Ten tracks from a 1992 arcade arm wrestling game, and honestly the track titles alone tell the whole story. "Elbow Must Be on Cushion!" is a match start cue that doubles as a genuine life instruction. Two separate crowd cheering tracks, one labeled "Played once," suggest Jaleco was thinking hard about exactly how much enthusiasm the cabinet should project at any given moment.
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The Title and Attract Mode music has that bright, early-90s arcade FM synth energy designed to grab you from across the game center floor. "Opponent Select" sets up the roster of increasingly ridiculous arm wrestling challengers, while the "Strength Test (Bonus Game)" track pushes the competitive energy even further for the between-match minigame.
Arm Champs II is deep arcade obscurity, part of a tiny subgenre of physical-input games where you actually gripped a mechanical arm on the cabinet. The "You Win!" and "You Lose!" stingers hit different when you've been physically straining against a machine.
Pure novelty hardware energy preserved in sound.