GG for Sega MD/Gs

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Gentle Giant is, without any doubt, my favourite number one rock band. 

As a man from the former USSR, I keep warm memories of three video game consoles that lit up my life as a child in the 1990s.First, the cheapest and the most massive, was Dendy (Taiwan-made illegal clone of NES/Famicom) and its numerous even cheaper clones.
Second, for the elite, if you will - Sega Mega Drive (known in America as Sega Genesis). It cost more and so most of us could only dream about it.
Third, SNES - Super Nintendo. It was for czars and ministers reckoning its price and prices of original cartridges. So I can't remember any living person that I knew of who had it at home.

Now that there're emulators, I played it all, and so on. Still, I wanted to make something for Sega on my own. 
Thanks to GINCS Visual Studio, it is possible to create at least something of this kind.

And that's where I went wild. Now let me share it with you, go worldwide.

So...
Here is the short quiz in its initial form. Just black screen and questions. And my favourite writer Robert Sheckley at the end, the man who probably had no connection to the band in whichever way imaginable,  except that I like his works and GG's works at the same time. Unreleased GG's melody for unreleased Robin Hood movie, as well as Mr. Sheckley's image makes the entertaining program somewhat creepy and crazy. That's perhaps fine, I thought: 

Here is the same quiz but with b/w photos (I had much problem with converting color photos and even some with b/w ones because of console's limitations and GINCS Visual Studio's bugs): 

Then I tried to fill some GG music into the maximum size of 4 MB of standard Sega 16bit cartridge/rom-file. 
First, I've put two instrumentals: 

Second, two pieces with vocals: 

Finally, I've spent three or four days to create the one and only in the whole universe of NonGoodGen (non-standard Sega Genesis game-files) GG ENCYCLOPEDIA on Sega 16bit! It's as surreal, weird and light-hearted as it can be. A lot of irony and comic mood is seen through its pages. However, there are NO programs of a kind as of now yet.
And the first one happened to be of Gentle Giant:

I did not try it on real hardware, but they all work perfect on emulators. If you have something like Mega EverDrive and the console, try it - it'll probably work. I see no reasons why it couldn't. 
You can download all 9 GG-related programs (bin-files) that I have made so far FROM HERE!

Edited by Woon Deadn - November 15 2020 at 08:22