Micronics

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Micronics
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Founded 198?
Headquarters Japan
Other Names Khaos

Micronics (マイクロニクス Maikuronikusu) was a Japanese game developer that developed mostly Nintendo games. Their company made poor quality video games which were ridden with bugs, glitches, and bad gameplay. It has been rumored that the company was founded by a Japanese college student and while he wanted to create his own games, most of them were only ports and he never tested the games. Much like Tose, they didn't credit themselves in most of their games.

While the company is not known outside Japan, they developed the NES version of Ghosts 'N Goblins for the NES, as well as the NES adaptation of Thundercade. They have also produced some obscure titles like '89 Dennou Kyusei Uranai. A man by the name of Kazuo (Kazzo) Yagi was the main programmer for their games during the NES era.

Fortunately, the company made a wise choice in the audio department and hired professional musicians to compose music for their games such as Tsugutoshi Goto, Kimio Nomura, and Joe Hisaishi. Unfortunately, the sound programmers did not do such a great job with the NES' sound chip.

The company started to develop SNES games, again uncredited. However, some of their games credited Khaos in the ROM, which is believed to have been Micronics's name while developing SNES games.

Games

Audio Development

It would appear that the composers would write their songs on sheet music paper and sent it to the company. The music was then coded in an unknown format by the programmers, possibly by Kazuo Yagi.

Genesis

Atomic Robo-Kid uses the banked Z80 version of SMPS. The game has no credits, so it is unknown who programmed the sound driver. However, the game F1 Circus '91 MD gives credit to Kazuo Yagi, a game which uses the standard Z80 version of SMPS.

Super Volleyball had its audio outsourced to Video System's Naoki Itamura and Kenji Okuda, using a custom sound driver, possibly by Yagi.

NES

Micronics had a few different sound drivers. One of the drivers (thought to have been written by Yagi), the one used in Daiku no Gen-san 2, Zoids 2, and other games, appear to have been written in Music Macro Language.

Some games credit a "K. Sasaki" for music programming for another sound driver.

Ghosts 'n Goblins is thought to use a sound driver by Yagi as well. However, Capcom's Harumi Fujita told the VGMPF that the driver was programmed by Yoshihiro Sakaguchi. This driver is different from the iconic-sounding driver Sakaguchi programmed for Capcom.

SNES

For the Micronics games, the company outsourced audio to Copya System. These games use Copya's SOSDRV sound driver. For the Khaos games, they outsourced the audio to various developers.

Audio Personnel

These composers worked at Micronics:

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