Ep. 91: Dragon Sanctuary

Are you literally amazed by the fact that we're on our 91st episode? Too bad, because there's no such things as being "literally amazed." Still, we hope you join us as we discuss the transition between Halloween and Christmas, video game enemy design, and auxiliary music media for video games.  Stick around for a ad-lib repurposing of VGM and watch as the golf world keeps pulling Josh back in. Finally, we welcome a new staff member to the VGM JUKEBOX. We are thankful for you, dear patrons, so come on in!

(NOTE: This episode contains the MIXX QUIZXX Part 2, so stick around until the end to participate)

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This episode was made possible by:
Game	Track Title	Composer(s)
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie	Rocket Level	Suddi Raval, Martin Goodall
NES Remix 2	Records	Toshiyuki Sudo
Prey	Experiments in Confusion (Main Menu Theme)	Mick Gordon
Cave Story	Scorching Back	Daisuke Amaya
Comix Zone	Episode 1, Page 2-1 (Feed My Disease)	Howard Drossin
Jack Nicklaus Golf	Track 4	Unknown

...and listeners like YOU.

Ep. 90: Bring Your Own Goggles

Have you ever wondered if AI is being too nice to you? It could be that they're just trying to give you a satisfying gaming experience. On this week episode, Josh and Emily hope to be the purveyors of another satisfying listening experience as we move through some great recommendations from the sugar crystal tip to another excellent VGM Karaoke. Also featured on this week's episode, Josh and Emily talk about cyclops snuffleupagus, real time strategy games with fighting controls, fighting games designed to teach you to type, and a bunch of other totally, awesomely regular stuff.

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This episode was made possible by:
Game	Track Title	Composer(s)
Space Harrier II	Harrier Saga	Tokuhiko Uwabo
Herzog Zwei	Sleight of Hand	Naosuke Arai, Tomomi Ōtani
Kentucky Route Zero	Too Late to Love You	Ben Babbitt
Alpine Racer	Give It Together	Takayuki Ishikawa
Final Fantasy Tactics	Painful Battle	Hitoshi Sakimoto, Ayako Saso, Kaori Ohkoshi, Nobuo Uematsu
A.S.P. Air Strike Patrol	Area 4	Jun Enoki

...and listeners like YOU.

Ep. 89: The Nightcrawler Mom

Josh and Emily are back at The Jukebox for discussions about milestones that our a couple of VGM podcasts are coming upon. They discuss renting videotapes and the existence of Blockbuster. Emily drops some knowledge about a small Alaskan town with only one tunnel into town, which has led its people to live more as one. Finally, Josh tries to elevate the human animal by telling a story about a chimpanzee he saw at the zoo. Oh, there's also a very good VGM Karaoke Rap on this one. AND ON THE LAST DAY, SOMEBODY INVENTED VGM, AND IT WAS GOOD!

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This episode was made possible by:
Game	Track Title	Composer(s)
Esper Dream 2	Book 2: Train	Shigemasa Matsuo
NieR: Automata	Birth of a Wish (This Cannot Continue)	Keiichi Okabe, Keigo Hoashi
Pokémon Colosseum	Ciper Lab	Tsukasa Tawada
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance	Name Entry 2K2	Soshiro Hokkai, Michiru Yamane
X-Men	Stage 2: Junk Factory	Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, Ayako Hashimoto
Quattro Arcade: CJ's Elephant Antics	Ending Theme	Ashley Hogg, Gabin Raeburn (arr.)

...and listeners like YOU.

Ep. 88: Babies Get the Bubble

Josh and Emily start this episode off with a brand new segment, which has yet to be named. As they read your testimonials and listen to your recommendations, they find themselves inspired to converse about in-game nostalgia, brain-spas, sitting indian style in the middle of the playground, and that's just over the first two tracks. Emily tries to imagine the future of gaming, and whether or not she will be able to beat her grandchildren at video games. Of course, we can't tell the future, but we can sure speculate! That's just one of the things we do at the here at the VGM Jukebox!

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This episode was made possible by:
Game	Track Title	Composer(s)
Chrono Trigger	To Far Away Times	Yasunori Mitsuda, Nobuo Uematsu
Castle of Dr. Brain	Intro	Mark Seibert, Ken Allen
Out of This World	Intro	Jean-François Freitas, Charles Deenen (arr.)
Castlevania: Rondo of Blood	Bloodlines	Akira Souji, Keizo Nakamura, Tomoko Sano, Mikio Saito
Secret of Mana	The Second Truth From the Left	Hiroki Kikuta
Jack Nicklaus Golf	Main Menu	Unknown

...and listeners like YOU.

EXTRA CREDIT:

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, "Blood Relations"
Castlevania 64, "Divine Bloodlines"