Episode 27 - Playing With Power

These songs have come to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and they’re all out of bubblegum.

Special thanks for this episode goes out to:

• 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. 
• VGM podcast bro and shop proprietor RayjKayj. You can find his excellent podcast VGMporium anywhere you get your podcasts, and you can visit his website at https://vgmporium.wordpress.com/. 
• BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart. 

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I mentioned The Black Mages arrangement of “Maybe I’m A Lion” on the show, and you can find it on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNcEyY7opTI. 

Track Listing:

00:00 - Show Tagline

00:04 - Guilty Gear XX - Feedback (composers: Daisuke Ishiwatari)

00:59 - Intro Talk Segment

02:58 - Final Fight (Arcade)- Demo BGM (composers: Manami Matsumae, Yoshihiro Sakaguchi, Harumi Fujita, Junko Tamiya, Yasuaki Fujita, Hiromitsu Takaoka, and Yoko Shimomura)

03:49 - Revenge of Shinobi - Long Distance - Introduction (composer: Yuzu Koshiro)

05:30 - Street Fighter IV: Training Stage (composer: Hideyuki Fukasawa)

07:48 - Cool Spot (Genesis) - Rave Dancetune (composer: Tommy Tallarico)

10:11 - Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge - New Messiah [Glass Castle] (composer: Hidehiro Funauchi)

13:19 - River City Girls - Bully (composer: Megan McDuffee)

17:39 - Talk Segment

19:34 - R-Type (Arcade) - Start / Encounter ~ Battle Theme (1st Stage) (composer: Masato Ishizaki)

21:12 - Space Harrier (Arcade) - SYURA (aka Track 7) (composer: Hiroshi Kawaguchi)

22:56 - Gauntlet IV - Back of Beyond (composers: Hitoshi Sakimoto, Masaharu Iwata)

24:29 - Street Fighter III 3rd Strike Online Edition (PS3/Xbox 360) - Knock You Out (Menu Theme) (composer: Adam Tensta)

27:30 - Persona 3 Portable (PSP) - Wiping All Out (composer: Shoji Meguro; lyrics:Lotus Juice, vocals: Mayumi Fujita, Lotus Juice)

30:10 - Final Fantasy VIII - Maybe I’m a Lion (composer: Nobuo Uematsu)

35:43 - Talk Segment

39:33 - Tekken 2 (PlayStation) - Black Winter Night Sky (composer: Akira Nishizaki)

41:00 - The Last Ninja 2 (C64) - The Mansion (excerpt) (composer: Matt Gray)

44:24 - Haunted Castle - Cross Your Heart (Stage 1 - Graveyard) (composers: Kenichi Matsubara and Masahiro Ikariko)

45:35 - Persona 5 - Ark (composer: Shoji Meguro)

47:34 - King of Fighters ‘97 - Bloody (NEW FACE Team) (composers: Akihiro Uchida, Hideki Asanaka, and Toshio Shimizu

51:01 - Persona 5 - Rivers in the Desert (composer: Shoji Meguro)

56:15 - Outro Talk Segment

57:48 - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - Theme of Tamako (composer: Ryusuke Fujioka)