Crunchy Neo Geo sound chips doing things they probably shouldn't be able to do. Fatal Fury The Definitive Soundtrack collects the original 1991 game's audio in both NEOGEO and MVS versions, which is honestly wild to compare.
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"The Hooligan of Downtown" for Duck King is pure early-90s arcade funk squeezed through that SNK hardware. "Four Thousand Years of Chinese History" for Tung Fu Rue goes hard with these dramatic FM synth stabs. You get both the home and arcade board versions of each track, so you can hear how different the same song sounded depending on where you played it.
There's a raw charm to how limited and punchy everything feels. Every note fighting for space in that sound chip. If you ever wondered what the SNK vs Capcom rivalry sounded like at the starting line, this is it.