Featuring Illusion of Gaia and mostly Synth Pop. Greetings fellow game music lovers, before the new month begins, I dare to return to a major SNES rpg one more time: Illusion of Gaia from 1994. Shortly before the end of the game there ...

Featuring several Rare songs and mostly synth pop. Greetings fellow game music lovers, as promised here is the final cleanup of David Wise month with some outtakes for games we didn't have a look at yet. First we have a song with vague...

Featuring Bubble Bobble and early 20th century pop. Greetings fellow game music lovers, this entry is a quasi update to a Twitter entry I made several months ago regarding a possible inspiration for the original Bubble Bobble theme fro...

Featuring Donkey Kong Country and mostly 80s synth pop. Greetings fellow game music lovers, I decided to make another separate entry for the remaining Donkey Kong findings. First we have the final boss song of Donkey Kong Country (1994...

Featuring Gradius 3 and some 50s pop. Greetings fellow game music lovers, I feel pretty ill these days, so I can only give you a mini update these wednesday. It features one of the hardest space shooters of its time, Gradius 3 Arcade/S...

Featuring Donkey Kong Country and some jazz music. Greetings fellw game music lovers, unfortunatly, after reexamining the Battletoads samples I came to the conclusion they aren't that good so I decided to skip directly to Donkey Kong C...

Featuring Landstalker and Blues. Greetings fellow game music lovers, another Sega entry featuring your favourite isometric dilemma, Landstalker for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis (1993). The game where you search a suprisingly mine...

Greetings fellow game music lovers, it's still David Wise month and we're still with the classic Wizards & Warriors tetralogy. Now that we had a look at the first, second and Xth game, the third one "Kuros - Visions of Power" (1992...

Featuring Resident Evil and 70s Disco/J-Pop. Greetings fellow game music lovers, after such a long time, I just had to make another Resident Evil entry, this time for the first entry of the franchise (1996) whose soundtrack was compose...

Featuring Wizards & Warriors 2 - Iron Sword and Ska punk. Greetings fellow game music lovers, David Wise month continues unhampered and we are still with Wizards & Warriors, this time the second part of the NES trilogy, Iron Sw...

Featuring Animaniacs (SNES) and several 50s artists. Greetings fellow game music lovers, todays phinding is from a game about one of the great cartoon shows of the 90s: Animaniacs. An affectionate homage to the cartoon short shows of t...

Featuring Wizards & Warriors X and Kansas. Greetings fellow game music lovers, today we start a new month featuring one of Rares - and the gaming industries overall - prolific composers, David Wise. He started out as a part-time co...

Featuring Super Mario Bros. 3 and Nat 'King' Cole. Greetings fellow game music lovers, vacation is over, but the yearning for the sun and the sea remains. Did you know that apparently more people are killed by falling coconuts each yea...

Featuring Virtua Bart and Mr. Softee. Greetings fellow game music lovers, on the last day of my vacation I present you another classic game/pop music comparison from the 1994 Simpsons game "Virtua Bart" which was released for the SNES ...

Featuring Fatal Fury and Robert Miles. Greetings fellow game music lovers, another wednesday, another classic entry to spend the time: From the last Fatal Fury game, Garou - Mark of the Wolves (1999), Rock Howards theme: And Robert Mi...

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 ...