One of the
nice things about Super CD-Rom titles is that the game
disc can be inserted into a CD player to hear the video
game's soundtrack. This might have seemed like a nice
deal, getting both the game and its music on CD, until
one factors in the absurd prices of the system's discs,
with this one originally retailing for ¥8,200 (or
$76 back in 1994). Anyway, this disc clocks in at about
35:44 with the audio tracks, although there are data portions
of the CD that will translate into dead space when played
through a CD player and increase the runtime. The first
track is simply a notification, where a women in Japanese
relates how this is in fact a game for the HE System PC
Engine (Turbo Duo). The next track is then dead space
before the actual music starts on the third with the "Stage
Select." For video game music, most of the stuff
here isn't unpleasant. A couple of them are quite good
in fact, such as the "Character Select" music
that would also be reused for the Super Nintendo game
Godzilla:
Destroy All Monsters. Track 16 is the Godzilla
theme by maestro Akira
Ifukube, with this particular cue being taken from
his Ostinato work that was also used in Godzilla
vs. Biollante (1989). Track 17 is a cue that
appears exclusively in Versus mode and is a heavily modified
version of the Godzilla theme, complete with a short guitar
riff, that is only recognizable in a few parts. The "Opening"
track is another one that features a modified version
of Ifukube's Godzilla theme, although it's worth mentioning
that this track has sound effects overlapped on it that
play in the same fashion that they do during the opening
"cut scene" before reaching the main menu.
It should be noted that the tracks have no titles, and
that the site's staff has compiled the ones below using
primarly just the stage names or what screens they are
tied to.
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