Lost Tapes

Box art

Lost Tapes is a CD by Hirokazu Tanaka, featuring many of his tracks throughout his career in the video game industry (such as at Nintendo and Creatures, Inc.) which were either very obscure or never released; such as the Nintendo NES M82 theme or an altered variation of the original Pokémon anime opening theme.

It was released on March 24, 2021, currently exclusively to Japan. It seems early buyers from Disk Union will also get a cassette tape with handwriting, containing two songs from demos.

Track list

Notes are added in square brackets.

1. OP Type B2 [precursor to the original Pokémon anime opening theme]
2. ED Type C
3. ESP 8
4. Summer Demo
5. Spring Demo
6. Syukudai Demo [宿題, shuukudai means "homework"]
7. Bye Bye Demo
8. Coco
9. You & Me Demo
10. PP Demo 2
11. Space X
12. Tomorrow's Sunset
13. Glorious March Demo [from the Nintendo NES M82 kiosk demo)
14. M45
15. Karasu Demo [Karasu has multiple meanings; such as "crow", "dry up", "to exhaust". Crows and Spiteful Crows are also enemies in the Mother series ]
16. Love me
17. Small Gift [Speculative, but Sanrio Co., Ltd. ; who Creatures, Inc. and Nintendo have worked with before has the motto "Small Gift. Big Smile"]
18. Fairy Wings
19. Autumn Wind
20. Martian Bird
21. PPU Dance
22. Fugacity A [It possibly refers to fugacity; a chemical thermodynamics term describing a partial pressure ].
23. Waltz 3
24. Space Attack "Q"
25. Spacemen's March

The limited bonus