Brent and Rob funk things up on Episode 72 with a genre focus on 8-bit and 16-bit era funk music from video games. These tracks are not just funky, these tracks are funk. So turn up the volume and get down! Full track listing below.
Game – Composer – Song – Company – Console – Year (North American release unless otherwise indicated)
Home Improvement: Power Tool Pursuit! – Jim Wallace, Steve Melillo – Dialogue – Imagineering Inc./Absolute Entertainment – SNES – 1994
ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron – John Baker – Mellow Groove – Johnson Voorsanger Productions/Sega – Genesis – 1994
Maniac Mansion – Dave Govett – Michael – Jaleco/LucasArts – NES – 1990
Syvalion – Hayato Matsuo, Koichi Sugiyama (advisor) – A Little Harder – Taito/Toshiba – Super Famicom – 1992
ToeJam & Earl – John Baker – Funkotronic Beat – Sega – Genesis – 1991
Hourai Gakuen no Bouken! The Adventures of Hourai High School – Hitoshi Sakimoto – Dungeon – J-Wing/Dynamite – Super Famicom – 1996
Earthbound – Hirokazu Tanaka – Battle Against a Weird Opponent – Nintendo – SNES – 1995
Altered Beast – Tohru Nakabayashi, Kazuhiko Nagai (arr.) – Game Over, Name Entry – Sega – Genesis – 1989
ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron – John Baker – Funk Down Under – Johnson Voorsanger Productions/Sega – Genesis – 1994
Ganbare Goemon 2: Kiteretsu ShÅgun Magginesu – Kazuhiko Uehara,Tomoya Tomita, Nobuyuki Akena – Tunnel Passage – Konami – Super Famicom – 1993
Star Fox – Hajime Hirasawa – Fortuna – Nintendo – SNES -1993
McDonald’s Treasure Land Adventure – Katsuhiko Suzuki,Satoshi Murata – Magical Town – Treasure/Sega – Genesis – 1993
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 – C. Cirocco Jones, Brad Buxer, Michael Jackson – Marble Garden Zone 1 – Sega – Genesis – 1994
So happy to see Panic on Funkotron gettin’ represented! Easily my favorite childhood game, and yet nobody ever knows what it is when I bring it up. /sad funk trombone