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ThinkGeek Release Namco Museum Greatest Hits Vinyl

February 28, 2018 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on ThinkGeek Release Namco Museum Greatest Hits Vinyl Share this

If you’re still riding aboard the vinyl VGM train, Namco and ThinkGeek have a nice throw-back game music compilation release to whet your whistle. The Namco Museum – Greatest Hits Exclusive Vinyl EP releases today and offers a bunch of classic tunes from several hit Namco titles, including Dig Dug, Sky Kid, Splatterhouse and more in an officially-licensed Bandai Namco collectible.

This Namco Arcade Greatest Hits – Exclusive Vinyl LP is guaranteed to bring back tons of memories, and the limited edition “Pixel
Explosion” color vinyl variant is only available here. This recording includes game play and sounds from Bosconian, Dig Dug, Dragon Buster, Galaga, Gaplus, Mappy, New Rally X, Pac-Man, The Return of Ishtar, Rolling Thunder, Sky Kid, Splatterhouse, Tower of Druaga, and Xevious. Packaged in a die-cut jacket that shows the Pac-Man themed sleeve, it’ll remind you of summers ill-spent. Or maybe well-spent. Lots of quarters spent, either way.

The double-sided EP contains 19 tracks covering the aforementioned titles and can be ordered now on ThinkGeek for $34.99USD, where you can check out the full track listing and more details about the release.
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Retro Shooter Kickstarter Features Classic Shmup Composers

June 29, 2016 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on Retro Shooter Kickstarter Features Classic Shmup Composers Share this

A new Kickstarter campaign currently seeking funding might tickle the fancy of fans of classic arcade shooters, and tickle the ears of arcade music fans.

Xydonia, a throwback shmup game in the vein of Gradius and R-Type that styles itself as a “love letter to Japanese arcade classics of the ’90s” will be bringing in some veterans of Japanese arcade composing. Creators Breaking Bytes have partnered with Scarlet Moon Productions to bring in composers Shinji Hosoe (Dragon Spirit, Under Defeat, Otomedius) and Keishi Yonao (Mad Stalker, Strania) to assist their house sound designer Luca Della Regina to create Xydonia‘s soundtrack if funded.

Video credit of Klax0r

The music will be powered by the Yamaha YM2151+Sega PCM sound chip, which was the go-to arcade sound chip of the ’80s and ’90s. A digital copy of the game can be backed for €10, while the soundtrack will be included for backers of the €30 tier or higher. The game aims to release in fall of 2017. You can read more about Xydonia on their Kickstarter page.
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Daytona USA X Ridge Racer With Takenobu Mitsuyoshi Available Now!

June 6, 2012 | Audun Sorlie | 1 Comment Share this

When we were young, the idea of crossovers filled our minds with the wildest of ideas, seemingly too unlikely to ever happen, yet so exciting to fantasize of the combination of our favorite characters and names coming together side by side. Yet over the last few years, more and more of the idea that seemed so far fetched 10 to 15 years ago are becoming reality one after another. Sonic has faced off with Mario, Street Fighter has rumbled with TEKKEN, Macho Man Randy Savage is currently tag teaming with Jesus, and Akira Yuki from Virtua Fighter will take his place in the roster for the upcoming Dead or Alive 5. But if you ever said that Hornet from Daytona USA would appear in Ridge Racer one day, you would have been mad trippin, and if you continued by saying Takenobu Mitsuyoshi would come along with Hornet with a new song accompanying the car for the event, you’d be off the hook.

But life will always be full of surprises, and for those who own Ridge Racer on the Playstation VITA, well prepared to start your engines as SEGA and Namco bring Hornet from Daytona USA as DLC to the game, and to mark the historic event, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi is on hand with “Ridge Racer USA MIX”, a new song that will sound very familiar for Daytona USA fans, using some very recognizable cues from the past. The DLC is sadly only available for the Japanese version of the game at the moment, and is priced at ¥1600. The official announcement can be found here.