A celebration of the sounds of the classic, green screen-era Game Boy.
Read MoreThe series that gave us River City Ransom largely stayed in Japan, but its soundtrack will speak to the any lover of a classic 8-bit Nintendo sound.
Read MoreTake a detour into the wild world of the Amiga, and the many kinds of electronic music genres that you can hear in its games.
Read MoreRad! This episode features a mix of video game music that draws on dance music of several genres.
Read MoreDance-y. Synth-y. The spirit of ’80s dance music lives on in video games.
Read MoreWelcome to summer, or at least a reasonable video game reproduction of summer.
Read MoreHere, relax in a pixelated world.
Read MoreThe last handheld Wario Land outing had one of the best and weirdest soundtracks ever featured in a Nintendo title.
Read MoreA hero’s journey can be lonely. Did you ever notice that a lot of overworld map screens have sad music?
Read MoreThis is an experiment in which I'm trying to tell a story using video game music. Enjoy some spacey sounds.
The third Donkey Kong Country game got two soundtracks: one for on the Super Nintendo and a second for its re-release on the Game Boy Advance.
Read MoreA celebration of the less famous songs from Mario games and Marioverse games.
Read MoreThis is an extended version of the Queen of Trees episode that includes a few extra tracks that I scotched from the podcast version. It runs just over two hours.
Read MoreA city at night, glowing with neon, riddled with crime and in great need of a face-punching.
Read MoreIf you only encountered the Commodore 64 as a classroom edutainment tool, you missed some of the most epic video game music ever.
Read MoreThis is a mix of music that I can only call "medievalish" -- dreamy, melancholy, wistful, adventurous and hopeful, and all of the tracks plucked from the best fantasies that video games have offered so far. Get lost, but in the good way.
Read MoreSome of the best racing music in video games happens to come from games that aren’t racing games.
Read MoreA “music only” remix of my last episode, about laidback music in fighting games. Less talk, more music!
Read MoreThe inexplicably peaceful or cheerful or otherwise not-super-face-poundy songs that are nonetheless in fighting games.
Read MoreCapcom gave us a generation of NES games inspired by Disney’s animated series but set these games to soundtracks that were wholly original.
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