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]