Kazuo Umezu’s horror manga The Drifting Classroom may have reigned in the 70s, but it wasn’t until a decade later that game developers in Japan would begin to cash in on its popularity. The Famicom title, as seen above on a bootleg NES cart, sold millions, and was lauded for its 2D platforming depiction of the manga’s harrowing events in a slightly truncated form.
In fact, the game was so popular that an official soundtrack was released, containing every piece of music from the title. Whether you’re familiar with the manga or not, you can surely find excitement in the tale of an elementary school zapped to an uncertain, desolate future, where adults resort to barbarism while the children devise a new world order.
DOWNLOAD THE FULL ALBUM HERE:
The Drifting Classroom [22mb .zip]
Check out the individual tracks below:
01 Strange Future (Intro)
02 Title (Press Start)
03 Stage 1 – Wild Hallways
04 Stage 2 – Sands of Sorrow
05 Boss Fight
06 Stage 3 – Invasion
07 Stage 4 – The Black Plague
08 Bonus – Mutant Mushrooms
09 Killer Cult
10 Stage 5 – Underground
11 Game Over (Continue)
12 Stage 6 – Escape
13 Stage 7 – Final War
14 Bright Future (The End)
All tracks created by Moldilox using Milky Tracker (OSX)
The Drifting Classroom is © 1974 Kazuo UMEZU/Shogakukan Inc.
It is published in North America by Viz Media
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Nice work! I am going to give a copy of this to Umezu-sensei himself, he’ll love it.
When do we get to hear the soundtrack to Cat Eyed Boy?
Whoa, that would be amazing!
And oh man, don’t give me any wild ideas right now, I would love to do Cat Eyed Boy, haha.
Thanks!
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can’t stop listening to this! it really captures the atmosphere of the manga.
Great to hear! I was hoping it would.
I absolutely love this. Great idea!
[...] collection is credited to Moldilox, aka Joseph Luster. Full release at beepcity.com. More at thejosephlusterreport.blogspot.com, including a photo of Umezu-sensei himself holding a CD [...]
So good. Someone needs to make a Zelda ROM hack to make The Drifting Classroom video game w/ this soundtrack.
Imagine fighting the greedy, sadistic, and food hoarding Sekiya with your young comrades. Then dodging a car driven by a crazed teacher, then being chased into a tunnel and then stabbing him w/ a knife from the past. Exploring the desert forest and then chased out by a millipede mutant. Jumping a chasm that the gap grows w/ each elementary student. INTENSE!!!
Good Job Moldilox, keep it up!!!
Thanks! Oh man, that would ALL be amazing. There are so many moments in the series that would make for killer game sequences. I guess that’s why I made it in the first place, but I wish the game itself existed now.