The ZX Spectrum beeper is screaming at you and somehow it works. Oriental Hero's title theme from Tron Software hits like someone figured out how to make a martial arts movie score on the cheapest hardware possible. It's just one track, just the title screen, but the way it wrings tension out of square waves and rapid-fire bleeps is kind of absurd.
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The sequel to Ninja Master and it inherited that same intensity. The beeper wasn't meant to do melody like this. Pure aggression squeezed through a speaker that barely qualifies as one, buzzing and pulsing with this frantic energy that makes you want to start the game immediately.
If you're into Speccy audio pushed past its limits, this tiny piece of 1987 chiptune deserves a listen.