Sonic Crackers: "CRACKERS?!"
How Jun Senoue reacted when shown Sonic Crackers at Video Games Live.
On Friday, March 9th 2007, forum members Shade and Heran Bago went to the San Fransisco performance of "Video Games Live" at the Masonic Center. After the show however, the audience is offered the chance to meet any of the Composers in a "meet and greet" session. In the lineup of composers was Jun Senoue, and after queuing for over an hour, they finally met him!
Heran Bago  I told him his music was awesome and that it practically made the games. I said Sonic game just wouldn't be as fun without his music. He signed the slip to my Sonic 3 box, and I asked him "I know you didn't do most of the songs in this game specifically, but which did you do?" and he responded "This one? ... Just the bonus round and special stage."
However things got more interesting upon the mention of Crackers...
Heran Bago "So why didn't you compose the music for Sonic Crackers or Knuckles Chaotix, rather than those two girls who hadn't really done anything?"
He stares at me with wide eyes and terrible teeth. "Crackers!?"
He pounds the table and stands up Phoenix Wright style, "CRACKERS!?"
"Yeah. Actually I have it on my PSP right here." A lie. It was Shade's PSP. I'd already set it up with Dgen running. I unpaused the game, showed him the title, pushed start and put the PSP in his hands.
Everyone in the vicinity was staring with a wtf kinda look, including Richard Jacques and the other composers around.
Jun put the PSP down and held his hands up. He made a couple noises like "oh... ahh.." and immediately started digging around in his pockets, then his suitcase.
After digging in his coat pockets he find a digital camera, and after happily saying "Crackers!" takes a picture of me holding Sonic Crackers running on a PSP. He just stayed silent at my questions about it though. =(
So that prooves that Jun Senoue (who worked as a sound engineer on Chaotix) certainly had some memories about the game! Here are the pictures from the event:
 
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