Featuring Donkey Kong, New Wave and Salsa. Greetings fellow game music lovers, still in summer mode. Longing for the island. Strange plants and wildlife. Unless one of them kidnaps your girlfriend. Then you need a hammer. Which saves y...

Featuring Kabuki Quantum Fighter, Funk and Calypso. Greetings fellow game music lovers, in the heat of the summer, another sample from an NES classic: Kabuki Quantum Fighter from 1990. A platformer where your player character is transf...

Featuring Doom and Mambo. Greetings fellow game music lovers, the summer and the heat rob me the energy to write an exhaustive article, so I'll make it short: Today's entry is about Doom (1993). Originally for PC it is one of the defin...

Featuring Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back for NES and Franz Schubert. Greetings fellow game music lovers, I decided to put Lufia on the low flame for the time being and now plan on doing a smaller series of less known games during ...

Featuring Lufia 2 - Rise of the Sinistrals ans several genres.  Greetings fellow game music lovers, as promised, another track for Lufia 2 - Rise of the Sinistrals for SNES from 1995. This little mischievous tune plays in the Lexi...

Featuring Lufia II:Rise of the Sinistrals and japanese pop. Greetings fellow music lovers, we are in the midst of summer, so I decided to go into full summer mode by having a look at some of games that used to have moderate success bac...

Featuring Rainbow Islands and Salsa. Greetings fellow game music lovers, the heat wave is waltzing over central europe and this leads me to make this entry a little bit shorter than usual. But what shall the topic be? I'm thinking abou...

Featuring R-Type Final and japanese pop music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, thanks to a nice response from the Shmups community, I decided to make another entry for this genre. It concerns R-Type Final (2003), the swan-song of t...

Featuring Gradius Gaiden and caribbean music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, in the beginning of June, I'd like to start a short fling with a type of game that has been neglected here at PhilsPhindings a bit: Shmups. You and your ...

Featuring Super Mario Land and Soca. Greetings fellow game music lovers, we can't just get enough of Mario, can we? But it doesn't necessary have to be Kondo all the time. So why don't we have another look at a song from the Gameboy ve...

Featuring Super Mario World 2 - Yoshis Island and Conga. Greetings fellow game music lovers, we're still in the caribbean and I just cannot stop myself from going back to Mario. But who cares? This one is a treasure cove. Especially th...

Featuring Zelda - Ocarina of Time and mostly caribbean music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, caribbean series continues, but due to my vacation my comment has to be a little shorter than usual. Nevertheless, I can keep up the mood...

Featuring Super Mario Land, caribbean music and Mozart. Greetings fellow game music lovers, I promised another Mario entry and here it is: Super Mario Land from 1989. It features a soundtrack by Hirokazu Tanaka that, while adhering to ...

Featuring Super Mario World and caribbean music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, you can't imagine how long I waited until I could use that title :) . Anyways, the nature of Kondos musical tastes pretty much mandates that every sec...

Featuring Zelda 3 - A Link to the Past and caribbean music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, caribbean weeks continue and knowing Kondos fondness of the genre it was inevitable that we have a look at another song by him: The music o...

Featuring Final Fantasy VI and caribbean music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, I know we don't have Final Fantasy month at the moment, but since caribbean music also seems to have found its way into the FF franchise I think it's a...

Featuring Mega Man 2 and Calypso. Greetings fellow game music lovers, caribbean series is in full swing and after Mario we now have a look at another great game series of the 80s: Mega Man. I already mentioned possible influences on th...

Featuring Super Mario Bros. and caribbean music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, starting our new series, the focus of the following weeks is caribbean music which, all things considered, was pretty good to japanese gaming music. F...

Featuring Kid Icarus and mostly latin music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, I want to use this submission to give some some final thoughts about melodies from Kid Icarus (1986) I haven't addressed yet. First, we have the Sky World...

Featuring Kid Icarus and more latin music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, as promised, we continue this week with Kid Icarus (1986) and since we had the Underworld last week it is fittingly followed by Angel land. The more we dig ...

Featuring Kid Icarus and marching music / latin jazz. Greetings fellow game music lovers, after starting with an entry for the overall soundtrack last week, now we shall have a look at some individual songs from the Kid Icarus (1986) s...

Featuring Kid Icarus (NES) and military music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, finally, I came that rested in my heart for a long time: The original Kid Icarus from 1986 with everyone's favourite bow-wielding angel Pit. After recei...

Featuring Street Fighter 2 and Baroque / Rock. Greetings fellow game music lovers, as promised, here is another entry from Street Fighter 2 (1992). Another theme that so far has received relatively little attention: The ending theme. I...

Featuring Street Fighter 2 - The World Warrior and Funk. Greetings fellow game music lovers, today we have a a franchise that I haven't visited in a long time: Street Fighter 2, the game that revolutionized fighting games in 1991. If y...

Featuring Secret of Mana and japanese 80s pop. Greetings fellow game music lovers, as promised another entry for Secret of Mana for Secret of Mana from 1993. This time it's for "Spirit of the Night", the music that plays during some of...

Featuring Trials of Mana and spanish guitar music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, I hinted at the possibility of another Zelda entry, but I think I need to do some more research on this one. Thus, instead something from a series I...

Featuring Zelda III - A Link to the Past and latin based pop. Greetings fellow game music lovers, as promised, another Zelda III (1991) entry. This time about one of the very first themes you encounter in the game: The song that plays ...

Featuring Zelda 3, jazz fusion and more. Greetings fellow game music lovers, as promised, another game-pop music comparison for Zelda 3 - A Link To The Past ( 1991 ). This time it is the song that plays on Death Mountain in the Dark Wo...

Featuring Zelda III - A Link to the Past, jazz and jazz inspired music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, after several weeks of pause the time has come for game-pop music comparisons again. And we start with an early but major game ...

Featuring Final Fantasy VI and baroque music. Greetings fellow game music lovers, last but not least, the last part for my first push on Dancing Mad from Final Fantasy VI (1994). After three levels and the mutated Esperoid, all that re...