FM synth gold straight off a PC-98 sound chip. This compilation pulls tracks from games like Nooch, Circle Mate, and Ribbon, and every one of them slaps in that crispy late-era FM synthesis way. "Escape" from Nooch 3 opens with this urgent bassline that immediately gets your pulse going.
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"Music Box of Puzzlement and Suffering" is exactly what it sounds like, a warped music box melody that gets progressively more unhinged. And "Cold Runner Of The Night" has this moody, almost noir quality to it that the Yamaha chip handles beautifully.
The whole thing feels like cracking open a time capsule from the Japanese PC scene. If you dig FM synthesis and obscure 90s Japanese computing, this collection is calling your name.