This week's edition of The Sound Test runs the gamut from hip-hop courtesy of Random, new-retro chiptunes via Etrian Odyssey III, a jazzy piece from Telltale's Sam and Max, and a couple of more retro selections from the Game Boy's "X" and the original Mother on the NES, respectively.

Rollicking music from Dark Void and After Burner envelop the softer music of Okami and Flower in this week's show, including Twinsen's Odyssey as our oldie of the week, and capping it all off is a familiar ending song from Super Mario World.

This week on The Sound Test, a musical journey through Donkey Kong Country, ramblin' along in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - The Crystal Bearers, remixing Katamari Damacy, taking a breather with Machinarium, charting one's course in Yoshi's Island, and heading out for a safari in Afrika.

This week on The Sound Test, the Command and Conquer series returns with an appropriately warlike score, Yakuza 3 delivers a musical beatdown, we listen to Ridge Racer and Evergrace in our brief celebration of the PlayStation 2's tenth anniversary, and this week's oldie features an underrated soundtrack from an equally underrated Saturn game.

Music from the recently-released Final Fantasy XII, Halo 3 ODST, The Magic Obelisk, an oldie from Ninja Gaiden II, and more on this first edition of The Sound Test.