March 21, 2003

gameboy + beep = yum.

On wandering aimlessly around my local software store yesterday, whilst the wife was otherwise occupied in Old Navy, came across a copy of 'Pocket Music' for the Gameboy Color in the second-hand section. Whilst there are other VERY cool and more powerful unofficial Gameboy music creation packages such as 'Little Sound DJ' and 'Nanoloop', 'Pocket Music' (courtesy of Jester Interactive, the folks behind 'MTV Music Generator' for PS2), seems to be the only commercially released Gameboy Color music title, unless you count the mini-games in the Gameboy camera. And you may get further confused by the fact that there's a different Gameboy Advance version of 'Pocket Music', which came out later, and apparently uses all samples - much less beepy and interesting for bleep freaks. Either way, still trying to work out if either of the "Pocket Music" titles was released in the US, so not quite sure how this copy ended up in San Jose - it's got a European product code on it. But try to hunt this (locked-out from playing on GBA!) GBC version down, especially from UK sources, since it's fun+easy to compose and has got great demotunes by Tim 'Cold Storage' Wright.

Posted by h0l211 at March 21, 2003 06:34 PM