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