Episode 022: Virtual Boy

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(see below for updates. Apologies if this screws up the feed!)

This week we explore the forgotten corners of Nintendo's history. The Virtual Boy may have been a financial flop, but it is musically rich!

The show can be downloaded here,

or streamed here:



***UPDATE***

In the original post for this episode, I neglected to include the links to the two websites I discuss on the show. Here they are:

Benj Edwards Virtual Boy article

Planet Virtual Boy

And the track list below:


# - Game - Track - System - Composer
1 - Galactic Pinball - Moon Man Fandango - Virtual Boy - Kenji Yamamoto & Masaru Tajima
2 - Golf - Menu - Virtual Boy - Ken Kojima
3 - Jack Bros. - Temple of Nightmare - Virtual Boy - Hiroyuki Yanada
4 - Panic Bomber - Desert of Desolation (World 3) - Virtual Boy - Shinichi Sakamoto & Jun Chikuma
5 - Waterworld - In-Game BGM - Virtual Boy - Jonathan Dunn
6 - Virtual League Baseball - Menu - Virtual Boy - Mari Komatsu
7 - Mario's Tennis - Singles 1 - Virtual Boy - Hitoshi Fukushima, & Morihito Iwamoto

8 - Telroboxer - Staff Roll - Virtual Boy - Katsuya Yamano

Episode 021: Neo Retro Games

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This week we are going back in time all the way to the future. It's a 10-track-stravaganza!

The show can be downloaded here,

or streamed here:

Here is the link to the YouTube video I referenced on the show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvx4xXhZMrU

And the track list below:

# - Game - Track - System - Composer
1 - Shovel Knight - Strike the Earth! (Plains of Passage) - PC - virt
2 - La-Mulana - Curse of Iron Pipe / Spring Sky - PC - Houryu Samejima
3 - Retro City Rampage - Half Steppin’ - PC - Freaky DNA
4 - Retro City Rampage - Battaglia Dietro La Cascata B - PC - Norrin Radd
5 - Retro City Rampage - Not Nate - PC - virt
6 - Spark the Electric Jester - Smog City Sewers - PC - Michael Staple
7 - Alwa’s Awakening - Forsaken Valley - PC - Robert Kreese
8 - Alwa’s Awakening - Vicar (Boss) - PC - Prof. Sakamoto
9 - Pixel Noir - Bare Knuckle Bruisin’ - PC - Kunal Majmudar
10 - Timespinner - "Desolate Lake (“Timespinner early tracks - Desolate Lake”)" - PC - Jeff Ball

Episode 020: Just Guy Things

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Frederic Motte's bandcamp link to the soundtrack is: https://elmobo.bandcamp.com/album/fury-of-the-furries-ost-dos-adlib

And the track list below:

# - Game - Track - System - Composer
1 - Final Fight 2 - Fret Street Beat-Beat - SNES - Yasuaki Fujita (Bun Bun), Mari Yamaguchi, Yuki Satomura, Setsuo Yamamoto, Yuko Kadota & Tatsuya Nishimura
2 - Summer Carnival '93 - "Nexzr special music - Stage 3" - PC Engine CD-Rom² - Yasushi Wada, Tatsuya Watanabe, Katsuya Yoneda
3 - Fury Of The Furries - The Mountain 2 - MS-DOS (AdLib) - "Frederic ""Elmobo"" Motte, fka Moby"
4 - Shinra Banshou - The Universe (Opening) - PC-88 - Nobuhito Koise
5 - World Class Baseball - Edit Mode - TurboGrafx-16 - Unknown
6 - Duel Succession - Someday, Surely - PC-98 - Masaki Sasaki

Episode 019: Vikings!

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Sorry for the delayed post this week. I was traveling and Alan was not in the studio for the holiday weekend. As I said on twitter, sorry I ruined your morning commute!

This week is all* about vikings!

*and anything else I can tie to vikings.

The show can be downloaded here,

or streamed here:



Here is the trailer I mention:



And here is one of my own personal pictures - mobile phone quality!

And the track list below:

# - Game - Track - System - Composer
1 - Prophecy I: The Viking child - The Village / Level 1 - Amiga - Barry Leitch
2 - Erik the Viking - New Dawn (Erik the Viking’s Theme) - NES / FC - Neil Baldwin
3 - Lost Vikings - Factory Beat - SNES / SFC - Charles Deenen
4 - Lost Vikings 2 - Dark Ages - SNES / SFC - Glenn Stafford
5 - Myth: History in the Making / Conan: The Mysteries of Time - Title Theme - C64 - Jeroen Tel
6 - Spike in Transylvania - intro number 35 - Amiga - WOTW (“Warrior of the Wind”) / Supplex (Group)
7 - Heimdall - Track 4 - Sega CD - Martin Iveson
8 - Viking Squad - Cathedral - Playstation 4 - A Shell in the Pit