Shinobi fans, you better get ready for this one.
Wave-Master has just recently announced it will release LEGEND OF JOE MUSASHI ~SHINOBI MUSIC COLLECTION~. It will include many soundtracks never before released in CD form, such as Shadow Dancer, Cyber Shinobi and Alex Kidd in Shinobi World.
Yuzo Koshiro is responsible for many of the Shinobi soundtracks, and that alone should justify a purchase for any VGM collector. For some reason, it seems Richard Jacques’s Shinobi Legions soundtrack was left out however, which was released as Shinobi X in Japan. Wave-Master also cut some western talent off Daytona USA’s collection box in April, but if it is based on the same issues, is hard to say.
The set will be 4 discs and goes for 5040 JPY. You can be sure I will be running down to the post office in my white pj’s with my white dog Poochie tagging along to pick this one up. Actually now that i think about that, I only own a pair of pink pj’s…
Tags: Hirofumi Murasaki, Masayuki Nagao, Morihiko Akiyama, News, SEGA, Shinobi, Wave Master, Yuzo Koshiro
SEGA is awesome for doing this. Strange that they left out Shinobi X though given the thoroughness of most of these box sets. I think the Daytona set was only missing a few tracks, but a whole game?
X = excluded, hehe
Oh my god! Yes!
According to Sega Store, the sound quality will be improved for these albums as well and will include comments from the composers and directors of each game in the liner notes.
This is the third 20th year anniversary album set Sega has released. We can only hope that a Sonic set is close around the corner.