Episode 31 - Add Three More Mana

We’re taking another lap with the songs of the Lotus and Top Gear games, this time featuring the work of Patrick Phelan and Neil Biggin! The checkered flag is in sight! Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Mastodon at @[email protected] or on Discord as ProfessorTom#7512. I’m also on both Tumblr and Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. You can email me at [email protected]. Episodes of the show are posted on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw6CIUs81aap58U1EuaaFdA. All my links to everything are available on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. Look for new episodes on Thursdays whenever I get them done, which is typically once or twice a month. If you liked the song from VA-11 Hall-A that I played to close out the episode, you can visit Garoad’s Bandcamp at https://garoad.bandcamp.com/ to download all of his work. Look forward to hearing more from him on my next episode! Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Top Gear 3000 (SNES) - Main Theme 2 (composer: Neil Biggin) 04:25 - Talk Segment 1 06:23 - Lotus III (Amiga) - Lotus III (title theme) (composer: Patrick Phelan) 08:55 - Lotus III (Amiga) - Breathless (composer: Patrick Phelan) 14:43 - Lotus III - Shamrip (composer: Patrick Phelan) 19:53 - Lotus III - Complete (composer: Patrick Phelan)  21:20 - Talk Segment 2.1 23:54 - Top Gear 2 (Amiga CD 32) - Night Train (Title Screen) (composers: Patrick Phelan and Neil Biggin) 26:11 - Top Gear 2 (Amiga CD 32) - Burn Rubber (Canterbury Plains) (composers: Patrick Phelan and Neil Biggin) 30:56 - Top Gear 2 (Amiga CD 32) - Results (composers: Patrick Phelan and Neil Biggin) 32:44 - Talk Segment 2.2 33:41 - Top Gear 2 (Genesis) - Top Racer (Auckland) (composers: Neil Biggin and Patrick Phelan) 37:00 - Talk Segment 2.3 37:36 - Top Gear 2 (SNES) - Destructive Comment (Ayres Rock) (composers: Patrick Phelan and Ashley Bennett) 42:11 - Top Gear 2 (SNES) - Ending Theme (composers: Patrick Phelan and Ashley Bennett) 44:36 - Talk Segment 3 48:44 - Top Gear 3000 (SNES) - Title (composer: Neil Biggin) 52:23 - Top Gear 3000 (SNES) - Main Theme 3 (composer: Neil Biggin) 56:45 - Top Gear 3000 (SNES) - Main Theme 4 (composer: Neil Biggin)  1:00:38 - Top Gear 3000 (SNES) - Ending Theme (composer: Neil Biggin) 1:05:34 - Outro Talk Segment 1:07:23 - VA-11 Hall-A: Good for Health, Bad for Education (composer: Garoad)