🎼 🎥 Celebrations on a theme

Not many of you will have heard this version of this theme, but you’ll have hard variations on it.

This take is from Rondo of Blood, a Japanese only game for the PC Engine CD, one of the first CD-based consoles.

Castlevania is well known for its music, but this was the first time the composers were completely unconstrained in the noises they could make.

It still sounds amazing now. Fuck knows how blown away a little Japanese nipper would have been after hearing this in 1993.

I suspect a fair few people will know this. Has any intro bettered this since 1998?

The Americans didn’t get this tune. I hear it and I can’t get it out of my head for a few days.