It’s a groovy VGM party with all these hip swinging songs that have a feel-good rhythm!

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. 

If you want to reach me, you can find me on Mastodon at @[email protected] or on Discord as ProfessorTom#7512. I’m also on both Tumblr and Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. You can email me at [email protected]. Episodes of the show are posted on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw6CIUs81aap58U1EuaaFdA, and all of my links can be found on my Linktree site at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. Look for new episodes on Thursdays whenever I get them done, which is typically once or twice a month.

I had a guest appearance on last week’s episode of fellow game music podcast VGMporium, where host RayjKayj and I talked all about music from games about investigations. You know, detectives, mysteries, stuff like that. If you’ve got a hankerin’ for more Professor Tom, head over to https://vgmporium.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/episode-68/ to check it out.

If you liked this episode, you should go back and check out episode 25: Cool Glasses, Cool Glasses! It’s a cousin to this one, with a similar musical hangout type of vibe. You can hear it at https://shujinacademyvgmclub.podbean.com/e/episode-25-cool-glasses-cool-glasses/

Track Listing:

00:00 - Show Tagline

00:05 - Shin Megami Tensei: If - School (composer: Tsukasa Masuko)

00:35 - Talk Segment 1

02:53 - Planet Puzzle League - Neon Isotope (composer: Masanobu Matsunaga)

06:17 - Pictionary (NES) - Drawing Game (composer: Tim Follin)

09:01 - Arcus Odyssey (Super Famicom) - Castomira - Defeated (composer: Motoi Sakuraba)

12:03 - The House of the Dead 2 (Dreamcast) - Training Mode (composers: Tetsuya Kawauchi and Haruyoshi Tomita)

13:19 - Legend of Mana (PlayStation) - To the Sea (composer: Yoko Shimomura)

16:02 - Brain Lord (SNES) - Town of Arcs (composer: Masanao Akahori)

18:14 - Talk Segment 2

21:13 - Galactic Pinball (Virtual Boy) - Moonman Fandango (composers: Kenji Yamamoto and Masaru Tajima) 

23:48 - Persona 5 - Wicked Plan (composer: Shoji Meguro)

26:10 - Pokemon Trading Card Game - Battle Center (composer: Ichiro Shimakura)

27:44 - Metal Max Returns (Super Famicom) - Let’s Meet Dr. Minchi! (composer: Satoshi Kadokura)

28:49 - Pictionary (NES) - Mini-Game Theme 2 (composer: Tim Follin)

31:26 - The Flintstones (SNES) - Unused Song 1 (composers: Keith Tinman and Jonathan Dunn) 

34:53 - Talk Segment 3 (includes excerpt from “Strip Club” from Hunie Pop 2, composed by Jonathan Wandag)

38:48 - Persona Q 2 - Blind City (composer: Atsushi Kitajoh)

45:33 - The Flintstones (SNES) - Password Screen (composers: Keith Tinman and Jonathan Dunn)

48:08 - Pokemon Crystal - Goldenrod Game Corner (composers: Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, and Morikazu Aoki)

51:06 - YuYu Hakusho Makyou Touitsusen: Imbalanced Kiss (aka Unbalanced Kiss) (composers: Hiro Takahashi, Aki Hata, Matsuko Mawatari, T.K.O.)  

54:01 - Crusader of Centy - Water Lily (composer: Motokazu Shinoda) 

56:22 - Outro Talk Segment

58:49 - Shin Megami Tensei - Kichijoji (composer: Tsukasa Masuko)