Welcome to Music Arcade! In this episode, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone and Ranakel go head to head on a deeper dive about Persona 5's music, contrasting it with a few other tracks, and expressing to the best of their ability why they both enjoy so much something so very differently. The specific tracks discussed are:

0:06:14 - Ark

0:08:12 - Long Way (Persona 4)

0:09:09 - Steel Coffin Second Movement (Digital Devil Saga 1)

0:10:30 - One Way Stairs (Digital Devil Saga 2)

0:15:27 - Reach Out to the Truth (Persona 4 Arena)

0:17:54 - Beneath the Mask Remix (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

0:20:03 - Beneath the Mask

0:22:52 - Last Surprise

0:23:32 - Battle Theme (Persona 2 Innocent Sin)

0:23:52 - Last Surprise again

0:27:51 - Rivers in the Desert

0:36:46 - Life Will Change

0:39:55 - Gentle Madman

0:43:39 - Price

0:44:50 - Sweatshop

0:47:19 - Price Again

0:49:38 - Mementos

0:54:02 - Illusory Daitou TV (Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE)

0:57:32 - Mementos Again

1:00:50 - Phantom R's Theme (Rhythm Thief)

1:04:32 - Outro

If you're interested in giving the music in this episode a listen, they've been collected in the following Youtube playlist: Music Arcade 5

Thank you very much for listening. If you have any questions of remarks, you can address them at [email protected]

Welcome to Music Arcade! In today's episode, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Ranakel and Eddy look closely at the very first contact some video game soundtracks make: the opening. Generally cinematic, hopefully notable, it often has to work as a concentrated version of what the game must feel like. Were discussed:

00:02:19 - The Konami Made Good Openings Didn't They section:

00:47:31 - The Spectacular Openings section:

01:25:24 - Outro

If you're interested in giving the music in this episode a listen, they've been collected in the following Youtube playlist: Music Arcade 4

Thank you very much for listening. If you have any questions of remarks, you can address them at [email protected]

Content warning: This episode is PG-13 due to the use of profanities

Welcome to Music Arcade! In this episode, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Ranakel and Eddy are going on our first series-focused retrospective tour, across the Mega Man franchise. From the earliest days of the Blue Bomber to the more recent revival at the hands of Capcom, through X and Zero and more, we take a look at some of the series' most memorable tracks, and how the shift in music tone followed the series evolution as a whole.

0:00 - Start

1:49 - Mega Man 1

9:10 - Mega Man 2

18:20 - Mega Man 3

20:55 - Other Original Generation Mega Man

26:22 - Mega Man Classic Revival

28:34 - Mega Man 11

29:42 - Mighty No. 9

33:00 - Mega Man X1

44:19 - Mega Man X2

48:49 - Mega Man X3

53:13 - Mega Man X4

58:26 - Mega Man X5

1:03:41 - Other MMX

1:04:33 - Fangames and Inspired By Mega Man and MMX

1:06:55 - Other Mega Man

1:09:07 - Mega Man X6

1:14:22 - Mega Man X7

1:14:40 - Mega Man X8

1:17:03 - Mega Man Zero

1:19:00 - Other Mega Man 2: Elec Man Boogaloo

1:19:47 - Outro

If you're interested in giving the music in this episode a listen, they've been collected in the following Youtube playlist: Music Arcade 3

Thank you very much for listening. If you have any questions of remarks, you can address them at [email protected]

Welcome to Music Arcade! Take shelter from the elements, tap your footwear on choice on the gaudy carpet, and try not to spill your instant hot cocoa on one of the cabinets, because your video game music podcast is about to begin! In today's episode, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Eddy and Ranakel get on board with the season, to talk about some video game songs for the holiday, no matter the hemisphere:

Ranakel pick 1: Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze's Homecoming Hijinx by David Wise

Galen pick 1: Bravely Default's Land of Immortality by Revo

Eddy pick 1: Maui Mallard in Cold  Shadow's Sacrifice of Maui by Michael Giacchino & Patrick J. Collins

Ranakel pick 2: Beyond Good and Evil's Mammago's by Christophe Heral

Galen pick 2: The Last Remnant's Limberlost by Tsuyoshi Sekito

Eddy pick 2: Endless Legend's Pierre de Lune by Arnaud Roy

Ranakel pick 3: Granado  Espada's Ice Symphony by Osamu Kubota

Eddy pick 3: Skyrim's Under an Ancient Sun by Jeremy Soule

Galen pick 3: Megaman X3's Blizzard Buffalo's OCremix "Noble Creature of Snow" by ansgaros

Bonus tracks: The Snow Queen (Persona 3 FES), Ginger Island (Stardew Valley) Tantal - Night (Xenoblade Chronicles 2) Clan of Warsong (World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor)

If you're interested in giving the music in this episode a listen, they've been collected in the following Youtube playlist: Music Arcade Episode 2

Thank you very much for listening. If you have any questions of remarks, you can address them at [email protected]

Intro [0:00:00]

Welcome to the Music Arcade! Follow the bleeps, find an empty spot, insert your quarter and press start, because your videogame music podcast experience is about to begin. For our very first episode, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Ranakel and Eddy get personal, and talk about the following topics:

Personal Stories [0:05:06]

The Game Award's best soundtrack nominees [0:33:12]

Outro [01:02:28]

If you're interested in giving the music in this episode a listen, they've been collected in the following Youtube playlist: Music Arcade episode 1

Thank you very much for listening. If you have any questions of remarks, you can address them at [email protected]