Greetings fellow game music lovers, with the 35th anniversary of the original Goonies movie approaching, I think it is a good time to have a short look at some of the music the franchise has produced in the domain of video games, with ...

Featuring Mega Man X and Men Without Hats. Greetings fellow game music lovers, today's topic is the music to the fourth Sigma stage in the original Mega Man X game (1993). This short, vertical stage features an eerie tune consisting en...

Featuring Metal Gear Solid and Miklós Rózsa. Greetings fellow game music lovers, as you know people have been looking for similarities in their favourite pop culture work since pop culture started existing. Even for video...

Featuring Final Fantasy VII and Kraftwerk. Greetings, fellow music lovers. Today another classic finding featuring the main riff of the song "Anxious Heart" from Nobuos grade A soundtrack to Final Fantasy 7: And as comparison, the unu...

Featuring Super Mario Galaxy and Barbara Streisand. Greetings, due to work related absence, today I present another classic entry found by other people than myself. This time it's the platformer Super Mario Galaxy (2007), that continue...

Featuring Turtles (NES) and Van McCoy. Greetings, next week is busy for me, thus just a small update. It featurs the second stage theme of our favourite amphibian NES game, Turtles (1989): I think this sequence may be based on a stock...

Featuring To the Earth (NES) and Nirvana (UK). Greetings fellow game music lovers, nowadays, with the earth burning to a crisp and the international climate becoming more and more aggressive, some people feel the need to leave the...

Featuring Landstalker and Beethoven. Greetings fellow game music lovers, with a new heat record broken here these days, I feel the sudden urge to emigrate to an island. How about Spitsbergen? Or a fantasy island, where the climate is s...

Greetings fellow game music lovers, with the temperatures on the rise again it is time for a small breather. Also, sad for the action movie world, Rutger Hauer has died. Thus, I present you a number of game songs which may or may not h...

Greetings fellow game music lovers, it has been a while since I made a Sega entry, but good music is not stuck to one platform and it is always good to have some variety. As the older ones among us may remember, before Sonic became the...

Hello fellow game music lovers, we didn't have a Breath of Fire entry yet, did we? Which is sad, since Capcom has served us several high quality compositions, that don't have to hide from what Squaresoft has achieved. One of them is th...

Tags: Zelda 3, Mega Man 2, Final Fantasy VI Hello, I've decided to bring some more Outtakes since I think they are at least worth a look: 1) Zelda 3 - A Link To The Past (1991): Can - Aumgn (1971): Maybe a little fat fetched, but I t...

Greetings fellow music lovers, this is my 50th entry for this blog. Celebration! Who'd guess I would make it this far.  But I have found so much stuff, I'll probably be in for one or the other interesting entry, so stay tuned for...

Greetings fellow game music lovers, the weather has cooled down and I don't feel the urge to see a doctor anymore. Except maybe for one doctor: Dr. Mario (NES, 1990). Hearing the title theme of this game, I cannot shake off the feeling...

Hello game music lovers, since Treasure Hunter G is already on the table, let's have another look at a comparatively obvious reference late in the soundtrack, the song "Go Red Team, Go White Team! Rah Rah Rah": which, as many people p...

Greetings fellow music lovers, today's topic is a song from the rather obscure japanese game RPG "Treasure Hunter G", a game developed by Sting for the Super Famicom and pubished by RPG powerhouse Squaresoft (1996). It was the last gam...

Heat. Heat. More heat. The thermometer in my small apartment is beyond 91°F and I feel every particle of it. The hotter the heat, the more the heat takes control of your fine-grained brain processes. First, it goes dull. ...

Greetings, as a way to round off the Uematsu run I have currently going I'd like to introduce one more comparison I have up my sleeve, again from Final Fantasy VI. It concerns the theme of Shadow, the elusive ninja who doesn't like ope...

Greetings fellow game music lovers, as a quasi-follow up to last weeks Terra, today's topic is the song "Crystal Tower" from its predecessor Final Fantasy III (1990), the song that plays in the very last dungeon. You should have had a ...

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...