Quote Originally Posted by rubah View Post
It's not so much that nobuo can whip out really super great trax, but more that he can whip out super great trax and has been doing so for twenty years.
That, and when he started, he didn't exactly have much to work with. No more that, what, five instrument tracks? Very few different tones. He and the composer(s) for Zelda (sorry, forget the name. Anyone want to help me out?) had to be genius' to do what they did for consoles such as the NES and the bad-quality midis that played from them.