Tight Famicom pulse waves doing things that sound physically impossible on that hardware. This first volume of Sunsoft's official music collection gathers Naoki Kodaka and Hiroaki Koi's earliest work, covering eleven games spanning arcade ports, Famicom Disk System originals, and NES titles like Super Arabian and Route 16 Turbo.
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Kodaka's STAGE BGM tracks have that unmistakable Sunsoft crunch, rhythm-forward and melodically sharp, while the collaborative tracks with Koi show how the studio's sound identity formed from day one. The NORMAL and DIFFICULT BGMs ramp up tension through tempo and harmonic shifts rather than just getting louder.
A time capsule of a studio learning to make the Famicom sing. If you want to trace where Sunsoft's legendary NES sound began, this is literally page one.