Attract Mode

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Intro: ambient swell

[Room tone: empty arcade, 3 a.m. hum, distant rain on the window]
[Cabinet fan rises in the mix — one dusty speaker, slightly detuned]

[Menu Theme: pad loop, 8-bar cycle, no drums]
[Pink neon buzz panned left, reflecting off wet asphalt outside the door]
[Soft arpeggio states the main motif, thin and patient]

[Demo Reel: motif doubled by lead synth, canned sound effects]
[Scripted gunfire, jumps, a scripted death — health bar blinking in triplets]
[Loop decays, score screen wipes itself clean, silence of two bars]

Break: coin slot, no music

[One coin drops through the mech, lands on a pile of others]
[Credit bleep. Room tone only. Four bars of nothing.]

[Build: pad loop returns a fifth up, filter opening]
[Kick enters on every other bar, tape-saturated]
[Hi-hats sixteenths, coin bleeps quantised into the pattern]
[Sub rises under the menu motif, bar by bar]

Drop 1: single wobble, restrained

[One bass voice, half-time, no layers — the machine answering back]
[Motif played clean on top, same notes as the menu, now with weight]
[Sixteen bars, no fills, speaker rattle left in]

Break: attract loop resets

[Everything cuts to the thin arpeggio and the fan]
[Health-bar blink becomes the hi-hat, slowing]

Drop 2: full width, wobble doubled an octave down

[Drums open up, crash on one, boss door slams in the distance — reverb tail only]
[Motif stacked three ways, detuned, pushing against the grid]
[Twenty-four bars, then a long gated tail]

[Coda: pad loop fades toward menu]
[Drums gone. Wobble filtered to a hum, then nothing]
[Arpeggio alone, tempo drifting down like a worn belt]
[Score screen wipes. Coin mech clicks once, empty]
[Room tone. Rain. Fade to the ambient swell from the top]