
By the beginning of the ’90s, video game sales became colossal worldwide and a war erupted between the two biggest companies in the business: Nintendo and Sega. Although Sega had their flag firmly planted in the arcades in the ’80s, the home console market belonged to Nintendo. That started to change when Sega’s Megadrive developed a reputation for putting out games that were just that little bit “cooler.” In part down to the unique sound of the Megadrive’s inbuilt FM Synth, some of the most incredible game music heard to date was unleashed with J-Pop star Masato Nakamura assigned to compose the Sonic The Hedgehog soundtracks, and Yuzo Koshiro bringing the influence of the clubs he was going to in Tokyo to one of the most memorable soundtracks in video game history, Streets of Rage
PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY NICK DWYER & TU NEILL
WRITTEN BY NICK DWYER
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY – TIM FLOWER
EDITED BY TU NEILL
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS – TORSTEN SCMIDT & MANY AMERI
LINE PRODUCER - ADRIAN GREY
ASSISTANT LINE PRODUCER - TOMO HOJO
PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR – CHIKAYO MORIJIRI
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT – KENJI CHRIS GREEN
SOUND RECORDIST AND VIBES MASTER – JEFFREY JOUSAN
GAMING INDUSTRY SUPPORT
ROLLING UCHIZAWA
FIELD TRANSLATION
KENJI CHRIS GREEN, JEFFREY JOUSAN, NIKKI KININMONTH
BUSINESS AFFAIRS
JAMES MATSUKI
DRIVERS
MARCIO EDAGI
KEIJI YOSHIMOTO
RUNNER
DAI HOFUKU
POST TRANSLATION
MIO TANAKA
KEITA YAMAGUCHI
NIKKI KININMONTH
ADDITIONAL CAMERA (JAPAN)
KATEB HABIB
ADDITIONAL CAMERA (NEW YORK)
BOOFA
UAV OPERATORS
BRANDON STRACK
PETER MAJTAN
SCRIPT ASSISTANCE
TU NEILL
RESEARCH
NICK DWYER
PRIMARY INTERVIEWER
NICK DWYER
ADDITIONAL INTERVIEWERS
JUST BLAZE – JEFF MAO
SOUND POST SERVICES
NATIVE AUDIO
SOUND MIX
NICK BUCKTON
ONLINE SERVICES
TOYBOX
POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISORS
AL MCKAY
TU NEILL
COLORIST
DAVID GIBSON
GRAPHICS
BRANDON STRACK
MIO TANAKA
JACK WADHAM
ASSISTANT EDITOR
ICHI WATANABE
VFX ARTIST
LEONI WILLIS
BRANDON STRACK
MIO TANAKA
DATA MANAGER
PASENE FAIFUA
PROJECT TRANSLATORS
ERI NODA
CHIKAYO MORIJIRI
EMIKO MURAKUMO
HIROKO MINAMOTO
JAMES MATSUKI
CONTRIBUTORS
HALLY
ROLLING UCHIZAWA
HAYATO MATSUO
HITOSHI SAKIMOTO
YOKO SHIMOMURA
LADYHAWKE
FLYING LOTUS
IKONIKA
DIZZEE RASCAL
OH NO
ANAMANAGUCHI
THUNDERCAT
GROUNDISLAVA
GAME FOOTAGE AND MUSIC
XEVIOUS
© BANDAI NAMCO Games Inc
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2
© SEGA
SPACE HARRIER
© SEGA
CASTLEVANIA II – SIMON’S QUEST
©Konami Digital Entertainment
SWORD OF VERMILLION
© SEGA
HANG-ON
© SEGA
OUT RUN
© SEGA
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
© SEGA
THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI
© SEGA
© EMI MUSIC PUBLISHING
STREETS OF RAGE
© SEGA
© ANCIENT
STREETS OF RAGE 2
© SEGA
© ANCIENT
STREETS OF RAGE 3
© SEGA
© ANCIENT
INTRO MUSIC
DAISUKE TANABE / TAPPY
INTRO VOICEOVER
THUNDERCAT
ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE
SET JAPAN
KINOFILMS
PATRICKSCOTTPATTERSON.COM
SPECIAL THANKS
MIKI ASAI
SET
CHIKKI MEDIA INC.
BASISCAPE
ANCIENT
ANCIENT
YOICHI KAWAMURA
(SEGA)
MIE ONISHI
YADASTAR
NDILYO NIMINDE
TODD BURNS
STUART TURNER
HIROKO MINAMOTO
(8-4)
YOHEI KITABAYASHI
(SUPER POTATO)
MIKADO TAKADANOBABA
FREQ CLUB
NATIVE AUDIO
TOYBOX
KINO LIBRARY
PATRICK SCOTT PATTERSON
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