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Hosted by Professor Tom, Shujin Academy VGM Club is a video game music podcast that primarily focuses on retro VGM with occasional forays into newer games. New episodes are released on Thursdays every time Professor Tom gets one finished, which is typically every 2 to 4 weeks.
Hosted by Professor Tom, Shujin Academy VGM Club is a video game music podcast that primarily focuses on retro VGM with occasional forays into newer games. New episodes are released on Thursdays every time Professor Tom gets one finished, which is typically every 2 to 4 weeks.
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 @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, 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 @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, 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 shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com . 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 @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, 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 shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com . 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 @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, 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 shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com . 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 @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, 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 shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com . 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 @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, 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 shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com . 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 @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, 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 shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com . 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 @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, 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 shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com . 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 @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, 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 shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com . 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 @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, 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 shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com . 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 @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, 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 shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com . 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 @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, 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 shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com . 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 @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, 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 shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com . 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 @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, 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 shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com . 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 @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, 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 shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com . 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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