Metal masters was a Game Boy port of the Atari ST and Amiga 500 game with the same name. It took years to produce because it went through several graphic changes and there were other games developed in between (mainly Asterix for the Game Boy and NES). It was released only in the USA, years later.

The game had only one track, but 3 versions of it with different starts.
I remember composing it close to the time when I programmed the sound driver and soundtrack of Asterix for the NES. At that time we were all working at the back of a swim-suit shop (long story). How to forget that! This was a short time before we founded Bit Managers and we were still known as New Frontier.

The long driving sound at the start is synchronized with the intro of the game, in which a pilot walks slowly and takes a lift up to the robot.
The "explosion" part sounds when a big arm is attached to the robot, and the subsequent noises and glitches previous to the melody (0:29) where inspired by something I listened in a Terminator 2 remix at the time (I think).
The random blips and notes came actually from setting one channel of the sound driver to play a random ROM address, and tweaked it until I found the sweet spot. I thought it was cool at the time.
The track intro and drums make use of the limited stereo capabilities of the console, so listening with headphones is recommended!

Recorded from AJGB, my own GB emulator ^^

Originally I composed another track for the game long time before, which can be found here along other details:

https://soundcloud.com/joemcalby/vintage-8-bit-metal-masters

Metal Masters - Metal Beat (Game Boy, 1993)

this epic track cannot be absent from my study playlist, and since I couldn't find the full track on here... 

disclaimer: I OWN NOTHING! this epicness is all Marvel and Bear McCreary

Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD (Full Opening Theme)by Bear McCreary

Within my old archives I found a remix of a tune I did for the unreleased Radikal Bikers port for Game Boy! It's probably from year 2000 which is the year when I composed the soundtrack, which by the way can be found here:
https://soundcloud.com/joemcalby/radikal-bikers

I remember I did the short remix because I found a very cool free SoundFont with distorted guitars and drums and wanted to do something with it. 

Radikal Bikers (Sound Blaster Awe32 + soundfont, ~2000)

This is the second soundtrack I composed for Tintin on the Game Boy.

Tintin - Le Temple Du Soleil - Complete soundtrack (Game Boy, 1997)

originally made in 2012

rewrote it in famitracker in a day, arranged it a little bit

here's my waltz-type song

In Pursuit of the Yeti

Cover of Castlevania theme Bloody Tears
Follow me on https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com
Original Theme by Kenichi Matsubara

Ichabod Crane - Motown Philly (Boys II Men metal cover)

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