From the second addition to my “Soundtrack Series.” A story of family, heart ache, culture shock, and video games. It’s a my love letter to classic video game music. 

Emiko and “Tonk” Ito, a sister and brother duo, are quite possibly the best arcade “crushers” in New York City, if not the entire United States. But such a monicker comes at a cost, namely alienation amongst the highly competitive professional arcade players and constant pressure from their family to do more with their life. Just two years out of high school and living in their parents basement in Brooklyn, they spend the majority of their hours at Boudreaux’s Pizza, crafting their talents in the small wood-paneled arcade room, preparing for the next tournament. 
Until one day, outside of Boudreaux’s, smoking cigarettes, a van pulls up…
When they wake up from their chemically induced coma, they find they are tied to chairs and being screamed at in Japanese by a thin man in a black two-piece suit. Knowing few words, taught to them by their grandmother, they are able to piece together a small narrative of why they might be there, and it involves their uncle. A man they’ve only met once.
When they’re taken from their bonds and shoved out into the world, they are shocked to find they are no longer in New York City. Having barely left the New York state, they must overcome being thrown into a very unfriendly unground retro video game competitions of Tokyo. Under the watchful eye of an organized crime syndicate, they must do their best to win their way of the ranks of the illegal cash arcade competitions in order to get closer to their uncle, the man who runs the racket. 
Faced with the ever present danger of death to themselves and to a family member they barely know, they must overcome perils they’ve never could have imagined in order to find their way back to the safety of home, no matter what it takes.

Victory And Validation

The Master Reprise

Coinopulence

Tomoyuki Tanaka

The Rules Are Set

Sweeping The Room

Welcome

Encountering The City

Emiko

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