Episode 33 - Rando Calrissian

Shujin Academy VGM Club

To the best of my knowledge, Billy Dee Williams has never listened to this show, but if he did, I’m sure he’d love this grab bag episode. Check it out and enjoy a bunch of songs that have been rolling around on my list of tracks to play!

Special thanks for this episode goes out to:

• Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.
• BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.
• Tycho and Gabe at venerable gaming webcomic Penny Arcade for coming up with the name “Rando Calrissian” in a long-ago strip they did about playing games online with strangers. I’ve shamelessly stolen that clever name for this episode, and I often find myself in lockstep with Tycho’s cynical observations about our society in general and gaming in particular.

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I mentioned my guest appearance on episode 68 of VGMporium, home to my VGM bro Rayjkayj. You can check it out here and listen to us talk about games involving investigations and quite a few other things. I highly recommend his show anyway; Rayjkayj is a fun host who covers cool topics.

Track Listing:

00:00 - Show Tagline

00:05 - Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (Mega Drive) - Character Select (composer: Aki Hata)

00:59 - Talk Segment 1

03:36 - Panel de Pon / Tetris Attack (SNES) - Thiana’s Stage / Forest Stage (composer: Masaya Kuzume)

05:59 - Famicom Tantei Club Part 2 (Famicom) - Ayumi (composer: Kenji Yamamoto)

08:55 - VA-11 Hall-A (multiplatform) - Snowfall (composer: Garoad)

11:39 - Seiken Densetsu 3 / Trials of Mana (Super Famicom) - Harvest November (composer: Hiroki Kikuta)

15:52 - Bionic Commando (NES) - Area 01 (composer Junko Tamiya and Harumi Fujita)

17:58 - Mach Rider (NES) - Track 4 (composer: Hideki Kanazashi)

19:39 - Talk Segment 2

22:26 - Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterfly (multiplatform) - Milk Honey Green Tea (composer: Andrew Jeremy)

28:04 - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (DS) - Phoenix Wright ~ Objection 2001 (composers: Masakazu Sugimori)

29:26 - Horizon Chase Turbo (multiplatform) - The Last Hurrah of a Video Game Composer (composer: Barry Leitch)

32:45 - Ikaruga (multiplatform) - Chapter 02: Trial (composer: Hiroshi Iuchi)

36:37 - Street Fighter (arcade) - Gen Theme (composer: Yoshihiro Sakaguchi)

38:21 - Golden Axe (arcade) - Wilderness (composer: You Takada)

42:51 - Talk Segment 3

46:11 - Military Madness (TurboGrafx-16) - Manual (composer: Jun Chikuma)

48:22 - Romancing SaGa (Super Famicom) - Deserted Village (composer: Kenji Ito)

50:50 - Fire Emblem Fates (3DS) - Curious Dining (composer: Takeru Kanazaki)

52:27 - Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga (PS2) - Manipura (composer: Shoji Meguro)

56:54 - Streets of Rage 4 - Next of Kin Showdown (composer: Das Mörtal)

1:00:15 - Persona 2: Eternal Punishment (PSP) - The Round Sun (composers: Toshiko Tasaki, Toshiki Konishi, and Atsushi Kitajoh)

1:04:15 - Outro Talk Segment

1:06:23 - Persona 4 (PS2) - Glimpse of a Memory (composer: Shoji Meguro)