I wish I lived in a universe where Tim Follin composed not only the music for Pictionary, but also all default phone ringtones, most of the world supply for elevator music, and the stuff they play at my dentist's office.
Imagine booting the game up just to hear the first bop that comes on and leave it there looping while aggressively cleaning your room - don't look at me lmao
I did this when my family rented Spiderman & The X-Men In Arcade's Revenge back in the day the game was garbage, so after about twenty minutes of trying to play it, I just listened to the title screen music a few dozen times over that weekend
tim: alright what sound chip are you giving me this time? me: an electric toothbrush, a credit card machine, and a typewriter. device orchestra: say less i got y- tim: shut the hell up ok let me throw together a masterpiece rq
I would have placed my hand on the fire swearing the drums on this soundtrack were dpcm samples, I can't BELIEVE how real they sound with just the triangle and noise channel. This man was a one of his kind.
If his driver had access to the sample channel, he’d probably use that as the bass or chords. So it would sound like there are 6 or 8 channels instead of sounding like there are 5.
I was listening to some "Top NES Sound Tracks" video in the background while I worked. I had never heard this and I had to switch over to see what it was. Blown away moment 1: Couldn't believe those sounds came from an NES!!! Blown away moment 2: Pictionary!? LOL!
Fan Names: 0:00 Get Ready to Pictionary! 1:35 Use Your Headbanger 4:19 Another One Draws the Dust 7:11 Gettin' Drawn With The Funk 9:48 Move yo' Piece! 10:37 A Job Well Drawn
This is creativity. This is a whole frigging musical album on the NES. Man, I'm stuff was so worthy to be on the highest level properties in 90's gaming, and they'd be so enhanced by it. Why am I just finding out about this composer now?
I mean you can see the ollioscope view right there. But then again you can copy Change Of Scene in Geometry Dash and view it in editor. Still doesnt make it make any more sense
Late reply but I know how he made the kick drum for the triangle wave. You basically just turn down the pitch very quickly and then reset it on the next beat.
6-9-24 The Title Theme sounds almost like it was the inspiration for the Ranking Screen for Pizza Tower. You can see someone getting a P-Rank on Pizza Tower.
That's great! This is one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard. By the way, I also compose 8-bit music sometimes and my channel has my cover of the stage select screen theme from Mega Man 1 as well as my own short track, so if anyone is interested, come and listen).
Estudio: tim its just a silly game dont go crazy for the track Tim: fuck this odds, fuck this game, fuck your estudio, im a create a banger wordy of god's ears
i recall a comment on either this video or silver surfer that said "how did such a bad game get such good music" but i could never find it so im posting it here since i already posted on the other video a few months ago
Not only did Tim Follin not use expansion chips, he didn't even use the DPCM channel that the NES did have. Here is a Famicom Disk system with a VRC7 connected, and 2048KB of ROM available. Now Tim, please turn it up to 11.
Tim Follin: PICTIONARY IS LIKE A BIG FAMILY CONTEST TO ME SO I WANT TO MAKE THIS GAME FEEL LIKE THAT!!! BAUM!!! Producer: Tim, ur, are you okay? Tim Follin: I think so.
My headcanon: "Isn't Pictionary like the game show Win Lose or Draw? There are game shows with a lot more interesting music than that one. I'll be writing a music package that we can sell to Burt and Bert for the next season, and this game is where we'll show it off." Too bad the revivals of WLOD didn't pick it up.
"Okay Tim, we need some title screen music, its just for a Pictonary game so no need to get wild." "So... you're saying there's gonna be extra space..." "Tim.. please..." **Turns in an absolute banger for zero reason**
The Triangle channel, usually the bassline, is often used to beef up percussion on the initial attack by sweeping downward very quickly, to simulate a hit, and then it returns to the bassline. It's so fast that you can't (or can barely) hear the bassline missing. The Noise channel alone cant really accomplish a nice thunk. As a side effect (or maybe on purpose) it sounds similar to side chaining a kick drum against the bassline. Same idea =)
I opened this soundtrack in an NSF player, and the breakdown actually uses simulated sidechain compression at 0:33 to 0:48. Notice how the waveforms in the top two channels (pulse 1 and pulse 2) briefly get less tall whenever the third channel (triangle) plays the drum's tonal partial.
Her: "I don't understand him, what the hell is he thinking about? i bet he's thinking about another woman" Him:"oh man, Tim Follin's Pictionary song is really cool on oscilloscope"
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I wish I lived in a universe where Tim Follin composed not only the music for Pictionary, but also all default phone ringtones, most of the world supply for elevator music, and the stuff they play at my dentist's office.
look at ringtone bangers on twitter, there's so many good ones.
How about a universe where Tim and Geoff were full time employees of Nintendo, Capcom, or Konami?
That would be heaven lol
at least we have the technology to make these as your ringtones.
@@李재성 We DID get Koji Kondo and Nobue Uematsu though. That turned out pretty awesome.
Imagine booting the game up just to hear the first bop that comes on and leave it there looping while aggressively cleaning your room - don't look at me lmao
Was staying with a gf a few years back and she was out for the day. So I cleaned the whole place to the intro music of TMNT 1.
I hung my laundry to this pictionary intro music
I did that with Solstice way more than I should probably admit lmao
I did this when my family rented Spiderman & The X-Men In Arcade's Revenge back in the day
the game was garbage, so after about twenty minutes of trying to play it, I just listened to the title screen music a few dozen times over that weekend
Leave it to tim follin to make fucking pictionary, the most tame game you could think of, to sound like an epic and amazing adventure. What a madman.
i like to think that he was serious and that tim follin is just the #1 pictionary fan
tim: alright what sound chip are you giving me this time?
me: an electric toothbrush, a credit card machine, and a typewriter.
device orchestra: say less i got y-
tim: shut the hell up ok let me throw together a masterpiece rq
Hehe, I know what your thinking. You stole that idea from me (for real). 🤔
TIM IT WAS JUST PICTIONARY
@「 OKAY 」 ...No. No you did not.
Stolen comment man
@@amso7169 so?
Where is that originally from?
Blue Mario
Stealing comments is disrespectful to the original author.
Tim Follin is the best kind of madman.
"LET'S PLAY SOME MOTHERF**KING PICTIONARY!"
Considering what Tim was able to do with a PC speaker buzzer the NES chip was ezmode for him.
I just looked this up, found "ZX Spectrum 1-bit music: Agent X" and WHAT THE FUCK TIM
@@hundvd_7actual fucking legend, he did that AT 14
**puts on sunglasses**
"I'm here to play pictionary and chew bubble gum.....and i'm all out of gum"
I would have placed my hand on the fire swearing the drums on this soundtrack were dpcm samples, I can't BELIEVE how real they sound with just the triangle and noise channel. This man was a one of his kind.
Still is!
If his driver had access to the sample channel, he’d probably use that as the bass or chords. So it would sound like there are 6 or 8 channels instead of sounding like there are 5.
yeah i just realized too, I was wondering why the sample channel wasn't being viewed until i realized it wasn't even being used.
And at 4:53 he throws in an "SOS SOS SOS" in Morse code. Righteous.
Poor guy is stuck working on Pictionary 😭
no effing way
bro was forced to write this all in one night
I was listening to some "Top NES Sound Tracks" video in the background while I worked. I had never heard this and I had to switch over to see what it was.
Blown away moment 1: Couldn't believe those sounds came from an NES!!!
Blown away moment 2: Pictionary!? LOL!
This music has that "but your honor, free bird was playing on the radio" energy.
The dude was asked to make music for a pictionary game, ignored all design directions and produced an absolute banger just because he wanted to
Fan Names:
0:00 Get Ready to Pictionary!
1:35 Use Your Headbanger
4:19 Another One Draws the Dust
7:11 Gettin' Drawn With The Funk
9:48 Move yo' Piece!
10:37 A Job Well Drawn
It's Pictionary Time, Motherfuckers!
Ok so all of these are amazing but "Another One Draws the Dust" makes the list.
When your level 3 bard rolls a nat 20 performance check
For a chip that can only produce 4 channels (+1 sample), this a treat.
Dude made it sound like so many more channels than the 3 measly beeb ones.
I love how at 4:19 Tim essentially wrote a remix to Another One Bites the Dust 😂
Why tf does a pictionary soundtrack go so hard
Because Tim Follin.
For world peace
This is your brain on Tim Follin.
Her: You better be an oscilloscope visualization to the OST of NES Pictionary if you think we fucking
Me:
Coolest video I've seen in a while. Tim Follin is a legend.
i like to think that he was serious and that tim follin is just the #1 pictionary fan
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This is creativity. This is a whole frigging musical album on the NES. Man, I'm stuff was so worthy to be on the highest level properties in 90's gaming, and they'd be so enhanced by it. Why am I just finding out about this composer now?
It comes with a free game too!
07:11 I don't know what has this man has done to make the triangle and the noise channel sound like the song was using the DPCM.
I mean you can see the ollioscope view right there.
But then again you can copy Change Of Scene in Geometry Dash and view it in editor.
Still doesnt make it make any more sense
Late reply but I know how he made the kick drum for the triangle wave. You basically just turn down the pitch very quickly and then reset it on the next beat.
S-tier soundtrack
When I saw that was Pictionary...
UH
Pictionnary 65536 ?
IT WAS JUST PICTIONNARY
It's not Tim without those little pitch slides.
tim you will be remembered for music on zx spectrum
This music is so awesome, a bit too epic for a freaking Pictionary game.
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FUCKING PICTIONARY?!!!?!?!?!
fun fact: tim said he literally did not care this was a game about drawing and just wanted to make a masterpeice
this has the same energy as that one friend that takes board games a bit too seriously
I genuinely can’t tell if the kick drum is a sample or part of the triangle channel, it’s that good!
Tim didn't use any samples in his NES tracks, he's just manipulating the triangle fast enough to make a kick sound before going back to the bass
Tim Follin and his awesome OSTs.
Could you do "Calm b4 The Storm" by H0ffman?
Thank you for asking for this song. It's my new fav MOD now.
@@kencover2040 You're welcome :)
Apart from the banger itself which is absolutely awesome. Watching this is strangely satisfying. 🎭
Literally ahead of its’ time holy shit what a god.
This is insane.Tim was a Master with the nes sound chip
I'd play Pictionary on NES just for this
i showed this to my mum without showing the title and she thought this was from a retro shooter game...
Love the punchy drums.
The type of game I would play with my retro-gamer friends, just to make them listen to this music.
Masterpiece!!!!
I can only imagine how the poor unsuspecting families must have reacted when they first boot up the game back in the day! :D
Just the view of the sound waves alone should be framed and be considered a piece of fine art.
6-9-24
The Title Theme sounds almost like it was the inspiration for the Ranking Screen for Pizza Tower. You can see someone getting a P-Rank on Pizza Tower.
Someone needs to interview Tim Follin, his music is my childhood memories of some banging 8but tunes, I wish he still composed for the chiptune scene
he got interviewed once, I'm sure
Search around, there's a few floating around. :D
ARE YOU READY TO PLAY SOME FUCKING PICTIONARY!?
Silver Surfer: The Lost Levels - OST
Tim Follin made soundtracks in some LJN games. ...was he thinking?
Yes, about paying his rent.
LJN was just a publisher, he worked for Software Creations
acrouzet Nice Video.
Why does 4:19 just sound like "Another one bites the dust" over and over again lol
man took pictionary and made it sound like a C64 demo
4 CHANNELS, BTW
you should see what he can do with the C64
@Michael Persico he's not using samples
@Michael Persico What kind of stupid statement is that?
[shakes fist] Tim Follin...
This guy is the Toby Fox of 1980's
He's more than that
he likely inspired Toby Fox
minigame 1 sounds like another one bites the dust
0:00 If Pictionary was an epic boss battle.
That's great! This is one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard. By the way, I also compose 8-bit music sometimes and my channel has my cover of the stage select screen theme from Mega Man 1 as well as my own short track, so if anyone is interested, come and listen).
"TIM! It was just Pictionary!" ~ unknown
@@basilflute 😁
4:19 ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST
Estudio: tim its just a silly game dont go crazy for the track
Tim: fuck this odds, fuck this game, fuck your estudio, im a create a banger wordy of god's ears
i recall a comment on either this video or silver surfer that said "how did such a bad game get such good music" but i could never find it so im posting it here since i already posted on the other video a few months ago
K
IT'S JUST PICTIONARY!
TIM YOU MISSED THE ASSIGNMENT TIM WHY ITS JUST PICTIONARY MAN CMON WE GET IT!
Tim it was just pictionary!
6:10 S.O.S.????
Drawing Game sounds like a Jackson 5 song.
İs the bottom DPCM or noise?
Noise. Tim never used any DPCM samples in his music.
Was this music made using only the original NES hardware or did it also use the Sunsoft 5B chip deal-e-o?
Only the default NES hardware. The North American and European NES consoles didn’t support additional audio hardware like the Japanese Famicom.
Imagine if Tim got his hands on the Sunsoft 5B chip. No...... scratch that. Imagine if Tim got his hands on the Konami VRC7 chip!!!
Not only did Tim Follin not use expansion chips, he didn't even use the DPCM channel that the NES did have.
Here is a Famicom Disk system with a VRC7 connected, and 2048KB of ROM available. Now Tim, please turn it up to 11.
1:26 Jojo moment
#4:19
モールス信号で"SOS"が聞こえる？
move piece is reminiscent of time trax
Tim was overqualified for the game lol
""""Simpler"""" time.
4:19 Another One Bites The Dust???
i'm getting MJ Bad for some reason, but also this
Damn Tim don't make pictionary cool to me, it's really weird!
GAMERS: tim, tim please, you can't go this hard on just pictionary
TIM FOLLIN: hahaha top channel go brRrRrRr
A pictonary video game is known for its music. Fucking pictionary.
"Uh Mr. Follin, have you ever played Pictionary?"
"No, why?"
You don't this hype when playing Pictionary?
Tim Follin: PICTIONARY IS LIKE A BIG FAMILY CONTEST TO ME SO I WANT TO MAKE THIS GAME FEEL LIKE THAT!!! BAUM!!!
Producer: Tim, ur, are you okay?
Tim Follin: I think so.
"Pictionary is the most epic game, SO IT NEEDS TO HAVE *E* *P* *I* *C* *C* MUSIC"
My headcanon: "Isn't Pictionary like the game show Win Lose or Draw? There are game shows with a lot more interesting music than that one. I'll be writing a music package that we can sell to Burt and Bert for the next season, and this game is where we'll show it off."
Too bad the revivals of WLOD didn't pick it up.
"I'LL TAKE IT EASY WHEN I'M DEAD"
-Tim Follin, moments before snorting an entire bottle of red bull and writing this soundtrack in one night
XD
"I'm taking edge with Neptune!! WOOOOO!!! Excelsior!! I am The Lizard King!! WOOOO!!!"
Didn't have red bull when this game came out
@@watcher805 I guess he washed caffeine pills down with coffee.
@@watcher805 Red Bull was founded in 1987, and this is a 1990 game, so it's very possible
Tim Follin is a chaotic good type of guy.
"Calm down son, it's just a drawing."
Ok this is the best comment.
@@quadpad_music I suppose he still had Led Storm in the back of his mind ;)
*Game about drawing
0:33 the madman fucking emulated COMPRESSION on an NES
Its a side effect of the triangle wave being both bass and the drums.
This absolute banger on a lazy afternoon - 01:35
Someone get Tim a glass of water, this is fucking fantastic.
Tim Follin: LET'S DO IT!
[makes this]
LJN: TIM THIS WAS JUST PICTIONARY!
Software Creations: Our amazing games need amazing OST,now publish this crap.
Only someone named Tim could make Pictionary sound so overly badass
That one dislike makes me very angry
EDIT: No more dislikes, yay!
Thank youu for considering my request.
Fun fact, Tim was never told what game this music was going to be used in was, so he just made ass-kicking music for a board game...
Translation: Instead of not being told what the game was. He said that he just didn't care what the game was.
The drawing game theme is like having honey poured into your ears. So lovely. 😊 🍯
The thought kinda terrifies me
sounds sticky... ew
You could've said it sounded sweet as honey.. not that.
Now i know how to play Pictionary
"Okay Tim, we need some title screen music, its just for a Pictonary game so no need to get wild."
"So... you're saying there's gonna be extra space..."
"Tim.. please..."
**Turns in an absolute banger for zero reason**
7:47 DUDE.
what the FUCK
Hi-hats on the intro sound like they use side compressor 👍
Just a triangle and fast frequency changes cause that to happen.
The Triangle channel, usually the bassline, is often used to beef up percussion on the initial attack by sweeping downward very quickly, to simulate a hit, and then it returns to the bassline. It's so fast that you can't (or can barely) hear the bassline missing. The Noise channel alone cant really accomplish a nice thunk. As a side effect (or maybe on purpose) it sounds similar to side chaining a kick drum against the bassline. Same idea =)
I opened this soundtrack in an NSF player, and the breakdown actually uses simulated sidechain compression at 0:33 to 0:48. Notice how the waveforms in the top two channels (pulse 1 and pulse 2) briefly get less tall whenever the third channel (triangle) plays the drum's tonal partial.
This is awesome too! Two great upload in one day!
Didn't have to go hard like that but he did
Her: "I don't understand him, what the hell is he thinking about? i bet he's thinking about another woman"
Him:"oh man, Tim Follin's Pictionary song is really cool on oscilloscope"
Yeeeeees...