A wild cross-platform tribute album that pulls from everything, NES to PS4 to X68000. Game Music Prayer III is a compilation covering games across like seventeen platforms, and the tracklist reads like a fever dream of Japanese gaming history.
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"キラキラスターナイト" (Kirakira Star Night) brings that pure NES energy. "Theme of D4" channels Xbox 360-era atmosphere. "Star Cruiser" reaches back to the X68000 and PC-88 days with that sharp retro computer sound. The range here is absurd.
You get chiptune, orchestral arrangements, vocal tracks, and arcade bangers all sitting next to each other. It shouldn't work but it does because everyone involved clearly cared. If you want a sampler platter of decades of Japanese game music culture, this is your entry point.