Episode 17: Boss

Like a boss! This episode's music, that is. We listen to a lot of rock and orchestral tracks from boss levels, with soaring guitars and epic strings. There are some surprises in here as well, tracks that don't fit the boss music stereotype at all.

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Song	Game	Artist
Final Boss	Myth	Jeroen Tel
Koopa	Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island	Koji Kondo
BadAzz	Final Fantasy VII	PrototypeRaptor
[BOSS] Solaris Phase 2	Sonic the Hedgehog	Tomoya Ohtani
Final Boss	Rainbow Cotton	Great Nakamura
Prince Dail Boss Battle	Freedom Planet	Woofle, Strife
Welcome to My Kastle	Super Mario 64	DDRKirby(ISQ)
Roar of the Twin Dragons (Final Boss)	Double Dragon II	Kazuhiro Hara, Nobuhito Tanahashi
Goliath & Carrion (Boss 1 & 2)	A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda	HyperDuck SoundWorks
Stage 08: Final Boss	Hard Corps: Uprising	Daisuke Ishiwatari
Boss Battle 1	Kid Icarus Uprising	Yasunori Mitsuda
Pokey Means Business	Earthbound	Hirokazu Tanaka, Keiichi Suzuki,

Episode 16: Cave Story

In episode 16 we focus on Cave Story, the wonderful indie game created and composed by Daisuke Amaya, who goes by the pseudonym Pixel. This game has a gem of a chiptune soundtrack that has inspired many remixes and rearrangements.

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Song	Game	Artist
The Way Back Home	Cave Story	Daisuke Amaya (Pixel)
Meltdown 2	Cave Story	Daisuke Amaya (Pixel)
Mimiga Town	Cave Story	Vernian Process
The Unbroken	Cave Story	Nutritious
Labyrinth Fight	Cave Story	Daisuke Amaya (Pixel)
Escape Route	Cave Story	Corran
Plant	Cave Story	DM DOKURO
Mischievous Robot	Cave Story+	Yann van der Cruyssen
Plantation	Cave Story 3D	Danny Baranowsky
The Angels of Hell	Cave Story	Random Hero
Last Battle (Cadillacs & Dinosaurs cover)	Cave Story	FusionArmorX
Cave Story - Fields of Awesome	Cave Story	VikingGuitar

Episode 15: Original + Remix 2

Since this episode ends in a 5, Tom and Nat revisit the focus of Original + Remix! This episode features great songs from soundtracks along with awesome remixes or arrangements, giving us a chance to see how the remixers worked with the source music in their remixes.

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Song	Game	Artist
Main Theme	Super Mario Kart	Soya Oka
Title Screen	Mario Kart 8	Shiho Fujii, Atsuko Asahi, Ryo Nagamatsu, Yasuaki Iwata
Dark World	The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past	Koji Kondo
Dark Storm	The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past	djpretzel
Ending	Metroid II: Return of Samus	Ryoji Yoshitomi
Anthem of a Metroid Hunter	Metroid II: Return of Samus	Big Giant Circles
Battle Scene 1	Final Fantasy II	Nobuo Uematsu
"Battle Scene I - arrange -" from FINAL FANTASY II	Dissidia: Final Fantasy	Takeharu Ishimoto
The Defender (Black Knight Battle)	Shovel Knight	Jake Kaufman (virt)
Rough and Tumble (Black Knight)	Shovel Knight	Jeff Ball
Sewer Surfin'	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time	Kazuhiko Uehara, Harumi Ueko
Sewer Surfin'	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time	Daniel Tidwell

Episode 14: Games Not In Series

For episode 14, Tom and Nat focus on game that have never had sequels and aren't parts of series. Since this eliminates many of the well-known video game soundtracks, we get to hear a variety of music with unique sound qualities. Some of the tracks in this episode come from old games that will likely never get sequels, and others are from more recent games that have no sequel yet, though could in the future!

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Song	Game	Artist
Outlaws	Outlaws	Clint Bajakian
Durch Den Dunkel-Dschungel	Das Geheimnis der Happy Hippo-Insel	Stello Doussis
Aerial Walkways	Cloudbuilt	Jacob Lincke
Music of my Duck	Duck Hunt	Shael Riley
Stage 2	Marble Madness	Hal Canon, Brad Fuller, Steve Hayes, David Wise
Temple Of Rain	Guacamelee!	Rom Di Prisco
Stage 1-1	Hermie Hopperhead: Scrap Panic	Kaoru Ohori
BGM I	Silver Surfer	Tim Follin, Geoff Follin
Lava Trouble Bubble	Jets 'n' Guns	Machinae Supremacy
Comic Bakery	Comic Bakery	Visa Röster
Fools' Failure	Time Travelers	Hideki Sakamoto
Potential for Anything	VVVVVV	SoulEye

Episode 13: Vocals

We focus on vocal music for episode 13! This includes a wide variety of tracks, some cheesy, some donuty. Vocals in VGM can be a divisive topic, so hopefully this will be enjoyable to the vocals lovers and enlightening to the vocals haters!

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 Tracklist (full info here):

Song	Game	Artist
Smooth As Honey	Mega Man 9	Sir Jordanius
Angels With Burning Hearts	Burning Rangers	Naofumi Hataya, Dennis St. James
Baba Yetu	Civilization IV	Christopher Tin
Fuujin ~God of Wind~ Full Throttle MIX	Racing Battle C1 Grand Prix	Akihiko Hirama
Tengen Toppa Dairantou: Part 1 - Game Set	Super Smash Bros. Melee	OverClocked Assembled
Donuts, Go Nuts!	Splosion Man	Matt Chaney
Chaos Nightmares	Sonic Adventure	PrototypeRaptor
Pollyanna (I Believe in You)	Mother	Keiichi Suzuki, Catherine Warwick
Everything's Alright	To The Moon	Laura Shigihara
Song of the Ancients / Fate	NieR	Keiichi Okabe, Kakeru Ishihama, Keigo Hoashi, Takafumi Nishimura, Emi Evans
Shine Tonight	Final Fantasy VIII	Poolside
Credits (Wandering)	Ultinous	A_Rival, Helen Eugene

Episode 12: SQ Albums

The SQ Albums are a series of official arrangement albums created by Square Enix arranging many different games that they developed. This series includes a set of chiptune-focused arrangement albums, as well as other albums with various themes. Tom and Nat enjoy picking tracks from the SQ Albums, including a few expected games such as Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger, as well as some lesser known games such as Live-a-Live and Threads of Fate.

BTW, thanks for being understanding that we have missed a few of our every-other-week-on-Wednesdays releases, since we've been busy with summer vacations, etc. We hope to get back into a groove as fall hits!

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 Tracklist (full info here):

Song	Game	Artist
Can You Fly Sister	Seiken Densetsu 3	MOHIKAN FAMILY'S
Final Battle ~ Mana Palace	Final Fantasy Adventure	SEXY-SYNTHESIZER
Opening Theme	Final Fantasy	YMCK
Jolly Ol' Spekkio	Chrono Trigger	Little Fats & Swingin' Hot Shot Party
Last Dungeon ~ Theme of Dewprism	Threads of Fate	millstones
Mount Gulug	Final Fantasy IX	ajiponn
Megalomania	Live-A-Live	Idiot Pop
Outskirts of Time (livetune remix)	Chrono Trigger	livetune
Chrono Trigger	Chrono Trigger	DJ OMKT & MJ
Johnny C Bad	Final Fantasy VI	KING COLUMBIA
Within Living Memory...	Front Mission	okadada
FF Ending Medley (NOVOISKI REMIX)	Final Fantasy IV	NOVOISKI

Episode 11: Commodore 64 OST

In this episode we concentrate solely on soundtrack songs from the Commodore 64, one of the main home computers of the 80's and early 90's. We hear a lot of tracks from Western composers who were largely influenced by the electronic music popular in Europe at the time. If you aren't familiar with the C64 and its SID sound chip, definitely give this a listen -- lots of good music came out of this era!

I should have given a shout-out to Stone Oakvalley's Authentic SID Collection, where you can get most of the tracks we played this episode as MP3s.

Oh, and sorry this episode is a week late. We try to stick to every other Wednesday, but sometimes life gets in the way!

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 Tracklist (full info here):

Song	Game	Artist
Main Theme	Delta	Rob Hubbard
Introduction	Sphere Brain	Tero Hilpinen, Toni Hilpinen
BGM Part 6	Gordian Tomb	Thomas Detert
R-Type C64 Theme (Original Sound Version)	R-Type	Chris Hülsbeck
Title	Turbo Outrun	Jeroen Tel
Main Theme	Monty on the Run	Rob Hubbard
Title	Turrican	Vince DiCola, Ramiro Vaca
BGM	Halifax	Onyx Design
Subtune 2	Dominator	Matt Gray
C64anabalt	Canabalt	Mikkel Hastrup (Encore)
The Street	Last Ninja Remix	Reyn Ouwehand
Traps	Turrican II: The Final Fight	Chris Hülsbeck

Episode 10: Free Play

For our tenth episode we go for a free play, where we play whatever we like without having a theme. Tom ends up playing a lot of 9-bit songs, and Nat plays a huge variety including an 80s pop balad from a soundtrack and some eclectic remixes. We also have fun answering our first listener mail!

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 Tracklist (full info here):

Song	Game	Artist
Next Stage	eXceed 3rd: Jade Penetrate Black Package	Saitama Saisyu Heiki
Disregard Farm, Acquire Fish	Harvest Moon 64	Benjamin Briggs
"Sea" Stage BGM	Umihara Kawase Shun	Atsuhiro Motoyama
Lullaby of Flame	Touhou Chireiden: Subterranean Animism	DDRKirby(ISQ)
Girl in the Tower	King's Quest VI	Mark Seibert
Ikanger	Teleroboxer	Katsuya Yamano
Noby Noby Folk Guitar	Noby Noby Boy	Yu Miyake
Cowabunga!	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time	WillRock, Sixto Sounds
The Sky By Night	Little Nemo: The Dream Master	Canine
First Time on Outset	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker	halc
Latest Fail	Earthbound	Less Ashamed of Self, Bladiator, Prizm
Area A	Shatterhand	Iku Mizutani, Kouichi Yamanishi

Episode 9: Point-and-Click Adventure Games

This episode features one of Tom's favorite game genres, point-and-click adventures. The music this week is a bit more ambient than usual, but still enjoyable as usual. Lots of Lucas Arts games are featured, as well as many Western composers.

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 Tracklist (full info here):

Song	Game	Artist
Bernard's Theme	Maniac Mansion	David Warhol, Chris Grigg, David Lawrence, George Sanger, David Hayes
Pleasantly Understated Credits Sequence	Sam & Max Hit the Road	Clint Bajakian, Michael Land, Peter McConnell
The Barbery Coast	The Curse of Monkey Island	Michael Land
Virtue's Last Reward ~Piano~	Virtue's Last Reward	Shinji Hosoe
Operator Plays a Little Pingpong	The Neverhood	Terry Scott Taylor
The Laffer Monologues (ft. Hat)	Leisure Suit Larry	LONELYROLLINGSTARS
spirit of law	Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney	Detective Tuesday, melody
Dolphin	The Longest Journey	Tor Linløkken
Companeros	Grim Fandango	Peter McConnell
To the Moon - Main Theme	To the Moon	Kan R. Gao
Gameboy Tune	Machinarium	Tomáš Dvořák (Floex)
Skeletons In My Closet	The 7th Guest	George Alistair Sanger

Episode 8: Jazz

Our focus this episode is on jazz music, from big band to Latin to jazz combos. We end up playing a lot of songs prominently featuring saxophones.

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 Tracklist (full info here):

Song	Game	Artist
Tsukiyo Ni Saraba -Opening Theme-	Moonlit Shadow	Yasunori Mitsuda
Big-Band Battlefield	Super Mario 64	The Runaway Five, The University of Toronto 10 O'Clock Big Band
Thunder Beam (Mega Man - Elec Man Stage)	Mega Man	Joshua Morse
Copacabana Beach	Super Spike V'Ball	Leandro Abreu
Vanilla Lake	Super Mario Kart	The OneUps
Credits	Tantei Jinguuji Saburo: Toki no Sugiyuku Mama ni	Shogo Sakai, Seiichi Hamada, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, Yusuke Takahama, Z. Yamanaka
Take Back the Tower ~Tower Stage~	Mega Man X	Toshiaki Ohtsubo
Street A	Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse	Jared Emerson-Johnson
Godot ~ The Fragrance of Dark Coffee	Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations	Noriyuki Iwadare
Waltz for Zora	The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past	Neskvartetten
Sparkling Blue Light / Jin’ouga	Monster Hunter (title unknown)	Zac Zinger
Home Is Where the Luvdisc Is...	Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum	PROTO·DOME

Episode 7: Spectrum of Mana

We welcome special guest Kevin (SOcean255) onto the show. Kevin has managed Rainwave's Covers radio station for years. We decide on a Covers-related topic, and focus on a single album of VGM covers: Spectrum of Mana. This album is a fan-arranged album covering songs from the SNES game Secret of Mana, which was originally composed by Hiroki Kikuta. This episode features a lot of live instrumentation and prog rock.

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 Tracklist (full info here):

Song	Game	Artist
On the Wings of Dragons	Secret of Mana	Mike Villalobos, Travis Morgan
Spirit of the Night	Secret of Mana	Cory Johnson
Aurora Borealis	Secret of Mana	Viking Guitar, Lauren Liebowitz
The Summer Sky is Blue	Secret of Mana	Super Guitar Bros.
Like a Boss	Secret of Mana	norg
Holy Intruder	Secret of Mana	Stemage, Amanda Lepre, Travis Morgan, Josh Czoski, Lauren Liebowitz
Mushroom Kingdom	Secret of Mana	The World Warriors
Forest Lesson	Secret of Mana	Tim Yarbrough
Give Time Its Proper Love	Secret of Mana	Ailsean, Bruce Bonebrake II
The Rabbit Hole	Secret of Mana	Dr. Manhattan
NOW IS THE TIME FOR NOMENCLATURE	Secret of Mana	Stemage, Chris Dlugosz
A Storm is Coming	Secret of Mana	Alexander Brandon, Lauren Liebowitz
Tale of the Curious Stranger	Secret of Mana	The Second Story

Episode 6: Castlevania

The series Castlevania is the focus this week. One of Konami's flagship series since the 80's, Castlevania games have always had great music, and have inspired many good remixes.

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 Tracklist (full info here):

Song	Game	Artist
Another Vampire Killer	Castlevania Resurrection	Konami
Mad Forest	Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse	Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto, Hidenori Maezawa
Young Nobleman of Sadness	Castlevania: Symphony of the Night	Michiru Yamane
Tears of Blood	Castlevania II: Simon's Quest	Joshua Morse
A Walk with Death	Castlevania I-III	Ailsean
In the Beginning There Was Jazz	Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse	LSD, Shnabubula
Praying Hands (Cloud Castle BGM)	Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge	Hidehiro Funauchi
Death Tap	Castlevania	Mega Beardo
Actraiservania	Actraiser, Castlevania III, Super Castlevania IV	The Smash Brothers
The Whip's Memory	Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin	TheGuitahHeroe
Requiem for the Nameless Souls	Castlevania: Bloodlines	Michiru Yamane
Revenge	Castlevania: The Adventure	Shigeru Fukutake, Hidehiro Funauchi, Norio Hanzawa

Episode 5: Original + Remix

Tom and Nat play original songs from game soundtracks alongside their remixes. This side-by-side comparison allows us to see what the remixer was trying to do with the source material. Lots of good tracks here, both from the originals and the remixes!

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 Tracklist (full info here):

Song	Game	Artist
Danger	Secret of Mana	Hiroki Kikuta
Step Off My Flower Bed	Secret of Mana	Nase
Main Theme	Space Harrier	Hiro
SPACE HARRIER ARRANGE VERSION - MAIN THEME	Space Harrier	S.S.T. Band
Rainbow Road	Mario Kart 64	Kenta Nagata
Radiance	Mario Kart 64	Benjamin Briggs, Level 99
You're Fired!	SimCity	Soyo Oka
There's A New Mayor In Town	SimCity	Joshua Morse
Cave Story (Plantation)	Cave Story	Daisuke Amaya (Pixel)
Plantation	Cave Story	Rare Candy
Dusk Falls (NES)	BloodRayne: Betrayal	Jake Kaufman (virt)
Dusk Falls	BloodRayne: Betrayal	Jake Kaufman (virt)
Sky Sanctuary Zone	Sonic & Knuckles	Howard Drossin, Jun Senoue, Tomonori Sawada, Tatsuyuki Maeda, Sachio Ogawa
Breathtaking Vision	Sonic & Knuckles	Kanjika
Prologue Theme	Snow Bros.	Mikiko Suzuki, Osamu Ohta, Tatsuya Uemura
Go Blow Snow For A Year	Snow Bros.	housethegrate
Master of Flame	Mega Man 6	EvilHorde

Episode 4: 1993

The focus this week is on games released in the year 1993,  from classics and lesser known games alike. We manage to play songs from 10 different systems in our 12 tracks!

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Song	Game	Artist
At Doom's Gate	Doom	Robert Prince
Promaroc	Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys	Falcom Sound Team jdk
The Grassy Plains	Kirby's Adventure	Hirokazu Ando, Jun Ishikawa
Metal Beat	Metal Masters	Alberto Jose González
Go Straight	Streets of Rage 2	Yuzo Koshiro
Plok's House	Plok	Tim Follin, Geoff Follin
Battle Point Ver.C	Brandish 2	Falcom Sound Team JDK
Future	Socket	Yasuyuki Hamada, Shigenori Masuko, Youko Suzuki, Fumito Tamayama
Speed King	OutRunners	Takayuki Nakamura
The Forest	Fury Of The Furries	elmobo
Theme of Star Fox	Star Fox	Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra
Sleeping Egg Zone	Sonic Chaos	Kojiro Mikusa, Masayuki Nagao

Episode 3: Acoustic

This episode takes video game music away from its electronic roots to focus on music played by acoustic instruments. We find variety, with not only acoustic guitar but also piano, organ, and other instrumentation.

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 Tracklist (full info here):

Song	Game	Artist
Far Away Memories	Chrono Trigger	Neil Benjamin
Dispossession / Piano Ver.	NieR	Takafumi Nishimura, MONACA (Keiichi Okabe, Kakeru Ishihama, Keigo Hoashi)
Koopa vs. Kefka	Super Mario World	Dhsu
The Quick and the Blue/Quickman	Mega Man 2	The Megas
When Morning Comes	NightSky	Chris Schlarb
Enemy Zero	Enemy Zero	Michael Nyman
Dragon Roost Island	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker	Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo
Forgotten Days	Suikoden	THE RAIN BOOK
I Have Begun My Ascent	Dear Esther	Jessica Curry
Silent Hill 2 - Theme of Laura	Silent Hill 2	Jonas Tunander
No Matter Where You Go, This Will Always Be Home	Mega Man Battle Network	Level 99
The Legendary Theme (Acoustic Version)	Gitaroo Man	COIL

Episode 2: Puzzle Games

We listen to the best soundtracks and remixes in puzzle games. This episode features music from many different genres, including funky organ solos, 80s glam rock, and symphonic orchestrations.

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 Tracklist (full info here):

Song	Game	Artist
Opening	Kururin Squash!	Atsuhiro Motoyama
Extra 2	Toki Tori	beek
The 1st Tide	Intelligent Qube	Takayuki Hattori
Burnin' Up	Dr. Mario	DJ Redlight
Flower Stage	Tetris Attack	Masaya Kuzume
Lullaby Set	Braid	Shira Kammen
Tuna Loaf	The Incredible Machine	LoudMouth
Cover Your Light	Deflektor	Zero Division
Black Tile	Antichamber	Siddharta Barnhoorn
Level 3	Alter Ego	Kulor
I/O	Mr. Driller G	Go Shiina
Biologica Robotica	Return All Robots!	Flexstyle