Ok, I realize I have gone over the evolution of the theme from the Final Fantasy series in this segment previously but with this article on Final Fantasy V, it will be the first proper look at a Uematsu composition…

While I have taken issue with certain titles and their “liberal” use of licensed music, it remains for many franchises as a necessary part of the industry….but does it have to? With the release of MadWorld on the Wii earlier…

As I have made previously clear in the earlier Music Monday segment featuring the “alternate” soundtracks to both Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana (as The Brink of Time and Secret of Mana+ respectively), I am a huge fan when…

No, we didn’t get to go to GDC, but we do talk about Link on a Train (actually, we really just talk about the new kid on the block, OnLive). Mike, Eric and Jenni discuss Storm Rise, the PS2 price drop and some other fun stuff. This week’s Music Monday steals the show with Highlights from Ocarina of Rhyme, a cool remix/mashup by TeamTeamwork featuring music from Zelda: Ocarina of Time and accapella work from some of the world’s best MCs… including a new never before heard track!

If you enjoyed this week’s special edition of Music Monday, read the full article, Music Monday: Hot Tracks from Hyrule.

For Music Monday this week I was lucky enough to interview the creator of the genius remix album, Ocarina of Rhyme, in which some of the most memorable music of the N64 era is smashed together with rhymes from some of the best MC’s around. The mind behind the album, TeamTeamwork, was nice enough to answer my questions, as well as providing an exclusive track not heard on the original album.

When you begin to examine the history of video game music on the PC, one piece of music is synonymous with both identifying a generation of games as well as the gamers that played them. I am of course speaking of the theme music from the 1993 genre defining release: Doom. When thinking of musical themes from games there are few that can even come close to the memorable nature that the song from E1M1, or as it is titles “At Doom’s Gate,” seems to capture. With the driving drums and guitars, the track just screams for the player to run as fast as possible, leaving a wake of destruction through the level. Sure the theme from world 1-1 of Super Mario Brothers is one of the most recognized songs in video game music, but it pales in comparison to the pure blood lusting motivation that E1M1 supplies.

When looking at legacy titles on the PC it is often easy to dismiss them as being nothing more then products of their time, with little to give to a post Crysis world. However when looking at the soundtracks of…

This week we are headed back in time to the early days of the Famicom Disk System in Japan with the 1986 release of Nazo no Murasame-jo, which Roughly translated is The Riddle of Murasame Castle. Coming on the heels of The Legend of Zelda, Murasame Castle, much like Kid Icarus is to Metroid, took the same style of play (top down overworld adventuring) but instead of having total freedom to move through the overworld switched to a linear format in which players had to defeat 4 castle bosses before the final showdown.

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When looking back at old video game soundtracks it is often important to put into context what else was happening at the time when the game was released. For this week when looking at Lufia and the Fortress of Doom’s contemporaries we can see that Final Fantasy IV had already been out in the United States for over 2 years, and Secret of Mana had been out for 2 months previous to it’s release. Both of these games had fantastic soundtracks, especially when looking at the type and variety of music and sounds that had been created for Secret of Mana.