"라 운 드 2: 시공의 벽, 그리고 최후의 결전" - 우주 거북선" or "Round 2: The Wall of Time and Space, and The Final Battle" from Uzu Keobukseon on the SEGA Mega Drive/SEGA Genesis (1993)
Composer: Unknown / Samsung Electronics Game Console Business Team
Album: No Official Release
Publisher: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Developer: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
I ended up running a bit of an experiment for today's MIDI Week Single by using Korean because Uzu Keobukseon was a top-down arcade shooter (1942, Dragon Spirit, Twin Bee), but this one was developed and published by the short-lived Samsung Electronic Game Console Business Team, which only released this one game to the South Korean market. When I was researching this song, every instance I could find only had the title as "Stage 2." In-game, all of the text is in Korean, so I went through a process of translating it, and every time it had the levels titled as "Round" instead of "Level" or "Stage." Each round also included a subtitle, so I decided to relabel all of the songs from the game with the names of the round. Oddly enough, the game uses this track in both Round 2 and Round 8.
As for the music itself, I can't quite place where I've heard something similar to it before. It sounds very much like music that you would find in comparable top-down arcade shooters released in the late 80s and early 90s. It's just a catchy song using the SEGA Genesis sound chip that I am admittedly not as familiar with compared to the SNES, and it's really too bad that there isn't much information about the development team and who composed this music. The only credit in the game comes at the end and only lists "Samsung Electronics Game Console Business Team," so we'll likely only have that to go on unless someone comes forward.
So jump on your nearest space turtle battleship and fight some governmental AI defense systems that have taken over control of the world governments, or just the Samsung computers in 2020's Korea.
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