Data East's arcade legacy condensed into one disc. DECO HISTORY Scene One pulls together soundtrack highlights from a spread of mid-to-late '80s coin-ops, each one representing a different flavor of the company's wild genre-hopping output.
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"CAPTAIN SILVER" brings that swashbuckling platform energy with melodies that lodged themselves in the heads of anyone who pumped quarters into it. "DRAGONNINJA" (known as Bad Dudes in the West) delivers the punchy beat-em-up soundtrack that backed one of gaming's most quotable premises.
"SIDE POCKET" shifts gears entirely into smooth, laid-back pool hall vibes that have no business being this catchy for a billiards game. This is 1988-era game music archaeology. Data East never got the historical reverence of Capcom or Konami's sound teams, but albums like this prove they were cooking just as hard.
"BREY WOOD," "LAST MISSION," "Garyo Retsuden" -- each track is a snapshot of an era when arcade composers had to make every FM synth channel count.