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It’s the return of the Valentine’s Day special!

For the past few years, with the exception of 2018 (which was a sucky year as far as doing specials went.. April Fools?), I’ve let my wife choose for Valentine’s Day. This year she went with one of her favorite game songs: Ellis’s Theme from Battle Arena Toshinden.

While I know pretty much nothing about BAT, I’ve heard this song a lot because she has it on her phone playlist and it plays a lot when we are driving somewhere.

Battle Arena Toshinden was one of the first 3D fighters, intended to compete with Sega Saturn’s Virtua Fighter. Despite this, it was ported to Sega Saturn not even a year later as Battle Toshinden Remix, a port of the PS1 version with a few extra features. Interestingly, despite being known primarily as a Playstation title, there was also a Game Boy remake.

For the 5 of you that bought a PS Classic, Battle Arena Toshinden is one of the included games. It might not have been the greatest 3D fighter of all time, and probably shows it’s age a bit, but at the very least, the soundtrack is amazing! So give it a try. 🙂