Episode 73 - Rando Calrissian and the Sinister Secret of the Silver Shadow

After cheating death for the third time in a week, Rando just wants to hide out at the Seedy Eye, his favorite watering hole hidden on a little asteroid in the middle of nowhere. But when a mysterious beauty called the Silver Shadow walks through the door, Rando’s weakness for a lovely lady leads him into his most dangerous adventure yet! Will these 20 grab bag tracks be enough to save him? Listen and find out! 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.  The authors of webcomic Penny Arcade, who coined the name Rando Calrissian a very long time ago and from whom I’ve shamelessly stolen it. BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  The first music block featured a song from Defender 2000, a soundtrack I discovered through fellow VGM podcast barSILENCE. In addition to doing cover art for my show, Jameson also did an excellent deep dive into this soundtrack on his show, and you can listen to it at https://barsilence.com/episode/57d0fd9e/defender-2000. And if you liked the Einhander track I played in the second block, there’s also a barSILENCE deep dive into that soundtrack you can hear at https://barsilence.com/episode/9cfe2ef1/einhander-after-image. If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads and Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. All episodes of the show are posted to my YouTube channel, which you can find by searching for Shujin Academy VGM Club. You can email me at [email protected]. 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. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on 8beats.co, the internet's number one game music radio station. My show is also featured on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there. Finally, if you just can’t get enough of me, I’m also voicing esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama podcast How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can find on FGC Radio, Patreon, and most podcatchers. If you’re listening on Spotify, please be aware that they’ve pulled a few of my episodes before. There’s a non-zero chance that they’ll eventually pull my entire podcast, as they’ve done with a few other game music podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get all of the Professor Tom goodness you crave. Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:06 - Interstate ‘76 (PC) - Interstate ‘76 Theme (composer: Arion Salazar; performed by Bullmark) 01:06 - Talk Segment 1 04:59 - Darius II (Arcade) - Olga Breeze (composer: Hisayoshi Ogura) 09:43 - Ninja Five-O (GBA) - Select Menu (composers: Aya Tanaka and Hiroyuki Tsuboguchi) 11:25 - Gundam Wing: Endless Duel (Super Famicom) - City (composers: Hiroyuki Iwatsuki and Haruo Ohashi) 13:53 - Defender 2000 (Jaguar) - Level 5 (It’s a Dream) (composer: Alistair Lindsay) 19:49 - Ehrgeiz (Arcade) - Those Who Fight (composer: Nobuo Uematsu; arranger: Takayuki Nakamura) 21:18 - Talk Segment 2 24:21 - Hard Dunk (Arcade) - Round 6 (composer: Hideaki Miyamoto) 26:41 - Lord of Arcana (PSP) - Collection (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 30:05 - Nemo (Arcade) - Unused 2 (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 31:56 - Einhander (PSX) - Factory (composer: Kenichiro Fukui) 35:10 - Persona 5 (multiplatform) - What’s Going On (composer: Shoji Meguro) 37:13 - Grandia II (Dreamcast) - Commercial Town Liligue - Apparent Prosperity (composer: Noriyuki Iwadare) 39:58 - Talk Segment 3 43:53 - Zoda’s Revenge - StarTropics II (NES) - Ice Age World Map (composers: Takashi Kumegawa and Yoshio Hirai) 47:21 - SimCity (NES) - Megalopolis (composer: Soyo Oka) 49:42 - Legendary Wings (NES) - Palace (composers: Tamayo Kawamoto, Manami Matsumae, and Yoshihiro Sakaguchi) 51:09 - Xerd no Densetsu 2 (Game Boy) - Track 28 (composer: unknown)  55:22 - Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari (PC Engine CD) - River City High School (composer: Kazuo Sawa) 58:41 - Zero4 Champ RR (Super Famicom) - Function (composer: Katsuhiro Hayashi) 1:00:06 - Egg Monster Hero (DS) - Area 4 Map (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 1:02:10 - Outro Talk Segment 1:04:49 - Hot Rod (C64) - BGM 1 (composer: Jeroen Tel)