Sunday, January 10, 2021

Crazy Climber 2 (Arcade) Soundtrack

Happy New Years! I know it's a bit late to say that now but all last week I was glued into watching Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 Online and it was kind of to the detriment of all my other projects. So while I figure things out and sort through some IRL things I wanted to get to (including finishing spicing up my game room and arcade), I have another game soundtrack to share which I originally ripped around August 2017 and listened to quite a bit around New Year's Day 2018, so I loosely associate it with that particular holiday.


This is Nichibutsu's Japan-only followup to their 1980's smash hit Crazy Climber, released in 1988, and with it came all new music to jam along to while you ascend six super-tall structures. While there do exist several music rips of this game on other sites, none of them sound as they would on original hardware (as well as the Arcade Archives re-release and MAME) and they all splice together the game start and odd-numbered stage theme into one track. This rip uses a direct recording from the game's service mode sound test and separates the two aforementioned songs into individual tracks. While the tracks loop from the end to the beginning smoothly, every song otherwise begins with a drumbeat in the actual game, so that element was retained.

You can download the entire music rip here.

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