Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast

Greetings, Gamers! So, as it turns out, Episode 8 was so long that I had to cut some good-sized chunks of it out. The content was still fun, and it featured chatter from Shootkapow, so I wanted to share it anyway. Thanks loads to Kung Fu Carlito for his excellent artwork! Check his stuff out on Instagram here. https://www.instagram.com/kf_carlito/ Don't forget - Episode 8 drops this coming Saturday, June 6th at 7:00 AM! It's going to be a good one, so don't miss it! Don't forget to check out the "About" page on our YouTube channel for links to all the places you can download the show, as well as some of our other creative output! Until next time, play very good games, be very good people, and keep listening to Very Good Music! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vgmvgm/message

Greetings, Gamers! So, as it turns out, Episode 8 was so long that I had to cut some good-sized chunks of it out. The content was still fun, and it featured chatter from Shootkapow, so I wanted to share it anyway. Look out for part 2 airing some time next week! Thanks loads to Kung Fu Carlito for his excellent artwork! Check his stuff out on Instagram here. https://www.instagram.com/kf_carlito/ Finally, don't forget to check out the "About" page on our YouTube channel for links to all the places you can download the show, as well as some of our other creative output! Until next time, play very good games, be very good people, and keep listening to Very Good Music! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vgmvgm/message

Coming off of last week's episode featuring songs picked by Bedroth, this episode is Shootkapow's, who picked not only the topic, but all of the songs - each coming from a game that promintently features sword-swinging characters! Inspired by the "too many swords" jokes about Smash Bros, Shootkapow takes us on another ride through the wide world of VGM across multiple console generations. We hope you like Zelda, Fire Emblem, and RPG's, folks! As always, of course, it all follows our one big rule: everything has to be Very Good Music! Thanks to our listeners, Dan Laughton, UtopiaNemo, Voltz Supreme, and RJ Garcia, for our lightning round picks! As always, if you have any comments, questions, or requests, please send them to verygoodmusicvgm@gmail.com, or leave a comment on YouTube!  Shout out to Ben "The Diad" Dishman for his help with the awesome pixel art for our show! Check out his stuff @TheDiad! Opener - The Legend of Zelda & The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - Developed and published by Nintendo for the NES and SNES, respectively, and composed by Koji Kondo 0:29 - Frog's  Theme - Chrono Trigger  - Yasunori Mitsuda 6:07 - Swordplay Showdown (Day) - Wii Sports Resort - Ryo Nagamatsu 12:22 - Divine Decree (Reprise) - Fire Emblem Warriors - Arranged by Hiroki Morishita (Originally from Rei Kondoh's score for Fire Emblem Awakening) 18:13 - Battle Theme - Final Fantasy IV - Nobuo Uemats 20:00 - Route 6 - Pokemon X and Y - Junichi Masuda 30:25 - Underworld - Super Smash Bros Brawl - arranged by Shogo Sakai (originaly from Hirokazu Tanaka's "Underworld" from Kid Icarus, re-used by Motoi Sakuraba for Kid Icarus Uprising) 35:08 - Battle Theme - Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Kenji Hiramatsu (also composed by Yasunori Mitsuda and ACE) 39:12 - Full Force - Tales of Symphonia - Motoi Sakuraba and Shenji Tamura 45:17 - Hyrule Field - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D - Koji Kondo 49:39 - Clash - Fire Emblem Path of Radiance - Naoko Mitome 56:00 - Fire Emblem - Super Smash Bros Melee - arranged by Shogo Sakai (source tracks originally composed by Hirokazu Tanaka for Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light)  1:00:06 - Blinded By Light - Final Fantasy XIII - Masashi Hamauzu (requested by Voltz Supreme) 1:03:01 - Sword Saint - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - Yuka Kitomura (requested by Dan Laughton) 1:07:27 - Io and Suraga - Kenseiden - George Bruns and Terry Gilkessen (requested by UtopiaNemo) 1:10:14 - You Will Know Our Names - Xenoblade Chronicles - ACE+ (Tomori Kudo, Hiroyo "CHiCO Yamanaka, and Kenji Hiramatsu) (requested by RJ Garcia) 1:12:24 - Road Taken (Roar) - Fire Emblem Warriors - arranged by Takeru Kanazaki (Originally from Rei Kondoh's score for Fire Emblem Fates) 1:16:29 - Temple - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link -Akito Nakatsuka  1:27:48 - Talus Battle - The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild - Hajime Wakai (also composed by Manaka Kataoka and Yasuaki Iwata, and featuring arrangements of works by Koji Kondo) Blooper Reel - Shooting Gallery from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Koji Kondo) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vgmvgm/message

There was too much silliness on this episode to combine it with another one. Enjoy the blooper reel, gamers! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vgmvgm/message

Oh, you guys. This episode. In what started as a gimmick and evolved into something much more, bedroth and Shootkapow explore VGM inspired by the signs of the Zodiac. Running the gamut from retro to modern, from chip to orchestra, this episode is jam-packed with some wildly diverse VGM. Of course, it all follows our one big rule: everything has to be Very Good Music! As always, if you have any comments, questions, or requests, please send them to verygoodmusicvgm@gmail.com, or leave a comment on YouTube! If you like what you hear, please like, comment, and subscribe, or ring that bell to be notified when our next episode comes out! Check out the "About" page on YouTube for links to Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc., and original music by bedroth and Shootkapow! Check out the links below for info about some of the games and artists featured in this episode, and support them on Bandcamp! Shout out to Ben "The Diad" Dishman for his help with the awesome pixel art for our show! Check out his stuff @TheDiad on Twitter! Play-in: Your Horoscope For Today - Running With Scissors, Track 8 - June 29th, 1999 - "Weird Al" Yankovic -Listen to the full original song and check out all of Al's amazing work here: https://youtu.be/Wg_4b-1aWKg 0:42 - Main Menu - Saint Seiya Senki (Saint Seiya: Sanctuary Battle in the West)- PlayStation 3, p-Bandai Namco, d-Shueisha, Dimps, 2011 - Yoshitaka Hirota 9:08 - Taurus Demon - Dark Souls - Multi-Platform, p-Namco, d-FromSoftware, 2011 - Motoi Sakuraba 14:25 - Libra of Souls - Soulcalibur VI - PS4/Xbox 1/Windows, Bandai Namco, 2018 - Junichi Nakatsuru 22:15 - Artblock - Sagittarius - PC (itch.io), George Prosser, 2015 - Jan123 -Check out Jan123's work: https://opengameart.org/content/artblock -Download and play Sagittarius: https://gprosser.itch.io/sagittarius 27:39 - Gemini Man - Mega Man: the Wily Wars - Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, p-Capcom, d-Minakuchi Engineering, 1994 - Kinuyo Yamashita 36:17 - Leo's Theme - Red Earth (WarZard in Japan) - Arcade, Capcom, 1996 - Takayuki Iwai with additional help by Ryoji Yamamoto and Wataru Hachisako 42:45 - Aquarius - Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse - NES, Konami, 1989 - Konami Kukeiha Club (Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi, and Yukie Morimoto) 48:03 - Power Plant (Sparkling Scorpio Stage) - Mega Man X: Corrupted - PC, JKB Games, currently in development - Dominic Ninmark -Dominic's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/NitroFlasher/about -Official Mega Man X: Corrupted Site: https://www.megamanxcorrupted.com/ -Fan Wiki: https://megamanfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Mega_Man_X:_Corrupted 54:47 - Tropic of Capricorn - Risk of Rain - Windows, p-Chucklefish, d-Hopoo Games, 2014 (since ported to multiple platforms) - Chris Christodoulou -Chris's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/AstronautDown/about 1:01:49 - Theme of Virgo - Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land - PS2, p-Atlus, d-Racjin, 2001 - Satoshi Iwasaki, Isao Kasai, Makoto Suehiro, and Kenji Tani 1:09:50 - The Song of Aries - Idola: Phantasy Star Saga - Android/iOS, Sega, 2018 - Kenichi Tokoi 1:16:09 - Murasakioukai ~Pisces~ - Mugen Souls Z - PS3/PC, Idea Factory, 2013 - Kenji Kaneko (game also composed by Tenpei Satou) 1:24:38 - Ophiuchus - Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland - PS3, Gust Co. Ltd., 2010 - Ken Nakagawa (game also composed by Kazuki Yanagawa) 1:35:00 - Feeding the Ducks - That Dragon, Cancer - PC/iOS, Numinous Games, 2016 - Jon Hillman --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vgmvgm/message

Greetings, Gamers, and thanks so much for making this Very Bonus Episode of VGMVGM possible! This Quarantimes Special is jam-packed with songs from games that you all thought would be good to have during a quarantine, or games that have been a source of distraction or relief during this unprecedented struggle. It also includes one pick each from Shootkapow, Dusklight, Lemon Boy, and me. This show is dedicated to the VGM podcasters who've inspired me: Ed Wilson, Alex Messenger, The Diad, Mibri, Steen, keyglyph, Rob & Pernell, Voltz, Derek & Matt, Mike & Justin, Bryan and Gene, Karl & Will, Bryan & Frank, Kris & Matt, Lee, Hammock, and the guys from GTT, The Bard's Barter, and all the other great shows that have brought me so much joy and inspiration over the years - and to the countless fans with whom I'm happy to share this community, including but certainly not limited to, Dan, Nathan, Carlos, Matthew, Steven & Bryan (Texas, Man!), Forrest, Brandon, Karl, Sean, techiegeek, Cam, Ryan, Todd, Bruce Irons, Soulless Sanctuary, Modal Module, Muddle Madness, and Electric Boogaloo. Also, shout out to my two favorite VGM cover bands: The Mad Gear and Lame Genie!  And, finally, this episode is also to my cohost, son, and buddy, Shootkapow; my loving kids and long-suffering wife; and my two best friends, ProfJeff and Neverender. Without all of you, this show would not be a thing. I also want to shout out Hoff and Pete (the Power Pros), and Dean "The Vest Lord" DeFalco and the guys from the Geekade community who helped me out when I was starting out. Intro - Doodle God - (Lemon Boy's pick) Original Sin - Divinity: Original Sin - Kirill Pokrovsky (techiegeek's pick) Intermission Final - NHL Hockey - Rob Hubbard (The Messenger's pick) https://anchor.fm/vgmjourney Main Theme - Don't Starve - Vince de Vera and Jason Garner (Forrest's pick) Mantis Lords - Hollow Knight - Christopher Larkin (Shootkapow's Pick) https://christopherlarkin.bandcamp.com/ Blue Skies and a Battle (Rain) - Fire Emblem: Three Houses - Takeru Kanazaki, Hiroki Morishita, and Rei Kondoh (Inspector Spector's pick) Somewhere in the Woods (Short Hike) - A Short Hike - Mark Sparling (UtopiaNemo's pick) https://marksparling.bandcamp.com/ Prison Labor - Persona 5 Royal - Shoji Meguro (Pernell's first pick) https://rhythmandpixels.com/ From Nibiru (Anu, Ancient Chaos Boss) - La-Mulana 2 - Takumi Nakamura (Pernells' 2nd pick) Faith, Steel, and Gunpowder - Total War Warhammer II - Richard Beddow et al (ProfJeff's pick) Swivel - Trials of Mana (remake) - Hiroki Kikuta (for Derek from the VGM Lounge) https://newgameplusderek.wixsite.com/newgamepluspresents 6PM (Sunny) - Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Kazumi Totaka et al (Steven Kelly's pick) https://stephenkelly.bandcamp.com/ It's Raining Somewhere Else - Undertale - Toby Fox (Dusklight's pick) https://tobyfox.bandcamp.com/ Cider Time - Dustforce - Lifeformed (aka Terance Lee, from the album Fastfall) (Donnie Smalls's pick) https://voltzsupreme.bandcamp.com/ Summer (Tropicala) - Stardew Valley - Eric Barone (ake ConcernedApe) (bedroth's pick) https://concernedape.bandcamp.com/ Silent Guardians - Hyrule Warriors - Masato Koike, Yuki Matsumura (Ed Wilson's pick) https://thevgmbassy.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vgmvgm/message

Enjoy this taste of the music from the episode dropping next Saturday, May 9th! This one is intentionally a little mysterious. Send us a comment with your predictions about what the topic will be - or if the topic is too obvious, how about predicting some of the songs we might play, or identifying the songs in this video? You can e-mail your comments to verygoodmusicvgm@gmail.com or check out the preview video on YouTube and drop a comment there! Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe! We'll see you next week! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vgmvgm/message

Greetings, Gamers!  We have  a quick question for you regarding the future of the YouTube channel, but more presently, we are going to be releasing a bonus episode next week! We'll be recording this Sunday, and we'd love to hear from you.    Details are in the audio, but the TLDR is that we'd like to hear from you about games that are perfect for when you're shut up in the house for long periods of time. You can e-mail us a testimonial at verygoodmusicvgm@gmail.com, or comment below, or @Shootkapow on Twitter, or you can even leave us a voicemail at our home on Anchor by clicking this link!  https://anchor.fm/vgmvgm/message We'll fill in the gaps to make the episode worthwhile for all of you, but we wouldn't mind filling the entire episode with picks from y'all. You have been a wonderful source of support and encouragement, and we love making this show for you twice every month.  Until next time, play very good games, be very good people, and keep listening to Very Good Music! Music for this episode - "Dr. Mario - Burning Up" by Dj Redlight comes from OC Remix.org. https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01547 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1MiOtBupJc --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vgmvgm/message

Episode 5 – Getting a Life with Dusklight In this episode, bedroth and Shootkapow are joined by a special guest, Dusklight, who brings with her our theme for this week: the soundtrack to her favorite game, Fantasy Life. Fantasy Life is an adventure RPG/life sim developed by Level 5 and published worldwide by Nintendo in 2014 for the 3DS (originally published by Level 5 in Japan in 2012). The game was composed in its entirety by Nobuo Uematsu. We hope you enjoy this wide range of very good music from our first soundtrack showcase. The names of these songs are varied depending on what source you use. The names below are from the official soundtrack, according to VGMDB, except for track 8, Divine Power, which is from the game's DLC. If we referred to the song by a different name in the recording, the name we mentioned is in parentheses. As always, if you have any comments, questions, or requests, please send them to verygoodmusicvgm@gmail.com, or leavea comment below! If you like what you hear, please like, comment, and subscribe, and if you're watching on YouTube, ring that bell to be notified when our next episode comes out! Check out our channel's "About" page for details and links to the sites where you can subscribe to our podcast to take it on the go, as well as original music by bedroth and Shootkapow! Play-in: Opening Theme 8:52 - Fierce Battle 11:36 - Royal Capital of Castel 15:59 - Tortuga Archipelago Theme 20:06 - Elderwood 26:21 - Job Tune 5 31:45 - Tranquil Scenery (Idyllic landscape) 37:58 - Divine Power 42:00 - Mount Snowpeak Theme 49:55 - Intrigue Theme (Let's go carefree) 55:05 - Hope Theme (Theme of Hope) 59:07 - In a Pinch (The Pinch) 1:03:11 - Circle of Love (Mercenary Celebration Song) - Vocals, Chorus: Yoichi Ichinose / Lyrics: Akihito Toda / Electric & Acoustic Guitar, Electric Bass, Mandolin: Tomori Kudo (ACE) 1:11:48 - Return (Feedback) 1:14:08 - Blooper Reel Music: Terra Nimbus Theme (Sky Island) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vgmvgm/message

Welcome to Episode 4 of Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast! We are your hosts, bedroth and Shootkapow, a father/son duo who love music and video games and especially music IN video games! In this episode, we take turns playing very good songs from the parts of games where you're celebrating a win - and believe it or not, they don't all come from RPG's! Once again, the songs all follow our One Big Rule: everything has to be Very Good Music! We hope you enjoy the show. If you have any comments, questions, or requests, please send them to verygoodmusicvgm@gmail.com, or leave a comment below! If you like what you hear, please like, comment, and subscribe, and if you're watching on YouTube, ring that bell to be notified when our next episode comes out! We're currently planning to release every other Saturday, but check back here for news and updates. Special shout-out to Ben "The Diad" Dishman for his awesome pixel art, now gracing our podcast logo and YouTube channel. Check him out at www.twitter.com/thediad! Play In: Super Mario RPG – Victory – Yoko Shimomura / Victory Over Culex – Nobuo Uematsu – Nintendo/dev Square – 1996 - SNES 5:19 - Dr. Mario – Vs Victory – Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka – Nintendo – 1990 - NES 7:40 - Persona 5 - Victory - Shoji Meguro - Atlus - 2016 - PS3/PS4 13:08 - Doom – Intermission from Doom – Robert Prince – id Software – 1993 - PC 17:09 - Mega Man 3 - Weapon Get - Bun-Bun (Yasuaki Fujita) & Harumi Fujita - Capcom - 1990 - NES 21:23 - Marvel vs Capcom 3 - Victory – Hideyuki Fukasawa – Capcom – 2011 - Arcade 25:10 - Star Ocean: The Second Story - Strike your Mind - Motoi Sakuraba - Square -1999 - PS3 27:17 - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness - Mission Reward – Arata Iiyoshi, Hideki Sakamoto, Keisuke Ito, Ryoma Nakamura, Kenichi Saito – Nintendo/The Pokemon Company – 2007 - DS 31:22 - Pokemon Black/White - Victory! Gym Leader - Junichi Masuda - Nintendo/Game Freak - 2010 - DS 33:31 - Listener Lightning Round, Part 1, featuring picks from listeners Electric Boogaloo, Arker33, techiegeek, and Alex “The Messenger” Messenger 39:11 - Grandia 2 – You Won’t Be Able to Kill Me Just Like That! – Noriyuki Iwadare – Game Arts/Enix/Ubisof – 2000 – Dreamcast, PS2, PC 41:13 - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Ness/Lucas Victory and Results - Hideki Sakamoto/Hirokazu Tanaka - Nintendo/Bandai Namco -2019 - Switch 43:11 - Octopath Traveler – Victory Fanfare – Yasunori Nishiki – Square Enix – 2018 – Switch/PC 46:14 - Chrono Trigger - Fanfare 1 - Yasunori Mitsuda - Square - 1995 - SNES 46:46 - Victory (Summer's Cry/A Gift of Spring)/Lucca's Theme - Chrono Cross - Yasunori Mitsuda - Square - 1999 - Playstation 49:07 - Tales of Symphonia - Won the Battle - Motoi Sakuraba - Namco -2003 - Gamecube/PS2 51:35 - Listener Lightning Round, Part 2 featuring picks from listeners middlegray, Neverender, Dan Laughton, and UtopiaNemo 1:01:45 - Tales of the Abyss – Victory Theme – Motoi Sakuraba, Shinji Tamura, Motoo Fujiwara – Namco Bandai – 2005 – PS2/3DS Listener Links: Arker33: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-DBhX8iDhtfIZOUAgdPew The Messenger: https://anchor.fm/vgmjourney middlegray: https://www.twitch.tv/middlegray Dan Laughton: https://thevillagepersonspodcast.com/ Is this your first VGM podcast? Do you want more? Check out www.vgmpodcasts.com! Until next time, be very good people, play very good games, and keep listening to very good music! We'll see you next time! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vgmvgm/message

Ep. 3 Rivals, Rogues, and Frenemies: Welcome to Episode 3 of Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast! We are your hosts, bedroth and Shootkapow, a father/son duo who love music and video games and especially music IN video games! This episode is all about those characters in games that you love - or love to hate! Rivals have been around as long as there have been heroes to compete against, or develop a complicated relationship with. From the obscure to the more-beloved-than-the-hero, here are very good themes based on some of our favorite video game rivals! This one includes a special bonus segment featuring picks from our earliest listeners and good friends from podcast fandom. We're both big fans of lots of other great VGM podcasts, and if we mention them on the show, you should really check them out! No time stamps for the fan-picks-lightning-round. We don't want to spoil the surprises! We hope you enjoy the show. If you have any comments, questions, or requests, please send them to verygoodmusicvgm@gmail.com, or leave a comment below! If you like what you hear, please like, comment, and subscribe, and ring that bell to be notified when our next episode comes out! We're currently planning to release every other Saturday, but check back here for news and updates. Reflexez's original Protoman Theme [Blues] video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQdzH2T2nYg 0:57 - The Rival - Shovel Knight - (PC/3DS/Wii U) - 2014 - Jake Kaufman (Virt) [art by arkalpha] 7:02 - Battle with Kratos - Tales of Symphonia (GameCube/PS2) - 2003 - Motoi Sakuraba [art by by Alex Deza Duenas] 16:47 - Kay Faraday, the Great Truth Burglar - Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (DS) - 2009 - Noriyuki Iwadare and Yasuko Yamada [art by Hikaru Musume-Sama] 21:57 - Meta Knight’s Revenge - Kirby Super Star Ultra (DS) - 2008 - Jun Ishikawa [art by by ScepterDPinoy] 28:10 - Noontide - Guilty Gear XX (Arcade/PS2) - 2002 - Daisuke Ishiwatari and Koichi Seiyama [art by Dwelian] 33:04 - Battle with Magus - Chrono Trigger (SNES) - 1995 - Yasunori Mitsuda [art by ObstinateMelon] 38:56 - The Chosen One - Shadow the Hedgehog (Multi-Platform) - 2005 - Tomoya Ohtani [art by Akron117] 45:28 - Rival Theme/Final Battle (Champion) - Pokemon Red/Blue (Game Boy) - 1996 - Junichi Masuda [art by EndBlack] 51:02 - Theme of Riku - Kingdom Hearts (PS2) - 2002 - Yoko Shimomura [art by kuchinawa] 54:47 - Ken’s Theme Remix - Super Smash Bros for Wii U - 2014 - Yoko Shimomura/Ryo Hamamoto [art by GENZOMAN] 1:02:11 - Powerful Rivals - Dragon Ball Z: SuperSonic Warriors (GBA) - 2004 - Kennosuke Suemura [art by chibimaronchan] 1:07:25 - Theme of Dark Pit - Kid Icarus: Uprising (3DS) - 2012 - Motoi Sakuraba [art by TheMetalicDarkSonic] 1:11:17 - Groose's Theme - The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii) - 2011 - Hajime Wakai, Shiho Fujii, Mahito Yokota, Takeshi Hama [art by LethargicDuality] 1:17:19 - Star Wolf - Star Fox Zero (Wii U) - 2016 - Rei Kondoh [art by SupaCrikeyDave] 1:22:26 - We Are the Three Bonne Siblings - Mega Man Legends (PlayStation) - 1997 - Makoto Tomozawa [art by SweetLittleCavities] 1:27:38 - Listener Picks Lightning Round 1:40:51 Protoman Theme [Blues] - Mega Man 3 (NES) - 1990 - Yasuaki Fujita (Bun Bun) and Harumi Fujita (remix by Reflexez) [art by MegaRyan104] --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vgmvgm/message

Welcome to Episode 2 of Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast! We are your hosts, bedroth and Shootkapow, a father/son duo who love music and video games and especially music IN video games! In this episode, we take turns playing very good songs from soundtracks to games that we have yet to play - at least, the one who brought the song has yet to play the game. Once again, the songs span many generations, genres, and platforms, but they all follow our One Big Rule: everything has to be Very Good Music! We hope you enjoy the show. If you have any comments, questions, or requests, please send them to verygoodmusicvgm@gmail.com, or leave a comment below! If you like what you hear, please like, comment, and subscribe, and if you're watching on YouTube, ring that bell to be notified when our next episode comes out! We're currently planning to release every other Saturday, but check back here for news and updates. Is this your first VGM podcast? Do you want more? Check out www.vgmpodcasts.com! Check out Mike Levy's work at https://www.youtube.com/user/Dongled Chernabogue's original SSF2 - Battle Theme (Final Fantasy 1) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1FdvNtYn4k Intro - DYHPTG Theme by Retro Shred (Consider supporting Retro Shred on Twitch.tv/RetroShredMusic) 0:15 - Pressing Pursuit- Cornered - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (GBA) - 2001 - Masakazu Sugimori and Akemi Kimura 7:15 - Blood on the Cobblestones - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Multi-Platform) - 2015 - Mikolaj Stroinski and Marcin Przybylowicz 10:42 - Battle Theme: Final Fantasy Remix (PC) - Super Smash Flash 2 - 1987/2011 - Nobuo Uematsu/Alex Mourey (Chernabogue) 15:38 - Lace (Multi-Platform) - Hollow Knight: Silk Song - 2020 - Christopher Larkin 18:50 - Break the Targets - Super Smash Bros. Melee (GameCube) - 2001 - Hirokazu Ando 24:15 - Aurum Island - Kid Icarus: Uprising (3DS) - 2012 - Yuzo Koshiro*  29:45 - You Will Know Our Names - Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii) - 2010 - ACE+ (Tomori Kudo, Hiroyo "CHiCO" Yamanaka, and Kenji Hiramatsu) 35:08 - Timbre of the City - The Last Story (Wii) - 2011 - Nobuo Uematsu 39:53 - Fódlan Winds - Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Switch) - 2019 - Rei Kondoh 48:22 - Death Volcano - Chrono Cross (PS1) - 1999 - Yasunori Mitsuda 53:23 - Title Theme/Map/N. Sanity Beach - Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy (PS4) - 2017 - Josh Mancell 56:17 - Boss Boss Boss (Monster) - Katana Zero (Multi-Platform) - 2019 - Bill Kiley and LudoWic 1:01:20 - Last Surprise - Persona 5 (PS3/PS4) - 2016 - Shoji Meguro 1:07:09 - Field Theme 1 - Ring Fit Adventure (Switch) - 2019 - Shinji Ushiroda, Maasa Miyoshi, Shiho Fujii, Asuka Hayazaki 1:13:55 - Corneria - Star Fox (SNES) - 1993 - Hajime Hirasawa 1:20:35 - Millennium Anthem (.Hsm Version) - Hypnospace Outlaw (PC) - 2019 - Jay Tholen *We're pretty sure this is Koshiro's work based on the anaylsis at http://www.vgmonline.net/kidicarusuprising/ but this game had a litany of great coposers, also including Norikuki Iwadare, Yasunori Mitsuda, and Motoi Sakuraba, among others. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vgmvgm/message

Episode 1: Insert Coin, Press Start! Welcome to the inaugural episode of Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast! We are your hosts, bedroth and Shootkapow, a father/son duo who love music and video games and especially music IN video games! This episode is an exploration of title screen music we love from games that one or both of us have played, running the gamut from the Game Boy all the way up to the Switch! We hope you enjoy the show. If you have any comments, questions, or requests, please send them to verygoodmusicvgm@gmail.com, or leave a comment below! You can also leave us an audio testimonial at https://anchor.fm/undefined/message! If you like what you hear, please rate, review, and subscribe, and if you’re watching on YouTube, ring that bell to be notified when our next episode comes out! We're currently planning to release every other Saturday, but check back here for news and updates. Is this your first VGM podcast? Do you want more? Check out http://www.vgmpodcasts.com! 0:15 Title Screen - Tetris (Game Boy) - 1989 - Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka 6:05- Main Theme - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Wii U/Switch) - 2017 - Hajime Wakai 11:42 MONOX - Xenoblade Chronicles X (Wii U) - 2015 - Hiroyuki Sawano 17:04 Chrono Trigger - Chrono Trigger (SNES) - 1995 - Yasunori Mitsuda 23:28 Title Theme - Uniracers (SNES) - 1994 - Colin Anderson 29:39 Main Theme - Hollow Knight (PC) - 2017 - Christopher Larkin 33:52 Main Theme - Shovel Knight (PC/3DS/Wii U) - 2014 - Jake Kaufman (Virt) 39:22 Cave Story Theme - Cave Story (PC) - 2004 - Daisuke Amaya (Pixel) 44:56 Title Theme - Journey to Silius (NES) - 1990 - Naoki Kodaka 49:27- Intro - Mega Man 3 (NES) - 1990 - Yasuaki Fujita (Bun Bun) and Harumi Fujita 54:23 Title Screen - Pokemon Shield (Switch) - 2019 - Minako Adachi and Go Ichinose 1:02:44 Title - (Earthbound) SNES - Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki 1:06:48 Title - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GameCube) - 2002 - Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Toru Minegishi, and Koji Kondo 1:14:17 Main Title - Tetris & Dr. Mario (SNES) - 1994 - Kazumi Totaka --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vgmvgm/message

Welcome Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast! We are your hosts, bedroth and Shootkapow, a father/son duo who love music and video games and especially music IN video games! Join us as we travel together through the wide world of VGM across multiple genres, platforms, and console generations. Of course, it all follows our one big rule: everything has to be Very Good Music! If you like what you hear, please like, comment, and subscribe, and ring that bell to be notified when our next episode comes out! We're currently planning to release every other Saturday, but check back here for news and updates. If you have any comments, questions, or requests, please send them to verygoodmusicvgm@gmail.com, or leave a comment on YouTube! Check out the "About" page on YouTube for links to Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio, our home on Anchor, and original music by bedroth and music and sprite work by @Shootkapow!   We're both big fans of lots of other great VGM podcasts, and if we mention them on the show, you should really check them out at www.vgmpodcasts.com!  Shout out to Ben "The Diad" Dishman for his help with the awesome pixel art for our show! Check out his stuff @TheDiad! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vgmvgm/message