Some unfortunate news for the musically inclined – several SEGA OSTs that were previously available for streaming on Spotify have suddenly vanished from the service.

SEGA doesn’t appear to have mentioned the removals on any social media accounts or statements, making the removals rather mysterious. It’s a pretty sizeable set of removals too; the affected soundtracks include:

• Alex Kidd
• Alexandria Bloodshow
• Chain Chronicle
• Fantasy Zone
• Galaxy Force II/Thunder Blade
• NiGHTS into dreams
• Out Run
• Power Drift
• Rhythm Thief
• Samurai Bloodshow
• Skies Of Arcadia
• Space Harrier Complete Collection
• Super Hang-On
• Virtua Fighter 1 – 5
• WORLD CLUB Champion Football

It’s very unfortunate to see, particularly with SEGA PR previously stating they were looking into adding newer SEGA soundtracks to the service. Interestingly however, some of the titles appear to have changed into Japanese characters – suggesting perhaps the albums have been restricted to Japan.

We’ll let you know if the removals are reversed, or should a statement crop up. In the mean time, it’s back to the CDs for us.

[With thanks to @CorBond for compiling the list of removed tracks, as well as further investigating the extent of the removals]

Liam Ashcroft

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