Welcome to our weekly podcast dedicated to videogame music – Sound of Play

Leon Cox (@ratsoalbion) goes it alone for his final Sound of Play for 2017 with a selection of nine tracks of his own choosing

Track listing for this show is as follows:

1: Title Music by Martin Galway – Wizball, 1987
2: Main Theme by Richard Joseph – Putty
3: Museum by Kaori Idaya/Nobuhiro Ohchi/Lewis Matsuo – Namco Museum Volume 1, 1995
4: Ride the Tiger (Theme of Akira) by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi/Takayuki Nakamura/Akiko Hashimoto – Project X Zone 2: Brave New World, 2015
5: Demitri Theme Remix (Menu Theme) by Takayuki Iwai/Hideki Okugawa – Vampire: Resurrection, 2013
6: Guild Hall 6 by Marika Suzuki/Miwako Chinone/Reo Uratani – Monster Hunter 4, 2014
7: Tostarena: Jaxi by Naoto Kubo/Shiho Fujii/Koji Kondo – Super Mario Odyssey, 2017
8: Deluge Dirge – ?-3 by Toru Minegishi – Splatoon 2, 2017
9: Let Me Save You by Ari Pulkkinen – Nex Machina, 2017

Sound of Play: 125 was edited by Jay Taylor

Remember, it’s not just about what we like, so venture over to the thread at the top of this forum and put forward your own suggestions so that we might include them in future shows.

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"Is Finland part of Scandinavia?" - Leon, ending 2017 on a classy note.

It does sound like you're getting a bit emotional at the end when describing Nex Machina and Housemarque's departure from the arcade genre, though. You're right, it's a damn shame.

Good episode, looking forward to next year!

Hey it’s a commonly asked question, I checked:
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandque ... 18,00.html

Have we had any Martin Galway on the show before?

Yeah a few times I think (iirc).

Never realised how much hearing someone eating cake and having a nice sit down puts me in the Christmas mood.

Those weird characters attached to the name on that Splatoon track is the name of the fictional artist of the song in-universe. The Salmon Run tracks are done by "Omega-3", stylised as ω-3.

Ahhh, gotcha! Thanks for the info Scrustle.

I'd never listened to that Splatoon piece on its own before. There is a lot more going on in there than I had realized, primarily playing that game in handheld mode.

InsrtCoins wrote: ↑December 23rd, 2017, 6:16 pm I'd never listened to that Splatoon piece on its own before. There is a lot more going on in there than I had realized, primarily playing that game in handheld mode.

Same here, checked out the soundtrack afterwards and now I'm gonna have to add it to the collection. The soundtracks to these games appear to be quite popular too going by the audience reaction to this performance at the Niconico Tokaigi event in Japan by the Squid Sisters

Their Splatoon 2 replacements ‘off the hook’ are doing a similar concert at this year’s event. Rumour has it the squid sisters will be a surprise support act.

This is a real thing that is happening.

So, I've never played much Virtua Fighter, so I didn't recognize that Akira/Ride the Tiger track, but I've been singing it to myself all week now. Loved it!