What's your favorite old-school sound chip?

[noiseredux]

SID without a doubt.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

One listen to Smooth Criminal from MJ on Moonwalker on the Genesis is all I need to say for the sound chip. Pure awesome.

[ThunderPrince]

my first instinct was to choose the genesis, but then I hesitated and picked the neogeo. the neogeo. it can produce music a HUGE variety of genres and styles with speech and other cool stuff and it all sounds fantastic. Metal Slug 5 is a great example of what it is capable of, while KOF2001 is a great example of how it can fail utterly.

so my head tells me to pick the neo, while my heart goes with the genesis. And a real man always follows his gut instinct. Genesis, all day. I love the shitty sound it makes, when the right people are working on it it can produce some amazing sound. Streets of Rage 2, Rocket Knight Adventures, the Sonic games (1,2,3&k,3D), SF2 has some pretty solid tunes, Musha, Phantasy Star, etc.

[Ivo]

I went for the Amiga one for nostalgia sake - but there's certainly some quality sounds coming from there, and particularly so from games (and not just games, "scene demos" as well) that very certainly didn't have budgets even close to the budgets of e.g. 1st party titles of the other choices.

Ivo.