Game info: Wikipedia
Listening: game rip, YouTube
Credits
Sound Composer: Mari Komatsu
Sound Performer: Osamu Tani, Akira Maeda, Emi Mawatari
Info
Here’s a pretty standard baseball game by Kemco, a longtime developer of video games that no one cares about. This is the first Virtual Boy soundtrack we’re getting to without an emulated audio rip, though there’s been a rip out there for ages of “most of it,” meaning it’s missing at least the ending theme. The music was composed by Mari Komatsu, a Kemco staffer for a few years who worked mostly on portable games. Which this… was also, I suppose.
This game evidently has a very small soundtrack: just five short looping pieces (counting the missing ending theme) and then jingles, almost all of which are country anthems. The music, to the extent is actually exists, honestly isn’t particularly bad; it’s not very interesting to me personally, but all of the tracks except one are developed well for their length and the sound programming is fine (the in-game music is a bit half-baked to me, which probably isn’t great given you hear it the most, but it’s Kemco’s game, not mine).
Recommended tracks:
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“Menu” has a little dramatic bit at 0:09 which was probably my favorite part of the soundtrack
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“Precaution” cadences at 0:39 in a more solemn way than I’d expect from the rest of the piece, sounds like an RPG church theme
(track titles are unofficial)
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