Four of Toaplan's earliest arcade soundtracks on one disc and you can literally hear the 80s arcade scene being built. Vol.8 covers Slap Fight, Get Star (Guardian), Tiger-Heli, and Twin Cobra (Kyukyoku Tiger). Prologue of Battle ~ Expect Success from Slap Fight has this triumphant energy that makes you want to grab the stick immediately.
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Tiger-Heli's I Am The Tiger is deceptively simple but impossibly catchy. Twin Cobra's Challenger ~ Break A Leg! brings this confident, driving melody that defined the military shooter sound. Over The Sea hits different, almost melancholy underneath the action.
These are the games that put Toaplan on the map before they became shmup legends. If you want to hear where the whole Toaplan lineage began, start right here.