16-Bit Blast

Lyrics

[Intro]
August 1989.
The box is black.
The air smells like new plastic and solder.
A whole new kind of noise for the living room.

[Verse 1]
Your old gray box is collecting dust under the Trinitron.
Been saving my allowance since the first word got out.
August fourteenth, a heatwave hits Los Angeles and New York.
They said the plumber owned the world, but the world just got faster.
This isn't a family toy.
This is a weapon, red and black.

[Chorus]
Welcome to the next level!
Sixteen bits of pure adrenaline!
Genesis!
This is the blast, this is the processing speed!
Yeah, Genesis does what Nintendon't!

[Verse 2]
In a San Francisco office, Tom Kalinske draws the line.
One eighty-nine ninety-nine, the price is the battle cry.
Al Nilsen's got the sales charts, covered in red ink.
A war room with an ocean breeze, no time to stop and think.
They packed in Altered Beast.
A monster for a monster.
"Rise from your grave," it says. And we did.

[Chorus]
Welcome to the next level!
Sixteen bits of pure adrenaline!
Genesis!
This is the blast, this is the processing speed!
Yeah, Genesis does what Nintendon't!

[Bridge]
They don't know what blast processing is.
It doesn't matter.
It's a promise whispered on the playground.
A secret handshake in the arcade.
It's the future, and it's loud. So loud.

[Chorus]
Welcome to the next level!
Sixteen bits of pure adrenaline!
GENESIS!
This is the blast, this is the processing speed!
Yeah, Genesis does what Nintendon't!

[Outro]
Faster.
Louder.
What Nintendon't.
What Nintendon't.