Toshio Iwai’s Sound Fantasy, demoed at the “Gunpei Yokoi: The Man Called the ‘God of Games’” exhibit. 1UP’s Ryan Winterhalter actually checked out the exhibit, and saw a roundtable presentation by Hip Tanaka, artist Daito Manabe, Yokoi biographer Takefumi Makino, and musician/designer/inventor Toshio Iwai.

Sound Fantasy was an unreleased SNES mouse game designed by Iwai and produced by Yokoi, consisting of four musical minigames: 

There’s “Pix Quartet,” where four bugs wander around the screen and create music based on a player created environment; “Beat Hopper,” which features a grasshopper on a pogo stick jumping from platform to platform in a style very similar to Xbox Live Indie Game Artoon; “Ice Sweeper,” a Breakout clone; and “Star Fly,” a freeform music creator where players lay down stars in the sky rather than notes on a chart.

See also: More Gunpei Yokoi posts

[Via 1UP]

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