Nine discs of raw arcade hardware sound from Nichibutsu's entire shooting catalog. This box set covers everything from Moon Cresta's bare-bones bleeps to Terra Cresta's punchy Famicom arrangements, spanning arcade boards, X68000, PC Engine, and more.
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The Terra Cresta stage BGM still goes unreasonably hard for something running on 1980s chips. You get to hear how the same melodies translated across completely different sound hardware, which is honestly fascinating. Prototype and unreleased tracks buried in here too.
Composer Kenji Yoshida's work across these titles basically defined what a Japanese shmup sounded like for a decade. If you collect arcade soundtracks, this is the archive dump you've been waiting for.