Well, tuesday morning musical interlude, to be specific. But I digress.
This week I wanted to take it as far away as possible from my initial selection. So I’m going to go with some music that’s also really near and dear to my heart. The soundtrack from Jet Set Radio Future, for the Xbox. Or, specifically, the song “Funky Dealer”, by musical composer Hideki Naganuma.
I’m a massive fan of that song, that soundtrack, and really that entire game. Someone needs to go to Sega, ask them to stop making a sonic game for ten months, and make another Jet Set Radio game. I’d buy two copies.
Like most other video game nerds, I’m also a huge fan of video game music. Maybe it’s the fact that it hits my nostalgia-bone harder than anything else, but I still get chills when I hear an old, SNES sound-chip-created piece of music.
And so because I love video game music so much, and ostensibly you either do or at least are willing to put up with it momentarily, I’ve decided I’m going to start up a new weekly article where I find and play some of my favourites, both old and contemporary, from the gaming world.
I was debating starting this off with something a bit more contemporary, and not dive head-first into complete, old-fashioned chiptronic nerdery, but fuck that I’m sticking with what I want to do. And so first up, one of the greatest games from one of the greatest times in gaming, this is “Frog’s Theme” from Chrono Trigger.
It was composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, though likely with a bit of help from Nobuo Uematsu, who if you don’t know is basically the godfather of video game music. This song was awesome when I first heard it, and it’s still awesome to this day.
