The Sega Genesis had a program called GEMS, which helped create music for games. Quite a large number of games used GEMS, even some you wouldn’t expect. Could this program actually make good music, or was it just fart sounds like everyone says? And most importantly, why was GEMS created in the first place?


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Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
0:55 Difficulties with FM-based Sound
2:10 Creation of GEMS
2:45 Fantasia
3:40 Jurassic Park
5:18 Desert Demolition
6:33 Taz: Escape from Mars
7:50 Batman Returns
8:42 Stimpy’s Invention
9:46 Garfield: Caught in the Act
10:38 Aladdin
11:31 Other Games
13:27 Companies That Didn’t Use GEMS
14:18 Conclusion
14:56 Outtro


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