The Legacy Music Hour Video Game Music Podcast

The music from castle areas in video games is the topic of Episode 134.  Sometimes the music sounds majestic and royal, and sometimes it doesn't.  Brent and Rob also talk about muscles.  Full track listing below.

Download and listen NOW

Game - Composer - Song - Company - Console - Year (North American release unless otherwise indicated)

Super Mario Bros. 3 - Koji Kondo -

Racing Games, the Legacy Music Hour's third installment.  Brent and Rob go Bahamas on this episode with some good selections from motorized vehicle racing games.  Brent goes especially Bahamas when he gets possessed by the music of Virtua Racing.  Full track listing below.

Download and listen NOW

Game - Composer - Song - Company - Console - Year (North American release

Motoaki Takenouchi, best known for his work with the Shining Force series, is an amazing composer.  Through very sophisticated, progressive compositions, he really takes video game music to the next level.  Episode 132 is a focus on him, though some of his best work has already been showcased on previous episodes, so check those episodes out if you want to hear more of him.  Full

Solid, solid episode.  Seriously, the music is soooo good this week.  Every track is great.  The focus is "elevator" music, which means music that's sort of jazzy, sort of synthy, jazz fusiony, 80's-y, TV show themey, hold musicy, sort of cheesy, sort of smooth, and even kind of sexy.  It's the best.  Also, Brent really gets down with a track from Quartet, showing off

Another free play to celebrate 130 episodes.  Brent and Rob play a lot of "feel good" tracks as well as some relaxing ones, but more importantly, they share a lot of love with each other, for the music, and with you, the listeners.  They also do fairly poor impressions of Mr. T.  Full track listing below.

Download and listen NOW

Game - Composer - Song - Company - Console -

For Episode 129, Brent and Rob focus only on titles which were released the last year their respective consoles released licensed games, exploring the way composers approached working with old hardware.  But this episode is kind of a mess for a few different reasons.  For one, the boys didn't have microphones and had to make do with a very poor quality substitution.  Two, it's

For Episode 128, Brent and Rob focus only on titles which were released the same year their respective consoles were released, exploring the way composers approached working with new hardware.  And, they do it chronologically, so you can hear the technological progress over the years.  Full track listing below.

Download and listen NOW

Game - Composer - Song - Company - Console -

Taito, famous for Space Invaders, Arkanoid, Bubble Bobble, and the Darius series, is the focus of Episode 127.  This is The Legacy Music Hour's second pass at Taito titles (the first was Episode 47) and this time, Brent and Rob discover new games and talk about wholesome rap artists such as Young MC.  Full track listing below.

Download and listen NOW

Game - Composer - Song -

Episode 126 is sort of another RPG focus, although there are definitely

some non-RPG games out there that have non-level town areas in them (The

Lone Ranger, Castlevania II, etc.).  Anyway, the music in this episode

is really, really good.  Pound for pound, one of the most musically

solid episodes in a while.  Towns are generally a safe place in a game,

so you can also listen

Gundam is a huge toy/anime franchise in Japan about giant battle robots.  And because it's so big (the franchise), there were tons of Gundam based video games.  Episode 125 focuses on those games.  The boys pick some fun tracks and talk about C&C Music Factory.  More like B&R Music Factory though, right?  Or maybe B&F Music Factory.  Full track listing