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So many newcomers this week! And not the stupid kind from Alien Nation. Damn, Slags. Thanks to everyone who submitted!
There is an insane amount of variety in this week’s selections Daniel Feit brings a bit a rock and J. Cosmo Cohen donated some electronica. And what’s that over here? A traditional sounding Japanese song using the shakahachi submitted by Bitmob’s own Jasmine Maleficent Rea?
Hit the jump to hear all the great music!
Newer newcomers should make sure to check out the latter portion of the post for submission instructions.
There are two ways to listen:
Method 1: Pick and Choose
My Selections
3. Brave Fencer Musashi – Allucaneat Palace Theme*
Community Selections
5. Way of the Samurai 2 – A Pure Soul suggested by Jasmine Maleficent Rea
6. Battlefield Heroes – Main Theme suggested by Alex R. Cronk-Young
7. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Main Theme suggested by Lance Darnell
8. Tales of Legendia – Enemy Attack suggested by Chris Whitehead
9. Super Stardust HD – Lava Theme suggested by J. Cosmo Cohen
10. Grandia II – Fight!! Version 1 suggested by A.J. Minotti
11. Metal Slug 3 – Desert* suggested by Daniel Feit
12. Kirby’s Dreamland 3 – Ripple Field* suggested by Travis McReynolds
13. Secret of Evermore – Ebon Keep* suggested by Brian Shirk
14. Lufia II – The Last Duel suggested by Mark T. Whitney
15. Castle Crashers – Forest Entrance suggested by Evan Killham++good
Method 2: Let It Ride
(click here to listen in a separate window)
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 video game 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. To clarify, most will be suggested – hopefully songs I’ve never heard – and hopefully only a few will be chosen by me.
Ultimately, I would like enough suggestions to have it 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 submit multiple requests, I will not listen to any of them.
Again, only one submission response per person per post.
~James D., read at The Sophist, heard at, Sophist Radio
P.S. Bad Dudes is the best example of a terrible game with great music in all of gaming history.