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NNR Reruns! - C2E10: “Sega CD 30” (orig released 10/20/22 - with 2025 Terra Player Introduction)

By Nerd Noise Radio on Jun 27, 2025 8:08 pm UTC

2025 Addendum (original show notes below)

Today’s rerun includes a tacked on 2025 introduction directed primarily at listeners on Terra Player, and also references links to two other “made on Steam Deck” NNR episodes. See those links below: C1E71: “The Wonder Years” [Channel 1]: https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e71-the-wonder-years/

C2R3: “Best of 2023” [Channel 2]: https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/ch-2-nerd-noise-game-club-c2r3-the-best-of-season-3/

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Original show notes (minus updated timestamps)

-------------------------------------------------------- Today’s Broadcast is C2E10 for Theme Thursday, October 20th, 2022. Today’s episode (our final “normal” episode of Season 2 [calendar 2022]) will be a focus on Sega CD music to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the system’s North American launch. Also, including an endearingly terrible improvised gag attempt at the very beginning! :-D

Track # / Track / Game [System, of course, will always be Sega CD, or at least Mega CD] / Composer (s) / Selected by

A1) 2025 “For The Terra Player Listeners” Addendum: 00:00:00

01) False Intro (Gag!) - 00:09:30

02) Track 03 - Robo Aleste - Katsumi Tanaka, and/or Satoshi Shimazaki - Hugues

Music - 00:11:50
Introduction - 00:06:06
Top of Show Business pt 1 - 00:15:36
Opening Track Discussion - 00:24:09
Return of the Top of Show Business pt B - 00:28:20

02) West Side Andore Cage Battle - Final Fight CD - c: Harumi Fujita, Yasuaki Fujita, Manami Matsumae, Yoshihiro Sakaguchi, Yoko Shimomura, Hiromitsu Takaoka, and/or Junko Tamiya / a: T’s Music - St. John

Music - 00:31:08
Discussion - 00:34:23

03) Track 08 - Spider-Man vs The Kingpin - Spencer Nilsen and/or David Young - Hugues

Music - 00:40:36
Discussion - 00:43:52

04) Rolling Bad Guys - Lethal Enforcers - Kenichiro Fukui - St. John

Music - 00:56:33
Discussion - 01:01:37

05) Ice Berg - Popful Mail - c: Mieko Ishikawa / a: Hirofumi Matsuoka - Hugues

Music - 01:10:31
Discussion - 01:13:01

06) Wacky Workbench (past) - Sonic CD - Naofumi Hataya, and/or Masafumi Ogata - St. John

Music - 01:16:27
Discussion - 01:20:04

07) Ending - Earnest Evans - Motoi Sakuraba, and/or Hiroki Itou - Hugues

Music - 01:26:54
Discussion - 01:31:30

08) Track 7 - Keio Flying Squadron - Tsukasa Tawada - St. John

Music - 01:36:12
Discussion - 01:40:56

09) Overworld Theme - Vay - Shigeki Sako - Hugues

Music - 01:49:13
Discussion - 01:51:23

10) Ancient Temple - Wolfchild - Martin Iveson - St. John

Music - 01:53:50
Discussion - 01:59:05

11) Meribia - Lunar: The Silver Star - Noriyuki Iwadare - Hugues

Music - 02:03:42
Discussion - 02:06:14

12) The Undercaves - Ecco the Dolphin - Spencer Nilsen - St. John

Music - 02:08:45
Discussion - 02:01:56

13) Melee Island - The Secret of Monkey Island - Michael Z. Land, Barney Jones, Andy Newell, Patric Mundy - Hugues

Music - 02:16:53
Discussion - 02:19:06
End of Show Business / Our Other Shows - 02:24:06
Final Track Discussion - 02:31:41
Sign-off - 02:35:16

14) Jamie's Theme - Snatcher - The Konami Kukeiha Club - St. John

Music - 02:35:48
Blooper Reel - 02:38:15

Total Episode Runtime: 02:47:09

Retro Game Club can be found here:

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Hugues’ blog (and his Sega Genesis demo) can be found here:

https://huguesjohnson.com/

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You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).

Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.

Thanks for listening! Join us again one week from today (Thurs, Oct 27th, 2022) for C1E68: “They’re Coming to Get You, Barbara” - spooky, dissonant, and unsettling music for the occasion of the Halloween season”. Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds! And wherever you are….Fly the N! --------------------------------------------------------

2025 Addendum 2: C1E68 was an incredible episode! One of the most sophisticated[ly sorted] mixtapes I’ve ever made! Here’s the link if you’re curious! https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/channel-1-noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e68-they-re-coming-to-get-you-barbara/ --------------------------------------------------------

Viper’s VGMture – S12 – Living in a Materia World (27 June 2025)

By Viper's VGMture on Jun 27, 2025 6:00 pm UTC

We talk Chapters 3+4 of DELTARUNE on tonight's Viper's VGMture! Now that the dust has had time to settle, let's gather our thoughts on the recent additions to the saga while listening to the fantastic OST (if this episode survives on your favourite podcasting service).

Buy DELTARUNE on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1671210/DELTARUNE/

Buy DELTARUNE Chapters 3+4 OST on Bandcamp:
https://tobyfox.bandcamp.com/album/deltarune-chapters-3-4-ost

TRACKLISTING:
00:00:00 DELTARUNE Chapter 4 - From Now On (Battle 2)
00:01:53 DELTARUNE Chapter 4 - Castle Funk
00:04:50 Welcome to Viper's VGMture
00:14:03 DELTARUNE Chapter 3 - Big City Board
00:15:25 DELTARUNE Chapter 4 - AIRWAVES
00:17:24 You're Listening to Viper's VGMture
00:30:17 DELTARUNE Chapter 4 - A DARK ZONE
00:32:34 DELTARUNE Chapter 3 - TV WORLD
00:34:43 This is Viper's VGMture
00:40:41 DELTARUNE Chapter 4 - Hammer of Justice
00:42:54 DELTARUNE Chapter 3 - It’s TV Time!
00:45:47 DELTARUNE Chapter 3 - Black Knife
00:47:44 Thanks for Listening!
00:51:52 DELTARUNE Chapter 4 - The Second Sanctuary

Episode 178: On Stage Now – Rachel Hardy

By RE-VGM on Jun 27, 2025 7:03 am UTC

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June went by fast, with today as the last Friday of the month. That means it’s time for our special episode of “On Stage Now”, and this month’s musician is Rachel Hardy.

Rachel Hardy has lived and breathed music since high school, when she started posting videos of her covers of music from video games and other popular media on YouTube. In the meantime, she’s earned an education in music (B.A. in Music from University of Calgary and Professional Certificate in Composition for Film and Music from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass.) and applied her knowledge (a grant from Alberta Foundation for the Arts as an intern for Sacred Tiger Music and one of the runner-ups for the Spitfire Audio and HBO’s Westworld Scoring Competition). Rachel first worked as a Music Supervisor for Hidden Path Entertainment for an unannounced video game. She’s also worked on video game projects for several companies (Tencent, Real Game Machine, NatGames, Nexon, etc.) and composed scores and contributed vocals for a variety of media (documentaries/docu-videos, podcasts, events, sample libraries, TV broadcasts, albums, and short films).

Sit back as you listen to her vocal and choral covers of video game music, some in collaboration with other musicians…

Rachel Hardy (Personal Website, YT, FB, IG, X, Patreon, Merch)

Track Listing

“Daughter of the Sea – World of Warcraft” – [World of Warcraft] – composed by Neal Acree, Logan Laflotte

“Dragon Age: Inquisition – The Dawn Will Come” – [Dragon Age: Inquisition] – composed by Trevor Morris

“Skryim – The Dragonborn Comes” – [The Elder Scrolls V: Skryim] – composed by Jeremy Soule

“HADES – Good Riddance (Eurydice Solo)” – [HADES] – composed by Darren Korb

“We All Life Together (WARFRAME)” – [Warframe] – composed by Keith Power

“Lullaby of Woe (Cover)” – [The Witcher III: Wild Hunt] – composed by Marcin Przybylowicz

“Setting Sail, Coming Home (End Theme) from Bastion” – [Bastion] – composed by Darren Korb

“Dungeons of Dreadrock” – [Dungeons of Dreadrock] – composed by Christoph Minnameier

“BALDUR’S GATE SONG || “Answer the Call” ||” – composed by Jonathan Young

Outro: “Memory of You” – [Remothered: Tormented Father] – composed by Mattia Cupelli, lyrics by Rachel Hardy, performed by Rachel Hardy, available on Amazon Music

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Episode 63 - Rose-Colored Pixels 4: Rainbows in Happyland

By Shujin Academy VGM Club on Jun 26, 2025 11:02 am UTC

It’s a stupendous smiley stack of happy songs, coming to make you feel good and take all your worries away!

Special thanks for this episode goes out to:

Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.
Show sponsor the Shadaloo Department of Treasury and their excellent audio drama How Much in Bison Dollars?, where hosts Melody Sinclair and Department of Treasury Senior Executive Vice Senior President Red McCano keep you informed about exchange rates and other current world events as they relate to the glorious nation of Shadaloo, and also they play music from fighting games. Find them on social media platforms and YouTube using the name @hmibisondollars, and listen in on your favorite podcatcher by searching for “How Much in Bison Dollars”.
BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.

I closed out the last music block with an amazing song from Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout, and if you want to hear more from this series, you can check out the episodes of Super Marcato Bros doing a deeper dive into these games. There’s a full episode devoted to Atelier Ryza at https://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/2019/10/6/episode-389-atelier-ryza and an episode looking at some other games in the series at https://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/2017/5/28/episode-269-the-atelier-series.

If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. All episodes of the show are posted to my YouTube channel, which you can find by searching for Shujin Academy VGM Club. You can email me at shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com. Links to everything are available on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on 8beats.co, the internet's number one game music radio station. My show is also featured on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there. Finally, if you just can’t get enough of me, I’m also voicing esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama podcast How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can hear on FGC Radio or at https://rss.com/podcasts/hmibisondollars/.

If you’re listening on Spotify, please be aware that they’ve pulled a few of my episodes before. There’s a non-zero chance that they’ll eventually pull my entire podcast, as they’ve done with a few other game music podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get all of the Professor Tom goodness you crave.

Track Listing:

00:00 - Show Tagline

00:05 - Guilty Gear XX (Arcade/PS2) - Blue Water, Blue Sky ~May’s Theme~ (composer: Daisuke Ishiwatari)

03:01 - Talk Segment 1

06:54 - Aerobiz (SNES) - Pacific (composer: Taku Iwasaki; credit from Wikipedia)

08:31 - Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice for All (DS) - Maya Fey ~ Turnabout Sisters’ Theme 2002 (composer: Akemi Kimura)

10:22 - 3D OutRun (3DS) - Cruising Line (composer: Manabu Namiki)

16:14 - Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III (TG16) - Main BGM (composer: Noriyuki Iwadare)

17:52 - Super Golf (Game Gear) - BGM #06 (composer: unknown)

19:29 - Black Bird: Toritachi no Tooboe (PC-98) - Eimi Restored (composer: unknown)

21:06 - Talk Segment 2

26:15 - Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow (Game Boy) - Victory (VS Gym Leader) (composer: Junichi Masuda)

28:10 - Persona Q (3DS) - Corn Dog (composer: Atsushi Kitajoh)

31:08 - River City Ransom - Menu (composer: Kazuo Sawa)

33:29 - Windjammers (Neo Geo) - You Got a Power (Concrete Court) (composers: Seiichi Hamada, Tomoyoshi Sato)

35:12 - Zoda’s Revenge: StarTropics II (NES) - Coralcola Village (composers: Takashi Kumegawa and Yoshio Hirai)

36:50 - Side Pocket (Genesis) - Fight It Out (composers: Emi Shimizu and Masaaki Iwasaki)

37:49 - ESPN Final Round Golf 2002 (Game Boy Advance) - BGM #16 (composer: Hiroyuki Nakayama)

41:11 - Talk Segment 3

46:39 - Persona 5 (PS4) - New Beginning (composer: Shoji Meguro)

49:41 - Breath of Fire III (PS1) - Country Living (composer: Akari Kaida)

53:11 - Dragon Quest II (Super Famicom) - Busy City Streets (composer: Koichi Sugiyama)

56:08 - Super Mario RPG (SNES) - Let’s Get Fluffy! (aka “Let’s Do the Fluff Fluff” or “Let’s Do the Fooka-Fooka”) (composer: Yoko Shimomura)

59:02 - Pokemon Diamond/Pearl - Pokemon Center (Day) (composer: Junichi Masuda)

59:49 - Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout (PS4/Switch/PC) - Bashfully Across the Ledge (composer: Kazuki Yanagawa)

1:01:38 - Outro Talk Segment

1:04:15 - Final Fight 3 (SNES) - Sunny Skies (composer: Katsunari Kitajima)

[Ch 1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E96: Full Steam Ahead”

By Nerd Noise Radio on Jun 26, 2025 6:00 am UTC

Today’s broadcast is C1E96 for Theme Thursday, June 26th, 2025 (happy 27th "dating" anniversary to my dear wife, St. Jodee). Today’s theme is a collection of music from games in my own personal Steam Library – planned, curated, produced, and distributed entirely on/from the Steam Deck (SteamOS desktop mode)! A collection dominated by music from indie games from the 2010's and 2020's and peppered with music from bigger-named games from the 1990's and 2000's and contains not one, but TWO chill zones, which collectively account for almost half of the mixtape runtime! Special thanks to Professor Tom from Shujin Acadamy VGM Club podcast for helping me settle on episode title. Other candidate titles I'd been considering included "Gimme Steam" (which was the working title), "Steam Punk", and "All Hands on Deck". Lastly, this is our debut episode on Terra Player!

SKIP STRAIGHT TO THE MUSIC TIMESTAMP: 00:07:22

Tracklist:

Track# - Track - Game (System is always presumed to be PC for this episode) - Composer(s) - Timestamp

A1) Intro - 00:00:00

01) Main Theme - Mr. Run and Jump - Fat Bard and/or Andrew P. Masson - 00:07:22

02) Blackout City - Bit Trip Runner - Petrified Productions - 00:09:24

03) Solace Tomorrow - ExZodiac - Ben Hickling - 00:12:44

04) Starry Sky - Toree 3D - Nash Music Library - 00:15:51

05) Southisland 2 - Fantavision 202 X - Soichi Terada - 00:18:07

06) Shame (aka “The Shameful Last Minute”) - EDGE - Romain Gauthier - 00:21:16

07) Syreen Theme - Star Control III - Andrew M. Frazier - 00:24:23

08) Analog Control Loop - Formula Retro Racing - John Williams - 00:27:14

09) UFO 50 - UFO 50 - Eirik Suhrke - 00:29:17

10) Hinterwald Dungeon Explore - Dungeons of Hinterberg - David Zahradnicek, and/or Markus Zahradnicek - 00:32:01

11) Control - Cloundpunk - Harry Critchley - 00:35:18

12) Blast Pit 1 - Black Mesa - Joel Nielsen - 00:37:29

13) The Nomai - The Outer Wilds - Andrew Prahlow - 00:39:14

14) Dream Town - Fallout 2 - Mark Morgan - 00:43:01

15) Earth - Lords of Magic - Keith Zizza - 00:46:12

16) grip - qomp - Britt Brady - 00:50:14

17) Returning the Flavour - Olli Olli World - Potatohead People - 00:52:45

18) Portabellahead - Crypt of the Necrodancer - Danny Baronowsky - 00:55:43

19) Delirious Acting - Pseudoregalia - potatoTero - 00:58:29

20) Relentless - Gunborg - Cato Hoeben - 01:00:27

21) Kurodabushi - Koi Koi Japan Hanafuda - Unknown - 01:03:21

22) Security Bridge - System Shock Classic - Greg LoPiccolo and/or Tim Ries - 01:04:50

23) Battle - Caveblazers - Paul Zimmerman - 01:08:02

24) Salt and Sepulcher - The Mummy Demastered - monomer - 01:09:55

25) Main Theme - Blade Assault - Planetboom and/or Creative Factory - 01:12:10

26) Main Theme - Fury Unleashed - Adam Skorupa and/or Krzysztof Wierzynkiewicz - 01:15:08

27) Witness Prevention Program - Killing Floor - Zynthetic - 01:17:21

28) The Audience Chamber - Elder Scrolls Arena - Eric Heberling - 01:20:08

29) Trademeet - Baldur’s Gate II - Michael Hoenig - 01:21:46

30) Wayward Dreamers - Dreams of Aether - flashy goodness - 01:22:39

31) Save Room - Gato Roboto - Britt Brady - 01:25:30

32) Equanimity - Lucid9 - Breezee - 01:27:14

33) Pillar Gardens - In Other Waters - Amos Roddy - 01:31:40

34) Completely Safe - Deliver Us Mars - Sander Van Zanten - 01:36:02

35) Karst Pass - Even the Ocean - Melos Han-Tani - 01:39:34

36) Title Screen - Cubot - Kevin MacLeod - 01:44:33

37) Splash of Color - Flower - Vincent Diamante - 01:49:45

38) Beast Road - Touhou Mystia’s Izakaya - Hannari and/or Can Shi - 01:58:56

39) Pra Me Lembrar Amanha - Before I Forget - Dave Tucker - 02:02:31

40) Candy Store Crush - Donut Dodo - Sean Bialo - 02:05:04

41) Toastopia - Pikuniku - Calem Bowen - 02:07:22

42) April Mountains - Lovely Planet 2: April Skies - Calem Bowen - 02:10:17

43) Clouds - Nidhogg - Daedalus - 02:12:47

44) Home - Retrowave - Resonance - 02:15:20

45) Battle Theme - Void Invaders - kingdaro - 02:18:43

B1) Outro - 02:21:58

Music Block Runtime: 02:14:43 / Total Episode Runtime: 02:34:01

Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.

Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in SteamOS desktop mode on the Steam Deck! Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!

If you aren't already a listener of Shujin Acadamy VGM Club, please go show the good professor some love, and tell him St. John sent ya! You can find Shujin Acadamy on Terra Player, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Facebook, Mastodon, Podbean, or on your podcatcher of choice. Here's a link to his show on Terra Player and on Podbean:

https://shujinacademyvgmclub.podbean.com/

Speaking of Terra Player, we are now a member podcast as well. You can find us there at https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio. Also, check out their outstanding collection of other podcasts and radio stations at https://terraplayer.com/! From now on, when sharing episodes of Nerd Noise Radio, I will most likely use the Terra Player link rather than the Podbean link like I have been using.

You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.

Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:

Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here:

Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at

Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light

We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/

Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:

Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.

Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.

Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com

You can also follow us on Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at And we are also now on TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible!

But frankly, probably the absolute best way you can connect with us is on our new Discord Channel: "Nerd Noise Radio – Channel D", which includes various sub-channels for all sorts of different types of connection and conversation: https://discord.gg/GUWdaXUw

Thanks for listening! Join us again in July for C1E97 (Channel 1, Episode 97): the Super Metroid soundtrack, part of a collaboration with Shujin Academy VGM Club, The Messenger Presents: A VGM Journey, and any other shows which wish to join us in lieu of an official Masters of VGM event this year - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!

Cheers!

Episode 123 – Prison City w/ composer Matt Creamer

By XVGM Radio on Jun 25, 2025 5:00 am UTC

Composer Interviews VGM MattCreamer NorrinRadd PrisonCity

Matt Creamer, aka Radd Daddy, aka Norrin Radd, RETURNS to XVGM Radio to talk about his amazing soundtrack for Retroware’s Prison City game. We’ve chat with Matt previously about many of his soundtracks, even had him on one of our live shows before! A true friend to the podcast, Matt isn’t afraid to get into the nitty gritty details about how he carefully crafts his soundtracks. A self proclaimed “puzzle solver” when it comes to music creation, Matt Creamer delves into the new way he composes classic NES style soundtracks, and the XVGM boys grill him on his influences this time around (Groove and industrial metal?! The Batman and Goonies NES OSTs?!) and so much more! Join Matt, Justin and Mike for a long but utterly satisfying chat about Prison City on the latest episode of XVGM Radio!
Thanks as always to Matt Creamer for joining us on XVGM Radio! Check out his links here:
https://raddlandstudios.com/
https://x.com/raddland
https://raddlandstudios.bandcamp.com/
We’d love to hear what you thought about these two soundtracks we’ve picked! What was your favorite track? Shoot us an email at XVGMRadio@gmail.com or join in on the discussion at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/XVGMradio
Also, we have a Discord Channel! Join us and chat about the show, share a random or obscure VGM song you love, or just chit chat with Mike and Justin about tacos! Join for free here: https://discord.gg/zWxDYfn
Thanks to all of our wonderful Patrons: Cam Werme, Chris Murray, Claire Myers, Scott McElhone, Rayjkayj, Llama Adam, Kung Fu Carlito, Nick Davis, Ryan McPherson, Scott Brackett, and Brad Austin. Become a Patron, get cool rewards, and more at http://www.Patreon.com/XVGMRadio
Check out all episodes of XVGM Radio on www.youtube.com/dongled for another more visual format!
Our Twitter, Instagram, and BlueSky are great ways to interact with us! Find us on there under our handle @XVGMRadio
If you’re an Apple Podcasts listener, please consider leaving a rating and a review to let us know how we’re doing! It also helps with getting the show to show up when others are searching for VGM!

TRACK LISTING:

Intro – “Grim Conversation”
1 – “Preserve – Infiltrator”
2 – “Cold Storage – Ice for Veins”
3 – “Rooftops – Rooftop Prowler”
4 – “Boss Theme 04 – Spirit of Detroit!”
5 – “Factory – Flip the Switch”
6 – “DCP Headquarters – A Hero’s Welcome”
7 – “Power Plant – Raw Power”
8 – “Stadium – Game Day”
9 – “Outer DCP – Storming the Gates”
10 – “Boss Theme 01 – Combatants”
Outro – “Dolphin Power”

Episode 25-11: Quantum Leap Jones

By Game That Tune on Jun 24, 2025 12:00 pm UTC

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This week's episode is about fun and games but it's also a lot of hard work, because we're playing games with jobs! We're talking real jobs, not fake video game jobs like mercenary or hero of time, we want to play a 9 to 5!

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0:00:00 Welcome to Game That Tune!
0:06:24 Game 1
0:13:15 Game 1 Reveal
0:28:01 Game 2
0:33:54 Game 2 Reveal
0:44:14 Game 3
0:53:59 Game 3 Reveal
1:09:00 Game 4
1:16:32 Game 4 Reveal
1:42:02 This Game's Winner Is...
1:51:41 Bonus Music/Outro

Rebroadcast: Star Fox

By Super Marcato Bros on Jun 23, 2025 11:49 pm UTC

Episodes

For this "Rebroadcast", Karl & Will share their episode originally released way back in November of 2014- "Star Fox (#137)!" Enjoy this blast from the past, where the guys explored the music of this legendary series!

Star Fox – Hajime Hirasawa – Nintendo – Super NES – 1993

-Corneria

-Fortuna

-Space Armada

-Venom Base (Level 1 & 3)

-Game Clear Demonstration

-Main Theme

Star Fox 2 – Yumiko Kanki & Kozue Ishikawa – Nintendo – Super NES – Unreleased

-Eladard

-Meteor

-Surprise Attack

-Staff Roll

Star Fox 64 – Koji Kondo & Hajime Wakai – Nintendo – Nintendo 64 – 1997

-Opening

-Corneria

-Fichina and Sector Z

-Starwolf’s Theme

-Boss A

-Mission Accomplished

Star Fox Adventures – Dave Wise – Nintendo – Gamecube – 2002

-Thorntail Hollow (Night)

Star Fox Assault – Yoshie Arakawa & Yoshinori Kawamoto – Nintendo – Gamecube – 2005

-Katina

-Sargasso Space Hideout

-Sauria

-Briefing 1

Star Fox Command – Hajime Wakai – Nintendo – DS – 2006

-Fox’s Assault

132: ST3 #04 - Gerard Marino Interview (God of War)

By The Sound Test on Jun 22, 2025 4:05 pm UTC

A retrospective look at the music of God of War, throughout its original Greek mythology games, with composer Gerard Marino!

"The End Begins (To Rock)" by Virtual Video Game Orchestra
https://vvgo.bandcamp.com/album/project-3-the-end-begins-to-rock

Laced Records GoW Anniversary Vinyl:
https://www.lacedrecords.co/collections/god-of-war

The Sound Test on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/GcKsvLgB6tk

Episode 177: Happy Father’s Day

By RE-VGM on Jun 20, 2025 7:42 am UTC

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This past Sunday was Father’s Day, celebrated on the third Sunday of the June. Similar to Mother’s Day, this day honors fathers and dads of all families and relations. Sure, they work hard to earn a living and at times offers words of advice or humor, but they may feel dutiful to protect their family and their children. Their presence may be felt or absent, yet fathers can provide some wisdom and guidance in life.

For this week’s episode, we’re celebrating Father’s Day with several tracks from video games that have fathers or father figures: a man searching for his infant daughter, an absent dad that can only be reached by phone, and a long-time mentor on the adventure of a lifetime. We’ve also got covers and remixes to follow.

Enjoy these tracks as you think about the dad or father figure in your life, or perhaps from video games you’ve played…

Father’s Day

Track Listing

“A Moment’s Respite” – [Resident Evil Village (RE 8)] – composed by Shusaku Uchiyama

“Resident Evil Village – Save Room Theme [Mono Memory Synth Remix]” – remixed by Mono Memory

“Home Sweet Home” – [Earthbound (Mother 2)] – composed by Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka, Keiichi Suzuki, Hiroshi Kanazu

“Home, sweet home – Earthbound/Mother 2 REMIX” – remixed by Kowjja

“A Thief’s End” – [Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End] – composed by Henry Jackman

Audio clip from “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”

“Uncharted – Nates Theme (Altered Serentiy Remix)” – remixed by Sensu Audica

KVGM “The Last Wave” (6/15/25)

By KVGM "The Last Wave" on Jun 15, 2025 4:00 pm UTC

Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.

We’re pretty Nintendo heavy this week as we explore reading, writing, e-pets, softcore love, bass fishing, fashion and pocket soccer. Plus lots of other great tunes, to help you start summer the right way.

Playlist

BGM 6 – Naotoshi Nishino
(Abunai Kankei, PC)

Wake Up (Title BGM) – Teruo Taniguchi
(New Eitango Target 1900 DS, Nintendo DS)

Menu – Ryuji Iuchi
(One Two Smash: Tanoshii Tennis, Sony PlayStation)

June and July (Areas 6 & 7) – Misako Sekiguchi
(MUTSU to Nohohon, Nintendo GameCube)

JB Pro Shop – Eurhythm
(JB: The Super Bass, Super Famicom)

Signpost – Osamu Abukawa
(9-nine- Kokonotsu Kokonoka Kokonoiro, Nintendo Switch)

BGM 6 – Katsuya Yoshida
(Soshite Bokura wa,…and He Said, Sony PlayStation 2)

Dressing Up – Solid Tune
(Poupee Girl DS 2: Elegant Mint + Sweet Pink Style, Nintendo DS)

BGM 15 – Atsuyoshi Isemura
(On Air, PC)

Credits – Seiichi Takamoto
(J.League Pocket 2, Nintendo Game Boy Advance)

Special Request

Defeat – Katsuhiro Hayashi
(Galaxy Force II, FM Towns)

Level 166: Game & Watch Gallery 4

By The Messenger Presents a VGM Journey on Jun 15, 2025 12:35 pm UTC

Composed by Riyou Kinugasa and Kengo Hagiwara

Track Listing:

Title Screen

Rain Shower

Boxing

Mario’s Cement Factory

Donkey Kong 3

Fire Attack

Credits

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[156] The Winter Collection - Part II

By Pixel Beat on Jun 15, 2025 10:00 am UTC

About: We did a seasonal set of episodes in the past, but found we had such an abundance of fantastic winter tunes! Time to showcase some more winter themed tracks, as we have so many fantastic snowy tunes to share.

Artwork: Xenoblade Chronicles

00:00 - Buried In Snow [Final Fantasy VII]

by Nobuo Uematsu >

03:07 - A Freezing Breath [Scarlet Nexus]

by Hayata Takeda >

07:36 - The Winterlands [Octopath Traveller II]

by Yasunori Nishiki >

11:08 - The Winter Breeze [I Am Setsuna]

by Tomoki Miyoshi >

12:47 - Snowden Town [Undertale]

by Toby Fox >

14:03 - Frozen Factory - Zone 1 [Sonic Lost World]

by Tomoya Ohtanoi, Takahito Eguchi, Naofumi Hataya, Jun Senoue >

17:34 - Shiveria Town [Super Mario Odyssey]

by Shiho Fujii >

20:16 - Another Winter [Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game]

by Anamanaguchi >

22:47 - Island (Snowflake Mountain) [Diddy Kong Racing]

by David Wise, Graeme Norgate >

23:30 - Snowy Mountain…for Icecap [Sonic Adventure]

by Jun Senoue >

25:28 - Kamui of the Northern Lands [Okami]

by Masami Ueda, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Rei Kondoh, Akari Groves >

29:30 - In A Snow-Bound Land [Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest]

by David Wise >

32:33 - Snowy Mt. Valak - Night [Xenoblade Chronicles]

by ACE+ >

35:39 - Snowflakes [Persona 4: Golden]

by Shoji Meguro >

39:01 - Yuki Floating Down From The Sky [World’s End Club]

by Jun Fukuda >

42:47 - Winter (Nocturne Of Ice) [Stardew Valley]

by ConcernedApe >

Episode 176: Friday the 13th – Summertime Superstitions

By RE-VGM on Jun 13, 2025 7:06 am UTC

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One of my favorite days of the week, Friday the 13th, which means it’s time for something superstitious and mythical. Previous episodes have discussed fear (#15), death and dying (#51), video game superstitions (#92), RNG or randomness (#136), and Christmas (#149).

For this Friday the 13th (the only one happening in 2025, in fact), we’re discussing a few superstitions and myths during the summertime, according to Grok (an AI assistant). We’re playing tracks from video games that have or mention these superstitions: an adventurer able to control the weather, a white wolf saving Japan, and a hunter saving a cursed town. As always, there’s also covers and remixes to follow each track.

Enjoy learning about some of these summertime superstitions and myths…

Track Listing

“The Great Sea is Cursed” – [The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker] – composed by Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo

“Zelda: The Wind Waker – The Great Sea is Cursed (Reorchestrated)” – remixed by HoopsandHipHop

“Agata Forest” – [Okami] – composed by Masami Ueda (Clover Studio)

“Okami – Agata Forest (Geass Trap Remix) [Phonk Instrumental]” – remixed by Geass Studio

“Moon Presence” – [Bloodborne] – composed by Ryan Amon

“Moon Presence – Metal Cover” – covered by Ekstal

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

Revisited: Shovel Knight

By Super Marcato Bros on Jun 8, 2025 7:09 pm UTC

It’s another “Revisited” episode! After 11 years, Karl & Will decide to revisit the original score to Shovel Knight by Jake Kaufman! This is one of the best VGM soundtracks of all time, and a true marcato classic. Enjoy!

Shovel Knight – Jake Kaufman – Yacht Club Games – Wii U/3DS – 2014

-Main Theme

-One Fateful Knight

-Strike the Earth! (Plains of Passage)

-The Rival (Black Knight – First Battle)

-In the Halls of the Usurper (Pridemoor Keep)

-High Above the Land (The Flying Machine)

-An Underlying Problem (The Lost City)

-No Weapons Here (Village)

-Watch Me Dance!

-A Thousand Leagues Below (Iron Whale) [Manami Matsumae]

-Of Devious Machinations (Clockwork Tower)

-The Schemer (Tinker Knight Battle)

-Waltz of the Troupple King

-Courage Under Fire – Armorer Village

-Fighting with All of Our Might

-Flowers of Antimony (The Explodatorium) [Manami Matsumae]

-La Danse Macabre (Lich Yard)

-The Fateful Return (Tower Approach)

-The Betrayer (Enchantress Final Form)

-A Return to Order (Ending)

Viper’s VGMture – S11 – Switchbusters (06 June 2025)

By Viper's VGMture on Jun 6, 2025 6:00 pm UTC

With the Switch 2 finally upon us, it's time for our launch special here on the VGMture. Join Viper for a whistle-stop tour and a little bit of Switch 2 mythbusting!

Buy a Nintendo Switch 2:
https://store.nintendo.co.uk/en/nintendo-switch-2

Buy Mario Kart World on Nintendo Switch 2:
https://store.nintendo.co.uk/en/mario-kart-world-70010000096802

Buy DELTARUNE on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1671210/DELTARUNE/

Buy DELTARUNE Chapters 3+4 OST on Bandcamp:
https://tobyfox.bandcamp.com/album/deltarune-chapters-3-4-ost

TRACKLISTING:
00:00:00 Mario Kart World - Gusty Garden Galaxy (Super Mario Galaxy)
00:03:30 DELTARUNE Chapter 3 - Ruder Buster
00:05:13 Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour (Nintendo Switch 2 no Himitsu-ten) - Title Screen
00:06:31 Welcome to Viper's VGMture
00:13:35 Nintendo Switch 2 - System Setup
00:17:03 DELTARUNE Chapter 3 - Welcome to the Green Room
00:18:34 Mario Kart World - Space Junk Galaxy (Super Mario Galaxy)
00:21:53 You're Listening to Viper's VGMture
00:47:31 Bomb Rush Cyberfunk - Condensed Milk
00:50:01 Pokémon Scarlet & Violet - Levincia
00:52:53 Bayonetta 3 - GH()ST
00:58:52 This is Viper's VGMture
01:11:49 DELTARUNE Chapter 3 - Raise Up Your Bat
01:13:59 RIDGE RACER - Ridge Racer (POWER REMIX)
01:20:36 RIDGE RACER - Rare Hero (Sanodigy Mix)
01:25:28 Thanks for Listening!
01:28:41 Mario Kart World - Rainbow Road (Mario Kart 64)

Episode 175: The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

By RE-VGM on Jun 6, 2025 7:03 am UTC

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On June 6, 1993, “The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening” was released on Japan for Nintendo’s Game Boy. It would later be released in the North America and European regions on August 6th and December 1st respectively, and then the following year worldwide. It was initially developed as an attempt to port “A Link to the Past” from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System to the Game Boy but it became its own project under the direction of Takashi Tezuka. In 1998, it was re-released for the Game Boy Color and then remade in 2019 for the Switch.

For this week’s episode, we’re simply celebrating with several tracks from the game, along with several remixes to follow.

Prepare yourself, adventurer, for the dream of a lifetime…

Fandom – The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

Track Listing

All original tracks were composed by Minako Hamano, Kozue Ishikawa, and Koji Kondo

Intro: “The Storm” – composed by Minako Hamano

BGM: “Title Screen”

“Mabe Village”

“Mah Boi” [Mabe Village] – remixed by PROTO-DOME

“Mysterious Woods”

“Mysterious Groove” [Forest] – remixed by Scott Peeples

“Tail Cave”

“The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening – Tail Cave (Remix)” – remixed by DJMykah

“Boss Battle”

“The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening – Boss Theme (WillRock Remix)” – remixed by WillRock07

“Nightmare Battles”

“NIGHTMARE/Final Boss – Zaxiade’s Metal Remix || Link’s Awakening” – remixed by Zaxiade

Outro: “The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening – Ending/Credits Theme (Orchestrated)” – composed by Minako Hamano & Kozue Ishikawa, remixed by Wurtzel

R&P Chat 38-7: Limit Breaking 2: Electric Boogaloo with Chris Wisner

Episode 62 - A Proper Puzzle Pile

By Shujin Academy VGM Club on Jun 5, 2025 11:02 am UTC

We’re matching colors, bursting bubbles, and clearing blocks with this playlist of songs from all kinds of puzzle games!

There are several links and notes for this episode:

I started off my first music block with a song from the original arcade release of Blockout, and if you’re interested in playing it, you can play it on a web browser at https://blockout.nu/. (Note that it works fine with a computer keyboard, but it may be nigh impossible to play on a phone or tablet.)
If you liked the Planet Puzzle League song, the episode of CRT Soundsystem featuring a deep dive into the its music can be found at https://rss.com/podcasts/crtsoundsystem/1917986/.
While talking about Cu-On-Pa, I mentioned that it was a port of Endorfun, a Windows PC game. I would have liked to feature it, but that game’s soundtrack doesn’t neatly break down into individual songs. However, if you want to experience it, you can find a remastered version of the soundtrack on YouTube at https://youtu.be/6k_hYPfPpEQ and you can hear the arranged soundtrack at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngnpsZf24VI. If you liked the CD-i Tetris soundtrack, you may enjoy these.
If you’re interested in going down the rabbit hole for the Adventures of Lolo / Eggerland games, the Wikipedia article is a decent starting point; you can find it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Lolo, and you can search around and try to figure out the multiple variations of the series between its entries for the MSX, the Famicom, the NES, and the Game Boy.
Fellow VGM podcast barSILENCE did a whole episode about Tetris that I mentioned while talking about Tetris Kiwamemichi, and you can find that excellent 73 minutes of game music at https://barsilence.com/episode/e6308ce1/tetris-affects
If you liked the CD-i Tetris song from Jim Andron, you can find a high-quality version of the whole soundtrack on his Soundcloud page at https://soundcloud.com/user-391016128/sets/phillips-cdi

Special thanks for this episode goes out to:

Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.
BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.

If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. All episodes of the show are posted to my YouTube channel, which you can find by searching for Shujin Academy VGM Club. You can email me at shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com. Links to everything are available on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on 8beats.co, the internet's number one game music radio station. My show is also featured on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there. Finally, if you just can’t get enough of me, I’m also voicing esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama podcast How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can hear on FGC Radio or at https://rss.com/podcasts/hmibisondollars/.

If you're listening on Spotify, please be aware that they’ve pulled a few of my episodes before. There’s a non-zero chance that they’ll eventually pull my entire podcast, as they’ve done with a few other game music podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get all of the Professor Tom goodness you crave.

Track Listing:

00:00 - Show Tagline

00:06 - Klax (Amiga) - Intro and Attract Screen (composer: Matt Furniss)

03:11 - Talk Segment 1

08:54 - Blockout (Arcade) - Round Select, Next Round (composer: unknown)

09:48 - Planet Puzzle League (DS) - B3 Cub3d (composer: Masanobu Matsunaga)

12:40 - Cu-On-Pa (Super Famicom) - Colloseum (composer: Ken Kojima)

14:00 - Mario’s Super Picross (Super Famicom) - Wario BGM 1 (composer: Toshiyuki Ueno)

17:33 - Puzzle Bobble 2 / Bust-A-Move 2 Arcade Edition (PSX) - Background 2 (composer: Norihiro Furukawa)

19:11 - Adventures of Lolo (NES) - In-Game (composer: Hideki Kanazashi; programmer: Hiroaki Suga)

20:08 - HuniePop (PC) - Farmers’ Market (composer: Jonathan Wandag)

22:15 - Talk Segment 2

25:51 - Puyo Puyo (FM Towns) - Sticker of Puyo Puyo (composers: Haruo Tajima and Masami Yitsuse)

28:34 - Zoop (Genesis) - Uptown Meeting (composers: Mark Davis and Bob Scumaci)

31:31 - Dr. Mario (NES) - Chill (composer: Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka)

33:38 - Columns (Genesis) - Clotho (composer: Tokuhiko Uwabo)

37:54 - Lemmings (Genesis) - Stage Theme 4 / One Way or Another (composers: Tim Wright, Brian Johnston, and Hirohiko Takayama)

40:29 - Talk Segment 3

46:59 - Tetris Kiwamemichi (PS2 / Arcade) - 06 (composer: unknown)

49:36 - Super Tetris 2 + BomBliss (Super Famicom) - Tetris B-Type (composers: Mitsuhiko Takano, K4, and Dhal‑chan)

50:23 - Tetris (Nintendo version) (NES) - Music 3 (composer: Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka)

53:23 - Tetris (Sega Arcade YM2610B version) - Tetremix (composer: Yasuhiro Kawakami)

56:05 - Super Tetris 3 (Super Famicom) - Magicaliss Select (composer: Shigemitsu Goto)

57:12 - Tetris (CD-i) - Foster’s Freeze (Level 5) (composer: Jim Andron)

59:41 - Outro Talk Segment

1:02:29 - Tetris Effect (multiplatform) - 1989 Pt. 2 (composers: Hydelic and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

Viper’s VGMture – S10 – May-hem (04 June 2025)

By Viper's VGMture on Jun 4, 2025 9:00 pm UTC

On the night before Switch 2, join Viper and co. for your monthly recap of our backlog bustin' adventures!

TRACKLISTING:
00:00:00 CTGP Deluxe - DS Rainbow Road
00:04:45 Super Mario RPG [2023] - Battling Strongish Monsters
00:06:23 Welcome to Viper's VGMture
00:14:05 Tomb Raider: Anniversary - Croft Manor - Main Theme
00:20:07 Metroid: Zero Mission - Norfair
00:24:04 Super Mario RPG [2023] - Beware of Forest Mushrooms
00:28:08 You're Listening to Viper's VGMture
00:36:58 Super Mario RPG [2023] - The Factory
00:40:00 Undertale - Here We Are
00:42:05 This is Viper's VGMture
00:48:15 Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes - Airship Stage
00:50:27 Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost - Ecstatic Dreamers
00:54:45 CTGP Deluxe - GCN Mushroom Bridge / Mushroom City
00:57:16 Thanks for Listening!
01:01:17 Undertale - Hopes and Dreams

Episode 25-10: Clint'n Exotica

By Game That Tune on Jun 3, 2025 12:30 pm UTC

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Wine, cigarettes, art hats, mimes, royale with cheese, giving a rimjob to the Eiffel Tower. This is the level of Francophilia you will find in this episode.

Our merch store is back, now on TeePublic! Check it out and grab something absurd for you or a friend!

Join us in Discord!

Check out our Patreon page! Patreon.com/GameThatTune is the home for exclusive content! Special thanks to our ABSURD FAN tier Patreon producers: Daniel Perkey, Sam L, PhoenixTear2121, BeastPond, HCO and Spanky McMasters!

0:00:00 Welcome to Game That Tune!
0:09:31 Game 1
0:14:41 Game 1 Reveal
0:31:17 Game 2
0:41:20 Game 2 Reveal
1:02:06 Game 3
1:05:56 Game 3 Reveal
1:18:48 Game 4
1:25:31 Game 4 Reveal
1:38:52 This Game's Winner Is...
1:49:30 Bonus Music/Outro

KVGM “The Last Wave” (6/1/25)

By KVGM "The Last Wave" on Jun 1, 2025 4:00 pm UTC

Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.

June is here, the summer interns are back (unfortunately), and the jams keep coming! We’re all over the place on this week’s episode, from the bouncy GBA to fishing on the SNES to mahjong on the PS1 and of course…Hentai Prison. Yikes.

Playlist

Two People from the Bottom – C MUSIC Professional Library
(Sayaka, FM Towns)

Fulfillment – Satoshi Nakamura
(Hentai Prison, PC)

Tournament Open – Eurhythm and Kenichi Fujii
(TNN Bass Tournament of Champions, Super Nintendo)

In the Parlor – Hiroyasu Hoshi
(Shisenfuu Gekikara Mahjong, Sony PlayStation)

Summer Nights – Kyoko Ide
(Magical Witch Academy ~Boku to Sensei no Magical Lesson~, PC)

No scrap, No life – Takuma Nishimura
(Cyanotype Daydream: The Girl Who Dreamed the World, Nintendo Switch)

BGM 5 – Katsuya Yoshida
(Soshite Bokura wa,…and He Said, Sony PlayStation 2)

BGM 14 – Yumi Satake
(Angel Collection 2: Pichimo ni Narou, Nintendo Game Boy Advance)

Sweet Pain – Takumaru
(Sabae no Ou Scenario II, PC)

Ending – Toshihiko Sahashi
(Katekyou Hitman Reborn! DS: Fate of Heat ~ Honoo no Sadame, Nintendo DS)

Special Request

Winter (Nocturne Of Ice) – ConcernedApe
(Stardew Valley, PC)

Level 165: Game & Watch Gallery 3

By The Messenger Presents a VGM Journey on Jun 1, 2025 12:30 pm UTC

Composed by Noriko Nishizaka

Track Listing

Title Screen

Egg

Greenhouse

Turtle Bridge

Mario Bros

Donkey Kong Jr Level 1, 2, and 3

Check out the discord!!! https://discord.gg/m4e6xmtrft

LIVE: VGMCon 2025 in ~Space~ – PA199

By Pixelated Audio on May 30, 2025 10:45 am UTC

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Pixelated Audio is back from another VGMCon in Minnesota, this time about space! Joining Gene once again from last year are Pernell from Rhythm and Pixels and Carlos from Heroes Three! We did a similar panel last year; we take a broad theme and make it educational, and then use it as an excuse to… Read More » The post LIVE: VGMCon 2025 in ~Space~ – PA199 first appeared on Pixelated Audio.

Episode 174: On Stage Now – LucasGitanoFamily

By RE-VGM on May 30, 2025 7:03 am UTC

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May ends within two days of this post, and that means it’s time for “On Stage Now”, our special monthly episode in which a cover or remix musician is featured.

This month’s musician is LucasGitanoFamily, a Frenchman who’s been learning to play rumba gitana since six years old and influenced by the Gypsy Kings. He has toured the world over, showing his ability to improvise his solos. Lucas is on a mission to teach others how to play, no matter what level of experience. His YT channel shows lots of videos of his covers of music from video games, anime, and movies. He’s also recorded his own original compositions and currently released his own albums on many streaming services.

Prepare to be mesmerized and entertained by LucasGitanoFamily.

Oh, and thanks to Rob, Pernell, and Chris Wisner for the inspiration for this episode…

(Note: There are parts of this episode which sound different, and that’s because I found out after finishing that I was mispronouncing the name incorrectly. I merely went back and made the corrections as best as I can.)

LucasGitanoFamily (Personal Website, YT, Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, Amazon Music, Deezer, Patreon, BuyMeaCoffee)

Track Listing

“Battel Theme – Those Who Fight – Flamenco Gipsy Guitar – FF7 final fantasy xii fingerstyle cover” – [Final Fantasy VII] – composed by Nobuo Uematsu

“AERLITH’S THEME Meets Flamenco Guitar – FF7 ost fingerstyle cover final fantasy vii” – [Final Fantasy VII] – composed by Nobuo Uematsu

“[Vamo’ Alla Flamenco] (Final Fantasy IX) meets flamenco gipsy guitar [fingerstyle ost game cover]” – [Final Fantasy IX] – composed by Nobuo Uematsu

“[Eula – Flickering Candlelight] (Genshin Impact) meet flamenco gipsy guitar [game fingerstyle cover]” – [Genshin Impact] – composed by Yu-Peng Chen

“[Lost Woods | Saria’s Song] (Zelda Ocarino of Time) meet LucasGitanoFamily[flamenco guitar cover]” – [The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time] – composed by Koji Kondo

“[Bloody Tears](Castlevania) meet LucasGitanoFamily [flamenco guitar cover]” – [Castlevania] – composed by Konami Kukeiha Club

“[Encounter] (Metal Gear Solid) LucasGitanoFamily [flamenco guitar cover] snake battle theme alert song” – [Metal Gear Solid] – composed by KCE Japan Sound Team

“[Gold Saucer] (Final Fantasy VII) meet LucasGitanoFamily

STAGE 83: Games of 2024

By RETRO VGM REVIVAL HOUR on May 29, 2025 8:03 pm UTC

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Game – Composer – Title⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

⭐1.) Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown – Gareth Coker & Mentrix – “General Uvishka, The Forest Queen & The Storm Master”
⭐2.) Another Code: Recollection – Satoshi Okubo, Rei Kondoh & Haruno Ito – “Another Code: Recollection, Stopped by Sadness & To the place I call home (w/ vocals by Jolianne Salvado)”
⭐3.) Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth – Keitarou Hanada, Hidenori Shoji, Hiroaki Watanabe and Yasuyuki Matsuzaki (Hyd Lunch) – “Knavish, Daymare & Like A Butterfly-Full Spec Edition (w/ vocals by Hana Takeda)”
⭐4.) Tekken 8 – Akitaka Tohyama (AJURIKA) & Rio Hamamoto – “Neo City (Normal), STORM RISING (Climax) & Volcanic Bomb (Climax)”
⭐5.) Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League – Rupert Cross & Nick Arundel – “Invasion Situation, Flash Mobbed & This Is Super Bad”
⭐6.) Helldivers 2 – Wilbert Roget II & Ross Tregenza – “Welcome to the Fight, March of the Helldivers & A Cup of Liber-tea (Helldivers 2 Main Theme)”
⭐7.) Ultros – Oscar Rydelius (Ratvader) – “Slake Moth, Vainglory & Rage of the Chalice”
⭐8.) Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore – Jake Silverman – “Durridin Forest, Sprigum Volcano & Final Boss”
⭐9.) Skull and Bones – Tom Holkenborg – “An Untold Story (Main Theme), Outgunned & Schaduw's Vengeance”
⭐10.) Final Fantasy VII Rebirth – Nobuo Uematsu, Shotaro Shima, Ryo Furukawa & Keiki Kobayashi – “The War Hero Sephiroth, The Turks' Latest and Greatest: Elena & Custom Valkyrie”
⭐11.) Contra: Operation Galuga – Yuko Komiyama – “Time to Introduce Ourselves, Thanks for the Ride & Earth Marine Corps' Finest”
⭐12.) Alone in the Dark – Árni Bergur Zoëga – “Unravelling Trap, Welcome to Derceto & Derceto Burning”
⭐13.) Dragon's Dogma 2 – Hana Kimura, Satoshi Hori & Masahiro Ohki – “Battle Theme:Vermund, Medusa's Theme & A Formidable Foe”
⭐14.) Rise of the Rōnin – Inon Zur – “Separation Battle, Heavy Battle & Battle Western Forces I”
⭐15.) SaGa: Emerald Beyond – Kenji Ito – “A Quick Warm-Up, Land of Fallen Heroes & A Fierce Engagement”
⭐16.) Stellar Blade – Oliver Good, Keita Inoue, ko.yo & Shinyeop Choi (seibin) – “Star Descent (w/ vocals by Miyo Takashiro), Abaddon & Laser Trap”
⭐17.) Crow Country – Tommy Robin (Ockeroid) – “Beyond Forgiveness, Haunted Hilltop & Staring Into the Flames ”
⭐18.) Mullet MadJack – Fernando Pepe & Mateus Polati – “Laser Disco Inferno, Glitch in the System & Toxic Behavior”
⭐19.) Senua's Saga: Hellblade II – David García Díaz – “When It All Went to Hell (feat. STFUR), Sjávarrisi (feat. Kai Uwe Faust) & The Heart of Darkness (feat. STFUR)”
⭐20.) Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game – John Massari, Mark Rutherford & The Dickies – “The Darkest Karnival, Klownpcalypse & Killer Klowns from Outer Space”
⭐21.) Black Myth: Wukong – Wang Xinghe, Li Jiaqi & Zhai Jinyan – “Merits In Vain, Idol/ Obstacle & Loyalty Amid Fire and Frost”
⭐22.) Star Wars Outlaws – Kazuma Jinnouchi & Wilbert Roget II – “Death Mark/Welcome to Toshara, The Empire vs The Outlaw & Battle of the Revelator”
⭐23.) Astro Bot – Kenneth C M Young & Greg Edmonson – “Follow Me (Into the Storm), Tricorn Escalade & Drake's BOTune”
⭐24.) Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 – Nima Fakhrara & Steve Molitz – “Onslaught, Dust in Armour & The Scourge”
⭐25.) Silent Hill 2 (2024) – Akira Yamaoka – “Captivity II, Sombre Nexus & Brutal Lament”
⭐26.) Metaphor: ReFantazio – Shoji Meguro – “Traversing the Wastes (w/ vocals by Keisuke Honryo), Castle of Dread (w/ vocals by Maiko Katagiri) & Formidable Foe”
⭐27.) RetroRealms: Ash vs Evil Dead & Halloween – Megan McDuffee – “Evil Ash, Phelp’s Garage & Cemetary”
⭐28.) Metal Slug Tactics – Tee Lopes – “Trailblazers II, Urban Ops & Last Stand”
⭐29.) Slitterhead – Akira Yamaoka – “Blood Snow (w/ vocals by Liang XiangNing), Alleyway Assault & Master of Labyrinth”
⭐30.) Marvel Rivals – Masahiro Aoki – “Path to Rivals (Login Theme), No One Rivals Doom & The Golden Realm”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
MoonSpider: @MoonSpiderHugs
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/moonspider

[155] I Could Grow Old Here - Part IV

By Pixel Beat on May 29, 2025 2:00 am UTC

About: When it’s all said and done, you’ll need somewhere peaceful to hunker down. This third instalment features a batch of homely themes that showcase the serenity within these carefree towns and villages.

Artwork: The Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild

00:00 - Farm Boy [Final Fantasy VII]

by Nobuo Uematsu >

02:47 - Water Symphony [Tales Of Symphonia]

by Motoi Sakuraba, Shinji Tamura, Takeshi Arai >

05:09 - A Quiet Place [Professor Layton & The Unwound Future]

by Tomohito Nishiura >

07:03 - Hateno Village [The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild]

by Yasuaki Iwata >

10:51 - Sea Breeze Town [The Legend Of Xanadu II]

by Falcom Sound Team JDK >

12:48 - Too Full Of Love [Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished - The Final Chapter]

by Falcom Sound Team JDK >

14:18 - Fountain Of Love [Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished]

by Falcom Sound Team JDK >

15:19 - Aboda Village [The Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks]

by Toru Minegishi, Manaka Tominaga, Asuka Ohta, Koji Kondo >

18:07 - Selbina [Final Fantasy XI]

by Naoshi Mizuta >

20:23 - Rim Elm [Legend Of Legaia]

by Michiru Oshima >

22:35 - Theme Of Geffen [Ragnarok Online]

by soundTeMP >

25:35 - Gazing Over The Great Plain [Octopath Traveller]

by Yasunori Nishiki >

28:49 - Lurelin Village [The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild]

by Yasuaki Iwata >

32:35 - Ku, Land of the Scarlet Sunset [Octopath Traveller II]

by Yasunori Nishiki >

Pilot Flying J – National Road Trip Day

Episode 122 – Lethal Enforcers I & II (Same Song, Different System)

By XVGM Radio on May 28, 2025 5:00 am UTC

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Marred in 90s era video game controversy, Konami’s Lethal Enforcers series, along with Mortal Kombat, Night Trap, and several other games, had ironic targets on their backs for their innovative, realistic (at the time) graphics involving firing a fake plastic gun at the screen, killing human targets. Years later, the series is best known for pushing buttons in the North American political atmosphere, which is a shame because it SHOULD be known for their amazing soundtracks! Today on XVGM Radio, Justin and Mike go a few rounds with some Lethal Enforcers 1 and 2 tunes, comparing the versions and picking which ones they like the best after their heavy analyzing. Well worth the price of admission, you’ll be firing in quarters like crazy into your phone to reload more amazing tunes full of orchestra synth hits, SNES Midi guitar, along with tons of comparison to other Konami OSTs. This episode has its target set on you, time to hit play!
We’d love to hear what you thought about these two soundtracks we’ve picked! What was your favorite track? Shoot us an email at XVGMRadio@gmail.com or join in on the discussion at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/XVGMradio
Also, we have a Discord Channel! Join us and chat about the show, share a random or obscure VGM song you love, or just chit chat with Mike and Justin about tacos! Join for free here: https://discord.gg/zWxDYfn
Big thank you to RayjKayj for picking a track via his Patreon reward and for sending us a request! Also, Thanks to all of our wonderful Patrons: Cam Werme, Chris Murray, Claire Myers, Scott McElhone, Rayjkayj, Llama Adam, Kung Fu Carlito, Nick Davis, Ryan McPherson, Scott Brackett, and Brad Austin. Become a Patron, get cool rewards, and more at http://www.Patreon.com/XVGMRadio
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TRACK LISTING:

Intro a – Lethal Enforcers (ARC – 1992) “Rolling Badguys (Stage 1)” Kenichiro Fukui
Intro b – Lethal Enforcers (GEN – 1993) “Rolling Badguys (Stage 1)” Kenichiro Fukui
1a – Lethal Enforcers (SNES – 1994) “Dead or Alive (Boss Theme)” Harumi Ueko (Arranger)
1b – Lethal Enforcers (GEN – 1993) “Dead or Alive (Boss Theme)” Kenichiro Fukui
2a – Patreon Pick: RayjKayj – Lethal Enforcers II: GunFighters (ARC – 1994) “Saloon Showdown (Stage 3-1, 3-5~6)” Yuuichi Sakakura, Tsuyoshi Sekito
2b – Lethal Enforcers II: GunFighters (GEN – 1994) “Saloon Showdown (Stage 3-1, 3-5~6)” Yuuichi Sakakura, Tsuyoshi Sekito
3a – Lethal Enforcers (SNES – 1994) “Fight for your Life” Harumi Ueko (Arranger) Kenichiro Fukui
3b – Lethal Enforcers (PS1 – 1997) “Fight for your Life (Stages 3-3 & 5-1)” Eric Pryzby, Jun Funahashi, Kenichiro Fukui
4a – Lethal Enforcers II: GunFighters (SCD – 1994) “The Hide-Out (Stage 5-1, 5-4~5)” Tsuyoshi Sekito, Yūichi Sakakura
4b – Lethal Enforcers II: GunFighters (GEN – 1994) “Hideout (Stages 5-1, 5-4~5)” Yuuichi Sakakura, Tsuyoshi Sekito

Marcato Radio 40

By Super Marcato Bros on May 26, 2025 3:28 am UTC

It's time for another installment of Marcato Radio! Once again, it's another non-stop collection of outstanding video game music. Some tracks you've heard before, and some you have not! Enjoy!

-Playlist coming soon!—

Episode 173: Life on the Highway (National Road Trip Day)

By RE-VGM on May 23, 2025 7:03 am UTC

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The open road – an invitation to those ready to take the wheel and drive solo or with companions. Destination: unknown.

We’re celebrating National Road Trip Day, which happens on the Friday before the Memorial Day weekend. According to Pilot Flying J, it is the “unofficial” start of summer travel as people pack up their cars and work out their itineraries to visit the places and see the sites. For some, it’s the journey that matters, with good food, great conversation, and some travelling music. For others, it’s finding a place to stretch your legs or find a clean restroom while making stops to eat and make memories.

We’ve got some tracks from video games that feature a road trip: a long and winding race between the coasts, a mysterious route in Kentucky, and a trip that doesn’t need a Chocobo. There’s also covers and remixes with these original tracks.

Gather your belongings, make sure the maps is folded correctly, check the gas gauge, and prepare for a life on the highway…

National Road Trip Day

Things to keep in mind if you have Memorial Day travel plans

Track Listing

Intro and BGM: “Life is a Highway”, composed and performed by Tom Cochrane, from “Mad, Mad World”

“Passing Breeze” – [Outrun 2006 Coast to Coast] – composed by Hiroshi “Hiro” Kawaguchi

“Passing Breeze Euro Mix” (Xbox version) – remixed by Richard Jacques

“Long Journey Home” – [Kentucky Route Zero] – composed by Ben Babbit, performed by The Bedquilt Ramblers

“Long Journey Home (Code in Blue’s Kentucky Route Zero Remix)” – remixed by Code in Blue

“Bros on the Road” – [Final Fantasy XV] – composed by Shota Nakama

“Bros on the Road Unplugged Vers. (from FFXV)” – arranged by Video Game Orchestra, for the 2020 Otakucon virtual concert

Episode 38-7 One-off RPGs with Chris Wisner!

By Rhythm and Pixels on May 21, 2025 9:00 am UTC

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Video game RPGs are full of sequels, probably the most amount of sequels of any other genre. But what of those games time forgot? The games that were maybe so good a sequel wasn’t made? Or maybe too good for a sequel? We’re listening to music from RPG one-offs this week with our good friend Chris Wisner! (Musashi219 on Twitch)

Chris is taking part in RPG Limit Break, an event benefiting the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Please consider donating and check them out during the event! It starts May 18th and goes on through the 24th. More information over at https://rpglimitbreak.com

Listen to more of the show! https://rhythmandpixels.com

Consider supporting the podcast! https://patreon.com/rhythmandpixels

Episode 25-9: A Lil Somethin' Somethin'

By Game That Tune on May 20, 2025 1:00 pm UTC

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heroin gander that muzzy

We've got a shockingly low number of proverbial monsters and a perfectly normal amount of hideous creatures on this week's show! Monsters come in many shapes and sizes, but the important thing in this episode is that they come from games with awesome tunes!

Our merch store is back, now on TeePublic! Check it out and grab something absurd for you or a friend!

Join us in Discord!

Check out our Patreon page! Patreon.com/GameThatTune is the home for exclusive content! Special thanks to our ABSURD FAN tier Patreon producers: Daniel Perkey, Sam L, PhoenixTear2121, BeastPond, HCO and Spanky McMasters!

0:00:00 Welcome to Game That Tune!
0:08:55 Game 1
0:11:59 Game 1 Reveal
0:23:00 Game 2
0:31:57 Game 2 Reveal
0:43:01 Lightning Round!
0:50:31 Game 3
0:56:13 Game 3 Reveal
1:10:22 Game 4
1:16:40 Game 4 Reveal
1:31:54 This Game's Winner Is...
1:44:28 Bonus Music/Outro

[154] Pierce The Sky

By Pixel Beat on May 19, 2025 4:00 am UTC

About: An episode dedicated to those large monoliths that point towards the sky. This episode is all about tower themes.

Artwork: Lufia II: Rise Of The Sinistrals

00:00 - Tower [Lufia II]

by Yasunori Shiono >

02:16 - Through The Tower [Ragnarok Online]

by soundTeMP >

03:53 - Tundaria Tower [Golden Sun: The Lost Age]

by Motoi Sakuraba >

06:08 - Tower Of Light [Brain Lord]

by Masanao Akahori >

08:30 - Dragonspiral Tower [Pokémon Black & White]

by Shota Kageyama >

10:36 - The Crystal Tower [Final Fantasy III]

by Nobuo Uematsu >

11:46 - Tower of Four Wheels [Trails In The Sky]

by Falcom Sound Team JDK >

13:51 - Temporal Tower [Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of Sky]

by Arata Iiyoshi >

18:24 - Tower Of Wood And Crystal [Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & The Secret Hideout]

by Shinichiro Nakamura >

20:46 - Wherever You Are [MapleStory]

by Wizet >

23:47 - Rising Tower [Professor Layton and the Curious Village]

by Tomohito Nishiura >

27:20 - Heavens Tower [Final Fantasy XI]

by Naosi Mizuta >

33:16 - Of Devious Machinations [Shovel Knight]

by Jake Kaufman >

36:56 - The Gears Go Awry [Castlevania: Portrait Of Ruin]

by Yuzo Koshiro >

41:22 - The Ice Tower [The Legend Of Xanadu]

by Falcom Sound Team JDK >

42:47 - The Tower Of The Shadow Of Death [Ys I&II Chronicles]

by Falcom Sound Team JDK >

44:53 - Tower [Brandish 2]

by Falcom Sound Team JDK >

46:47 - The Inner Struggle [Shovel Knight]

by Jake Kaufman >

49:46 - Mysterious Tower [Dragon Quest VIII]

by Koichi Sugiyama >

KVGM “The Last Wave” (5/18/25)

By KVGM "The Last Wave" on May 18, 2025 4:00 pm UTC

Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.

This week, we get in a little bit of everything, from fashion design to mahjong, and everything in between, plus another special request. Keep them comin’ – the request line is always open for you (kvgmradio@gmail.com) or pop into the Discord to reach out directly (https://discord.gg/qqXcGsDN).

Playlist

Title – Solid Tune
(Poupee Girl DS 2: Elegant Mint + Sweet Pink Style, Nintendo DS)

Lovely Dating – Capriccio Project
(Cupid Parasite -Sweet & Spicy Darling.-, Nintendo Switch)

eternal sugar – Takafumi Wada
(Fault!!, PC)

Visions of Love – Tatsuya Shiina
(Musou Tourou, Sony PlayStation Portable)

Your Record – Masanao Akahori
(Final Stretch, Super Famicom

Special Suite – Yamajet
(Koikatsu Sunshine, PC)

Results – Unknown
(Nippon Pro Mahjong Renmei Kounin: Shin Tetsuman, Sony PlayStation)

Lounge 3 – Unknown
(Hollywood Files: Deadly Intrigues, Nintendo DS)

Daily Life – KIM’s SOUNDROOM
(Gigolo, PC)

Let’s Start with Christmas – C MUSIC Professional Library
(Sayaka, FM Towns)

Special Request

Dialogue 3 – Kazuhiko Uehara
(International Superstar Soccer 2000, Nintendo 64)

Level 164: Game & Watch Gallery 2

By The Messenger Presents a VGM Journey on May 18, 2025 12:38 pm UTC

Composed by Noriko Nishizaka, Yoko Mizuta, Saburo Sasaki

Track Listing

Title Screen

Parachute

Helmet Level 1

Chef

Vermin

Donkey Kong

Ball

Check out the Discord!!! https://discord.gg/m4e6xmtrft

Episode 172: Terraria

By RE-VGM on May 16, 2025 7:03 am UTC

The Episodes Terraria vgm

Today, we celebrate the Microsoft Windows release of Terraria, on May 16th, 2011. A 2D action-adventure sandbox game, Terraria contains several RPG elements with its 16-bit world. You’ll explore several biomes or environments, discover and gather resources for crafting, and build your shelter, equipment, and items to help you explore deeper and fight harder enemies and bosses. You can also attract certain NPCs that can offer services or sell special items to you.

For this week’s episode, we’re playing several tracks from the game, composed by Scott Lloyd Shelly, along with covers and remixes to follow each track.

Prepare for adventure as you listen to these tracks…

Terraria

Track Listing
All original tracks were composed by Scott Lloyd Shelly

Intro and BGM: “Title Screen”

“Overworld Day”

“Terraria – Overworld Day (SkippyZii Remix)”- remixed by SkippyZii

“Overworld Night”

“Terraria – Overworld Night (Remix)” – remixed by DJMykah

“Underground”

“Underground Synthwave Remix by Zaxiade || TERRARIA 1.4” – remixed by Zaxiade

“Corruption”

“Terraria – Corruption [Remix]” – remixed by Qumu

“Boss 1”

“Boss 1 Aaron’s Remix (Terraria)” – remixed by Aaron Daniel

Outro: “Dungeon Remix | Terraria, Dungeon Theme Orchestra Ensemble Cover | Terraria OST” – composed by Scott Lloyd Shelly, covered by MXFC (Mix Calibur Fan Club)

Viper’s VGMture – S09 – Above-Average April (14 May 2025)

By Viper's VGMture on May 14, 2025 9:00 pm UTC

Who knew that April 2025 would end up being such a stacked month for us in gaming? Join Viper as we look back on everything that happened to our backlogs during the carnage.

TRACKLISTING:
00:00:00 Donkey Kong Country Returns (Donkey Kong Returns) - Donkey Kong Country Returns
00:03:04 Mario Kart 8 - Dolphin Shoals (On Dry Land)
00:06:00 Welcome to Viper's VGMture
00:10:46 Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft - Main Theme
00:12:49 Katamari Damacy Rolling LIVE - SUTEKINANOKADEPARADE
00:17:14 You're Listening to Viper's VGMture
00:36:13 Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire - Battle! (Brendan/May)
00:38:17 DELTARUNE Chapter 1 - Chaos King
00:40:03 This is Viper's VGMture
00:49:27 Donkey Kong Country Returns (Donkey Kong Returns) - Gear Getaway
00:53:15 DELTARUNE Chapter 2 - BIG SHOT
00:55:35 Thanks for Listening!
00:58:30 Katamari Damacy Rolling LIVE - Katamari on the Dream

R&P Chat 38-7 Limit Breaking 2: Electric Boogaloo with Chris Wisner!

By Rhythm and Pixels on May 14, 2025 2:40 pm UTC

rhythm and pixels World 38 musashi219 RPGLimitBreak

It’s like a fireside chat, except we’re concerned about fire and we only talk about video games. And sometimes soup, and sometimes what Pernell is drinking during the podcast. Which is usually soup. Joining us in the hot (not quite on fire) seat this week is none other than THE WISE GUY himself: Chris Wisner! Musashi219 on Twitch! We’re chatting about our favorite RPG memories, video game conventions, and more!

Chris is taking part in RPG Limit Break, an event benefiting the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Please consider donating and check them out during the event! It starts May 18th and goes on through the 24th. More information over at https://rpglimitbreak.com

Listen to more of the show! https://rhythmandpixels.com

Consider supporting the podcast! https://patreon.com/rhythmandpixels

WaveBack Episode 185: Wizards & Warriors

By WaveBack Music Podcast on May 14, 2025 4:00 am UTC

Show Notes

For Matt’s pick this month, he chose the NES classic Wizards & Warriors.

Useful Links

Social Stuff

Rebroadcast: Konami

By Super Marcato Bros on May 11, 2025 6:03 pm UTC

Episodes

For this "Rebroadcast", Karl & Will share their episode originally released way back in September of 2013- "Konami (#77)!" Enjoy this blast from the past, where the guys explored and shared some of the best music from Konami games!

Super C - Hidenori Maezawa - Konami - NES - 1988 -Area 4 & 7

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Michiru Yamane - Konami - Playstation - 1997 -Marble Gallery

Salamander - Miki Higashino - Konami - Arcade - 1986 -Thunderbolt

Rocket Knight Adventures -Masanori Oouchi, Aki Hata, Michiru Yamane & Masanori Adachi - Konami - Genesis - 1993 -Stage 1-1

Nemesis 3: The Eve of Destruction - Michiru Yamane, Kazuhiko Uehara, Motoaki Furukawa & Yukie Morimoto - Konami - MSX - 1987 -Give My Heart to You

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse - Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto - Konami - NES - 1989 -Riddle

Policenauts - Tappi Iwase, Masahiro Ikariko & Motoaki Furukawa - Konami - Playstation - 1996 -End of the Dark

Gradius II -Shinji Tasaka, Motoaki Furukawa, Kenichi Matsubara & Seiichi Fukami - Konami - Arcade - 1988 -Synthetic Life

Sparkster - Kazuhiko Uehara, Masahiro Ikariko, Minako Matsuhira, Michiru Yamane & Akira Yamaoka - Konami - Super NES - 1994 -Ending (Part 2)

Pop'n Music 12 -Tomoyuki Uchida & Hiroyuki Uchida - Konami - PS2 - 2006 -Magical Voice Shower

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - Michiru Yamane, Norikazu Miura, Yuzo Koshiro - Konami - DS - 2006 -Invitation of a Crazed Moon

Silent Hill 2 - Akira Yamaoka - Konami - PS2 - 2001 -True

Metal Gear Solid -Rika Muranaka & Aoife Ní Fhearraigh - Konami - Playstation/PC - 1998 -The Best is Yet to Come

Operation C - Hidehiro Funauchi - Konami - Game Boy - 1991 -Ending Theme

Biker Mice From Mars - Keroppi Inoue, Nobuyuki Akena - Konami - Super NES - 1994 -Staff

Castlevania Legends - Kaoru Okada & Youichi Iwata - Konami - Game Boy - 1997 -Boss Battle

Goemon's Great Adventure - Hirotaka Kurita, Nobuyuki Akena & Shigeru Araki - Konami - N64 - 1998 -Underground Paradise

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow - Michuru Yamane, Masahiko Kimura - Konami - DS - 2005 -Cursed Clock Tower

Play In: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time - Mutsuhiko Izumi - Konami - Arcade - 1991-Sewer Surfin'

Play Out: X-Men: The Arcade Game - Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano - Konami - Arcade - 1992-Junk Factory

Episode 171: Europe Day

By RE-VGM on May 9, 2025 7:03 am UTC

The Episodes Europe Day Remember Me Syberia The House of the Dead vgm

Today we’re celebrating Europe Day… wait, wasn’t Europe Day on May 5th?

Yes, and yes, but hear me out.

This date for Europe Day, May 9th, celebrates the Schuman Declaration, established on May 9, 1950, between France and Germany to pool their resources in coal and steel, so as to make war impossible between themselves. Later, in 1993, the partnership has led the foundation of the European Union, to ensure economic synergy and political cooperation.

Now, as for May 5th, that date was when the Council of Europe was founded in 1949 to be an observer of established standards of government and to provide technical support for these standards.

So, I suppose this is a double-celebration of Europe Day.

We’ll be playing tracks from video games that take place in Europe: a search for a long-lost relative to finalize the takeover of a family-run toy factory, a “house” that has become a laboratory of the dead, and hunter who can remix memories as needed. Of course, there will be covers and remixes to follow these original tracks.

Fly the flag of your favorite European country, enjoy some European treats, and enjoy these tracks…

Europe Day

Track Listing

“Main Theme” – [Syberia] – composed by Nicholas Varley, Dmitri Bodiansky

“Valadilene – Syberia [Piano Arrangement] – rearranged by Walk the Key

“Theme of The Magician” – [The House of the Dead] – composed by Tetsuya Kawauchi

“The House of the Dead – Magician’s Theme | Rock Metal Guitar Cover” – covered by Kris Di’Kascos Music

“Fragments” – [Remember Me] – composed by Olivier Deriviere

“Fragments (Toneless Bombast Remix)” – remixed by Toneless Bombast

[Ch 1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E95: VibeOff Vrijdag”

By Nerd Noise Radio on May 9, 2025 6:00 am UTC

Today’s broadcast is C1E95 for VibeOff Vrijdag, May 9th, 2025. Today’s broadcast will be a one-time-only special twist on a FaceOff Friday, where, instead of comparing different versions of the same track against each other, we're comparing pairs (and occasionally trios) of different songs against each other which either have similar movements, or melodies, or instrumentation, or simply just vibes and asking you, the listener to not only tell us which one you like better, but whether or not the comparisons are even valid, and how strongly or weakly if so. So, in lieu of an 8th and final FaceOff Friday episode, Nerd Noise Radio is pleased to present: VibeOff Vrijdag (Vrijdag = the Dutch word for Friday). See the show notes for a link to a document which will allow you to grade me on these comparisons if you so choose!

Tracklist: Vibe-Off# - Timestamps

Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer - Timestamp

Intro - 00:00:00

VIBE-OFF A: 00:06:25 - 00:14:12

1) Mission 2 – Double Dragon II – Mega Drive – c: Kazunaka Yamane / a: Hitoshi Sakimoto – 00:06:25

2) The Mall - Skate or Die 2 – NES – Rob Hubbard – 00:08:52

3) Surface of SR388 - Metroid 2 – Game Boy - Ryōji Yoshitomi – 00:12:00

VIBE-OFF B: 00:14:12 – 00:17:23

1) Springfield Butte - The Simpsons – Arcade – Norio Hanzawa – 00:14:12

2) Evil Dante - Cratermaze – TG16 – c: Kenji Yoshida and/or Hiroshi Funaba / a: Toshiaki Takimoto, Katsunori Takahashi, Takayuki Iwabuchi, and/or Keita Hoshi – 00:15:44

VIBE-OFF C: 00:17:23 – 00:20:56

1) BGM 2 – Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf – Genesis - Tokuhiko Uwabo – 00:17:23

2) Results Parade – Check Mii Out Channel – Wii – Kazumi Totaka – 00:18:53

VIBE-OFF D: 00:20:56 – 00:25:47

1) Boss – Black Belt – Master System – Katsuhiro Hayashi – 00:20:56

2) Wily's Castle 1 – Mega Man 2 – NES – Takashi Tateishi – 00:23:16

VIBE-OFF E: 00:25:47 – 00:28:08

1) Promoted Attack – Shining Force II – Genesis - Motoaki Takenouchi – 00:25:47

2) Course Select – Star Fox – SNES - Hajime Hirasawa – 00:26:58

VIBE-OFF F: 00:28:05 – 00:33:12

1) Stage 5-2 – Rocket Knight Adventures – Genesis - Masanori Ohuchi, Aki Hata, Masanori Adachi, Hiroshi Kobayashi, and/or Michiru Yamane – 00:28:05

2) Mellow Groove – ToeJam & Earl: Panic on Funkotron – Genesis – John Baker – 00:31:26

VIBE-OFF G: 00:33:12 – 00:39:19

1) Dilapidated Town – Streets of Rage – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro – 00:33:12

2) Blue Blue Moon – Super Adventure Island – SNES – Yuzo Koshiro – 00:36:37

VIBE-OFF H: 00:39:19 – 00:46:41

1) Aqua and Trees – Tobal No. 1 – PS1 - Masashi Hamauzu, Junya Nakano, Yasuhiro Kawakami, Kenji Ito, and/or Ryuji Sasai – 00:39:19

2) Rikuo – Night Warriors – Darkstalkers' Revenge – Multiplatform - Takayuki Iwai, Hideki Okugawa, and/or Akari Kaida – 00:42:24

3) Gong Shun Sheng – Dark Legend – Saturn – c: Shogo Sakai, Taihei Sato, Hiroaki Yoshida, and/or Tatsuya Kiuchi / a: Seiichi Hamada – 00:44:07

VIBE-OFF I: 00:46:41 – 00:50:02

1) Tetramix A – Tetris (SEGA) - Arcade – Yasuhiro Kawakami and/or Katsumi Tojo – 00:46:41

2) Stage 1-4 – Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine – Genesis - Masanori Hikichi, and/or Masayuki Nagao – 00:48:26

VIBE-OFF J: 00:50:02 – 00:53:49

1) Float Islands – Kirby Super Star – SNES - Jun Ishikawa, and/or Dan Miyakawa – 00:50:02

2) Frappe Snowland / Sherbet Land – Mario Kart 64 – N64 - Kenta Nagata – 00:51:32

VIBE-OFF K: 00:53:49 – 00:59:02

1) Main Theme – Space Harrier – Master System – c: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / a: Tokuhiko Uwabo - 00:53:49

2) Elec Man – Mega Man – NES - Manami Matsumae and/or Yoshihiro Sakaguchi – 00:56:57

VIBE-OFF L: 00:59:02 – 01:01:59

1) Battle Through a Living Starship – Uncanny X-Men – NES - Kinuyo Yamashita and/or Satoe Terashima – 00:59:02

2) Stage Theme 2 – Wrath of the Black Manta – NES - Yoki Shinjyuku – 01:00:49

VIBE-OFF M: 01:01:59 – 01:05:52

1) Temple – Spellcaster – Master System - Sachio Ogawa – 01:01:59

2) Gemini Man – Mega Man 3 – NES – Yasuaki Fujita – 01:03:54

VIBE-OFF N: 01:05:52 – 01:09:45

1) Siberia (generic) - X-Men 2 – Genesis – Kurt Harland – 01:05:52

2) Do The Right Thing – X-Men – Arcade - Yuji Takenouchi – 01:07:44

VIBE-OFF O: 01:09:45 – 01:13:50

1) Deamon Stage – Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – 01:09:45

2) Expander – Streets of Rage 2 – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima – 01:11:26

VIBE-OFF P: 01:13:50 – 01:18:52

1) Bulldozer – Streets of Rage 3 – Genesis – Motohiro Kawashima and/or Yuzo Koshiro – 01:13:50

2) Loud Music – Stray – Multiplatform – Jan van der Cruyssen – 01:16:17

VIBE-OFF Q: 01:18:52 – 01:31:47

1) Outlaw – n++ - Multiplatform – Volor Flex – 01:18:52

2) UK Race 2 – Trickstyle – Dreamcast / PC – Richard Beddow – 01:24:10

3) Japanese Four Star – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes – 01:27:04

VIBE-OFF R: 01:31:47 – 01:37:27

1) Buy Mode 1 – The Sims – PC – Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo – 01:31:47

2) Cobleston: Nestled in the Hills – Octopath Traveller – Multiplatform - Yasunori Nishiki – 01:34:26

VIBE-OFF S: 01:37:27 – 01:44:27

1) The Hunter's Repose – Moryou Senki Madara 2 – Super Famicom - Tappi Iwase, Miki Higashino, Hirofumi Taniguchi, and/or Aki Hata – 01:37:27

2) Fishing for Seema – Tsuri Tarou – Super Famicom - Katsuhiro Hayashi – 01:39:45

3) Milky Lake – Wave Race 64 – N64 – Kazumi Totaka – 01:41:58

Outro - 01:44:27

Music Block Runtime: 01:38:03 / Total Episode Runtime: 01:58:24

Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.

NOTE: Here is the link to the document that you can use to "grade me" on the quality of these contests: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vCVpihaTDXeXOHd3ox44Vn7oW_q7_bX1mNFso0CzqMA/edit?usp=sharing

Also, Bonus: PROOF that Van Halen is actually pronounced "Fon Hollan": a 1990 Dutch language interview with the Van Halen brothers, which includes, among other things, them all making fun of us for pronouncing it "Van Haylen": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze7gMsBNp8Q

Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Workstation Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) laptop with perhaps a little support from a Dell Latitude 7480 (running Fedora COSMIC Linux), a 2017-spec DIY gaming PC (running Bazzite Linux) or the Steam Deck (running Steam OS Linux). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!

You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.

Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:

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But frankly, probably the absolute best way you can connect with us is on our new Discord Channel: "Nerd Noise Radio – Channel D", which includes various sub-channels for all sorts of different types of connection and conversation: https://discord.gg/GUWdaXUw

Thanks for listening! Join us again in June for C1E96 (Channel 1, Episode 96): Subject TBD - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!

Cheers!

Shinobi & Nightshade

By barSILENCE on May 6, 2025 12:08 pm UTC

[Episode 39] This month, barSILENCE is dashing across rooftops and slicing through the shadows with the pulse-pounding beats of Shinobi and Nightshade for the PlayStation 2.

2002’s Shinobi introduced us to the relentless, vengeance-driven Hotsuma, and 2004’s Nightshade passed the blade to Hibana, a fierce ninja with her own score to settle. With blazing speed, brutal difficulty, a sleek near-future look, and a killer soundtrack, these stylish action games brought Sega’s classic ninja franchise into the 3D era.

Prepare for an audio mission through shadows, steel, and synths in Tokyo!

Je te dédie ça Elliot

Tracklisting:

00:00:00 - Patience (Shinobi) [Yutaka Minobe]

00:01:39 - Intro and Shinobi

00:07:32 - Transfiguration (Shinobi) [Tatsuyuki Maeda]

00:11:07 - Moritsune (Shinobi) [Tatsuyuki Maeda]

00:15:43 - Waiting Place (Shinobi) [Tatsuyuki Maeda]

00:20:00 - Destroyed by Fire (Shinobi) [Fumie Kumatani]

00:24:02 - Strange Device (Shinobi) [Fumie Kumatani]

00:27:47 - Red Blade (Shinobi) [Fumie Kumatani]

00:31:26 - Golden Castle (Shinobi) [Teruhiko Nakagawa]

00:35:14 - Nightshade

00:39:22 - Conspiracy Bottomless (Nightshade) [Tomonori Sawada]

00:40:14 - Ascetic Practice (Nightshade) [Masaru Setsumaru]

00:41:45 - Overcome Speed (Nightshade) [Keiichi Sugiyama]

00:45:43 - Skyscraper Tokyo (Nightshade) [Keiichi Sugiyama]

00:49:39 - Dark Kingdom (Nightshade) [Tomonori Sawada]

00:53:16 - Heart Settle (Nightshade) [Fumie Kumatani]

00:54:38 - Apparition Sovereign (Nightshade) [Tomonori Sawada]

00:58:17 - Impossible Maze (Nightshade) [Yutaka Minobe]

01:02:43 - Monochrome Arch (Nightshade) [Tomonori Sawada]

01:06:03 - Iron Will (Nightshade) [Tomonori Sawada]

01:08:24 - Iron Shogun (Nightshade) [Tomonori Sawada]

01:11:55 - Outro & Final Track

01:13:51 - Kan-Ei-Ji Neo (Nightshade) [Teruhiko Nakagawa]

barSILENCE is a monthly podcast crafted to celebrate and explore the best video game music in the world! You’re here because you enjoy the same thing that I do, and I am grateful for that.

If you want to become a member of the Legion of VGM, consider subscribing to the show on Patreon! As a thank you for subscribing, you can access all 20 episodes of the Bonus Beats podcast! Click here to learn more!

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KVGM “The Last Wave” (5/4/25)

By KVGM "The Last Wave" on May 4, 2025 4:00 pm UTC

Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.

April showers bring May flowers…and more jams, everything from the X68000 to the PlayStation 5. We’ve got robots, detectives, soccer, and of course, dirty visual novels for the dirt birds up in the trees.

Playlist

GentleBreezeOnSunset – Yusuke Toyama
(Maid Quest, Sharp X68000)

Faraway Sound, Nearby Voice – Radio Shousui
(Prawf Clwyd, PC)

Players – Kenichi Sudo
(Getter Robo Daikessen!, Sony PlayStation)

Double Faced – Seiichi Hamada
(Jake Hunter Detective Story: Prism of Eyes, Nintendo Switch)

Leisure – Noah Huang
(Mato Anomalies, Sony PlayStation 5)

Gazing Eyes, Gazing Red – ALVINE
(Kizuna Kirameku Koi Iroha, Sony PlayStation 4)

On the Pitch – T’s Music
(Soccer Life 2, Sony PlayStation 2)

Main Menu – Unknown
(Rakushou! Pachi-Slot Sengen 2: Juujika, Deka Dan, Sony PlayStation 2)

Chasing the Image – Xelfery
(Cyanotype Daydream: The Girl Who Dreamed the World, Nintendo Switch)

Staff Roll – Eurhythm and Kenichi Fuiji
(Honkaku Mahjong: Tetsuman II, Super Famicom)

Special Request

Cool Martian – Big Sound Music
(Pinballistik, Sony PlayStation 3)

Level 163: Game & Watch Gallery

By The Messenger Presents a VGM Journey on May 4, 2025 12:26 pm UTC

Composed by Jun Sugita and Yoko Mizuta

Track Listing

Title Theme

Manhole

Fire

Octopus

Oil Panic

Ending

Check out the Discord!!! https://discord.gg/m4e6xmtrft

Hey We Moved

By VGM Fight Club on May 4, 2025 6:25 am UTC

https://senpaisplaylist.podbean.com/e/senpais-playlist-episode-8x08-the-return-or-go-play-clair-obscur-expedition-33/

Thank for all the support people

Episode 170: The Final Frontier (National Space Day)

By RE-VGM on May 2, 2025 7:03 am UTC

The Episodes Honkai: Star Rail Kerbal Space Program National Space Day space Starcraft vgm

Space… the final frontier. A place seen as void of life yet it holds a certain mood of curiosity. It has stirred many to advance the sciences for possible exploration and discovery.

And today we’re celebrating National Space Day, on May 2nd. This day, originally created by Lockheed Martin as Space Day, was meant to encourage students to think about a career in the aerospace industry. Later, John Glenn, a former astronaut and U.S. senator, changed the name to National Space Day.

We’ll be playing tracks from video games that explore or take place in space: a war between three different species, a group of Kerbals eager to leave their planet’s gravity, and passengers of an interstellar railway. There’ll also be covers to follow.

So, prepare to leave the confine’s of Earth’s gravity and explore the unknown stars of the galaxy.

Track Listing

“Space the Final Frontier” – from the Paramount Archives, spoken by William Shatner, remastered by Ralph Miller

“Terran Theme 1” – [Starcraft] – composed by Glenn Stafford

“Starcraft 1 OST – Terran Theme [Metal Cover by ProgMuz] – covered by ProgMuz

“Kerbal Space Program Theme Song” – [Kerbal Space Program] – composed by Felipe Flanghe, arranged by Machado

“KSP – Epic Metal Theme Song” – covered by Boundless Dynamics

“Interstellar Journey” – [Honkai: Star Rail] – composed by Eli.W and Dimeng Yuan of HOYO-MiX, vocals by Lea Sirk

“Interstellar Journey (Rock Extended Cover) ft. @Traceco | Honkai: Star Rail” – covered by Shep, vocals by Traceco

Episode 61 - Cooler Glasses, Cooler Glasses: Cool Glasses, Cool Glasses 2

By Shujin Academy VGM Club on May 1, 2025 11:04 am UTC

We’re back to the vibe zone with another episode full of cool, groovy hangout music. Make yourself a good drink and enjoy this one.

Special thanks for this episode goes out to:

Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.
Tom and Reese (and their guest Boin) from fellow VGM podcast CRT Soundsystem for introducing me to the City Hunter soundtrack. You can find that episode of CRT Soundsystem at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/061-sunsoft-w-boin/id1649128722?i=1000696692814 and you can also follow them on Patreon, BlueSky, and elsewhere on the internets.
BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.

If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. All episodes of the show are posted to my YouTube channel, which you can find by searching for Shujin Academy VGM Club. You can email me at shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com. Links to everything are available on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on 8beats.co, the internet's number one game music radio station. My show is also featured on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there. Finally, if you just can’t get enough of me, I’m also voicing esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can hear on Spotify and FGC Radio.

Track Listing:

00:00 - Show Tagline

00:05 - Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2 - Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon (PS2) - Everyday Detective Agency (composer: Shoji Meguro)

01:11 - Talk Segment 1

04:10 - Persona 3 Portable (PSP) - A Way of Life (composer: Shoji Meguro)

06:26 - Emerald Dragon (Super Famicom) - Caverns and Forests (composer: Yasuhiko Fukuda)

10:00 - San Francisco Rush 2049 (N64) - Night (composer: Barry Leitch)

14:43 - Pictionary (NES) - Move Piece (composer: Tim Follin)

16:10 - Galactic Pinball (Virtual Boy) - Alien (composers: Kenji Yamamoto, Masaru Tajima)

18:50 - Talk Segment 2

22:47 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit (NES) - City Park (composer: David Wise)

22:54 - Milon’s Secret Castle (NES) - Outside Castle (composer: Takeaki Kunimoto)

26:30 - The Shinri Game 2: Magical Trip (Super Famicom) - Main Menu (composer: Kenji Yamazaki)

28:30 - City Hunter (TG16) - Mission 1: Gone with the Beauty (composer: Masashi Kageyama)

30:12 - King of Fighters XI (PS2) - Arashi no Saxophone ~KOF XI~ (composer: Masahiko Hataya; arranged by Koji Takata, Masuo Okumura, and Masanori Kuki)

33:19 - R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 (PSX) - PEARL BLUE SOUL (composer: Hiroshi Okubo)

36:45 - Talk Segment 3

40:52 - 1943 Kai (PC Engine) - Air Battle B (Round 2, 5) (composers: Kumi Yamaga, Tamayo Kawamoto, Harumi Fujita, Junko Tamiya, Manami Matsumae, Takashi Tateishi, and Hiroshige Tonomura; arranged for the PC Engine by Hisashi Matsushita and Daisuke Morishima)

43:08 - Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge (NES) - 05 (composer: Neil Baldwin)

46:05 - Persona 5 Strikers (Multiplatform) - Vacation (composer: Atsushi Kitajoh)

48:31 - Streets of Rage (Genesis) - Beatnik on the Ship (composer: Yuzo Koshiro)

52:47 - Black Bird: Toritachi no Tooboe (PC-98) - Explorers (composer: unknown)

55:07 - Outro Talk Segment

57:22 - Cyber Police ESWAT (Arcade) - Ending (composer: Yasuhiro Kawakami)

[153] Super Smashed Arrangements Vol. 4

By Pixel Beat on May 1, 2025 10:00 am UTC

About: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is truly a ‘one-in-a-lifetime’ game that combines the legacies of so many video game properties into one, for lack of a better word, ultimate package. It’s almost unbelievable how many video game series’ are represented, especially through the games music, which includes a whopping 1018 songs! All of this episodes tracks are new arrangements, made specifically for the Smash Bros. series, and are all featured in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

00:00 - Vega Stage

Arrangement by Yoko Shimomura >

03:51 - Seaskape

Arrangement by Hirokazu Tanaka >

06:28 - Beginning

Arrangement by Kenji Ito >

09:57 - Battle! (Wild Pokémon from Diamond/Pearl)

Arrangement by Koji Hayama >

13:36 - Wood Man Stage

Arrangement by Motoi Sakuraba >

16:38 - Style Savvy: Trendsetters

Arrangement by Ryo Watanabe >

20:13 - Yoshi’s Island

Arrangement by Yoshihito Yano >

23:32 - Aloneness

Arrangement by Yu Sugimoto >

26:11 - Ice Man Stage

Arrangement by Yasushi Asada >

29:34 - Aria Of The Soul

Arrangement by Mitsuhiro Kitadami >

33:01 - Light Plane

Arrangement by Noriyuki Iwadare >

35:53 - Training Menu - Wii Fit U

Arrangement by Hiroki Morishita >

39:10 - Mega Man 4 Medley

Arrangement by Jun Senoue >

41:58 - Lost In Thoughts All Alone

Arrangement by Masato Kouda >

46:17 - Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Medley

Arrangement by ACE >

49:15 - MEGALOVANIA

Arrangement by Toby Fox >

https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/ch-1-noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e83-parallels/

[RERUNS] C1E4: TwoFer Tuesday - vol. 1 (orig. rel. 02/21/2017 - see 2025 show notes amendment!)

By Nerd Noise Radio on Apr 30, 2025 3:53 pm UTC

2025 Show Notes Amendment: I love the setup we have here where on the first day of the month, we released our final ever TwoFer Tuesday, and now, here at the last day of the month, we re-release our first ever TwoFer Tuesday! It feels like a wonder twist on "bookends". As always when re-running early episodes, please excuse the atrocious production quality. One of my favorite things looking back on the early episodes of the show is how "different, yet the same" they are. From a sound quality perspective, the differences are night and day in every aspect. But in terms of show format and events, other than missing the now customary summary introduction, and the fact that they've gradually gotten longer over the years, it's the same darned show that it's always been. And what the early episodes lack in polish and finesse and technique and maturity, they somewhat make up for in youthful exuberance and wide-eyed optimism, and a simply innocent fun. You've heard the latest and greatest of TwoFer Tuesday this month, now hear the awkward first baby steps!....different....yet the same.... Lastly, I had toyed with the idea of doing three reruns this month - today's rerun, as well as the two highlighted April Fool's episodes: 2020's "Backtracks" (where all the tracks played in reverse), and 2024's "Parallels" (where all the tracks played over top of each other all at once). But I had procrastinated, and now it's the last day of the month, and it would simply obscene of me to upload three reruns in one day. So the compromise that I settled on was to include links to them here in the show notes, in case you wanted to revisit them (or perhaps experience them for the first time). So, here are the links, Backtracks first, then Parallels. In terms of production value, Backtracks is dramatically better than today's rerun, but also dramatically lesser than our current works, whereas Parallels is very close to our current level of production : https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e52-backtracks/

And now, the [otherwise unmodified] original episode shownotes! Enjoy! -------------------------------------------------------------------

Today’s broadcast is Episode 4 for TwoFer Tuesday, February 21st, 2017 on a program we’re calling “TwoFer Tuesday, Vol. 1”

Tracklist - Track#, Game, System, Composer, Track Names, Timestamp:

01: Intro - 00:00:00

02: ChipChan-Kick - PCFX - Yoshio Furakawa, Masahara Iwata, and Hitoshi Sakamoto

a) Stage 1 - 00:01:46

b) Stage 4 - 00:05:00

03: Trickstyle - Dreamcast - Richard Beddow

a) USA Race 1 - 00:07:04

b) USA Race 4 - 00:10:54

04: Alien 3 - SNES - Steve Collett

a) Destroy the Eggs - 00:14:04

b) Collect Deliver and Steal - 00:15:11

05: Super Smash Bros Brawl - Wii

a) Tunnel (X) - composed) Kazumi Totaka / arranged) Yusuke Takahama - 00:17:10

b) Marionation Gear - composed and arranged) Masafumi Takada - 00:20:08

06: LED Storm - C64 - Tim Follin

a) Music 3 - 00:22:43

b) Name Entry - 00:25:13

07: Final Fantasy X - PS2 - Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzo, Junya Nakano

a) Challenge - 00:27:58

b) People of the Far North - 00:30:45

08: Dick Tracy - Genesis - Takayuki Nakamura

a) Train Yard - 00:32:55

b) Warehouse - 00:34:25

09: Ninja Gaiden 2 - NES - Ryuichi Nitta, Mayuko Okamura

a) Stage 2-2 - 00:36:24

b) Stage 5-2 - 00:37:39

10: Lovely Planet - Multi Platform - Calum Bowen

a) Lovely City - 00:38:58

b) Lovely Village - 00:41:32

11: Magician Lord - NEO GEO - Hiroyuki Shimizu, Yuka Watanabe, Hideki Yamamoto

a) Stage 2 - 00:44:18

b) Stage 4 - 00:46:43

12: Zelda Twilight Princess - GC/Wii - Toru Minegishi, Asuka Ota

a) Twilight Palace (outside) - 00:48:29

b) After the Battle - 00:51:24

13: Psychosis - TG16 - Atsuhiro Motoyama

a) 1st Cause - 00:53:40

b) 4th Cause - 00:54:58

14: Outlaws of the Lost Dynasty (Dark Legend) - Multi - Seiichi Hamada

a) Gong Shun Sheng - 00:56:46

b) Ruan Xian Wu - 00:59:18

15: Cosmic Carnage - 32X - Hikoshi Hashimoto

a) Cylic (Heavy Armor) - 01:01:26

b) Zena Lan (Heavy Armor) - 01:03:34

16: Sims - PC - Jerry Martin

a) Buying Lumber (Build 2) - 01:05:18

b) Martinis for Two (Latin 2) - 01:10:17

17: Outro - 01:16:42

Music Block Runtime: 01:14:58, Total Episode Runtime: 01:23:09

Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights

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Malibu Bikini Volleyball – PA198

By Pixelated Audio on Apr 29, 2025 2:02 pm UTC

Episodes Atari Epyx Hand Made Software Lynx Paul Tonge Software Creations Sound Images Tony Williams

Our show takes us back in time to the pleasant summer vibes of Malibu Bikini Volleyball, a no-frill sports game released in 1993 for the underdog Atari Lynx handheld, developed by Hand Made Software and composed by Paul Tonge. Hand Made Software was a boutique first- (or second-) party game developer that produced original games… Read More » The post Malibu Bikini Volleyball – PA198 first appeared on Pixelated Audio.

Episode 25-8: Pope Pizzaballa's Taco Bell Express

By Game That Tune on Apr 29, 2025 12:30 pm UTC

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God plays a massive role in all our lives on a daily basis, but never more importantly than when a game features a prominent god character or lets you play as god. Let us bow our heads in solemn VGM worship as we take a listen to some of our favorite god games and possibly select a new pope in the process!

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0:00:00 Welcome to Game That Tune!
0:07:12 Game 1
0:11:04 Game 1 Reveal
0:25:45 Game 2
0:32:28 Game 2 Reveal
0:49:30 Game 3
0:56:37 Game 3 Reveal
1:11:25 Game 4
1:23:23 Game 4 Reveal
1:39:28 This Game's Winner Is...
1:50:15 Bonus Music/Outro

Q&A: Guiding Bach, Our Wives Rock, Mending Music

By Super Marcato Bros on Apr 27, 2025 9:44 pm UTC

Episodes

In this laidback episode, Karl & Will answer some fun listener questions, play another round of their signature version of Name That Tune, and more!

Karl Brueggemann - High Flyer 2 - Saturday in Igloo Town

Will Brueggemann - Super Star Squadron 2 - Squadron, Assemble!

--Background music tracklist--

-Selections from Out Run

-Selections from Out Runners

-Selections from Super Hang-On

-Selections from Racing Hero

-Play In: Jurassic Park - Hi-Score Theme

-Play Out: Racing Hero - Name Entry

Episode 169: On Stage Now – TeraCMusic

By RE-VGM on Apr 25, 2025 7:03 am UTC

The Episodes TeraCMusic vgm

The end of April nears, which means it’s time for our special episode of “On Stage Now”. This month, we’re featuring TeraCMusic.

TeraCMusic is a musician who’s covers are mostly done in string or with vocals. She learned to play the piano and violin at a young age, though she has also added the guitar and violia. With re-imagined and re-invented arrangements, her inspiration comes from several composers, including Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda, and Koji Kondo. She has also collaborated with other musicians online (such as Lionmight, aka String Player Gamer). She hopes to one day compose music for a video game.

Prepare to listen to her serenade with her violin and entrance you with her lovely voice.

TeraCMusic (Personal website, YT, Facebook, Instagram, X, Spotify, BC, Patreon)

Track Listing

“Boneyard – COD MW2 (electric violin cover)” – [Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2] – composed by Lorne Balfe

“Harvest Moon: Tale of Two Towns “Fall Theme” Violin Cover” – [Harvest Moon: Tale of Two Towns] – composed by Hiroshi Nakajima, Eri Yasuda, Ryou Kinugasa, Kengo Hagiwara

“Singing Cover – Tsuki NO Akari (FFIV)” – [Final Fantasy IV] – composed by Nobuo Uematsu

“Chrono Cross: Garden of the Gods ft. The String Player Gamer” – [Chrono Cross] – composed by Yasunori Mitsuda

“Fire Emblem Awakening Cover: And what if I can’t?… – TeraCMusic” – [Fire Emblem: Awakening] – composed by Hiroki Morishita, Rei Kondoh

“Final Fantasy X: To Zanarkand Cover – TeraCMusic” – [Final Fantasy X] – composed by Nobuo Uematsu

“Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Garfront Mercenaries (Night) Violin Cover | TeraCMusic” – [Xenoblade Chronicles 2] – composed by Kenji Hiramatsu

“Secret of Mana: Spirit of the Night Cover | TeraCMusic ft. Julia Henderson” – [Secret of Mana] – composed by Hiroku Kikuta

“Chrono Trigger” Schala’s Theme Cover | TeraCMusic” – [Chrono Trigger] – composed by Yasunori Mitsuda

“Final Fantasy VII: Flowers Blooming in the Church Cover” – [Final Fantasy VII] – composed by Nobuo Uematsu

“The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures – Beyond Deduction’s Logic | TeraCMusic ft. Chromatic Apparatus” – [The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures] – composed by Hiromitsu Maeba

“Animal Crossing: Steep Hill Cover | TeraCMusic ft. Moise Nieto” – [Animal Crossing] – composed by Kazumi Totaka, Shiho Fuji

Outro: “Hollow Knight – String and Piano Cover” – [Hollow Knight] – composed by Christopher Larkin

[Ch 1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E94: Jackbox Jukebox”

By Nerd Noise Radio on Apr 24, 2025 5:03 am UTC

Today’s broadcast is C1E94 for Theme Thursday, April 24th, 2025 (Switch 2 pre-order day.....take 2......we hope!). Today’s broadcast is a celebration of the music from the various mainline installments of the Jackbox Party Pack – the greatest "social lubricant" in the history of video games - and the longest run-time [quote] "ordinary" Channel 1 episode in Nerd Noise Radio history, So, buckle up for nearly 2 ½ hours of the sweet sweet sounds which have made family gatherings and other social events so survivable!

Tracklist!

Track # / Party Pack # / Track Name / Minigame / Composer(s) / Timestamp

B1) Intro - 00:00:00

01) PP04 - Lobby - Monster Seeking Monster - Andy Poland - 00:05:16

02) PP01 - Theme - You Don’t Know Jack 2015 - Andy Poland - 00:08:13

03) PP07 - Presentation 3 - Talking Points - Brian Chard - 00:10:15

04) PP04 - Final Round Reveal - Survive the Internet - Brian Chard - 00:12:37

05) PP03 - Artwork Creation - Tee K.O. - Brian Chard - 00:14:16

06) PP04 - Gameplay Music 1 - Bracketeering - Brian Chard - 00:16:32

07) PP10 - Are We Not Birds? - Dodo Re Mi - Nate Sandberg - 00:20:28

08) PP01 - Background Loop - Drawful - Andy Poland - 00:22:55

09) PP02 - Lobby - Earwax - Andy Poland - 00:24:43

10) PP02 - Draw Music A - Bidiots - Randy Sly - 00:28:22

11) PP03 - List of the Dead Songs - Trivia Murder Party - Randy Sly - 00:29:26

12) PP08 - Draw - Weapons Drawn - Elise Wattman - 00:31:19

13) PP04 - Round 1 Draw 1 - Civic Doodle - Andy Poland - 00:33:55

14) PP01 - Main Theme - Drawful - Andy Poland - 00:37:02

15) PP03 - Timer Music 2 - Fakin’ It - Andy Poland - 00:38:46

16) PP07 - Write - Talking Points - Brian Chard - 00:41:16

17) PP03 - Slogan Creation - Tee K.O. - Brian Chard - 00:43:27

18) PP04 - Final Round Twist - Survive the Internet - Brian Chard - 00:45:47

19) PP05 - Rap Loop 14 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 00:47:48

20) PP05 - Rap Loop 15 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 00:48:49

21) PP06 - Background 1 - Joke Boat - Andy Poland - 00:49:48

22) PP08 - Deliberation 7 - The Poll Mine - Brian Chard - 00:54:19

23) PP08 - Vote 2 - Drawful Animate - Andy Poland - 00:56:06

24) PP05 - Gameplay 6 - Zeeple Dome - Brian Chard - 00:58:11

25) PP03 - Theme - Tee K.O. - Brian Chard - 01:00:41

26) PP07 - Emergency - The Devils and the Details - Brian Chard - 01:03:53

27) PP04 - Question Music 1 - Fibbage 3 - Andy Poland - 01:04:27

28) PP05 - Write Loop 1 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 01:05:20

29) PP10 - Serious Business Chat - Fixy Text - Kelly Shuda - 01:08:20

30) PP06 - Background 2 - Joke Boat - Andy Poland - 01:10:25

31) PP09 - Final Round - Fibbage 4 - Andy Poland - 01:12:25

32) PP04 - Final Round Write - Survive the Internet - Brian Chard - 01:15:33

33) PP02 - Choose Music B - Earwax - Andy Poland - 01:16:59

34) PP06 - Deliberation Room - Push the Button - Andy Poland - 01:18:40

35) PP05 - Rap Loop 11 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 01:21:17

36) PP01 - Background Loop 1 - Word Spud - Andy Poland - 01:21:46

37) PP01 - Background Loop 4 - Lie Swatter - Andy Poland - 01:22:19

38) PP01 - Background Loop 5 - Lie Swatter - Andy Poland - 01:23:45

39) PP01 - Background Loop 2 - Word Spud - Andy Poland - 01:25:11

40) PP05 - Lobby - Split the Room - Brian Chard - 01:26:17

41) PP02 - Draw Music B - Bidiots - Randy Sly - 01:29:02

42) PP08 - Question Series 1 - The Wheel of Enormous Proportions - Andy Poland - 01:30:29

43) PP10 - Lobby 2 - Dodo Re Mi - Nate Sandberg - 01:34:12

44) PP05 - Final Round - Split the Room - Brian Chard - 01:36:05

45) PP03 - Round 3 Write - Quiplash 2 - Andy Poland - 01:38:17

46) PP07 - Friday - The Devils and the Details - Brian Chard - 01:42:16

47) PP05 - Draw Final - Patently Stupid - Andy Poland - 01:44:28

48) PP01 - Lobby Theme - Lie Swatter - Andy Poland - 01:46:22

49) PP02 - Bid Loop B - Bidiots - Randy Sly - 01:48:02

50) PP01 - Main Question - Fibbage XL - Andy Poland - 01:50:02

51) PP05 - Write Loop 2 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 01:50:46

52) PP06 - Slotting 2 - Role Models - Brian Chard - 01:51:45

53) PP09 - Write 1 - Roomerang - Brian Chard - 01:54:33

54) PP04 - Chat Music 2 - Monster Seeking Monster - Andy Poland - 01:56:35

55) PP05 - Credits (feat. Simeon Norfleet Sr.) - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 01:58:05

56) PP04 - Choose Music 1 - Fibbage 3 - Andy Poland - 02:00:10

57) PP08 - Draw 2 - Drawful Animate - Andy Poland - 02:00:50

58) PP05 - Write Loop 3 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 02:03:57

59) PP08 - Composition 3 - Job Job - Brian Chard - 02:06:50

60) PP01 - Choose Music - Drawful - Andy Poland - 02:08:22

61) PP10 - Main Question 3 - Timejinx - Elise Wattman - 02:10:26

62) PP02 - Background B - Bomb Corp - Andy Poland - 02:13:07

63) PP10 - Flirty Write 1 - Fixy Text - Kelly Shuda - 02:15:03

64) PP10 - Main Question 1 - Timejinx - Elise Wattman - 02:16:06

65) PP09 - Round 2 Scoreboard 2 - Quixort - Nate Sandberg - 02:18:54

66) PP08 - Unused Idea 2 - The Wheel of Enormous Proportions - Andy Poland - 02:19:45

67) PP09 - Appraisal Reveal - Junktopia - Elise Wattman - 02:22:14

68) PP07 - Lobby - The Devils and the Details - Brian Chard - 02:24:08

69) PP04 - Credits - Fibbage 3 - Andy Poland - 02:27:18

B1) Outro - 02:29:54

Music Block Runtime: 02:24:40 / Total Episode Runtime: 02:40:16

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The promised basic nerdy stats:

Tracks by Party Pack:

PP01 - 10

PP02 - 6

PP03 - 6

PP04 - 10

PP05 - 11

PP06 - 4

PP07 - 5

PP08 - 7

PP09 - 4

PP10 - 6

Tracks by Composer:

Andy Poland - 38

Brian Chard - 18

Randy Sly - 4

Elise Wattman - 4

Nate Sandberg - 3

Kelly Shuda - 2

Simeon Norfleet Sr (feat) - 1

JBPP Minigames NOT featured in this episode:

PP02 - Quiplash XL - Andy Poland

PP03 - Guesspionage - Brian Chard

PP05 - YDKJ: Full Stream - Andy Poland

PP06 - Trivia Murder Party 2 - Andy Poland

PP06 - Dictionarium - Brian Chard (w/ Andy Poland)

PP07 - Quiplash 3 - Andy Poland

PP07 - Blather ‘Round - Randy Sly and Andy Poland

PP09 - Nonsensory - Andy Poland

PP10 - Hypnotorious - Andy Poland

PP10 - Tee K.O. 2 - Brian Chard

(Note: I wish I’d made it a requirement on myself to feature at least one track from each minigame….alas. But hey, if that’s 10 minigames excluded, the simple math is that means that’s 40 minigames INCLUDED - why am I hearing echoes of the old “four out of five dentists recommend trident gum” commercials?)

Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.

Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Workstation Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) laptop with perhaps a little support from a Dell Latitude 7480 (running Fedora COSMIC Linux), a 2017-spec DIY gaming PC (running Bazzite Linux) or the Steam Deck (running Steam OS Linux). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!

You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.

Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:

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Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:

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Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com

You can also follow us on Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at And we are also now on TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible!

But frankly, probably the absolute best way you can connect with us is on our new Discord Channel: "Nerd Noise Radio – Channel D", which includes various sub-channels for all sorts of different types of connection and conversation: https://discord.gg/GUWdaXUw

Thanks for listening! Join us again in May for C1E95 (Channel 1, Episode 95): Subject TBD - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!

Cheers!

KVGM “The Last Wave” (4/20/25)

By KVGM "The Last Wave" on Apr 20, 2025 4:00 pm UTC

Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.

It’s 4/20, my dudes and dudettes, and you know what that means? It’s time to EXTRA max out and relax all cool to 45-ish minutes of jams!

Playlist

Stroll – M.U.T.S. Music Studio
(Hissatsu Chikannin II, PC)

Sparkling Mermaid Princess – Kenichi Okuma
(Welcome to Pia Carrot!! 3, Sony PlayStation 2)

Hamsterwalk – Nobuhiko Isa
(Brilliant Hamsters!, Nintendo 3DS)

Item Shop – Tsukasa Tawada
(Pokémon Shuffle, Nintendo 3DS)

Move – Y. Araki
(Turf Hero, Super Famicom)

ShadowMoonNight – ALVINE
(Kizuna Kirameku Koi Iroha, Sony PlayStation 4)

Title – Unknown
(Sudoku, Sony PlayStation Portable)

Cool Breeze Melody (Summer Theme) – Hikoshi Hashimoto
(Zutto Issho: With Me Everytime…, Sony PlayStation)

Gentle Light – Junpei Fujita
(Samurai Jupiter, PC)

MY HOME (Arranged) – Kenichi Arakawa
(Viper-V12, PC-98)

Special Request

Tower Block (Unreleased) – Noriko Matsueda
(Tobal No. 1, Sony PlayStation)

[152] Bedtime Lullabies

By Pixel Beat on Apr 19, 2025 10:00 pm UTC

About: A small collection of softer, more lullaby-style themes.

Artwork: The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

00:00 - A Song From Her Memory [Final Fantasy IX]

by Nobuo Uematsu >

01:52 - Truth and Dreams [Breath Of Fire IV]

by Yoshino Aoki >

04:24 - A Coin Of Fate [Final Fantasy VI]

by Nobuo Uematsu >

07:33 - PSYNCHIN’ IN THE CAPTAIN [AI: The Somnium Files]

by Keisuke Ito >

11:50 - Komadori Orphanage [Soul Hackers 2]

by Keiichi Okabe >

14:11 - Defend Globe (Ending) [Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky]

by Arata Iiyoshi, Hideki Sakamoto, Keisuke Ito >

18:03 - Mabe Village [The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening]

by Ryo Nagamatsu >

21:02 - A Wish… [Secret Of Mana]

by Hiroki Kikuta >

23:42 - The King Forgotten By Time [Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City]

by Yuzo Koshiro >

25:01 - FarewellS Song [Trials Of Mana]

by Hiroki Kikuta, Tsuyoshi Sekito, Koji Yamaoka >

27:37 - Passers Buy [Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires’ Conspiracy]

by Tomohito Nishiura >

31:32 - Treasured Memories [Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask]

by Tomohito Nishiura >

33:54 - Far Off Promise [Chrono Trigger]

by Yasunori Mitsuda, Nobuo Uematsu, Noriko Matsueda >

Episode 168: Made and Built to Last (International Day for Monuments and Sites)

By RE-VGM on Apr 18, 2025 7:03 am UTC

This episode is going to be epic! Well, in terms of sites and buildings, because we’re celebrating International Day for Monuments and Sites, also known as World Heritage Day. This day, developed by the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), is to honor and raise awareness of the heritage of natural and man-made monuments […]

Episode 38-6 In Concert with the NJGSO!

By Rhythm and Pixels on Apr 16, 2025 9:00 am UTC

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Welcome back to the best place for great video game music! Joining us again this week we have Alyssa and Victoria from the New Jersey Gamer Symphony Orchestra! We listen to their performances and chat about the arrangements, the games, and their plans to replace the conductor’s baton with Cloud’s Buster-Sword!

Learn more about the NJGSO here! https://www.njgso.org

Listen to more of the show! https://rhythmandpixels.com

Consider supporting the podcast! https://patreon.com/rhythmandpixels

Episode 121 – Product Placement VGM w/ CRT Soundsystem

By XVGM Radio on Apr 16, 2025 5:00 am UTC

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Product placement and advertising in video games is a wild, wacky thing. Today on XVGM Radio, Mike and Justin are joined by fellow VGM podcast CRT Soundsystem, where Reese and Tom bring some unique tracks to the mix! The hosts chat about Redline, Fast food chicken preferences, and gamer munchies. The Americans on the podcasts (Mike, Justin and Reese) learn about the aisle of American junk food in Ireland’s grocery stores courtesy of Tom. There’s a Pop Tarts flavor discussion as well as a full on M&Ms breakdown of the characters based on the websites. Is the brown M&M really just Bayonetta? Who’s got the best taste in Pop Tarts on these shows? Is the Frosted Flakes mascot Irish in Ireland? Find out more on this super silly episode of XVGM Radio!
Huge thanks to CRT Soundsystem (Tom and Reese) for joining us! Check out their show on all podcatchers, and give ‘em a rating on Apple!
Links: Apple Podcasts, BlueSky, RSS feed
We’d love to hear what you thought about these random tracks we’ve picked! What was your favorite track? Shoot us an email at XVGMRadio@gmail.com or join in on the discussion at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/XVGMradio
Also, we have a Discord Channel! Join us and chat about the show, share a random or obscure VGM song you love, or just chit chat with Mike and Justin about tacos! Join for free here: https://discord.gg/zWxDYfn
Thanks to all of our wonderful Patrons: Cam Werme, Chris Murray, Claire Myers, Scott McElhone, Rayjkayj, Llama Adam, Kung Fu Carlito, Nick Davis, Ryan McPherson, Scott Brackett, and Brad Austin. Become a Patron, get cool rewards, and more at http://www.Patreon.com/XVGMRadio
Check out all episodes of XVGM Radio on www.youtube.com/dongled for another more visual format!
Our Twitter, Instagram, and BlueSky are great ways to interact with us! Find us on there under our handle @XVGMRadio
If you’re an Apple Podcasts listener, please consider leaving a rating and a review to let us know how we’re doing! It also helps with getting the show to show up when others are searching for VGM!

TRACK LISTING:

Intro – Pepsi Man (PS1, 1999) “Pepsi Man Theme Song” James Shimoji
1 – I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator (PC, 2019) “Put Some PEP in your Step” Hexany
2 – Yaris (X360, 2007) “Main” Robert Thomure
3 – Darkened Skye (GCN, PC – 2002) “Cathedral, Library and Bell Tower” Eugene Zukov
4 – M&M’s Kart Racing (Wii – 2007) “Sea Carrier” Lukasz Stasinski
5 – Burger King Big Bumpin’ (X360, 2006) “The Deep” Matt Black, Chris Hockey
6 – Frosties’ Football Frenzy (PC, 2002) “Menu” Alessandro Bellondi, Roberto Spanu
7 – Chester Cheetah: Wild, Wild West (SNES/GEN – 1993) “Little Shock” Unknown Composer
8 – Cool Spot (AMI – 1993) “Off da Wall, Back to the Wall” Andrew Barnabas

WaveBack Episode 184: Undertale

By WaveBack Music Podcast on Apr 16, 2025 4:00 am UTC

Show Notes

For Kris’s pick this month, he chose the indie hit Undertale.

Useful Links

Social Stuff

Marcato Radio 39

By Super Marcato Bros on Apr 13, 2025 11:29 pm UTC

Episodes

It's time for another installment of Marcato Radio! Once again, it's another non-stop collection of outstanding video game music. Some tracks you've heard before, and some you have not! Enjoy!

-Track list coming soon!-

Episode 167: Alundra

By RE-VGM on Apr 11, 2025 7:03 am UTC

Today, on April 11, is the 1997 Japanese release of Alundra, an action-adventure that is considered a spiritual successor to Landstalker. It is about an adventurer named Alundra who finds himself washed onto the shores of Torla. He is nursed back to health in the village of Inoa and finds people dealing nightmares. He learns […]

Episode 60 - Urban Turf Fight

By Shujin Academy VGM Club on Apr 10, 2025 11:01 am UTC

Take to the gritty streets of the urban jungle to seek revenge in this episode full of tough street sounds.

Special thanks for this episode goes out to:

Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.
Drew Mackie, host of the Singing Mountain podcast, which was a major inspiration for me to do Shujin Academy VGM Club. Drew created three episodes of urban music like this, and you can hear them at the links below:
- Drive Into the City: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/16bit-driving-music
- Gritty City Sounds: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/gritty-city-sounds
- Devil City: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/devil-city
- You can also hear Drew’s current podcast Gayest Episode Ever on your podcasting service of choice or at https://www.gayestepisodeever.com/
- Drew’s fascinating blog about video gaming can also be found at https://thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/
RayjKayj from VGMporium for introducing me to the soundtrack for Lam-Mal on episode 93 of his show, which is sadly on indefinite hiatus. You can find that episode at https://vgmporium.wordpress.com/2023/10/05/episode-93-lam-mal/ if you want to hear it for yourself.
Ed Wilson from The VGMbassy for Scramble Spirits, which he played on the episode of VGMbassy we did together. You can find that episode at https://pca.st/episode/44d7ee05-2ab4-44b1-9470-8b7978a4ec4d
BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.

If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. For now, you can also find me on Threads or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m on Mastodon at @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, and my username on Discord is ProfessorTom. All episodes of the show are posted to my YouTube channel, which you can find by searching for Shujin Academy VGM Club. Links to everything are available on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on 8beats.co, the internet's number one game music radio station. My show is also featured on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there. Finally, if you just can’t get enough of me, I’m voicing esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can hear on Spotify and FGC Radio.

Speaking of Spotify, if you’re listening there, please be aware that they’ve pulled a few of my episodes before. There’s a non-zero chance that they’ll eventually pull my entire podcast, as they’ve done with a few other game music podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get all of the Professor Tom goodness you crave.

I mentioned the DefunctGames.com review of Putter Golf during the show, and you can read it for yourself at http://www.defunctgames.com/review/1366/putter-golf.

To hear a different, much nicer version of the sounds of the city, check out my long-ago episode “Welcome to Metro City” at https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-e9upv-12c2d4d.

Track Listing:

00:00 - Show Tagline

00:05 - Chase H.Q. (Arcade) - New York (composer: Takami Asano)

01:08 - Talk Segment 1

04:58 - Capcom vs SNK (arcade) - Stage of Final Fight - Needle (composer: Satoshi Ise)

07:28 - Putter Golf (Genesis) - BGM 1 (composer: E. Fugu)

09:10 - Scramble Spirits (Arcade) - BGM 2 (composers: Toru Nakabayashi and Yasuhiro Kawakami)

12:13 - Moto Roader II (PC Engine) - Menu (composer: Opus)

13:06 - Final Fight (Arcade) - Metro City Subway (composers: Junko Tamiya)

15:06 - Journey to Silius (NES) - Stage Theme 03 (composer: Naoki Kodaka)

16:55 - Streets of Rage 3 (Genesis) - Dub Slash (Round 2-1) (composer: Motohiro Kawashima)

20:30 - Talk Segment 2

24:16 - Power Drift (Arcade) - Adjustment Mind (D Course) (composer: Hiroshi Kawaguchi)

26:23 - Comix Zone (Genesis) - Episode 2, Page 1-2 (composer: Howard Drossin)

28:01 - Cyber Police ESWAT (Arcade) - BGM 01 (Stages 1-4-7-10-13) (composer: Yasuhiro Kawakami)

29:40 - ATP Tour Championship Tennis (Genesis) - Bracket Results (composer: Hikoshi Hashimoto)

31:26 - Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master (Genesis) - Ninja Soul (composers: Masayuki Nagao, Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama)

35:41 - Final Fight 2 (SNES) - Creeping Weeping (composers: Yasuaki Fujita, Mari Yamaguchi, Yuki Iwai, Setsuo Yamamoto, Yūko Takehara, and Tatsuya Nishimura)

37:07 - Lam-Mal (x68000) - Town B (composers: Hideaki Takashita and Ryu Takami)

37:57 - Night Striker (Arcade) - Boss 1 (composer: Masahiko Takaki)

39:09 - Talk Segment 3

44:45 - Final Fight 3 (SNES) - Law and Disorder (composer: Katsunari Kitajima)

46:15 - The Dark Spire (DS) - 1st Floor Underground (Classic) (composer: Kenichi Arakawa)

47:48 - Abadox (NES) - Stage 1, 4, 6 (composer: Kiyohiro Sada)

49:28 - Myth: History in the Making (C64) - Loading Tune (composer: Jeroen Tel)

50:30 - Black Bird: Toritachi no Tooboe (PC-98) - Striker (composer: unknown)

53:41 - Alien Syndrome (Arcade) - Unknown 03 (composer: Tohru Nakabayashi)

58:00 - Ninja Five-O (GBA) - Enemy Base (composers: Aya Tanaka and Hiroyuki Tsuboguchi)

59:57 - Mario’s Super Picross (Super Famicom) - Unused Song 2 (composer: Toshiyuki Ueno)

1:00:30 - ATP Tour Championship Tennis (Genesis) - Sound Test No. 5 (composer: Hikoshi Hashimoto)

1:01:24 - Outro Talk Segment

1:03:58 - Streets of Rage 4 (multiplatform) - Main Theme of Streets of Rage 4 (composer: Yuzo Koshiro)

Episode 25-7: Fat Guy Tuba

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R&P Chat 38-6 New Jersey Gamer Symphony Orchestra

By Rhythm and Pixels on Apr 9, 2025 9:00 am UTC

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It’s time for another edition of R&P Chat, welcome back to the studio! Joining us today, rippin’ it like a Beyblade, are members of the New Jersey Gamer Symphony Orchestra! Alyssa Menes, musical director, and Victoria Holmes, social media director, are here to chat about their love of games, music, and performing with their orchestra!

Learn more about the NJGSO here! https://www.njgso.org

Listen to more of the show! https://rhythmandpixels.com

Consider supporting the podcast! https://patreon.com/rhythmandpixels

KVGM “The Last Wave” (4/6/25)

By KVGM "The Last Wave" on Apr 6, 2025 4:00 pm UTC

Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.

We’re all over the place this week on the Last Wave, with jams from every corner of the gaming world. If you’re a fan of music in general, be sure to check us out…we’ve got something for everybody, including your mom.

Playlist

Is It “Domingo” Today? – Konami Kukeiha Club and Jun Irie
(F-1 Spirit: 3D Special, MSX2+)

Gravure Mode – 父山域人
(3D Custom Girl, PC)

Main Theme – Kazumi Totaka
(Digicam Print Channel, Nintendo Wii)

Thoroughbredy to Go – Tetsuya Ozono
(Breeding Stud ’99, Sony PlayStation)

High Humidity – Ichinoryu Uehara
(NO,THANK YOU!!, PC)

Just Smokin’ – Ryuji Nishida
(Accel World VS Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight, Sony PlayStation 4)

Edit Mode – Waichiro Ozaki
(Groove Adventure Rave: Fighting Live, Nintendo GameCube)

Harbor City – Kensuke Inage
(FabStyle, Nintendo 3DS)

Into a Shallow Dream – Kenichi Okuma
(Welcome to Pia Carrot!! 3, Sony PlayStation 2)

Ending -Realized – – Masashi Yano
(Tobi Tsukihime, PC)

Special Request

A Ghost’s Pumpkin Soup…for Pumpkin Hill – Tomoya Ohtani and Hunnid-P
(Sonic Adventure 2, Sega Dreamcast)

[151] Moments of Action - Part II

By Pixel Beat on Apr 6, 2025 10:00 am UTC

About: Every piece of music in this episode features a barrage of speed and action. They are often partnered with moments of action, or during intense cutscenes or gameplay segments.

Artwork: Final Fantasy VII

00:00 - Opening Bombing Mission (Excerpt) [Final Fantasy VII]

by Nobuo Uematsu >

02:23 - The Brink Of Death [Chrono Cross]

by Yasunori Mitsuda >

04:58 - Run Maggot, Run! [Final Fantasy XI]

by Naoshi Mizuta >

09:23 - The Toppled Throne [Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom]

by Joe Hisaishi >

10:54 - Mekacity Docks [Cyber Shadow]

by Enrique Martin >

12:37 - God In The Heaven [Sorcerian]

by Falcom Sound Team JDK >

13:58 - Battle Theme 2 [Zelda II: The Adventure Of Link]

by Akito Nakatsuka >

15:02 - Death Mountain [Golden Axe III]

by Naofumi Hataya, Tatsuyuki Maeda, Haruyo Oguro, Tomonori Sawada >

16:55 - GLACIES [The Legend Of Xanadu]

by Falcom Sound Team JDK >

18:27 - Mid Boss [The Dark Spire]

by Kenichi Arakawa >

20:30 - The Dragon’s Dream [Fire Emblem: Engage]

by Yasuhisa Baba, Kazuki Komai, Hiroki Morishita, Takeru Kanazaki, Daichi Aoki, Daichi Ishihara, Joya Shioiri >

21:50 - The Great Chaos Of The Battlefield [Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes]

by Hiromu Akaba, Asami Mitake, Ayako Toyoda, Yuki Matsumura >

26:13 - The Courtroom Magician [Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney]

by Yasumasa Kitagawa >

29:40 - Brave Heart [Rogue Galaxy]

by Tomohito Nishiura >

31:20 - Sin to Win! [Neon White]

by Machine Girl >

36:02 - The Round Table [Tunic]

by Lifeformed, Janice Kwan >

38:49 - Festival Of The Hunt [Final Fantasy IX]

by Nobuo Uematsu >

42:35 - The Chase [Final Fantasy VII]

by Nobuo Uematsu >

46:04 - Fogbeasts [Xenoblade Chronicles]

by ACE >

Viper’s VGMture – S08 – Mundane March (04 April 2025)

By Viper's VGMture on Apr 4, 2025 6:00 pm UTC

Now with March under our belts, let's check back in on all the gaming that we got up to during the month on this edition of Viper's VGMture!

00:00:00 Gran Turismo Sport - Day to Live
00:04:15 Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (Sonic Riders: Shooting Star Story) - Sealed Ground
00:07:52 ASTRO BOT - Perserverance
00:09:22 Welcome to Viper's VGMture
00:17:02 Metroid Prime - Phendrana Drifts - Main Theme
00:24:29 Gears of War - Gears of War Reprise
00:27:23 You're Listening to Viper's VGMture
00:45:08 Dangerous Seed - Stage 2 Boss - Strike Ants
00:46:20 TOBAL 2 - The Grody Boy
00:49:30 Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp - Lash's Theme
00:52:12 This is Viper's VGMture
01:03:04 MUSYNX - Doomsday DISCO (oCaU Trance Remix)
01:10:05 Gran Turismo Sport - AL1V3
01:13:56 Thanks for Listening!
01:18:15 IA/VT -COLORFUL- - DOUKEI

Episode 166: Rats! We’re Rats! We’re the Rats! (World Rat Day)

By RE-VGM on Apr 4, 2025 7:28 am UTC

They’re feared by elephants yet fancied by its breeders and fans. They’re scorned for carrying diseases yet appreciated for detecting them. They’re considered offensive and selfish, yet some consider them clean and sociable. They are the rats, and today we’re celebrating World Rat Day, in honor of these fascinating creatures of science and society. For […]

Viper’s VGMture – S07 – Switching Up Expectations (02 April 2025)

By Viper's VGMture on Apr 2, 2025 9:00 pm UTC

With the Switch 2 Direct totally eclipsing any other gaming discussion for the next 24 hours, join Viper as he divulges his takeaway from the blowout presentation.

TRACKLISTING:
00:00:00 Bravely Default: Flying Fairy - That Person's Name Is
00:05:41 Soulcalibur II - Eternal Struggle
00:09:08 Welcome to Viper's VGMture
00:14:57 Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Hoshi no Kirby Discovery) - Running Through the New World
00:19:36 Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze) - Windmill Hills
00:23:54 Kirby Air Ride (Kirby's Airride) - City Trial: City
00:28:10 You're Listening to Viper's VGMture
00:46:18 F-Zero GX/AX - DIGI-BOY
00:48:46 51 Worldwide Games (Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics; Sekai No Asobi Taizen 51) - Credits
00:52:11 This is Viper's VGMture
01:15:59 DELTARUNE Chapter 2 - Pandora Palace
01:17:45 Yakuza 0 (Ryu ga Gotoku 0: Chikai no Basho) - Receive You ~Tech Trance Arrange~
01:21:19 Thanks for Listening!
01:27:46 F-Zero X Expansion Kit - Rainbow Road

Hip Hop Mixtape Vol. 1

By barSILENCE on Apr 1, 2025 12:08 pm UTC

[Episode 38] This month, barSILENCE is behind the decks for a mixtape-style episode, spinning tracks from games that showcase hip-hop’s undeniable influence on gaming history.

Hip-hop and video games are two cultural powerhouses that have inspired each other for decades. This episode celebrates that intersection of beats and bits, from classic 16-bit grooves to hip-hop artists stepping in as composers.

Whether it’s the funk-infused rhythms of Ristar, the street-art style of Marc Ecko’s Getting Up, or the raw energy and fisticuffs of Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style, hip-hop’s presence in gaming is bold, loud, and unforgettable.

Grab your controller, drop the needle, and press start on the ultimate hip-hop video game music mixtape!

Tracklisting:

00:01:00 - Intro and The Intersection of Hip Hop & Video Games

00:09:44 - Battle with the Giant Robot (Alternate) (Bebe's Kids) [Paul Wilkinson]

00:10:44 - Haunted House (Alternate) (Bebe's Kids) [Paul Wilkinson]

00:11:59 - Title Screen (Rap Jam) [Michel Winogradoff]

00:13:59 - Halftime (NBA Live 95) [Traz Damji, Brian Shaw]

00:16:02 - Title (NBA Showdown) [Traz Damji]

00:18:20 - Unknown (NBA Showdown) [Traz Damji]

00:19:37 - Formation Lap, Ready... Go!! (Ristar) [Tomoko Sasaki, Naofumi Hataya, Masafumi Ogata]

00:21:09 - Base Point (Racing Lagoon) [Noriko Matsueda, Takahito Eguchi]

00:23:56 - Work Your Body (1080° Snowboarding) [Kenta Nagata]

00:25:48 - Boxing - Results (Wii Sports) [Kazumi Totaka]

00:26:26 - Hip De Hop (Shenmue) [Yuzo Koshiro]

00:29:56 - snob (Crackin' DJ) [Hiro]

00:31:37 - Man, This Sucks (Goemon's Great Adventure) [Goemon Production Committee]

00:32:57 - Catch a Bad One (Instrumental) (Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure) [Del tha Funky Homosapien]

00:35:18 - Strange Flower (Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked) [Masafumi Takada]

00:36:43 - A Vision (Togainu no Chi: True Blood) [Elephant Music]

00:39:02 - BGM 9 (Street Hoops) [Unknown]

00:41:51 - Dark Ages 2 (Norse by Norsewest: Return of the Lost Vikings) [Glenn Stafford]

00:44:26 - Track 5 (Tony Hawk's Motion) [Unknown]

00:48:31 - Still Free Crew! (Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure Soundtrack) [RJD2 & The RZA]

00:50:05 - Interface Loop (Cel Damage) [Egg Plant Productions]

00:52:19 - See Toast Te Ya (The Sims 2 University) [Joe Neckbone (prod. by Da Riffs)]

00:55:16 - Get Up (Menu) (NBA Street Vol. 2) [Jeff Mair]

00:59:04 - Streetball 3 (NBA 2K2) [Da Beatminerz]

01:02:36 - The Educators (NBA Street) [Jason Ross]

01:08:14 - Dynanism (NBA Street) [Jason Ross]

01:10:41 - Work Flow (NBA Street 2) [Just Blaze]

01:12:31 - Act the Fool (NEO: The World Ends with You) [Takeharu Ishimoto]

01:15:12 - Beat 6 Test 1 (Afro Samurai 2: Revenge Of Kuma) [The RZA]

01:17:16 - Outro & Final Track

01:19:56 - Vengeance (Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style) [The RZA]

barSILENCE is a monthly podcast crafted to celebrate and explore the best video game music in the world! You’re here because you enjoy the same thing that I do, and I am grateful for that.

If you want to become a member of the Legion of VGM, consider subscribing to the show on Patreon! As a thank you for subscribing, you can access all 20 episodes of the Bonus Beats podcast! Click here to learn more!

If you want to consider a one-time donation check out the Ko-Fi!

Shout-outs to two fantastic friends of the show and members of the Legion of VGM:

Shujin Academy VGM Club: The creatively themed episodes of this video game music podcast are the brainchild of the venerable Professor Tom. Please listen to and follow this excellent VGM Podcast!

SuperPod Saga: This fantastic video game variety podcast hosted by Aaron, is a show on a mission to discuss every video game topic ever! Give it a listen and follow for weekly episodes!

Additional thanks for this episode go out to:

Fine Time: Dre was an absolutely mega part of helping me get the early drafts of this mixtape together. Go listen to Fine Time for a great time to say thanks!

Serious A: Parisian DJ Serious A’s stellar VGM mixes on 8Beats Radio inspired this episode. Merci! Check out her original music and her funk, house, and hip-hop DJ mixes—and spread the love!

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[Ch 1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E93: TwoFer Tuesday – vol 11 (April Fool's 2025)”

By Nerd Noise Radio on Apr 1, 2025 6:00 am UTC

Today’s broadcast is C1E93 for TwoFer Tuesday, very conspicuously releasing on April 1st, 2025. Today’s "can you find the hidden gag" broadcast will be TwoFer Tuesday – vol. 11 – our final ever installment of the TwoFer Tuesday series, and though technically the second-to-last planned April Fool's episode, our last April Fool's episode to present a novel idea (since 2026's installment is slated to just be a sequel to 2020's reverse-playing "Backtracks").

Tracklist:

Game# / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Tracks / Time Stamp

A1) Intro - 00:00:00

01) Power Stone - Dreamcast - Tetsuya Shibata

A) Day of the Manches – 00:06:04
B)GunrockEnding – 00:10:36

02) The Ninja Warriors Once Again - Multiplatform - Hiroyuki Iwatsuki

A) Subway / Shopping Mall - 00:11:20
B) 3 Androids (Character Select) - 00:13:46

03) ThunderBlade - Arcade - Koichi Namiki

A) Type 2 - 00:15:51
B)ThunderBlade- 00:18:54

04) Future Dimensions - DOS (MIDI) – Mathias Ruch

A) Eternity – 00:22:40
B) Space War – 00:26:22

05) Brutal Paws of Fury - Sega CD - c: “ppdix”, Doug Brandon, Robin Heifitz and/or Neil Baldwin - a: “ppdix”

A) Tokyo Ghetto - 00:31:01
B) Jammin w Akira - 00:33:14

06) Cool World - SNES - Dean Evans, and/or Keith Tinman

A) Slash Club - 00:35:24
B) You've Been Notified - 00:37:29

07) LoZ: Echoes of Wisdom - Switch - Masato Ohashi, Manaka Kataoka, Chisaki Hosaka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, Ryotaro Yagi, and/or Azusa Kato

A)BalomDungeon - 00:39:04
B) Still World - 00:42:09

08) Blue Reflection: Second Light – Multiplatform – Hayato Asano

A) Non-Linear Reliance - 00:44:33
B) Transparent Shelter - 00:48:38

09) Minecraft - Multiplatform - Kumi Tanioka

A) Comforting Memories - 00:51:09
B)Komorebi- 00:55:29

10) Ultros - Multiplatform - Ratvader

A) Darker Light of Sleep - 01:00:06
B) Blessed be She - 01:02:35

11) The Talos Principle - Multiplatform - Damjan Mravunac

A) When in Rome - 01:10:28
B) Welcome to Heaven - 01:12:47

12) Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone - Arcade - Akira Inoue, and/or Takaro Nozaki

A) Shop (Japan) - 01:14:59
B) To the World - 01:16:29

13) Battle of Olympus - NES - Kazuo Sawa

A) Mountains ofPhthia- 01:17:12
B) Peloponnesus Forest - 01:19:26

14) Chew Man Fu - TG16 - N. Ide (aka “Joyful Ide”)

A) Stage 1 - 01:21:25
B) Unknown BGM - 01:23:17

15) The Light Corridor - DOS (OPL2) – Frederic Mentzen

A) Opening – 01:23:58
B) Title – 01:26:05

16) Sega Rally Championship - Saturn - c: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi / a: Takayuki Hijikata

A) Getting Muddy - 01:28:41
B) Desert Land - 01:33:20

17) Dark Legend (Suiko Enbu) – Saturn - c: Shogo Sakai, Taihei Sato, Hiroaki Yoshida, and/or Tatsuya Kiuchi / a: Seiichi Hamada

A) Theme of Lin Chong - 01:37:45
B) Final A - 01:40:42

B1) Outro: 01:42:50

Music Block Runtime: 01:36:48 / Total Episode Runtime: 01:57:42

Our Intro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. Our Outro Music is Malo Mart, from Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on GameCube, Wii, and WiiU, composed by Tōru Minegishi, Asuka Hayazaki, and/or Kōji Kondō.

Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) laptop. Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!

You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.

Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:

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Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:

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Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com

You can also follow us on Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at And we are also on TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible! Lastly, now introducing.....the discord channel! The magnificently named "Nerd Noise Radio – Channel D"!! Here's the link: https://discord.gg/52jRmYE6

Thanks for listening! And thanks for joining us for our fond farewell to the TwoFer Tuesday franchise – as well as, for all real intents and purposes, our April Fool's series. Join us again later this month for C1E94 (Channel 1, Episode 94): "Jackbox Jukebox" - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N! Also, enjoy tomorrow's Nintendo Direct about the Switch 2, and all the best luck in securing one of your own!

Cheers!

Rebroadcast: The Demo Scene

By Super Marcato Bros on Mar 30, 2025 9:20 pm UTC

Episodes

For this "Rebroadcast", Karl & Will share their episode originally released way back in June of 2014- "The Demo Scene (#116)!" Enjoy this blast from the past, where the guys explored this vibrant and unique VGM-adjacent scene!

Eldorado – Zardax – C64 (1990) – Origo Dreamline

-Eldorado (part 1)

Oksen – Scortia – C64 (1992) – Starion

-The Loop

Elysium: The Search for Anarchy – Jester – Amiga (1991) – Sanity

-Elysium

Wonderland X – Danko – C64 (1993) – Censor Design

-Tapeloader, Groove

Edder Copper – 4-Mat – Amiga (1991) – Aero

-Back From Blue (edit)

Bondage 2 – Mitch & Dane – C64 (1999) – Crest

-Mountain Breeze

More Than Music – Moby – Amiga (1991) – Alcatraz

-More Than Music (edit)

Edge of Disgrace – Dane – C64 (2008) – Booze Design

-Edge of Disgrace (edit)

Blue House 2 – Tip & Mantronix – Amiga (1991) – Rebels

-Swamp Vamp

That’s The Wave It Is – Ole-Marius Pettersen – C64 (1991) – Panoramic Designs

-SolarumLirum

Bacteria – Dr. Awesome – Amiga (1990) – Crusaders

-12th Warrior

Spasmolytic – Swallow – C64 (1993) – Censor Design

-Song 1

Tempest – Amiga (2000)

-Acidjazzed Evening

One-Der – Fanta – C64 (1997) – Oxyron

-Challenger

Dark Side of the Spoon – Mad Max – Atari ST (1991) – Unlimited Matricks

-Tune 4

Moby – Amiga (1993)

-Livin’ Insanity

We Are All Connected – Scarzix & Kribust – C64 (2014) – Fairlight

-Talk to the Wind, Connected

Jesper Kyd – Amiga (1990)

-Garden of Life

Digital Delight – Lars Hoff & Stein Pedersen – C64 (1990) – Panoramic Designs

-Cow Jam, Funky

Enigma – Tip & Firefox – Amiga (1991) – Phenomena

-Hyperbased

Episode 165: On Stage Now – ToxicxEternity

By RE-VGM on Mar 28, 2025 7:03 am UTC

The end of March is near, which means that we’ve got a special episode of “On Stage Now” to feature a musician of covered or remixed video game music. For this month, our featured musician is ToxicxEternity. ToxicxEternity has been shredding covers of VGM since 2008 on his YouTube channel. While most of them are […]

The Final Refrain

By Battle Bards on Mar 27, 2025 12:00 pm UTC

It's been a very long while, but the Battle Bards haven't fully abandoned you -- at least not without a goodbye! In the grand final episode of the show, Steff, Syl, and Syp gather together one last time to share memories of the show, the reason behind the decision to end it, and a few of our favorite MMO music tracks. Enjoy -- and from the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much for listening these past 12 years. We had a blast doing it.

Episode 234 show notes

Songs featured in this episode:
"Hamlets of Aquilonia" from Age of Conan
"Silus Mountain" from Aion
"Fly into the Sky" from Blade & Soul
"Freedom Theme" from City of Heroes
"Hills of the Shire" from Lord of the Rings Online
"Townston Theme" from Dungeon Runners
"Below the Asteroids" from EVE Online
"Main Theme" from EverQuest II
"The Republic of Bastok" from Final Fantasy XI
"Tidecaller" from League of Legends
"Home Sweet Home" from RuneScape
"Alsalvara Light" from Lime Odyssey
"Island Village" from Lineage II
"Silverwood" from RIFT
"Invincible" from World of Warcraft
"Traveling Tale" from Runes of Magic
"A Golden Field" from WildStar
"Lana, The Advisor" from Star Wars: The Old Republic
"World Map 2" from The Sims Online
"Stones" from Ultima Online
"Seascape" from Anarchy Online
"Townlife" from Ultima X Odyssey
"Bamboo Forest" from Vanguard
Outro (feat. "Elwynn Forest" from World of Warcraft)

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Episode 25-6: Magneto Bandito

By Game That Tune on Mar 25, 2025 12:30 pm UTC

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We're playing cartoon games on this episode! The games are bad and the tunes are bad, but the memories...well, they hold up better than the games.

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0:00:00 Welcome to Game That Tune!
0:07:40 Game 1
0:13:21 Game 1 Reveal
0:23:39 Game 2
0:28:46 Game 2 Reveal
0:33:46 Lightning Round!
0:43:01 Game 3
0:47:04 Game 3 Reveal
0:57:11 Game 4
1:03:04 Game 4 Reveal
1:13:36 Lightning Round!!
1:21:44 Game 5
1:26:55 Game 5 Reveal
1:40:14 This Game's Winner Is...
1:49:50 Bonus Music/Outro

Astyanax – PA197

By Pixelated Audio on Mar 24, 2025 3:56 pm UTC

Episodes Aicom Arcade Jaleco Kiyoshi Yokoyama Lord of King NES The Astyanax Toshiko Tasaki

Today, we’re looking back at Astyanax, an action platformer released for arcade and NES in 1989 and a game we both grew up playing. Sometimes referred to as “The Lord of King” or “The Astyanax”, the original arcade game was developed by Aicom and published by Jaleco, with the NES version developed and published by… Read More » The post Astyanax – PA197 first appeared on Pixelated Audio.

Episode 21: Quick Attack: Somehow Every Slow Song From Every Shitty Game, Feat. Dave Whittaker From Insect Warfare

By The Musical Moogle on Mar 24, 2025 12:36 am UTC

On today's episode of Quick Attack: Making the Band...

Joey Slipknots (My Ωs, Your Hz) gets in a heated argument with Tim Onion (Behold... the Mariolocaust) about the relevance of minor mixolodian scales in Japanese pop music in the 90s, and the ladies from ミドリ show their love for American music by doing a cover of Barbie Girl! You don't want to miss this, folks...

(Please don't yell at Tony about how late this episode is over on Bluesky.......)

Tracklist can be found here! Check out more of The Musical Moogle here!

If you or a loved one have any questions, comments or recommendations for songs that you’d like us to listen to and possibly feature on an episode, send us an email at TheMusicalMoogle@gmail.com.

KVGM “The Last Wave” (3/23/25)

By KVGM "The Last Wave" on Mar 23, 2025 4:00 pm UTC

Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.

This week, we’ve got more very adult PC visual novels, a little golf and fishing action, some convenience store simulation, even a little futbol for the fans at home. All that and more!

Playlist

Roadside Trees in Winter – Doors Music Entertainment
(Dousoukai 2: Again & Refrain, Sega Dreamcast)

Track 11 – SIX
(Saki-Midare, PC)

Apartment – Atsuhiro Motoyama
(Style Savvy, Nintendo DS)

Announcer – Tose Sound Team
(Namco Open, Super Famicom)

Their Daily Routine (other version) – Naotoshi Nishino
(Hanamaru!, PC)

Dialogue 5 – Nobuyuki Akena, Masanari Iwata, Satoru Okubo, Ayumu Kashizaki, and Toshiyuki Miyamoto
(International Superstar Soccer 2000, Nintendo 64)

Beach – Tomohiro Endo
(The Conveni 3, Sony PlayStation 2)

Quiet View I – Soshi Hosoi
(Shingakkou -Noli me tangere-, PC)

Today’s Results – Toshiyuki Sudo and Megumi Inoue
(Ultimate Angler, Nintendo 3DS)

Ending (Last) – Tatsuhiko Kasuga
(SenXin Aleste, Arcade)

Special Request

Babysitter Song – Lioko Kihara
(Linda³, PC Engine CD)

Level 162

By The Messenger Presents a VGM Journey on Mar 23, 2025 1:35 pm UTC

Track Listing

Main Menu - Wii Party - Toshiki AidaMain Menu - Fortune Street - Koichi SugiyamaWishes on the Wind (Starlight Sanctuary) - Party Project - BlueLonerWolfAngelica’s Temple - Rugrats: Scavenger Hunt - Mark MothersbaughMedieval Board - Pac-Man Fever - Jim Andron & Chris Tilton Credits (Timejinx) - The Jackbox Party Pack 10 - Elise WattmanWishes In the Dark (Starlight Sanctuary: Homestretch) - Party Project - BlueLonerWolf

Episode 164: The (Final) Countdown (National Countdown Day)

By RE-VGM on Mar 21, 2025 7:03 am UTC

5… 4… 3… 2… 1… Whether it’s waiting for the new year, watching the microwave clock to finish, or wondering how the game will finish, the countdown can stir excitement or build suspense. Today we’re celebrating National Countdown Day, first established by National Day Calendar, to honor those last few numbers until the end or […]

Episode 59 - Soundtrack Showcase Shodown

By Shujin Academy VGM Club on Mar 20, 2025 11:02 am UTC

It’s an exciting hour of competition and fabulous prizes as we check out four games with great soundtracks! Come on down!

Special thanks for this episode goes out to:

Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing excellently-themed cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.
Josh Grisham of Nerd Informants. You can find Nerd Informants on social media and YouTube, or at https://nerdinformants.com/. Listen to Josh on the radio on Branson Missouri’s My 100.1 KOMC, and hear his podcast “It’s Hollywood Calling with Josh Grisham” on your favorite podcatcher.
James York, the YouTuber who introduced me to the soundtracks for Energy Breaker and The Shinri Game 2. You can find his channel at https://www.youtube.com/@jamesyork.
BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.

If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. For now, you can also find me on Facebook, Threads, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m on Mastodon at @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, and my username on Discord is ProfessorTom. All episodes of the show are posted to my YouTube channel, which you can find by searching for Shujin Academy VGM Club. Links to everything are available on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on 8beats.co, the internet's number one game music radio station. My show is also featured on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there. Finally, if you just can’t get enough of me, I’m voicing esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can hear on Spotify and FGC Radio.

Speaking of Spotify, if you’re listening there, please be aware that they’ve pulled a few of my episodes before. There’s a non-zero chance that they’ll eventually pull my entire podcast, as they’ve done with a few other game music podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get all of the Professor Tom goodness you crave.

Track Listing:

00:00 - Show Tagline

00:05 - The Price is Right (DS) - Come On Down (composer: Edd Kalehoff)

00:55 - Intro Talk Segment: The Shinri Game 2

04:40 - The Shinri Game 2: Magical Trip (Super Famicom) - Title Screen (composer: Kenji Yamazaki)

06:58 - The Shinri Game 2: Magical Trip (Super Famicom) - In-game BGM 3 (composer: Kenji Yamazaki)

09:28 - The Shinri Game 2: Magical Trip (Super Famicom) - In-game BGM 4 (composer: Kenji Yamazaki)

12:22 - The Shinri Game 2: Magical Trip (Super Famicom) - In-game BGM 6 (composer: Kenji Yamazaki)

15:10 - The Shinri Game 2: Magical Trip (Super Famicom) - In-game BGM 7 (composer: Kenji Yamazaki)

16:31 - The Shinri Game 2: Magical Trip (Super Famicom) - In-game BGM 10 (composer: Kenji Yamazaki)

18:39 - Talk Segment: Esper Dream 2

22:10 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Name Entry (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae)

22:50 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Toaru Library (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae)

23:29 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Books 1 & 5 - Town (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae)

24:37 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Item Shop (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae)

25:16 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Book 1 - Underwater (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae)

26:17 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Area Clear (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae)

26:56 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Book 2 - Rikki on Train (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae)

27:52 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Book 2 - Express Train (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae)

28:28 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Book 4 - Lava Area (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae)

29:42 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Book 5 - Mount Crystal (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae)

30:53 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Ending - Credits (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae)

33:01 - Talk Segment: Energy Breaker

36:30 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - The Flowers Have Bloomed (composer: Yasunori Shiono)

37:31 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - The Sky’s Brilliance (composer: Yasunori Shiono)

39:25 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - Scientist’s Waltz (composer: Yuusei Yamamoto)

41:05 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - The Guiding Fortuneteller (composer: Yukio Nakajima)

42:16 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - Golden-Colored Wind (composer: Yukio Nakajima)

43:40 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - Heroes’ Adventure (composer: Yukio Nakajima)

45:01 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - To the Blue Horizon (composer: Yukio Nakajima)

46:48 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - The Prayer Bells Do Not Toll (composer: Yukio Nakajima)

48:28 - Talk Segment: Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa

52:34 - Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom Disk System) - A Rattle Samba (main BGM)

54:02 - Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom Disk System) - Boss Battle

54:51 - Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom Disk System) - Sweat on the Beat (Worlds 1-2 & 6-2)

56:48 - Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom Disk System) - Underwater Stage (Worlds 2-2 & 5-3)

58:22 - Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom Disk System) - Ice Stage (World 3-3)

1:00:05 - Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom Disk System) - Final Boss

1:00:59 - Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom Disk System) - The Land of Happiness (Ending & Staff Roll)

1:02:40 - Outro Talk Segment

1:05:32 - The Price is Right (DS) - Main Theme (composer: Edd Kalehoff)

[150] Nighttime Cityscapes

By Pixel Beat on Mar 20, 2025 9:00 am UTC

About: Looking out into the nighttime city, you'll find a cityscape of lively lights and so much potential.

Artwork: Streets of Rage

00:00 - The Street of Rage [Streets of Rage]

by Yuzo Koshiro >

01:59 - The Dark City [The Revenge Of Shinobi]

by Yuzo Koshiro >

03:04 - Nocturne [FEZ]

by Disasterpeace >

05:11 - The Lounge Where We Speak Of Tomorrow [Etrian Odyssey]

by Yuzo Koshiro >

06:46 - Night Life [SimCity 3000]

by Jerry Martin >

12:04 - The Port City Bathed In Twilight [Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City]

by Yuzo Koshiro >

13:26 - Night Highway [Snowboard Kids]

by Isao Kasai, Tomohiko Satou >

17:00 - Formations [FEZ]

by Disasterpeace >

19:21 - Game Over [Snatcher]

by Akira Yamaoka >

21:36 - Streets of Rage 4 Main Theme [Streets Of Rage 4]

by Yuzo Koshiro >

25:30 - Tokyo -Twilight- [Shin Megami Tensei IV]

by Ryota Kozuka, Toshiki Konishi, Kenichi Tsuchiya, Tsukasa Masuko, Shoji Meguro >

28:15 - Last Call [VA-11 HALL-A]

by Garoad >

Continue reading ‘Nitro Game Injection #579: Copper (NGI 22nd Anniversary)’ »

Episode 38-5 Super Smash Bros.

By Rhythm and Pixels on Mar 19, 2025 9:00 am UTC

rhythm and pixels World 38 brawl melee super smash bros

We are continuing the love for all things Smash Bros. by focusing this week’s episode entirely on the series! Putting so much good music and history into just one episode is challenging, but you know we are up for it! So grab some friends, some controllers, and let’s have smashing good time!

Listen to more of the show! https://rhythmandpixels.com

Consider supporting the podcast! https://patreon.com/rhythmandpixels

Episode 120 – Free Picks 6: The Search for 5

By XVGM Radio on Mar 19, 2025 5:00 am UTC

Uncategorized VGM Free Picks

Free Picks…the very definition of randomness. Every 20 episodes, Mike and Justin think back to stuff they’re playing, or perhaps pick a track suggested by our Discord members (Thanks ElectricBoogaloo for this month’s pick!) What follows is an episode full of tongue twisters, caller requests from questionable callers and Justin goes all in on Destiny discussion. One COULD call this a “Squeakuel” but it’s best to call it Free Picks 6: The Search For 5!
We’d love to hear what you thought about these random tracks we’ve picked! What was your favorite track? Shoot us an email at XVGMRadio@gmail.com or join in on the discussion at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/XVGMradio
Also, we have a Discord Channel! Join us and chat about the show, share a random or obscure VGM song you love, or just chit chat with Mike and Justin about tacos! Join for free here: https://discord.gg/zWxDYfn
Thanks to all of our wonderful Patrons: Cam Werme, Chris Murray, Claire Myers, Scott McElhone, Jordan & Anson Davis, Rayjkayj, Llama Adam, Kung Fu Carlito, Nick Davis, Ryan McPherson, Scott Brackett, and Brad Austin Become a Patron, get cool rewards, and more at http://www.Patreon.com/XVGMRadio
Check out all episodes of XVGM Radio on www.youtube.com/dongled for another more visual format!
Our Twitter and Instagram are great ways to interact with us! Find us on there under our handle @XVGMRadio
If you’re an Apple Podcasts listener, please consider leaving a rating and a review to let us know how we’re doing! It also helps with getting the show to show up when others are searching for VGM!

TRACK LISTING:

Intro (J) – Kidou Senshi Z-Gundam – Hot Scramble (FC – 1986) “Mizu no Hoshi e Ai wo Komete (Main BGM – For Us To Decide)” Neil Sedaka
1 – Destiny 2: The Final Shape (PS/XB/PC – 2024) “Cusp of Finality” Rotem Moav, Skye Lewin, Michael Salvatori, Josh Mosser, Michael Sechrist
2 – Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS4 – 2020) “Barret’s Theme (Jukebox Version)” Nobuo Uematsu (Original), Yuichi Tsuchiya (Arranger)
3 – Daytona USA 2: Battle on the Edge (ARC – 1998) “Skyscraper Sequence” Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Fumio Ito, Dennis St. James (Vocals)
4 – Capcom Generation: Dai 2 Shū – Makai to Kishi (SAT/PS1 – 1998) “ARR08 (Ghoul’s Stomach)” Mari Yamaguchi (Original) Unknown Arranger
5 – Secret of Evermore (SNES – 1995) “Regal Castle” Jeremy Soule
6 – The Return of Medusa: Rings of Medusa II (AMI/AST – 1991) “Intro” Jochen Hippel
7 – Minnesota Fats – Pool Legend (GEN – 1995) “Chillin” Masaaki Iwasaki, Taihei, Seiji Momoi, Arma, Shogo Sakai
8 – Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (XBONE/PS4/PC – 2021) “Space Riders With No Name” Richard Jacques (Main Game Music,) Star-Lord (Steve Szczepkowski, Yohann Boudreault)
9 – Cyber City Oedo 808: Kemono no Zokusei (PCE – 1991) “Power Source” Keiichi Yamamoto, Atsuhiro Motoyama, Miyuki Takagi, Atsushi Yamaji
10 – Marvel SNAP (MOB/IOS/STEAM – 2022) “Build Your Team” Christopher Alan Grabar

Episode 189: An Explosive Peel-Out

By NWR's Radio Trivia: Podcast Edition on Mar 18, 2025 5:07 am UTC

Perry joins TYP for an eclectic assortment of video game picks.

WaveBack Episode 183: Earthworm Jim

By WaveBack Music Podcast on Mar 17, 2025 4:00 am UTC

Show Notes

For Matt’s pick this month, he went with Earthworm Jim, specifically the Special Edition for Sega CD. Useful Links

Social Stuff

Unfinished Business: Greatest Hits 2021

By Super Marcato Bros on Mar 16, 2025 7:59 pm UTC

Episodes

In this episode, Karl & Will finally get around to something that's been hanging for over 3 years...Greatest Hits 2021! That's right, the true final installment of the Greatest Hits series, that was never done due to the transition of the "new" era. Just like the previous installments, this is nothing but bangers. Enjoy some top-shelf VGM!

Final Fantasy XII - Hitoshi Sakimoto - The Dalmasca Estersand

Arcana - Jun Ishikawa, Hirokazu Ando - Second Armageddon

Princess Connect! Re:Dive - Hayato Matsuo - Beach Tyrant Sharkjaw

Dave Valentin - Land of the Third Eye - Astro-March

Shinobi III - Morihiko Akiyama - Idaten

Pokemon TCG2 - Ichiro Shimakura - Ronald's Theme

Protodome - Super Chipfunk - Toejammin'

Street Fighter EX2 Plus - Shinji Hosoe - White Field

Mesuneko Hishoshitsu - Yuki Nakayama (PANDA) - BGM 01

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Kenji Hiramatsu - Battle!!

The Hit Points - Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night - Dance of Pales Bluegrass Arrangement

True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club - Yumi Kinoshita - Opening

Ori and the Blind Forest - Gareth Coker - Restoring the Light, Facing the Dark

Gran Turismo 6 - Yudai Satoh - The Power of GT

Deltarune - Toby Fox - My Castle Town

Fantasian - Nobuo Uematsu - Great Battle

Kshiraki - Summerscape - Sunshine Road

Ray's the Dead - Jake Kaufman - Party at the Graveyard

Nitro Game Injection #579: Copper (NGI 22nd Anniversary)

By Nitro Game Injection on Mar 16, 2025 12:00 pm UTC

Nitro Game Injection Alien anniversary Banjo Guy Ollie bboynoe Castlevania Cave Story Chrono Chrono Trigger Donkey Kong F-Zero Final Fantasy GaMetal Husky by the Geek Jackson Parodi Jer Roque JohnStacy Kirby Kirby's Dream Band Klaymore Legend of Zelda MAGFest Mana Mario Mario Kart Marshall Art Masashi Kageyama Mega Man Mega Man X MetalLegend64 Metalltool Mykah NES Nestalgica news Ninja Warriors PirateCrab RichaadEB Ro Panuganti Sean Schafianski Shredder SNES Sonic Star Fox Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Game Brass Thennecan Touhou VVVVVV Wii Zelda

Join Kyle in celebrating the 22nd anniversary of Nitro Game Injection with a SUPERSIZED episode! PLAYLIST: 3:24 – Joe Zieja – Let the Water Flow (Original work :: YouTube) 11:31 – Orchestral Fantasy – Main Theme (Star Fox [SNES] :: YouTube) 14:00 – Qumu – Please Select Player (Super Mario Bros. 2 [NES] :: YouTube ...

Corky's Heartland Values

By Select BGM on Mar 15, 2025 6:00 pm UTC

Roll out the buttermilk biscuits and put on your best Bullwinkle shirt, because we have a treat of a show today that you'll definitely not want to fly over. Fire up the C64 and hide your bibles before they burn away from our searing metalized and synthetic mixer! Grab a paper bag and we'll spray in the best silver paint as we damage your mind at Select BGM.

R&P Chat 38-5 Smash Bros. Live!

By Rhythm and Pixels on Mar 14, 2025 1:14 pm UTC

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This week on the show we have some very special guests! Straight from the NYC, we've got Robin and Hari from Smash Bros. Live! Not only do they organize Smash Bros. events, they perform the music live along with the action!

Discover more about Smash Bros Live! https://smashbroslive.com

Listen to more of the show! https://rhythmandpixels.com

Consider supporting the podcast! https://patreon.com/rhythmandpixels

Episode 163: As Constant As Pie (National Pi Day)

By RE-VGM on Mar 14, 2025 7:03 am UTC

Today, we’re celebrating National Pi Day, that constant value of 3.14159265 and so forth. It is the result of the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Though it’s often used to calcuate a circle’s area or a sphere’s volume, pi is also used in geometry and physics. The Exploratorium Museum of Science, Art, […]

KVGM “The Last Wave” (3/9/25)

By KVGM "The Last Wave" on Mar 9, 2025 4:00 pm UTC

Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.

Come for the jams, stay for the jams, stay a little longer for the Last Wave After Dark, exclusively on Patreon…stay even longer for mozzarella sticks at Sharky’s Underwater Grill. But most importantly, enjoy yourselves! Just not too much…

Playlist

Morning – Yuichiro Usui
(Tincle★Twinkle Festival!, PC)

Clubhouse – Ryuji Nishida
(Eikan wa Kimini: Koushien e no Michi, Sony PlayStation 2)

Moonlight Garden – ESTi
(Trickster Online, PC)

Relief – Tomoaki Hirono, Shoichi Tanaka, and Masahiko Kimura
(Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2010, Sony PlayStation 3)

Vacation – M.U.T.S. Music Studio
(Hanachirutani-Sanzinkou, PC)

Suiyoku Planet – Noriko Ogawa and Noriyuki Nakagami
(No-Ri-Ko, PC Engine CD)

Shining Shyness (Kirame) – rian
(Futamata Ren’ai, PC)

Sweet Dreams – Capcom Sound Team
(Finder Love: Risa Kudo – First Shoot wa Kimi, Sony PlayStation Portable)

Overlapping Lips, Overlapping Silver – ALVINE
(Kizuna Kirameku Koi Iroha, Sony PlayStation 4)

Inherit the Stars – Hiro
(Baldr Bullet: Equilibrium, Sony PlayStation 2)

Special Request

Staff Roll – Nobuyuki Shioda
(Banana Prince, Nintendo Famicom)

Level 161

By The Messenger Presents a VGM Journey on Mar 9, 2025 1:03 pm UTC

Track Listing

Journey To The New World - Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii - Saori Yoshida

Mad Dog - Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii - Saori Yoshida

Stage 7 - Donkey Kong (94) - Taisuke Araki

Gorgeous-Go-Round (Casino Area) - Kirby: Planet Robobot - Hirokazu Ando and Jun Ishikawa

Track 3 - Looney Tunes: Sheep Raider - Eric Caspar

Ending - Ganbare Goemon 2 - Kouji Murata and Michiru Yamane

Immortal C64 - Episode 112

By Immortal C64 Podcast on Mar 8, 2025 7:00 pm UTC

Immortal C64 Episode 112 - Real SID Episodes are BACKKKKKK!!!.

Track Listing :

Track Number / Start Time / Artist / Track Name / Track Length

01 .. 0:00:35 - Stellan Andersson - Not Much Going On - 3:10
02 .. 0:03:50 - Krzysztof Krawczyk - Split - 2:02
03 .. 0:05:46 - Wojceich Wojtkiewicz - Abnormal - 2:25
04 .. 0:07:53 - Sid - Eurosport - 4:55
05 .. 0:12:37 - Rene Griebel - Mood of Good - 4:01
06 .. 0:16:35 - Alain Hertenstein - Old Tune 89 - 2:44
07 .. 0:19:23 - Carsten Berggreen - Brawn Mix - 1:51
08 .. 0:21:12 - Martin Nardell - Burning Neon - 2:42
09 .. 0:24:10 - Jan D Arent Harries - Videogamer - 2:34
10 .. 0:26:47 - Radek Andrzejewicz - Cyberdream 1 - 3:18
11 .. 0:29:58 - Rastislav Smutny - Rush Hours - 2:45
12 .. 0:32:41 - Dariusz Piasecki - Cage Part 1 - 2:57
13 .. 0:35:41 - Kai Lehmann - Effects Pack 1:48
14 .. 0:37:33 - Krzysztof Krawczyk - Energy - 2:18
15 .. 0:39:53 - Chotaire - Technology - 4:45
16 .. 0:44:45 - Kamil Degorski - Stop Scratchin - 2:41
17 .. 0:47:22 - Kenneth Mutka - Sadis - 2:13
18 .. 0:49:39 - Vincent Merken - Optimist - 2:30
19 .. 0:52:12 - Jakub Szefer - 090 - 3:48
20 .. 0:56:01 - Dejan Subotin - Attitude - 3:07
21 .. 0:59:12 - Daniel Hansson - Dead Zone Tune 4 - 1:58

Thanks for listening :)

REAL SID shows are back from this episode! SID chip has been replaced.
All songs recorded from my actual C64C.

I started a Ko-fi Page, If you fancy supporting, please do! // Please support or follow my page! https://ko-fi.com/retrograde77

Real SID episodes are made using an real C64 and a SD2IEC from http://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/

I can be found on Twitter at Retrograde77 / email : akumadesigns at gmail.com

Episode 162: “Mr. Watson, come here.” (Alexander Graham Bell Day)

By RE-VGM on Mar 7, 2025 8:03 am UTC

“Hello?” “Moshi moshi?” “Diga?” “Wei?” “Allo?” Today, we’re celebrating Alexander Graham Bell Day, in honor of the man who created and invented the telephone. The date, March 7th, marks the date in which the U.S. Patent Office granted the patent in 1876. It was made out of necessity regarding mother who was becoming hard of […]

[149] Lemon Jazz - Part II

By Pixel Beat on Mar 6, 2025 9:00 am UTC

About: Another episode dedicated to a number of Jazzy themes. There is a lot of variety in the different styles of Jazz present here.

00:00 - Neon District [VA-11 HALL-A]

by Garoad >

03:54 - Obstructive Existence [Trails In The Sky SC]

by Falcom Sound Team JDK >

06:10 - Lovely Gate 3… for Egg Quarters [Sonic Adventure 2]

by Tabitha Fair >

09:27 - Time Castle [Persona 2: Eternal Punishment]

by Toshiki Konishi >

12:19 - A Curious Happening [Secret of Mana]

by Hiroki Kikuta >

15:04 - The Scorpion Casino [Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask]

by Tomohito Nishiura >

18:03 - Lost [Catherine]

by Shoji Meguro >

19:37 - The Runaround Pt. IV [Final Fantasy VII Remake: Intermission]

by Tsuyoshi Sekito, Mitsuto Suzuki >

21:46 - Sphere Hunter - The Seagulls [Final Fantasy X-2]

by Noriko Matsueda, Takahito Eguchi >

24:26 - Struggle III [Radiata Stories]

by Noriyuki Iwadare >

26:07 - Also Sprach Brooks [Catherine]

by Shoji Meguro >

27:52 - Queen’s Blood [Final Fantasy VII Rebirth]

by Mitsuto Suzuki, Junnosuke Usui >