Show Notes
Ultimate Brain Games is a board game collection released for PS1 in 2003 developed by cosmigo and published by Telegames. There's not much to say about the board games themselves; things like dominoes, chess, backgammon and the like, but the soundtrack written by Zbigniew Siatecki is great! Cosmigo was a very small German developer responsible for a ton of board and card game collections from around 2000 to 2015. They still exist today, mostly as the developer on a pixel art graphic software called "Pro Motion".
Zbigniew Siatecki's story is a somewhat familiar one around this timeframe. He's a Polish musician and graphic artist that got his start in the demoscene in the 90s / early 2000s (working under the pseudonym Siatek) whose music made its way into a few games from 2003-2007. Since his work on Ultimate Brain Games, and the related soundtracks for Ultimate Card Games and Solitaire Overload, he's mostly moved onto 3D graphics working on titles like Hard Reset, Shadow Warrior 1 & 2 (the 2010s series), Dark Souls: Remastered, and Cyberpunk 2077. His music is warm and nostalgic with all of the charming turn of the millennium demoscene vibes you can handle. While we couldn't get him on the show, we're still big fans of his work and we hope everyone enjoys it as much as we do.
All songs composed by Zbigniew Siatecki
00:00 Alice - Ultimate Brain Games (PS1) 03:51 Twilight 15:51 Blossom Time 23:04 Maya 31:40 Winter Morning - Ultimate Card Games (GBA) 36:37 Winter Morning (Excerpt) - Solitaire Overload (DS) 38:31 Dolphin Play - Solitaire Overload (DS) 41:59 Dolphin Play (Excerpt) - Ultimate Card Games (GBA) 48:02 "i love you" filename Syfonia.it
also Starlight in Ultimate Brain Games (PS1)
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