Episode 2-1: Side Stories and Spin Offs

Greetings, Gamers, and welcome to Season 2! For this episode, Shootkapow starts things out with a bang with his choice for us to focus on side games and spin-offs! Enjoy some of the best VGM you've never heard, along with a few true classics, as we take a few detours dowm the alternate paths charted by video game heroes like Mega Man Mario, and.......Ken Masters? Thanks to our Patreon patrons, whose support will help to make this show better and ever! Alex, "The Messenger" Messenger of A VGM Journey podcast, The Last Rican, Skeletroy (who also composed our new Very Good Theme Song), and Carlos Leon-Roman, who not only made some of the cool artwork for our show, but is the host of his own podcast, Heroes Three, with his friends Michael and Marty! Check out links to their work in the show notes! Speaking of our patrons, our very first patron poll to help decide on some of our episode topics for the season is up on Patreon.com/vgmvgm...and the first one is open to everyone! Go check it out! As always, you can also contact us directly with requests or suggestions. each out on Twitter @Shootkapow or send us an e-mail at [email protected]. Find us on YouTube just by searching VGM Podcast and check the About section for links to all the places you can find us. Finally, Pixelart for the show by Ben "The Diad" Dishman. Check him out on Twitter @TheDiad, and check out the latest episode of his podcast, The Diad Presents: A VGM Podcast! Intro - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team - Sky Tower - Arata Iiyoshi - Chunsoft/Nintendo - GBA -2005 7:03 - The Misadventures of Tron Bonne - Red Head Kobun To The Rescue! - Toshihiko Horiyama - Capcom - PlayStation 1999/2000 13:00 - Pokemon Colosseum - Miror B’s Retro Groove - Tsukasa Tawada - Genius Sonority/Nintendo - Gamecube - 2003 18:47 - Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight - City Lights (Planet Theme 3) - Junko Tamiya - Capcom - NES - 1990 22:58 - Kirby Fighters Deluxe - Coo’s Forest - Hirokazu Ando/Jun Ishikawa - HAL/Nintendo - 3DS - 2014 27:59 - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest - Battle 3 - Ryuji Sasai and Yasuhiro Kawakami - Square - SNES - 1992/1993 (look up this link for interesting tidbits about the OST - not sure who composed this because of the description here: https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_USA_-_Mystic_Quest_Sound_Collections) 33:27 - Super Mario RPG - Armed Boss - Yoko Shimomura - Nintendo/Square - SNES - 1996 38:51 - Akumajou Special - Boku Dracula-kun - Stage 01 (Castle) - Konami Kukeiha Club (Satoko Miyawaki and Shinji Tasaka) - Famicom - Konami - 1990, Japan only, finally released outside Japan as part of the Castlevania Anniversary Collection which was released digitally on May 16, 2019 in all regions, with an official English localization as Kid Dracula. 44:57 - Mario Kart Wii - Koopa Cape - Ryo Nagamatsu - Nintendo - Wii - 2008 49:00 - Umbrella Corps - 2nd to None - Kota Suzuki, Akihiko Narita, Azusa Kato, Yasumasa Kitagawa - Capcom - Windows/PS4 - 2016 54:20 - Mario+Rabbids: Kingdom Battle - Lava Forge - Grant Kirkhope - Ubisoft - Switch - 2017 1:00:42 - Mega Man Soccer - Wood Field - Toshio Okamoto, Norihiko Togashi, Kenichi Tomizawa - SunL/Capcom - SNES - 1994 1:04:59 -Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX - Oddity Cave - Keisuke Ito - The Pokemon Company/Nintendo Switch - 2020 1:18:53 - Kirby's Block Ball - Stage 10 - Sukezo Ouyama, Ryoue Takagi - Game Boy - Developed by HAL and published by Nintendo in 1995 Patron Links: The Messenger’s Podcast: https://anchor.fm/vgmjourney Skeletroy on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM84dO4lFBk2NUnKQvypmTw Carlos’s Podcast: http://heroes3podcast.blogspot.com/