Psycho Soldier: The first videogame song with vocals
Psycho Soldier: The first videogame song with vocals
I've heard it's the first but not really sure. Anyway, the overseas version linked in the post is particularly cute since the singer is obviously not a professional and it feels like the main character herself is singing as the voice actor is probably the same as the singer. I was like "what the hell is happening?" when I heard it first time on my SNK Anniversary collection.
Not sure if it is the first one, but seems a good candidate.
I know it's a lot later, but I was amazed the first time I heard the in-game opening theme with lyrics in Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom, 1995). I had no idea it existed when I tried the fan-translated ROM, and I was like, wait, you can do that in a SNES game?
Sure it's probably the main reason they needed a (comparatively) high capacity cartridge (6 whole megabytes!), but still, wow.
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