Episode 29 - Catch a Groove

Shujin Academy VGM Club

It’s a groovy VGM party with all these hip swinging songs that have a feel-good rhythm!

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.

If you want to reach me, you can find me on Mastodon at @[e-mail] or on Discord as ProfessorTom#7512. I’m also on both Tumblr and Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. You can email me at [e-mail]. Episodes of the show are posted on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw6CIUs81aap58U1EuaaFdA, and all of my links can be found on my Linktree site at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. Look for new episodes on Thursdays whenever I get them done, which is typically once or twice a month.

I had a guest appearance on last week’s episode of fellow game music podcast VGMporium, where host RayjKayj and I talked all about music from games about investigations. You know, detectives, mysteries, stuff like that. If you’ve got a hankerin’ for more Professor Tom, head over to https://vgmporium.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/episode-68/ to check it out.

If you liked this episode, you should go back and check out episode 25: Cool Glasses, Cool Glasses! It’s a cousin to this one, with a similar musical hangout type of vibe. You can hear it at https://shujinacademyvgmclub.podbean.com/e/episode-25-cool-glasses-cool-glasses/

Track Listing:

00:00 - Show Tagline

00:05 - Shin Megami Tensei: If - School (composer: Tsukasa Masuko)

00:35 - Talk Segment 1

02:53 - Planet Puzzle League - Neon Isotope (composer: Masanobu Matsunaga)

06:17 - Pictionary (NES) - Drawing Game (composer: Tim Follin)

09:01 - Arcus Odyssey (Super Famicom) - Castomira - Defeated (composer: Motoi Sakuraba)

12:03 - The House of the Dead 2 (Dreamcast) - Training Mode (composers: Tetsuya Kawauchi and Haruyoshi Tomita)

13:19 - Legend of Mana (PlayStation) - To the Sea (composer: Yoko Shimomura)

16:02 - Brain Lord (SNES) - Town of Arcs (composer: Masanao Akahori)

18:14 - Talk Segment 2

21:13 - Galactic Pinball (Virtual Boy) - Moonman Fandango (composers: Kenji Yamamoto and Masaru Tajima)

23:48 - Persona 5 - Wicked Plan (composer: Shoji Meguro)

26:10 - Pokemon Trading Card Game - Battle Center (composer: Ichiro Shimakura)

27:44 - Metal Max Returns (Super Famicom) - Let’s Meet Dr. Minchi! (composer: Satoshi Kadokura)

28:49 - Pictionary (NES) - Mini-Game Theme 2 (composer: Tim Follin)

31:26 - The Flintstones (SNES) - Unused Song 1 (composers: Keith Tinman and Jonathan Dunn)

34:53 - Talk Segment 3 (includes excerpt from “Strip Club” from Hunie Pop 2, composed by Jonathan Wandag)

38:48 - Persona Q 2 - Blind City (composer: Atsushi Kitajoh)

45:33 - The Flintstones (SNES) - Password Screen (composers: Keith Tinman and Jonathan Dunn)

48:08 - Pokemon Crystal - Goldenrod Game Corner (composers: Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, and Morikazu Aoki)

51:06 - YuYu Hakusho Makyou Touitsusen: Imbalanced Kiss (aka Unbalanced Kiss) (composers: Hiro Takahashi, Aki Hata, Matsuko Mawatari, T.K.O.)

54:01 - Crusader of Centy - Water Lily (composer: Motokazu Shinoda)

56:22 - Outro Talk Segment

58:49 - Shin Megami Tensei - Kichijoji (composer: Tsukasa Masuko)