Shin'en Re-Releases Iridion Soundtrack

For those fans of the GBA Iridion games from Shin'en Multimedia, some good news has just emerged - the team has re-released the re-arranged GBA videogame soundtrack, entitled "Iridion 3D & II Perfect Selection". Both Iridion 3D and Iridion II were met with strong commercial success, as well as great critical acclaim in the case of the sequel. However, with Majesco owning the rights to the 'Iridion' name, despite Shin'en expressing interest in making a third version, the final decision does not rest in their hands.

With this re-release of the soundtrack, perhaps renewed interest in the series will reach Majesco's ears and something will change.

Below is the tracklist for the CD, which can be downloaded from CD Baby for just US$9.99:

1.) Iridion 3D - Medley (5:28)
2.) Iridion 3D - Space Assault (3:28)
3.) Iridion 3D - Asteroid Belt (3:01)
4.) Iridion 3D - Space Station (2:34)
5.) Iridion II - See The Sun Burn (3:03)
6.) Iridion II - Spiral Bliss (3:12)
7.) Iridion II - Two Years Gone (3:06)
8.) Iridion II - Citizen Discharged (3:12)
9.) Iridion II - Aniki (3:12)
10.) Iridion II - Cold Play (3:52)
11.) Bonus Track - Cessation (2:55)
12.) Bonus Track - Accomplished Offence (1:58)

You can preview the tracks by clicking on the little play icon here:

Everything started in 1996. I had the idea of creating a horizontal shoot-em-up for my beloved Amiga computer. I felt Iridion was the perfect name for my little project. Before actually starting programming the game I wrote some music for it in the AHX music editor (programmed by Martin Wodok). Well, my game projects in this time were mostly just a pretense to write some cool game music. However, Iridion was abandoned after the first level was finished. Then, in 1999 Shin'en was founded. The idea of creating a shooter was still alive and so we did an excellent one level demo for the GBC. Anyway, after recognising that original GBC games were almost impossible to market, this project was dropped as well.

Two years later, when we got the GBA devkits, we started a last approach and finally we succeeded by developing one of the most successful original 3rd party games for the GBA. With our GAX Sound System we also created a still unrivalled soundtrack. Due to the big commercial success of the game we were able to do a successor that even exceeded the high standards we had set with Iridion 3D. In the last years we got a lot of feedback from Iridion music fans all around the globe and so I decided to create the "Iridion 3D & II Perfect Selection" Soundtrack CD.

So thanks for all your support and feedback and cheers to Bernhard, Florian & Javier at Shin'en for making Iridion come true.
- Manfred Linzner, CEO of Shin'en Multimedia, 2003.