TurboGrafx-16 sound chips doing dating sim music in 1990, and it's got way more personality than you'd expect. The seasonal themes (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) track the school year with distinct moods, Summer moving brighter while Winter pulls inward.
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"Date in an Oncoming Car" is an incredible track name and the energy matches. "LOVE & PEACE" and "Ski" sound like pure fun, while "Visitor of the Evening" gets atmospheric in that spooky PC Engine way. "GRADUATE" hits different when you've been through all four seasons.
The whole thing plays like a year of high school compressed into chip-tune vignettes. If you want to hear what a 1990 school life sim sounded like through that chunky TG-16 hardware, this delivers.