Show Notes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A short trailer to introduce the concept of Are You Alex Kidding? A podcast about the 8 bit era of Sega gaming - the Mark III, the Master System and the Game Gear. Lots of games to discuss, lots of game music to play and plenty of information about development, original sources and licenced properties many games are based on, too. Background music in the trailer: 'Cave' from Phantasy Star, composed by Tokuhiko Uwabo 'Shop' from Fantasy Zone, composed by Tokuhiko Uwabo 'BGM1' from G-Loc Air Battle, composed by Chikako Kamatani 'Megablast' from Xenon 2, composed by Tim Simenon and David Whittaker 'Game Over' from Hang On, composed by Hiroshi Kawaguchi and Katsuhiro Hayashi Samples from SMS BIOS (startup jingle), Altered Beast (laughing), SMS Sonic 2 ("Se-gaaaa") Commercial sample from this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6x3iNB0ddo Putting this level of detail of sources of everything in individual episodes is probably going to kill me.
More from Are You Alex Kidding?
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Episode 1 Sources: smspower.org, Moby Games, segaretro.org, Wikipedia entries, tcrf.net, Hardcore Gaming 101, the Digital Antiquarian, gamefaqs guide for ALF by Martin Silbiger, Game Developer Research Institute and more. Scans of magazines in various languages acquired from mobygames, archive.org, segaretro or smspower. Most non-English names, box art and magazine articles machine translated by google and proofed and cross checked with other sources by yours truly. Game summaries at beginning of segments are from SMS box cover art, arcade flyers or in game introduction screens. Level descriptions from a game’s interstitial screens or manual. Music, Sounds and Sample Sources: “Jan Ken Pon” sample- Sega Superstars Tennis BG music from intro – “The Alex Kidd Song”, bonus track from “Alex Kidd Complete Album” Laughing sample – Altered Beast (arcade) BG music - Japanese SMS BIOS – Space Harrier Interstitial jingles from SMS games - I love the Insert Coin jingle from “Sagaia”. The idea for using jingles is unashamedly borrowed from the excellent podcast “Zapped to the Past”, check it out if you're interested in Commodore 64 games. Double Hawk: FM and PSG music by Satoru Miki, Chacha, Fujiou and ripped by Maxim on smspower “Welcome to Our Exciting Circuit” and “You’re one sharp dude” - Power Drift (arcade) Gameplay - Cabal (arcade) “Can’t be too happy about that one” and “No doubt about it that’s deep in the sandtrip” from SMS World Class Leaderboard “Nein nein nein nein nein!” - Inglorious Basterds (2009) “Wise Cracking Alf doll” from Coleco tv commercial, various brief samples from “Alf” TV show. SMS Alf: PSG music by Rabdy Roseberry, ripped by Sherpa on smspower Mark III Rygar: PSG music by Mikio Saito and Strong Shima, ripped by “Sonic of 8!” on smspower Samples from various home conversions of Rygar, generally pulled from longplays on youtube. Sample from trailer for Rygar reboot on PS2/Wii. “All you do is kill, kill, kill” from Gladiator (2000) “nintendon’t”, “Sega: We Bring The Arcade Experience Home”, “Sega Master System The Challenge Will Always Be There” and “GAME GEAR!” from Sega tv commercials. “To be fair…” - “Letterkenny” TV series. “So where’s the press?” - Darkwing Duck (1991) Apocalypse guy doing Mark III adaptors: https://www.arcade-projects.com/threads/now-available-colecoco-master-adapter.29009/ “Hang Ten” - SMS California Games. “500XJ Joystick”, “Supercharger” and “Atari Lynx” samples from various commercials. “Lumberjack” bits - Monty Python and the Flying Circus. “No music!” - Dune (1984) “TecToy!” - Brazillian Tec Toy TV commercial Summer Games PSG music by Tokuhiko Uwabo, ripped by Johnnyz of smspower. World Games PSG music by Keisuke Tsukahara, ripped by Johnnyz of smspower. California Games FM and PSG music by Chikako Kamatani, ripped by Johnnyz of smspower California Games 2 PSG music by Jeroen Tel, ripped by RN22 of smspower (some of these are adaptations of national anthems, “Louie Louie”, etc, not all original compositions) Samples of home conversions of Games series from longplays on youtube. BG music “Entrance of the Gladiators” composed by Julius Fucik. Thanks to Cordehlia for all her help and advice. Recorded at Denmark FM studios in Western Australia.