Street Fighter III vinyl preorders now open via Laced Records

Laced Records have announced that they are releasing “Street Fighter III: The Collection” with music from New Generations, 2nd Impact and 3rd Strike on vinyl. They will also be releasing the soundtracks to Street Fighter Alpha 1-3 later this year.

The release will be a 4LP box set in two different 180g color variants – classic black vinyl and a limited edition “Hadouken” blue and white swirl colored vinyl. The box set will feature new artwork by Andie Tong.

It is priced at £70/$80 and is scheduled to release in November, 2020. It can be preordered from Laced Records here.

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Limited Run Games releasing Dust: An Elysian Tail and Phantom Breaker: BattleGrounds Overdrive

Limited Run Games had prepared to release the soundtracks to action RPG Dust: An Elysian Tail and beat ’em up Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Overdrive on vinyl for Record Store Day back in April. The pandemic happened and pushed the date multiple times until now – the first RSD Drop of 2020 where these will finally be available to order.

Both releases will be 2LP set on 180g vinyl. Dust will be housed in a gatefold jacket and it’s not yet clear if Phantom Breaker will as well. Both are limited to 400 copies each.

They are both priced at $35 and are in-hand and ready to ship. They will go up today at 9AM ET alongside leftovers copies of past releases and variants and some new distributed titles.

Dust: An Elysian Tail can be ordered from this page.

Phantom Breaker: BattleGrounds Overdrive can be ordered from this page.

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Minimum Records to release The Church In The Darkness soundtrack on vinyl

Minimum Records have just announced that they will be releasing the soundtrack to the action-stealth cult infiltration game The Church In The Darkness on vinyl.

The release will be a black vinyl 2LP. It will be housed in a gatefold jacket with new artwork by Anouvong Southiphong.

It is priced at £30 and is scheduled to release in October, 2020. It can be preordered from Minimum Records here.
US customers can also order from Ship To Shore PhonoCo. for $40 here.

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Red Art Games to release The Mooseman on vinyl

Red Art Games have announced that they will be releasing the soundtrack to indie adventure game The Mooseman on vinyl.

The release will be a single LP on black vinyl. It will be housed in a regular LP jacket with game art and is limited to 300 copies.

It is priced at €20 and it is scheduled to release in Q4 2020. It can be preordered from Red Art Games here at 5PM CEST.

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Strictly Limited Games to release a 7LP Turrican box set

Strictly Limited Games have just announced that they will be releasing a Turrican 30th Anniversary Sound Collection vinyl box set featuring original music from the run-and-gun Turrican series.

The release will be a 7LP box set on colored vinyl. The records will be housed in individual sleeves featuring game art. The set will be limited to 999 numbered copies.

The exact tracklist and full contents of the set have yet to be announced.

It is priced at €130 and is scheduled to release in February/March, 2021. It can be preordered from Strictly Limited Games here.

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Square Enix to release Final Fantasy III LP

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Square Enix Music in Japan have just announced a Final Fantasy III vinyl release in celebration of the game’s 30th anniversary. It will feature 8 tracks – four arrangements and the original versions of those same four tracks.

It will be a single LP, but there are currently no details on the packaging or how the record will look. It will include a download card for a digital copy of the release.

It is priced at ¥3850 and is scheduled to release on November 18, 2020. It can be preordered from Square Enix Store Japan here (please note that they only ship to Japan).

It is also available from Sony Music Japan here and Amazon Japan here.

Preorders for The Legend Of The Mystical Ninja now live via Ship To Shore

Ship To Shore PhonoCo. have just opened up preorders for the soundtrack to the SNES action game The Legend Of The Mystical Ninja on vinyl.

The release will be a 2LP available in multiple color variants – a red and white pinwheel colored variant from Ship To Shore, and a clear retail variant. It will be housed in a die-cut gatefold jacket with new artwork by Maddie Copp.

It is priced at $40 and is scheduled to begin shipping in late October, 2020. It can be preordered from Ship To Shore here.
European customers can also preorder the clear variant from Black Screen Records here.

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Northgard soundtrack can now be backed on vinyl

The soundtrack to the Norse mythology-based real-time strategy game Northgard can now be backed on vinyl via Digger’s Factory.

If successful the release will be a single black vinyl LP, which will be housed in a gatefold jacket with game art.

The goal is to reach 150 preorders in order to launch a pressing of 300 copies. It is priced at €23 and is scheduled to ship out in December, 2020 if successful.
It can be backed via Digger’s Factory here.

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The Neon City Riders vinyl soundtrack up for preorder from Limited Run

Limited Run Games have opened up preorders for the vinyl soundtrack to action game Neon City Riders.

The release will be a 2LP with one record on clear with black splatter and the other on purple with black splatter colored vinyl. It will be housed in a gatefold jacket with game art and is limited to 400 copies.

It is priced at $35 and is scheduled to release 2-4 months from today. It can be preordered from Limited Run Games here.

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Battletoads 1991 and 2020 soundtracks to get vinyl release from iam8bit

iam8bit have just announced that they are releasing the soundtrack to the original 1991 NES release of Battletoads alongside the brand-new 2020 reboot of the series. They originally released the NES soundtrack back in 2015.

The release will be a 2LP on “Pimple” pink. It will be housed in a gatefold jacket with 3D pop-up fist artwork by Alex Pardee.
500 randomly chosen preorders from iamb8it will also get a “Rash’s Toadally Rad Adventure” cassette tape.

It is priced at $43 and is scheduled to release in Q4 2020. It can be preordered from iam8bit here.
European customers can also order from Black Screen Records here.

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