Episode 35 - Rose-Colored Pixels II: Back to Happyland!

Shujin Academy VGM Club

Let’s all go to our happy place with this great collection of cheerful tracks!

Special thanks for this episode goes out to:

• Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art and also for that coveted Bluesky invite. 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.

During the show, I mentioned an episode of the Super Marcato Bros. podcast featuring the music of composer Masashi Hamauzu. You can check it out at http://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/2019/4/7/episode-364-masashi-hamauzu and hear what the Marcatos had to say about Hamauzu’s work.

I also mentioned my VGM podcast bro RayjKayj and how he introduced me (and other people who listen to his show) to the Mega Man Star Force soundtracks. You can find VGMporium at https://vgmporium.wordpress.com/ or on Spotify, Apple, and all the other podcast-promoting places.

If you liked this show and you want to check out the original Rose-Colored Pixels episode I did in October 2022, you can find it at https://shujinacademyvgmclub.podbean.com/e/episode-22-rose-colored-pixels/ or anywhere you get this show. I also brought up episode 20 about big city music, which you can find at https://shujinacademyvgmclub.podbean.com/e/episode-20-welcome-to-metro-city/. (My Podbean statistics tell me that episode 20 is not well-loved, but I think it’s actually really good and I’d strongly recommend that you check it out.)

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Track Listing:

00:00 - Show Tagline

00:05 - Ganbare! Golf Boys (PC Engine) - ‘Sun Sun’ Samba (composer: Atsuhiro Motoyama)

01:40 - Talk Segment 1

06:06 - Pokemon Trading Card Game (Game Boy) - Pause Menu (composer: Ichiro Shimakura)

07:41 - Tokimeki Memorial (PC Engine CD) - Smash a Home Run [Baseball Match] (composers: Mikio Saito, Seiya Murai, Miki Higashino, and Hiro Noguchi)

08:35 - Super Baseball 2020 (SNES) - Pitching & Fielding (composers: J. Kuramochi and Hiroo Ikeda)

11:57 - Pilotwings - Hangglider (composer: Soyo Oka)

13:33 - Mega Man and Bass (aka Rockman and Forte) (Super Famicom) - Tenguman (composers: Toshihiko Horiyama, Naoshi Mizuta, and Akari Kaida)

15:09 - Persona 3 (PS2) - Afternoon Break (composer: Shoji Meguro)

17:27 - Landstalker (Genesis) - Bustling Street (composer: Motoaki Takenouchi)

19:50 - SaGa Frontier (PSX) - Blue Town (composer: Kenji Ito)

24:02 - Talk Segment 2

27:27 - Fantasy Zone (Arcade) - Opa Opa! (composer: Hiroshi Kawaguchi)

29:50 - McDonald’s Treasure Land (Genesis) - Stage 2: Magical Town (composer: Katsuhiko Suzuki)

31:45 - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Genesis) - Angel Island Zone Act 1 (composers: Tatsuyuki Maeda, Sachio Ogawa, Masayuki Nagao, Masanori Hikichi, and Tomonori Sawada)

34:06 - Persona 4 Dancing All Night (Vita) - Specialist (“NEVER MORE” P4D EDIT ver.) (original composer: Shoji Meguro; remixed by Atsushi Kitajoh)

36:22 - Persona Q2 (3DS) - Popcorn (composer: Atsushi Kitajoh)

39:07 - Fantasian (iOS) - The Cinderella Tri-Stars (composer: Nobuo Uematsu)

42:32 - Pokemon Crystal (Game Boy)- Buena’s Password Show (composers: Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, and Morikazu Aoki)

44:22 - Live A Live (Super Famicom) - Nice Weather, Ain’t It? (composer: Yoko Shimomura)

47:05 - Talk Segment 3

51:49 - World of Final Fantasy (multiplatform) - Happy Melody (composer: Masashi Hamauzu)

53:26 - Yoshi’s Safari (SNES) - Crescent Beach (composers: Yoshiki Nishimura, Miyuki Uemura, and Yasushi Tokunaga)

54:52 - The Flash (SMS) - Rollercoaster Runner (composer: Jeroen Tel)

56:45 - Super Adventure Island (SNES) - The Island of Everlasting Summer (composer: Yuzo Koshiro)

1:01:30 - Persona 3 Portable (PSP) - After School (composer: Shoji Meguro)

1:03:46 - Shining Force (Genesis) - Town (aka Cheerful Street Corner) (composer: Masahiko Yoshimura)

1:05:19 - Pokemon Black and White (DS) - Bicycle (composer: Hitomi Sato)

1:07:15 - Mega Man Star Force 2 (DS) - My Friends (composer: Marika Suzuki)

1:08:05 - Romancing SaGa 3 (Super Famicom) - The Great Arch (composer: Kenji Ito)

1:09:39 - Outro Talk Segment

1:11:22 - Final Fantasy III (Famicom) - Cute Little Tozas (composer: Nobuo Uematsu)