Battle Of The Bands: Xenon II Megablast

[TL]

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Bitmap Bros. Xenon 2: Mega Blast has one of the best tunes of any game ever! The music was famously produced by UK dance act Bomb The Bass and topped the charts for weeks. It was an ideal fit for this frantic vertical shooter that started off on the 16-bit home computers before being converted to several consoles. But what we all want to know is which one rocked the hardest! There is only one way to find out . . . .

Let the battle commence!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb7SRXwQFpw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb7SRXwQFpw
Sega Master System version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HnY56uq9uA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HnY56uq9uA
Commodore Amiga version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRTnmvIQgoc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRTnmvIQgoc
Atari ST version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hqCph_cpAY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hqCph_cpAY
Sega Mega Drive version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afb00gv99Do">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afb00gv99Do
Nintendo Game Boy version[/align:3v18cu7z]

[DreamcastRIP]

You missed listing the best version by far which was the track's extended mix that featured on the Amiga CDTV version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFNLGuOyA6E

[TL]

I know I missed it! I never include CD versions in Battle Of The Bands because they are not chip music. It also makes it very unfair.

The CDTV version is on the music player here if people want to listen to it anyway 

[DreamcastRIP]

The ST/Amiga versions use sampled sound so they're hardly chiptune music either, to be fair! Unless one classes tracker-based mod music as chiptune music that is, which I personally do not.

[TL]

The ST/Amiga versions use sampled sound so they're hardly chiptune music either, to be fair! Unless one classes tracker-based mod music as chiptune music that is, which I personally do not.

Only the intro NOT the in-game music, which this poll is based on. The Amiga music includes samples in it but the others do not. The in-game music on the ST is a pure chiptune.

[DreamcastRIP]

P.S. There's no such thing as 'the Amiga CD32 version' as such a thing was never released, afaik. That's just people playing the CDTV release on an Amiga CD32 because the game also happened to work okay on the latter system. (Not all CDTV games do)

[TL]

P.S. There's no such thing as 'the Amiga CD32 version' as such a thing was never released, afaik. That's just people playing the CDTV release on an Amiga CD32 because the game also happened to work okay on the latter system. (Not all CDTV games do)

Yes I know, it was a typo.

[Vyothric]

I know no-one will agree with me, but my opinion:

Amiga version....the voice samples, record scratching and all that nonsense.....I can't stand listening to it.

Mega Drive version is pretty crap. Game Boy isn't much better. "Normal" game music from the ST version is too staccato. Therefore, Master System wins for me.

[DreamcastRIP]

I only heard the intro' music for the MD version for my first time a few years ago. I remember being appalled at how poor it was in comparison to the ST version's intro' music (the sampled part, not the chiptune part).

[Greyfox]

With Xenon 2 being a classic and all that, i remember firstly seeing this on the Amiga and hearing the music and thought , Jesus that's as good as the CD from Bomb the Bass, and thought wow, that's a cracking tune, along with a cracking shooter, and then I heard the ST version, and thought,,ahh no, it's good, but being done in chip doesn't really give the same effect that the Amiga version did..so Amiga Wins it hands down, I'm not gonna count the console version on this..as the Original is the best.

[TrekMD]

I prefer how the Amiga sounds, so that's my vote. 

[TL]

I voted for the Amiga, it just sounds the best.

I actually own the ST and Mega Drive versions though.

[DreamcastRIP]

I voted 'Amiga' for its music as a whole. Taken in isolation I think the shortish sampled music that forms the ST version's intro' screen music is the best of all.

[TL]

I voted 'Amiga' for it's music as a whole. Taken in isolation I think the shortish sampled music that forms the ST version's intro' screen music is the best of all.

Agreed!