Raw SNES power direct from the 1992 original release. Axelay on Super Nintendo sounds like Konami engineers showing off what the hardware could do in year one. "Unkai" on Stage 1 still gives chills, this ascending melody that feels like breaking through clouds into something dangerous and beautiful.
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"Colony" shifts the tone completely for Stage 2, darker and more mechanical. Then "Burning" on Stage 5 is pure adrenaline, the kind of track that made you lean forward in your chair as a kid. This version includes MIDI arrangements of some tracks as bonus material, which is a cool curiosity.
But the originals are why you are here. That SPC700 chip doing things it probably was not supposed to do. If you played this in 1992 you already know. If you did not, now is the time.