Shujin Academy VGM Club

Since 1999, OverClocked ReMix (https://ocremix.org/) has been a part of the video game music community. It began as a showcase of game music from fans, and it’s grown into a library with years of history and game remixes. The community began releasing themed albums full of songs in 2003, and several of those albums have covered various Final Fantasy games. In this first of a two-episode series, we’ll be looking at the OCRemix albums covering NES and SNES Final Fantasy games. Special thanks for this episode goes out to: All the various musicians, remixers, and arrangers who worked on these OCRemix albums. Lots of links for them are below, alongside links to download each of today’s four featured albums 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.  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. If you liked these remixes, and want more awesome songs like these, here are links for the projects and artists featured on this episode. Some artists appear more than once; for those artists, only the first entry includes their links. All songs were originally composed by Nobuo Uematsu. OverClocked Remix (https://ocremix.org/) - All songs featured today are pulled from this website and this community. OCRemix is also home to dozens of other VGM arrangement albums and thousands of tracks.  Final Fantasy II: Rebellion credits: The full album can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/64/final-fantasy-ii-rebellion The show’s opening track was “Preluematsude”, from Jeff Ball. You can find his website at https://jeffballmusic.com/ and his BandCamp page at https://jeffball.bandcamp.com/  The first song in this block was “Grind My Crank”, from XPRTNovice, also known as Joe Zieja. You can find his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@JoeZieja, where he talks about gaming and voice acting, and you can find his website at https://joezieja.com/.  The second song in this block was “Rebellion”, from Brandon Strader, Chernabogue, and Detective Tuesday.  Brandon Strader’s website can be found at https://bstrader.net/. You can also find his work on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/brandon-strader) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@bstrader). His work is also available to stream on Spotify.  Chernabogue / Alex Mourey can be found on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/chernabogue), on Bandcamp (https://chernabogue.bandcamp.com/), and on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/Chernabogue) Detective Tuesday / Anton Corazza can be found on his website at https://antoncorazza.com/. You can also find his work on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/antoncorazza), on Bandcamp (https://antoncorazza.bandcamp.com/), and on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/antoncorazza) Today’s show finishes with “Finally”, arranged by a mysterious individual known only as “Hat”. This person has no links on the OCRemix website and is nigh impossible to search for, so godspeed unto them. They had their reasons for anonymity, and I shall respect it.  Final Fantasy IV: Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption credits: The full album can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/14/final-fantasy-iv-echoes-of-betrayal-light-of-redemption The first song in this block was “Fighting for Tomorrow”, from OA and Nutritious.  OA is also known as OceansAndrew, or by his birth name of Andrew Luers. You can find his SoundCloud page at https://soundcloud.com/user-120330359, and his YouTube is at https://www.youtube.com/failinghope.  Nutritious is the nom de remix of Justin Medford, and you can find his SoundCloud page at https://soundcloud.com/nutritiousmusic. He’s also got a YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/NutritiousMultimedia  The second song in this block was “Golbez 'N Goblins” from bLiNd, also known as Jordan Aguirre. Find his YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@brailleaudio/videos and follow him on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/blindedm  The third song in the block was “Metal Mage”, from Cyril the Wolf, Lil' Wolfie, and OA.  Cyril the Wolf is the alias of Connor Pelkey, and his SoundCloud page is at https://soundcloud.com/cyrilthewolf. His Bandcamp page is at https://cyrilthewolf.bandcamp.com/ and you can find his YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/CyrilRufus  Final Fantasy V: The Fabled Warriors credits: Part 1 of this project can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/20/final-fantasy-v-the-fabled-warriors-i-wind.  Part 2 of this project can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/73/final-fantasy-v-the-fabled-warriors-ii-water The first song in the block was “In the Shadows ~Theme of Thief~”, from Mattias Häggström Gerdt, and it’s found on the “WIND” album.  Mattias Häggström Gerdt’s SoundCloud page can be found at https://soundcloud.com/anosou, and he’s also got a YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/anosoumusictube. He’s also done soundtrack work for multiple indie games; his MobyGames at https://www.mobygames.com/person/387430/mattias-haggstrom-gerdt/ lists all of them.   The second song in the block was “La Princesa de Taikun ~Theme of Lenna~”, from Sixto Sounds, and it’s on the “WATER” album. Sixto Sounds is also known as Juan Medrano, and you can find his SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/sixtosounds and his YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/ocrsixtosounds  The third song in the block was “A Silver Light Shines ~Theme of Mystic Knight~”, from DarkeSword, and it’s also on the “WATER” album. DarkeSword is also known as Shariq Ansari, and you can find him on BlueSky at https://bsky.app/profile/darkesword.com. He’s also on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/darkesword.  Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin credits: The full album can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/46/final-fantasy-vi-balance-and-ruin  The first song featured from this album is “There Will Be Blood”, arranged by Anti-Syne, who is also known as Jack Lewis. You can find his SoundCloud page at https://soundcloud.com/jack-lewis.  The second featured song is “Blackjack's Breakup Bossa”, arranged by Calum Bowen with vocals from Xarnax42. Calum Bowen’s SoundCloud page can be found at https://soundcloud.com/calumbowen. He’s composed several game soundtracks, and you can also follow him on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/calumbowen and https://www.youtube.com/@boenyeah  Xarnax42 is also known as Jesse Deacon, and his SoundCloud is at https://soundcloud.com/xarnax42. His YouTube is at https://www.youtube.com/Xarnax42   The third featured song is “La Montana de los Caballos Jovenes”, arranged by XPRTNovice, whose details can be found above.  The fourth featured song is “A Glimmer of Hope”, arranged by Joshua Morse with help from Jeff Ball and Laura Intravia.  Joshua Morse’s website is https://jmflava.com/. He’s also got a Bandcamp page at https://joshuamorse.bandcamp.com/ and a SoundCloud page at https://soundcloud.com/joshuamorse.  Jeff Ball’s details can be found above. Laura Intravia’s website is https://www.lauraintravia.com/. Her list of game credits can be found at https://www.mobygames.com/person/572991/laura-intravia/, and she’s got a YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/flutelink.  Finally, on the subject of arranged game music, you can listen to fellow game music podcast RE-VGM for an entire show devoted exclusively to game music remixes. RE-VGM’s website is at https://re-vgm.blubrry.net/ and you can find the show on most major podcast platforms. Tell Martyrus that Professor Tom sent you. Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:06 - Final Fantasy II: Rebellion - Preluematsude (Prelude) [arranger: Jeff Ball] 04:10 - Talk Segment 1 09:13 - Final Fantasy II: Rebellion - Grind My Crank (Tower of the Magi) [arranger: XPRTNovice] 13:14 - Final Fantasy II: Rebellion - Rebellion (Dead Music, The Rebel Army) [arrangers: Brandon Strader, Chernabogue, Detective Tuesday] 17:44 - Talk Segment 2 19:52 - Final Fantasy IV: Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption - Fighting for Tomorrow (Fabul) [arrangers: OA, Nutritious, The Fabul Men's Choir] 25:19 - Final Fantasy IV: Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption - Golbez 'N Goblins (Golbez, Clad in Darkness) [arranger: bLiNd] 30:01 - Final Fantasy IV: Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption - Metal Mage (Palom and Porom) [arrangers: Cyril the Wolf, Lil' Wolfie, OA] 32:15 - Talk Segment 3 36:32 - Final Fantasy V: The Fabled Warriors ~I. WIND~ - In the Shadows ~Theme of Thief~ [arranger: Mattias Häggström Gerdt] 39:46 - Final Fantasy V: The Fabled Warriors ~II. WATER~ - La Princesa de Taikun ~Theme of Lenna~  [arranger: Sixto Sounds] 43:59 - Final Fantasy V: The Fabled Warriors ~II. WATER~ - A Silver Light Shines ~Theme of Mystic Knight~ [arranger: DarkeSword] 48:47 - Talk Segment 4 51:41 - Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin - There Will Be Blood (Metamorphosis) [arranger: Anti-Syne] 55:00 - Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin - Blackjack's Breakup Bossa (Blackjack) [arranger: Calum Bowen feat. Xarnax42] 57:43 - Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin - La Montana de los Caballos Jovenes (Mt. Koltz) [arranger: XPRTNovice] 1:02:59 - Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin - A Glimmer of Hope (Searching for Friends) [arranger: Joshua Morse feat. Jeff Ball, Laura Intravia] 1:07:14 - Outro Talk Segment 1:10:01 - Final Fantasy II: Rebellion - Finally (Finale) [arranger: Hat]

There are sunglasses. They are cool sunglasses. So cool that you’ll need them while you vibe through these seventeen cool songs. If you liked this episode, there are a few other recent VGM podcast episodes you may want to check out.  Fellow VGM podcast Pixel Beat just did an episode featuring songs with a cool vibe, and you can hear it at https://pixelbeatpod.buzzsprout.com/1797351/episodes/18961132-177-more-vibin If you liked the track from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All, there’s a recent CRT Soundsystem episode where they did a deep dive into the Phoenix Wright DS trilogy, and you can hear it at https://rss.com/podcasts/crtsoundsystem/2630834/ or on the CRT Soundsystem Patreon.  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.  All of you awesome listeners who’ve helped the show get to 10000 downloads 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 - Persona 3 Dancing in Moonlight (PS4) - Colorful Lights (composer: Ryota Kozuka) 02:00 - Talk Segment 1 04:54 - Final Fantasy XIII (multiplatform) - Can’t Catch a Break (composer: Masashi Hamauzu) 10:09 - Racing Lagoon (PSX) - C1-WARRIORS (composers: Noriko Matsueda and Takahito Eguchi) 11:55 - Bomberman Hero (N64) - redial (composer: Jun Chikuma) 13:43 - Lam-Mal (X68000) - Town A (composers: Hideaki Takashita and Ryu Takami) 17:38 - Viewpoint (Neo Geo) - BE YOUR AGE! (AREA 3) (composer: Megumi Matsuura) 20:03 - Talk Segment 2 22:51 - R4 / Ridge Racer Type 4 - LUCID RHYTHMS (composer: Tetsukazu Nakanishi) 26:15 - Mega Man 8 (Saturn) - Aqua Man Stage (aka Underwater Stage) (composer: Shusaku Uchiyama) 28:10 - Tekken 3 (Arcade) - King (composer: Nobuyoshi Sano) 30:38 - Alpine Racer (Arcade) - Extreme Slope (composer: Takayuki Ishikawa) 34:25 - Ultra Street Fighter IV (multiplatform) - Theme of Ibuki - Twilight (SSFIV Arrange) (composers: Hideki Okugawa; arranger: Hideyuki Fukasawa) 38:13 - Talk Segment 3 43:12 - Persona 5 Royal (multiplatform) - Phantom (composer: Shoji Meguro) 45:25 - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All (DS?) - Shelly de Killer ~ The Whim of a Murderous Gentleman (composer: Akemi Kimura) 46:54 - Shin Megami Tensei - Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army (PS2) - The Lazy Detective Agency (composer: Shoji Meguro) 50:07 - The Outfoxies (Arcade) - City of Bule (composer: Masahiro Fukuzawa) 55:06 - Miami Chase (Amiga) - New York (composer: Jimmy Fredriksson) 58:36 - Outro Talk Segment 1:01:10 - Golf Magazine Presents 36 Great Holes Starring Fred Couples (32X) - Music Test 01 (composers: Ron Saltmarsh and Andy Warr)

In the Bible, chapter 4 verse 1 of the Apostle Paul’s second letter to the Croatians, says “Yea, the Tree of Wisdom doth produce fruit that creates sweet tones, and unto them ye shall listen and be enlightened.” And to celebrate April 1st, which is called Wisdom Tree Day after this Bible verse and definitely not celebrated as any other kind of holiday, we’ll be listening to songs from Wisdom Tree, a developer that specialized in Christian games. Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Red McCano, host of the How Much in Bison Dollars? podcast, for letting me borrow Pastor Rick Swindoll and his informed opinions about martial arts. You can learn more about the How Much in Bison Dollars program by searching for “How Much in Bison Dollars” on your podcatcher of choice or on Patreon, and you can find Shadaloo Department of Treasury Senior Executive Vice Senior President McCano on most social media platforms as @hmibisondollars. Pastor Thomas, for his enlightening sermon.  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. To hear some of the actual theological underpinnings of Pastor Thomas’s teaching, here are some helpful links for you. On martial arts: https://youtube.com/shorts/iEcmxFb4pfc On Pokemon: https://youtu.be/aHPWJ1NPhhQ  Pastor Thomas’s views on Katamari Damacy are informed by Phil Phillips’s book “Turmoil in the Toybox”, which can be found in used bookstores online. Pastor Thomas's views on Neo Turf Masters are informed by the 16th hole on the Australian course, the 15th hole on the German course, holes 16 and 17 on the Japanese course, the second hole on the American course, and every single hole on the Scotland course.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:08 - Sunday Funday: The Ride (NES) - Main Theme (composers: Vance Kozik and Roger Deforest) 00:53 - Talk Segment 1 07:08 - Bible Adventures (NES) - Noah's Ark, Baby Moses, and David and Goliath (composer: Vance Kozik) 08:03 - Talk Segment 2 13:10 - King of Kings: The Early Years (NES) - The Wise Men (arrangement of “We Three Kings” , composed by John Henry Hopkins Jr.; arranger unknown) 13:58 - Talk Segment 3 19:37 - Spiritual Warfare (Genesis) - Overworld Theme (composers: Roger Deforest and Vance Kozik) 21:25 - Talk Segment 4 29:16 - Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land (Genesis) - Stage Theme (arrangement of “Father Abraham”, composed by Pierre Kartner; arranger unknown) 30:01 - Talk Segment 5 36:34 - Super 3D Noah's Ark (SNES) - Menu (composer: Vance Kozik) 37:25 - Outro Talk Segment 41:36 - Tee Off (Dreamcast) - Let’s Get Golfing! (composer: Makoto Asai; lyrics: Cathy; vocals: Hitomi Ono)

The fine folks at Enhance reached out to me and asked if I’d show off some of the soundtrack for Lumines Arise, along with their other games like Tetris Effect and Rez Infinite. And I said yes, because all three of those soundtracks are great, so that’s what this special bonus episode is all about.  Special thanks for this episode goes out to: CJ from Enhance for approaching me and asking if I’d do an episode about Lumines Arise. You can follow Enhance on BlueSky at enhance-experience.com, on Twitter as @enhance_exp, and visit their website at https://enhance-experience.com/ BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  Independently of this episode, I found Lumines Arise via games writer Pete Davison’s blog MoeGamer. You can find his excellent article about it at https://moegamer.net/2025/11/14/lumines-arise-the-art-of-sincerity-and-creating-meaning-without-explicit-narrative/ and you can visit the whole website at https://moegamer.net  If you want to know more about Hydelic, you can find his website at http://www.noborumutoh.com and you visit his Bandcamp page at https://hydelic.bandcamp.com, where you can download all three of the soundtracks featured on this episode.  To hear more from Luma, who contributed to some of the Lumines Arise vocal tracks, you can visit her YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/c/LumaMusicOfficial/about.  To hear more from Kymara, who also contributed to a Lumines Arise vocal track, you can find her YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/@KymaraJapNgie. Her official website is https://kymaramusic.com and she can also be found on Spotify.  Mechi Pieretti was the vocalist on one of the Tetris Effect songs, and you can find her YouTube page at  https://www.youtube.com/@MechiPieretti and she’s also on Spotify.  Kat McDowell’s guitar also shows up on one of today’s featured tracks from Tetris Effect, and you can find her website at https://www.kat-mcdowell.com and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/katmcdowell. Mayu Wakisaka contributed to one of the Rez Infinite tracks, and you can find her work on Spotify and Apple Music, and also on her YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/user/mayutantanutan.  The show opened and closed with tracks featuring Krysta Youngs, and you can find more of her music on her website at https://www.krystayoungs.com, on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/krystayoungs, on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/krystayoungsmusic, and also on Spotify and Apple Music. 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 00:08 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Arise (composers: Krista Youngs and Hydelic; performed by Krista Youngs and Hydelic) 02:52 - Talk Segment 1 06:19 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - In Black and White (composer: Takako Ishida) 08:43 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Reboot (composer: Hydelic) 12:46 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - The List (composer: Hydelic) 15:37 - Talk Segment 2 16:29 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Bloom Pulse (composer: Takako Ishida) 20:44 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Swarm Within (composer: Takako Ishida) 24:45 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Snow Murmur (composer: Takako Ishida) 29:23 - Talk Segment 3 30:45 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Sky Falls Down (composers: Hydelic and Luma) 34:13 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Two Lost Stars (composers: Hydelic and Luma) 38:09 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Wash Away (composers: Hydelic and Kymara) 41:33 - Talk Segment 4 43:16 - Tetris Effect (multiplatform) - Next Chapter (composer: Hydelic) 47:54 - Tetris Effect (multiplatform) - World of Colors [In-Game Mix] (composer: Hydelic; vocals: Mechi Pieretti; guitar: Kat McDowell) 51:22 - Talk Segment 5 52:56 - Rez Infinite (PlayStation 5 / Steam) - Deeplights (composers: Hydelic and Takako Ishida) 54:07 - Rez Infinite (PlayStation 5 / Steam) - Awakening (composers: Hydelic and Takako Ishida) 58:36 - Rez Infinite (PlayStation 5 / Steam) - Singularity X (Ending Edit) (composers: Hydelic and Mayu Wakisaka) 1:00:58 - Outro Talk Segment 1:03:00 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Only Human [In-Game Mix] (composers: Hydelic and Krysta Youngs)

For the 69th episode, we’ll be hearing a nice set of calm tracks, adding another entry to my ongoing Chilly McFreeze series.  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. (Mention new episode about Kaze no NOTAM) All the fine, hardworking people who’ve ripped these tracks out of various video games. BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you like these Chilly McFreeze episodes that I keep doing, you should check out Chillscape, an entire podcast devoted to chill VGM, hosted by Aaron of the Superghost podcast. You can find the website for it at chillscape.xyz and it’s available on most podcatchers that aren’t Spotify, because Spotify is evil and they hate video game music.  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 - Picross e7 (3DS) - Mega Picross (composer: unknown) 02:19 - Talk Segment 1 05:12 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - Newly-Settled Town (composer: Yukio Nakajima) 07:42 - Star Ocean (Super Famicom) - Ambition (composer: Motoi Sakuraba) 10:55 - Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand (Super Famicom) - Shopping (composers: Naoki Kaneda, Satoshi Arai, and Atsushi Shirakawa) 12:58 - Bahamut Lagoon (Super Famicom) - Aqui-Land Mahaaru (composer: Noriko Matsueda) 15:22 - Cu-On-Pa (Super Famicom) - Lonely Factory (composer: Ken Kojima) 20:22 - Talk Segment 2 23:19 - Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked (PS2?) - So that the forms of heavenly maidens linger before me yet more (composer: Masafumi Takada) 25:30 - Coffee Talk (multiplatform) - Silent Rains (composer: Andrew Jeremy) 29:23 - Persona 5 Tactica (multiplatform) - Beneath the Mask -Tactica- (composer: Shoji Meguro; arranger: Toshiki Konishi) 23:25 - VA-11 Hall-A (multiplatform) - Dusk (composer: Garoad) 37:35 - Breath of Fire 3 (PS1) - Windy City (composers: Akari Kaida, Yoshino Aoki) 39:52 - Talk Segment 3 43:51 - Fantasian (multiplatform) - Frozen Tundra (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 48:37 - Chrono Cross (PS1) - Leaving the Body (composer: Yasunori Mitsuda) 50:44 - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness (DS) - Time Gear (composers: Arata Iiyoshi, Hideki Sakamoto, Keisuke Ito, Ken-ichi Saito, Yoshihiro Maeda) 52:41 - Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii/3DS/Switch) - Reminiscence (composer: Manami Kiyota) 56:09 - Thunder Force III (Genesis) - Present (Staff Roll) (composer: Toshiharu Yamanishi) 59:16 - Outro Talk Segment 1:02:05 - Final Fantasy VI (SNES) - Now is the Winter (cover of “The Mines of Narshe”; composer: Final Fantasy VI; arranger: Mustin)

Special guest host Samson Escapades joins us from “How Much in Bison Dollars?” for a special look at a whole bunch of tracks from fighting games, some of which are fondly remembered and some of which have been forgotten. (Maybe even rightfully forgotten, in a few cases.)  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.  Red McCano, Senior Executive Vice Senior President of Shadaloo’s Department of Treasury, for the How Much in Bison Dollars campaign, the genesis of the Samson Escapades character, and for giving me the opportunity to portray him. You can find all things Bison Dollars on Threads, BlueSky, YouTube, and Patreon under the username “hmibisondollars”, and you can listen to the How Much in Bison Dollars? podcast on FGC Radio or on the podcatcher of your choice. VGM composer and arranger Gribblesnap for providing the song used in the Neo Turf Masters Neo promo. You can find their YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@gribblesnap  shoepixie for providing the voice for Neo Turf Masters Neo promo. BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  Samson’s social media sites are generally blocked outside of Shadaloo, but if you want to reach Professor Tom, 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 (sometimes less) 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.  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 00:07 - King of Fighters ‘96 Arranged (arrangement) - “IN 1996” (Title) (composition and arrangement: Shinsekai Gakkyoku Zatsugidan) 00:42 - Talk Segment - Team Forgotten SNK 04:21 - Buriki One: World Grapple Tournament '99 in Tokyo (Hyper Neo Geo 64) - Patrick Van Heyting (composer: Yasuo Yamate) 06:36 - Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle (Neo Geo) - Slum Town (composers: (Jojouha KITAPY, Yasuo Yamate, MITSUO) 08:25 - Baseball Stars Professional (Neo Geo CD) - Track 02 (composer: Toshikazu Tanaka)  10:55 - Talk Segment - Team Sega 13:17 - Holosseum (Arcade) - Dave (composers: Kazuhiko Nagai and Tomoyuki Kawamura) 14:08 - Dark Edge (Arcade) - Snowfield Stage (composer: Tomoyuki Kawamura) 16:35 - Fighting Vipers (Arcade) - Look to the Skies (composer: David Leytze) 19:10 - Talk Segment - Team ADK 22:28 - Aggressors of Dark Kombat (Neo Geo) - 30 Take It Easy (Bobby Main Theme) (composer: Hiroaki Kujirai) 24:17 - World Heroes 2 (Neo Geo) - Jonny, Let's Dance (Maximum's Theme) (composer: Hideki Yamamoto) 26:24 - Twinkle Star Sprites (Neo Geo) - Disagreeable (composer: Takeshi Muramatsu) 28:36 - Talk Segment - Team Animal 31:33 - Them's Fightin' Herds (multiplatform) - The Woodland (Oleander's Stage) (composer: Whitetail) 33:57 - Rivals of Aether II (PC) - Adventurous Gale (composer: Moonsailor) 37:06 - Brutal: Paws of Fury (SNES) - Training in the Dojo (composer: Neil Baldwin) 39:05 - Talk Segment - Team Square 44:09 - Bushido Blade 2 (PlayStation) - Champion of Gale ~Slaughter Mode - Shainto - Stage Music~ (composer: Ryuji Sasai) 46:30 - Tobal No. 1 (PlayStation) - Aqua and Trees (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 49:39 - Ehrgeiz (Arcade) - CONTINENTAL TRAIN (composer: Takayuki Nakamura) 50:56 - Talk Segment - Team Neo Geo Others 53:22 - Waku Waku 7 (Neo Geo) - The Sun Also Sets (Dandy J Stage) (composer: Masato Araikawa) 55:39 - Breakers Revenge (Neo Geo) - Sho Kamui BGM (composer: Kenichi Kamio) 56:44 - Fighter's History Dynamite (Neo Geo) - Ryoko's Theme (composers: Mihoko Ando and Shogo Sakai) 59:00 - Talk Segment - Team Shaq Ninja Schoolgirl 1:01:33 - Shaq Fu (Genesis) - Shaq's Theme (composer: Raphaël Gesqua) 1:03:58 - Kasumi Ninja (Jaguar) - Danja's Theme (composer: Stephen Lord) 1:05:15 - Asuka 120% Limited BURNING Fest. Limited (Saturn) - Karina's Theme (composer: Keishi Yonao) 1:07:09 - Talk Segment - Team PlayStation Franchises 1:09:57 - Psychic Force (PlayStation) - Carry Away! (Sonia Stage) (composer: Hideki Takahagi)  1:13:15 - Bloody Roar (PlayStation) - Hard Elbow (Colosseum) (composer: Ken-ichi Koyano; arranger: Hitoshi Sakimoto) 1:16:11 - Battle Arena Toshinden 2 (PlayStation) - Sofia's Theme TAKE.1 (composers: Yasuhiro Nakano and Fumio Tanabe) 1:19:13 - Outro Talk Segment 1:22:48 - Street Fighter Alpha 2 (PlayStation) - Staff Roll 1 (composers: Syun Nishigaki, Setsuo Yamamoto, and Tatsuro Suzuki)

An ordinary refueling stop turns dangerous when Rando Calrissian’s space cruiser gets stolen, leaving him stranded on the second moon of Monmoor Delta. But when Rando tries to get a ticket to somewhere, anywhere else, he runs afoul of the bewitching green-skinned Crura Fallopian and her syndicate. What does Crura want? And how is she connected to the mysterious Comboy Conglomerate, the company that seems to run everything on Monmoor Delta? Listen to this grab bag of VGM to 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.  Captain Supreme for providing the voice of Colt 45 Energy. You can find him on Bluesky at CaptainSupreme, or on his LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/captainsupreme. Internet comic Penny Arcade for coming up with the name “Rando Calrissian”, which I’ve shamelessly stolen. All the fine, hardworking people who’ve ripped these tracks out of various video games. I literally couldn’t do the show without you. BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you enjoyed the final track, you can download the entirety of Mode Seven: A Jazz Tribute to the SNES at https://mode7.ocremix.org/, or you can find it available on YouTube and Spotify for your streaming pleasure.  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 - Secret Little Haven (PC) - This Connection is Secure (composer: Victoria Dominoski) 01:08 - Talk Segment 1 05:24 - Suzuka 8 Hours (SNES) - Main Menu (composer: Katsuhiro Hayashi) 06:23 - Assault (arcade) - BGM 1 (composer: Kazuo Noguchi) 08:58 - Vectorman 2 (Genesis) - Scene 3: Bog Jam (composer: Jon Holland) 11:54 - Breath of Fire 3 (PSX) - Castle in the Sky (composers: Yoshino Aoki and Akari Kaida) 14:54 - Tobal No. 1 (PSX) - Electrical Indian (composers: Yasunori Mitsudo and GUIDO) 18:57 - Super Tetris 3 (Super Famicom) - Knighthood (composer: Shigemitsu Goto) 20:52 - Talk Segment 2 25:16 - King of Fighters XIV (multiplatform) - Saxophone Under the Moon (Yagami Team BGM) (composer: Naoki Kita) 28:54 - Rolling Thunder 2 (arcade) - View of Dynamism (Round 5) (composer: Ayako Sasō) 32:01 - Code Name: Viper (NES) - Area 01 and 02 (composers: Yoko Shimomura and Junko Tamiya) 33:31 - Twinkle Star Sprites (Neo Geo) - Love Me (composer: Takao Ohshima) 35:39 - Alpine Racer (arcade) - Invisible Destination (composer: Takayuki Ishikawa) 39:21 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (NES) - Scene 5-1 - The Sewer Pipe Nightmare (composers: Yūichi Sakakura, Tomoya Tomita, and Kozo Nakamura) 41:11 - Talk Segment 3 46:17 - Viewpoint (Neo Geo) - Not All There (Area 1) (composers: Sizlla Okamura, Masaki Kase, Megumi Matsuura) 48:46 - Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand (Super Famicom) - Shopping (composer: Atsushi Shirakawa) 50:49 - Unlimited SaGa (PS2) - Battle Theme I (composer: Masashi Hamauzu) 52:53 - Sky Shark (NES) - Stage 4 (composer: Tim Follin) 55:53 - Night Striker (arcade) - Fly Away (composer: Masahiko Takaki) 58:18 - Shatterhand (NES) - Area B (composer: Iku Mizutani) 59:46 - Growlancer III: The Dual Darkness (PS2) - Risky Mission (composer: Hiroshi Fujioka) 1:01:55 - Outro Talk Segment 1:05:12 - Live A Live (arrangement) - Live Mega, Live Más (arrangement of MEGALOMANIA; original composer Yoko Shimomura; arranged by Alejandro Espinosa; performed by the OC Jazz Collective)

All my cats have been named after video game characters, so this very personal episode is about those cats, their various namesake characters, and some music from the relevant games.  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, 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 hear on FGC Radio or at https://rss.com/podcasts/hmibisondollars/.  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 - Kingdom Hearts (PS2) - Welcome to Wonderland (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 01:59 - Talk Segment 1 - Athena 09:11 - Athena (Arcade) - World of Ice (composer: unknown) 10:31 - Athena: Awakening From the Ordinary Life (PSX) - Theme “Athenacchi” (composer: KIKU) 11:30 - King of Fighters 2000 (Neo Geo) - Will (composers: Hideki Asanaka, Hiroshi Yamazoe, and Yasuo Yamate) 15:30 - Capcom vs SNK 2 (Arcade) - Happiness (composer: Satoshi Ise) 17:49 - King of Fighters XI (Arcade) - PURE ~at good old days~ (composer: Hideki Asanaka, Marimo, and USAKO-X) 21:07 - King of Fighters ‘96 Arrange Sound Trax (arrangement) - Psycho Soldier REMIX’96 (composers: Shinsekai Gakkyoku Zatsugidan; lyrics: MOMO; vocals: Tamao Sato) 24:29 - Talk Segment 2 - Sakura 33:13 - Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (PSX/Saturn) - I Want You To Know (composer and lyricist: Tatsuro Suzuki; vocals: Yuko Sasamoto) 37:13 - Street Fighter Alpha 3 (Arcade) - Breeze (Sakura’s Theme) (composer: Yuki Iwai) 40:08 - Street Fighter IV (PS3 / Xbox 360) - Theme of Sakura (SFIV Arrange) (composer: Tatsuro Suzuki; arrangement: Hideyuki Fukasawa) 43:19 - Street Fighter EX3 - Precious Heart (Sakura’s Theme) (composer: Takayuki Aihara) 46:49 - Talk Segment 3 - Blaze and Cherry 53:09 - Streets of Rage 4 (multiplatform) - Character Select (composer: Yuzo Koshiro) 56:46 - Streets of Rage 4 (multiplatform) - It’s Extra (composer: Motohiro Kawashima) 58:56 - Streets of Rage 4 (multiplatform) - Funky HQ (composer: Olivier Deriviere) 1:01:36 - Streets of Rage 2 (Genesis) - Under Logic (composer: Yuzo Koshiro) 1:03:32 - Streets of Rage (Genesis) - Good Ending (composer: Yuzo Koshiro) 1:05:14 - Outro Talk Segment 1:07:46 - Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (arcade) - Stage Felicia (composers: some combination of Takayuki Iwai, Hideki Okugawa, Tatsuro Suzuki, Isao Abe, Yuko Takehara, Syun Nishigaki, and Setsuo Yamamoto)

We’re headed back to the fairway for more golf game greatness! Listen to this one and hear from professional golf legends like Jack Nicklaus, Fred Couples, and Chi-Chi Rodríguez! Or at least some video games that they got paid to endorse. 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, 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 hear on FGC Radio or at https://rss.com/podcasts/hmibisondollars/.  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 - Mario Golf: Advance Tour (Game Boy Advance) - Lesson Course (composer: Motoi Sakuraba) 01:11 - Talk Segment 1 06:18 - Jack Nicklaus Turbo Golf (TurboGrafx-CD) - Track 08 (composer: Advance Communication Company) 07:32 - Japan Pro Golf Tour 64 (Nintendo 64DD) - On The Green (composer: K. Shinzawa) 10:07 - Super Golf (Game Gear) - BGM 01 (composer: unknown) 11:56 - Powerful Golf (DS) - S Touroku (composer: unknown) 13:16 - PGA European Tour (SNES) - Main Theme (composers: Steve Kirk and Christian Dana Perry) 14:25 - Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach (NES) - 01 (composer: Akihito Hayashi) 15:41 - True Swing Golf (DS) - Menu 02 (composer: Katsumi Yokokawa) 17:17 - Namco Open (Super Famicom) - Namcot Course (composer: unknown) 18:50 - Valora Valley Golf (Saturn) - Tutorial (composer: Yumi Satake) 20:52 - The Irem Skins Game (SNES) - Golf Course (composers: Yasuhiro Kawakami, Hiroshi Kimura, and Taniyama) 21:56 - Talk Segment 2 26:57 - Birdie Try (Arcade) - Coconut Palm Garden (composer: Data East Sound Team) 28:45 - Pebble Beach Golf Links (PC-98) - Opening (composers: Yumi Satake and Shigekazu Kamaki) 30:42 - Jack Nicklaus Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf (NES) - Track 1 (composer: Konami Kukeiha Club) 31:40 - Nettou Golf (Dreamcast) - 03 (composers: Hiroaki Yoshida, Masaaki Iwasaki, and Shinichi Yamazaki) 33:17 - Chi Chi’s Pro Challenge (Genesis) - 02 (composer: Masahito Miyamoto) 34:02 - Dynamic Country Club (Sega CD) - Menu (composer: unknown) 35:38 - Fred Couples Golf (Game Gear) - BGM 05 (composer: unknown) 36:39 - Virtua Golf (Arcade) - 12 (composers: Tetsuya Kawauchi, Masanori Takeuchi, and Eriko Sakurai) 37:36 - Okamoto Ayako to Match Play Golf - Ko Olina Golf Club in Hawaii (Super Famicom) - Match Play 39:48 - T&E VR Golf: Pebble Beach no Hatou (3DO) - Settings (composer: ?) 42:26 - Talk Segment 3 47:29 - Golf Magazine Presents 36 Great Holes Starring Fred Couples (32X) - Music Test 00 (composers: Ron Saltmarsh and Andy Warr) 51:51 - Super Swing Golf (Wii) - My Room (composers: Shigekiyo Okuda, Yutaka Fujishima) 53:21 - Super Naxat Open (Super Famicom) - Desert (composer: Hisashi Matsushita) 55:26 - Masters Harukanaru Augusta 3 (Saturn) - Settei (composers: Yumi Satake and Takeshi Miura) 59:21 - PGA Tour ‘96 (SNES) - Main Theme (composers: Steve Kirk and Chris Perry) 1:00:26 - Kurohige no Golf Shiyouyo (Game Boy Advance) - BGM 07 1:02:25 - St. Andrews: Eikou to Rekishi no Old Course (Super Famicom) - Track 15 (composer: Haruhiko Kuroiwa) 1:03:55 - Outro Talk Segment 1:06:32 - Mecarobot Golf (SNES) - Cruising (composers: Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, and Takashi Tsurutani)

It’s the inaugural induction into the VGM Hall of Fame! Listen to hear the classic soundtracks that are getting honored! 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 originators of the Masters of VGM project: Bedroth of the BGMania and Very Good Music podcasts. You can find BGMania at https://bgmania.podbean.com/, and although Very Good Music is on permanent hiatus, you should be able to find archives wherever you get your podcasts.  Chris Steenerson of the VGJam podcast, which can be found at https://www.vgjam.com/.  Christofer Schenström of the Gameable Audio podcast at https://gameableaudio.com/podcast  Thanks also to all of the VGM podcasts that participated in the Masters of VGM project over the years.  The participants in the VGM Hall of Fame project (so far): Alex the Messenger from A VGM Journey  His VGM Hall of Fame induction of Shovel Knight can be found at https://pca.st/i8wxkbgt  St John from Nerd Noise Radio His VGM Hall of Fame induction of Super Metroid can be found at https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/ch-1-noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e97-the-super-metroid-soundtrack-vgm-hall-of-fame/  Martyrus from RE-VGM His VGM Hall of Fame induction of Child of Light can be found at https://re-vgm.blubrry.net/2025/08/15/episode-185-vgm-hall-of-fame-child-of-light/  Heat00verride of the Bring the Pain podcast for helping me come up with the VGM Hall of Fame concept BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  The soundtracks I picked are well-known, and if you want to hear some other VGM podcasters weigh in on how great they are, here are some links to episodes: Friend of the show Jameson did a deep dive into the home version of the Street Fighter III Third Strike on episode 15 of barSILENCE. You can find that at https://barsilence.com/episode/f66e8916/street-fighter-3. He’s also covered Streets of Rage 2, and you can find that episode at https://barsilence.com/episode/ac68ff87/streets-of-rage  The Super Marcato Bros have done episodes on both Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger. You can find the FF VI one at https://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/2020/5/3/episode-418-final-fantasy-vi and the one on Chrono Trigger at https://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/2014/01/12/episode-94-chrono-trigger.  CRT Soundsystem dug into the Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack on their 36th episode, which you can find at https://rss.com/podcasts/crtsoundsystem/1917017/  The remixers and arrangers over at OCRemix have touched several of these games over the years, and they even have full albums devoted to Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VI. You can find those at https://ocremix.org/album/7/chrono-trigger-chrono-symphonic and https://ff6.ocremix.org/.  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 hear on FGC Radio or at https://rss.com/podcasts/hmibisondollars/.  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 00:08 - Chrono Trigger Arranged Version :The Brink of Time - Chrono Trigger (composer: Yasunori Mitsuda; arranged by Hiroshi Hata and Kalta Ohtsuki) 06:17 - The First Inductee: Chrono Trigger 09:28 - Chrono Trigger (SNES) - Guardia Millennial Fair (composer: Yasunori Mitsuda) 12:41 - Chrono Trigger (SNES) - Robo’s Theme (composer: Yasunori Mitsuda) 14:12 - Chrono Trigger (SNES) - Corridors of Time (composer: Yasunori Mitsuda) 17:13 - Chrono Trigger (SNES) - Last Battle (composer: Yasunori Mitsuda) 20:55 - The Second Inductee: Street Fighter III: Third Strike 24:30 - Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (Arcade) - Player Select 25:01 - Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (Arcade) - Alex & Ken Stage -JAZZY NYC ‘99- 28:14 - Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (Arcade) - Makoto Stage -SPUNKY- 31:46 - Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (Arcade) - Dudley Stage -YOU BLOW MY MIND- (excerpt) 33:11 - Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (Dreamcast/PS2) - Dudley Stage -YOU BLOW MY MIND- Dreamcast Mix 2 34:26 - Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (Dreamcast/PS2) - Dudley Stage -YOU BLOW MY MIND- Dreamcast Mix 3 36:40 - The Third Inductee: Streets of Rage 2 39:05 - Streets of Rage 2 (Genesis) - Go Straight (composer: Yuzo Koshiro) 41:45 - Streets of Rage 2 (Genesis) - Dreamer (composer: Yuzo Koshiro) 44:12 - Streets of Rage 2 (Genesis) - Slow Moon (composer: Yuzo Koshiro) 46:36 - Streets of Rage 2 (Genesis) - Wave 131 (composer: Yuzo Koshiro) 49:50 - Streets of Rage 2 (Genesis) - Back to the Industry (composer: Yuzo Koshiro) 50:59 - The Fourth Inductee: Final Fantasy VI 54:41 - Final Fantasy VI (SNES) - The Phantom Forest (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 58:01 - Final Fantasy VI (SNES) - Kids Run Through The City (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 1:00:44 - Final Fantasy VI (SNES) - Devil’s Lab (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 1:03:16 - Final Fantasy VI (SNES) - Searching for Friends (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 1:06:11 - FInal Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster (multiplatform) - Fanfare (composer: Nobuo Uematsu; arranged by Reo Uratani) 1:07:25 - Closing Remarks 1:10:24 - Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster (multiplatform) - Grand Finale (composer: Nobuo Uematsu; arranger Daisuke SHIIBA)

It’s a stupendous smiley stack of happy songs, coming to make you feel good and take all your worries away! 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.  Show sponsor the Shadaloo Department of Treasury and their excellent audio drama How Much in Bison Dollars?, where hosts Melody Sinclair and Department of Treasury Senior Executive Vice Senior President Red McCano keep you informed about exchange rates and other current world events as they relate to the glorious nation of Shadaloo, and also they play music from fighting games. Find them on social media platforms and YouTube using the name @hmibisondollars, and listen in on your favorite podcatcher by searching for “How Much in Bison Dollars”.  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  I closed out the last music block with an amazing song from Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout, and if you want to hear more from this series, you can check out the episodes of Super Marcato Bros doing a deeper dive into these games. There’s a full episode devoted to Atelier Ryza at https://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/2019/10/6/episode-389-atelier-ryza and an episode looking at some other games in the series at https://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/2017/5/28/episode-269-the-atelier-series.  If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads, Tumblr, or 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 hear on FGC Radio or at https://rss.com/podcasts/hmibisondollars/.  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 00:05 - Guilty Gear XX (Arcade/PS2) - Blue Water, Blue Sky ~May’s Theme~ (composer: Daisuke Ishiwatari) 03:01 - Talk Segment 1 06:54 - Aerobiz (SNES) - Pacific (composer: Taku Iwasaki; credit from Wikipedia) 08:31 - Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice for All (DS) - Maya Fey ~ Turnabout Sisters’ Theme 2002 (composer: Akemi Kimura) 10:22 - 3D OutRun (3DS) - Cruising Line (composer: Manabu Namiki) 16:14 - Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III (TG16) - Main BGM (composer: Noriyuki Iwadare) 17:52 - Super Golf (Game Gear) - BGM #06 (composer: unknown) 19:29 - Black Bird: Toritachi no Tooboe (PC-98) - Eimi Restored (composer: unknown) 21:06 - Talk Segment 2 26:15 - Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow (Game Boy) - Victory (VS Gym Leader) (composer: Junichi Masuda) 28:10 - Persona Q (3DS) - Corn Dog (composer: Atsushi Kitajoh) 31:08 - River City Ransom - Menu (composer: Kazuo Sawa) 33:29 - Windjammers (Neo Geo) - You Got a Power (Concrete Court) (composers: Seiichi Hamada, Tomoyoshi Sato) 35:12 - Zoda’s Revenge: StarTropics II (NES) - Coralcola Village (composers: Takashi Kumegawa and Yoshio Hirai) 36:50 - Side Pocket (Genesis) - Fight It Out (composers: Emi Shimizu and Masaaki Iwasaki) 37:49 - ESPN Final Round Golf 2002 (Game Boy Advance) - BGM #16 (composer: Hiroyuki Nakayama) 41:11 - Talk Segment 3 46:39 - Persona 5 (PS4) - New Beginning (composer: Shoji Meguro) 49:41 - Breath of Fire III (PS1) - Country Living (composer: Akari Kaida) 53:11 - Dragon Quest II (Super Famicom) - Busy City Streets (composer: Koichi Sugiyama) 56:08 - Super Mario RPG (SNES) - Let’s Get Fluffy! (aka “Let’s Do the Fluff Fluff” or “Let’s Do the Fooka-Fooka”) (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 59:02 - Pokemon Diamond/Pearl - Pokemon Center (Day) (composer: Junichi Masuda) 59:49 - Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout (PS4/Switch/PC) - Bashfully Across the Ledge (composer: Kazuki Yanagawa) 1:01:38 - Outro Talk Segment 1:04:15 - Final Fight 3 (SNES) - Sunny Skies (composer: Katsunari Kitajima)

We’re matching colors, bursting bubbles, and clearing blocks with this playlist of songs from all kinds of puzzle games! There are several links and notes for this episode: I started off my first music block with a song from the original arcade release of Blockout, and if you’re interested in playing it, you can play it on a web browser at https://blockout.nu/. (Note that it works fine with a computer keyboard, but it may be nigh impossible to play on a phone or tablet.) If you liked the Planet Puzzle League song, the episode of CRT Soundsystem featuring a deep dive into the its music can be found at https://rss.com/podcasts/crtsoundsystem/1917986/.  While talking about Cu-On-Pa, I mentioned that it was a port of Endorfun, a Windows PC game. I would have liked to feature it, but that game’s soundtrack doesn’t neatly break down into individual songs. However, if you want to experience it, you can find a remastered version of the soundtrack on YouTube at https://youtu.be/6k_hYPfPpEQ and you can hear the arranged soundtrack at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngnpsZf24VI. If you liked the CD-i Tetris soundtrack, you may enjoy these.  If you’re interested in going down the rabbit hole for the Adventures of Lolo / Eggerland games, the Wikipedia article is a decent starting point; you can find it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Lolo, and you can search around and try to figure out the multiple variations of the series between its entries for the MSX, the Famicom, the NES, and the Game Boy.  Fellow VGM podcast barSILENCE did a whole episode about Tetris that I mentioned while talking about Tetris Kiwamemichi, and you can find that excellent 73 minutes of game music at https://barsilence.com/episode/e6308ce1/tetris-affects  If you liked the CD-i Tetris song from Jim Andron, you can find a high-quality version of the whole soundtrack on his Soundcloud page at https://soundcloud.com/user-391016128/sets/phillips-cdi  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, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads, Tumblr, or 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 hear on FGC Radio or at https://rss.com/podcasts/hmibisondollars/. 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 - Klax (Amiga) - Intro and Attract Screen (composer: Matt Furniss) 03:11 - Talk Segment 1 08:54 - Blockout (Arcade) - Round Select, Next Round (composer: unknown) 09:48 - Planet Puzzle League (DS) - B3 Cub3d (composer: Masanobu Matsunaga) 12:40 - Cu-On-Pa (Super Famicom) - Colloseum (composer: Ken Kojima) 14:00 - Mario’s Super Picross (Super Famicom) - Wario BGM 1 (composer: Toshiyuki Ueno) 17:33 - Puzzle Bobble 2 / Bust-A-Move 2 Arcade Edition (PSX) - Background 2 (composer: Norihiro Furukawa) 19:11 - Adventures of Lolo (NES) - In-Game (composer: Hideki Kanazashi; programmer: Hiroaki Suga) 20:08 - HuniePop (PC) - Farmers’ Market (composer: Jonathan Wandag) 22:15 - Talk Segment 2 25:51 - Puyo Puyo (FM Towns) - Sticker of Puyo Puyo (composers: Haruo Tajima and Masami Yitsuse) 28:34 - Zoop (Genesis) - Uptown Meeting (composers: Mark Davis and Bob Scumaci) 31:31 - Dr. Mario (NES) - Chill (composer: Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka) 33:38 - Columns (Genesis) - Clotho (composer: Tokuhiko Uwabo) 37:54 - Lemmings (Genesis) - Stage Theme 4 / One Way or Another (composers: Tim Wright, Brian Johnston, and Hirohiko Takayama) 40:29 - Talk Segment 3 46:59 - Tetris Kiwamemichi (PS2 / Arcade) - 06 (composer: unknown) 49:36 - Super Tetris 2 + BomBliss (Super Famicom) - Tetris B-Type (composers: Mitsuhiko Takano, K4, and Dhal‑chan) 50:23 - Tetris (Nintendo version) (NES) - Music 3 (composer: Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka) 53:23 - Tetris (Sega Arcade YM2610B version) - Tetremix (composer: Yasuhiro Kawakami) 56:05 - Super Tetris 3 (Super Famicom) - Magicaliss Select (composer: Shigemitsu Goto) 57:12 - Tetris (CD-i) - Foster’s Freeze (Level 5) (composer: Jim Andron) 59:41 - Outro Talk Segment 1:02:29 - Tetris Effect (multiplatform) - 1989 Pt. 2 (composers: Hydelic and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

We’re back to the vibe zone with another episode full of cool, groovy hangout music. Make yourself a good drink and enjoy this one. 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.  Tom and Reese (and their guest Boin) from fellow VGM podcast CRT Soundsystem for introducing me to the City Hunter soundtrack. You can find that episode of CRT Soundsystem at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/061-sunsoft-w-boin/id1649128722?i=1000696692814 and you can also follow them on Patreon, BlueSky, and elsewhere on the internets.  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads, Tumblr, or 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 How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can hear on Spotify and FGC Radio. Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2 - Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon (PS2) - Everyday Detective Agency (composer: Shoji Meguro) 01:11 - Talk Segment 1 04:10 - Persona 3 Portable (PSP) - A Way of Life (composer: Shoji Meguro) 06:26 - Emerald Dragon (Super Famicom) - Caverns and Forests (composer: Yasuhiko Fukuda) 10:00 - San Francisco Rush 2049 (N64) - Night (composer: Barry Leitch) 14:43 - Pictionary (NES) - Move Piece (composer: Tim Follin) 16:10 - Galactic Pinball (Virtual Boy) - Alien (composers: Kenji Yamamoto, Masaru Tajima) 18:50 - Talk Segment 2 22:47 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit (NES) - City Park (composer: David Wise)  22:54 - Milon’s Secret Castle (NES) - Outside Castle (composer: Takeaki Kunimoto) 26:30 - The Shinri Game 2: Magical Trip (Super Famicom) - Main Menu (composer: Kenji Yamazaki) 28:30 - City Hunter (TG16) - Mission 1: Gone with the Beauty (composer: Masashi Kageyama) 30:12 - King of Fighters XI (PS2) - Arashi no Saxophone ~KOF XI~ (composer: Masahiko Hataya; arranged by Koji Takata, Masuo Okumura, and Masanori Kuki) 33:19 - R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 (PSX) - PEARL BLUE SOUL (composer: Hiroshi Okubo) 36:45 - Talk Segment 3 40:52 - 1943 Kai (PC Engine) - Air Battle B (Round 2, 5) (composers: Kumi Yamaga, Tamayo Kawamoto, Harumi Fujita, Junko Tamiya, Manami Matsumae, Takashi Tateishi, and Hiroshige Tonomura; arranged for the PC Engine by Hisashi Matsushita and Daisuke Morishima) 43:08 - Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge (NES) - 05 (composer: Neil Baldwin) 46:05 - Persona 5 Strikers (Multiplatform) - Vacation (composer: Atsushi Kitajoh) 48:31 - Streets of Rage (Genesis) - Beatnik on the Ship (composer: Yuzo Koshiro) 52:47 - Black Bird: Toritachi no Tooboe (PC-98) - Explorers (composer: unknown) 55:07 - Outro Talk Segment 57:22 - Cyber Police ESWAT (Arcade) - Ending (composer: Yasuhiro Kawakami)

Take to the gritty streets of the urban jungle to seek revenge in this episode full of tough street sounds.  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.  Drew Mackie, host of the Singing Mountain podcast, which was a major inspiration for me to do Shujin Academy VGM Club. Drew created three episodes of urban music like this, and you can hear them at the links below: Drive Into the City: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/16bit-driving-music Gritty City Sounds: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/gritty-city-sounds Devil City: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/devil-city  You can also hear Drew’s current podcast Gayest Episode Ever on your podcasting service of choice or at https://www.gayestepisodeever.com/ Drew’s fascinating blog about video gaming can also be found at https://thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/  RayjKayj from VGMporium for introducing me to the soundtrack for Lam-Mal on episode 93 of his show, which is sadly on indefinite hiatus. You can find that episode at https://vgmporium.wordpress.com/2023/10/05/episode-93-lam-mal/ if you want to hear it for yourself.  Ed Wilson from The VGMbassy for Scramble Spirits, which he played on the episode of VGMbassy we did together. You can find that episode at https://pca.st/episode/44d7ee05-2ab4-44b1-9470-8b7978a4ec4d BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. For now, you can also find me on Threads or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m on Mastodon at @[email protected], and my username on Discord is ProfessorTom. All episodes of the show are posted to my YouTube channel, which you can find by searching for Shujin Academy VGM Club. 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 voicing esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can hear on Spotify and FGC Radio. Speaking of Spotify, if you’re listening there, 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. I mentioned the DefunctGames.com review of Putter Golf during the show, and you can read it for yourself at http://www.defunctgames.com/review/1366/putter-golf. To hear a different, much nicer version of the sounds of the city, check out my long-ago episode “Welcome to Metro City” at https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-e9upv-12c2d4d.    Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Chase H.Q. (Arcade) - New York (composer: Takami Asano) 01:08 - Talk Segment 1 04:58 - Capcom vs SNK (arcade) - Stage of Final Fight - Needle (composer: Satoshi Ise) 07:28 - Putter Golf (Genesis) - BGM 1 (composer: E. Fugu) 09:10 - Scramble Spirits (Arcade) - BGM 2 (composers: Toru Nakabayashi and Yasuhiro Kawakami) 12:13 - Moto Roader II (PC Engine) - Menu (composer: Opus) 13:06 - Final Fight (Arcade) - Metro City Subway (composers: Junko Tamiya) 15:06 - Journey to Silius (NES) - Stage Theme 03 (composer: Naoki Kodaka) 16:55 - Streets of Rage 3 (Genesis) - Dub Slash (Round 2-1) (composer: Motohiro Kawashima) 20:30 - Talk Segment 2 24:16 - Power Drift (Arcade) - Adjustment Mind (D Course) (composer: Hiroshi Kawaguchi) 26:23 - Comix Zone (Genesis) - Episode 2, Page 1-2 (composer: Howard Drossin) 28:01 - Cyber Police ESWAT (Arcade) - BGM 01 (Stages 1-4-7-10-13) (composer: Yasuhiro Kawakami) 29:40 - ATP Tour Championship Tennis (Genesis) - Bracket Results (composer: Hikoshi Hashimoto) 31:26 - Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master (Genesis) - Ninja Soul (composers: Masayuki Nagao, Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama) 35:41 - Final Fight 2 (SNES) - Creeping Weeping (composers: Yasuaki Fujita, Mari Yamaguchi, Yuki Iwai, Setsuo Yamamoto, Yūko Takehara, and Tatsuya Nishimura) 37:07 - Lam-Mal (x68000) - Town B (composers: Hideaki Takashita and Ryu Takami) 37:57 - Night Striker (Arcade) - Boss 1 (composer: Masahiko Takaki) 39:09 - Talk Segment 3 44:45 - Final Fight 3 (SNES) - Law and Disorder (composer: Katsunari Kitajima) 46:15 - The Dark Spire (DS) - 1st Floor Underground (Classic) (composer: Kenichi Arakawa) 47:48 - Abadox (NES) - Stage 1, 4, 6 (composer: Kiyohiro Sada) 49:28 - Myth: History in the Making (C64) - Loading Tune (composer: Jeroen Tel) 50:30 - Black Bird: Toritachi no Tooboe (PC-98) - Striker (composer: unknown) 53:41 - Alien Syndrome (Arcade) - Unknown 03 (composer: Tohru Nakabayashi) 58:00 - Ninja Five-O (GBA) - Enemy Base (composers: Aya Tanaka and Hiroyuki Tsuboguchi) 59:57 - Mario’s Super Picross (Super Famicom) - Unused Song 2 (composer: Toshiyuki Ueno) 1:00:30 - ATP Tour Championship Tennis (Genesis) - Sound Test No. 5 (composer: Hikoshi Hashimoto) 1:01:24 - Outro Talk Segment 1:03:58 - Streets of Rage 4 (multiplatform) - Main Theme of Streets of Rage 4 (composer: Yuzo Koshiro)

It’s an exciting hour of competition and fabulous prizes as we check out four games with great soundtracks! Come on down! Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing excellently-themed cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.  Josh Grisham of Nerd Informants. You can find Nerd Informants on social media and YouTube, or at https://nerdinformants.com/. Listen to Josh on the radio on Branson Missouri’s My 100.1 KOMC, and hear his podcast “It’s Hollywood Calling with Josh Grisham” on your favorite podcatcher.  James York, the YouTuber who introduced me to the soundtracks for Energy Breaker and The Shinri Game 2. You can find his channel at https://www.youtube.com/@jamesyork.  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. For now, you can also find me on Facebook, Threads, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m on Mastodon at @[email protected], and my username on Discord is ProfessorTom. All episodes of the show are posted to my YouTube channel, which you can find by searching for Shujin Academy VGM Club. 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 voicing esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can hear on Spotify and FGC Radio. Speaking of Spotify, if you’re listening there, 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 00:05 - The Price is Right (DS) - Come On Down (composer: Edd Kalehoff) 00:55 - Intro Talk Segment: The Shinri Game 2 04:40 - The Shinri Game 2: Magical Trip (Super Famicom) - Title Screen (composer: Kenji Yamazaki) 06:58 - The Shinri Game 2: Magical Trip (Super Famicom) - In-game BGM 3 (composer: Kenji Yamazaki) 09:28 - The Shinri Game 2: Magical Trip (Super Famicom) - In-game BGM 4 (composer: Kenji Yamazaki) 12:22 - The Shinri Game 2: Magical Trip (Super Famicom) - In-game BGM 6 (composer: Kenji Yamazaki) 15:10 - The Shinri Game 2: Magical Trip (Super Famicom) - In-game BGM 7 (composer: Kenji Yamazaki) 16:31 - The Shinri Game 2: Magical Trip (Super Famicom) - In-game BGM 10 (composer: Kenji Yamazaki) 18:39 - Talk Segment: Esper Dream 2 22:10 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Name Entry (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae) 22:50 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Toaru Library (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae) 23:29 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Books 1 & 5 -  Town (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae) 24:37 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Item Shop (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae) 25:16 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Book 1 - Underwater (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae) 26:17 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Area Clear (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae) 26:56 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Book 2 - Rikki on Train (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae) 27:52 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Book 2 - Express Train (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae) 28:28 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Book 4 - Lava Area (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae) 29:42 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Book 5 - Mount Crystal (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae) 30:53 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Ending - Credits  (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Manami Matsumae) 33:01 - Talk Segment: Energy Breaker 36:30 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - The Flowers Have Bloomed (composer: Yasunori Shiono) 37:31 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - The Sky’s Brilliance (composer: Yasunori Shiono) 39:25 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - Scientist’s Waltz (composer: Yuusei Yamamoto) 41:05 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - The Guiding Fortuneteller (composer: Yukio Nakajima) 42:16 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - Golden-Colored Wind (composer: Yukio Nakajima) 43:40 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - Heroes’ Adventure (composer: Yukio Nakajima) 45:01 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - To the Blue Horizon (composer: Yukio Nakajima) 46:48 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - The Prayer Bells Do Not Toll (composer: Yukio Nakajima) 48:28 - Talk Segment: Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa 52:34 - Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom Disk System) - A Rattle Samba (main BGM) 54:02 - Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom Disk System) - Boss Battle 54:51 - Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom Disk System) - Sweat on the Beat (Worlds 1-2 & 6-2) 56:48 - Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom Disk System) - Underwater Stage (Worlds 2-2 & 5-3) 58:22 - Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom Disk System) - Ice Stage (World 3-3) 1:00:05 - Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom Disk System) - Final Boss 1:00:59 - Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom Disk System) - The Land of Happiness (Ending & Staff Roll) 1:02:40 - Outro Talk Segment 1:05:32 - The Price is Right (DS) - Main Theme (composer: Edd Kalehoff)

These are hopeful songs about a better tomorrow.  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.  During the show, I mentioned the CRT Soundsystem episode about Quintet’s Heaven and Earth trilogy of Super NES games: Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, and Terranigma. You can find that episode (and all that cool music) at https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/crtsoundsystem/episodes/049---Quintets-Heaven--Earth-Games-e2m6mok/a-abekg3o.   If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. For now, you can also find me on Threads or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m on Mastodon at @[email protected], and my username on Discord is ProfessorTom. All episodes of the show are posted to my YouTube channel, which you can find by searching for Shujin Academy VGM Club. 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 How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can hear on Spotify and FGC Radio. 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 - Treasure of the Rudra (Super Famicom) - Sword of the Valiant (Night) (composer: Ryuji Sasai) 01:58 - Talk Segment 1 05:45 - Final Fantasy III Pixel Remaster (multiplatform) - Road to the Summit (composer: Nobuo Uematsu; arranger: Masaya Tsunemoto) 08:14 - World of Final Fantasy (multiplatform) - Lann’s Melody (composer: Masashi Hamauzu) 10:07 - Chrono Trigger (SNES) - To Far Away Times (composer: Yasunori Mitsuda) 14:27 - Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete (PSX/Saturn) - Field to Tomorrow (composer: Noriyuki Iwadare) 16:33 - Street Fighter III: Second Impact (arcade) - SHARP EYES (piano melo version) : Japan-IBUKI STAGE (composers: Hideki Okugawa & Yuki Iwai) 19:45 - Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon (PS2) - Determination (composer: Shoji Meguro) 21:22 - Talk Segment 2 24:16 - Life Force (arcade) - Fly High (2nd Stage BGM) (composer: Miki Higashino) 25:55 - Soul Blazer (SNES) - Underground Castle (composer: Yukihide Takekawa) 29:04 - Final Fantasy VII (PSX) - Cid’s Theme (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 32:15 - Fire Emblem Fates (3DS) - To A Foreign Land (composer: Hiroki Morishita) 36:38 - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon - Explorers of Time and Darkness (DS) - A Wish for Peace (composers: Arata Iiyoshi, Hideki Sakamoto, Keisuke Ito, Ken-ichi Saito, and Yoshihiro Maeda) 39:44 - Talk Segment 3 42:43 - Bravely Default (3DS) - Horizon of Light and Shadow (composer: Revo) 45:30 - Shining Force 2 (Genesis) - To Arms! (composer: Motoaki Takenouchi) 48:15 - Treasure Hunter G (Super Famicom) - Surrounded by Forest 1 (composer: Mitsuhito Tanaka) 51:48 - Brain Lord (SNES) - Natural Cavern (composer: Masanao Akahori) 54:22 - Tetris Effect (multiplatform) - Always Been But Never Dreamed (composer: Hydelic; vocals: Kathleen Brady) 58:42 - Outro Talk Segment 1:01:08 - Persona 3 FES (PS2) - Brand New Days (The Answer Ending Theme) (composer: Shoji Meguro; vocals: Yumi Kawamura; lyrics: Yuichiro Tanaka)

Tomorrow comes today with this collection of futuristic tracks! Some of them are from games set in the future, and some just sound like the future. Listen for a taste of life in the dystopian world of 2025.  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.  Vee, The VGM Lover for finding some composer information for Tetris Kiwamemichi. You can follow him on BlueSky at thevgmlover.bsky.social.  How Much in Bison Dollars? for the idea for the Destiny is Destiny promo. You can follow him on YouTube, TikTok, and social media platforms at HMIBisonDollars, and check out his show on FGC Radio. BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m on Mastodon at @[email protected], and my username on Discord is ProfessorTom. 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.  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 VGM podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get every single show.1 Track Listing: 00:00 - VA-11 HALL-A (multiplatform) - CALICOMP 1.1 Startup (composer: Garoad) 00:15 - Show Tagline 00:21 - Civilization III (PC) - Techno (composer: Mark Cromer) 03:48 - Talk Segment 1 08:40 - VA-11 HALL-A (multiplatform) - Welcome to VA-11 HALL-A (composer: Garoad) 11:43 - 2064: Read Only Memories (multiplatform) - Media Blues (composer: Matthew "2 Mello" Hopkins) 13:23 - Persona Q (3DS) - It’s Show Time (composer: Toshiki Konishi)  15:55 - Unlimited SaGa (PS2) - BT Ver. 3 (composer: Masashi Hamauzu) 17:41 - The World Ends With You (DS) - Psychedelic (composer: Takeharu Ishimoto) 20:03 - Tetris Kiwamemichi (PS2 / arcade) - 05 (composer: unknown) 23:09 - Talk Segment 2 25:24 - Arkanoid DS (DS) - only nearby peace (GAME Chuu BGM) (composer: Takafumi Wada) 28:20 - Rage Racer (PSX) - Lightning Luge (composers: Tetsukazu Nakanishi) 33:28 - Jet Set Radio Future (Xbox) - Funky Dealer (composer: Hideki Naganuma) 36:59 - Tempest 2000 (Jaguar) - Mind’s Eye (composers: Alastair Lindsay, Ian Howe, Julian Hodgson, and Kevin Saville) 41:52 - Talk Segment 3 45:31 - Tetris Effect (multiplatform) - Flames (composer: Hydelic) 49:36 - Streets of Rage 3 (Genesis) - Boss (composer: Motohiro Kawashima) 52:19 - Rez (Dreamcast) - Fear (composer: Adam Freeland; vocals: Cage) 57:25 - San Francisco Rush 2049 (N64) - Flier (composer: Barry Leitch) 1:01:49 - Outro Talk Segment 1:04:20 - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness (DS) - Defy the Legends (composers: Arata Iiyoshi, Hideki Sakamoto, Keisuke Ito, Ken-ichi Saito, and Yoshihiro Maeda) 1:08:24 - VA-11 HALL-A (multiplatform) - CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown (composer: Garoad)

Rando Calrissian had just docked at the megacasino on Humora Gamma, where he’d planned on relaxing with some drinks and winning a few jackpots at the rellack table. But when a mad scientist’s experimental new starship engine gets sabotaged, Rando’s thrust into a tangled grab bag of VGM tracks that may prove fatal! 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.  The fine folks at Penny Arcade for coining the name "Rando Calrissian" in a long-ago strip. You can find them at https://www.penny-arcade.com/.  If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m on Mastodon at @[email protected], and my username on Discord is ProfessorTom. 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.  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 VGM podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get every single show. Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Tecmo World Wrestling (NES) - Insert Name Screen (composers: Keiji Yamagishi, Mayuko Okamura, Hiroshi Miyazaki, and Mitsuhito Tanaka) 00:50 - Talk Segment 1 03:45 - Arcus Odyssey (Genesis) - Act 1-2: The Shrine (composer: Motoi Sakuraba) 06:46 - 1943 Kai (PC Engine) - Antiship Battle B (Round 4-Zhang He) (composer: Harumi Fujita) 07:42 - Comix Zone (Genesis) - Episode 2, Page 1-1 (composer: Howard Drossin) 11:08 - Road Rash (Master System) - Pacific Coast (composer: Greg Michael) 14:15 - Bomberman 64: The Second Attack (N64) - Ocean Planet Aquanet 2nd Mix (composers: Yasunori Mitsuda and Yoshitaka Hirota) 16:55 - Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (GBA) - Prologue ~ Mina’s Theme (composer: Michiru Yamane) 18:59 - Talk Segment 2 22:32 - Lagoon (SNES) - Premonition (composers: "GO" Saito and Masae Sakaide) 26:44 - Pixel Puzzle Makeout League (Switch / Steam) - It's Urgent (Retro Mix) (composer: Capsule King) 29:13 - Secret of Mana (SNES) - What the Forest Taught Me (composer: Hiroki Kikuta) 30:17 - Street Fighter III: Second Impact (Arcade) - TOMBOY (african voice mix) (composers: Hideki Okugawa and Yuki Iwai) 33:29 - Rolling Thunder 2 (Arcade) - Theme from Rolling Thunder 2 (Round 1) (composer: Ayako Saso) 35:34 - Golden Axe III - Ancient Mound (Stage 2A) (composers: Naofumi Hataya, Tatsuyuki Maeda, and Haruyo Oguro) 38:19 - Talk Segment 3 42:01 - World of Final Fantasy (multiplatform) - Labyrinth of Lights (composer: Masashi Hamauzu) 46:12 - Civilization III (PC) - Stars (composer: Mark Cromer) 50:01 - San Francisco Rush 2049 (N64) - Title (composer: Barry Leitch) 54:52 - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (multiplatform) - Silent Howling (8-bit) (composer: Keisuke Ito) 56:47 - Moto Roader II (TG16) - Ingame 3 (composer: Opus) 58:11 - Outro Talk Segment 1:00:14 - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Genesis) - Competition Menu (composers: Michael Jackson, Brad Buxer)

These are more songs that have come to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and they’re all out of bubblegum. 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, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m on Mastodon at @[email protected], and my username on Discord is ProfessorTom. 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.  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 VGM podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get every single show. Since you enjoyed this episode, why not go back and listen to the original Playing With Power episode that I did way back in March of 2023? You can find it at https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-mnyub-13a568f Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:06 - U.N. Squadron (SNES) - Introduction (composer: Mari Yamaguchi, Toshio Kajino, and Yasushi Ikeda) 01:19 - Talk Segment 1 04:56 - Command & Conquer (PC) - Act on Instinct (composer: Frank Klepacki) 07:47 - Advance Wars: Dual Strike (DS) - Power! (composers: Taishi Senda and Yoshito Hirano) 08:37 - Street Fighter Alpha 3 (Arcade) - Last Duel (Story Demo 3) (composer: Isao Abe) 09:40 - Quake II (PC) - Operation Overlord (composer: Sascha Dikiciyan) 13:09 - Shin Megami Tensei (Super Famicom) - Level Up (composer: Tsukasa Masuko) 14:18 - Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished (PC-88) - Chase of Shadow (composer: Yuzo Koshiro) 15:28 - Lost Odyssey (Xbox 360) - Howl of the Departed (composer: Nobuo Uematsu / lyrics: Hironobu Sakaguchi) 20:22 - Talk Segment 2 22:59 - Guilty Gear XX (Arcade / PS2) - Awe of She ~Dizzy’s Theme~ (composer: Daisuke Ishwatari) 26:05 - Persona 5 Strikers (multiplatform) - Daredevil (composer: Gota Masuoka / lyrics: Jasmine Webb / vocals: Lyn) 30:56 - Metal Slug 3 (Neo Geo) - Kiss in the Dark (composers: Takushi Hiyamuta, Yoshihiko Wada, Masato Horiuchi, Q_JIROU, and Maiko Iuchi) 33:19 - Contra (Arcade) - Maze Fortress 1 (composer: Kazuki Muraoka) 34:52 - Final Fantasy V Pixel Remaster (multiplatform) - Battle at the Big Bridge (composer: Nobuo Uematsu / arrangers: Yuko Komiyama and Hidenori Miyanaga) 37:54 - Talk Segment 3 41:53 - Persona 3 (PS2) - Burn My Dread -Last Battle- (composer: Shoji Meguro / lyrics: Reiko Tanaka / vocals: Yumi Kawamura and Lotus Juice) 45:38 - Shining Force (Genesis) - Darksol Battle (composer: Masahiko Yoshimura) 46:45 - Final Fight 3 (SNES) - Chinese Takeout (composer: Katsunari Kitajima) 49:05 - King of Fighters XI (Arcade) - Queen (composer: Hideki Asanaka) 52:10 - Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster - Dancing Mad (Act 4) (composer: Nobuo Uematsu / arranger: Yuko Komiyama) 58:18 - Outro Talk Segment 1:00:24 - Garou: Mark of the Wolves (Neo Geo) - Spread the Wings (composers: Akihiro Uchida, Masato Horiuchi, and Yasuhiro Naka)

This the episode, now to hear the strange songs. New time for your listening with Professor Tom. 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.  My lovely waifu and darling children for their honest testimonials about the benefits of Chocobo milk. BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m on Mastodon at @[email protected], and my username on Discord is ProfessorTom. 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.  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 VGM podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get every single show. During the show, I mentioned Sega composer Takenobu Mitsuyoshi’s infectiously happy performance of the Daytona USA songs. You can see some videos of him in action at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J9ffRgADRU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nskok6WhqeI.  Also during the show, I mentioned the Four Job Fiesta summer event that sees people play through Final Fantasy V with randomly-assigned jobs. You can check it out at https://www.fourjobfiesta.com/ and let me know how your playthrough goes.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:06 - Fire Emblem Fates (3DS) - Left to Heaven (composers: Renka, Maiko Sugiyama, Miho Komatsu, Mei Mishina, Yumiko Morooka, and Aya Hoashi) 01:07 - Talk Segment 1 05:07 - We Love Katamari (PS2) - Katamari on the Swing (composers: Yuu Miyake and Yoshihito Yano) 09:47 - TOBAL No. 1 (PSX) - Toridon!! (composer: Yasuhiro Kawakami) 13:09 - Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster (multiplatform) - Techno de Chocobo (composers: Nobuo Uematsu with Hirosato Noda) 16:05 - Unlimited SaGa - Tale on a Hilltop (composer: Masashi Hamauzu) 16:41 - X-Men (arcade) - Fake Dance (Name Entry) (composers: Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, A. Hashimoto) 18:17 - Talk Segment 2 22:56 - LocoRoco - Title Song 6 (composer: Noboyuki Shimizu / lyrics: Tsutomu Kouno) 25:33 - Blue Dragon (Xbox 360) - Mysterious Village (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 27:16 - Daytona USA (Arcade) - Pounding Pavement (composer: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi) 30:55 - Earthbound (SNES) - Battle Against a Weird Opponent (composers: Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka) 32:19 - Xenogears (PSX) - Solaris ~ Eden of Heaven (composer: Yasunori Mitsuda) 35:46 - Final Fantasy V - Critter Tripper Fritter (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 37:11 - Jack Bros. (Virtual Boy) - Opening (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada) 37:54 - Outro Talk Segment 40:36 - Persona 4 Dancing All Night - Shadow World (DE DE MOUSE shadow swing mix) (composer: Shoji Meguro; remixed by DE DE MOUSE)

It’s time to take a break with another Chilly McFreeze episode full of calm, relaxing VGM. 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, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m on Mastodon at @[email protected], and my username on Discord is ProfessorTom. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  During the show, I mentioned my two golf episodes. The very first episode of the show was golf-themed, and you can find it at https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-q4vfa-118a75b. You can find my follow-up at https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-xdsk9-1674ae3, and listening to both of them together is a good way to hear how I’ve grown as a podcaster with time and experience and also a slightly nicer microphone.  I also mentioned composer Garoad during the third block. He’s been featured multiple times on the show, and you can find his work on his Bandcamp page at https://garoad.bandcamp.com/ or on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@garoadmusic. Check him out!  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:06 - Pokemon Black & White (DS) - Nuvema Town (composer: Shota Kageyama) 01:47 - Talk Segment 1 05:08 - Final Fantasy X (PS2) - Auron’s Theme (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 07:50 - Pebble Beach: The Great Shot (Arcade) - Track 27 (composer: unknown) 09:35 - Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly (multiplatform) - Need To Go Home (composer: Andrew Jeremy) 15:30 - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness (DS) - Crystal Cave (composers: Arata Iiyoshi, Hideki Sakamoto, Keisuke Ito, Ken-ichi Saito, and Yoshihiro Maeda) 18:38 - Persona 5 (multiplatform) - Have A Short Rest (composer: Shoji Meguro) 20:46 - SaGa Frontier 2 (PSX) - Naturvolk (composer: Masashi Hamauzu) 22:52 - Talk Segment 2 25:09 - Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii) - Everyday Life (composer:  Manami Kiyota) 27:42 - Fantasian (iOS) - World Map (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 33:19 - Final Fantasy XV (multiplatform) - In Dreams (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 36:46 - Last Bible III (Super Famicom) - Val Ship (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada) 39:55 - VA-11 Hall-A (multIplatform) - Spirit Potion (composer: David Nyman) 43:20 - Talk Segment 3 46:51 - Chrono Cross (PSX) - Home Guldove (composer: Yasunori Mitsuda) 51:00 - Lost Odyssey (Xbox 360) - What You Are (Guitar Version) (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 53:59 - Yuppie Psycho (PC) - Meet and Greet (composer: Garoad) 58:12 - Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (DS) - A Fleeting Respite (composer: Michiru Yamane) 1:02:11 - Persona Q2 (3DS) - Puzzling (composer: Atsushi Kitajoh) 1:04:42 - Outro Talk Segment 1:06:31 - Plants vs Zombies (multiplatform) - Zen Garden (composer: Laura Shigihara)

It’s time to get back in the groove with another collection of funky jams! 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.  Josh Grisham of Nerd Informants for help with the promo. You can find Nerd Informants on your social media site of choice, and you can find his podcast “It’s Hollywood Calling With Josh Grisham” at https://www.legends1063.fm/podcasts/its-hollywood-calling/ or wherever you get your podcasts.  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  If you liked this episode, and you want to check out my first Catch a Groove episode, you can find it at https://shujinacademyvgmclub.podbean.com/e/episode-29-catch-a-groove/.  During the show, I mentioned the Lotus games. You can find my deep dives into those soundtracks (and the soundtracks of the Top Gear games, their spiritual successors) at https://shujinacademyvgmclub.podbean.com/e/episode-30-add-three-mana/ and https://shujinacademyvgmclub.podbean.com/e/episode-31-add-three-more-mana/ I also mentioned my Super Smart Songs episode while I was talking about Last Bible II, and you can find it at https://shujinacademyvgmclub.podbean.com/e/episode-46-super-smart-songs/  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Robocop 3 (C64) - Stage 5 (composer: Jeroen Tel) 00:40 - Talk Segment 1 04:07 - Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (Mega Drive) - Stage 2-2 (Giant Desert) (composer: Aki Hata) 06:37 - Bomberman II (NES) - Area 6 (composers: Jun Chikuma, Hitoshi Okuno, Osamu Narita) 08:31 - ToeJam and Earl in Panic on Funkotron (Genesis) - Mellow Groove (composer: John Baker) 10:20 - Burning Force (Genesis) - Aero Space (3rd Day) (composer: Yoshinori Kawamoto) 11:34 - Redline F-1 Racer (SNES) - Setting (composer: Katsuhiro Hayashi) 12:27 - Cosmic Carnage (32X) - Zena Lan’s Stage (composer: Hikoshi Hashimoto) 14:44 - Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth (3DS) - Strange School (composer: Atsushi Kitajoh) 17:03 - Galactic Pinball (Virtual Boy) - Gunpei’s Voyage (composers: Kenji Yamamoto and Masaru Tajima) 19:43 - Talk Segment 2 22:37 - Pictionary (NES) - Title Screen Theme (composer: Tim Follin) 24:09 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (SNES) - Neon Night Riders (composers: Mutsuhiko Izumi, Kazuhiko Uehara, and Harumi Ueko) 25:37 - Last Bible II (Game Boy Color) - BGM 11 (composers: Iwao Mitsunaga and Hiroyuki Yanada) 28:37 - Danganronpa 2 - Sugu Ikoroshia (PSP / Vita) (composer: Masafumi Takada) 31:13 - Base Wars (NES) - Game Theme (Play Ball) (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Tomoko Sumiyama) 34:37 - Zero 4 Champ RR (Super Famicom) - Movement (composers: Katsuhiro Hayashi, Jouji Iijima) 36:40 - Streets of Rage 4 (multiplatform) - 25 Years Ago (composer: Olivier Deriviere) 38:55 - Talk Segment 3 42:23 - Doomsday Warrior (SNES) - Fatty Bomber (P-Lumb) (composer: Junta) 46:03 - Super Mario RPG (SNES) - And My Name's Booster (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 48:02 - Jaguar XJ220 (Amiga) - Speed Storm (composer: Martin Iveson) 50:05 - The Flash (Sega Master System) - At Peace in the Park (composer: Jeroen Tel) 53:05 - Al Unser Jr’s Turbo Racing (NES) - Circuit Qualify (composers: Shōgo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Masaaki Iwasaki, and Yuji Suzuki) 54:51 - Streets of Rage (Genesis) - Violent Breathing (composer: Yuzo Koshiro) 56:42 - Outro Talk Segment 58:49 - M.C. Kids (NES) - Level 04 Mountain View (composer: Charles Deenen)

Take a quest with these songs. 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 Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Lost Odyssey (Xbox 360) - Neverending Journey (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 02:48 - Talk Segment 1 05:55 - Dragon Quest IV (NES) - The Warrior Conquers Alone (Ragnar) (composer: Koichi Sugiyama) 07:30 - Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream (Dreamcast) - Flower of Yesterday’s (short) (composer: Yoko Kanno) 08:06 - Romancing SaGa 3 (Super Famicom) - Insufferable Desert (composer: Kenji Ito) 09:56 - True Swing Golf (DS) - BGM01_03 (composer: Katsumi Yokokawa) 12:51 - Hyper Iria (Super Famicom) - Forest (composers: Kiyotaka Sato, Shintaro Hirakawa, and Nobuhiro Makino) 15:34 - Blaster Master (NES) - Area 5 (composer: Naoki Kodaka) 17:25 - Super Black Bass 3 (Super Famicom) - Track 05 (composers: Michiya Hirasawa and Tsukushi Sasaki) 18:52 - Final Fantasy IV (SNES) - The Sea of Silence (Unreleased Track) (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 21:13 - Talk Segment 2 23:28 - Final Fantasy III (DS) - Eternal Wind (composer: Nobuo Uematsu; arrangers: Tsuyoshi Sekito and Keiji Kawamori) 25:47 - Legend of Mana (PSX) - To the Sea (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 28:31 - Live A Live (Super Famicom) - Wait for Truth (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 30:18 - World of Final Fantasy (multiplatform) - Labyrinth of Darkness (composer: Masashi Hamauzu) 32:12 - Radical Dreamers (Super Famicom) - Under the Moonlight (composer: Yasunori Mitsuda) 36:12 - Dragon Quest V (Super Famicom) - Traveling Alone (composer: Koichi Sugiyama) 38:18 - Dual Orb II (Super Famicom) - Cassius’ Flute (composers: Nobuyuki Hara and Yu Yoshida) 39:02 - Talk Segment 3 42:38 - Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster (multiplatform) - Searching for Friends (composer: Nobuo Uematsu; arrangers: Hidenori Miyanaga, Tomonori Adachi, Reo Uratani, Shingo Kataoka, Yuko Komiyama, Daisuke Shiiba, Ryoue Takagi, Eri Tsunemoto, Kento Hasegawa, Masato Kouda, and Masaya Tsunemoto) 47:02 - Darius II (arcade) - Muse Valley (composer: Hisayoshi Ogura) 50:51 - Xenogears (PSX) - Dazil ~ City of Burning Sands (composer: Yasunori Mitsuda) 53:50 - Octopath Traveler (multiplatform) - Primrose, the Dancer (composer: Yasunori Nishiki) 56:31 - Phantasy Star II (Genesis) - Silent Zone (composer: Tokuhiko Uwabo) 58:13 - Bahamut Senki (Mega Drive) - Intruders (composer: Keisuke Tsukahara) 59:52 - Outro Talk Segment 1:01:49 - Last Bible III (Super Famicom) - Shark Ship (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada)

Not quite three years ago, after listening to a lot of VGM podcasts, I decided to make my own game music podcast, with blackjack and hookers. For my fiftieth episode, I’m leaning into the “blackjack and hookers” theme by featuring a variety of songs about gambling! 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.  LongTones, an experimental electronic jazz project that provides promotional consideration to Professor Tom. You can find their work on Spotify by searching for “LongTones” or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jon_no_h  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  My wife and my kids, who’ve helped me with ideas and occasionally contributed voices to promos, in addition to putting up with me doing this show in the first place. Fellow VGM podcasters Rayjkayj from VGMporium, Martyrus from RE-VGM, and Ed Wilson from The VGMbassy, all of whom were kind enough to let me do guest appearances on their shows. Thanks also go out to Ed for all of the game soundtrack rips he’s done; I regularly play his rips on the show. Drew Mackie, former host of game music podcast Singing Mountain, which was the biggest single inspiration for me to start this show. Fellow VGM podcaster Alex The Messenger Messenger for helping to build the community  Everyone who’s ever contributed to one of my promo segments, including Josh Grisham of Nerd Informants, Bedroth of BGMania, and Kurly Kevin Stevens. Fellow podcaster HeatOverride from Bring The Pain, who’s been an enthusiastic fan and who occasionally lapses into game music podcasting himself And finally, everyone who is a regular listener of the show. If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:06 - Final Fantasy VII (PS1) - Gold Saucer (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 02:04 - Talk Segment 1 08:49 - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Genesis) - Casino Night Zone (composer: Masato Nakamura) 10:58 - SaGa Frontier (PS1) - Baccarat (composer: Kenji Ito) 12:53 - Dragon Quest IV (NES) - Casino Rag (composer: Koichi Sugiyama) 14:22 - Persona 5 (PS4) - The Whims of Fate (composer: Shoji Meguro) 17:33 - Side Pocket (Genesis) - Las Vegas (composers: Emi Shimizu, Masaaki Iwasaki) 20:25 - HuniePop 2: Double Date (PC) - Casino (composer: Jonathan Wandag) 22:43 - Emerald Dragon (Super Famicom) - Casino (composer: Hirohiko Fukuda) 24:27 - Talk Segment 2 30:34 - Dual Orb (Super Famicom) - Casino (composers: Nobuyuki Hara and Yu Yoshida) 32:07 - Vegas Stakes (SNES) - The Hideaway (composer: Kimitaka Matsumae) 32:57 - Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow (Game Boy) - Casino (composer: Junichi Masuda) 35:57 - Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals (SNES) - Casino (composer: Yasunori Shiono) 40:56 - Caesars Palace (Genesis) - Casino Theme (composers: Tommy Tallarico and Steve Henifin) 42:11 - Casino Kid (NES) - Casino Floor (composer: Toshio Murai) 43:19 - SNK vs Capcom Card Fighters’ Clash (Neo Geo Pocket Color) - It’s Las Vegas (Las Vegas 1) (composers: Takushi Hiyamuta, Mitsuo, and Miwa) 44:20 - Shin Megami Tensei II (Super Famicom) - Casino (composer: Tsukasa Masuko) 45:29 - Talk Segment 3 52:00 - Final Fantasy VI (SNES) - Blackjack (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 55:04 - Dragon Quest V (Super Famicom) - Gambling Fever (composer: Koichi Sugiyama) 56:04 - High Stakes Gambling (Game Boy) - Main Theme (composer: Paul Webb) 57:36 - HuniePop (PC) - Gold Falls Casino (composer: Jonathan Wandag) 59:31 - Golden Sun: The Lost Age (Game Boy Advance) - The Lucky Slots (composer: Motoi Sakuraba) 1:01:22 - SNK vs Capcom: Card Fighters DS (DS) - Rare Music Casino Style (composers: Masashi Sugiyama and Kazuyuki Fujita) 1:02:30 - Side Pocket (SNES) - Las Vegas (composer: Fox Productions) 1:03:54 - Sonic Advance (Game Boy Advance) - Casino Paradise Zone (Act 1) (composers: Tatsuyuki Maeda, Yutaka Minobe, Hironobu Inagaki, and Atsuyoshi Isemura) 1:06:59 - Outro Talk Segment 1:11:04 - Casino Games (Sega Master System) - Ending (composer: unknown)

These are songs that transport you to a strange and unfamiliar realm, surrounded by ethereal beauty.  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.  LongTones, an experimental electronic jazz project that provides promotional consideration to Professor Tom. You can find their work on Spotify by searching for “LongTones” or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jon_no_h  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:06 - Crusader of Centy (Genesis) - Fortuneteller (composer: Motokazu Shinoda) 02:20 - Talk Segment 1 04:33 - Black Bird (PC98) - Impact (composer: Unknown) 08:17 - Tetris Attack (SNES) - Lunar Stage (composer: Masaya Kuzume) 11:11 - Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster (multiplatform) - Floating Castle (composers/arrangers: Nobuo Uematsu, Ayumu Murai, Hirosato Noda, Tomonori Adachi, Reo Uratani, Shingo Ktaoka, Yuko Komiyama, Eri Tsunemoto, Kenot Hasegawa, Masato Kouda, Masaya Tsunemoto) 13:41 - Darius Gaiden (Arcade) - Refrain (composer: Hisayoshi Ogura)  15:14 - World of Final Fantasy (multiplatform) - Labyrinth of Darkness (composer: Masashi Hamauzu) 17:07 - Golden Sun: The Lost Age (GBA) - Ankohi Ruins (composer: Motoi Sakuraba) 19:18 - Talk Segment 2 21:11 - Seiken Densetsu 3 (Super Famicom) - Fable (composer: Hiroki Kikuta) 24:53 - Emerald Dragon (Super Famicom) - Deserted (composer: Hirohiko Fukuda) 26:17 - Shin Megami Tensei (Super Famicom) - Castle of the Four Gods (composer: Tsukasa Maskuo) 29:16 - Bravely Default (3DS) - Silence of the Forest (composer: Revo) 33:41 - Dragon Quest V (Super Famicom) - Trouble at Night (composer: Koichi Sugiyama) 35:50 - Talk Segment 3 37:39 - Uncharted Waters New Horizons (SNES) - Moslem Dance (composer: Yoko Kanno) 39:05 - Final Fantasy X (PS2) - Darkness (composer: Junya Nakano) 43:30 - World of Final Fantasy (multiplatform) - Labyrinth of Dragons (composer: Masashi Hamauzu) 47:30 - Last Bible III (Super Famicom) - Battle Arena (composer: Yanda) 49:11 - Seiken Densetsu 3 (Super Famicom) - Different Road (composer: Hiroki Kikuta) 53:50 - Outro Talk Segment 55:42 - Famicom Tantei Club (Famicom) - Legend (composers: Kenji Yamamoto)

We’re heading back to the course for another episode all about golf game music! 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.  LongTones, an experimental electronic jazz project that provides promotional consideration to Professor Tom. You can find their work on Spotify by searching for “LongTones” or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jon_no_h  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Chi Chi’s Pro Challenge Golf (Genesis) - Track 13 (composer: Masahito Miyamoto) 01:32 - Talk Segment 1 03:40 - Ganbare! Golf Boys (TG16) - Away Back (composer: Atsuhiro Motoyama) 05:46 - Ganbare! Golf Boys (TG16) - Through the Green (compuser: Atsuhiro Motoyama) 08:06 - True Swing Golf (DS) - Menu 04 (composer: Katsumi Yokokawa) 10:25 - True Swing Golf (DS) - BGM 02 (composer: Katsumi Yokokawa) 13:24 - Golf (Virtual Boy) - Main Menu (composer: Ken Kojima) 15:16 - New 3D Golf Simulation: Devil's Course (Genesis) - Hole Overview (composer: Yumi Kinoshita, Shigekazu Kamaki, Yusaburo Shimojyo, Shunsuke Minomiya, and Akira Tamada) 17:06 - Talk Segment 2 18:42 - Pebble Beach Golf Links (Saturn) - Course BGM 1 (composer: Yumi Satake) 22:32 - Pebble Beach Golf Links (Saturn) - Course BGM 2 (composer: Yumi Satake) 26:06 - Hole in One Golf (Game Boy) - BGM 06 (composer: Iku Mizutani) 27:51 - Power Golf (TG16) - Title Screen (composer: Daisuke Inoue) 29:04 - Power Golf (TG16) - Menu (composer: Daisuke Inoue) 30:29 - Dynamic Country Club (Arcade) - Main BGM 2 (composer: M.A) 33:31 - Talk Segment 3 36:26 - Pebble Beach: The Great Shot (Arcade) - Course BGM 1 (composer: unknown) 37:17 - Pebble Beach: The Great Shot (Arcade) - Course BGM 2 (composer: unknown) 39:10 - Super Masters (Arcade) - BGM 3 (composer: Tohru Nakabayashi) 42:02 - Harukanaru Augusta (Genesis) - Title Screen (composers: Yumi Kinoshita, Hiroshi Morita, Shigekazu Kamaki, and Yusaburo Shimojyo) 42:43 - Harukanaru Augusta (Genesis) - BGM 2 (composers: Yumi Kinoshita, Hiroshi Morita, Shigekazu Kamaki, and Yusaburo Shimojyo) 45:26 - Battle Golfer Yui (Genesis) - Golf Ole! (composers: K. Nakayama, Kentakun.yada!, Kei Maruyama, Masayuki Nagao) 47:24 - Lee Trevino’s Fighting Golf (NES) - Track 27 (composer: Lee Aram) 48:43 - BS Golf Daisuke O.B. Club - Office Course  (composers: Masaya Sound Team) 50:21 - Outro Talk Segment 52:27 - Redline F-1 Racer (SNES) - Title (composer: Katsuhiro Hayashi)

Once again, it’s time for Masters of VGM! This year, we’re honoring female, trans, and genderqueer composers working in VGM, and I’ve got a batch of six honorees and two honorable mentions for you.  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.  LongTones, an experimental electronic jazz project that provides promotional consideration to Professor Tom. You can find their work on Spotify by searching for “LongTones” or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jon_no_h  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:04 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSX/Saturn) - Marble Gallery (composer: Michiru Yamane) 01:28 - Talk Segment 1: Michiru Yamane 03:09 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSX / Saturn) - Dracula’s Castle (composer: Michiru Yamane) 05:00 - Skullgirls (multiplatform) - Moonlit Melee (composer: Michiru Yamane) 11:06 - Talk Segment 2: Yumi Satake (aka Yumi Kinoshita) 12:10 - True Golf Classics Waialae Country Club (SNES) - Title Screen (composer: Yumi Kinoshita) 15:41 - Wicked 18 (SNES) - Course 1 (composers: Yumi Kinoshita, Shigekazu Kamaki, and Yuzaburo Shimojo) 18:13 - Talk Segment 3: Manami Matsumae  19:23 - Mega Man (NES) - Cut Man (composer: Manami Matsumae) 20:43 - Shovel Knight (multiplatform) - A Thousand Leagues Below (Iron Whale) (composer: Manami Matsumae) 24:20 - Talk Segment 4: Yoko Shimomura 25:28 - Super Mario RPG (SNES) - Bowser’s Castle (Second Time) (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 28:11 - Final Fantasy XV (multiplatform) - Valse di Fantastica (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 31:50 - Talk Segment 5: Soyo Oka 32:32 - Sim City (SNES) - Metropolis (composer: Soyo Oka) 34:21 - Pilotwings (SNES) - Rocketbelt (composer: Soyo Oka) 36:01 - Talk Segment 6: Yuki Iwai 37:12 - Mega Man X2 (SNES) - Sinister Gleam (composer: Yuki Iwai) 38:40 - Street Fighter III: New Generation (arcade) - Tomboy ~Stage Africa~ (composer: Yuki Iwai) 40:32 - Talk Segment 7: Megan McDuffee (honorable mention) 41:15 - River City Girls (multiplatform) - Unseen (composer: Megan McDuffee) 45:20 - Talk Segment 8: Yoko Kanno (honorable mention) 45:57 - Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream (Dreamcast) - A Stroll (composer: Yoko Kanno) 47:44 - Outro Talk Segment 49:19 - Live A Live (Super Famicom) - Megalomania (composer: Yoko Shimomura)

I kept writing down “smart” as an adjective for songs I wanted to play on the show, and I eventually got enough smart tracks that they became their own episode. Listen and watch your IQ go up! 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.  LongTones, an experimental electronic jazz project that provides promotional consideration to Professor Tom. You can find their work on Spotify by searching for “LongTones” or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jon_no_h  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Super Black Bass 3 (Super Famicom) - Track 14 (composers: Michiya Hirasawa and Tsukushi Sasaki) 00:55 - Talk Segment 1 02:27 - Boomerang Fu (multiplatform)- Spilt Milk (composer: Paul Kopetko featuring Zorsy and Maryske) 06:34 - Persona 3 (PS2) - During the Test (composer: Shoji Meguro) 08:27 - VA-11 Hall-A (multiplatform) - Out of Orbit (composer: Garoad) 11:41 - Planet Puzzle League (DS) - Engimatology (Background Theme #8) (composer: Masanobu Matsunaga) 16:20 - Talk Segment 2 17:55 - Redline F-1 Racer (SNES) - Staff Roll (composer: Katsuhiro Hayashi) 19:10 - Last Bible II (Game Boy Color)  - BGM 18 (composers: Iwao Mitsunaga and Hiroyuki Yanada) 20:41 - SaGa Frontier 2 (PSX) - Feldschlacht I (composer: Masashi Hamauzu) 26:09 - Persona 5 (multiplatform) - Life Goes On (composer: Shoji Meguro) 28:36 - Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice for All (DS) - Search ~ Opening 2002 (composer: Naoto Tanaka) 30:02 - Talk Segment 3 32:46 - Side Pocket (Game Boy) - BGM 02 (composer: Yusuke Takahama) 34:26 - Esper Dream 2 (Famicom) - Book 2: Train (composers: Shigemasa Matsuo and Kinuyo Yamashita) 36:21 - Doomsday Warrior (SNES) - Liquid Creature (LC-38X) (composer: Junta) 40:07 - Galaxy Force II (arcade) - Alone Fighter (Scene D - Level 4) (composers: Katsuhiro Hayashi and Kouichi Namaki) 42:53 - Street Fighter III: Second Impact (arcade) - ESCAPE (composer: Hideki Okugawa) 47:45 - Outro Talk Segment 49:40 - Super Baseball 2020 (SNES) - Managerial Menu (composers: Junichi Kuramochi and Hiroo Ikeda)

It’s time for another collection of relaxing, laid-back VGM tracks in this fifth installment of the Chilly McFreeze series.  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.  LongTones, an experimental electronic jazz project that provides promotional consideration to Professor Tom. You can find their work on Spotify by searching for “LongTones” or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jon_no_h  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:06 - Super Black Bass 3 (Super Famicom) - Track 04 (composers: Michiya Hirasawa and Tsukushi Sasaki)  01:19 - Talk Segment 1 03:10 - Final Fantasy III Pixel Remaster (multiplatform) - The Submarine Nautilus (composers: Nobuo Uematsu, Ayumu Murai, Hirosato Noda, Tomonori Adachi, Reo Uratani, Shingo Ktaoka, Yuko Komiyama, Eri Tsunemoto, Kenot Hasegawa, Masato Kouda, and Masaya Tsunemoto) 07:31 - Shining Force II (Genesis) - Water Goddess Mitula (composer: Motoaki Takenouchi) 09:15 - SD Snatcher (MSX) - The Peaceful Avenue (composers: Masahiro Ikariko, Mutsuhiko Izumi, Motoaki Furukawa, Michiru Yamane, Yuji Takenouchi, Harumi Ueko, Yuko Kurahashi, Tomoya Tomita, Tsuyoshi Sekito, and Kazuhiko Uehara) 11:39 - Picross e6 (3DS) - Picross Puzzle (composer: unknown) 13:54 - Mother 3 (GBA) - Sorrowful Tazmily (composer: Shogo Sakai) 16:12 - Pokemon Black and White (DS) - Kanoko Town (aka Nuvema Town) (composer: Shota Kageyama) 17:53 - Talk Segment 2 19:47 - Brandish 2: The Planet Buster (Super Famicom) - Shop (composers: Michiya Hirasawa and Tsukushi Sasaki) 23:40 - Persona 2 - Eternal Punishment (PSP) - Hiiragi Psychotherapy 27:37 - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness (DS) - Don’t Ever Forget… (composers: Arata Iiyoshi, Hideki Sakamoto, Keisuke Ito, Ken-ichi Saito, Yoshihiro Maeda) 29:42 - Saga Frontier (PSX) - Blue Town (composer: Kenji Ito) 33:54 - Emerald Dragon (Super Famicom) - Separation (composer: Hirohiko Fukuda) 35:13 - Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox/PC)  - Kashyyyk (composer: Jeremy Soule) 36:35 - Talk Segment 3 39:02 - Front Mission 4 (PS2) - Grapevine (composers: Hidenori Iwasaki and Ryo Yamazaki) 41:34 - Romancing SaGa 2 (Super Famicom) - Village 2 (composer: Kenji Ito) 44:02 - Lufia 2 (SNES) - Town (composer: Yasunori Shiono) 47:01 - Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster - Inn (composers/arrangers: Nobuo Uematsu, Ayumu Murai, Hirosato Noda, Tomonori Adachi, Reo Uratani, Shingo Ktaoka, Yuko Komiyama, Eri Tsunemoto, Kenot Hasegawa, Masato Kouda, and Masaya Tsunemoto) 48:41 - The Flintstones (SNES) - Cinema (composers: Keith Tinman and Jonathan Dunn) 50:55 - Tempest 2000 (Jaguar) - Gilde Control (composers: Alastair Lindsay, Ian Howe, and Kevin Saville) 56:10 - Outro Talk Segment 58:03 - Last Bible III (Super Famicom) - North Lake (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada)

After his escapades at Voltara Prime, Rando Calrissian just wants some peace and quiet and high-stakes gambling. But when Rando hears about the Pippin Device, a horrific weapon that could shatter the galaxy, he’s forced to spring into action with this grab bag of great VGM! 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.  LongTones, an experimental electronic jazz project that provides promotional consideration to Professor Tom. You can find their work on Spotify by searching for “LongTones” or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jon_no_h  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  Penny Arcade for the "Rando Calrissian" title. You can find them at https://www.penny-arcade.com/ If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Street Fighter III: Third Strike (Dreamcast) - JUDGE (composer: Hideki Okugawa) 00:46 - Talk Segment 1 03:21 - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (multiplatform) - Brave Trigger (composer: Michiru Yamane) 05:33 - Mega Man VI (NES) - Plant Man (composer: Yuko Takehara) 07:09 - Phantasy Star II (Genesis) - Silent Zone (composer: Tokuhiko Uwabo) 08:48 - Front Mission (Super Famicom) - Blackhounds (composers: Yoko Shimomura and Noriko Matsueda) 11:19 - Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master (Genesis) - Hassou (composers: Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama, and Masayuki Nagao) 12:42 - Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS) - An Empty Tome (composer: Michiru Yamane) 15:41 - Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight (NES) - Alleyway (composer: Junko Tamiya) 17:25 - Talk Segment 2 19:00 - A King’s Tale: Final Fantasy XV (PS4/XBox One) - Insomnia (composer: Bill Kiley)  24:15 - King of Fighters 98 (Neo Geo) - London March (composers: Hideki Asanaka, Marimo, Yasuo Yamate (KOF98), Masahiko Hataya, Toshio Shimizu, Yoshihiko Kitamura (Fatal Fury 2)) 27:16 - Power Drift (Arcade) - Side Street (A Course) (composer: Hiroshi Kawaguchi) 31:49 - Ristar (Genesis) - Round 5-2 Ice Scream (composer: Tomoko Sasaki) 34:33 - Talk Segment 3 36:41 - Final Fantasy VII (PSX) - Mark of the Traitor (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 40:11 - Front Mission: Gun Hazard (Super Famicom) - Tension (composer: Nobuo Uematsu)  42:44 - Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals (SNES) - Autumn (composer: Yasunori Shiono) 44:44 - Spider-Man the Videogame (Arcade) - BGM1 (composer: Kazuhiko Nagai) 46:48 - Pokemon Black and White (DS) - Opelucid City (Black) (composer: Go Ichinose) 51:00 - Outro Talk Segment 52:50 - Bionic Commando (NES) - Neutral Area (composer: Junko Tamiya)

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It’s another happy music episode in my Rose-Colored Pixels series of shows full of cheerful, upbeat VGM! 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.  LongTones, an experimental electronic jazz project that provides promotional consideration to Professor Tom. You can find their work on Spotify by searching for “LongTones” or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jon_no_h  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  As mentioned in the show, the VGMbassy recently celebrated its 100th episode, and you can check it out at https://thevgmbassy.com/2024/02/15/episode-100-the-100th-episode-celebration/. I appeared on the show in episode 91 (https://thevgmbassy.com/2023/05/12/episode-91-sega-arcade-games-with-professor-tom/). Congratulations to host Ed Wilson for hitting this milestone!  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Tecmo World Wrestling (NES) - Song 13 (composers: Keiji Yamagishi, Mayuko Okamura, Hiroshi Miyazaki, and Mitsuhito Tanaka) 00:41 - Talk Segment 1 03:17 - World of Final Fantasy (multiplatform) - World of Sunshine (composer: Masashi Hamauzu) 06:29 - Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & The Secret Hideout (multiplatform) - Days of Ocean Colors (composer: Kazuki Yanagawa) 07:37 - Secret of Mana (SNES) - Color of the Summer Sky / Joyous Town Theme (composer: Hiroki Kikuta) 09:02 - Power Golf (TG16) - Main Theme (composer: Daisuke Inoue) 11:21 - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (MSX2) - "A" Jam Blues (Radio Mode BGM 2) (composers: Tsuyoshi Sekito, Masahiro Ikariko, Mutsuhiko Izumi, Yuko Kurahashi, Tomoya Tomita, Kazuhiko Uehara, and Yuji Takenouchi) 12:22 - Side Pocket (Game Boy) - BGM 03 (composer: Yusuke Takahama) 14:39 - King of Fighters 2006 (aka KOF Maximum Impact 2) - The Startup Sound of Reminiscence (composer: Toshikazu Tanaka) 16:31 - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness (DS) - Random Dungeon Theme 2 (composers: Arata Iiyoshi, Hideki Sakamoto, Keisuke Ito, Ken-ichi Saito, Yoshihiro Maeda) 19:35 - Talk Segment 2 21:58 - King of Fighters 2002 (Neo-Geo) - Tacos Dance (composers: Masahiko Hataya and Yasuo Yamate) 24:15 - Blue Dragon (X360) - BAD BUT BAT (composer: Satoshi Henmi) 27:33 - Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster (multiplatform) - Airship (composers/arrangers: Nobuo Uematsu, Ayumu Murai, Hirosato Noda, Tomonori Adachi, Reo Uratani, Shingo Ktaoka, Yuko Komiyama, Eri Tsunemoto, Kenot Hasegawa, Masato Kouda, Masaya Tsunemoto) 29:25 - Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold (arcade) - STAGE SAKURA (composers: Syun Nishigaki, Setsuo Yamamoto, and Tatsuro Suzuki) 31:27 - Quartet (Arcade) - OKI RAP (composer: Katsuhiro Hayashi) 33:36 - Crusader of Centy (Genesis) - Anemone Beach (composer: Motokazu Shinoda) 35:17 - Shining Force II (Genesis) - Lively Town (composer: Motoaki Takenouchi) 38:43 - Super Black Bass 3 (Super Famicom) - Track 2 (composers: Michiya Hirasawa and Tsukushi Sasaki) 39:59 - Talk Segment 3 43:09 - Daytona USA (Arcade) - Sky High (composer: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi) 47:23 - Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen (GBA) - Road to Viridian City: Leaving Pallet Town (composer: Junichi Masuda) 48:23 - Phantasy Star II (Genesis) - Restoration (composer: Tokuhiko Uwabo) 50:33 - Harukanaru Augusta (Mega Drive) - Unknown (BGM Number 4) (composers: Shigekazu Kamaki, Yumi Kinoshita, Yuzaburou Shimojo, and Hiroshi Morita) 53:10 - Lunar 2: Eternal Blue (PSX) - Holding On (Lemina’s Theme) (composer: Noriyuki Iwadare) 56:12 - Phantasy Star IV (Genesis) - Land Master AXV-25 (composer: Izuho Numata) 58:05 - Jack Bros (Virtual Boy) - Grim Reaper’s Cavern (Level 2) (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada) 1:00:00 - Outro Talk Segment 1:02:08 - Crusader of Centy (Genesis) - Ending Theme (composer: Motokazu Shinoda)

This is an episode packed with jazzy jams of all shapes and sizes! 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.  LongTones, an experimental electronic jazz project that provides promotional consideration to Professor Tom. You can find their work on Spotify by searching for “LongTones” or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jon_no_h  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  During the show, I mentioned that my podcast bro Rayjkayj of VGMporium does episodes of shop themes, and you can check out his latest shop themes episode at https://vgmporium.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/episode-102-shop-themes-vii/  If you liked the Kiss Shot and Side Pocket tracks and want to hear more, you can check out the Super Marcato Bros’ episode all about Genesis Pool Jazz at https://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/2019/7/21/episode-378-genesis-pool-jazz, where they talk about both Side Pocket and Kiss Shot and their excellent soundtracks.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Front Mission (Super Famicom) - Bar (composer: Noriko Matsueda) 01:31 - Talk Segment 1 03:38 - Persona 2: Eternal Punishment (PSP) - Parabellum (composers: Toshiko Tasaki, Kenichi Tsuchiya, Masaki Kurokawa, Toshiki Konishi, and Atsushi Kitajoh) 07:54 - Kiss Shot (Genesis) - Nineball Game (composers: Naofumi Hataya and Hiroshi Kubota) 10:57 - The Flinstones (SNES) - Cinema (composers: Keith Tinman and Jonathan Dunn) 13:12 - Tales of Phantasia - Tasteful (composer: Motoi Sakuraba, Shinji Tamura and Ryota Furuya) 16:08 - Persona 5 (PS4) - Bar (composer: Shoji Meguro) 16:59 - Talk Segment 2 18:40 - Persona 5 Strikers - Sophia’s Shop (composer: Atsushi Kitajoh) 21:21 - Marvel vs Capcom 2 (Multiplatform) - Training Mode (composer: Tetsuya Shibata) 24:32 - Marvel vs Capcom 2 (Multiplatform) - Cave Stage (composer: Tetsuya Shibata) 26:10 - X-Men vs Street Fighter (Arcade) - Sabretooth Stage (composers: Yuki Iwai and Yuko Kadota)  27:57 - Arkanoid DS (DS) - too much funky? (GAME Chuu BGM) (composer: Kemmei Adachi) 30:50 - Talk Segment 3 33:26 - Arkanoid DS (DS) - Rest on Starlit Sky (OPTION BGM) (composer: Hirokazu Koshio) 34:49 - Jet Set Radio (Dreamcast) - Recipe for the Perfect Afro (composer: Hideki Naganuma) 40:41 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night- Wandering Ghosts (composer: Michiru Yamane) 43:17 - Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Jazzy NYC '99 (composer: Hideki Okugawa) 46:31 - Outro Talk Segment 48:17 - Side Pocket (Genesis) - Slow Down, Dude (composers: Emi Shimizu, Masaaki Iwasaki)

There’s a sad girl, crying as the snow falls. This is what her heart sounds like. 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.  LongTones, an experimental electronic jazz project that provides promotional consideration to Professor Tom. You can find their work on Spotify by searching for “LongTones” or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jon_no_h  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Tokemeki Memorial (PC Engine CD) - All Alone on Christmas (composers: Mikio Saito, Seiya Murai, Miki Higashino, and Hiro Noguchi) 01:28 - Intro Talk Segment 02:11 - Pokemon Black and White (DS) - Undella Town (Autumn) (composer: Hitomi Sato) 04:31 - Doki Doki Literature Club (PC) - Sayo-nara (composer: Dan Salvato) 07:09 - Etrian Odyssey III (DS) - That's the Beginning of the Adventure (composer: Yuzo Koshiro) 10:22 - VA-11 Hall-A (multiplatform) - Where Do I Go From Here? (composer: Garoad) 12:21 - Final Fantasy IV Pixel Remaster (multiplatform) - Cry in Sorrow 2 (credits: Nobuo Uematsu, Ayumu Murai, Hirosato Noda, Tomonori Adachi, Reo Uratani, Shingo Ktaoka, Yuko Komiyama, Eri Tsunemoto, Kenot Hasegawa, Masato Kouda, and Masaya Tsunemoto) 14:32 - Arcus Odyssey (Genesis) - Act 6-4: Pray for Victory (composer: Motoi Sakuraba) 18:02 - VA-11 Hall-A (multiplatform) - Will You Remember Me? (composer: Garoad) 19:46 - Final Fantasy VI (SNES) - Epitaph (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 22:38 - Final Fantasy VII (PSX) - Tifa's Theme (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 27:45 - Last Bible 3 (Super Famicom) - Field Theme 1 (composer: Yanda) 30:21 - Persona 2 Eternal Punishment (PSP) - Kaori (composers: Toshiko Tasaki, Kenichi Tsuchiya, Masaki Kurokawa, Toshiki Konishi, and Atsushi Kitajoh) 33:30 - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness (DS) - Goodnight (composers: Arata Iiyoshi, Hideki Sakamoto, Keisuke Ito, Ryoma Nakamura, and Kenichi Saito) 35:33 - Aerobiz Supersonic (SNES) - Deficit (composer: Koei Sound Team) 36:24 - VA-11 Hall-A (multiplatform) - Who Was I? (composer: Garoad) 37:44 - Mega Man and Bass (Super Famicom) - Database (composers: Toshihiko Horiyama, Naoshi Mizuta, and Akari Kaida) 41:14 - Dual Orb (Super Famicom) - Deserted Village (composer: Lucky-7) 43:23 - Final Fantasy VII (PSX) - If You Open Your Heart (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 46:11 - Outro Talk Segment 47:55 - VA-11 Hall-A (multiplatform) - Everything Will Be Okay (composer: Garoad)

Sometimes, you gotta just keep on keepin’ on, and that’s what all these tracks will help you do. 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.  LongTones, an experimental electronic jazz project that provides promotional consideration to Professor Tom. You can find their work on Spotify by searching for “LongTones” or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jon_no_h  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  During the show, I mentioned my Gotta Go Speed episode full of racing game music. You can find it at https://shujinacademyvgmclub.podbean.com/e/episode-34-gotta-go-speed/ if you want to check out some tracks that are a little faster-paced than this episode’s selections. I recently made a guest appearance on fellow VGM podcast Senpai’s Playlist & VGM Origins. You can check it out at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/darryl-bowers/episodes/VGM-Origins-Presents-A-VGM-Christmas-Carol-e2d3971. Hear me as the ghost of VGM Christmas! Also hear Darryl and I talk about stuff!  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Mega Man Star Force 2 (DS) - Network (composer: Marika Suzuki) 01:15 - Talk Segment 1 03:32 - Final Fantasy VIII (PSX) - Movin’ (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 08:50 - Metal Max Returns (Super Famicom) - Caterpillar Village (composer: Satoshi Kadokura) 10:15 - Final Fantasy IV (SNES) - Mt. Ordeals (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 11:33 - Al Unser Jr.’s Turbo Racing (NES) - Circuit Theme B (composers: Shōgo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Masaaki Iwasaki, and Yuji Suzuki) 14:33 - Persona 5 Strikers (multiplatform) - Camping Trip (composer: Atsushi Kitajoh) 17:34 - Talk Segment 2 19:24 - Pixel Puzzle Makeout League (multiplatform) - Tick Tock (composer: Capsule King) 21:57 - Blaster Master (NES) - Area 1 (composer: Naoki Kodaka) 24:55 - Etrian Odyssey II (DS) - Labyrinth V - Heavens’ Rock Seat (composer: Yuzo Koshiro) 29:14 - Shovel Knight (multiplatform) - An Underlying Problem (The Lost City) (composer: Jake Kaufman) 33:02 - River City Girls 2 (multiplatform) - Dance Arcade (composer: Megan McDuffee) 34:15 - Talk Segment 3 36:58 - Dance Aerobics (NES) - Track 15 (composer: unknown; possibly Masaki Hashimoto) 39:58 - Darkstalkers 3 (Playstation) - Green Scream (composers: Takayuki Iwai, Masato Kouda, and Satoshi Ise)   44:03 - Top Gear 2 (SNES) - Auckland (composers: Patrick Phelan, Ashley Bennett, Paul Bennet) 46:55 - Horizon Chase 2 - The Prettiest Menu Theme Ever Written (composer: Barry Leitch) 52:43 - Outro Talk Segment 54:28 - The Flash (Master System) - Ending (composer: Jeroen Tel)

I come up with a lot of ideas, but all of them aren’t a good fit for a full-length episode, so this episode is actually four mini-episodes. Each one is devoted to an idea that works better in small bites than it would in a longer episode. Enjoy! Congratulations in advance go out to fellow VGM podcast bro Martyrus for reaching 100 episodes of his excellent show RE-VGM, a great podcast where he explores the world of arranged video game music. I try to catch every episode, and I’d recommend it to you, too! You can find it at www.re-vgm.com or https://re-vgm.blubrry.net/.  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.  LongTones, an experimental electronic jazz project that provides promotional consideration to Professor Tom. You can find their work on Spotify by searching for “LongTones” or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jon_no_h  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Episode 39a: Home Sweet Home 02:43 - Chrono Trigger (SNES) - Morning Sunlight (composer: Yasunori Mitsuda) 03:22 - Dragon Quest V (Super Famicom) - Country Living (composer: Koichi Sugiyama) 04:53 - Etrian Odyssey (DS) - Town - Bird-Shaped Vane on the Roof (composer: Yuzu Koshiro) 06:06 - Kingdom Hearts (PS2) - Traverse Town (composer: Yoko Shimomura)  07:26 - VA-11 Hall-A (multiplatform): Safe Haven (composer: Garoad) 10:06 - Final Fantasy V (Super Famicom) - Home Sweet Home (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 12:47 - Episode 39b: Jingle Bleeps, Jingle Bloops 15:20 - Daze Before Christmas (Genesis) - A Story Song (composers: Kim M. Jensen and Geir Tjelta) 17:16 - Home Alone (SNES) - Protecting the House (composer: Mark van Hecke) 18:34 - Home Alone (SNES) - The Scary Basement (composer: Mark van Hecke) 20:09 - Die Hard (NES) - Game Theme (composer: unknown) 23:10 - VA-11 Hall-A (multiplatform) - Snowfall (composer: Garoad) 25:59 - Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams (Saturn) - Dreams Dreams (Acapella version) (composer: Tomoko Sasaki; vocals: Marlon D. Sanders, Gabriel Morris, and Issa Clemon) 30:25 - Episode 39c: Turning the Screws 33:57 - Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (GBA) - The Item Collection Room (composer: Soshiro Hokkai) 36:16 - Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne (PS2) - Talk (composer: Kenichi Tsuchiya) 38:02 - Danganronpa 2 (Vita) - RE: New World Order (composer: Takada Masafumi) 42:46 - Bionic Commando (NES) - Area 05 (composer: Junko Tamiya) 44:46 - Secret of Mana (SNES) - Danger [Boss Theme] (composer: Hiroki Kikuta) 46:59 - Episode 39d: The Same, But Different 48:51 - Final Fantasy X (PS2) - Prelude (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 53:12 - Final Fantasy IV Pixel Remaster (multiplatform) - Hey, Cid! (composers: Nobuo Uematsu, Ayumu Murai, Hirosato Noda, Tomonori Adachi, Reo Uratani, Shingo Ktaoka, Yuko Komiyama, Eri Tsunemoto, Kenot Hasegawa, Masato Kouda, Masaya Tsunemoto) 56:06 - Final Fantasy XV (PS4 / Xbox One) - Cindy (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 59:31 - Final Fantasy III (Famicom) - Chocobos! (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 1:00:51 - Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation) - Electric De Chocobo (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 1:04:53 - Final Fantasy XIII (PS3/Xbox 360) - “Chocobos of Cocoon - Chasing Dreams” (composers: Masashi Hamauzu and Ryo Yamazaki; lyrics and vocals from Frances Maya) 1:07:48 - Outro Talk Segment 1:09:45 - Final Fantasy VI (SNES) - Mog (composer: Nobuo Uematsu)

Halloween has come and gone, but spooky season lives on in our hearts all year round, so this is a great set of creepy tracks that I didn’t quite get out the door before Halloween. (But I meant to, and then life got in the way.)  We here in the VGM podcast community have seen Spotify pull down some of our episodes recently without any explanation as to why. My Castlevania bonus episode was removed, as were episodes of fellow VGM podcasts A VGM Journey and Nerd Noise Radio. None of us know exactly why we were targeted in general or why it was those specific episodes, and no one (not even a robot) at Spotify has reached out to tell us. So, if you’re listening to this on a podcast service that’s NOT Spotify, good job and thank you and keep on doing what you’re doing. And if you’re listening to this podcast on Spotify, you may need to find an alternative podcatcher to keep listening to us. I personally use Podbean and Pocket Casts both; I know Spotify is convenient, but I think both of those are better podcast apps, since they’re custom-built for podcast consumption. Podbean is currently the best place to find me, since that’s my hosting company, but any dedicated podcatcher you use should pick me up. 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.  LongTones, an experimental electronic jazz project that provides promotional consideration to Professor Tom. You can find their work on Spotify by searching for “LongTones” or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jon_no_h  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  During the show, I mentioned some other VGM podcasts, and they are as follows: Last year’s excellent Halloween episode of A VGM Journey (where I got the idea to play the Transylvania song from Duck Tales) can be found at  https://audacy.com/podcast/a-vgm-journey-a9eb9/episodes/level-116-06e41  The episode of fellow VGM podcast VGMporium devoted to exploring the soundtracks of NES games and arcade games that were siblings instead of straight ports can be found at https://vgmporium.wordpress.com/2023/03/09/episode-63-nes-and-arcade-versions/.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:08 - Military Madness (TG16) - Menu (composer: Jun Chikuma) 00:34 - Intro Talk Segment  05:15 - Duck Tales (NES) - Transylvania (prototype version) (composer: Hiroshige Tonomura) 08:15 - Military Madness (TG16) - Password (composer: Jun Chikuma) 09:27 - Gauntlet IV (Genesis) - Transparent Obstacle (composers: Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata)  14:40 - Secret of Evermore (SNES) - In the Arena (composer: Jeremy Soule) 15:37 - Shin Megami Tensei (Super Famicom) - Dream (composer: Tsukasa Masuko) 17:21 - Contra: Hard Corps (Genesis) - Guillotine (composers: Hiroshi Kobayashi, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka, Hirofumi Taniguchi, and Aki Hata) 19:16 - Nemo (Arcade) - Nightmare King (Stage 7) (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 21:03 - Golden Axe (Arcade) - Old Map (composer: Tohru Nakabayashi) 21:57 - Talk Segment II: Fatal Resurrection 25:12 - Al Unser Jr.’s Racing (NES) - Game Over (composers: Shōgo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Masaaki Iwasaki, and Yuji Suzuki) 26:49 - Mother (Famicom) - Cemetery (composers: Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka) 29:20 - Yuppie Psycho (PC) - A Man Out of You (composer: Garoad) 31:46 - Persona 2 Eternal Punishment (PSP) - Undersea Ruins (composers: Toshiko Tasaki, Kenichi Tsuchiya, Masaki Kurokawa, T.KURA, Shoji Meguro, Kazuya Usui, Toshiki Konishi, Atsushi Kitajoh) 35:51 - Military Madness (TG16) - Enemy's Last Stage (composer: Jun Chikuma) 37:31 - Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow (GB) - Lavender Town (composer: Junichi Masuda) 40:29 - Shin Megami Tensei: If . . . (Super Famicom) - Terminal (composer: Tsukasa Masuko) 41:17 - Bubble Bobble (Arcade) - False Ending (composer: Tadashi Kimijima) 41:55 - Talk Segment III: Terminal Confrontation in 3D! 45:01 - Final Fantasy IV (SNES) - Dancing Calcobrena (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 45:34 - Persona Q2 (3DS) - Peculiar World (Another Version) (composer: Atsushi Kitajoh) 50:33 - Persona 5 Strikers (multiplatform) - Loving Wonderland (composer: Ayana Hira) 52:51 - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Genesis)  - Mystic Cave Zone (composer: Masato Nakamura) 54:52 - Contra: Hard Corps (Genesis) - Jurassic Dope (composers: Hiroshi Kobayashi, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka, Hirofumi Taniguchi, and Aki Hata) 58:02 - Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne (PS2) - Playing the Fool (composer: Shoji Meguro) 59:35 - Outro Talk Segment  1:02:39 - Crystalis (NES) - Poison Marsh (composer: Yoko Osaka)

I had so many tracks left over from the last episode that I decided to put them all together and make a Castlevania leftovers bonus episode. Enjoy all these cool songs that didn’t quite fit on the last episode for some reason or another! 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.  LongTones, an experimental electronic jazz project that provides promotional consideration to Professor Tom. You can find their work on Spotify by searching for “LongTones” or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jon_no_h  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:12 - Vampire Variations Volume III - A Dark and Eerie Night (Prologue) (arrangers: Chernabogue featuring XPRTNovice) 02:20 - Intro Talk Segment 0:03:31 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSX/Saturn) - Prologue (composer: Michiru Yamane) 0:04:58 - Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (NES) - Bloody Tears (Street - Daytime BGM) (composer: Kenichi Matsubara) 0:06:03 - Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS) - Jaws of a Scorched Earth (composer: Michiru Yamane) 0:09:39 - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Multiplatform) - Theme Of Johannes (composer: Keisuke Ito) 0:11:34 - Castlevania: The Adventure (Game Boy) - Revenge [Stage 4 BGM] (composers: Shigeru Fukutake, Norio Hanzawa, and Hidehiro Funauchi) 0:13:23 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSX/Saturn) - Dracula's Castle (composer: Michiru Yamane) 0:15:16 - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Multiplatform) - Ritual Of The Night (composer: Michiru Yamane) 0:19:33 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSX/Saturn) - Nocturne (composer: Michiru Yamane) 0:21:53 - Super Castlevania IV (SNES) - Dripstone Cave ~ Waterfall ~ Sunken City (Stage 3 BGM) (composers: Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo) 0:30:10 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSX/Saturn) - Rainbow Cemetary (composer: Michiru Yamane) 0:32:55 - Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS) - Cantus Montetten (composer: Michiru Yamane) 0:35:31 - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Multiplatform) - Theme Of Gebel (composer: Keisuke Ito) 0:37:38 - Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (GBA) - The Sinking Old Sanctuary (composers: Sotaro Tojima, Hiroshi Mitsuoka, and Michiru Yamane) 0:40:31 - Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (DS) - Cursed Clock Tower (composer: Michiru Yamane) 0:45:02 - Haunted Castle (Arcade) - Bloody Tears (Stage 3 - Main Hall) (composer: Kenichi Matsubara) 0:46:08 - Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (GBA) - The Trick Manor (composers: Sotaro Tojima, Hiroshi Mitsuoka, Masanori Adachi, and Taro Kudo) 0:50:21 - Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS) - Wandering the Crystal Blue (composer: Michiru Yamane) 0:52:58 - Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (DS) - VAMPIRE KILLER (composer: Masahiko Kimura) 0:56:02 - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Multiplatform) - Forgotten Jade (composer: Michiru Yamane) 1:02:32 - Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS) - Ebony Wings (composer: Yasuhiro Ichihashi) 1:04:55 - Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge (Game Boy) - New Messiah [Glass Castle] (composer: Hidehiro Funauchi) 1:08:03 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSX/Saturn) - Requiem for the Gods (composer: Michiru Yamane) 1:10:12 - Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS) - Passing into the Night (composer: Michiru Yamane) 1:12:12 - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Multiplatform) - Silent Howling (composer: Ryusuke Fujioka) 1:14:18 - Dracula X (SNES) - Den (composers: Tomoya Tomita, Masanari Iwata, Harumi Ueko, and Masahiko Kimura) 1:17:22 - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Multiplatform) - Theme Of Dominique (composer: Michiru Yamane) 1:22:00 - Super Castlevania IV (SNES) - Beginning (Stage 10 Dracula's Tower 2 BGM) (composers: Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo) 1:23:56 - Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS) - Dark Holy Road (composer: Michiru Yamane) 1:26:12 - Super Castlevania IV (SNES) - Mechanical Trick Mansion (Stage 4 BGM) (composers: Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo) 1:29:52 - Castlevania (NES) - Wicked Child (Upper Yard) (composers: Kinuyo Yamashita and Satoe Terashima) 1:32:48 - Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS) - An Empty Tome (composer: Michiru Yamane) 1:35:47 - Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (DS) - Great Door of Cold Darkness (composer: Michiru Yamane) 1:38:57 - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Multiplatform) - Brave Trigger (composer: Michiru Yamane) 1:41:09 - Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (GBA) - Premonition (composer: Soshiro Hokkai) 1:42:50 - Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (GBA) - Vampire Killer (composers: Sotaro Tojima, Hiroshi Mitsuoka, Kinuyo Yamashita, and Satoe Terashima) 1:44:04 - Super Castlevania IV (SNES) - Secret Room (Bonus BGM) (composers: Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo) 1:45:31 - Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS) - Rhapsody of the Forsaken (composer: Michiru Yamane) 1:49:12 - Castlevania: Bloodlines (Genesis) - Bloody Tears (Classic Tune 2) (composer: Michiru Yamane) 1:50:22 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSX/Saturn) - Dance of Pales (composer: Michiru Yamane) 1:52:52 - Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (DS) - Scarlet Fighting Spirit (composer: Michiru Yamane) 1:56:07 - Vampire Variations III (OCREMIX) () - Bringing Out the Dead (Simon Belmont's Theme) (composer: Brandon Strader) 2:01:36 - Castlevania: Bloodlines (Genesis) - The Discolored Wall (Stage 3) (composer: Michiru Yamane) 2:03:44 - Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS) - Lone Challenger (composer: Michiru Yamane) 2:06:15 - Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (PC Engine CD) - Cemetery (composers: Akira Souji, Keizo Nakamura, Tomoko Sano, and Mikio Saito) 2:08:45 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSX/Saturn) - Tower of Mist (composer: Michiru Yamane) 2:11:32 - Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (GBA) - Clockwork Tower of Causality (composer: Soshiro Hokkai) 2:13:28 - Castlevania: Bloodlines (Genesis) - Reincarnated Soul, Part 2 (Stage 1) (composer: Michiru Yamane) 2:15:19 - Super Castlevania IV (SNES) - Cellar (Stage 8 BGM) (composers: Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo) 2:17:19 - Castlevania: Bloodlines (Genesis) - The Sinking Old Sanctuary (Stage 2) (composer: Michiru Yamane) 2:19:38 - Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS) - The Tower of Dolls (composer: Konami Kukeiha Club) 2:23:47 - Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge (Game Boy) - Praying Hands [Cloud Castle] (composer: Hidehiro Funauchi) 2:26:50 - Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (NES) - Stream (Block-6) (composers: Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi, and Yukie Morimoto) 2:29:51 - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Multiplatform) - Autumn's Desolation (composer: Keisuke Ito) 2:32:41 - Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (DS) - Black Shudder (composer: Masahiko Kimura) 2:33:51 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSX/Saturn) - Lost Painting (composer: Michiru Yamane) 2:35:32 - Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (PC Engine CD) - Vampire Killer (composers: Akira Souji, Keizo Nakamura, Tomoko Sano, and Mikio Saito) 2:37:15 - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Multiplatform) - Theme Of Bloodstained (Vocal) (composer: Michiru Yamane) 2:38:28 - Outro Talk Segment 2:39:43 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSX/Saturn) - I am the Wind (composer: Michiru Yamane)

It’s spooky season, so I’m doing a whole episode full of Castlevania’s greatest hits! And come back soon for a bonus episode containing a whole bunch of deep cuts I didn’t have time for on this episode! Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing amazing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.  Save Point Sam for voicing Lamenty the gravestone Generous show patron Rick L., who suggested the idea for this episode and also gave me a huge amount of money to do it. Well, he suggested the idea. He didn’t actually give me any money at all, but I’m still doing it because I’m all about the fans.  LongTones, an experimental electronic jazz project that provides promotional consideration to Professor Tom. You can find their work on Spotify by searching for “LongTones” or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jon_no_h  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Diskord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  During the show, I mentioned my April Fool’s 2023 episode. You can find that at https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-duvyd-13ce7bd, although I warn you that 1) you are listening at your own risk and also 2) it’s an April Fool’s Day show, so things may be a little different than normal and also also 3) it features me singing at the end, so you’re REALLY listening at your own risk.  If you want to find the OC Remix Vampire Variations compilations mentioned in the outro, you can find them at the following links: https://ocremix.org/album/67/vampire-variations-a-musical-tribute-to-castlevania https://ocremix.org/album/68/vampire-variations-volume-ii https://ocremix.org/album/69/vampire-variations-volume-iii   Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:09 - Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest (NES) - Within These Castle Walls (composers: Kenichi Matsubara, Satoe Terashima, and Kouji Murata) 00:53 - Talk Segment I 03:00 - Castlevania (NES) - Stalker (Armory) (composers: Kinuyo Yamashita and Satoe Terashima) 06:00 - Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest (NES) - The Silence of the Daylight (composer: Kenichi Matsubara) 07:05 - Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse (Famicom Disk System) - Mad Forest (composers: Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi, and Yukie Morimoto) 08:40 - Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse (Famicom Disk System) - Deja Vu (Vampire Killer) (composers: Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi, and Yukie Morimoto) 11:38 - Talk Segment II 12:32 - Vampire Killer (MSX) - Vampire Killer (composers: Kinuyo Yamashita and Satoe Terashima) 13:39 - Vampire Killer (MSX) - Wicked Child (composers: Kinuyo Yamashita and Satoe Terashima) 15:28 - Vampire Killer (MSX) - Black Knight (composers: Kinuyo Yamashita and Satoe Terashima) 16:12 - Talk Segment III 16:45 - Castlevania: The Adventure (Game Boy) - Battle of the Holy [Stage 1 BGM] (composers: Shigeru Fukutake, Norio Hanzawa, and Hidehiro Funauchi) 19:43 - Castlevania 2 - Belmont's Revenge (Game Boy) - Psycho Warrior [Rock Castle] (composer: Hidehiro Funauchi) 23:02 - Talk Segment IV 24:35 - Super Castlevania IV (SNES) - Simon’s Theme (Stage 1-2 BGM) (composers: Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo) 28:17 - Castlevania: Bloodlines (Genesis) - Iron-Blue Intention (composer: Michiru Yamane) 30:15 - Castlevania: Dracula X (SNES) - Bloodlines (composers: Tomoya Tomita, Masanari Iwata, Harumi Ueko, and Masahiko Kimura) 33:23 - Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (PC Engine CD) - Overture (composers: Akira Souji, Keizo Nakamura, Tomoko Sano, and Mikio Saito) 34:27 - Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (PC Engine CD) - Picture of a Ghost Ship (composers: Akira Souji, Keizo Nakamura, Tomoko Sano, and Mikio Saito) 36:52 - Talk Segment V 39:42 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSX/Saturn) - The Tragic Prince (composer: Michiru Yamane) 43:46 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSX/Saturn) - Crystal Teardrops (composer: Michiru Yamane) 45:47 - Talk Segment VI 47:23 - Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (GBA) - Awake (composer: Sotaro Tojima) 49:53 - Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (GBA) - Successor of Fate (Juste Belmont’s theme) (composer: Soshiro Hokkai) 52:14 - Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (GBA) - Clock Tower (composer: Michiru Yamane) 55:11 - Talk Segment VII 56:21 - Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow (DS) - Dracula's Tears (composer: Michiru Yamane) 1:00:00 - Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow (DS) - Equipment Discussion [Shop] (composer: Masahiko Kimura) 1:01:50 - Castlevania Order of Ecclesia (DS) - Chapel Hidden in Smoke (composer: Michiru Yamane) 1:05:13 - Talk Segment VIII 1:06:36 - Bloodstained Ritual of the Night (multiplatform) - Theme Of Bloodstained (composer: Michiru Yamane) 1:09:36 - Bloodstained Ritual of the Night (multiplatform) - Exorschism (composer: Keisuke Ito) 1:11:54 - Outro Talk Segment 1:15:21 - Vampire Variations II (OCREMIX) - Season of the Witch (Together Forever) (composer: Michiru Yamane; arranged by Brandon Strader)

What does it sound like when God talks to you? What does it sound like with the Light of the Universe gives you a sacred quest that no one else can accomplish?  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.  BibleGateway.com and the scholars and authors behind the New International Version translation of the Bible, used for the reading from Exodus 3:1-10 in the show. LongTones, an experimental electronic jazz project that provides promotional consideration to Professor Tom. You can find their work on Spotify by searching for “LongTones” or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jon_no_h  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. 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. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:06 - Last Bible III - West Lake 01:01 - Talk Segment 1 05:42 - Final Fantasy IV (SNES) - The Lunarians (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 06:58 - Final Fantasy V Pixel Remaster (Multiplatform) - Nostalgia (composers: Nobuo Uematsu, Ayumu Murai, Hirosato Noda, Tomonori Adachi, Reo Uratani, Shingo Ktaoka, Yuko Komiyama, Eri Tsunemoto, Kenot Hasegawa, Masato Kouda, Masaya Tsunemoto) 11:13 - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky (DS) - Icicle Forest (composers: Arata Iiyoshi, Hideki Sakamoto, Keisuke Ito, Ken-ichi Saito, and Yoshihiro Maeda) 15:32 - Tokimeki Memorial (PC Engine CD) - Our Starry Sky [Planetarium]  17:30 - Romancing SaGa 3 (Super Famicom) - Underwater Palace (composer:Kenji Ito) 19:59 - Albert Odyssey (SNES) - On Holy Ground (composer: Naoki Kodaka) 21:16 - Chrono Trigger (SNES) - Secret of the Forest (composer: Yasunori Mitsuda)  26:00 - Talk Segment 2 27:58 - Secret of Mana (SNES) - Pure Night Pure Land (composer: Hiroki Kikuta) 30:48 - Final Fantasy VII (PSX) - Flowers Blooming in the Church (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 35:42 - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky (DS) - A New World (composers: Arata Iiyoshi, Hideki Sakamoto, Keisuke Ito, Ken-ichi Saito, and Yoshihiro Maeda) 39:07 - Tokimeki Memorial - Stormy Field (Romance) 40:17 - Dual Orb 2 - Dungeon (composers: Nobuyuki Hara and Yu Yoshida) 43:07 - Ys III: Wanderers From Ys (Genesis) - Morning of the Journey (composer: Yoshiaki Kubotera, Noriyuki Iwadare, and Mieko Ishikawa) 48:36 - Final Fantasy V (Super Famicom) - The Silent Beyond (composers: Nobuo Uematsu) 54:13 - Outro Talk Segment 56:27 - Final Fantasy III (Famicom) - Boundless Ocean (composer: Nobuo Uematsu)

[NOTE: This is a re-upload of an older episode that I accidentally deleted. While it's not my best show, and definitely not my most popular episode ever, I'm reposting it for the sake of complete-ness.] This episode is devoted to some ominous songs. The episode title does not include a question mark, and that is intentional.  Special thanks to fellow VGM podcaster Bedroth the Chinbeard for providing the voice of North Tennessee State University. He’s the host of Very Good Music, which you can check out at https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/ykr76-bda6e/Very-Good-Music-A-VGM-Podcast. You can find him on Twitter at @VGMpod. There's an episode of the Pixel Beat podcast that would make an excellent double feature with this one. If you liked this episode, and you’re not done with the downbeat VGM yet, check that one out over at https://pixelbeatpod.buzzsprout.com/1797351/10461275-074-a-cold-dark-night.   If you want to reach me, you can email me at [email protected]. You can find me on Twitter at @ShujinVGMClub, and on Instagram at ShujinAcademyVGMClub. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Hang On - Title  00:51 - Talk Segment 1  03:44 - Kingdom Hearts - Dive Into The Heart ~Destati~ 08:39 - Salamander / Life Force (Arcade) - Poison of Snake 10:16 - Alien Syndrome (Arcade) - Stage Theme 14:13 - Final Fantasy Legend - Demon Cave 17:13 - Mega Man X - Sigma Fortress 3 19:01 - Talk Segment 2 21:30 - Front Mission: Gun Hazard - Resistance 23:08 - Ninja Gaiden II - Puppetmaster [Cutscenes] 24:07 - Legacy of the Wizard - Item Select Theme 27:05 - Mega Man X 2 - Final Destination  28:03 - Shin Megami Tensei: If . . . - Data Load Screen 28:45 - Lufia and the Fortress of Doom - Wave of Evil 29:57 - Talk Segment 3 33:24 - Final Fantasy: The Four Heroes of Light - Cursed Town 37:22 - Treasure Hunter G - A Position of Total Control 39:13 - Front Mission: Gun Hazard - Cavern 43:16 - Final Fantasy X - Place of Ordeals 46:48 - Persona 5 - Ominous 49:35 - Final Fantasy XIII - The Vile Peaks 52:37 - Show Outro

Let’s all go to our happy place with this great collection of cheerful tracks! Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art and also for that coveted Bluesky invite. 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.  During the show, I mentioned an episode of the Super Marcato Bros. podcast featuring the music of composer Masashi Hamauzu. You can check it out at  http://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/2019/4/7/episode-364-masashi-hamauzu and hear what the Marcatos had to say about Hamauzu’s work.  I also mentioned my VGM podcast bro RayjKayj and how he introduced me (and other people who listen to his show) to the Mega Man Star Force soundtracks. You can find VGMporium at https://vgmporium.wordpress.com/ or on Spotify, Apple, and all the other podcast-promoting places.  If you liked this show and you want to check out the original Rose-Colored Pixels episode I did in October 2022, you can find it at https://shujinacademyvgmclub.podbean.com/e/episode-22-rose-colored-pixels/ or anywhere you get this show. I also brought up episode 20 about big city music, which you can find at https://shujinacademyvgmclub.podbean.com/e/episode-20-welcome-to-metro-city/. (My Podbean statistics tell me that episode 20 is not well-loved, but I think it’s actually really good and I’d strongly recommend that you check it out.)  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], and my username on Discord is ProfessorTom. 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. 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. Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Ganbare! Golf Boys (PC Engine) - ‘Sun Sun’ Samba (composer: Atsuhiro Motoyama) 01:40 - Talk Segment 1 06:06 - Pokemon Trading Card Game (Game Boy) - Pause Menu (composer: Ichiro Shimakura) 07:41 - Tokimeki Memorial (PC Engine CD) - Smash a Home Run [Baseball Match] (composers: Mikio Saito, Seiya Murai, Miki Higashino, and Hiro Noguchi) 08:35 - Super Baseball 2020 (SNES) - Pitching & Fielding (composers: J. Kuramochi and Hiroo Ikeda) 11:57 - Pilotwings - Hangglider (composer: Soyo Oka) 13:33 - Mega Man and Bass (aka Rockman and Forte) (Super Famicom) - Tenguman (composers: Toshihiko Horiyama, Naoshi Mizuta, and Akari Kaida) 15:09 - Persona 3 (PS2) - Afternoon Break (composer: Shoji Meguro) 17:27 - Landstalker (Genesis) - Bustling Street (composer: Motoaki Takenouchi) 19:50 - SaGa Frontier (PSX) - Blue Town (composer: Kenji Ito) 24:02 - Talk Segment 2 27:27 - Fantasy Zone (Arcade) - Opa Opa! (composer: Hiroshi Kawaguchi) 29:50 - McDonald’s Treasure Land (Genesis) - Stage 2: Magical Town (composer: Katsuhiko Suzuki) 31:45 - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Genesis) - Angel Island Zone Act 1 (composers: Tatsuyuki Maeda, Sachio Ogawa, Masayuki Nagao, Masanori Hikichi, and Tomonori Sawada) 34:06 - Persona 4 Dancing All Night (Vita) - Specialist (“NEVER MORE” P4D EDIT ver.) (original composer: Shoji Meguro; remixed by Atsushi Kitajoh) 36:22 - Persona Q2 (3DS) - Popcorn (composer: Atsushi Kitajoh) 39:07 - Fantasian (iOS) - The Cinderella Tri-Stars (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 42:32 - Pokemon Crystal (Game Boy)- Buena’s Password Show (composers: Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, and Morikazu Aoki) 44:22 - Live A Live (Super Famicom) - Nice Weather, Ain’t It? (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 47:05 - Talk Segment 3 51:49 - World of Final Fantasy (multiplatform) - Happy Melody (composer: Masashi Hamauzu) 53:26 - Yoshi’s Safari (SNES) - Crescent Beach (composers: Yoshiki Nishimura, Miyuki Uemura, and Yasushi Tokunaga) 54:52 - The Flash (SMS) - Rollercoaster Runner (composer: Jeroen Tel) 56:45 - Super Adventure Island (SNES) - The Island of Everlasting Summer (composer: Yuzo Koshiro) 1:01:30 - Persona 3 Portable (PSP) - After School (composer: Shoji Meguro)  1:03:46 - Shining Force (Genesis) - Town (aka Cheerful Street Corner) (composer: Masahiko Yoshimura) 1:05:19 - Pokemon Black and White (DS) - Bicycle (composer: Hitomi Sato) 1:07:15 - Mega Man Star Force 2 (DS) - My Friends (composer: Marika Suzuki) 1:08:05 - Romancing SaGa 3 (Super Famicom) - The Great Arch (composer: Kenji Ito) 1:09:39 - Outro Talk Segment 1:11:22 - Final Fantasy III (Famicom) - Cute Little Tozas (composer: Nobuo Uematsu)

VROOM VROOM with a collection of great tracks from racing games!  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 Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @[email protected], and my username on Discord is ProfessorTom. 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. Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Ridge Racer (Arcade) - Welcome Racer (composer: Shinji Hosoe) 00:42 - Talk Segment 1 03:46 - Gran Turismo (PSX) - Moon Over the Castle (composer: Masahiro Andoh) 09:09 - OutRun 2019 (Genesis) - Feel The Beat (composer: Shigeki Sako) 11:23 - Al Unser Jr. Turbo Racing (NES) - Circuit Theme A (composers: Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Masaaki Iwasaki, and Yuji Suzuki) 14:20 - F-Zero (SNES) - Death Wind (composer: Yumiko Kanki) 16:15 - Out-Run 3D (Master System) - Shining Wind (FM version) (composer: Chikako Kamatani) 18:54 - Talk Segment 2 21:04 - Lotus III (Amiga) - Space Ninja (composer: Patrick Phelan) 26:11 - Power Drift (Arcade) - Like the Wind (B Course) (composer: Hiroshi Kawaguchi)  30:02 - Enduro Racer (Arcade) - BGM (composer: Hiroshi Kawaguchi) 34:31 - Ace Driver: Victory Lap (Arcade) - Haze in Daylight (composer: Keiichi Okabe) 38:57 - Talk Segment 3 41:33 - OutRun 2019 (Genesis) - Steal Into The Night (composer: Shigeki Sako) 45:18 - Super Monaco GP (Genesis) - Impatience (composer: Tokuhiko Uwabo) 46:31 - Horizon Chase Turbo (Multiplatform) - Race 2 Bleeding Fingers (composer: Barry Leitch) 51:06 - Super Hang-On (Arcade) - Winning Run (composer: Koichi Namiki) 54:25 - Rage Racer (PSX) - Victory (composers: Hiroshi Okubo and Tetsukazu Nakanishi) 55:31 - Outro Talk Segment 56:58 - Sonic R (Saturn) - Super Sonic Racing (composer: Richard Jacques)

To the best of my knowledge, Billy Dee Williams has never listened to this show, but if he did, I’m sure he’d love this grab bag episode. Check it out and enjoy a bunch of songs that have been rolling around on my list of tracks to play! 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.  Tycho and Gabe at venerable gaming webcomic Penny Arcade for coming up with the name “Rando Calrissian” in a long-ago strip they did about playing games online with strangers. I’ve shamelessly stolen that clever name for this episode, and I often find myself in lockstep with Tycho’s cynical observations about our society in general and gaming in particular. If you want to reach me, you can find me on Mastodon at @[email protected] or on Discord as professortom. 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. I mentioned my guest appearance on episode 68 of VGMporium, home to my VGM bro Rayjkayj. You can check it out here and listen to us talk about games involving investigations and quite a few other things. I highly recommend his show anyway; Rayjkayj is a fun host who covers cool topics. Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (Mega Drive) - Character Select (composer: Aki Hata)  00:59 - Talk Segment 1 03:36 - Panel de Pon / Tetris Attack (SNES) - Thiana’s Stage / Forest Stage (composer: Masaya Kuzume) 05:59 - Famicom Tantei Club Part 2 (Famicom) - Ayumi (composer: Kenji Yamamoto) 08:55 - VA-11 Hall-A (multiplatform) - Snowfall (composer: Garoad) 11:39 - Seiken Densetsu 3 / Trials of Mana (Super Famicom) - Harvest November (composer: Hiroki Kikuta) 15:52 - Bionic Commando (NES) - Area 01 (composer Junko Tamiya and Harumi Fujita) 17:58 - Mach Rider (NES) - Track 4 (composer: Hideki Kanazashi) 19:39 - Talk Segment 2 22:26 - Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterfly (multiplatform) - Milk Honey Green Tea (composer: Andrew Jeremy) 28:04 - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (DS) - Phoenix Wright ~ Objection 2001 (composers: Masakazu Sugimori) 29:26 - Horizon Chase Turbo (multiplatform) - The Last Hurrah of a Video Game Composer (composer: Barry Leitch) 32:45 - Ikaruga (multiplatform) - Chapter 02: Trial (composer: Hiroshi Iuchi) 36:37 - Street Fighter (arcade) - Gen Theme (composer: Yoshihiro Sakaguchi) 38:21 - Golden Axe (arcade) - Wilderness (composer: You Takada) 42:51 - Talk Segment 3 46:11 - Military Madness (TurboGrafx-16) - Manual (composer: Jun Chikuma) 48:22 - Romancing SaGa (Super Famicom) - Deserted Village (composer: Kenji Ito) 50:50 - Fire Emblem Fates (3DS) - Curious Dining (composer: Takeru Kanazaki) 52:27 - Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga (PS2) - Manipura (composer: Shoji Meguro) 56:54 - Streets of Rage 4 - Next of Kin Showdown (composer: Das Mörtal) 1:00:15 - Persona 2: Eternal Punishment (PSP) - The Round Sun (composers: Toshiko Tasaki, Toshiki Konishi, and Atsushi Kitajoh) 1:04:15 - Outro Talk Segment 1:06:23 - Persona 4 (PS2) - Glimpse of a Memory (composer: Shoji Meguro)

It's June, and that means Masters of VGM! Our 2023 theme is "Unsung and Up-and-Coming", and I’m honoring six composers in this episode that are making great VGM, even if they’re not household names yet. Listen to learn about honorees Ben Prunty, Megan McDuffee, Garoad, Andrew Jeremy, Hiroyuki Yanada, and Victoria Dominowski.  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.  Links for all of this episode’s featured composers are as follows:  Megan McDuffeeOfficial website: https://meganmcduffee.com/ Bandcamp: https://meganmcduffee.bandcamp.com/  Instagram: @megmcduffee  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4n34M10wtYMrhh5tNsKwnn  Twitter: @MeganMcDuffee  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/meganmcduffeecomposer  GaroadOfficial website: https://www.garoadmusic.com/  Bandcamp: https://garoad.bandcamp.com/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/garoadmusic/  Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/garoadmusic  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1oMOdABcJgXgiplesecR1U  Twitter: @garoadmusic  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@garoad   Andrew JeremyOfficial website: https://smarturl.it/BackToLife-AJ  Bandcamp: https://togeproductions.bandcamp.com/  Instagram: @ndrujeremyac  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4L0yarQL5bASSvIX8BIX1U  Twitter: @ndrujeremy YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAmdJtCfpFggKhTEtB9vZLA  Interview with Kotaku: https://kotaku.com/best-cozy-games-lofi-hiphop-beats-coffee-talk-2-switch-1850491993  Ben PruntyOfficial Website: https://www.benpruntymusic.com/  Bandcamp: https://benprunty.bandcamp.com/  Instagram: @benprunty  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/546MXGKJRNfO5to1oqkfqe?si=-wfj-HsYTm-Oobd9ovlhiQ&nd=1 Twitter: @benprunty YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdUA2v3b9XkQx3oujVP0ioQ  Victoria DominowskiOfficial website: https://toridominowski.wixsite.com/portfolio  Bandcamp: https://secretlittlehaven.bandcamp.com/  Twitter: @QuestForTori  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@QuestForTori  Secret Little Haven on Itch.io: https://ristar.itch.io/secret-little-haven  If you want to reach me, you can find me on Mastodon at @[email protected] or on Discord as ProfessorTom. 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. Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:06 - FTL: Faster Than Light - Space Cruise (Title) (composer: Ben Prunty, Honorable Mention 1)  04:03 - Talk Segment 1: Introduction / Megan McDuffee Discussion 07:33 - Yars Recharged (multiplatform) - An Army of One (composer: Megan McDuffee) 09:41 - River City Girls (multiplatform) - The Hunt (composer: Megan McDuffee) 13:47 - River City Girls 2 (multiplatform) - Feel the Heat (featuring Matthew Lister) (composer: Megan McDuffee) 17:59 - River City Girls 2 (multiplatform) - River City Girls Too (opening) (featuring Christina Vee and RichaadEB) (composer: Megan McDuffee) 20:03 - Talk Segment 2: Garoad (aka Michael Kelly) 22:55 - Bushiden (multiplatform)- Fire in the Sky (composer: Garoad) 25:50 - Bushiden (multiplatform) - Sinister Science (Act I) (composer: Garoad) 29:10 - Yuppie Psycho (PC) - Tooth and Nail (composer: Garoad) 31:04 - Yuppie Psycho (PC) - Sintranet (composer: Garoad) 34:54 - VA-11 Hall-A (multiplatform) - Shine Spark (from VA-11 HALL-A EX - Bonus Tracks Collection) (composer: Garoad) 39:53 - Talk Segment 3 - Andrew Jeremy 41:58 - Coffee Talk (multiplatform) - A Day With Coffee (composer: Andrew Jeremy) 45:30 - Coffee Talk (multiplatform) - Hot On Cold (composer: Andrew Jeremy) 48:49 - Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly (multiplatform) - Sweetheart Latte (composer: Andrew Jeremy) 52:50 - Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly (multiplatform) - Night Road (composer: Andrew Jeremy) 55:55 - Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly (multiplatform) - Yours Truly (composer: Andrew Jeremy) 57:51 - Talk Segment 4: Hiroyuki Yanada (a.k.a. Yanda) 1:00:32 - Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible II (Game Boy) - BGM 18 (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada w/Iwao Mitsunaga) 1:01:51 - Jack Bros (Virtual Boy) - Temple of Nightmare [Level 3] (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada) 1:03:53 - Jack Bros (Virtual Boy) - Mecha Fortress [Level 5] (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada) 1:05:55 - Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible III (Super Famicom) - Garfy Service (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada) 1:08:00 - Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible III (Super Famicom) - Val Ship (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada) 1:11:08 - Outro Talk Segment 1:13:16 - Secret Little Haven (PC) - Welcome to Sanctuary OS (composer: Victoria Dominowski, honorable mention 2) 1:15:31 - Secret Little Haven (PC) - Sunset on the CRT (composer: Victoria Dominowski, honorable mention 2)

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)

Let’s drive off at top speed and explore the work of Barry Leitch on the Lotus and Top Gear games! 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. As promised, here are some links mentioned during the show: Barry Leitch’s bandcamp can be found at https://barryleitch.bandcamp.com/. You can find his work on the Horizon Chase games there, along with his Top Gear tracks, some other SNES work, and more.  I was a special guest star on last week’s episode of The VGMbassy. You can check out my conversation with VGM Prime Minister Ed all about Sega arcade games at https://thevgmbassy.com/2023/05/12/episode-91-sega-arcade-games-with-professor-tom/.  Here’s the interview with Top Gear lead developer Ritchie Brannan that I mentioned on the show: https://www.memoriabit.com.br/exclusivo-programador-ritchie-brannan-fala-do-desenvolvimento-de-top-gear/  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (Amiga) - Storm Course (composer: Barry Leitch) 00:36 - Talk Segment 1 02:22 - Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (Amiga) - Title Theme (composers: Shaun Southern and Andrew Morris) 04:55 - Talk Segment 1.5 06:27 - Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (Amiga) - Title Screen (composer: Barry Leitch) 09:13 - Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (Amiga) - Forest Course (composer: Barry Leitch) 10:01 - Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (Amiga) - Night Course (composer: Barry Leitch) 10:55 - Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (Amiga) - Desert Course (composer: Barry Leitch) 11:42 - Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (Amiga) - Motorway Course (composer: Barry Leitch) 12:54 - Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (Amiga) - Ending Theme (composer: Barry Leitch) 15:17 - I Think This is Talk Segment 3 18:08 - Top Gear (SNES) - Title (composer: Barry Leitch) 22:25 - Top Gear (SNES) - Bordeaux (composer: Barry Leitch) 26:29 - Top Gear (SNES) - Frankfurt (composer: Barry Leitch) 29:52 - Top Gear (SNES) - Ending Theme (composer: Barry Leitch) 32:04 - Talk Segment 4, I Guess [includes segment of “A Tougher Fight” from River City Ransom EX (GBA), composed by Kazuo Sawa] 35:11 - Top Gear Rally (N64) - Coastline (composer: Barry Leitch) 38:51 - Top Gear Rally (N64) - Mountain (composer: Barry Leitch) 42:40 - Top Gear Rally (N64) - Jungle (composer: Barry Leitch) 46:15 - Top Gear Rally (N64) - Strip Mine (composer: Barry Leitch) 49:04 - Outro Talk Segment, Definitely 51:19 - Horizon Chase 2 - Rocking in Rome (composer: Barry Leitch)

It’s a groovy VGM party with all these hip swinging songs that have a feel-good rhythm! 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, and all of my links can be found on my Linktree site 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. I had a guest appearance on last week’s episode of fellow game music podcast VGMporium, where host RayjKayj and I talked all about music from games about investigations. You know, detectives, mysteries, stuff like that. If you’ve got a hankerin’ for more Professor Tom, head over to https://vgmporium.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/episode-68/ to check it out. If you liked this episode, you should go back and check out episode 25: Cool Glasses, Cool Glasses! It’s a cousin to this one, with a similar musical hangout type of vibe. You can hear it at https://shujinacademyvgmclub.podbean.com/e/episode-25-cool-glasses-cool-glasses/ Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Shin Megami Tensei: If - School (composer: Tsukasa Masuko) 00:35 - Talk Segment 1 02:53 - Planet Puzzle League - Neon Isotope (composer: Masanobu Matsunaga) 06:17 - Pictionary (NES) - Drawing Game (composer: Tim Follin) 09:01 - Arcus Odyssey (Super Famicom) - Castomira - Defeated (composer: Motoi Sakuraba) 12:03 - The House of the Dead 2 (Dreamcast) - Training Mode (composers: Tetsuya Kawauchi and Haruyoshi Tomita) 13:19 - Legend of Mana (PlayStation) - To the Sea (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 16:02 - Brain Lord (SNES) - Town of Arcs (composer: Masanao Akahori) 18:14 - Talk Segment 2 21:13 - Galactic Pinball (Virtual Boy) - Moonman Fandango (composers: Kenji Yamamoto and Masaru Tajima)  23:48 - Persona 5 - Wicked Plan (composer: Shoji Meguro) 26:10 - Pokemon Trading Card Game - Battle Center (composer: Ichiro Shimakura) 27:44 - Metal Max Returns (Super Famicom) - Let’s Meet Dr. Minchi! (composer: Satoshi Kadokura) 28:49 - Pictionary (NES) - Mini-Game Theme 2 (composer: Tim Follin) 31:26 - The Flintstones (SNES) - Unused Song 1 (composers: Keith Tinman and Jonathan Dunn)  34:53 - Talk Segment 3 (includes excerpt from “Strip Club” from Hunie Pop 2, composed by Jonathan Wandag) 38:48 - Persona Q 2 - Blind City (composer: Atsushi Kitajoh) 45:33 - The Flintstones (SNES) - Password Screen (composers: Keith Tinman and Jonathan Dunn) 48:08 - Pokemon Crystal - Goldenrod Game Corner (composers: Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, and Morikazu Aoki) 51:06 - YuYu Hakusho Makyou Touitsusen: Imbalanced Kiss (aka Unbalanced Kiss) (composers: Hiro Takahashi, Aki Hata, Matsuko Mawatari, T.K.O.)   54:01 - Crusader of Centy - Water Lily (composer: Motokazu Shinoda)  56:22 - Outro Talk Segment 58:49 - Shin Megami Tensei - Kichijoji (composer: Tsukasa Masuko)

Spring is in the air! That special time of year when a young man’s fancy turns to vocal tracks! And for this episode, we’ll celebrate with a bunch of great vocal tracks from the 32-bit era. Special thanks for this episode goes out to my darling daughter, who made some great suggestions for the format.  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. 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.   Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:25 - Lunar: The Silver Star (Sega CD) - Fighting Through The Darkness (composer: Noriyuki Iwadare) 02:08 - Intro Talk Segment 06:09 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PlayStation) - I Am The Wind (composers: Rika Muranaka, Tony Haynes, Jeff Lorber, Carl Anderson, and vocalist Cynthia Harrell) 10:42 - Talk Segment 2 12:22 - Sonic R (Saturn) - Super Sonic Racing (composer: Richard Jacques) 14:08 - Sonic R (Saturn) - Can You Feel The Sunshine (composer: Richard Jacques) 15:15 - Sonic R (Saturn) - Living in the City (composer: Richard Jacques) 16:55 - Talk Segment 3 18:12 - Final Fantasy VIII (PlayStation) - Eyes On Me (composers: Nobuo Uematsu and Kako Someya) 20:14 - Final Fantasy IX (PlayStation) - Melodies of Life (composers: Nobuo Uematsu and Hiroyuki Ito) 22:46 - Talk Segment 4 24:26 - Big Mouth Catch! The Greatest Champion (Saturn) - Striking Lure! Into the Heart! (composer: unknown) 27:05 - Birdie Lord Golf: Augusta Masters Championship 1998 (PlayStation) - 9 Iron Drive Into Infinity Forever! (composers: Jubei Kibagami, Kaneda Tetsuo) 29:01 - Outro Talk Segment 31:13 - Special Mystery Outro Track

It’s a whole bunch of laid-back VGM to help you relax and focus. Don’t worry if you haven’t listened to the first three episodes in the Chilly McFreeze series; you’ll still be able to follow the plot here. Because there is no plot; it’s all relaxing, calm VGM.  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.  Pixel artist 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. 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. On the show, I mentioned fellow VGM podcast KVGM The Last Wave, and you can find it at https://www.kvgmradio.com/ or on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGs1_2EV2ySmEb6NgbMU7Q.  Also during the show, I mentioned an episode of the Super Marcato Bros. podcast that was all about Yoko Kanno’s game music work. You can find it at http://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/2017/12/10/episode-297-yoko-kanno.  Also also during the show, I mentioned the episode of VGMporium about the Genesis version of Super Hydlide contrasted against its original release for the PC-98. You can find it at https://vgmporium.wordpress.com/2022/11/17/episode-45-hydlide-2-for-1/.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Secret of Evermore - Menu (composer: Jeremy Soule) 01:15 - Talk Segment 1 04:15 - Albert Odyssey (Super Famicom) - Lovely Faeries (composer: Naoki Kodaka) 05:49 - Shining Force (Genesis) - Simone’s Theme (composer: Masahiko Yoshimura) 07:05 - SaGa Frontier (PlayStation) - Sunset Town (composer: Kenji Ito) 09:11 - Final Fantasy VI (Super NES) - The Mines of Narshe (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 12:00 - Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP (Genesis) - The Heat Waves (composer: Tokuhiko Uwabo) 14:14 - Metal Max Returns (Super Famicom) - Pastoral Nomads (composer: Satoshi Kadokura) 15:12 - New 3D Golf Simulation: Waialae no Kiseki (Mega Drive) - Menu (composer: Yumi Kinoshita, Shigekazu Kamaki, Yusaburo Shimojyo, Shunsuke Minomiya, Hiroshi Morita, and Akira Tamada) 16:38 - Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend (Genesis) - Set Me Free (composer: Masaaki Iwasaki, Taihei Sato, Seiji Momoi, and Shogo Sakai) 20:54 - Talk Segment 2 22:26 - Final Fantasy VI (Super NES) - Kids Run Through the City (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 25:17 - Romancing SaGa (Super Famicom) - Sailing the Ocean (composer: Kenji Ito) 26:59 - Live A Live (Super Famicom) - Select-A-Live (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 28:58 - Mario Paint (Super NES) - Monkey Song (composer: Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka) 31:56 - The Flintstones (Super NES) - Unused Song 2 (composers: Keith Tinman and Jonathan Dunn) 38:19 - Aerobiz (Super NES) - Asia) (composer: Koei Sound Team) 39:54 - Talk Segment 3 (includes segment from “Town” from Shining Force (Genesis), composed by Masahiko Yoshimura) 42:43 - Seiken Densetsu 3 (aka Trials of Mana) (Super Famicom) - Little Sweet Cafe (composer: Hiroki Kikuta) 45:46 - Uncharted Waters: New Horizons (Super NES) - Mast in the Mist (composer: Yoko Kanno) 47:38 - Pokemon Black and White (DS) - Game Sync (composer: Shota Kageyama) 48:53 - Waterworld (Super NES) - Shop (composer: Dean Evans) 51:07 - Aerobiz Supersonic (Super NES) - Managing Scenario 3 (composer: Koei Sound Team) 52:06 - Side Pocket (Genesis) - Play’n It Cool! (composer: Emi Shimizu) 55:08 - Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation) - Shut in by Snow (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 59:59 - Show Outro 1:01:54 - Super Hydlide - OMISE (composer: Shigeru Tomita)