WTH happened to awesome boss music in games?

[disolitude]

Kyuu said:

disolitude said:

Somini said:

 

How about this one, it's from the Sega Mega Drive time :P

Ah MegaDrive, my second love... even with its limited chipset it has some amazing boss tunes. Contra, Streets of Rage, Sonic, Vectorman all kicked ass...

Here is a genesis/Mega drive game a lot of people may have missed with a crazy good soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n_eHN-ArK8

Speaking of Genesis, I love this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVnn0fVoiV4

"Shivers" What happened to you Sonic? :(

You can still find classic Sonic sounds in some of the newer games...but yeah, its sad for the most part how things turned out musically and otherwise for Sonic.

Sonic Genesis games have been remixed like crazy by some amazingly talented musicians. Here are a few tunes which blew my mind -

Same boss battle remixed that you linked - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-fFuGphOmU

Sonic and Knuckles final boss (one of the best remixes I've ever heard) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycSJZS5VJIo