It’s a stupendous smiley stack of happy songs, coming to make you feel good and take all your worries away!
Special thanks for this episode goes out to:
- Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.
- Show sponsor the Shadaloo Department of Treasury and their excellent audio drama How Much in Bison Dollars?, where hosts Melody Sinclair and Department of Treasury Senior Executive Vice Senior President Red McCano keep you informed about exchange rates and other current world events as they relate to the glorious nation of Shadaloo, and also they play music from fighting games. Find them on social media platforms and YouTube using the name @hmibisondollars, and listen in on your favorite podcatcher by searching for “How Much in Bison Dollars”.
- BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.
I closed out the last music block with an amazing song from Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout, and if you want to hear more from this series, you can check out the episodes of Super Marcato Bros doing a deeper dive into these games. There’s a full episode devoted to Atelier Ryza at https://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/2019/10/6/episode-389-atelier-ryza and an episode looking at some other games in the series at https://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/2017/5/28/episode-269-the-atelier-series.
If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. All episodes of the show are posted to my YouTube channel, which you can find by searching for Shujin Academy VGM Club. You can email me at shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com. Links to everything are available on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on 8beats.co, the internet's number one game music radio station. My show is also featured on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there. Finally, if you just can’t get enough of me, I’m also voicing esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama podcast How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can hear on FGC Radio or at https://rss.com/podcasts/hmibisondollars/.
If you’re listening on Spotify, please be aware that they’ve pulled a few of my episodes before. There’s a non-zero chance that they’ll eventually pull my entire podcast, as they’ve done with a few other game music podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get all of the Professor Tom goodness you crave.
Track Listing:
00:00 - Show Tagline
00:05 - Guilty Gear XX (Arcade/PS2) - Blue Water, Blue Sky ~May’s Theme~ (composer: Daisuke Ishiwatari)
03:01 - Talk Segment 1
06:54 - Aerobiz (SNES) - Pacific (composer: Taku Iwasaki; credit from Wikipedia)
08:31 - Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice for All (DS) - Maya Fey ~ Turnabout Sisters’ Theme 2002 (composer: Akemi Kimura)
10:22 - 3D OutRun (3DS) - Cruising Line (composer: Manabu Namiki)
16:14 - Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III (TG16) - Main BGM (composer: Noriyuki Iwadare)
17:52 - Super Golf (Game Gear) - BGM #06 (composer: unknown)
19:29 - Black Bird: Toritachi no Tooboe (PC-98) - Eimi Restored (composer: unknown)
21:06 - Talk Segment 2
26:15 - Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow (Game Boy) - Victory (VS Gym Leader) (composer: Junichi Masuda)
28:10 - Persona Q (3DS) - Corn Dog (composer: Atsushi Kitajoh)
31:08 - River City Ransom - Menu (composer: Kazuo Sawa)
33:29 - Windjammers (Neo Geo) - You Got a Power (Concrete Court) (composers: Seiichi Hamada, Tomoyoshi Sato)
35:12 - Zoda’s Revenge: StarTropics II (NES) - Coralcola Village (composers: Takashi Kumegawa and Yoshio Hirai)
36:50 - Side Pocket (Genesis) - Fight It Out (composers: Emi Shimizu and Masaaki Iwasaki)
37:49 - ESPN Final Round Golf 2002 (Game Boy Advance) - BGM #16 (composer: Hiroyuki Nakayama)
41:11 - Talk Segment 3
46:39 - Persona 5 (PS4) - New Beginning (composer: Shoji Meguro)
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