Software info: Sega Retro
Listening: YouTube, emulated audio
Info
ANSER (Automatic answer Network System for Electrical Request) is a Japanese electronic banking system created by the company NTT DATA in 1981, and the SEGA Mega ANSER was a peripheral released for the Genesis that allowed access to that system right from your television! Apparently some companies released specialized software for it, but it also came with its own generic software called Mega ANSER, and the music from that is what we’re listening to today.
As is completely expected, this thing doesn’t have credits, so we’ll never know who the composer is. A couple of the tracks sound like less complex versions of music from MegaMind, a Genesis Mastermind game (with a bomb minimalist soundtrack) composed by someone we only know as “XOR,” so I suspect it could be the same person. Especially since the main menu theme is an arrangement of a track from Alex Kidd in Shinobi World, which is also by XOR. Not bad if you’re in the mood for some lowkey FM music with a bunch of short repeating figures.
Update (2022-11-15): XOR, real name Tadahiko Inoue, has claimed to have written music for this!
Recommended tracks:
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“Unknown Track 1” has one really spicy chord change right before the loop
(track titles are unofficial)
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