the whole mj doin' the sonic 3 soundtrack. and here is the end results

sonic 3d blast end credits: http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/sega/genesis/s3db_sg_19.mid

now that sounds similar to these backstreet boys songs

i want it that way : http://209.197.89.57/19580222/pop/backstreetboys/I_Want_It_That_Way.mid

anywhere for you: http://209.197.89.57/19580222/pop/backstreetboys/Anywhere_For_You.mid

what is you're view on this... or could be the real deal

[Genesis Knight]

Gettin' 403 errors on your last two links.

Seems unlikely, though. They would have hyped it if they had gotten the BB to work on the game - but then again, the Boys didn't hit it big until 1997, which is after this game came out.

And the idea of the Backstreet Boys ripping off a soundtrack for a game that bombed like 3D Blast? Again, unlikely.

I'm guessing it's just a coincidence.

[sega fan]

no,no,no not ripping off just composing for 3d blast
and another thing the backstreet boys hit big in europe in 1995
and sonic 3d blast realesed in 96

[CRV]

no,no,no not ripping off just composing for 3d blast
and another thing the backstreet boys hit big in europe in 1995
and sonic 3d blast realesed in 96

Don't ask me how I know, but I'm pretty sure "I Want it That Way" came out after '96.

[Melf]

AHA!

j/k :p

[Joe Redifer]

The music for the Genesis version of Sonic 3D Blast was composed by that Jun Senuoe fella. He is Japanese. He also did the soundtrack for Sonic Adventure, which is why the two games have many of the same musical tracks. The Saturn version of Sonic 3D Blast was composed by Richard Jaques who was working for Sega o' Europe. The tunes were completely different from the Genesis version of the game. The Backdoor Boys had nothing to do with the game. They are just a boy band, which means they don't have any musical talent.

[David J.]

Milli Vanilli indeed.

[Flash1087]

Man, wouldn't that be crazy, though?

First Michael Jackson, then the Backstreet Boys?

[BlazeofGlory]

What I was thinking. We are really bringin' in the talent. :p

[Zebbe]

Many of the songs of Backstreet Boys were written (and played) by Swedish musicians. I doubt any of them were called Tatsuyuki Maeda, Jun Senoue, Masaru Setsumaru or Seiroh Okamoto, but "Max Martin" and "Dennis Pop" are good guesses.

[Elusive]

Gettin' 403 errors on your last two links.

Seems unlikely, though. They would have hyped it if they had gotten the BB to work on the game - but then again, the Boys didn't hit it big until 1997, which is after this game came out.

And the idea of the Backstreet Boys ripping off a soundtrack for a game that bombed like 3D Blast? Again, unlikely.

I'm guessing it's just a coincidence.

Copy & paste the midi links into a new window for them to work.

Bombed? Sonic 3D Blast debuted in the top three - at least in the UK - then hung around number ten for many weeks on the Mega Drive games chart.

Besides, everyone knows Richard Jacques' Saturn soundtrack kicks everything else up and down the hallway :D

[Genesis Knight]

Wow, who would have thought a CD soundtrack would be better than a cart version? :p

Okay, so maybe 'bombed' was too strong a term. It did better in EU than the US, correct? At any rate, the point I was trying to make is that the game was hardly the sort of killer app that would have garnered the interest of a major pop group. Sonic 3 and Knuckles had the power to get Jackson on board? Yeah. Sonic 3D Blast get the Backstreet Boys? Seems highly unlikely, just in principle.

[SegaJohnny]

I hear the similarity. Genesis composers often tried to make their music sound "contemporary," that is to say, a lot of it sounds like early 90s R&B.

My personal favorite is the game over music to Altered Beast.

[Joe Redifer]

That's your favorite game music ever?

[David J.]

I own this game on the PC, Saturn, Game Gear (Sonic Blast) and Genesis.

Why I own so many copies, I will never know...

[sega fan]

Don't ask me how I know, but I'm pretty sure "I Want it That Way" came out after '96.

but still they were in europe in 94 and 95 are you sure the songs werent programed they used as real songs like the mj case w/ sonic 3

[Vyse of Arcadia]

Besides, everyone knows Richard Jacques' Saturn soundtrack kicks everything else up and down the hallway :D
Definitely, but you have to admit the Genesis/MD version had some pretty catchy tunes.

[Joe Redifer]

Sonic 3D Blast on the Genesis stole the much of the music from Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast. Thieving bastards!

[Elusive]

Sonic 3D Blast on the Genesis stole the much of the music from Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast. Thieving bastards!

Looks like the timeline's been corrected again. Good job, everybody

[megadriveworld]

I would say there is most probably no connection between the Sonic 3D music and the Backstreet Boys. Firstly, BSB's are just a manufactured pop boyband where the group members do not write the material, and I don't think the people that wrote the BSB's songs would write music for this game.

If anything, the Michael Jackson producers may have wrote with Sonic 3D, as some of the songs from Sonic 3 remain in Sonic 3d.

edit - Just checked the credits, and yes, it's pretty much the same sound team that wrote for Sonic 3. I could tell, they sound so similar.

[Joe Redifer]

Sonic 3D was by Jun Senoe or some wacky Japanese name like that. Sonic 3D was his first game EVAR.

[megadriveworld]

He was apart of the music team. Others who composed for Sonic 3 were also apart of the Sonic 3D music team. According to the credits over at Project 2612.

[sega fan]

Sonic 3D Blast on the Genesis stole the much of the music from Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast. Thieving bastards!


that joe, we all can agree on

[sega fan]

I would say there is most probably no connection between the Sonic 3D music and the Backstreet Boys. Firstly, BSB's are just a manufactured pop boyband where the group members do not write the material, and I don't think the people that wrote the BSB's songs would write music for this game.

If anything, the Michael Jackson producers may have wrote with Sonic 3D, as some of the songs from Sonic 3 remain in Sonic 3d.

edit - Just checked the credits, and yes, it's pretty much the same sound team that wrote for Sonic 3. I could tell, they sound so similar.

true but im saying it could be a secret that sega didn't want ANYONE to know about but at the time the b.street boys were at the peak of their popularity so sales ould of tripled just cause a boy band but hey i can see why some peepole dont want thet much attention, cause trying to crap in a public stall without 8 paparazis on you would be impossible

[Mr Smith]

...the b.street boys were at the peak of their popularity...

That's like saying I've climbed to the summit of a mole-hill. :p

[Elusive]

Jeez, it's the MJ/Sonic 3 thing again. Yes, they may sound similar - until you have solid proof it was MJ or whoever, like a note in the game credits, or testimony from a developer - NOT just "they really really sound almost the same if you just play it backwards and turn up the tempo and lower the pitch!" - you can't expect to be taken seriously.