Taito Game Music

When I first heard about this one, I was eager to get my hands on it, hoping it’d turn out to be something like the Namco Classic Collection remix album.

Nope. This is just the game sound. And nothing more.

While that works for some games – Elevator Action had a jaunty tune or two, to say nothing of Bubble Bobble – who wants to sit and listen to an audio track of someone playing Space Invaders? Because that’s what you’ll hear on this disc – the unaltered, un-remixed sounds of the games themselves. And nothing more.

I can see classifying this as more of a sound effects CD than anything; might come in handy if they ever get around to turning “Joystick Nation” into that PBS miniseries they’ve been promising forever, or it might come in handy for any movies where a scene takes place in an arcade. But as a pure listening experience, it’s daunting to look at a list of 69 tracks, knowing that there’s many a bleep and a boop in each one, and in some cases precious little music.

Now, on the other hand, if a DJ wanted to take some of this stuff and sample it for their own remix…well, this CD would suddenly be beyond merely useful.

1. The Legend Of Kage – BGM1 (2:20)
2. The Legend Of Kage – BGM2 (0:49)
3. The Legend Of Kage – Track 3 (0:58)
4. Space Invaders – Playing Sound (0:17)
5. Elevator Action – Track 1 (0:08)
6. Elevator Action – Track 2 (1:28)
7. Elevator Action – Track 3 (0:19)
8. Super Dead Heat II – Track 1 (0:24)
9. Super Dead Heat II – Track 2 (0:24)
10. Super Dead Heat II – Track 3 (0:12)
11. Super Dead Heat II – Level 1 (0:34)
12. Super Dead Heat II – Level 2 (0:33)
13. Super Dead Heat II – Level 3 (0:22)
14. Super Dead Heat II – Level 4 (0:19)
15. Super Dead Heat II – Level 5 (0:19)
16. Super Dead Heat II – Level 6 (0:21)
17. Super Dead Heat II – Level 7 (0:51)
18. Super Dead Heat II – Level 8 (1:08)
19. Super Dead Heat II – Track 12 (0:09)
20. Super Dead Heat II – Track 13 (0:04)
21. Super Dead Heat II – Track 14 (0:44)
22. Wyvern F-0 – BGM: Codename Zero – Type I (1:11)
23. Wyvern F-0 – BGM: Codename Zero – Type II (0:39)
24. Wyvern F-0 – BGM: Count Zero (0:08)
25. The Fairyland Story – Track 1 (0:04)
26. The Fairyland Story – Track 2 (BGM) (1:26)
27. The Fairyland Story – Track 3 (BGM) (0:32)
28. The Fairyland Story – Track 4 (0:05)
29. The Fairyland Story – Track 5 (0:05)
30. The Fairyland Story – Track 6 (BGM) (0:40)
31. The Fairyland Story – Track 7 (0:09)
32. Gladiator – Playing Music (1:56)
33. Kikikaikai – BGM1 (1:36)
34. Kikikaikai – Boss (0:22)
35. Kikikaikai – Track 3 (0:05)
36. Kikikaikai – Track 4 (0:10)
37. Kikikaikai – Track 5 (0:04)
38. Kikikaikai – Track 6 (0:42)
39. Kikikaikai – Track 7 (0:34)
40. Scramble Formation – BGM1: Flying Alive (1:02)
41. Scramble Formation – BGM2: Avoid Muzik (0:55)
42. Scramble Formation – BGM: Dot Shooter (1:13)
43. Scramble Formation – BGM3: Finale (0:32)
44. Arkanoid – Track 1 (0:11)
45. Arkanoid – Playing Sound (0:33)
46. Arkanoid – Track 3 (0:14)
47. Arkanoid – Track 4 (0:47)
48. Chack’n Pop – Playing Sound (1:29)
49. Chack’n Pop – Track 2 (0:30)
50. Empire City 1931 – BGM1 (1:59)
51. Empire City 1931 – BGM2 (1:06)
52. Empire City 1931 – BGM3 (0:44)
53. Empire City 1931 – BGM4 (0:51)
54. Empire City 1931 – BGM5 (0:45)
55. Empire City 1931 – BGM6 (0:08)
56. Empire City 1931 – BGM7 (0:08)
57. Empire City 1931 – BGM8 (0:35)
58. Bubble Bobble – Track 1 (0:11)
59. Bubble Bobble – Track 2 (0:49)
60. Bubble Bobble – Track 3 (0:25)
61. Bubble Bobble – Track 4 (0:29)
62. Bubble Bobble – Track 5 (0:25)
63. Bubble Bobble – Track 6 (0:04)
64. Bubble Bobble – Track 7 (0:36)
65. Halley’s Comet – Ed1986 (1:12)
66. Halley’s Comet – Contact (0:32)
67. Halley’s Comet – Mechanical Brains (1:13)
68. Halley’s Comet – Track 4 (0:51)
69. The Outer Zone – Outer Zone (2:33)

Released by: Sci-Tron Digital Content
Release date: 2002
Total running time: 46:46