Greetings fellow game music lovers, as so often, we return to Nobuo Uematsu and his works. I was sad to here these days that he has more or less retired from composing game soundtracks entirely due to recurring health problems: https:/...

Greetings fellow game music lovers, today's entry is about one of the more exotic entries in Squares RPG library, a japanese-only game for the Super Famicom released in 1996 at the end of the era of said console. It features a ragtag b...

Greetings fellow game music lovers, since we already had several entries about Nobuo Uematsu, it seems kind of fair that we have a look at Squares other great composer: Yasunori Mitsuda who attained fame by composing the soundtracks of...

Greetings fellow game music lovers, todays topic is the game "Super Ghouls And Ghosts", the third main entry in the Ghosts N Goblins saga after Ghouls N Ghosts released by Capcom in 1991 for the SNES. I make a first attempt to explain ...

Greetings fellow game music lovers, as a quasi-follow up to last times entry that featured the Cutman-chromatic fourth reference, I shall list some more games that I encountered who have songs that, at least in my opinion, fall in a qu...

Greetings fellow game music lovers, today's topic is a certain sequence from one of the more famous stages in the classic platformer Megaman 1 (1987), the chromatically (also) warm stage of Fireman, which makes both the song and the ga...

Greetings game music lovers, while my primary passion are platformers and rpgs, there was a time where I suddenly developed a knack for 2D shmups. R-Type, Darius, Radiant Silvergun ... I spent hours upon hours dodging and shooting thou...

Greetings fellow game music lovers, today we have a look at two samples from the popular puzzle game "Dr. Mario". Basically, the two samples you will hear most often if you play the game with a friend: I-showered-a-combo-on-someone and...

For the 30th entry of the primary blog, I have decided to return to the Contra series. This series has a special little jingle that you may occasionally get to hear if you start playing it at age 3 and go Super Saiyan no later than age...

Hello fellow game music lovers, today's topic is the slightly obscure western exclusive title Big Sky Trooper (SNES) from 1995: A central motiv, which is repeated in several songs throughout the game, reminds me to some extend of the ...

Greetings, for today I have a small collection of songs that may or may not have been inspired by Queen's "Stone Cold Crazy" (1974): Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NES Konami 1990: Mega Man X3 Capcom, 1995, Multi: Puzzle King Dance &a...

Good Wednesday to everybody, tonights entry is a little bit different from the others as you need to listen very closely and I'm also a little bit unsure myself, but I cannot get it out of my head. Today's topic is the Area 1 theme of ...

Yes, I know my vacation is over. But I have come to realize that since the T-Square can has already been opened, we may just as well finish it here and now: I don't think I have to explain to anyone what song this sounds like a fragme...

Vacation is over and we celebrate return by submitting another Sonic entry. This time it is the Invincibility/Super Sonic theme found in Sonic & Knuckles or Sonic 3 & Knuckles (1994):  By hearing this song one can make 3 ...

Greetings for my final classics entry before the end of my vacation. It features the well known Guile stage theme from Street Fighter 2 (1991): And without much comment the song "Travelers" from the japanese jazz fusion band T-Square:...

Greetings fellow game music lovers. Today's classic similarity is the title theme of the C64 version of the action classic "Turrican" (1990): And as a comparison, the theme "Escape" from the 1986 movie of the Transformers franchise: ...

Second classics entry, this time for the PC game Doom 2 (1994). The song "Running From Evil" (which plays in the very first level) has often been compared to sequences in Megadeths Hangar 18 (1990): Oh, but maybe one new fact: I thin...

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 ...