Thursday Feb 22, 2024
Episode 43 - Rose-Colored Pixels 3: Professor Tom's Happyland Vacation!
It’s another happy music episode in my Rose-Colored Pixels series of shows full of cheerful, upbeat VGM!
Special thanks for this episode goes out to:
- Fellow VGM podcaster 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.
- LongTones, an experimental electronic jazz project that provides promotional consideration to Professor Tom. You can find their work on Spotify by searching for “LongTones” or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jon_no_h
- BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.
If you want to reach me, you can find me on Threads, Tumblr, or Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. I’m also on Mastodon at @ShujinAcademyVGMClub@mastodon.coffee, my username on Discord is ProfessorTom, and I’ve joined Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. All episodes of the show are posted to my YouTube channel, which you can find by searching for Shujin Academy VGM Club. You can email me at shujinacademyvgmclub@gmail.com. Links to everything are available on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on 8beats.co, the internet's number one game music radio station. I’m also now appearing on Terra Player, the new app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there.
As mentioned in the show, the VGMbassy recently celebrated its 100th episode, and you can check it out at https://thevgmbassy.com/2024/02/15/episode-100-the-100th-episode-celebration/. I appeared on the show in episode 91 (https://thevgmbassy.com/2023/05/12/episode-91-sega-arcade-games-with-professor-tom/). Congratulations to host Ed Wilson for hitting this milestone!
Track Listing:
00:00 - Show Tagline
00:05 - Tecmo World Wrestling (NES) - Song 13 (composers: Keiji Yamagishi, Mayuko Okamura, Hiroshi Miyazaki, and Mitsuhito Tanaka)
00:41 - Talk Segment 1
03:17 - World of Final Fantasy (multiplatform) - World of Sunshine (composer: Masashi Hamauzu)
06:29 - Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & The Secret Hideout (multiplatform) - Days of Ocean Colors (composer: Kazuki Yanagawa)
07:37 - Secret of Mana (SNES) - Color of the Summer Sky / Joyous Town Theme (composer: Hiroki Kikuta)
09:02 - Power Golf (TG16) - Main Theme (composer: Daisuke Inoue)
11:21 - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (MSX2) - "A" Jam Blues (Radio Mode BGM 2) (composers: Tsuyoshi Sekito, Masahiro Ikariko, Mutsuhiko Izumi, Yuko Kurahashi, Tomoya Tomita, Kazuhiko Uehara, and Yuji Takenouchi)
12:22 - Side Pocket (Game Boy) - BGM 03 (composer: Yusuke Takahama)
14:39 - King of Fighters 2006 (aka KOF Maximum Impact 2) - The Startup Sound of Reminiscence (composer: Toshikazu Tanaka)
16:31 - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness (DS) - Random Dungeon Theme 2 (composers: Arata Iiyoshi, Hideki Sakamoto, Keisuke Ito, Ken-ichi Saito, Yoshihiro Maeda)
19:35 - Talk Segment 2
21:58 - King of Fighters 2002 (Neo-Geo) - Tacos Dance (composers: Masahiko Hataya and Yasuo Yamate)
24:15 - Blue Dragon (X360) - BAD BUT BAT (composer: Satoshi Henmi)
27:33 - Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster (multiplatform) - Airship (composers/arrangers: Nobuo Uematsu, Ayumu Murai, Hirosato Noda, Tomonori Adachi, Reo Uratani, Shingo Ktaoka, Yuko Komiyama, Eri Tsunemoto, Kenot Hasegawa, Masato Kouda, Masaya Tsunemoto)
29:25 - Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold (arcade) - STAGE SAKURA (composers: Syun Nishigaki, Setsuo Yamamoto, and Tatsuro Suzuki)
31:27 - Quartet (Arcade) - OKI RAP (composer: Katsuhiro Hayashi)
33:36 - Crusader of Centy (Genesis) - Anemone Beach (composer: Motokazu Shinoda)
35:17 - Shining Force II (Genesis) - Lively Town (composer: Motoaki Takenouchi)
38:43 - Super Black Bass 3 (Super Famicom) - Track 2 (composers: Michiya Hirasawa and Tsukushi Sasaki)
39:59 - Talk Segment 3
43:09 - Daytona USA (Arcade) - Sky High (composer: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi)
47:23 - Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen (GBA) - Road to Viridian City: Leaving Pallet Town (composer: Junichi Masuda)
48:23 - Phantasy Star II (Genesis) - Restoration (composer: Tokuhiko Uwabo)
50:33 - Harukanaru Augusta (Mega Drive) - Unknown (BGM Number 4) (composers: Shigekazu Kamaki, Yumi Kinoshita, Yuzaburou Shimojo, and Hiroshi Morita)
53:10 - Lunar 2: Eternal Blue (PSX) - Holding On (Lemina’s Theme) (composer: Noriyuki Iwadare)
56:12 - Phantasy Star IV (Genesis) - Land Master AXV-25 (composer: Izuho Numata)
58:05 - Jack Bros (Virtual Boy) - Grim Reaper’s Cavern (Level 2) (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada)
1:00:00 - Outro Talk Segment
1:02:08 - Crusader of Centy (Genesis) - Ending Theme (composer: Motokazu Shinoda)
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Sorry for your loss. Much love, Heat00verride!
Saturday Feb 24, 2024
Making me cry at that SOM part.... that was my late brother’s game him and I played all the time. Much love, Professor Tom!
Saturday Feb 24, 2024
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