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Arkanoid played by an orchestra

Rob Beschizza
Apr 08, 2026
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Arkanoid, Taito's 1986 arcade game, brought sci-fi style to the classic Breakout formula. What music and audio it had was brief and distinctive, a fact highlighted by this performance, by the New Japan BGM Philharmonic Orchestra, of a game of Arkanoid. Not just Hisayoshi Ogura's original soundtrack, which is barely a minute long. A game of it, complete …

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