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Instead of focusing so much of my time on AGP, I've decided to follow another of my ambitions, and start a weekly online radio show. Since I'm a very nerdy fellow, rather than playing the newest pop song- I'm going to play retro video game tunes that came out in the 1980's and 1990's, mainly 8 bit and 16 bit music. Since it's a radio show, I'm going to be taking Skype callers with requests for music . The show will hopefully be live at 7 Central Time at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-video-game-music-hour
I'll also be making videos after the show where you can listen to the week's music at the Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheArmchairNerd?ob=0&feature=results_main (Please Subscribe)
Also, here's the video
Video Game Music Hour Notes
Track One: “Moon” from Duck
Tales
Track from Duck Tales,
a NES platformer developed by Capcom and released in 1990. The composer on
this game was Hiroshige Tonomura, who was involved with a few other titles in
this era.
Track Two: “Vegetable Valley 2” from Kirby’s Adventure.
This is a track from HAL Laboratories 1993 platformer on the
NES, Kirby’s Adventure. Two composers
on this game were Hirokazu Andu and Jun Ishikawa.
Track Three: “Stage One” from Blaster Master
This next track is from the 1988 Sunsoft title Blaster Master, a run-and-gun game
composed by Naoki Kodaka.
Track Four: “Bloody Tears” from Castlevania 2: Simon’s Quest
This is a track from the 1987-1988 side-scrolling,
role-playing game Castlevania 2 from
Konami. It was composed by Kenichi Matsubara
Track Five: A Track I Couldn’t Find a Name For from Rygar.
This next track is from Rygar,
which was an arcade cabinet that got ported to the NES in 1987. I don’t
have a composer right here, though I imagine it would be pretty easy to find.
Track Six: “Escape from Tourian” from Metroid
This track is from the 1986 title Metroid, published by Nintendo on the NES. It was composed by
Hirokazu Tanaka. It was one of the earliest games to really embrace music as a way
to give character to a game.
Track Seven: “Fever Theme” from Doctor Mario
This is from the classic puzzle game Doctor Mario, released on the NES in 1990 by Nintendo. It’s a very
catchy song on a game full of catchy music composed by Hirokazu Tanaka, who
will be in a lot of episodes in the future.
Track Eight: “Sacrifices” from Actraiser
This is from a 1990 Enix-published game, which is absolutely
fascinating from a gameplay and musical perspective. It was composed by Yuzo
Koshiro.
Track Nine: “The Best Appears” from Actraiser
Track Ten: “Who Turned Out The Lights” from Earthworm Jim
This next track is from Earthworm
Jim, a platformer released on all kinds of different consoles by SEGA. This
was composed by Mark Miller.
Track Eleven: “Intro Stage” from Mega Man 7
This track is from Capcom’s title Mega Man 7 released in 1995. This game had three different
composers, and I don’t know which one did this song. Anyway, this series has
tons of great music that I will further explore in this show.
Track Twelve: “Memory of The Wind” from Final Fantasy III
This track is from FF3 released by Square on the Famicom,
and that’s why my inclusion of this track is problematic. The version I played
probably came from the re-release a couple of years ago on the DS, the first
time Americans legitimately got to play this game. Regardless, the series has
great music, and this song was composed by Nobuo Uematsu.
