Hello, since I'm on vacation only a small update today. It contains a match that has already made its way through the web, but may not have been caught by everyone. It's the stage 1 theme from the 1986 NES/arcade game "Rygar": As ever...

Once I promised that there will be a Resident Evil entry. Well, here it is. The first one, that is ;) Resident Evil (known in Japan as Biohazard) is an action-horror game series starting with the first entry in 1996. It is one of the m...

One of the first games famed game designer David Crane designed after leaving Activision in 1986 was the game "A Boy and his Blob", a funny little platformer/puzzle game about an ordinary boy student from the 80s and his not so ordinar...

Many people will be suprisded to hear that there were music composers at Nintendo before Koji Kondo. The most proficient among them should be Yukio Kaneoka, the sound artist who provided much of the music of Nintendos early titles like...

It was about time for another Sega entry but here it is: In 1988, Sega released the beat 'em up "Dynamite Dux" for arcade, Sega Master System and other platforms. It features two anthropomorphic ducks named "Bin" and "Pin" who are tryi...

Hello folks, again, Final Fantasy 7 (1997). Will not be the last time. On the other hand, the game is as popular as ever, so why ponder? Anyways, inside the game there is a sequence where Cloud, one of the main characters, has a streak...

      So is there still anything I can write about Koji Kondo's musical tastes that hasn't been written to death? Like his knack for jazz, fusion and south american dances? Or that his second hobby is drawing? Or that he...

Greetings, todays topic is the Chocobo theme, the main theme of the fluffy yellow bird that, besides Moogles, has become one of the primary mascots of the series. Their theme song, introduced along with its master in Final Fantasy 3 (F...

Few people who dived into the genre of rock music have not heard of the british veteran rock band Deep Purple. The band belongs to one of the most enduring representatives of hard rock and heavy metal music, although they have often ta...

And so again, the Final Fantasy series. One of the paramounts of musical creativity and diversity. Composer Nobuo Uematsu has demonstrated influences from many different music genres, including rock, classic music, jazz etc. Today I wa...

Greetings, today I present you several videogames that make use of the "March" portion of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite (1892): Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun; (Multi, 2018): Gokujō Parodiusu - Kako no Eikō o Mo...

Today's topic is the multi-platform game "Bubble Ghost", a multi platform game about a cute little ghost trying to escort a bubble out of a mansion that seems to be made entirely out of pointy things. It was designed by Christophe Andr...

Ah, the Battletoads. The game series about a set of space-traveling, butt-kicking, testosterone poisoned amphibians at a time when you could buy those without a recipe. When the 80s/90s antihero was in their full swing. When save ...

Greetings, since we had mostly console entries until now, it was about time that we focus on arcade game. In 1988, Irem released the game "Vigilante" whose Master System version gained significant prominence within the Sega community f...

Welcome to what is one of my largest entries to this date. Todays topic is the song to the first Wily stage in the 1987 classic platformer "Mega Man" from Capcom: The song concluded the game perfectly with its dense and gloomy athmosp...

Greetings, originally this was going to be an article about the usage of Bachs Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 ( ca. 1704 ) in video game soundtracks: Then I realized listings like this had been generated to death since the begi...

So it's a Sonic again, but this time the Master System/Game Gear version instead of the 16 bit counterpart. They were not developed by Sonic Team, but by the external developer Ancient Corp. (who surprisingly still exists). The thing t...

Since we currently have a good run at Konami games, let's have a look at another one: Castlevania 2 for the NES (1987), more specifically the music "Dwelling of Doom" which is played in the mansions that harbour the body parts of the o...

Today's topic is the game Turtles 2 - The Arcade game 1990 for the Nintendo NES, sequel to the already commercially successful Turtles from 1989. The song "April Kidnapped" from the game has an intro that sounds like a mad piper gettin...

Is it me or is Paul Simon kicking turtle shells nonstop? (Slip Slidin' Away, 1975)

Greetings, todays topic is a song from the extremely popular game Final Fantasy VI for the SNES (1994). It references an emotional scene when the Characters Edgar and Sabin (twin brothers) decide to determine the fate of their kingdom ...

Ah, the Mysterioso Pizzicato. The musical cue no decent novelty-bearded Vaudeville villain can live without.  The probably quickest and most efficient wait to establish the attributes of sneakyness and scariness in a situation or...

Good evening everyone, after the first three entries have been all Nintendo, I think it is about time we come to a Sega game. It has been a well known fact in the games community that the songs of the first two Sonic games on the Sega ...

Greetings, tonights topic is the famous 6-note sample from world 1-2 of the original Super Mario Bros. on NES: It is well known in the gaming community, that Koji Kondo has a knack for jazz and funk music, especially with latin-americ...

Greetings to my second entry of "Phils Phindings".    Topic of this entry is the eponymous palace theme of the second Legend of Zelda game on the NES: Mysterious with a sense of danger, just like a Zelda theme should be. Lik...

Greetings, my name is Phil. I like video games, mostly games from the 80s and 90s. I especially care about game music and its origins. Thus I embarked on a journey to find music that reminds me of the game music that I like. Some music...