I've been seeing more and more of these soundtrack projects lately, including the latest from Data Discs, who have made Sega's Super Hang-On arcade soundtrack available on vinyl! Data Discs have also previously pressed the soundtracks of Streets of Rage, Shenmue and Shinobi III to vinyl.
Super Hang-On by Sega is amotorbike racing game released in 1987 that allowed the player to travel the world at full speed and garnered a huge following of fans wordlwide. The songs in the game were composed by Koichi Namiki, Katsuhiro Hayashi and Shigeru Ohwada and were recorded from the original arcade board (from a Mini Ride On type machine) and have been restored and re-mastered for the vinyl edition.
The vinyl contains 7 tracks:
A side:
A1. Opening
A2. Outride a Crisis
A3. Sprinter
B side:
B1. Winning Run
B2. Hard Road
B3. Goal
B4. Name Entry
As a note to fans of the arcade game series, the disc does not include the music of the original Hang-On game composed by Hiroshi Miyauchi.
The disc is available in classic edition (black vinyl 180g) and a limited edition version (180g transparent vinyl with blue, white and red splatters), each of which costs £19.99 (€27.30). You can buy it directly from
Data Discs website.
Other games to join the soundtrack ranks recently include the
Street Fighter II soundtrack, available on CD and vinyl, and the
Secret of Mana.
