Metal Slug drew all sorts of excitement when the series hit arcades in the ’90s on SNK’s fan-favourite Neo Geo platform. Nazca’s legendary development on the iconic visual splendour and awesome run and gun gameplay have been the focus of all sorts of fan discussion over the years, but with this release from Data Discs […]
Sonic Mania’s captured a fair share of love on the internet and certainly stole our collective hearts away, leaving a gushing initial playthrough in its wake, but in addition to a great presentation and razor-sharp gameplay, its soundtrack performs an amazing job of revisiting classic tracks and creating new ones to accompany the additional levels […]
Altered Beast roared into arcades on Sega’s mighty System 16 arcade platform in 1988 before famously joining the Mega Drive as a pack-in title at launch. The game has copped plenty of criticism over the years for its simple gameplay, but to be honest I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for it. Cutting […]
Gunstar Heroes, one of Treasure’s most revered games, is often lauded for its graphics and astonishingly great gameplay. The first time I ever played the game was in 1993 – Anime Inferno co-founder Inferno and I wheeled our bikes around to our local independent rental haunt, Power Play, and lo-and-behold, there was Gunstar Heroes in […]
Data Discs, renowned purveyors of beautifully mastered and presented classic game OSTs on vinyl, have dropped the news on two amazing new soundtracks. Yoshitaka Azuma’s soundtrack to cult favourite Panzer Dragoon will be released as a 2-LP set with all the usual finery and trimmings we’d expect from Data Discs. The game itself was released […]
There’s nothing like indulging in the Mega Drive’s delightful FM synth on vinyl, retro begetting retro as it were. We’ve previously had an amazing time listening to the oft-underrated Shinobi 3 OST on vinyl, and when the opportunity arose to check out Data Discs’ latest release compiling the soundtracks to Golden Axe I and II […]
We have a deep love for the amazing work boutique OST publisher Data Discs have been up to over the last 12 months, so the news of an officially licensed soundtrack for the arcade release of OutRun is positively nerdtastic. As part of celebrating the iconic Sega arcade superscaler’s 20th anniversary we’re going to be […]
Streets of Rage 2 is widely considered to have one of the best 16-bit soundtracks of all time, so the announcement of a forthcoming release from Data Discs has been met with tremendous nerd excitement. We reviewed the delightfully fan-friendly Shinobi III soundtrack vinyl release from Data Discs a few months back, and since then […]
Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master was an amazing late-generation release for the Sega Mega Drive. It built off the excellent template established with Revenge of Shinobi that saw our hero Joe Musashi trade in his indigo pyjamas for a less inconspicuous white and red set and was well known for its awesome soundtrack […]
Data Discs, a London-based studio dedicating their efforts to premium vinyl pressings of classic video game soundtracks, have been doing some amazing work of late. In August they released fresh pressings that covered the OSTs for Shenmue on the Dreamcast and Yuzo Koshiro’s excellent soundtrack for the original Streets of Rage title on the Sega […]