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Checkout our Patreon for free bonus episodes and subscribe for higher bitrate downloads of regular episodes and it will also help support our hosting costs now that we have them. Just another quick mini. We recorded this a fair while back and I was too lazy to edit it so here I am now with it! Back on the GBA it seemed that every big franchise had to get a portable entry, and this one from Zone of...

Checkout our Patreon for free bonus episodes and subscribe for higher bitrate downloads of regular episodes and it will also help support our hosting costs now that we have them. This week we enter the world of visual novels with some gorgeous soundtracks courtesy of Nurvuss who wanted to talk about the "gloomy Showa Jazz" of this series. As beautiful as it is gruesome and the music is absolutely...

Checkout our Patreon for free bonus episodes and subscribe for higher bitrate downloads of regular episodes and it will also help support our hosting costs now that we have them. Mike's back! And it's time to talk about Final Fantasy IX. Apparently it's some kind of anniversary but I didn't plan it around that, it's just been an episode I've wanted to do for a while so when Mike called dibs it was...

Checkout our Patreon for free bonus episodes and higher bitrate downloads. Jay returns to talk about a bunch of different FM Synth games, as our resident expert on the technology it made sense to finally do an overview of how it's used in different systems while listening to some bangers. Join our Discord!⁠ Links of Note: Resolute Synth/Musical Instrument ⁠VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existential Warfare⁠ ⁠Linktree...

Checkout our Patreon for free bonus episodes and subscribe for higher bitrate downloads of regular episodes and it will also help support our hosting costs now that we have them. Reese is still out as she was mid-move during this recording but Thuly returned to talk about some Touhou games. If you've enjoyed our previous episode with Jay then buckle up for some more bullet hell bangers Join our Di...

Checkout our Patreon for free bonus episodes and subscribe for higher bitrate downloads of regular episodes and it will also help support our hosting costs now that we have them. Scott returns on short notice for an episode on the original F-zero. Barely more than a tech demo but the songs on this game really showed what the hardware was capable of musically. Plus, despite Nintendo never really ac...

Checkout our Patreon for free bonus episodes and subscribe for higher bitrate downloads of regular episodes and it will also help support our hosting costs now that we have them. This week Reese isn't with us, so I've drafted Dave as co-host and Iach joins us to talk about Cowboy Bebop in our first non-video game episode. I wanted to give an anime episode a try so it seemed only natural to talk ab...

Checkout our Patreon for free bonus episodes and subscribe for higher bitrate downloads of regular episodes and it will also help support our hosting costs now that we have them. This week we're joined by Gary from Duckfeed.tv to talk about the classic Phantasy Star games. We've previously covered PSO so it was great to go back and listen to the classic soundtracks, some really good Master System...

This week is a big one. By far our longest episode yet and we're talking about Video Game House Bands. It's fairly broad topic but generally these are bands formed in part from members of the sound teams for various companies, some are more official than others and this playlist is anything but comprehensive as far as these bands go, but it's already pushing the length as-is. Thanks again to Roar...

Checkout our Patreon for free bonus episodes and subscribe for higher bitrate downloads of regular episodes and it will also help support our hosting costs now that we have them. Join our Discord!⁠ Back again with another mini episode where we talk about Planet DOB. A weird little adventure game that was tied to the release of an absolutely excellent album that mixes trip-hop, drum and bass and ch...

Checkout our Patreon for free bonus episodes and subscribe for higher bitrate downloads of regular episodes and it will also help support our hosting costs now that we have them. Join our Discord!⁠ This week Alton returns and we talk about some games that are a bit of a mixed bag, except for the music which is fantastic for both. Things get a little goofy on this one so don't worry if you, like me...

Checkout our Patreon for free bonus episodes and subscribe for higher bitrate downloads of regular episodes and it will also help support our hosting costs now that we have them. This week, that Zed you like is back in style as we discuss Deadly Premontion! It's been genuinely one of my favourite episodes to record and we talk a lot about our feelings on David Lynch, the joy of Trash Art, why embr...

Checkout our Patreon for free bonus episodes and subscribe for higher bitrate downloads of regular episodes and it will also help support our hosting costs now that we have them. Join our Discord!⁠ This week we're joined by previous guests Nate and Josh to talk about Xenoblade Chronicles 2. All of the Xeno games have extremely dope soundtracks and the Switch debut for the series is no exception. W...

This week we're joined by Manu of various podcasts but most importantly Podcast Sans Frontieres to talk about Metal Gear Solid 3 - Snake Eater. The series has always had one foot in the cinematic and the soundtrack for 3 is no exception, drawing from Bond themes and Henry Mancini while still keeping the signature techno-thriller sound from the previous games. Join our Discord!⁠ Podcast Sans Fronti...

Just back with another mini episode. I'm gonna try to do one of these every 2 months this year to see how it goes. I'd love to justify doing more episodes a year and I thought that Patreon had stretch goal type things but I guess they don't anymore, but I'm not gonna pimp the Patreon too much though it's definitely a factor in how much I'm likely to do more. I'm not interested in gating episodes b...

⁠Join our Discord!⁠ Links of Note: ⁠A VGM Journey⁠ ⁠A VGM Journey on Bsky⁠ Music that "inspired" Mario: Frie ⁠ndship (feat. Lee Ritenour) - Let's Not Talk About It⁠ ⁠T-Square - Sister Marian⁠ ⁠VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existential Warfare⁠ ⁠Linktree⁠ ⁠Reese's Bluesky⁠ ⁠Tom's Bluesky⁠ Email: crtpodsystem [@] gmail ⁠CRT Artwork by JuiceZombie⁠ Timestamps: 00:00:00 Yasunori Mitsuda - Opening [Mario Party] 00:03:19...

This week we're joined by comedian, podcaster, game designer, and magical girl Abby Denton to talk about Suikoden 1 and 2, ⁠Join our Discord!⁠ Links of Note: ⁠Abby's Bluesky⁠ ⁠Blade of the Cutiepants⁠ ⁠VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existential Warfare⁠ ⁠Linktree⁠ ⁠Reese's Bluesky⁠ ⁠Tom's Bluesky⁠ ⁠CRT Artwork by JuiceZombie⁠ 00:00:00 Miki Higashino - Into a World of Illusion [Genso Suikoden Original Game Soundtrack]...

It's time to mount up and mosey on down to Wild ARMS 3 with Deputy Scott okay I'll stop the cowboy shite. We're talking the Western inspired Wild ARMS 3 this week and it's a game/soundtrack that I've loved for many years so as soon as Scott suggested it I had to get him back on. Michiko Naruke's tunes are inspired by a lot of classic westerns, naturally, but she brings such a heart to them that is...

Happy New Year, all! Brian returns from one of our earlier episodes to talk about Dragon Spirit, a classic Namco game and the first soundtrack by VGM legend Shinji Hosoe. We talk a couple of different versions and then have a surprise track added in mid-recording. ⁠Join our Discord!⁠ Links of Note: ⁠Brian's Bluesky⁠ ⁠Misplaced Musings Pod⁠ ⁠VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existential Warfare⁠ ⁠Linktree⁠ ⁠CRT Artwork b...

This year for Christmas let's jump in to our hot red Ferarri and listen to some Outrun tunes. Roar joins us again to chat about some of the most iconic arcade racing jams out there, slip on your cozy jammies and have a mince pie and let's race! ⁠Join our Discord!⁠ Links of Note: ⁠VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existential Warfare⁠ ⁠Linktree⁠ ⁠Reese's Bluesky⁠ ⁠Reese's Twitter⁠ ⁠Tom's Mastodon⁠ ⁠Tom's Bluesky⁠ Email:...

We're back to normal from Megami Tensei month with another bit of a grab bag episode of Sunsoft soundtracks. Boin, who previously joined us for a mini-episode on Journey to Silius returns to talk about a little bit of Blaster Master, a lot of GIMMICK and a little more about City Hunter for the PC Engine. Sunsoft are almost as well regarded for their soundtracks as for their games, if not more so,...

Our month of Megami Tensei closes with a great little pair of Shoji Meguro soundtracks for the Devil Summoner sub-series. These were both on the PS2 so have a very similar sound to what was in Persona 3 and especially the Digital Devil Saga games which we previously did an episode on way back in episode 4. Thanks to Aden for being able to join us to talk about these games and their very good sound...

Third episode in our Megami Tensei month is a lesser known SNES duo of Strategy RPGs called Majin Tensei. The music by Hidehito Aoki is stunning and really pushes the SNES to its limits, there's hints of techno-industrial and early Synthwave throughout that give both games a real grimy aesthetic. Definitely worth checking out. Thanks to Teeps for joining us on short notice! ⁠Join our Discord!⁠ Lin...

Back for week 2 of Megami Tensei month and it's finally time for me to talk about Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE. It's one of my favourite RPGs on the Wii U/Switch and a real highlight in the series for me which is in no small part due to the music being exceptionally good even for a series that has notably great music as-is. Even though I don't really enjoy Fire Emblem, but the Fire Emblem stuff is mo...

We're going weekly for the month of November to talk about a bunch of Megaten soundtracks that I think deserve a bit more attention. Professor Tom of Shujin Academy VGM Club joins us to kick things off with some chat about Persona Q2, a Persona 5 Spinoff for the 3DS based on the Etrian Odyssey series. Enter the labyrinth with us and listen to some nice new tracks as well as great arrangements of t...