As @miona is still on VGM Wednesday theme hiatus, looks like @CM30 jumped in with a theme of "Surprisingly Dark Themes."
For that, I think I want to go with Sonic the Hedgehog.
It shouldn't be surprising, but every time the short tune for drowning comes on, it is jarring and anxiety inducing. Even with no video game context to go with it.
Since @miona is still on hiatus for the hashtag, there's no formal VGM Wednesday theme.
So, I'm going with my favorite K.K. Slider song, K.K. Robot Synth, cause I want to share it and keep the hashtag around this week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l85224VytME
Since @miona is taking a break from VGM Wednesday for January and I really want to see this hashtag still up and running - here's some music for the week.
With no theme, let's go with the Minibosses 2005 album "Brass." Check out their fantastic cover album with all sort of great video game tunes https://minibosses.bandcamp.com/album/brass
:ablobcatheadphones: The BBC has this really cool program "The Sound of Gaming" about gaming soundtracks and #VGM expertly presented by Elle Osili-Wood. Every episode is exploring a different topic - Elle’s guest in this week is composer Petri Alanko who talks about his music for #AlanWake2 and the series.
All 48 previous episodes can be downloaded or you can subscribe to the podcast or RSS feed here:
Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon is a 1989 graphic adventure game by Sierra On-Line. It was made by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy, with a soundtrack by Bob Siebenberg.
The game follows Roger Wilco, a janitor who embarks on an intergalactic adventure. The game has a humorous and engaging story, challenging puzzles, and colorful graphics. It is a classic that influenced the adventure gaming genre.
🧑⚕️🐁 The SNES mouse at the vet (museum lab). We cleaned the rollers and found out that it can't hear on the right ear (right button doesn't work) due to a malfunction in the microswitch. Fortunately, creating in Mario Paint doesn't necessarily require it. 🖌️🖼️🎨
🚪🔒 The last game remaining on our list available on our DOS retrogaming machines is Zork: The Great Underground Empire - Part I. Good games are not defined by graphics - text-based adventures from the early days of accessible computing are a testament to that.
🩸🏗️ We are slowly approaching the end of the list of games on our "no-LAN" machines - there are still a few 3D shooters left (which we absolutely must present) - this one uses the same engine as Duke Nukem 3D (Build), but it was released a year later. What's its name again? 🤔
🦈🏎️ Wacky Wheels (1994, Apogee Software) is the animal racing game equivalent of Mario Kart for DOS. The developer accidentally sent the source code to another publisher along with a demo version 😱, but the resulting competitor, Skunny Kart, wasn't equally successful.