IT’S WAR! For this episode I am joined by special guests John, Michael T, and Stuart… for a VGM battle! We take it in turns to select a track from a video game, scoring each other’s picks as we go. Four combatants, three picks each… Who will be the supreme champion?

Listen:

https://ia601502.us.archive.org/6/items/fsvep16/fsvep16.mp3

N/A (1991, Commodore 64) ‘Eye of the Tiger’ composed by Teemu Astikainen

Farmyard Fun (Year unknown, Atari 2600) ‘BGM’ composer unknown

Doom (1993, PC) ‘E1M1 – At Doom’s Gate’ composed by Robert Prince

Super Turrican (1993, SNES) ‘Stage 1-3’ composed by Chris Hülsbeck

The World Ends With You (2007, Nintendo DS) ‘Twister’ composed by Takeharu Ishimoto

Tekken 3 (1998, Sony Playstation) ‘Heihachi Mishima’ composed by Keiichi Okabe

PaRappa the Rapper (1996, Sony Playstation) ‘Chop Chop Master Onion’s RAP’ composed by Masaya Matsuura

Lagoon (1990, Sharp X68000) ‘Castle Mark Philips’ composed by Hideki Suzuki

Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium (1993, Sega Mega Drive) ‘Meet them head-on’ composed by Izuho Numata and Masaki Nakagaki

Wario Blast (1994, Nintendo Game Boy) ‘Boss’ composed by Yasuhiko Fukuda

Resident Evil 2 (1998, Sony Playstation) ‘The Front Hall’ composed by Masami Ueda

Dissidia Final Fantasy (2008, Sony PSP) ‘Battle 2 -arrange- from Final Fantasy III’ composed by Takeharu Ishimoto

Sonic CD (North American Version) (1993, Sega Mega CD / 1996, PC) ‘Wacky Workbench Present’ composed by Spencer Nilsen and David Young

Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee (1997, Sony Playstation) ‘New ‘n’ Tasty – This is Rupture Farms’ composed by Ellen Meijers-Gabriel and Josh Gabriel

Final Fantasy VII (1997, Sony Playstation) ‘Fanfare’ composed by Nobuo Uematsu

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