Episode 26 - Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of VGM!

Avast, ye scurvy sea dogs! This episode be all about game music for pirates, be they pirate heroes or pirate villains or even just pirate ships!  Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Special thanks for this episode goes out to fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE podcast wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at  barSILENCE.com.  Special thanks also goes out to APR of the VGMbassy Discord server for ripping tracks from Skull and Crossbones and also Pirate Ship Higemaru, just for this episode.  Special thanks also also goes out to Josh Grisham of Nerd Informants for helping us learn about the difference between good video game piracy and evil video game piracy. Find him on social media by looking for Nerd Informants on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram! Catch his celebrity interview podcast “It’s Hollywood Calling with Josh Grisham” at https://bransonpodcastnetwork.com/shows/its-hollywood-calling/.  And finally, special thanks to my son Save Point Sam for suggesting that I do an episode on piracy.  Additional thanks goes to BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, you can email me at [email protected]. You can find me on Mastodon at @[email protected]. I’m active on Tumblr at https://www.tumblr.com/shujinacademyvgmclub, and on Instagram at ShujinAcademyVGMClub. And I can be found on Discord as ProfessorTom#7512. Episodes of the show are posted on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw6CIUs81aap58U1EuaaFdA. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. If you liked this episode, and want to hear my take on VGM featuring ninjas (who are, after all, natural archenemies of pirates), you can check out episode 4 of my show. It’s an early episode, so it’s a little rough, but it’s got some fun songs. Listen at https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-9gsc7-118d91e  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:06 - Sea of Thieves - The Sea of Thieves (Main Theme) (composer: Robin Beanland) 02:29 - Intro Talk Segment 04:03 - Pirate Ship Higemaru - Lesson Start (composers: Ayako Mori and Tamayo Kawamoto) 04:08 - Pirate Ship Higemaru - Lesson Stage BGM (composers: Ayako Mori and Tamayo Kawamoto) 04:27 - Pirate Ship Higemaru - Deck BGM (composers: Ayako Mori and Tamayo Kawamoto) 05:16 - Pirate Ship Higemaru - Hi-Point Deck BGM (composers: Ayako Mori and Tamayo Kawamoto) 05:59 - Pirate Ship Higemaru - Game Over (composers: Ayako Mori and Tamayo Kawamoto) 06:06 - Pirate Ship Higemaru - Name Entry (composers: Ayako Mori and Tamayo Kawamoto) 07:02 - Talk Segment 07:39 - Skull and Crossbones (Arcade) - Pirate Ship (composers Hal Canon, Don Diekneite, Brad Fuller, and Byron Sheppard) 10:16 - Skull and Crossbones (Arcade) - Spanish Castle Exterior (composers: Hal Canon, Don Diekneite, Brad Fuller, and Byron Sheppard) 12:28 - Talk Segment 13:19 - Garou: Mark of the Wolves - Bad Girl? (composers: Akihiro Uchida, Masato Horiuchi, and Yasuhiro Naka) 14:47 - Talk Segment 15:41 - Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy - I Like the Forest (Forest Planet Theme 1) (composers: Akihiro Uchida, Masahiko Hataya, and Toshio Shimizu) 18:26 - Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy - Do Do DRAGON (Dragon Boss - Last Boss Captain Klapton) (composers: Akihiro Uchida, Masahiko Hataya, and Toshio Shimizu) 21:51 - Talk Segment 22:35 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (SNES) - Skull & Crossbones (composers: Kazuhiko Uehara and Harumi Ueko) 25:01 - Talk Segment 25:30 - Donkey Kong Country - Gang-Plank Galleon (composer: David Wise)  28:37 - Talk Segment 29:11 - Final Fantasy V (Super Famicom) - Pirates Ahoy! (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 31:17 - Talk Segment 32:46 - Mega Man and Bass (Super Famicom) - Pirate Man (composers: Toshihiko Horiyama, Naoshi Mizuta, and Akari Kaida) 34:59 - Talk Segment 35:35 - Mega Man Legends - The Flutter VS The Gesellschaft (composer: Makoto Tomozawa) 39:31 - Talk Segment 40:25 - Skies of Arcadia - Blue Pirates’ Theme (composer: Yukata Minobe) 43:28 - Skies of Arcadia - Bombardment (composer: Tatsuyuki Maeda) 46:20 - Talk Segment 46:46 - Streets of Rage II - Ready Funk (composer: Yuzo Koshiro) 48:27 - Talk Segment 48:56 - Puzzle Pirates - Main Theme (composers: Batisy and Mikei) 51:00 - Talk Segment 52:50 - The Curse of Monkey Island - A Pirate I Was Meant to Be (composer: Michael Land)