“There was this trick to reduce noise that involved putting two ash trays from the arcade on the radio cassette player to create more electrical resistance!” – Ikeda Minorock
“It was a rather drastic modification…I remember the guy being in charge of that telling me he was going to kill me!” – Yukiharu Sanbe
The talk segment featured a conversation with several legendary composers of shooting game music…
“I thought that I might get some complaints from the staff for so quickly agreeing to it without thinking about staffing and schedules, but everyone around agreed with my decision because…well, it’s Darius!” – Naoki Horii, M2
The distinct qualities of the original arcade/Super Darius soundtrack aren’t quite preserved here, but it’s still fine enough.