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Old Jan 30, 2022, 12:52 PM
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Default First Video Game Albums in America

Now I know that they were selling video game music on albums in Japan before America did. I basically have two questions:

1. What was the first Japanese video game album to get an official release in America?

2. What was the first album in America that had music from a Western (America and Europe) video game?
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Old Jan 31, 2022, 04:58 AM
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I did a little searching on the db for albums in the game category that contain soundtrack and are in the U.S. price region.

1. This is the first one I found with a Japanese composer.

2. This one seems to be the earliest that is a actually soundtrack. There are plenty of earlier ones that mix arcade sounds into other music though.

Interestingly, there are only 4 Japanese game soundtrack albums that pre-date this one.
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Don't know about Japanese video game but once my dad told me that first video game with bg sound was out in '80s.
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