The PC Engine's sound chip doing genuine horror is something you need to hear. Shin Onryousenki is a Japanese supernatural investigation game, and its soundtrack commits fully to dread with that 16-bit hardware. "Theme of the Onryou 1" uses these warbling, unstable tones that feel like the console itself is haunted, while "Onryou Investigation Evening Edit" layers tension through sparse, creeping melodies that never quite resolve.
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"Ancient Miyadera City" pulls off atmospheric unease with just a few channels of sound. That shift when "Battle" kicks in and suddenly the chip is working overtime. If you dig horror games and retro sound design, this is TurboGrafx territory almost nobody talks about.