Game info: Wikipedia
Listening: emulated audio, YouTube
Credits
Sound Spinner: Takashi Kumegawa
Music Composer: Takashi Kumegawa
Info
This is pretty much just Tetris, because if there’s one thing out there that moves video game consoles, it’s Tetris. There’s one obligatory 3D mode where the playing field is a cylinder you can freely rotate and lines clear in the active part of the field you have in the foreground, which seems vaguely interesting. This soundtrack is actually kinda similar to the last one, Vertical Force, in generally using more basic-sounding waveforms with sparser arrangements, although this one has drums!! Really thin drums, but drums nonetheless. It’s mostly chill and cheery midtempo music, nonthreatening but also not particularly interesting to me.
All of the game audio was done by Takashi Kumegawa, who evidently worked for a few years for the game’s developer, LOCOMOTIVE Corporation. His best known works are a couple of earlier games by Nintendo that LOCOMOTIVE evidently assisted with development on: Star Tropics II and Super Punch-Out!!. After that he apparently worked as an engineer and sound creator at some Kyoto music label, but the website hasn’t been updated in ages so I’m not sure if that even exists any more.
Recommended tracks:
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“Song A” is an oldies rock tune that goes heavy on the bends at 0:36 to I think try to sound like a whammy bar
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“Song C” was the most intense and video game-y track in the game
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“Credits” takes a weird dark turn at 0:46 with a planing section that I like
(track titles are unofficial)
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