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553: Episode 553 Preview: Retronauts Radio Summer 2023

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Technology, Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Parish spins some analog tunes, sharing the highlights of recent classic game music releases including Gimmick!, Persona, Phantasy Star III, Virtua Fighter, Suikoden, and more. PLUS: Vintage tape cassettes and City Pop!

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0:00.0

You're listening to a preview of a patron-exclusive episode of Reternuts.

0:05.0

If you enjoy what you hear here, you can listen to the whole thing by going to patreon.com

0:09.6

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0:15.3

In addition to this episode, you'll also get access to a backlog of episodes stretching

0:19.7

back bi-weekly for three years, plus Discord access and mini-podcasts and columns by Diamond

0:26.2

Fight.

0:27.2

It's a lot of value for your money.

0:28.5

So enjoy the music and head over to patreon.com slash Reternuts.

0:58.5

All right, one last stop off for Ship to Shore Fono with Sweet Good End.

1:28.4

This is one of the all-time, great RPGs, it's a little slight, and it's kind of like

1:34.8

a prologue to one of the real great RPGs of all-time, which was Sweet Good End 2, but we're

1:41.0

just going to talk about Sweet Good End 1 or Ginzo Sweet Good End if you're nasty.

1:46.3

The soundtrack I think actually punches above the game's weight class.

1:50.6

It's one of those cases where the game is pretty good, it has a lot of good ideas, it's

1:57.3

very breezy, but the soundtrack is just so, so much better than the actual RPG itself

2:05.6

that, you know, it just, it really elevates the material.

2:10.3

This game has that distinctly mid-1990s Konami sound that you get in games like police

2:16.7

knots and vandal hearts.

2:18.5

It's, there's a lot of reverb, but there's just something very distinct about the instrumentation

2:24.1

that the composer's used.

2:25.7

The composer's being Konami Kukaya Club, the mysterious entity that seems to have composed

2:32.3

all of Konami's music.

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