Featuring Shining Force, Shining Force 2,  Polka and more. Greetings fellow game music lovers, within the heat of the summer, we continue Shining Force month. First we have the town theme from the original Shining Force (1992): I...

Featuring Shining Force 2, Zelda 3 and japanese synth pop. Greetings fellow game music lovers, after the first Shining Force game last week, we now have a look at the successor from 1993: Shining Force 2: The Ancient Seal (1993). Durin...

Featuring Shining Force (MD) and marching music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, after some delays, finally the promised Sega entry. We'll start with one of the major franchises of the Mega Drive / Genesis era, Shining Force. A tur...

Featuring Battletoads in Battlemaniacs and Cheryl Lynn. Greetings fellow game music lovers, summer is coming and the potpurri continues. This time one I forgot on last David Wise month: The title theme of the 1993 SNES Battletoads game...

Featuring Metal Gear 2 - Solid Snake and movie/traditional music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, again due to health issues I have to use a classics entry again. Since we had Metal Gear related entries in the last weeks, it will b...

Featuring Metal Gear, Metal Gear, folk and synth pop. Greetings fellow game music lovers, due to the success of last weeks Metal Gear entry I decided to make another entry with two smaller samples. The first one is from the ending them...

Featuring Metal Gear 1, NES and jazz rock / fusion. Greetings fellow game music lovers, so it eventually had to come to this, another Metal Gear entry, this time about Metal Gear 1. But not the MSX version, rather the NES version, whic...

Featuring Indiana Jones IV - The Fate of Atlantis and marching music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, the next Mario entry would take some time to prepare and I'm pretty busy these days, so in place of it I decided to release somet...

Featuring Paper Mario 64 and latin music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, I recently bought a used Paper Mario 64 (2000) for too much money and after binging it for a week I think it is a good opportunity to make some additional no...

Featuring Donkey Kong '94 (Gameboy) and old time pop. Greetings fellow game music lovers, we had a Mario last time, we'll have a Mario this time. Although it's less of a Mario and arguably more of a Donkey Kong: Donkey Kong '94 for the...

Featuring Super Mario Land and japanese folk music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, after Punch out, we go right back to Mario, more specifically to Supr Mario Land, Gameboy (1989). So far we had one entry regarding the first world...

Greetings fellow game music lovers, after a little more than 2 years I FINALLY got around making a table of contents for all of my existing entries. Now you can  check quickly if your favourite comparison is already there. Still p...

Second part of the TOC, entries #101 + Title / Link Game Songs Comparison Songs       Phils Game/Pop Music Similarities #175 - Hit-Blurred Vision Super Punch Out, SNES, 1994, Ending Music Mega Man 9, Multi, 2008,...

Featuring Super Punch Out and dancepop. Greetings fellow game music lovers, due to easter, I decided to make an extra comparison because I don't have much time in the following days from one of Nintendos oldest franchises: Punch Out, m...

Featuring Final Fantasy Tactics and several. Greetings fellow game music lovers, as a closure to this Final Fantasy season I decided to make another entry about Final Fantasy Tactics (1997). First we have the song "Attack Team" which h...

Featuring Final Fantasy Tactics and mostly rock music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, since I spend so much time with the main series, it's time to have a look at some of the spin offs of the franchise, this time on Final Fantasy ...

Featuring Final Fantasy VI and some romantic waltzes. Greetings fellow game music lovers, as an expansion of my previous outtake entry I dug up some waltzes that feature progressions similar to the wedding waltz from Final Fantasy VIs ...

Featuring Final Fantasy IX and traditional. Greetings fellow game music lovers, yes, I'm still not that good in shape, nevertheless in order to let you know I'm still there I want to give you another Final Fantasy month release, albeit...

Featuring Zelda 2 - The Adventure of Link and Seiko Matsuda. Greetings fellow game music lovers, Yes, I'm early this week. Yes, this is not the Mario I promised I just wanted to move this ahead because I just can't this out of my head ...

Featuring Final Fantasy 7 and renaissance music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, from Final Fantasy VI, we move right back to the a game/pop music comparison for its successor Final Fantasy VII (1997).  Today, we feature the s...

Featuring Super Mario Bros. 3 and lots of Blues. Greetings fellow game music lovers, I still have some Mario to spare for this run, so let's dive right into it: A song from Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988) that has been remixed several times...

Greetings fellow game music lovers, I admit, I always fall back to Final Fantasy VI (1994) in the end. This is not for dislike of the others, but FFVI was one of the first Final Fantasies I played and the one whos soundtrack I memorize...

Featuring Super Mario RPG and island music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, due to work stress, a mini update, again for Super Mario RPG (Snes, 1996). This time the theme of Rose Town, the town where everyone wears a bullseye on th...

Featuring Final Fantasy 7 and marching music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, another sunday, another Final Fantasy day. The seventh entry in the series (1997) has been a little bit underrepresented so far, so make a small retour t...

Featuring Super Mario RPG and russian/march music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, another wednesday, another Mario day. This time in a pretty late stage of the SNES era: Super Mario RPG, the 1996 Nintendo/Square crossover everbody...

Featuring Final Fantasy XI and mostly 19th century music. Greetings fellow music lovers, after concentrating mostly on the classic entries of the Final Fantasy franchise it was about time that I write something concerning one of the mo...

Featuring Super Mario World and Polka. Greetings fellow game music lovers, a little Mario update due to increased workload. We're going back again to the first game in the Snes series, Super Mario World from 1990. As I mentioned b...

Greetings fellow game music lovers, now that christmas season has passed let’s get right back to the Final Fantasy series. Today’s song comes from Final Fantasy 8 (1999) in the form of the theme of the sorceress Edea with t...

Featuring Pokemon Red/Blue and Carl Michael Ziehrer. Greetings fellow game music lovers, I'm not really up to shape yet, but due to the long pause I just feel I have to make another release now even if it is not that large. Originally,...

Featuring Final Fantasy VI and lots of classic music.Greetings fellow game music lovers,due to some new samples popping up in another area I decided to move something else in front: The main portion of "Forever Rachel" from Final Fanta...