VGMporium: Video Game Music and More!: Recent Episodes
AJ Reyes - rayjkayj
Welcome to VGMporium: Video Game Music and More! Podcast. Whether you’re shopping for beloved classics or obscure tunes, you'll find em here...and so much more!!!
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Tracklist –
It’s finally here, The 10th Shop Themes episode! And what better way to donit than a look at music from a series that’s all about running you own shop, shops even.
A huge shout out to JetWolf EX for ripping and uploading the music from The Conveni 4! Check out their Youtube channel for some great, obscure VGM https://youtube.com/@jetwolfex?si=VVlt-pa8kfE2I6Du
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Tracklist –
BGM 3 – The Conveni – Makoto Oka
BGM 7 – The Conveni – Makoto Oka
BGM 3 – The Conveni 2 – Makoto Oka
BGM 6 – The Conveni 2 – Makoto Oka
Menu – The Conveni 3 / The Conveni Portable – Tenpei Sato
Menu Theme – The Conveni 4
World Theme 5 – The Conveni 4
BGM 2 – The Conveni 20XX
BGM 2 – The Conveni DS: Otona no Keiei Ryoku Training
Drumn – The Conveni 3 / The Conveni Portable – Tenpei Sato
End – The Conveni 3 / The Conveni Portable – Tenpei Sato
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Tracklist –
Title – Lan Master – Alex Semenov (Shiru) Shiru’s Stuff – Soundcloud
Opa-Opa! – Fantasy Zone (NES Tengen) – C,Hiroshi Kawaguchi, A.Masaharu Iwata intro
Stage 2 The Element Of Water – MK5 Mortal Combat Sub Zero – Hanmin Liao
Earth Man Stage Theme – Zook Hero Z –
Ice World – Sonyc – Jorrith Schaap
Ending 2 (True Ending) – Uwol- Quest for Money – C.Augusto Ruiz, A. KungFuFurby Battle of The Bits
Now I got this buddy Wade and no matter what VGM always weaves it’s way into our conversations, whether when hanging out or through text. So what I got today is a selection of tunes that he has shared with me over the last year and a half along with his comments on em.
Wade was my first guest on VGMporium, so why not take listen to that episode as well? Ep 39: An Inexplicaply Cute Sound
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Tracklist –
Menu – Jikkyou World Soccer 3 – Tsutomu Ogura, Harumi Ueko
Sky High – Daytona USA – Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
Town Area – Fox Junction – Yuzo Koshiro
I Want Her (Sega Genesis Remix) – O. Keith Sweat, R. Legendofrenegade
Infinity 2 – Fantavision 202x – Soichi Terada
Mes Volutes Bleues – Viewpoint – Shizura ‘Sizlla’ Okamura
Intention To Mystery – Star Trader (SharpX68000) – Keishi Yonao
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Tracklist –
Title Screen – Macross VF-X 2
The Pair of The Bells – Twinbee RPG – Hiroshi Tamawari
Tea House – The Silver Case – Masafumi Takada
Temple of The World Tree – Purumui Purumui – Masashi Kageyama
Separation – Arc The Lad – Masahiro Andoh
Continue? – Yoyo’s Puzzle Park
America Oudan Ultra Quiz, Also known as Trans-American Ultra Quiz, was a Japanese TV gameshow series starting in the late 70’s where thousands of of contestants would test their knowledge of America (Mostly the US) with only 50 of them being able to proceed to a cross country trip through the Americas while also taking harder and harder quizzes and challenges. And of course there were eventually games based off it with plenty of mighty fine tunes!
Here is the article by Qanta Shimizu about the TV show America Oudan Ultra Quiz, it’s really facinating! https://medium.com/@qanta/trans-america-ultra-quiz-22a3aab3d098
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Tracklist –
(Playstation/Saturn) Opening – America Oudan Ultra Quiz
(FM Towns) Opening – America Oudan Ultra Quiz
GAMEBOY
BGM 01 – America Oudan Ultra Quiz – Norihiko Togashi
BGM 08 – America Oudan Ultra Quiz Part 2
BGM 04 – America Oudan Ultra Quiz Part 3: Champion Taikai
BGM 08 – America Oudan Ultra Quiz Part 4 – Manabu Namiki
FAMICOM
08, 11 and 32 – America Oudan Ultra Quiz: Shijou Saidai no Tatakai – Masahatu Iwata
FM TOWNS
Narita BGM, Guam, Mambo House, Hawaii, New York – America Oudan Ultra Quiz
SUPER FAMICOM
Statue of Liberty – America Oudan Ultra Quiz – Cube Co.
(FMTowns) Closing Theme – America Oudan Ultra Quiz
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Tracklist –
crazygoji – Sonic You Can Do Anything – Sonic CD – C. Masafumi Ogata, V. Keiko Utoku, L. Casey Rankin
Professor Tom – Name Entry and Car Menu – Ferrari Geand Prix Challenge – Neil Baldwin
Jlook (Jlooky’s Youtube) – Mirage Planet (Michelangelo’s Stage) – TMNT Tournament Fighters (Gen/MD) – Miki Higashino
Jam Virtuattak – BGM 08 – NHL Blades of Steel – Matthew Simmonds
Martyrus – The King of Speed Genesis Dual PCM Remix – Daytona USA – O. Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, R. Supper_E1 Youtube
pock eteleri – Credits Full (50cc/100cc credits and 150cc/Mirror Match Credits) Mario Kart DS – Shinobu Tanaka
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Tracklist –
Tima Attack – AMS II: Take Revenge for the Ruined Master – Naoto Ishikawa
Time Trial – Dynomite – Peter Hajba (Skaven)
The Ultimate Challenge (Time Attack Mode) – Crimzon Clover WORLD IGNITION – Javier Garcia (Gryzor87)
M-KAI SPECIAL#1 (Time AttackBGM) – Kanzen Kouryaku Kyokugen – Shinobu Hatakeyama (M-kai)
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Tracklist –
-Kozue Ishikawa-
Tal Tal Heights – The Legend of Zeld: Link’s Awakening
Hen’s Nest – Wario Land II
Macbeth Inside – Star Fox 2
-Saria Lemes (Pedipanol) Bandcamp – Soundcloud – BOTB
Crumb City – Starboy Adventures
Spaceship – Xermatt Redux
A Cave to Explore – Almatetra
-Ayako Saso-
View of Dynamism (Stage 5) – Rolling Thunder 2
Forgotten Village – Folklore/Folk Song
Silently Boisterous Normal – Tekken 8
Such delight within a grab bag, in this case extras that did not make it into previous episodes.
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Tracklist –
VS Quiz King – Hayaoshi Quiz Nettou Namahousou – Yasuyuki Suzuki
Desolated ( Island) – Sorcerian Forever – Falcom Sound Team JDK
The Devil (Deviljho) – Monster Hunter Tri – Yuko Kamiyama
Unused 1, Shark (Stage 2) – The First Funky Fighter – Paul-kun, Kathy
Ending – Touhaiden Akagi –
Yes indeed more shop themes for your shopping experience!
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Tracklist –
Shop – Langrisser 2 – Isao Mizuguchi
November (Equipment Shop BGM) – Sledge Blow – Takayuki Aihara
Immortally Shop Rag – Majin Tensei – Hidehito Aoki
Overground (Hoofman’s Shop Layer) – Shovel Knight Dig – Jake “Virt” Kaufman
Shopping – True Love Story 3 – Noriyuki Iwadare
Visual Novels and amazing FM chiptune, a conbo that juat cannot lose! Such is the case for Read Only Memories: Neuro Diver. Sequel to 2015’s Read Only Memories, it is a treat for the eyes and ears! Lovingly crafted pixel art by the Midboss team and Awesome FM tunes, made using the YM2608 (OPNA) soundchip, reminiscent of the PC98’s best by Ken “Coda” Snyder help to elevate this new intriguing adventure in the Cyber punk future of Neo San Fransico!
Follow these links to listen to Coda’s music Bandcamp – Soundcloud – Battle of The Bits –
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All music Composed by Ken “coda” Snyder
Tracklist –
Night Dive (Reprise)
Lunar Phase (ES88’s Theme)
Cortex Clues
Kick Back!
My Instinct (Lexi’s Theme)
Let’s Sit Together
Fly High (Butterfly Mix)
Want more AHX goodness? Check out Dexters Pinkboratory: Best of AHX Volume 1
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All songs by Geir Tjelta
Tracklist –
The Fugitive
Depressed
Blue Mazda 323
New Song
Luminous
Brain Artiface
Melodiuos
Sad News. It was announced after I had finished this episode that Jon Miller, one of the Creators of GEMS, has passed away. This episode shall be dedicated in his honor
Been 2 1/2 years but here it is, more Jams from the GEMS engine! It is has a bad rap for being the reason there is some atrociuos music on the Sega Genesis but when in the right hands it can be used for amazingly good tunes.
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Tracklist –
Season Tunes – Prime Time NFL Starting Deion Sanders – Andy Armer
Seaside Trap (Stage 3) – The Punisher – Yoko Shimomura, Isao Abe
Dementia – Virtual Pinball – Mark Miller
Song 5 – Sega Channel July 15 1995 Prototype (Unreleased Game Code) – David Jevalos
Toxic Dump and Genetics Lab (Part III) – The Ooze – Howard Drossin
Rooftop – Demolition Man – Nathan Grigg
Elves Factory – Daze Before Christmas – Kim M. Jensen, Gier Tjelta
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Tracklist –
Jam Virtuattak – Pastmaster – Swat Kats – Tomoyuki Hamada
Pocket Eleri – Sky Babylon Act 1 and 2 – Sonic Rush Adventure – Tomoya Ohtani
crazygoji – Solar System 8-bit Remix – Love You – O. The Beach Boys, A. Mr j Wilson Youtube
Martyrus – Solar Inferno (Solar Man’s Stage) Remix – Mega Man 10 – O. Yasuaki Funita, A. Kokoremix Youtube
Martyrus bonus – Firefield PC-98 FM Remix – F-Zero – O. Yumiko Kanki, Naoto Ishida, A. Trojanhorse711 Youtube
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Tracklist –
All song composed by Keishi Yonao and Yasuo Ito
– Mahjong Fantasia –
Opening Ballad
Heavy Music – Pop
In-game (Playing Mahjong)
Undress Mode Select
Raspberry’s Theme
Ending
– IF –
Scenario Intro
BGM1 (Kazuya’s Gloomy Day)
BGM1 (Triangle)
BGM2 (Kikyou’s Flower)
BGM1 (Muddy Rescue Operation)
Ending (Kazuya’s Gloomy Day)
I’ve seen a fair share of anime, both well known and obscure, but I felt that I needed someone with more experience in this field. Enter Pernell!! We get to talkin’ about games based on (if you haven’t guessed already) anime, with some good ol’ R&P quality tangents throughout! So please enjoy in the plentiful hilarity that ensues as Pernell and I weeb out. BALZAC!!!
Pernell is one of two hosts of Rhythm and Pixels VGM Podcast, a reguler on The SML Podcast as well as a reviewer for Hey Poor Player.
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Tracklist –
Demon Devil Bats – Eyeshield 21: Field no Saikyou Sendhi Tachi – Manabu Namiki
Heart/Ugyur – Fist of the Northstar: 10 Big Brawls For The King of Universe – Tomoho Mitsuyasu
Ryoga’s Rooftop – Ranma 1/2 Bakuretsu Rantouhen Hard Battle – Toshio Okamoto
Haunted Shopping Mall – Ghost Sweeper Mikami: Joshei wa Nice Body – Kinuyo Yamashita, Hiroyuki Iwatsuki
Adhesion of Blood – Sword of The Berserk: Gut’s Rage – Susumu Hirasawa
Battle BGM – Blue Seed Kushinada Hirokuden – Unknown
CAVERN – Blue Dragon – Nobio Uematsu
2 years ago I did an episode about 7 GRAND DAD which. according to my Spotify statistics, has the highest number of plays and listeners by a huge margin compared to other episodes..very strange. So today we’re gonna dive into a game that takes it and so many other Bootlegs/romhacks and mashes them all into a surprisingly great package with an amazing original chiptune soundtrack to boot!!
You can play GRAND DAD by downloading it from Gamejolt – https://gamejolt.com/games/grand-dad/162835
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Tracklist –
Title – Arcane Toaster, Cosmic Gem
Curscene 1 (Crash Landing) – JP Ronny
Stage 2 (Mountain) – Arcane Toaster
Boss – CosmicGem, Threxx
Stage 5 (Gadem City) – JP Ronny, Threxx
Stage 7 (Ominous Cave) – MelonadeM, Threxx
Stage 8 (Alien Base) – Threxx
Final Boss (A Battle of Grand Proportions) – O. Nick Oleksiak Roeslian, A. MelonadeM
Staff Roll – Arcane Toaster
Please do check out all the chiptunists featured in the Soundtrack
CosmicGem: Bandcamp – Soundcloud –
MelonadeM: Bandcamp – Soundcloud – Youtube
Arcane Toaster: Soundcloud – Youtube
Threxx: Youtube
JP Ronny: Youtube – Soundcloud
The Compact Disc format was revolutionary, so much potential! And some folks would try to seize this to create THE all-in-one home entertainment console. Unfortunatley most of these attempts failed due to trying to focus on to much as well as trying to compete with devices that could do the individual elements far better and cheaper. But still they are interesting artifacts in the history of gaming consoles which yes for the most part their games are pretty horrible, the music from them is quite surprising!
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Tracklist –
CD-i – Chill Hotel 3-3 – Hotel Mario – Marc St. Regis
Apple/Bandai Pippin – Track 08 – Racing Days
Nuon – 03 – Tempest 3000 – Andre Meyer, T(NT), James Grunke
NEC/Hudson PC-FX – Chip-Chan Kick – Yoshio Furukawa
Pioneer Laseractive – Imaginal Beast Music I – Goku (MegaLD) – Haroini Hosono
Bandai Playdia – DBZ Shin Saiyajin Zetsumetsu Kaikaku Chikyuu-hen
Amiga CD32 – – Donk! The Samurai Duck – Tim Erickson
Mattel Hyperscan – Japan – X-Men – Bryce Knight, Bill King, Stephen Ablett
Atari Jaguar CD – Track 03 – Iron Soldier 2 – Joachim Gierveld, Mario Knezovic
3DO – World Map 2 – Guardian War – Yasafumi Fukuda, Yukiharu Urita
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Tracklist –
BGM Shop – Grand Trucker Aniki: Shigoto to Kenka to Koimoyou – Unknown
Shop (FM Kidz) – Syobon Musuo – MusMus/Watson
Shop – Super Family Gerende – Kouji Nakagawa
Shopping – Tokimeki Memorial 4 – Eri Arakawa
Shop – imagination Science World Gulliver Boy – C. Kohei Tanaka, A. Kazuhiko Sawaguchi
Shop – 3DS Street Pass Mii Plaza: Market Crashers – Monako Hosano, Yuta Sasaki
Shop 1 – Star Cruiser II – Toshia Yamanaka, Kenichi Yaguchi, Testuya Nakano
Electronic music is pretty dang cool. So cool in fact that listener and fellow music madman crazygoji has come in to talk about it in it’s many forms in VGM. Is any if actually techno though? Thats for you to decide!
crazygoji is a musician of eclectic and ecstatic style. You can listen to their music at Bandcamp and Soundcloud His music has also been featured in compilations by Sinecraft/Sangcorp and releases from IiIypad Records
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Tracklist –
Simon 1995RD – Contra Hard Corp – Hiroshi Kobayashi, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka, Hirofumi Taniguchi, Aki Hata
Dagnon – Prote Pruste – Unknown
Search Man Theme (Forest Stage) – Mega Man 8 – Shusaku Uchiyama
Stage 6 – Illusion Blaze – Myung-Jin Ahn, Seung-Hwan Ro
Character Select – Cosmic Carnage – Hikoshi Hashimoto
BGM 4 – The Shinti Game Magical Trip – Kenji Yamamoto
Battle Against A Machine – Earthbound – Keiichi Suzuki
My cat guy is 2 years old and he is the BIG dungus. Such a special dude he gets an episode dedicated to him! Enjoy Cat VGM!!
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Tracklist –
Title – Asameshimae Nyanko –
The Cat Dance – Adlib Synthesizer Card Demo Songs –
Sneaky Cait Shee – Dirge of Cerebus: Final Fantasy VII – Masashi Hamauzu
Title Screen – The Bad Cat – Chris Hülsbeck
Neko Zamurai (Cat Samurai) – Neko Zamurai – Madafumi Takada
It’s A Wonderful Nine Lives – Eek! The Cat – Barry Lietch, Dean Evans
In tribute to the passing of Akira Toriyama I’ll be sharing a playlist of VGM from games based on his works. And it’s more than Dragon Ball!
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Tracklist –
Title – Dr. Slump: Arale-Chan – Unknown
Going For A Walk – Dr. Slump – Unknown
Msg 03 – Dr. Slump: Arale-Chan – Unknown
Battle Against Obotchaman – Dr. Slump – Unknown
Stage Theme – Dragon Ball – Unknown
World Map 1 – DBZ Kyoushuu Saiyajin – Unknown
Mr. Satan – DBZ Ultimate Battle 22 – Kenji Yamamoto
BGM 03 – Go Go Ackman GB – Unknown
Ackmans Revenge – Go Go Ackman – Kajima Shitamachi
Metal Angel Cyzer – Go Go Ackman 2 – K’Mixa
Highway – Go Go Ackman 3 – K’Mixa
King Kai at The Edge of The Other World – Chikayo Fukuda, Yasuhashi Asada, Noriko Murakami, Keisuke Ito and Eisei Kudou
Torippo! – Blue Dragon – Nobuo Uematsu
Martyrus, host of Re-VGM. has come back into the shop to to talk about memories of games we played during our school years. And of course everything we’re playing are remixes!
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Tracklist –
Tetris – Theme Remix (1989) – GAMEBOY + COMMODORE 64 + PO-28” – composed by Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka”, remixed by LukHash Youtube
Dust Man Theme (Classic Style) – Mega Man: Sequel Wars/Mega Man 4 – Composed Minae Fujii, Arrange ASW(Armored Struggle Wagon) Youtube
Dragon Warrior – “Dragon Warrior (NES) – Kingdom of Alefgard Remix” – composed by Koichi Sugiyama, remixed by DJ Axis Youtube
Imakunis Theme Re-arrange – Pokemon Trading Card Game – Compose Ichiro Shimakura, Arrange Pheanir Youtube
Final Fantasy – “Final Fantasy NES Overworld Theme” – composed by Nobuo Uematsu, remixed by KAIRU Beatz56 Youtube
Robotz in da Warehouz (OG Warehouse) SKulljagger – Compose Dave Hayes Rod Bar, Arrange Nase Overlooked Remix (Skoshu Soundclick)
Super Mario Bros 3 – “Athletic – Super Mario Bros 3 Remastered 80s Style” – composed by Koji Kondo, remixed by Aqua Midi Youtube
Yes indeed another batch of Special Orders are in, leaning a little heavier on the western side this time around.
If you’d like to place a special order you can send it in to vgmporium@gmail.com, on Discord or to any of the socials linked below
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Tracklist –
Jlook – Sand in Your Navel – Rocko’s Modern Life Spunky’s Dangerous Day – Mark Miller
Pocket eleri – Final Egg (Crank the Heat Up!) – Sonic And Sega All-Stars Racing – C. Jjn Senuoe, A. Alister Brimble, Anthony Putson
crazygoji – BGMs 021, 018 50, 033 60 and 058 80 – LcdDem – Koronba
Alex “The Messenger” Messenger – The Real Final Battle – Mario vs. Donkey Kong – Lawrence Schwedler
Martyrus – Spy vs. Spy (C64 Remix) – C. Nick Scarim, A. LukHash
Today I’ve got a really special guest in the Shop, professional video game music composer Chase Bethea! And he has come in to talk about a subject that has been on his mind with celebrating 13 years in the Video Games Industry, that beingComposers Legacy and what it means to him. His hope in talking about this being folks come away with a deeper appreciation and understanding for those that have created the music we have grown up with and love. All the while sharing some of our favorite VGM that are somewhat related to the topic.
Be sure to check out Chase’s work at his website https://chasebethea.com as well as Youtube – Spotify – Bandcamp – Twitter
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Tracklist –
Juste – Eternal Ring – Keiichiro Sagawa, Tsukasa Saito
Bottomless Crevace – Kickmaster – Nobuyuki Shioda, Yuusuke Takahama
Stage 6 (Frozen Hotel) – Exit – Hideki Takahagi
Can’t Believe You! (Betrayal) – Grounseed – Daisuke Takahashi
Redial – Bomberman Hero – Jun Chikuma
EInsamkeit – Saga Frontier 2 – Masashi Hamauzu
Durcheinander – Saga Frontier 2 – Masashi Hamauzu
Down The Hole To The Right – Aground Zero – Chase Bethea
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Tracklist –
Valentine – Shoichiro Harada
Love’s Password – Tokimeki Memorial 3 – Shoichiro Harada
LOVE ESCALATOR – Love Escalator –
Romance – Konami Kukeiha Club
Love Delivery Ending – Valentines Day – Unknown
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Tracklist –
Title – Moto Roader II –
Shipwreck Cliff – Legend of Zelda: The Faces of Evil –
Reflector – Desire – Ryu Umemoto
Ascent (Floor 3) – Rengoku: Tower of Purgatory –
Beyond The Watery Vortex – Mighty Gunvolt Burst – C. Manami Matsumae , A. Ryo Kawakami, TAPPY
Ruins – Virtual Hydlide –
Boy howdy I do love me some Sega Mega Drive tunes! And you wanna know who else does? St. John, host of Noise Noise Radio! And together we’re getting into some of Our favorite FM jams with a few surprises in store. And what’s really cool is all the songs were recorded off real hardware via the MegaBlaster 2 for that authentic grit and and crunch!
St. John (of Des Moines) is the Host of Nerd Noise Radio which provides 3 formats in the forma of Ch.1(Mixtape plus), Ch.2(Conversation) and Ch.F(Wildcard)
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Tracklist –
Ancient Temple – Wolf Child – C. Martin Iverson / A. Matt Furniss
Battle Theme 3 – Dragon Ball Z: Buu Yuu Restsuden – Shinji Amagishi, Hideyuki Ashizawa, Yoko Mizuta, Sukezo Oyama
MOON – Streets of Rage 3 – Motohiro Kawashima
Slap Up – Alien Soldier – Norio Hanzawa
Cylic (Heavily Armored) – Cosmic Carnage – Hikoshi Hashimoto
Battle Theme 1 – Shura no Mon – Hikoshi Hashimoto
Izayoi – Shinobi 3 – Masayuki Nagao
Would you believe me if I told you that I’ve played more games in 2023 than i did the entirety of the past 10 years? Well it’s true! All thanks to the advent of being gifted a Switch at the end of december 2022 and then getting a Miyoo Mini Plus halfway through 2023. And I’m tell ya about all the great games I played, or at least the ones I really enjoyed.
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Tracklist –
Beam Katana Chronicles – No More Heroes – Masafumi Takada
Victory/Defeated – No More Heroes 3 – Jun Fukuda
Hateno Ancient Tech Lab – Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom –
Patche – Vernal Edge – +w+
Purgatory Arena – Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow – Michiru Yamane
Streets of Iron City – GUNMM: Martian Memory – Sumito Sato
Light Switch – Bomb Rush Cyberfunk – Skyblew w/ Prod. by Navo the Maestro
New Game – World of Horror – Sebastion “Garoslaw” Zybowski
Trouble Makers – 2064: Read Only Memories – 2mello
You ever be playing a game when all of a sudden you hear a phat beat that just makes you wanna spit some mad verses? Well you’re not the only one! Rob Nichols, of Rhythm and Pixels, is here at the shop to share some VGM that could very well be rapped to. Get ready for some Funky, grimy and hyphy tracks that’ll have you entering the Cypher!
Rob Nichols, along side Pernell, hosts Rhythm and Pixels VGM podcast, check it out for a ridiculously fun time!
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Tracklist –
Demon Seed – Castlevania III – Yoshinori Sasaki, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto
Sisyphus’ Stage – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters (Genesis Version) – Miki Higashino
Goblin Funk – King Arthurs World – Justin Scharvona
Nakajima Robotics – Saga Frontier – Kenji Ito
Boss Course – Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land – Ryoji Yoshitomi, Kozue Ishikawa
Undernet – Mega Man Battle Network 5 – Akari Kaida
Slow Moon – Streets of Rage 2 – Yuzo Koshiro
Geezy Weezers 2 years already! Pretty crazy. In celebration i’m Gonna be sharing my favorite tracks of 2023, one from every month. A lot of great tunes and many thanks to be had, especially to all those listening and supporting VGMporium!
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Tracklist –
Ep. 56: Konami Baseball 2 for 1 – Statistics/Aftermath – Clash Penant Race 2 – Yuji Takenouchi
Ep. 60: Bargain Bin Games with Pernell – Dungeon~Black Market (Dark Shopping District – Revelations: Persona – Shoji Meguro
Ep. 63 NES and Arcade Versions – House, Dialog, Treasure Chest – Willow(NES) – Harumi Fujita / Shop – Willow(Arcade) – Takashi Tateishi
Ep. 69: Adults Only Section – Regular Encounter – Futa Fix Dick Dine and Dash – g3ntlebreeze
Ep. 73: YMF262/OPL3 – Dreamy Forest – Comet Summoner – Seiichi Takamito, ComoestaHigashitotsuka, Einosuke Nagao, kaos
Ep. 77: Killer7 – Emoticon – Killer7 – Masafumi Takada
Ep. 83: MAGwest: Downgroove – Cat Strats – Eric Ye
Ep. 86: Now That’s What I Call YM2413 – Opening/Tutorial Stage – Core Crisis – John Hassink
Ep. 90: Ren And Stimpy Games – Stage 1 (Valse Moderne) – Ren and Stimpy: Quest For The Shaven Yak – C. john Leach, George Fenton / A. Unknown
Ep. 93: Lam-Mal – Opening – Lam-Mal – Hideaki Tajeshita, Ryu Takami
Ep. 98: That 80s/90s Vibe – Moonlight City – S.A. Music
Ep. 103: Mega Man Other Mix – Navi Clash – Mega Man Battle Network Battle Chip Challenge – Yusuke Beppu
!Bonus! – Ep. 98: That 80s/90s Vibe – Jolly Good Show! – Harvey Rothman
Got Gene Dreyband back in the shop to talk about California based game developers that, due to various reasons, no longer exist. Defunct if you will! Gene shares his memories of some these companies, one of which he lived nearby as a kid. Also a fun aside, I had to figure out how to install a pre windows 98 game in order to get it’s music, isn’t that fun?
Gene is the cohost of Pixelated Audio, a VGM podcast focusing on bringing awareness to the history and preservation of lesser known retro games and their music.
Tracklist –
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(Accolade) Title Theme – Test Drive 3 The Passion – Russel Shiffer
(Parroty Interactive) Startup, Bill Gates Roll Ahead: Herbal Tea, Pinbill – Microshaft Windblows 98 – Eric Cunnigham, Chris Lang, Ron Sures, Johann Langlie
(Appaloosa/Novatrade) Penetration – Kolibri – Zsolt Dvornik
(Novalogic) Hoggish Greedly’s Undersea Oil Rig – Captain Planet and the Planeteers – Unknown
(EA Redwood Shores/Visceral Games) Menu – Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003 – Burke Trieschmann
(Backbone Entertainment) Basement – Death Jr. – Robert Baffy
(Double Helix) Research Lab – Strider(2014) – Micheal Jon Mollo
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Tracklist –
Diamond Dust Zone Act 2 (SNES Remix) – Sonic 3D Blast – C. Tetsuyuki Maeda / A. Savaged Regime – Ordered by Martyrus
BGM (Rydeen) – Super Locomotive – C. Tukihiro Takahashi / A. Fukumura Mizunaga? – Ordered by Pocket Eleri
Title Screen – Cubix: Race N’ Robots – Allister Brimble, Frédéric Motte (El Mobo) – Ordered by Jam Virtuattak
Scrap Iron City – Arc The Lad II – Masahiro Andou – Ordered by Chuck
Roller Coaster – Nightmare Circus – Kurt Harland, Jim Hedges, Andy Armer – Ordered by Jlook
Heart of Icegrave – Monster World IV – Jin Watanabe – Ordered ny Professor Tom
Inga Rasen – Streets of Rage 3 – Yuzo Koshiro – Ordered by crazygoji
Christmas is almost here, And that can only mean one thing! Santa Clause, that most jolliest of jolly men, is a comin’!
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Tracklist –
Christmas Card 02/Jingle Bells – Santa Clause no Takarabako – C. James Lord Pierpont, A. Noriyuki Nakagami, Yasuo Miyata, K. Suzuki
Santa Saves The Earth (PS1) – Level 7 – Sergej Trofimov
Santa Clause Junior – Boss Theme Critical – Allister Brimble, Will Davis
Village Theme, Ingame, Hurry up, Game Over, Game Over Lounge – Google Santa Tracker – Plan8
Chimneys – Daze Before Christmas – Gier Tjelta, Kim M. Jensen
Top of The Naughty List – The Escapist 2: Santa Shakedown – Oliver Wood, Ben Ridge
Santa Clause is Coming to Town(Jackson 5 Sega Genesis Remix) – O. John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie / A. Savaged Regime Youtube
Celebrating 36 years of Mega Man with a big mix of tracks from the many, and surprising, Spinoff games!
If you’re hankering for more Rockman goodness, check out the Mega Mix I did last Year Ep 49: Mega Man 35th Anniversary Mega Mix
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Tracklist –
CLASSIC
Mega Man The Wily Wars – Opening – Kinuyo Yamashita
Mega Man: Wily’s Revenge – Wily Castle Stage – Toru Odasa
Mega Man II – Hard Man – Kenji Yamazaki
Mega Man III – Wily Station Stage – Kouji Murata
Mega Man IV – Dr. Light Lab 2 – Kouji Murata
Mega Man V – Pluto’s Stage – Kouji Murata
Mega Man Game Gear – Stone Man – C. Mari Yamaguchi / A. Martin Walker
Rockman and Forte 2: Mirai Kara no Coosensha – Naoshi Mizuta
Wily and Right no Rockboard: That’s Paradise – Cold Island – Yuki Iwai
Mega Man Soccer – Enker – Toshio Okamoto, Kenichi Tomizawa – Norihiko Togashi
Super Adventure Rockman – Battle
Rockman Battle and Chase – KICK ABOUT ~Theme of Blues~ – Yoshinori Ono
Mega Man Power Battle – Stage 4 (Gyro Man) – C. Mari Yamaguchi / A. Hideki Okugawa
Mega Man 2 The Power Fighters – Shade Man Theme – C. Yuko Takehara / A. Tatsuro Suzuki
Mega Man Battle and Fighters – Ending/Database – Masayo Kouda
X
Mega Man Xtreme – Chill Penguin – C. Yuki Iwai / A. Toshio Kajino, Saoti Utsumi
Mega Man Xtreme 2: Soul Erasers – Recon Base (Neon Tiger Stage) – C. Kinuyo Yamashita / A. Mitsuhiko Takano
Mega Man X Comman Mission – Reclaiming Hope – Shinya Okada
LEGENDS / DASH
The Misadventures of Tron Bonne – Nakkai Desert – Toshihiko Horiyama
Rockman Dash: Great Adventure on 5 Islands – Ilex Island – Unknown
BATTLE NETWORK / EXE
MMBN Battle Chip Challenge / Rockman EXE N1 Battle – Navi Clash – Yusuke Beppu
MMBN 4.5 Real Operation – Net Battle 2 – Toshihiko Horitama
Rockman EXE WS – Undernet – Akari Kaida
Mega Man Network Transmission – Internet (Densen Area-Global Area) – Shinji Hosoe
Rockman EXE: Real Medal Operation – BGM2? – Unknown
Rockman EXE: Phanton of Network – Cache Server Cybernet – Yuko Takehara
Rockman EXE: Battle Chip Stadium – Important Opponent – Unknown
Rockman EXE: Legend of Network – Trojan Cybernet – Masami Onodera
For tge Feature phone games check this out https://www.rockman-corner.com/2022/10/rockman-dash-exe-mobile-games.html?m=1
And the Arcade game https://www.rockman-corner.com/2023/12/japan-exclusive-rockman-exe-arcade.html?m=1#more
Oh yes, time for more shop themes! And got some pretty interesting ones this time around. infomercials giving hope to 35 year old layabouts, a roulette to get items to help take down world leaders in Mahjong, dealings with a shady organization that has a “truce” with demons.
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Tracklist –
TV Shop – Ripened Tingles Balloon Trip of Love – Masanori Adachi, Tomoko Sano, Kiyoshi Hazemoto
Shop Where Am I (Arrange Ver.) – Hyun Taek Yun (DiNY/INID)
Shopping District – Hokkaido Rensa Satsujin – Toshiyuki Ueno
At A Shop – Inindo: Way of the Ninja – Hiori Wakakuwa
Item Shop – Super Mahjong – Nobuko (Novko) Hasebe
Ashura-Kai Authorized Shop – Shin Megami Tensei IV – Ryota Kazuka
Though they haven’t shown all that much over the last year, I quite a few Employees helping to stock the shop with all kinds of great VGM. So today I’m going to have some of them sharing tracks from their curations and getting all kinds of appreciated.
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Tracklist –
Tomato Mart (Famitraxker Cover) –
Mumba ChuWumba – Sif – Romancing SaGa – Kenji Ito
Donatello Valentino – Casino – Medarot 8 –
Laurel Pietre – Mystery Case Battle – World of Horror – Qwesta
Sal – RUNNING KNOT – Viper GTS –
Scuzzy – Masked de Shopping – No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle – Jun Fukuda
Here we are, The big 100! What wild and wacky adventure it was to this milestone. But I wouldn’t have made it to this point without the support and encouragement from my Customers(listeners)! So today in appreciation I will be playing track chosen by the customers from previous episodes! Thank you all for shopping at VGMporium, here’s to another 100!
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Tracklist –
Test 00 – Kazuhiko Naruse(Naruto2413) – Ep. 86 Now thats What I Call YM2413
Crazygoji – Smash Achievement – Smash Tennis – Ep.32 SPORTS! –
Jameson – Tengu Mans Theme (PS1) – Mega Man 8 – Ep. 31 Themes of Tengu Man & Astro Man
Jlooky – Results – NBA Jam – John Hey – Ep.3 GEMS Jams
Pernell – Xeno Arcadia – Mason Lindroth, Chuck Salamone – Ep.89 Grab Bag 5
Bedroth – Seduction – Tower of Succubus – g3ntlebreeze – Ep.69 Adults Only Section-
Chuck – A Shop Keeper – Front Mission: Gun Hazard – Yasunori Mitsuda – Ep.2 Shop Themes
Professor Tom – Ryu’s Theme – Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (GBA) – Capcom Soundteam – Ep. 17 Mom’s Favorite Games
Gene Dreyband – Office (Kojiroh) – E.V.E. Burst Error – Ryu Umemoto – Ep. 68 Investigating W/ Professor Tom
Boxcubed – Name Entry – Golfing Greats 2 – Yuji Takenouchi – Technically featured in Ep. 56 Konami Baseball 2 for 1
St. John – chiltonWALK.temp – Graham Khartna – .temp – Ep. 48 Anonymoose
Wade – Chill Stroll – rayjkayj – Ep. 25 Megadrive/Genesis Chiptune Scene of The 2010s
Mike Levy – The Great Red Spot (OPN) – Star Cruiser – Toshiya Yamanaka – Ep. 26 Sounds of the Casino
The Last Rican – Zero To Hero – Guardians of The Galaxy – Ep. 66 Over The Top
Martyrus – Can You Feel The Sunshine (Famicom Cover) – Sonic R – C. Richard Jaques, A. Amilgi/Iglima – Ep. 65 SPO 6
Farewell – Mega Man Battle Network 3 – Yoshino Aoki – Ep.1 Grand Opening
Wavetables are an interesting sort of synthesis, especially in the context of VGM. It sits in a strange space between simple PSG and complex FM, easily moving closer to one or the other. Inspired by a monthly compo hosted on Button Mashers Discord channel, this month being polled between 4 types of wavetable soundchips, we’re gonna take a mini dive into these 4 chips (plus one other)
Tracklist –
Stage 7 – Madou King Granzort – Yamanuki Norihiko – PC Engine HuC6280
Alien – Galactic Pinball – Kenji Yamamoto, – Virtual Boy VSU
Frequency 140.85 (Alert Phase 1 Part 1) – Konami Kukeiha Club – MSX2 K051649 (SCC)
S.S Stage – Buffers Evolution – Sasaki Junana, Hira, Niyan – WonderSwan Custom WSG
Action Part – Erika to – Hirohiko Takayama – Famicom N163
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The 80s and 90s. I was born in the point when one was bleeding into the other and there is a phantom nostalgia I have for this time that I was not developed enough to be aware of. So today I am going to share Original, Non vgm tracks that have been made within this past decade that invoke the “Vibe” of a time 30+ years gone. Please be sure to check out all the artists featured, all their work is truly amazing!!
Tracklist –
The Traveling Theme – S.A Music
Midnight City – S.A Music – Souncloud–Youtube
DATACORDER – iamMANOLIS – Bandcamp – Youtube
Neptune – Daan Demmers – Bandcamp–Youtube–Twitter
Jolly Good Show – Harvey Rothman –Website Bandcamp–Youtube–Soundcloud
New Jack Back – Deejay Verstyle – Bandcamp–Youtube
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Tracklist –
Music 4 – Heavens Will
Mission: Escape From Hell – City Hunter
Attract Mode – World PK Soccer V2
BGM 4 – Jyangokushi: Haoh no Saihai
Stage 1-5, 3-5 – B.Rap Boys
BGM 2 – Blockout
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Got All kinds of creeps to help get you in the mood for Halloween! Reanimated corpses, mutated VHS junkies, mind disfiguring Elder Gods and even elongated skeletons ensconced in entrails!
Tracklist –
Opening – Dead of The Brain – Ryu Takami, Marina
Cherry Nightmare – Fatum Betula – Simone Peltier Bandcamp
Forest Mystery: Investigation – World of Horror – Joseph Bailey (Qwesta) Bandcamp
Urban Dreamscaped (Apartments Theme) – Paratopic – Lazzy Brown (Beau Chaotica) Bandcamp Soundcloud
Nest – Killer7 – Masafumi Takada
Spooky Girl – sen-pi – BOTB Winterchip XIII Soundcloud
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Oh man, The 9th round of special orders are in! Got a lot of long one shots here, one from a game that has been passed just this week! If you’d like to place a special orde you can send it to vgmporium@gmail.com, join the discord and place your order there or hit me up on any of the socials linked at the bootom of the show notes!
Episode 100 is coming up soon! To celebrate it will be Customer Favorites. What’s happening is you, the customer, will send me your favorite track that has been played on the show. You can let me know your pick by sending it to vgmporium@gmail.com Have it in before or by November 9th
Tracklist –
Stage 1 (Gotham Streets 1-1) – Batman: The Video Game – Naoki Kodaka, Shinichi Seya – Ordered by Martyrus
Speed Jungle Mix – Sonic Superstars – Act 1: Tee Lopes, Act Sonic: Takahiro Kai , Act 2: Hidenori Shoji – Ordered by Crazygoji
Death By Stereo – Star Fighter – Robert Vieira – Ordered by Bedroth
Enter Velocity – Astlibra Revision – Shimajiro – Ordered by Pernell
Wyvern Boss ( Break Through it All) SOR2 Remix – Sonic Frontiers – C: Tomoya Ohtani, A: Iceinferno – Ordered by Pocket Eleri
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Yes indeed more shop themes! Whether you’re in need of weapond for deep dungeon crawling, parts for your squat vehicle or just doing some light night window shopping we got just the tune for your shopping experience
Tracklist –
Shop – Galaxy Fraulein Yuna – Takanori Arisawa
Exciting Shop – Dinosaur – Meiko Ishikawa, Masaaki Kawaii
Shop (beta) – Choro HG Q – Tenpei Sato
Window Shopping – Data Wing – Luxury Elite
It’s Shop Theme – Madou Monogatari A Doki Doki Vacation – Koji Onari
Shop – AirForce Delta – Satoru Nakata
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Sometimes you come across a soundtrack that really grabs you, and this here is one of those! Lam-Mal, a game released on both SharpX68000 and NEC PC98, has diverse and stunning OST and I’m pretty excited to share it! This originally was going to be a shorter episode focusing on the music due to there not being much info about the game available, but then I was contacted by the Packs author marklincadet sharing their knowlege of not only the game but of the composers, director and behind the scenes of the developer Fairytale. But most fascinating is their process of ripping these packs!
Be sure to check out all the packs ripped by Marklincadet on VGMrips
All songs played are from the SharpX68000 version unless otherwise noted. All composed by Hideaki Takashita and Ryu Takami
Tracklist –
Opening
Investigation (Both SharpX68K and PC98 Versions)
Town A
Town B
Parasol
Main Dungeon
Courtesans and Noblewomen
Onyanko Alien (PC98 Version)
Tsutaya Attic (Both SharpX68K and PC98 Versions)
Ending
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It’s always exciting when new Packs are added to one of my favorite sites VGMrips! Yoday I’ll be sharing a batch of tracks from .vgm packs uploaded this year of 2023.
Episode 100 is coming up soon! To celebrate it will be Customer Favorites. What’s happening is you, the customer, will send me your favorite track that has been played on the show. You can let me know your pick by sending it to vgmporium@gmail.com. Have it in before or by November 9th
Tracklist –
Kill All Monster (Dungeon Quest 1 BGM) – Cave Noire – Shinji Tasaka, Yoshiyuki Hagiwara
Feeling Like Pendulum – Marginal Points – Kyoko Mano, Reina Usagi
Gals Panic 3 – Gals Select, Stage 2, Stage 3, Stage Clear 1 – Kaoru Yasuda, Tatsuya Watanabe, Katsuya Yoneda
Theme – 4D Sports Boxing – Brian Plank, Kris Hatlelid, Michael J. Sokyrka
Special Training Results – Egawa Suguru no Super League CD – Unkown
Onyanko Alien – Lam-Mal – Ryu Takami, Hideaki Takeshita
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Tracklist –
Intro – J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord of The Rings: Volume One – Charles Deenen, Kurt Heiden
Karnak – Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile – Strategic Music Studio
White Tower – Wheel of Time – Robert Berry, Leif Sorbye
BGM 1 – Dracula Hakushaku – Ryu Takami, Hanemori Naoki
Dragon Riders of Pern Chronicles – Laurent Parisi
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If you were a kid in the 90’s there was one cartoon that truly is part of our DNA, The Ren and Stimpy Show! Gross? Check. Surreal? Most definitely. One of the funniest things to happen on Tv? You bet your Keester! Today I’ll be sharing music from the unfortunately not so great games based on this great show. Also you will be getting a micro history of the show and SPUMCO, messy as it is, as well as my impressions of some of the voices..I had fun with it at least..
Tracklist –
Title Screen (Dog Pound Hop) – Veediots – Peter Stone
Story 2/Stage 3 – Space Cadet Adventures – Mark Van Hecke
The Pound – Stimpy’s Invention – Sam Powell
Password (Log Theme) – Fire Dogs – Justin Scarvona, Martin Simpson, Martin Gwyn Jones
Stage 1 (Valse Moderne) – Quest For The Shaven Yak – Erik Swanton
Valse Moderne – John Leach, George Fenton
L’espirit de Paris – John Leach
Wild Kindom – Time Warp – Paul Webb
Muddy Mudskipper – Buckeroo$ (NES) – Mark Van Hecke
Aviary (Pizzicato from Sylvia) – Stimpy’s Invention – Sam Powell
Fire Station (Tischt Tascht Polka) – Fire Dogs – Justin Scarvona, Martin Simpson, Martin Gwyn Jones
Happy Happy Joy Joy – Buckeroo$ (SNES) – Peter Stone
Ending Theme (Big House Blues) – Veediots – Mark Van Hecke
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What happens when I Don’t enough time to put together a proper episode? YOU get a Grab Bag! What good stuff will you get this time?
Tracklist –
Title – Bound High! – Takaaki Ota
Clash Pennant Race 2 Result display BGM arrangement ver – Yuji Takenouchi
Stage 9 – Bomberman: Panic Bomber – Jun Chikuma, Kenichi Koyano
Xeno Arcadia – Hylics 2 – Mason Lindroth, Chuck Salamone
Corporation Center – Digimon World 3 – Satoshi Ishikawa
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Tracklist – Clue Scrubbing – Read Only Memories – 2mello Salish-Shidhe – Shadow Run – Sam Powell Dekora’s Dance – Blade Runner – Frank Klepacki Doc Ido’s theme/Repair Shop – GUNMM: Martian Memory – Sumito Sato Mad Dog (Stage 1) – Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth (Megadrive version) – Keishi Yonao I Wanna Kno – … Continue reading "Episode 88: Cyber Punk"
Another day, another batch of special orders. Got a pretty nice mix of tracks in this one, From rivals that love funky sax to atmospheric demo style tracker tunes on GBA. If you’d like to place a special orde you can send it to vgmporium@gmail.com, join the discord and place your order there or hit … Continue reading "Episode 87: SPOs 8"
You know what? I really like the YM2413! This seemingly limited chip has truly grown on me over these last few years. You’d think that only having 15 preset sounds that everything coming out of it would sound the same, but in this you’d be wrong! The tracks I’ll be sharing will show the amazing … Continue reading "Episode 86: Now That’s What I Call YM2413"
It’s awesome the recognition that VGM composers are recieving in recent years. But one thing that may get overlooked a bit to often is that they also create original music outside Video Games. Today will be focused on just that! With the help of Bedroth we’re gonna be lining the shelves with these Original songs … Continue reading "Episode 85: Originals from the VGM Pros w/ Bedroth"
The Nintendo DS is a mostly blank spot in my gaming, and VGM, knowledge. Using this opportunity to at least remedy the VGM part by ordering an assortment of tunes from the strange dual screened system. And be prepared for a big ol’ Sound Chip info dump as well!! Tracklist – Opening – SaGa 3 … Continue reading "Episode 84: DS Variety Pak"
Yes indeed! I done went to MAGwest! I had always wanted to go to MAGfest when I first foindnout about it in 2005 but never had the opportunity to. So now that Inhave the means I have finally made it to a MAG, luckily only 3 hours from home. I met so many awesome people, … Continue reading "Episode 83: MAGWest 2023"
Yes! Got more shop themes for you here! You’d think I would have done more than 5 by now. Tracklist – Tiese Shopping District – Gurumin – Hayato Sonoda Shop theme – Flimbo’s Quest – Johannas Bjorgard Pawn Shop – Jones in the Fast Lane – Ken Allen Lively Shop – Brandish – Atsushi Shirakawa, … Continue reading "Episode 82: Shop Themes 5"
Now it’s no secret I like me some Video Game Music. But what I enjoy even more is original music done by those that are inspired by VGM! So I’m really excited that I’ll be going to this years MAGwest! So today in celebration of this I’m featuring some of these folks whose music I … Continue reading "Episode 81: Artist Showcase"
You Crazy for Kaiju? Well today you’re in luck! We Got all kinds of big ol monsters for you choose from! The classic lizard , cosmic fowl and even a collective mass of bioweapons! All with the help Kungfu Carlito, who’s love for these massive creatures shines through, we got you covered. Check out Carlitos’ … Continue reading "Episode 80: Kaiju Carlito"
Welcome back for part 2 of Masters of VGM Year 2! This time I’ll be playing for you Originals from these four Composers. Less talk, more music! Be sure to check out the other awesome vgmpodcasts involved in this event at https://mastersofvgm.com/ Tracklist – Stefan Moser (Effoharkay/eff) https://effoharkay.bandcamp.com/ wait – A Nice Place Alaek Grip … Continue reading "Episode 79: Masters of VGM Year 2 II"
It’s hard to believe but here we are at the 2nd year of Masters of VGM! This time around the focus is on the underappreciated and up and coming composers. Today you’ll be hearing works from Hikoshi Hashimoto (HIKO), Max Coburn (Maxo), Takehiro Yonemura (CHEMOOL) and Stefan Moser (Effoharkay/eff) Tracklist – Hikoshi Hashimoto (HIKO): BGM … Continue reading "Episode 78: Master of VGM (Year 2)"
Listener. It’s a mess. Just utterly slap-dash. This episode is all over the place. The sicko that did this, they didn’t know where they wanted it to go…but it isn’t terrible. Listener. Give it a try, you may enjoy it. In the name of Harman… -All songs Composed by Masafumi Takada unless otherwise noted- Tracklist … Continue reading "Episode 77: Killer 7"
Yep! Pokemon was officially on a Sega Console, The Sega Pico! Albeit theae games were based on the Anime and edutainemt to boot. There are also a couple title, as far as I know, unofficially on the Sega Genesis with surprisingly good music. Gotta love them Chinese bootlegs! Are you ready to become a Poekiman … Continue reading "Episode 76: Pokémon? On Sega?!"
Yessir! Time for another Grab Bag , what delights await inside?! Tracklist – Stage 1: Get on! We’re all Friends! – Liquid Kids – Egyptian Duel – Yugioh: Forbidden Memories – Town 1 – SD Keiji Blader – Sizlla Okimura Town 1 (OPM YM2151 Demo) – SD Keiji Blader – Sizlla Okimura Ambient 4 – … Continue reading "Episode 75: Grab Bag 4"
I’ll admit there’s Something that is lacking on the shelves, that being tunes from the N64. But today that is being remedied with a visit from Mike Levy of Dude You Haven’t Played This Game and XVGM Radio! What he’s brought in are not just any ol’ N64 jams, these are some deep cuts as only to be expected for the shop! So get your finest tennis racket, strap on your best grapplin’ gloves and why not bring along your strongest demon! We’re going for dive deep into the N64th Dimension!
Be sure to check out What Mike is up to! His game review and edutainment series DYHPTG https://youtube.com/@Dongled as well as XVGM Radio vgm podcast https://xvgmradio.com/
Tracklist –
Sunset Bay – Waverace 64 – Kazumi Totaka
City Court – Centre Court Tennis – Hayato Matsuo
Volcanic – Mischief Makers – Norio Hanzawa
World Map – Zool: Majuu Tsukai Densetsu – Takaheshi Yamazuke
VS. Mode Select Screen – Hybrid Heaven – Nobuyuki Akena, Yusuke Kato
The Great Wall (Mei Ling’s Stage) – Fighters History 2 – Hideya Nagata
Join Hands – Aero Gauge – Kazuhisa Kamifuji, Akiko Hida, Hiroko Ogihara
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If you have a track you’d like to have played, send it on over to vgmporium@gmail.com
Tracklist –
Air Battle C (Title, Round 3, 6) 1943 Kai – Harumi Fujita – Ordered by Professor Tom
SNeaKing – Telan Devik – Ordered by Crazygoji
Major Circuit Theme – Super Punch-Out – Takashi Kumegawa, Masaru Sakakibara – Ordered by DJ Virtuattak
Egg Rock Zone 2 – Sonic Robo Blast 2 – BIg wave Dave Spencer Sr., Clairebun, Shane Mychal Sexton – Ordered by Pocket Eleri
Bonds – YU-NO – Ryu Umemoto – Ordered bg Alex “The Messenger” Messenger
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Tracklist –
Welcome – Oxygenstar – FM Is For The People Vol. 1
Piece of Cake (Extend) – Passport Designs – Microsoft Windows 3.X
Dreamy Forest – Comet Summoner – Seiichi Takamoto, Comoesta Higashitotsuka, Einosuke Nagao, kaos
Dark Witch – Comet Summoner – Seiichi Takamoto, Comoesta Higashitotsuka, Einosuke Nagao, kaos
The Summit – Louis Gorenfeld
Stage 1 – Antman – Kwon Gu Hee, Park In Youb
You can find VGMporium at these folowing links
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Jams of the Night, such swingin’ music they be! Joined Chuck Kowalski, fellow chiptunist and one half of Haberchuck, we’ll be getting into a style of VGM that boogies it’s way into most music he makes. Get ready for funky FM, the smokiest of Jazz and chiptune dorkier of the highest degree!
Be sure to check out the Haberchucks music on both Twitter and soondcloud!
Tracklist –
Dilapidated Town – Street of Rage – Yuzo Koshiro
Read Only Memories – 2 Mello
Tasteful – Tales of Phantasia – Motoi Sakuraba
Black and White – Masaya Shiranaga
Unnessecary Sex Scene – R3 (R3tron) https://linktr.ee/r3tronaut
Night Club Zone – A M 4 N https://on.soundcloud.com/2DNJRrqcf23Sm6PW6
Take It And Run – Breath of Fire 3 – Yoshino Aoki, Akari Kaida
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What kinda Emporium would this be with out a constant flow of Shop Themes? And this time around gonna be featuring few from a series that is beloved for it’s many Shop Themes, Persona. From delightfully cheesy to downright transcendent!
Tracklist –
Satomi Tadashi Drug Store – Revelations: Persona – Hidehito Aoki
1st and 2nd Ward Shopping District – Revelations: Persona – Hidehito Aoki
Mysterious Item Shop (Tony’s Shop) – Persona 2 – Masaki Kurokawa
Tanaka’s Amazing Commodities (Jika Net Tanaka) – Persona 3 – Shoji Meguro, Katsura Hashino, Takaya Masahide.
How Much? – Persona 4 – Shoji Meguro
Home Electronics Shop – Persona 5 –
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!WARNING!
THE SUBJECT OF THIS EPISODE IS VERY SUGGESTIVE AND ADULT IN NATURE.
Well it’s happened, we have an Adults Only Section. It was bound to happen with the sheer amount of vgm from games with very sexual content. And it’s run by the very strange self proclaimed “Sleazy Sal”. What he has ready to share with you beyond those red doors? I hope nothing too..I don’t know.. I just hope folks decide to come back after this..
Tracklist –
Lovers – Kimi Dake ni Ai o… – Hideaki Takeshita
In The Garden – PilcaSEX – MUSE
Seduction – Tower Of Succubus – g3ntlebreeze
Injuu Gakuen 8 – La Blue Girl (Injuu Gakuen) – MUSE
Vice – Bible Black – Artistic Concepts
Ex Machina Designs Presents Adult Manga 1 Fighting Machine – Blazeon – Tsukasa Masuko
Regular Encounter – Fute Fix Dick Dine And Dash – g3ntlebreeze
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Notebook? Check! Trech coat? Check! Blaster? Check! This unshakeable feeling that the one we’re investigating is always a few steps ahead? Check?.. Joined by Professor Tom, host of Shujin Academy VGM Club, we slueth our way through some games that involve investigation in some form. Can we put the pieces together before it’s too late?
You can find and follow Professor Tom and Shujin Academy VGM Club here https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy
Tracklist –
Main Theme – Professor Layton and The Curious Village – Tomohito Nishiura
First Lead – SD Snatcher – Konami Kukeiha Club
Dick Gumshoe. That’s Detective Gumshoe Pal! – Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Noriyuki Iwadare
Office (Kojiroh) – E.V.E. Burst Error – Ryu Umemoto
Last – Danganronpa – Masafumi Takada
Kamui Uehara – The Silver Case – Masafumi Takada
Ayumi / That’s Right 2 – Famicom Tantei Club Chapter 2 – Kenji Yamamoto
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Yes sir, VGM is pretty awesome! But wanna know what is more awesome? The people who celebrate it! And that is what POW XI, was alm about. So many lovers of VGM there to listen to 5 amazing musicians (nmlstyl, Buttonmasher, Danimal Cannon, Mega Ran and Bitshifter) sharing their love for VGM! It was an amazing experience!
In light of the recent announcement of the passing of Ruichi Sakamoto, I have featured one of my favorite performances of his as the ourtro. He was a true musical force if nature, a huge inspiration for many of the composers that we in the VGM Community celebrate. If you can would highly recommend watching the 2017 Documentary “Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda”
Tracklist –
Reformat The World – Information Chase – Bit Shifter https://bit.shifter.net/
Dotted – NMLSTYL – nmlstyl https://linktr.ee/nmlstyl
Saber Rager – Buttonmasher https://linktr.ee/_buttonmasher
Suplex-a-Locomotive – Retromania Wrestling – Danimal Cannon https://www.danimalcannon.com/
Come Back Player of the Year (Cruisin’ Remix – Live ‘95 – Mega Ran, KazuBEATZ https://linktr.ee/megaran
Thousand Knives (2009 Live Performance) – Ryuichi Sakamoto https://www.sitesakamoto.com/biography
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Things are about to get ridiculously awesome in the shop thanks to an individual that is OVER THE TOP, The Last Rican! And he’s doing this by bringing in some characters that are equally, if not more so, OVER THE TOP!
Tracklist –
Gale II (The of Bang Shishigami) – Blazblu Chronophatasm Extend – Daisuke Ishiwatari, Galneryus
Boss Theme – Wario Land 4 – Ryoji Yoshitomi
Panic In The Sky- TMNT Shredder’s Revenge – Tee Lopes, Jonny Atma
In The Hall of the King (Pridemoore Keep) – Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment – Jake Kaufman (Virt)
Zero To Hero – Guardians Of The Galaxy – Starlord
Theme of Dan – Street Fighter V: Championship Edition – Arrange: Yoshiya Terayama / OG: Naoshi Mizuta
Segata Sanshiro Theme – Written by Koji Ando, composed and arranged by Fumio Okui, performed by Ichiro Tomita
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special orders are in! Again! Got a pretty eclectic batch of tunes from some returning customers. If you’d like to make a special order then send it over to vgmporium@gmail.com or join the discord https://discord.gg/EJQxaje9 and place it there!
Tracklist –
Can You Feel The Sunshine?(Famitracker Cover) – Sonic R – OG: Richard Jaques / Arrange: Amilgi/Iglima – Ordered by Martyrus
Cyburb Slide – Twisted Metal – Chuck E. Myers, Tom Hopkins, Lance Lenhart – Ordered by Haberchuck
St. Gabriels Mask (Vocal Remix – Sega Power Cuts 1 (Ecco the Dolphin) – Spencer Nilsen, Gary Cirimelli – Ordered by Pocket Eliri
Lubricating Shot – Bangai-O Spirits – Norio Hanzawa – Ordered by Crazygoji
Midboss – Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes – Ryu Yonemitsu – Ordered by Purnell
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Today we’ll be revisiting the topic which had been originally suggested by Martyrus of RE-VGM. That being Chiptune covers of music from modern video games and this time around I am joined by Martyrus who had more to share from his search for remixes and covers for his show.
You can find all of Martyrus’s social links as well as episodes of RE-VGM at http://www.re-vgm.com
Tracklist –
Dearly Beloved 8-bit – Kingdom Hearts – OG: Yoko Shinomura / Cover: 8bitfish https://youtube.com/@darth612
Splintered Sweets in the Castle (YM2612+SN76489 Arrangement) – Omori – Arrange: John Tay https://youtube.com/@johntayjinf
Daughter of the Dark God [8-bit; VRC6] – Octopath Traveler – OG: Yasunori Nishiki /Arrange: bran https://youtube.com/@branflakes325
Last Surprise SNES Remix W/ Super MIDI Pak – Persona 5 – OG: Shoji Meguro / Arrange: Buttonmasher https://youtube.com/@_buttonmasher
The Days When My Mother was There (8-bit Redux)- Persona 5 – OG: Shoji Meguro / Arrange: Rodrigo Pereira https://youtube.com/@EnigmaKitsune
K.K Cruisin’ (Chiptune 2a03+VRC6+N163 amArrangement) – Animal Crossing: New Horizans – OG: Toru Minegishi / Arrange: Chipjockey https://youtube.com/@ChipJockey
Friday Night – Yakuza 0 – Arrange: Turtlebro https://youtube.com/@Turtlebro
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Now a days when a game is on multiple platforms it is the same. But back in the days of yore (80’s/90’s) they could be almost entirely different games! Such is the case with these 3 classics i’m featuring today. Developed at around the same time, the versions that most played on the NES were very different from the versions that made it to arcades in gameplay, story and, modt important, music.
Tracklist –
Prologue – Willow(NES) – Harumi Fujita
Indoors, Dialogue and Treasure Chest – Willow(NES) – Harumi Fujita
Shop – Willow(Arcade) – Takeshi Tateishi
Nockmar Castle – Willow(NES) – Harumi Fujita
Nockmar Tower (Stage 6-2) – Willow(Arcade) – Takeshi Tateishi
Slumberland – Little Nemo The Dream Master(NES) – Junko Tamiya
Slumber Land (Stage 2) – Nemo(Arcade) – Yoko Shimomura
Nightmareland – Little Nemo The Dream Master(NES) – Junko Tamiya
Nightmare Castle (Stage 6) – Nemo(Arcade) – Yoko Shimomura
Bravery, On the Clutches – Ninja Gaiden(NES) – Ryuichi Nitta
Sumo Wrestler (L.A. Stage and Grand Canyon Stage Boss BGM) – Mikio Saito
Everyone Likes…Sukiyaki? (Game Clear – Ending) – Ryuichi Nitta
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VGMporium is visited by another guest, Gene Dreyband of Pixelated Audio! And he brings with him a topic that he has been wanting to talk about but found to wierd for hisnown show, that being Musicians and Composers from outside of the Video Game world..composing VGM! and he figured that my humble shop would be the perfect place to unleash it from his headspace. Prepare for an eclectic and strange experience folks!
Gene is one of two hosts of Pixelated Audio, the vgm podcast that started me on my journey to starting my own! I would highly recomend you check them out at https://pixelatedaudio.com/
Tracklist –
YOKO KANNO – Nobunaga no Yabou: Bushou Fuunroku – Ashikage theme
TERRY SCOTT TAYLOR – Neverhood – Klaymens Theme
DEVO – Adventures of the Smart Patrol – ADOINT
KENJI ENO – D2 – Distraction 21
KOHEI TANAKA – Gravity Rush – Pleasure Quarter
STEWART COPELAND – Spyro 3 – Mushroom Speedway (Uncompressed)
BEATRICE MARTIN (Cœur de pirate) – Child of Light – Jupiter’s Lighting
THE RESIDENTS – Bad Day on the Midway – Bad Day Re Emerges
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Whether it’s just a setting or where you can boost your stats, there are many fine establishments in games where you can delicious food. Ramen, fancy croisant sandwich, lamb steak, space goop, all good eats!
Tracklist –
Restaurant – Start Cruiser – Toshiya Yamanaka
Ramen Stall (Bugjirou) – Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes – Kazuhiro Abo
Cafe Dageza Master – Kokyuusei – Manabu Kunieda
Pooka Kitchen – Odin Sphere – Hitoshi Sakimoto
Dinner Time – Gourmet Sentai Bara Yarou – Ogawa Ikko
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Bargain Bin Games, most of the time they are schlocky shovelware that make you wonder why they’re made. But sometimes there are ones that truly did not deserve to be in there. Joined by Pernell of Rhythm & Pixels, we discuss some games that shined bright from within the depths of the bin, All with awesome music! Ridiculousness ensues!
Tracklist –
Overpass – GITAROO MAN -Music/Arrangement: Tomohiro Harada, Drums: Yusuke Nishikawa, Guitars & Bass: Yoshifumi Yamaguchi
Belzeds Haunted Tower- Kick Master -Yusuke Takahama, Nobuyuki Shioda
EX-Island – Stretch Panic – Norio Hanzawa
Level 7 – Decap Attack – Horoto Kanno
Croog’s Doom Dozer – Drilldozer – Go Ichinose, Satoshi Nohara
Kyoku – Killer 7 – Masafumi Takada
Dark Shopping District – Revelations: Persona – Shoji Meguro
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https://rhythmandpixels.com/
https://www.heypoorplayer.com/
https://www.tumblr.com/smlpodcast
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Tracklist –
VA-11 Hall-A – JC Eltons – Michael Kelley (Garoad)
Rayxanber III – Title Theme – Yasuhiti Saito
Astebros – Haunted Mansion – Savage Regime
Swing Time – Spider-Man vs. The King Pin – Mr. Big
Burning Force – Bay Yard (1st Day) – Yoshinori Kawamoto
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How many versions of one song can there be from one game? At the suggestion of listener crazygoji I explore this question with a Title that was probably not expected. In this case it’s 8 versions ranging from 3 channel 8bit to spectacular cd quality Redbook Audio.
Tracklist –
Field – Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes (Eiyuu Densetsu) – Meiko Ishikawa, Masaki Kawaii
Versions in order of play
NEC-PC 88/98 – YM2203 – Meiko Ishikawa, Masaki Kawaii
MSX – AY-3-8910 / YM2413 – Meiko Ishikawa, Masaki Kawaii
IBM PC/AT – YM3812 – soundTemp, Goo Hee-Kwon
Super Famicom Satellaview – SPC700 – Meiki Ishikawa, Masaki Kawaii
Sega Mega Drive – YM2612 – Hirofumi Matsuoka
Sony Playstation / Sega Saturn – W-Form Corporation(Studio w4m), Ryuichiro Yamaki, Takeshi Kudo
PCengine/Turbo Grafx CD – Red Book Audio – Ryo Yonemitsu
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Now a days it’s pretty common to hear vocals in video game music. But back in the day it was a feat of knowing how to work the soundchips, the results usually being crunchy and distorted. but they have an undeniable charm!
Tracklist –
Yume wa Owatanai – Tales of Phantasia – Toshiyuki Sekiguchi, Hiroya Hatsushiba
Duck! Duck! Duck! (Duck King) – Real Bout Fatal Fury – Shinsekai Gakkyoku Zatsugidan
“…” of Tears (Saizo Hattori’s Theme) – Power Instinct 2 – Toshikazu Tanaka
Funky Heat (Beach Court) – Street Hoops – Tatsuya Kiuchi, Hiroaki Yoshida
Sakuras’ Theme (I Want You To Know) GBA Version – Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo GBA port – Tatsuro Suzuki, Yuko Sasamoto
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2 Games, 2 Computer Systems, 2 Soundchip Pairings, one amazing Composer! Get ready for a lot of info on all these things while listening to 2 of Konamis’ unsung OST gems!
Tracklist –
All Songs Composed by Yuji Takenouchi Twitter – https://twitter.com/technouchi?s=21&t=5LYB8UXpbofVL8lTvrXZMw Soundcloud – https://m.soundcloud.com/missingsoul
Gekitotsu/Clash Pennant Race 2 Opening, Selection BGM, Lucky 7, Game Set, Team Switch, Statistics/Aftermath, Ending
Namachuuckei 68/Live Broadcast 68 Opening, Load, Menu, Pennant Race Start, Pennant Race, Lucky 7, Home Run, Change, Pro Baseball News Jingle, Pro Basebal News, League Championship, Unknown Track, Match End/Game Set, Ending
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Holy geez! It’s already been a year since I started this whole shop of MADNESS! So in celebration I’m going to share some of my favorites from this past years episodes as well as giving some very much deserved thanks to all those that I have come to know this journey. It’s been a pretty great first round and I’m pretty excited for what’s to come this year!
Tracklist –
Ep. 40 – Shop Theme – SNK VS. Capcom Card Fighters DS – Masashi Sugiyama, Kazuyuki Fujita
Ep. 29 – Those Glowing Trees part 2 – Fezuke https://soundcloud.com/fezuke
Ep. 4 – Pumpledixie – Nase – Quackshot – Duckberg
Ep. 39 – Bedtime Puzzler – Kotoba No Puzzle Mojipittan – Satoru Kosaki
Ep. 13 – Raiden the Brave – Fatal Fury – Hiroshi Matsumoto, Kazuhiro Nishida, Toshikazu Tanaka
Ep. 1 – Packaderm Punch – Game Wave – Floorbaba https://floorbaba.bandcamp.com/
Ep. 25 – Space Standart – Shiru https://soundcloud.com/shiru8bit
Ep. 14 – Queen in the Grand Knight – Pedipanols Trash Bin (Saria Lemes) https://soundcloud.com/pedipanolgarbage / https://pedipanol.bandcamp.com/
Ep. 32 – Super Family Tennis (Smash Tennis) – Yoshinori Kawamoto
Ep. 27 – Strategy Phase 2 – Zan 3 Spirits – Motoi Sakuraba, Shinji Tamura
Ep. 36 – Into the Labyrinth – Labyrinth: Maou no Meikyu – Trevor Jones, Tsukasa Masuko
Ep. 48 – ChiltonWalk.temp – Graham Kartna https://grahamkartna.bandcamp.com
Jookbi – rayjkayj – https://soundcloud.com/rayjkayj
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A fresh batch of Special Orders has just arrived! It’s a fine mix of tunes from garbly PSG to Hyper energetic rock! If you’d like to make a Special Order(SPO), send it on over to vgmporium@gmail.com
Tracklist –
City – Gundam Wing: Endless Duel – Hiroyuki Iwatsuki, Haruo Ohashi – Order by Mike Levy
Ice Scream – Ristar – Tomoko Sasaki – Order by Crazygoji
Try Z – Galxy Force II – Original Composer Koichi Namiki, Arrange – SMS: Katsuhiro Hayashi, MD/Genesis: Jouji Ishima, Atari ST: David Lowe – Order by Prof. Tom
The Long Pole (Billy Kane Stage) – Fatal Gury: Wild Ambition – SNK Sound Team – Order by Haberchuck
Stage 8-11 – Monster inc. – Iku Mizutani, Tetsuari Watanabe, Kinuyo Yamashita – Order by Alex “The Messenger” Messenger
Beach Court – Wind Jammers 2 – Harumi Fujita – Order by Bedroth as a gift for Hammock
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Oh yes, bringing in the New Year with more Shop themes! It should be my bread and butter but it Took one year to get to #3….Do expect more to come!
Tracklist –
Tomato tomahto (Tomato Mart Remix) – Dale North – Shenmue https://dalenorth.bandcamp.com/
Shop – Kennosuke Suemura – 3×3 Eyes: Seima Kourinden
Mysterious Shop – Manabu Namiki – Fantasy Zone II DX
Habara General Stores – Masafumi Takada, Jun Fukuda – Contact
Junk Shop – Kinami Kukeiha Club – Tokimeki Memorial (Win. 9x Version)
Shopkeeper – Joshua Morse – Chipset Vol. 2 https://joshuamorse.bandcamp.com/
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Well here it is folks, the last episode of 2022. And what better way to cap off the year then to feature my first time interviewing complete strangers about VGM at a Gaming Convention! Didn’t get as many as hoped but the ones I did get cover a pretty wide spectrum, from a gamer enjoying the Con to the Production Head of Digital Eclipse! It was a great time and I’m so excited to share this with you all!
Tracklist –
Spencer Pedimonte, Expo attendee and Sonic Fan:
Live and Learn – Sonic Adventure 2 – Crush 40
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Jammel and Hayden, Indie Developers of Vassal:
Bamboo Boogaloo (Past and Future) – The Messenger – Rainbowdragoneyes
To The Center of Demoniac Castle – Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance – Sosgiro Hokkai
Tower of Dolls – Castlevania Judgement – Yasushi Asada
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Steve Frost, Production Head W/ Digital Ecplipse:
Gut, Schlecht, Besser – Electronic Lifestyle – Remute
Kn – Fez – Disasterpiece
Armor Armarge Stage Arrange – CAPCOM 30th ANNIVERSARY Music Best:Original & Arrange – Dead Ball P
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Danny Tatro, Armageddon Potato Games:
Starlight Festival – DDRKirby(ISQ)
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The interviews with Steve and Danny had to be edited a bit so here are the links to the full recording
Steve Frost – https://archive.org/download/steve-frost-digital-ecplise/Steve%20Frost%20-%20Digital%20ecplise.wav
Danny Tatro – https://archive.org/download/danny-tatro-armageddon-potato-games/Danny%20Tatro%20-%20Armageddon%20Potato%20Games.wav
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No matter what there will always be some last minute Christmas to do. And thus here I am with Last Minute episode full of Xmas tunes that will hopefully get you in the mood for this coming weekend of Yuletide Madness!
Tracklist –
Thank you for Christmas (Sega Genesis Arrange) Crazygoji – Originally by XTC https://on.soundcloud.com/F6AotKGjhahpeRj7A
Merry Xmas 2013 – Hirokazu ‘Chip’ Tanaka – Arrangement of Snowman Theme by Hirokazu ‘Hip’ Tanaka – Earthbound. https://on.soundcloud.com/FFiJBt7XLHhRhZW56
Come All Yeet – Effoharkay – Arrangment of O’ Come, All Ye Faithful by John Francis Wade https://effoharkay.bandcamp.com/
Hypnagogic Illusion.nsf – Savestate https://on.soundcloud.com/PQ5m98rcEP661E2d9
Jingle Jingle Jingle (Winky Gonkers Megadrive Arrange) – rayjkayj – Original song from Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer
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It’s my birthday! Here’s a lil gungy i done threw togethet in like an hour! A grand 50th episode indeed
Tracklist –
Happy Bitthday Fusion Reharmonization – Tony Thai https://soundcloud.com/midiman10
Space Dock/Shop – Captain Sky Hawk – David Wise
BLACKHEART Stage – Marvel Super Heroes –
Air Man – Mega Man II GB – Kenji Yamazaki
Crossroads (OPN Ver.) – MovieMovies1 https://soundcloud.com/moviemovies1
Young Executive Forum – Ventla https://ventla.bandcamp.com/
Young Executive Forum (Mega Drive Arrange) – rayjkayj
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35 Years, Can you believe it? Through many ups, and an equal amount of downs, The Blue Bomber has been bringing joy to so many! So in celebration of Mega Mans Anniversary, I have put together this here Mega Mix from (almost) every game our beloved Super Fighting Robot with a bit of my hapless ramblings thrown in!
Tracklist –
CLASSIC
Opening 1&2, Title, Stage Select, Boss Select, Toad Man – Mega Man 4 – Mari Yamaguchi
Epilogue – Mega Man – Manamin Matsumae
Airman – Mega Man II – Takashi Tataishi
Needle Man – Mega Man III – Yasuaki Fujita
Dr. Cossaks Fortress 2 – Mega Man IV – Minae Fuji
Charge Man – Mega Man V – Mari Yamaguchi
Mr. X Stage – Mega Man VI – Yuuko Takehara
Bass & Treble – Mega Man VII – Toshihiko Horiyama, Yuko Takehara, Makoto Tomozawa
Grenade Man – Mega Man 8 – Shusaku Uchiyama
Cold Man – Rockman & Forte (Mega Man & Bass) – Akari Kaeda
We’re The Robots (Dr. Wily Stage 2) – Mega Man 9 – Yu Shimoda
Sheep Man – Mega Man 10 – Mari Yamaguchi
Light & Wily – Mega Man 11 – Marika Suzuki
X
Sigma Fortress 2 – Mega Man X – Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takehara, Toshihiko Horiyama
Crystal Snail – Mega Man X 2 – Yuki Iwai
Gravity Beetle – Mega Man X 3 – Kinuyo Yamashita
Split Mushroom – Mega Man X 4 – Toshihiko Horiyama
Dark Necrobat – Mega Man X 5 – Naoto Tanaka, Naoya Kamisaka, Takuya Miyawaki
Commander Yammark – Mega Man X 6 – Naoto Tanaka
Palace Road – Mega Man X 7 – Yuko Komiyama, Shinya Okada, Seiko Kobuchi, Naoto Tanaka, Makoto Asai ,Teruo Konishi, Shuichi Mizuhata, Noriyuki Iwadare, Takuya Miyawak
Gravity Antonion – Mega Man X 8 – Yuko Komiyama, Naoto Tanaka, Shinya Okada
ZERO & ZX
Theme of Zero – Mega Man Zero – Ippo Yamada
Arcadia 2 – Mega Man Zero 2 – Masaki Suzuki, Luna Umegaki, Tsutomu Kurihara
Hells Gate Open – Mega Man Zero 3 – Ippo Yamada, Masaki Suzuki, Luna Umegaki, Tsutomu Kurihara
Celestial Garden (Pegasota Eclair) – Mega Man Zero 4 – Ippo Yamada, Masaki Suzuki, Luna Umegaki, Tsutomu Kurihara
Mountain Rider – Mega Man ZX – Ippo Yamada, Masaki Suzuki, Ryo Kawakami
Slam Down (Boss Theme) – Mega Man ZX: Advent – Ippo Yamada, Masaki Suzuki, Koji Hayama, Luna Umegaki, Akari Kaida, Ryo Kawakami
LEGENDS
Flutter VS. Gesselschaft – Mega Man Legends – Makoto Tomozawa
Kitchen Fire – Mega Man Legends 2 – Makoto Tomozawa
BATTLE NETWORK
Theme of Rockman EXE – Mega Man Battle Network – Akari Kaida
Mega Man Battle Network 2 – Yoshino Aoki
Navi Customizer – Mega Man Battle Network 3 – Yoshino Aoki
Den Dome – Mega Man Battle Network 4 – Toshihiko Horiyama
Quest in The Water (Napal Man/ Tomahawk Man) – Mega Man Battle Network 5 – Akari Kaida
Credits – Mega Man Battle Network 6 – Yoshino Aoki
STAR FORCE
Cyber World – Mega Man Star Force – Yoshino Akoi, Mitsuhiko Takano
Wave World – Mega Man Star Force 2 – Yoshino Aoki, Marika Suzuki
Shooting Star (SF3 Ver.) – Mega Man Star Force 3 – Yoshino Aoki, Akari Kaida
BONUS
Wily Tower 4 – Mega Man: The Wily Wars
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Now if you haven’t been able to tell, I happen to like the absurd! And the videos of An0nymoose are absurdness of the highest degree. And the music they use in the videos, animated meticulously with every sound, run pretty close to my personal musical tastes. Now thats a mondo plus!
Watch all of An0nymoose’s videos https://youtube.com/@an0nymooose
Tracklist –
Video Name / Song Info
Duck Shoes / This Way That – Mario Party 2 – Hironao Yamamoto, Shohei Bando, Kazuhiko Sawaguchi
Berdthday Boy / Playing with Delay – Heatbeat(Aleksi Eeben) https://aleksieeben.wordpress.com/discography/
Beach Berd / ChiltonWalk.temp – Graham Kartna https://grahamkartna.bandcamp.com
Hocus Bogus / flow – Tregs https://soundcloud.com/tregsmusic?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0&si=233A2DC895934FF5BBF1A879DFA40B8F&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Ghost Bubber / Garlean Beach(Plok) – Original by Tim Follin Remixed by Relay Bros https://soundcloud.com/relaybros?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0&si=D950A77D37AC4178946E8477A8C43763&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Desert Danger / Fightin Sahara – PNGsequence https://soundcloud.com/pngsequence?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0&si=0D077CC6E7144523BA61594D5186138C&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Fowl Matter / World Orca – jaq https://soundcloud.com/jaqcues?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0&si=1FDC6E29CF6F4F20845F35B1FDE4886B&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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There many Catalogues that I order tunes in to line VGMporiums shelves, but the one I order from most frequently is VGMrips. I’ll be sharing sime of the freshest packs from this year of 2022 that have been added! Tracklist – Comet Summoner – Comet Summoner – Seiichi Takamoto, Comoesta Higashitotsuka, Einosuke Nagao, kaos Sadakichi … Continue reading "Episode 47: Fresh From VGMrips"
Thanksgiving….. What is Thanksgiving? Is this Thanksgiving? Are you Thanksgiving?! Hey you over there! Are you Giving Thanks or Thanking Gives!?! Find this out and more here at VGMporium….But seriously I’m just gonna talk about food. Tracklist – Potatos, Tomatos, Gravy and Peas – The Neverhood – Terry Scott Taylor Corn Field Memories – Color … Continue reading "Episode 46: Thanksgiving Grab Bag"
Super Hydlide is an OST that has slowly but surely become one of my favorites on the the Mega Drive/Genesis. I wanted to share it but in the context of the game it is an enhanced port of Hydlide 3: The Space Memeories Released only 3 years prior. Composed by one Shigeru Tomita, the the … Continue reading "Episode 45: Hydlide 2 For 1!"
At the suggestion of a few Giant Robo fanatics, I brought in some tunes for games a bit more on the Mech side. Also featuring some original chiptunes from 7daysof VGM September focused in Giant Robots! Time to pull out your strange looking watch, shout into it like wacko and awaken Giganto Mecha! Tracklist – … Continue reading "Episode 44: GIGANTO MECHA!"
Video Games have done many things for me, but the one of of the gifts I cherish the most is that of Beatboxing! Starting with imitating the sound effects, it eventually evolved into imitating the sounds of the music. Now I can just think of a vgm and voice the melody with the accompanying beat! … Continue reading "Episode 43: Beat Box Favorites"
Greetings from I, Vricent Lurchford and my cohort Laurel Pietre, to all you ghouls and fiends on this dreadfully delightful Hallows Eve. Tonight, from our crypt that is the VGMporium Basement, we shall play for you such spooky and frightful music! Who knows, we may have visitors from beyond the grave! Tracklist – Stage 1 … Continue reading "Episode 42: Halloween Special"
Another shipment of Special Orders have arrived! This batch has a nice variety of 8-bit tunes with a couple Dreamcast tracks to break it up. If you’d like to Order a song for me to play, send it on over to vgmporium@gmail.com Tracklist – One Minute Love – Border Down – Yasuhisa Watanabe – Ordered … Continue reading "Episode 41: SPOs 3"
Yes indeed, more Shop Themes for this Shop Themed show! My quest for shop vgm that meet a certain sound has been met with partial success. I got music to shop for Boards, Cards, Parts and items to! Tracklist – Board Shop – Snowboard Kids – Tomohiko Satou, Isao Kasai, Sayuri Yamamoto Shop Theme – … Continue reading "Episode 40: Shop Themes II"
A special day indeed! I’m joined by my long time friend Wade sharing his love for a cute sound in VGM that cannot be fully explained. Prepare for tangents, laughter and general silliness as a couple Wacky Wonkers just have fun! Tracklist – Cultural Festival (Theme) – Aitakute… your smiles in my heart – Soichiro … Continue reading "Episode 39: An Inexplicably Cute Sound with Wade"
If there’s one thing I wish I had access to at an earlier age is the demoscene, particularly the music. But the collection of 100 tunes from the ‘Scene’ released in 2009 was definitely a great introduction to it for me. Curated by Nagz, it contains tunes from 1988 to 2008. Today I’m sharing some … Continue reading "Episode 38: Favorites from ‘Nagz Presents 100 Demoscene Smalltunes’"
Goin’ on another trip down My musical Memory lane, this time to the long ago time of the last half of the 00’s. Tracklist – Melodramatic Popular Song – Plamo/Ventla https://ventla.bandcamp.com/. Plamo MySpace Collection https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFajQvTpDQIry6GbzvTXX-udM2C4yLsaY Japanese Animation – Japanese Telecom/Donald Gerald https://bleep.com/release/226269-japanese-telecom-japanese-telecom-ep?lang=en_US Illusion Themes B/A – Illusion City – Funk Bump – Joshua Morse – … Continue reading "Episode 37: My Music Discoveries 2006-2010"
Movie Tie-in games. They are an inescapable part of video gaming. Some have proven that they can be good, great even! But the majority are schlock that is just pumped out for a quick buck. There are some though that are made based off movies that just make you go “What? Why?” Tracklist – MGM … Continue reading "Episode 36: Unexpected/Oddball Movie Games"
Memories of ones first console are always delightful, and mine being the Sega Master System are extra special because none of my other friends had or or even heard of it. Such on odd system with some even odder games. And the music was pretty dang catchy, so much to the point where I can … Continue reading "Episode 35: Sega Master System Memories"
What constitutes the sound of Modern Video Games? Is it sweeping orchestral pieces? Super funky electro beats? Maybe full on rockin jams!? Whichever way it comes, it can all be arranged and downported to the limited (but by no means inferior) chiptune sounds of yester year. Tracklist – Network Terminal [Interior] (YM2612+SN76489 Arrangement) – John … Continue reading "Episode 34: Modern VGM Chiptune Covers"
Oh boy, another grab bag! So many kinds of goodies could be inside! Tracklist – Retrograde From The Stars – MasterJaceBeats https://soundcloud.com/pandoras-toybox?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing– Remix of Desert Zone- Star Cruiser – Toshiya Yamanaka Saxophone Storm XI – King of Fighters XI – Koji Takata, Masuo Okumura, Masanori Kuki Jenka1/Jenka2/Labyrinth Battle – Cave Story (Original) – Daisuke “pixel” … Continue reading "Episode 33: Grab Bag 3"
SPORTS! It’s something many a folk get pationate about. I don’t know or care much for sports, but one thing I cannot deny is that many of the games based off them have pretty dang good music! Tracklist – Tim and Eric Awesome Show: SPORTS! (VRC6 Remix) – Levis Davis https://youtube.com/user/Levus28 Super Family Tennis (Smash … Continue reading "Episode 32: Sports!"
2 Robot Masters. 5 different themes between them on 2 different games. What’s the deal with that? Tracklist – Stage Select – Mega Man 8 – Shusaku Uchiyama Stage Intro – Mega Man 8- Shusaku Uchiyama Tengu Mans Theme Saturn and PS1 Versions – Mega Man 8 – Shusaku Uchiyama Tengu Mans Theme – Rockman … Continue reading "Episode 31: The Themes of Tengu Man and Astro Man"
Continuing the Sega Genesis love by sharing 10 more Musicians that were creating Chiptunes using the YM2612+Sn76489 throughout the decade of 2010. Not going to be as intensive as the first part but music is all pure awesome! Tracklist – Mess Man Theme – rayjkayj https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/ztwvtmmCga19JVfw5 Boss Theme – Circuit Bird https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/vEpJFrFiMs9K9vZy5 Done With You … Continue reading "Episode 30: Mega Drive/Genesis Chiptune Scene of the 2010s – Model 2"
Second batch of Special Orders are in! It’s pretty good mix of tunes from a pretty good mix of folks. Tracklist – Layer Cake – Persona 5 – Shoji Meguro Ordered by Professor Tom. https://shujinacademyvgmclub.podbean.com/ 25-hour Cinderella (Metal Cover) – Yakuza 0 – (R)LittleV Mills https://youtube.com/c/LittleVMills – Ordered by Alex Messenger https://anchor.fm/vgmjourney Village of the … Continue reading "Episode 29: SPOs (2nd)"
Ever hear some really cool VGM and go to check who composed it only to find out that there the composer is Unknown? But then there is a little tickle of familiarity in how they sound? Well I got three games here that I have had this experience with and I’ll be presenting these along … Continue reading "Episode 28: Who done composed this?"
Looking for some great SNES/Super Famicom tunes but don’t have time to look for the jams? We’ve got you covered with our new Variety Paks! Unlike the Grab Bags that are just random Bits and Bops thrown together, These packs are made up of various tracks based around a theme! Tracklist – Title – Benkei … Continue reading "Episode 27: SFC/SNES Variety Pak (or rayjkayj goes on weird tangents)"
Tracklist – Casino Calaveras – Grim Fandango – Peter McConell The Great Red Spot – Star Cruiser – Toshiya Yamanaka Let’s Swing – Saga Frontier – Kenji Ito Sultry Nights – God Hand – Masafumi Takada Main Theme – L.A. Noir – Andrew and Simon Hale Baccarat – Saga Frontier – Kenji Ito
The 2010s! It is a decade that is filled with so many great moments in my life. But one of greatest things that I got watch unfold and be a small part of was the Sega Genesis/Megadrive Chiptune Scene! Where before it was possible to simulate the sound through sampling or VSTs and the only … Continue reading "Episode 25: Mega Drive/Genesis Chiptune Scene of the 2010s"
My wife has spent a large part of her life around water, from the Ocean of the Santa Cruz Coast to the living on the American River being a raft guiding. I’ve created a lil’ surprise playlist of Water related themes for her upcoming birthday! Tracklist – Aquatic Ambience – Donkey Kong Country – David … Continue reading "Episode 24: Watery Themes for My Heart"
https://mastersofvgm.com/ The Masters of VGM continues! Here are some of my honorable mentions, a bit more fun and relaxed this time! Tracklist – Kenji Ito – Fight! Alkaiser – Saga Frontier Yoshino Aoki – Navi Customizer – Mega Man Battle Network 6 Matt Furniss – The Redwoods – Puggsy Masafumi Takada – Icecube Pf. – … Continue reading "Episode 23: Masters of VGM – Honorable Mentions"
https://mastersofvgm.com/ Welcome to the Grand, multi podcast Event that is “The Masters of VGM”! I have chosen 4 Composers, all of whom I have played music from previously, I feel deserve the title. Gonna be a lot of music, 3 songs each with a couple lil’ surprises, with some history and fun facts on em’ … Continue reading "Episode 22: Masters of VGM"
Get ready for some awesome 4 channel, sample based madness! Tracklist – Absolute Camel – Metal (Torben Hansen) Schktaaaaah! – Azazel Spell-amoleriation – Uncle Tom Acidjazzed Evening – Tempest (Janne Suni) Outanaff Heading – Vim! (Keith Balis). https://vimster.bandcamp.com/album/2020 https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/bumM9hn1vmSAoE3h8
Yes sir, SPOs are now open! What is SPO? Why that’s retail lingo for Special Orders! And this first batch of them I got from fellow VGM podcasters that have just started this year! If you have a particular VGM you’d like to have me bring in for you, don’t hesitate to send your order … Continue reading "Episode 20: Special Orders are Open!"
The majority of the awesome music on the NES was created by Japanese Composers, but there is some music composed by Westerners that sit up there on the pedestal of awesomeness. At the suggestion of Bedroth of Very Good Music: a VGM Podcast, I’m gonna do my best to talk about how they create their … Continue reading "Episode 19: Nes in the West"
Oh what joy! It’s time for another Grab Bag! What kind of mighty fine treats await?! Tracklist – I’ll be Pimpin’ In Cabrini Green (when i grow up) – Goat Tracker Demo Song – Unknown Starlight Plateau – Maxo – Level Music: Level 5 Axel Funk – Factor6 – ZX Spectrum is Alive Meteor Shower … Continue reading "Episode 18: Grab Bag #2"
Ever since I got my first game console ( The Sega Master System), my Mom has always found a game that she would play almost non-stop on (most) consoles we owned! In celebration of Mothers’ Day I’m going to play music from a few games that I have memories of her playing, usually at the … Continue reading "Episode 17: Moms Favorite Games"
What’s blue, fast and full of ‘tude? My Nephew wearing his Sonic hoodie runnin’ (rollin’?) around at the speed of spaz! I’ll be sharing some of my favorite, as well as some….interesting, Sonic tracks as well as an interview (of sorts) with my Nephew who is obsessed with the Blue Blur! Track List – Title … Continue reading "Episode 16: Songic Heghog Zone – Act 1"
Oh boy do I got quite the Special going on! Gonna be diving into the many Audio Expansions that the Famicom had received and that the world was denied with the release of the NES. Nothing to in depth but enough to pique your interest if you wish to dive further! Track List – 2A03 … Continue reading "Episode 15: Famicom Expanshion Chip Extravaganza"
The world of Bootleg romhacks is vast, but there is one that stands out from the swarm. The memes of it are plenty, but my favorites are the “Soundcloud Shipost”. Today We’ll be listening to remixes of the infamous title music, though it is the original music of the game that was hacked. By the … Continue reading "Episode 14: RE-7 Grand Dad"
While rayjkayj is recovering from the Gadrelf incident, Mumba ChuWumba shall share with you stories of wrastling and adventures! Tracklist – Opening – Fire Pro Wrestling G – Unknown Cart Chase (Stage 2-2) – Willow (ARC) – Takashi Tateishi Victory/Inobas’ Theme – Ehrgeiz – Takayuki Nakamuta The Musashi Legend (Lumina) – Brave Fencer Musashi – … Continue reading "Episode 13: Wrastlers ‘n’ Warriors"
Hey there, this is yer old pal Gadrelf! Today my friend and I are gonna share some musics with yuz from what should have RIGHTFULLY been MY games. Track list – Main Theme – Gadrelf: Big, Fat, Hairy Deal – Neil Baldwin(Lemon) Les Alps/Lasagna Factory – Gadrelf: Winters Tail – David Lowe Opening Theme – … Continue reading "The Gadrelf and Friend Show"
Ever hear a song for the first time and think “I feel like I’ve heard this before”? You then go back in your memory for why that is and BRINGO! There it is! It’s somewhat similar to something you listened to in the past ut it’s not exactly the same. Track list – Dungeon 2 … Continue reading "Episode 11: Melodic Doppelgangers"
After blastin’ ya with non stop Frenetic FM, it’s time to give your ears a much deserved rest. Please lay back and enjoy these relaxed, chilled out, easy going tunes. Tracklist Time For a Rest – Final Fantasy XII – Hitoshi Sakimoto Town- Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes – Mieko Ishikawa Floating Point – … Continue reading "Episode 10: Relaxing"
Hope you’re not to attached to your face Cuz after listening to this it may well be a sloppy flesh puddle on the ground! I’ll be joined today by Scuzzy, one of the folks who work here at VGMporium, who helped to curate these eye boiling, ear throttling tracks! Track List Opening Theme – Ninja … Continue reading "Episode 9: FM Face Melters"
What happens when there is a Forum for Musicians that are extremely enthusiastic about FM synthesis? You get this series of Funktastic Marvels! From new jack swing to J-pop to experimental soundscapes, I hope you enjoy these tracks as much As I do! Fun Fact!- the first album was one of the catalysts that started … Continue reading "Episode 8: FM Funk Trilogy"
The Virtual Boy, an unfortunate disaster of a gaming system. But buried within the wreckage are some top-notch tunes! Had the order for ‘em expedited as a surprise for the fellas at Rhythm & Pixels! Hope after hearing these, you’ll come shop for more! For an in-depth look at the Virtual Boy and it’s complete … Continue reading "Episode 7: Sounds of The Virtual Boy"
One thing to always look forward to when visiting a some place like a Comic Book or Music shop are the Grab Bags! What’s in it? What kinda goodies await for you within? What awaits are some tunes that I just through together for you to enjoy! This is going to be a less intensive … Continue reading "Episode 6: Grab Bag"
Hello Friends, Valentines Day is upon us! And so at the request of the proprietor of VGMporium rayjkayj, I Donatello Valentino shall host you today. Join me as I help set the mood right for this special day with my romantic curations and musings. it shall be oh so LOVELY! Track list: A Day of … Continue reading "Episode 5: Pre-Valentine Day Special"
Ah yes, Remixes. They are a pillar of the VGM community! OverClocked Remix, Tha Sauce, VGMix and its numbered iterations. But I’ve noticed one gets…over looked… which is appropriate seeing as that it is it’s namesake. Join me as I reminisce on this horribly wacky site of remixes and parodies that introduced me to the … Continue reading "Episode 4: Remembering OverLooked Remix"
Ever play a game on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and the music is….not so good?… Well that would be the unfortunately maligned sound of GEMS (Genesis Engine for Music and Sound) But today I’m going to share with you Jams that buck the stigma those tinny, twarmpy, grating tunes have placed upon it. Get ready … Continue reading "Episode 3: GEMS Jams"
Welcome back! Today I’ll be playing ya Shop Themes, from chilled out tunes for leisurely window shopping to wacky funky jams that’ll have you boppin’ down the aisles! Also enjoy while I let myself get a little more ridiculous, making a right fool of myself….Such fun. Track Listing Tomato Mart – Shenmue – Ryuji Iuchi … Continue reading "Episode 2: Shop Themes"
Welcome the the Grand Opening of VGMporium: Video Game Music and More! Podcast. Really excited to share some really good VGM, as well as some remixes and original music inspired by vgm. You never know what treasures you’ll find here at The VGMporium! Track List – Title & Stage music for Higo, Nagato, Settsu, Owari … Continue reading "Grand Opening"