BlaZeon (1992)
As is likely evident from their prevalence on this blog, I'm rather fond of shoot 'em ups. Specifically, retro or modern-but-retro-flavoured 2D shoot 'em ups (as opposed to modern 3D games such as FPS's that fans insist on using the same term to describe). Despite this fondness, however, I certainly haven't played all of them.
Something else I'm fond of is retro game music. I have around 65,000 MP3s in my music folder and over half of these are from game soundtracks, with many coming from games I've merely heard of and not yet played. Accordingly, today, while I was working, a tune started playing that I didn't recognise. This happens often - who has that many songs memorised? - but it was one of those 'new to me' songs that I immediately liked. It was obviously a game tune, and I had a feeling it was from a shmup too, so I did a quick check of my archives and found that it's from BlaZeon, a game I'd heard of but never encountered in real life. Further investigation (via YouTube) revealed that the game had an R-Type-style 'giant battleship' stage, and it was to this stage the tune that had impressed me so was set.
I will now play the game in question at some point as it looks pretty decent, but until then, behold this stonking choon (composed by Tsukasa Masuko, apparently) and see if you find it as pleasing as I did!
Special Note: I didn't record this great tune myself, I'm just an admirer, so all credit goes to the original composer
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