Koichi Sugiyama wrote a string quartet for a Monopoly board game on Super Famicom and somehow it's genuinely beautiful. The Boardwalk String Quartet performs live arrangements of the SNES originals, and hearing these bright, playful chip melodies translated into real violin, viola, and cello is kind of surreal.
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"The Street Adventure" bounces with this lighthearted classical energy that makes rolling dice feel elegant. "The Victor's Arena" gets surprisingly dramatic for a game about buying property. The album includes both the live quartet versions and the original SPC audio side by side, so you can hear exactly how Sugiyama's compositions bridge both worlds.
Only released in Japan, obviously. If you thought Dragon Quest was his only flex, this weird little album says otherwise.