Bitmob Community Jukebox #7: Comeuppance Edition

In  this episodes of the Jukebox, a certain community member gets his comeuppance. I’m not going to say who, but, you’ll see.

Also we’ve had some violations of the submissions guidelines I’ve outlined in previous entries of the Jukebox. One entry per person folks. I’ve offered a one time reprieve for violators, but in the future I will not listen to any submissions that include more than one song. Hit the jump to find out more about the rules, and more importantly about who got his or her due! (Also, read on for more new information about how the fifteen songs will be chosen.

For all you newcomers, here’s how it is. Even though I’ve done a Meet the Mob, there is something important you should know about me.For some reason, over the years, my mind has acted as a sort of a Roledex for great videogame ditties.  (For all you youngsters out there, a Rolodex is an archaic device that people used to keep important contact information on. I guess it’s sort of like an abacus at this point.)

Because of this, every Monday I will be posting fifteen well-known and not-so-well-known videogame songs.

There’s a catch however; I will not be providing all of the songs; I’ll provide only the remainder of the total fifteen. This is a revision of the original rules; I’m going to keep it fluid so that I can get as many community songs on each list as possible. To clarify, the rest will be suggested – hopefully songs I’ve never heard – and out of all of the suggestions, I will choose from the submissions to round out the fifteen.

Ultimately, I would like enough suggestions to have is so that five or even one song is donated by myself, thus truly making it the Community Jukebox.

It’s important to note that all submissions will be credited to the community members who provided them.

The only guidelines are that any song chosen must be from a non-music game, or from a music game with original content. Licensed songs are also OK, but they must be from something other than a music game.

This means that Fallout and Grand Theft Auto songs are fair game, whereas Guitar Hero and Rock Band songs aren’t. If licensed songs become too prolific, however, I may stop taking them as submissions.

Also, to note, I will try my hardest  to find the original names of every song, yours or mine, but if I can’t, I will give it a name, and mark it with an asterisk. In addition, all songs are set to open in a new tab, so feel free to click away and have them play in the background as you surf Bitmob or get some work done.

Songs appear in no particular order whatsoever, save that community submissions will be segmented from my choices and shown last.

Each week, I will also be choosing my favorite submission, The Double-Plus Good Pick of the Week. The winner will receive exactly nothing, except being last song with this beside their entry: ++good.

As a small guideline, if you’d like to win the The Double-Plus Good Pick of the Week, try to pick something obscure or, at the very least, recent. We all know titles like Mega Man and Final Fantasy had great music  in the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, and I will be featuring songs like these every week (that’s my bread and butter).

But, in the interest of keeping the Jukebox new and surprising,  if you can come up with a great song that I’ve forgotten, or, better yet, never heard, you’ll have a leg up on the competition. Just keep in mind what I said at the top, and if you’ve read my Meet the Mob, the size of my game case.

Either way, feel free to submit whatever you like. Please. I can’t reinforce enough that all submissions are welcome.

As an added bonus, I will also try to add an immediate comment about the awesomeness of the winner commenter’s song and why everyone else should pay special attention to it. This will be an in-joke for those who keep up.

Most importantly, since I hope to keep doing this for awhile, only one submission response per person per post. That way I’ll have less to parse, and you folks will be able to submit for an extended period of time. If you sumbit multiple requests, I will not listen to any of them.

Again, only one submission response per person per post.

Anyway, onto the show.

There are two ways to listen:

Method 1: Pick and Choose

1. Plants Vs Zombies – We Don’t Want Zombies on the Lawn*

2. Panzer Dragoon Saga – Village of the Seekers*

3. Animal Crossing – K.K. Ballad

4. Ecco the Dolphin – Opening Theme*

5. Super Mario RPG – Legend of the Seven Stars – Happy Parade, Delightful Parade

6. Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire – Xizor’s Palace Theme*

7.  Street Fighter II – Ryu Stage

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Community Jukebox

8. Mega Man 2 – Metal Man suggested by Alex R. Cronk-Young

9. Super Metroid – Ridley’s Hideout suggested by Alex Long

10. Final Fantasy IV – Within the Giant suggested by Brain Shirk

11. Top Gear 2 – Auckland suggested by Kyle Dormer

12. Guilty Gear X – Momentary Life suggested by Alexander Avila

13. Shenmue – Main Theme suggested by Aaron Thomas

14. Fallout 3 – Way Back Home by Bob Crosby suggested by Aaron Rivers

15. Bioshock – Beyond the Sea by Bobby Darin suggested by Lance Darnell++good (and an A+ for effort!)

Method 2: Let It Ride (click here to listen in a separate window)

~James D., read at The Sophist, heard at, Sophist Radio

P.S. I’m calling out Alexander Avila, Kyle Dormer, and, yes, site editor Aaron Thomas! One submission only guys. If people just start listing all of their favorite songs, and I took them as submissions, and everyone did this, I might eventually be trying to listen to 50 or 100 songs per post. If they were two minutes in length, that’d be 100 or 200 minutes. I love the Jukebox, but I ain’t got that amount of time to spend just parsing community submissions.