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Retro Warriors 557 - Taito

Retro Warriors · March 23, 2026

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00:59:31 - 00:59:42

The band created the soundtracks for several Taito games, starting with the Ninja Warriors, and Zuntada's albums were sold by Pony Canyon for several years before Taito started distributing them themselves.

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... Also, Taito's music and sound department at the time founded their own experimental synth-pop band called Zuntada. - Excused me. What did you just say? - Yep, so there's an experimental synth-pop band The band created the soundtracks for several Taito games, starting with the Ninja Warriors, and Zuntada's albums were sold by Pony Canyon for several years before Taito started distributing them themselves. They were a published music artist selling video game music. - I know that I feel like this is the thing that I've been saying on the show a lot lately, but I'm on their YouTube channel right now. (laughing) ...

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(upbeat music) - Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Retro Warriors episode 557. As always, I'm your host, Justin Baker, and as always, I'm joined by viable human, Chris Satter. ...

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