Featuring Super Mario Land and Jacques Offenbach. Greetings fellow game music lovers, as my vacation continues, another classic finding that made its way around the web (and everywhere else): The invincibility theme from Super Mario La...

Featuring Punch Out (NES) and Mahlon Merrick. Greetings fellow game music lovers, from my vacation, a classic comparison that has been floating through the web for some time. Today we feature Mike Tyson's Punch Out for the NES (1987) w...

Featuring Xenogears and several. Greetings fellow game music lovers, I'm cleaning out Xenogears (1998) today so some findings for some interesting samples. First we have the song "With the Sky, the Clouds, and You" which features a hap...

Featuring Castlevania - Rondo Of Blood and Wiki Wiki. Greetings fellow game music lovers, unfortunately my tinnitus is rising up again, so I have to make it somewhat short.  It has been a long time since I made a Castlevania entry...

Featuring Xenogears and mostly traditional music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, the first round of outtake comparisons for Xenogears (1998) which were not good or grand enough for their own entry. First we have the song "Shatteri...

Featuring Trials of Mana / Seiken Densetsu 3 and Hank Williams. Greetings fellow game music lovers, there is an RPG series that I didn't make many entries until now although it has been pretty prominent for the last 30 years or so with...

Featuring Xenogears and mostly Country Rock. Greetings fellow game music lovers, another Xenogears (1998) entry, this time featuring what many would consider to be THE song from the game, the ending song "Small Two Of Pieces" sung by n...

Featuring Illusion of Gaia, Amilcare Ponichelli and more. Greetings fellow game music lovers, as the days are getting darker again one finds themselves increasingly introspective and brooding, with the thoughts repreatedly drifting awa...

Featuring Xenogears, Freddie Hubbard and more. Greetings fellow game music lovers, a new week and another song from Xenogears (1998) for examination. This time it is the final boss theme in the fight against the man-made god Deus, whic...

Featuring Lufia 2 - Rise of the Sinistrals and Benjamin Britten. Greetings fellow game music lovers, after the burning heat comes the raging storm which blows with such intensity that the sidewalks flow over and you can watch other peo...

Featuring Xenogears and Davy Spillane. Greetings fellow game music lovers, starting the final part of Mitsuda season it has finally come to this: A game-pop music comparison featuring Xenogears (1998), the other great work of Mitsuda b...

Featuring Sonic the Hedgehog, Tetsuji Hayashi and more. Greetings fellow game music lovers, in the heat of the summer night the time has come for another game/pop music comparison featuring the original Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) featur...

Featuring Chrono Trigger and several. Greetings fellow game music lovers, I decided to make one final Chrono Trigger (1995) outtakes release to round things off. First we have the song "Underground Sewer" which plays in, well, the titl...

Featuring Balloon Kid, Cinderella etc. Greetings fellow game music lovers, the heat is melting my brain and so I can only offer a mini update today. It is for Nintendos charming balloon flying game for the Nintendo Gameboy from 1990, "...

Featuring Chrono Cross and several. Greetings fellow game music lovers, another round of Chrono Cross related outtakes with stuff that wasn't good enough for a full entry. First we have the song "Magical Dreamers - The Wind, the Stars ...

Featuring Sonic 3 and old circus music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, today's topic is a song that has been analyzed by a lot of people already: Carnival Night Zone from 1994's Sonic the Hedgehog 3. But because I found some new i...

Featuring Chrono Cross, old-time pop and more. Greetings fellow game music lovers, now that the main part of Chrono Cross (1999) is over, some more outtakes that may not be as good as the main findings but provide some interesting poin...

Featuring Zelda 2 - The Adventure Of Link, New Wave and more. Greetings fellow game music lovers, it has been a while since I did a Zelda entry, hasn't it? Yet there is so much to do... Anyways, today's topic is a song form the second ...

Featuring Radical Dreamers and multiple sources and genres. Greetings fellow game music lovers, before we go to the Chrono Cross outtakes, I want to squeeze something in between: The first quasi sequel to Chrono Trigger, Radical Dreame...

Featuring Illusion Of Gaia and Modest Mussorgsky. Greetings fellow game music lovers, another mini update because my health is not so well. It is from the 1994 Snes game "Illusion of Gaia" by Enix/Quintet which in Europe was released a...

Featuring Chrono Cross and mostly country rock. Greetings fellow game music lovers, we started Mitsuda season with a look at the opening "Time's Scar" of Chrono Cross (1999), so it is inevitable that we have a look at the credit song "...

Featuring Rudra No Hihou and country rock. Greetings fellow game music lovers, in the not-so-heat of the summer, another sample from one of the Squaresoft games that never made it outside Japan, Rudra No Hihou (1996). This time it is t...

Featuring Chrono Cross and 80s rock. Greetings fellow game music lovers, another sunday, another Chrono Cross (1999) song comparison day, this time featuring another import from Radical Dreamers, the rather bittersweet "Star-Stealing G...

but no strawhat. Featuring Terranigma and Kaguya Hime. Greetings fellow game music lovers, another mini update from the Blazer game that never reached U.S. shores, Terranigma (1995). Our focus is the appropriately named song "Call at a...

Featuring Chrono Cross and country rock. Greetings fellow game music lovers, another sunday, another Mitsuda entry. Again from Chrono Cross (1999), this time the focus of interest is the song "Dream Of The Shore Near Another World" the...

Featuring Sailor Moon: Another Story, Nightlife Unlimited and Off Course. Greetings fellow game music lovers, for today's mini update, another Sailor Moon game: Sailor Moon: Another Story (1995) for the Super Famicom. One of the few Sa...

Featuring Chrono Cross and several Folk Rock artists. Greetings fellow game music lovers, the Chrono Cross (1999) portion of Mitsuda season has finally arrived and what could suit better for opening it up than the opening song, "The Sc...

Featuring Shinobi and The Brecker Brothers. Greetings fellow game music lovers, the heat is rising again and I spend much of my time in the office these days, so I just make a mini update today: The topic is a short sample that plays f...

Featuring Chrono Trigger, Synth Pop and more. Greetings fellow music lovers, today, I shall end the Chrono part of Mitsuda month. Originally I planned another classic entry, but it didn't turn out to be that good so I looked through my...

Featuring McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure and Scritti Politti. Greetings fellow game music lovers, third classic entry for this vacation, presented by OCRemix chat user LazyGecko (thank you for this). It features the game "McDonalds...