In today's episode Laura, Chris, and Joshua celebrate the anniversary of Nintendo's debut system! With the NES turning 42 years old and 40 in the US, we wanted to back and dig up some childhood favorites and jam out to chiptuney goodness. We travel to the moon, become a dinosaur, and dream a little dream while swinging around by our mechanical arm and punching things REALLY hard, to wake up and wonder if just maybe it was all real... And maybe it's time we go again?

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• (00:01) - (Talky Bits)
• (04:59) - Trog, "Title Screen - Stage 1"
• (06:41) - Trog, "Bonus Wave"
• (08:08) - (Talky Bits)
• (15:17) - Batman, "Streets of Desolation"
• (17:37) - Batman, "Boss"
• (19:00) - (Talky Bits)
• (28:13) - Bionic Commando, "Area 1"
• (30:24) - Bionic Commando, "Area 9"
• (31:54) - (Talky Bits)
• (38:18) - Monster Party, "Round 1-A"
• (39:05) - Monster Party, "Round 1-B"
• (39:58) - (Talky Bits)
• (48:13) - Ducktales, "Amazon Stage"
• (49:37) - Ducktales, "Moon Stage"
• (51:03) - (Talky Bits)
• (01:04:58) - Battletoads, "Title Theme"
• (01:06:16) - Battletoads, "Ragnarok Canyon"
• (01:08:31) - (Talky Bits)
• (01:18:07) - Maniac Mansion, "Opening Theme"
• (01:19:05) - Maniac Mansion, "Dave's Theme"
• (01:21:55) - (Talky Bits)
• (01:32:06) - Final Fantasy 3, "Let Me Know the Truth"
• (01:33:02) - Final Fantasy 3, "This is the Last Battle"
• (01:35:18) - (Talky Bits)
• (01:47:31) - Little Nemo The Dream Master, "Mushroom Forest"
• (01:49:05) - Little Nemo The Dream Master, "Flower Garden"

In today's episode Laura takes us on a genre hopping journey as she showcases some hidden gems from Xbox Game Pass. With a massive library of games to choose from Laura has picked nine games that have been available on Game Pass this past year that just maybe you've overlooked. So come on in and join us as we go from 80's run-and-guns to relaxing cooking sims and every game and musical genre in between!

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• (00:01) - Planet of Lana, "Desert Chase"
• (03:51) - (Talky Bits)
• (13:40) - Death's Door, "Beginner's Battle"
• (15:45) - (Talky Bits)
• (21:00) - Flock, "Flock"
• (22:02) - Flock, "Upland Thermals"
• (23:07) - (Talky Bits)
• (29:22) - Neon Abyss, "The Ballad of Jimmy"
• (30:12) - (Talky Bits)
• (37:01) - The Gunk, "Seeds (I)"
• (38:05) - The Gunk, "Gunk (I)"
• (39:06) - (Talky Bits)
• (48:07) - Mullet Madjack, "Jack the Mullet Mad"
• (50:41) - (Talky Bits)
• (01:01:07) - Chants of Sennaar, "Out of the Cavern and Into the Light"
• (01:03:39) - Chants of Sennaar, "Forgotten Bonds"
• (01:06:14) - (Talky Bits)
• (01:13:01) - Have a Nice Death, "Toxic Food Processing"
• (01:17:10) - Have a Nice Death, "Muzak, Sweet Muzak"
• (01:18:40) - Have a Nice Death, "Polluted Thanager!"
• (01:20:26) - (Talky Bits)
• (01:31:56) - Magical Delicacy, "Crossroads"

In today's episode Chris, Joshua, and Laura were tasked to bring in old songs, but remixed, rearranged, or just snazzed up into a new treat for our ears. Come on in and join us on rediscovering classic gaming songs that we all know and love... Through a new lense of piano, orchestra, fun house mirror worlds, electronica, or even just reinterpreted by the original developers years later.

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• (00:01) - 'Tetris Theme' - London Philharmonic Orchestra
• (03:20) - (Talky Bits)
• (14:20) - 'Uncharted Depths' from Mass Effect - Hy Bound
• (18:06) - (Talky Bits)
• (24:26) - 'Wep'keer' - Okami Piano Arrangements
• (28:38) - (Talky Bits)
• (35:05) - 'Suteki da Ne' from X - Wizard of Loneliness
• (37:42) - (Talky Bits)
• (44:19) - 'Main Theme of FFVII: Battle Edit' - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
• (47:52) - (Talky Bits)
• (52:15) - 'Stone Tower' from Children of Termina - Rozen
• (57:46) - (Talky Bits)
• (01:03:15) - 'Hopes and Dreams' from Undertale - Anamanaguchi
• (01:06:13) - (Talky Bits)
• (01:11:01) - 'Donkey Kong Theme' from Donkey Kong Country - David Wise
• (01:12:19) - (Talky Bits)
• (01:18:32) - 'The Wind Waker Title Theme' from Mario & Big Band Live - Yoshihiro Arita

[Potential NSFW warning, this wasn't meant to air so we're a bit more loose than usual with the language.]
In this special release straight from our Kingdom Hearts, come behind the scenes of BBB for a discussion on the totally normal relationships of Kingdom Hearts characters. We hope you enjoy as we look over an infograph and go down the Sora / Xehanort Trees to discover if Joshua should go back in and give the series another try or not.

Link to image to follow along!

In today's episode Chris brings us Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, a 2013 action JRPG developed and published by Square Enix on the Nintendo DS. It's a game who's series reputation for being as convoluted as it's naming structure, we focus on the most black sheep of all the games and it's oft-overlooked amazing soundtrack. Music is composed by the legendary Yoko Shimomura.

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• (00:01) - Lazy Afternoons
• (03:12) - (Talky Bits)
• (08:32) - Fight and Away
• (10:50) - Sacred Moon
• (13:57) - (Talky Bits)
• (21:58) - Mystic Moon
• (25:36) - Spooks of Halloween Town
• (27:50) - (Talky Bits)
• (34:43) - Secret of Neverland
• (36:37) - Crossing to Neverland
• (38:50) - (Talky Bits)
• (47:16) - Vector to the Heavens
• (51:06) - Critical Drive
• (53:57) - (Talky Bits)
• (01:02:25) - Another Side(-Battle Ver.-)

In today's episode Laura brings us stirring music from the cult classic The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, a 2000 adventure game developed and published by Nintendo. As a follow up to the wildly successful series entry Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask took players deeper into a world on the brink of destruction with arguably the most emotionally mature release in the series even to this day. Originally released on Nintendo 64, it's was later remastered for the 3DS as Majora's Mask 3D. Music compositions by the venerable Kojo Kondo.

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• (00:01) - Title Theme
• (02:10) - (Talky Bits)
• (08:29) - Clock Town (Medley)
• (13:15) - (Talky Bits)
• (16:08) - Deku Palace
• (18:32) - (Talky Bits)
• (23:00) - Mountain Village
• (24:41) - (Talky Bits)
• (31:14) - The Indigo-Go's
• (31:50) - Ballad of the Wind Fish
• (32:06) - (Talky Bits)
• (35:24) - Ikana Castle
• (37:16) - (Talky Bits)
• (40:27) - Stone Tower Temple
• (42:26) - Stone Tower Temple Inverted
• (44:23) - (Talky Bits)
• (53:04) - Last End (Final Hours)
• (55:14) - Majora's Mask Battle
• (57:04) - Majora's Incarnate Battle
• (58:48) - (Talky Bits)
• (01:05:19) - The End, Credits

In today's episode Joshua brings us Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist, a 2025 action role-playing platform game developed by Adglobe and Live Wire, published by Binary Haze Interactive, and composed and performed by Mili, the Japanese indie group that also composed for the previous release Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights.

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• (00:01) - L
• (01:28) - (Talky Bits)
• (12:38) - Memories
• (13:44) - Awakening
• (15:12) - A Boy
• (17:00) - (Talky Bits)
• (22:56) - Oblivion
• (26:31) - (Talky Bits)
• (32:32) - Symbiosis (feat. Cassie Wei)
• (35:09) - Dignity (feat. Cassie Wei)
• (37:26) - Gewalt (feat. Toshiki Soejima)
• (40:53) - (Talky Bits)
• (48:51) - Each Person's Dream
• (50:58) - Humanity
• (54:41) - (Talky Bits)
• (59:43) - Hearts Stay Unchanged

In today's episode Chris brings us the celebrated remake of an iconic JRPG, Final Fantasy VII Remake. Released in 2020, developed and published by Square Enix, this turn based/action RPG is a reimagining of the 1997 classic that brought JRPGs to the West in a big way on the original PlayStation. While Final Fantasy VII on it's own would make for a great episode, we wanted to focus on it's new music, deeply embellished arrangements from the past, or wildly reinterpreted and mixed tracks supported by modern instrumentation throughout. Most of the music was originally composed for Final Fantasy VII by Nobuo Uematsu primarily, with new arrangements and compositions by Shotaro Shima, Yasunori Nishiki, Masashi Hamauzu, and Naoyuki Honzawa selected for today's episode.

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• (00:01) - Bombing Mission
• (03:20) - (Talky Bits)
• (09:12) - Shining Beacon of Civilization
• (11:12) - Hollow Skies
• (13:58) - (Talky Bits)
• (21:29) - Scrap Boulevard Cleanup Crew
• (24:50) - Let the Battles Begin! - A Merc's Job
• (27:37) - (Talky Bits)
• (31:34) - Ignition Flame
• (34:29) - (Talky Bits)
• (39:29) - Jessie's Theme
• (41:57) - Tifa's Theme - Seventh Heaven
• (45:51) - (Talky Bits)
• (48:22) - Those Chosen by the Planet
• (51:02) - Whispers' Theme
• (53:46) - (Talky Bits)
• (58:06) - Seven Seconds till the End
• (01:00:27) - (Talky Bits)
• (01:05:03) - Aerith and Marlene - A Familiar Flower