The Legacy Music Hour Video Game Music Podcast

The theme of Episode 61 is Animals, that is, animal-centric games or portions of games.  Brent and Rob also talk about the gifts they received (or didn't receive) for Christmas.  Full track listing below. Download and listen NOW Game - Composer - Song - Company - Console - Year (North American release unless otherwise indicated) Donald Duck Mahou No Boushi - Takahisa Hirano,

Brent and Rob play whatever they want for Episode 60.  They also do another round of VGM Karaoke.  This time, Rob experiments with a new sort of lyrical approach while Brent presents a very special Secret of Mana based Christmas song.  Happy holidays!  Full track listing below. Download and listen NOW Game - Composer - Song - Company - Console - Year (North American

For Episode 59, Brent and Rob revisit the focus of Episode 5, Square (and Squaresoft), the legendary company specializing in role-playing games such as Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger.  Basically, it's Square part 2, or Square 2, which makes it look like it could be called Square Squared, thus the title of the episode.  This time, Brent and Rob delve into lesser known Square titles,

A-TEN-HUT!  At ease, listeners.  For this mission, Lieutenant Weinbach and Sergeant Switch focus on games (or parts of games) that have a significant connection to military or war content.  Now drop down, grab your radio, and settle into your foxhole, privates.  ENJOY-HUT!  Full track listing below. Download and listen NOW Game - Composer - Song - Company -

The focus of Episode 57 is the TurboGrafx-16 (and PC Engine -AND the SuperGrafx).  Brent and Rob choose only music from this marginalized console.  Full track listing below. Download and listen NOW Game - Composer - Song - Company - Console - Year (North American release unless otherwise indicated) Battle Ace - unknown - Act 3 - Hudson Soft - SuperGrafx - 1989 F1 Circus -

Howdy, pardners!  Boss Brent and Switch the Kid rustle up the roughest, toughest Western music to ever stampede out of a game console.  In other words, the topic of Episode 56 is music from Western themed games and levels.  So get your spurs on and hold on to your hoss as Boss & The Kid ride with you into the sunset!  Yee-haw!!  Full track listing below. Download

In Episode 55, Brent and Rob embrace a hot topic.  Not a controversial topic, just literally hot.  That is, they share tracks from only fire/lava stages in video games.  What a nice, toasty way to get in to the cooler, Fall season!  And, for your convenience, The Legacy Music Hour has included a photo of Omar Sharif at the end of this post.  Feel free to use that photo

Brent and Rob revisit the topic of Episode 7: Elevator Music.  Elevator Music is a good thing.  It's kind of jazzy.  It's also kind of cheesy and synthetic, but in a good and interesting way.  Some people think Elevator Music is boring.  Not The Legacy Music Hour.  Elevator Music is the best.  Full track listing below.  Download and listen NOW  

The Legacy Music Hour presents Brent Weinbach's first installment of continuous dance party music comprised of only 8-bit and 16-bit era video game music.  No remixes, no covers, no adaptations of non-video game music -just pure, original, dancy music from the Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and Sega Genesis! Download and listen NOW

Not to be confused with horror themed games, Episode 53 features scary and spooky sounding music, just in time for Halloween.  The Legacy Music Hour dares you to listen to this episode in the dark!  Full track listing below. Download and listen NOW Game - Composer - Song - Company - Console - Year (North American release unless otherwise indicated) Clock Tower - Kouji Niikura

Brent and Rob countdown towards the new year of The Legacy Music Hour by sharing their TOP TEN video game music tracks from the last 51 episodes.  The music selected is only stuff they discovered within the last year and that was played on the podcast, meaning if they already had prior knowledge of a soundtrack before a year ago, that soundtrack would not be eligible for this episode. 

As a gift to the listeners, Brent and Rob have decided to release full uninterrupted sets of music from the 8-bit and 16-bit era.  These are sets that were originally debuted at the Legacy Music Dance Party.  This first set of music is from Rob F. Switch and includes tracks from Sega Genesis, NES and SNES.  See if you can guess which tracks are included.  Playing this set

Female composers are the focus of Episode 51.  In a few cases, men were involved with the arrangement and sound design, but as far as the actual compositions go, every single piece of music played on this episode was composed by a woman.  And, a good share of the major companies are represented: Nintendo, Konami, Capcom, Taito, and Hudson Soft.  Full track listing below. Download

Episode 50 means another free play episode!  Brent and Rob celebrate without a cake but with Nintendo collector cards.  Of course, they play and talk about good video game music too.  The free play episodes are meant to have no topic restrictions, but this episode ends up being about vampires, which works out, because Halloween is coming up in a couple weeks.  Full track

For Episode 49, Brent and Rob focus on famed Dragon Quest composer Koichi Sugiyama.  After a healthy and established musical career in television and pop music, Sugiyama started composing music for video games when he was already in his 50's, and even now at age 80, he still composes music for the Dragon Quest franchise.  Full track listing below.  NOTE: The Japanese versions of