Game - Composer - Track - Company - Console - Year (North American release unless otherwise indicated)
Intelligent Qube - Takayuki Hattori - The 1st Tide - G-Artists/SCEA - PlayStation - 1997
Under Defeat - Shinji Hosoe - Can’t Come Back? (Stage 1) - G.Rev - Dreamcast (Japan) - 2006
Neo Turf Masters - Takushi Hiyamuta (Hiya) - Fujiyama Oriental Golf Club (Japan) - Nazca/SNK - Neo Geo - 1996
Time Gal - Shinji Tamura (S.Tamura), Yuriko Yamamoto (voc.) - Beyond Time and Space (Opening) - Wolf Team/Renovation - Sega CD - 1993
Regular Show: Mordecai and Rigby in 8-Bit Land - Jake Kaufman - Platforming 3 - WayForward/D3Publisher - Nintendo 3DS - 2013
Gunlord - Rafael Dyll - End Credits - NG:DEV.TEAM - Dreamcast (Europe) - 2012
Fez - Rich Vreeland (Disasterpeace) - Majesty - Polytron - Xbox 360 - 2012
Sol-Feace - Motoi Sakuraba - Cilius Moon Weapon Factory (Mission 2) - Wolf Team - Sega CD - 1992
Dimahoo - Atsuhiro Motoyama - Scramble! (Stage 1) - 8ing/Raizing/Capcom - arcade - 2000
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon - Sotaro Tojima - Awake - Konami - Game Boy Advance - 2001
Kero Blaster - Daisuke Amaya - It's My Blaster! (Stage 1 - Hinterland Fort) - Studio Pixel/Playism - Nintendo Switch - 2018
Black Hole Assault - Studio River Kids, Fandango Co. Ltd., Shaka - Phobos - Bignet - Sega CD - 1992
Gato Roboto - Britt Brady - Aqueducts (Clear) - Doinksoft/Devolver - Nintendo Switch - 2019
Shin Megami Tensei - Tsukasa Masuko, Keisuke Nishino (arr.), Masamitsu Shindoh (arr.) - Mansion of Heresy - Atlus/SIMS - Mega CD - 1994
Gunbrick: Reloaded - Eirik Suhrke - City 2 - Nitrome - Nintendo Switch - 2020
Tech Romancer - Yuki Iwai - City Zone B (Night) - Capcom - Dreamcast - 2000
Sayonara Wild Hearts - Daniel Olsén, Jonathan Eng, Linnea Olsson (voc.) - Begin Again - Simogo/Annapurna Interactive - Nintendo Switch - 2019
Neo Turf Masters - Takushi Hiyamuta (Hiya) - Grand Canyon Golf Course (U.S.A.) - Nazca/SNK - Neo Geo - 1996
A lot of heat in this ep! Sega CD and Dreamcast made a strong showing. Awesome to hear Intelligent Qube and Neo Turf Masters. I had a feeling Hotdog Storm was going to be played.
ReplyDeleteIf you care about prolonging the life of your Dreamcast I would suggest not playing burned cds. The amount of data compression needed to fit a game on a cd stresses the laser, disc drive motor, tracking motor, and other parts.
Top notch episode! Got a few new songs to work into my cardio playlist.
ReplyDeleteDown in the sunshine is roy Ayers not Gil Scott. Great song and both are good artists!
good idea! vgm for cardio, if you got a youtube playlist let me know
DeleteHey, it’s another episode of BOIIIZZZZZ IN SPAAAAACE! Great stuff, guys. Gabe. Love the shirt, and the Neo Turf Masters track! I haven’t played the game, but it’s my favorite Neo Geo OST. Hiyamuta represented the pinnacle of Neo Geo composition; he was one of the few composers to use the YM2610’s FM, sampler, AND PSG fully in his compositions. To quote an early episode of LMH, the [Turf Masters] composers used ALL of the sound hardware.
ReplyDeleteSadly, around that time, Neo Geo composers shifted to mostly using mono samples, so the style of composition really changes after that. There’s a fantastic episode of Pixelated Audio on Neo Turf Masters where they interview Hiyamuta. I think you’d enjoy it: https://pixelatedaudio.com/turfmasters/
Hey, also loved the Kero Blasters track. I’ve been trying to beat the boss rush at the end of Cave Story for a while now, and Pixel’s music is high on my list.
ReplyDeleteTo me, he captures the same feel as that “Master System Sadness” that Sentimental in San Gabriel talks about on VGMJB. Pixel’s chord choices are interesting; kind of understated and bittersweet. He’s able to convey that “mono no aware”, which is kind of an awareness of the impermanence of all things. When I hear his music, it reminds me of the intense fun I had as a child playing games....and also that I will never fully experience that unadulterated joy again.
Great podcast and music selection as always. Given the subject for this episode, I wanted to suggest the soundtracks for the Konami games Gaiapolis and especially Metamorphic Force.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I got a Streets of Rage 3 vibe from that Gato Roboto track. Specifically the mine tunnel level.
DeleteThat Neo Turf Masters jam is an absolute classic, and Under Defeat is one I hadn't heard of before but that Stage 1 track was very cool. Britt Baby, baby!
ReplyDeleteif you liked under defeat check out driving emotion type-s ost by the same composer
DeleteJust finished with Kero Blaster and loved the music - Gato Roboto has great music too in a different style.
ReplyDeleteCould a compromise re the Dreamcast/PS3 game be to buy it on the PS3, but play the burn copy on the Dreamcast?
ReplyDeleteNo mix tape?
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DeleteRob: Tech Romancer....TECH ROMANCER! XD
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