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 […]
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 […]