New Age music to bring in the New Year.  This is Brent and Rob’s second time focusing on the New Age genre within video game music of the 8-bit and 16-bit era.  Sometimes more melodic, sometimes more ambient, the music in this episode is relaxing and also contemplative.  The boys also talk about hats.  Full track listing below.

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

New Horizons – Yoko Kanno – Mast in the Mist – Koei – SNES – 1994

Harvest Moon – Tsuyoshi Tanaka (CHACKey) – Star Night Festival – Natsume/Amccus – SNES – 1997

Xandra no Daibōken: Valkyrie to no Deai – Norihiko Togashi, Nakanobu, Ebihara – Song for the Golden Bird – Namco – Super Famicom – 1992

Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals – Yasunori Shiono – Town – Neverland/Natsume – SNES – 1996

Stealth – unknown – Mission Briefing – Hect – Super Famicom – 1992

Othello World – Kimitaka Matsumae, Manami Matsumae – Freedom Zone and Ocean Opening – Dice/Tsukuda Original – Super Famicom – 1992

Secret of Evermore – Jeremy Soule – Fields of Gothica – Square – SNES – 1995

Arcus Odyssey – Motoi Sakuraba – Act 2-1: Prison – Wolf Team/Renovation – Genesis – 1991

Famicom Jump II: Saikyou no Shichinin – Satoshi Kadokura – Theme Of Victory – Chunsoft/Bandai – Famicom – 1991

Bram Stoker’s Dracula – Matt Furniss – Vampyre Book – Sony Imagesoft – Genesis – 1993

Beyond Oasis – Yuzo Koshiro – Evil Territory – Ancient – Genesis – 1994

Elfaria II: The Quest of the Meld – Yukihide Takekawa – Boa Town – Red/Hudson – Super Famicom – 1995

Mario Paint – Kazumi Totaka, Ryoji Yoshitomi, Hirokazu Tanaka – Mysterious – Nintendo – SNES – 1992

Ranma 1/2: Akanekodan Teki Hihou – Toshio Okamoto – Cat Ghost King – Atelier Double/Toho – Super Famicom – 1993

Final Fantasy III – Nobuo Uematsu – The Phantom Forest – Square – SNES – 1994