Dec 5, 2017
What does a nighttime drive through the city sound like? Here are thirty video games that attempt to answer that question. Starting with the theme to Toad's Turnpike from Mario Kart 64, this episode explores a lesser-known type of video game music: "chill metropolis" or "skyscraper nocturne" or whatever else you want to call it. Featuring titles from Sega, Nintendo, Capcom, Square and more. Track listing: 0:07: Intro / Takashi Tateishi / Mega Man 2 1:30: Crash Man / Takashi Tateishi / Mega Man 2 3:14: Toad's Turnpike / Kenta Nagata / Mario Kart 64 4:56: Big Blue / Yumiko Kanki and Naoto Ishida / F-Zero 6:56: Glittertown / Tomoya Tomita and Minako Hamano / Wario Land: Shake It! 8:29: Vanilla Lake / Soyo Oka / Super Mario Kart Beta 9:35; Pyoro Part Three / Ryoji Yoshitomi and Kyoko Miyamoto / WarioWare: Mega Microgame$ 12:42: Fetus of God / Takayuki Iwai and Masato Kouda / DarkStalkers 3: Jedah's Damnation 14:37: Moonlight / Hideki Okugawa / Street Fighter 3: Third Strike 16:01: Subway Park / Capcom Team / Final Fight 17:29: Scala / Capcom Team / Street Fighter Alpha 3 18:48: Boomer Kuwanger / Yuko Takehara / Mega Man X 21:26: Spring Yard Zone / Masato Nakamura / Sonic the Hedgehog 22:13: Star Light Zone / Masato Nakamura / Sonic the Hedgehog 23:05: Keep the Groovin' / Masato Nakamura / Streets of Rage / 26:24: Mellow Groove / John Baker / ToeJam & Earl 28:00 Planet Freon / Tomoko Sasaki / Ristar 29:23: Cylic’s Stage / Hikoshi Hashimoto / Cosmic Carnage 30:34: Beyond the Galaxy / Koichi Namiki / Galaxy Force II 32:04: Wolf / Takayuki Nakamura / Virtua Fighter 36:15: Under Her Control / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VIII 37:37: Ending / Jean Baudlot and Fabrice Visserot / Flashback 39:22: Area H / Fujii Minae, Saito Minae, Akihiro Akamatsu and Sachiko Oita / Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2 40:24: Warth / Ippo Takeuchi and M. "Gaki-Chan" Nakagaki / Phantasy Star 4 42:90: Act 4, Part 2 / Keiji Yamagishi and Ryuichi Nitta / Ninja Gaiden 43:18: Ruins of Lab 16 / Yasunori Mitsuda / Chrono Trigger 44:13: Remains of the Factory / Yasunori Mitsuda / Chrono Trigger 47:44: Last Wave / Hiroshi_Kawaguchi / Outrun 49:03: Sunset Coastline / Nobuo Uematsu / Rad Racer 50:02: BGM 1 / Hikoshi Hashimoto / Racing Hero 51:13: Track 1 + Track 2 + Track 6 / Takami Asano / Chase HQ 53:26: Track 1 / Barry Leitch / Top Gear 57:19: Oppressed People / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VII 59:09: Drifting Away / Ryoji Yoshitomi and Kyoko Miyamoto / WarioWare: Mega Microgame$ /