Wild Woody

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Wild Woody
System(s): Sega Mega-CD
Publisher: Sega of America (US) Tec Toy (BR)
Developer:
Distributor: Tec Toy (BR)
Sound driver: GEMS (sound effects)
Genre: Action

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega-CD
US 		4440
ESRB: Kids to Adults
Sega Mega-CD
BR
Tectoy: Todas as Idades

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Wild Woody is a Sega Mega-CD action platform game developed by Sega Multimedia Studio and published by Sega. The only original property created by the Sega of America-affiliated studio, it was first released in the United States in mid 1995, and later brought to Brazil by Tec Toy the following October.

History

Development

“ After hearing the Adventures Of Bumblefoot CD, I was hired to score all the music for the Sega CD-ROM video game "Wild Woody". I had a 1-month deadline to write and record a title song, 16 game level songs, as well as score the 6 animated story-line and transitional sequences, and 5 different "game over" sequences. The game music needed to complement the changing scenarios within the game. There were five "worlds" - Pirate world, Mythology world, Mechanical world, Sci-Fi world, and the final Cemetery world - and each world had 3 levels. My strategy was to start off silly and light-hearted in Pirate World and evolve in intensity to climactic finales in Cemetery World. Within each world, I would also intensify from 1st to 3rd level in the same way while remaining within the musical style that applied to the world.


I laid reference drum tracks with a sequencer and recorded all the bass, guitar, vocals, and keys on a digital 16-track tape recorder. I would send a tape of rough mixes out to Sega of America for approval, and to drummer Brad Kaiser who would be laying live drum tracks to the music. So I locked myself in my apartment for the month of February 96 and every morning I would write a song, record it in the afternoon, and do a rough mix at night. When all the music was done, I flew out to the Sega recording studio in San Francisco and we spent one day mixing the music for the non-gameplay parts of the game, which would be compressed to 8-bit mono. The next two days were for laying the live drums on an additional 8-digital tracks. The final two days were for mixing the 16-bit stereo songs (the title song and the 16 levels of game play). Tough game - I suck at it - I still can't get past level 2.

„

— Ron Thal[3]


Production credits

Source:
In-game credits
Wild Woody MCD credits.pdf
[4]


Source:
US manual
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[5]


Source:
Uncredited[3]

Magazine articles

Main article: Wild Woody/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
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Based on
0 review
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
(US) NTSC-U
56
[6]
(US) NTSC-U
35
[7]
(US) NTSC-U
60
[8]
Sega Mega-CD
 50
Based on
3 reviews

Wild Woody

Mega-CD, US
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Cover
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Disc
Wildwoody mcd us manual.pdf
Manual
Mega-CD, BR
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Cover
WildWoody MCD US Disc.jpg
Disc

Technical information

Main article: Wild Woody/Technical information.

External links

References

  1. ↑ Interview: Doug Lanford (2011-03-01) by Sega-16
  2. ↑ SuperGamePower, "Outubro 1995" (BR; 1995-xx-xx), page 13
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.bumblefoot.com/discography/other/wildwoody.htm (Wayback Machine: 2023-11-01 12:54)
  4. ↑ File:Wild Woody MCD credits.pdf
  5. ↑ File:Wildwoody mcd us manual.pdf, page 15
  6. ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "September 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 36
  7. ↑ GamePro, "October 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 58
  8. ↑ VideoGames, "October 1995" (US; 1995-09-19), page 88


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