/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1229860
Actually yeah, Thunder Force IV has a very similar feel to Tyrian's music, only better. Just listened to Tyrian's music again to refresh myself and it has a lot of beat to it along with similar instrumentation like TFIV.

Here's another kind of similar FM synth-compositional soundtrack that's better too (note, NOT the SNES soundtrack which is great in its own way but makes extensive use of DSP). Way better personal computer shooter too.

I'm almost certainly going to be branded a weeaboo for this, but in my opinion the choice among 2D shooters on PCs in the West wasn't very good until Windows 95 came around and Japanese arcade-focused developers finally starting porting their games to it. If a game like Phalanx had ever come out on DOS I would have had a very hard time taking the other typical shmups releases on it seriously.