For Episode 63, Brent and Rob return to an old topic: flying shoot ’em up games.  Brent talks about his big childhood crush on Madonna, while Rob reveals a much more unique childhood crush.  Who did little Switchy have a crush on back then?  Listen to the episode and find out!  It also seems as though Brent currently has a big crush on Genesis music.  And even aside from all the crush talk, this episode on flying shooters strangely ends up becoming a pretty romantic episode overall.  You’ll see.  Cheers!

Game – Composer – Song – Company – Console – Year (North American release unless otherwise indicated)

Darius Twin – Norihiro Furukawa (Wiz. Master), Pochi – Padi – Taito – SNES – 1991

Lightening Force – Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeshi Yoshida, Tomomi Ootani – Sand Hell (Stage 4A) – Technosoft – Genesis – 1992

Gunstar Heroes – Kazuo Hanzawa (N. Hanzawa) – Good Night, Baby! – Sega/Treasure – Genesis – 1993

Air Zonk – Daisuke Morishima, Matsukui – Stage 1 (Aqua Base) – Red Company/Hudson Soft – TurboGrafx-16 – 1992

Battle Ace – unknown – gameplay – Hudson Soft – SuperGrafx – 1989

Earth Defense Force – Tsukasa Tawada, Yasuhiko “Zep” Takashiba (arr.) – Naval Battle – Jaleco – SNES – 1992

Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warship – David Wise – Golden Warship Complete – Rare/Tradewest – NES – 1990

Xexyz – Hirohiko Takayama – Area Music (Armour) – Atlus/Hudson Soft – NES – 1990

Insector X – unknown – Skylight Tune (Round 2: Plateau Area) – Hot-B (dev.)/Sage Creations (pub.)/Taito (licensed by) – Genesis – 1990

Gokujou Parodius! – Shinji Tasaka, Motoaki Furukawa, Kenichi Matsubara, Seiichi Fukami, Hideto Inoue (Keroppi Inoue) (arr.), Nobuyuki Akena (arr.) – Loving Farewell – Konami – Super Famicom – 1994

Forgotten Worlds – Tamayo Kawamoto, Ippo Yamada (arr.) – Round 3 (Dust World 3) – Capcom/Sega – Genesis – 1989

Sky Kid – Junko Ozawa – Sky Kid March with Introduction – Namco/Sunsoft – NES – 1987

Phelios – Yoshinori Kawamoto – Staff Roll – Namco – Genesis – 1990

Star Soldier – Takeaki Kunimoto – Stage Music – Hudson Soft/Taxan – NES – 1989

Axelay – Taro Kudou – Colony – Konami – SNES – 1992