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ANCIENT CORP’S NEW MEGA DRIVE SHOOTER EARTHION HAS DELIGHTED AUDIENCES (INCLUDING NICK) WITH ITS STUNNING PIXEL ART, SUMPTUOUS SOUND AND ENERGETIC GAMEPLAY. WITH THAT IN MIND, WE ASKED LEGENDARY GAME COMPOSER YUZO KOSHIRO AND DESIGNER MAKOTO WADA TO LIFT THE LID ON ITS CREATION

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REMEMBER THE BACK OF THE ARCADE, WHERE THE NOT-SO-FLASHY COIN-OPS LURKED IN THE DARKNESS, WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED? BACK IN 1987, THIS IS WHERE YOU’D LIKELY HEAR A BLOOD-CURDLING FEMALE SCREAM THAT COULD BELONG TO ONLY ONE GAME… SEGA’S COIN-OP CREATURE FEATURE ALIEN SYNDROME