Pure late-90s arcade aggression running through Namco hardware. Tokyo Wars was a tank combat game and this soundtrack sounds exactly like driving something heavy into a wall at full speed. Hexascape opens with that industrial crunch that arcades just did better than anything else.
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Panzer Tanz lives up to its name with this militaristic rhythm that gets under your skin, and E.G. Jungle layers in breakbeat energy that feels way ahead of its time. Tough-Rough-Laugh is exactly as unhinged as the title suggests.
The fact that A Mess got a second mix tells you someone on the sound team knew what they had. If you ever pumped quarters into a cab that rattled your teeth, this is that energy preserved.