The Legacy Music Hour Video Game Music Podcast

Brent and Rob celebrate Episode 40 with more great tunes and another installment of Mame That Chune!  Full track listing below.

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

Power Blade 2 - Kinuyo Yamashita - Stage 4 - Taito - NES - 1992

Super Nazo Puyo 2: Ruru no Tetsuwan Hanjyou ki - Tsuyoshi

Brent and Rob share some great tracks within the side-scroller/platformer category.  They also partake in another exciting edition of VGM Karaoke!  Enjoy.  Try to enjoy.  Full track listing below.

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Super Mario World - Koji Kondo - Castle -

In this soothing yet provocative episode, Brent and Rob explore new age music found in video games of the 8-bit and 16-bit era.  They discuss Turkish baths, "junk," and more.  Put on your avocado mask, cucumber slices on your eyes, and RELAX to the sounds of The Legacy Spa.  Full track listing below.

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Lights, camera, video game music!  Brent and Rob take a look at some of the finest 8-bit and 16-bit era music from games based on major motion pictures.  So grab a bowl of popcorn, maybe a box of Red Vines, and enjoy the feature presentation!  Full track listing below.

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Brent and Rob focus on famed Castlevania composer, Kinuyo Yamashita.  Through an exclusive interview with Yamashita-san herself, the Legacy Music Hour reveals some very interesting information regarding the composer credits of Castlevania.  Special thanks to Kinuyo Yamashita for taking the time to do this interview and prepare her answers in English.  Text version of the interview

Brent and Rob deviate from the normal routine and present a fine selection of cover music from a variety of styles.  It ends up being more of a jazzy episode... with a special surprise treat!  Full track listing below.

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Toshiyuki Mori, Shirou Satou (arr.)  - Troian Beauty - Final

Rob comes back from Brazil, which is appropriate because in this episode, Brent and Rob focus on Latin and Latin influenced music from 8-bit and 16-bit video games.  Whistles, cuica drums, funky bass lines -all this and more on The Lambada Music Hour.  Full track listing below.

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Music from "Run and Gun" games is the focus of Episode 33.  Brent and Rob play tracks from games like Contra III, Gunstar Heroes, and Rolling Thunder 3.  Rob also makes an interesting noise with his nose at the top of the show, so listen for that and enjoy it.  Full track listing below.

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For Episode 32, Brent and Rob focus on the game developer and publisher, Hudson Soft.  Sharing tracks from Hudson franchises such as Bomberman, Adventure Island, Milon, and more, Brent also springs a pop quiz on Rob at the beginning of the show.  How well does Rob score?  Listen and find out!  Full track listing below.

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A "shorty," as defined by The Legacy Music Hour, is a video game music piece that is around ten seconds or less in length.  For Episode 31, Brent and Rob focus soley on shorties.  Some of them loop, some of them end, none of them are longer than fifteen seconds.  Full track listing below.

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