Sue Kasper, it's a name you might know by memory but if you grew up PC gaming in the 90s you're definitely familiar with her work. Sue was the lead composer on SimFarm and the international sensation SimCity 2000! Both games were developed by Maxis, a studio known for producing simulation games since the 80s including SimCity, The Sims, Spore and many others.Sue's eclectic tunes have been ingrained in the hearts and minds of simulation game players the world over, and there's no doubt that her work on SimCity 2000 inspired a great many other composers trying to capture that iconic simulation game sound. She's a lifelong musician and guitarist that's been playing gigs in a number of bands around California since the 70s. While we weren't able to speak to Sue directly on mic, we had an excellent conversation with Michelle sitting in as proxy for Sue to answer our collective questions about her work on SimCity 2K and SimFarm. It was a ton of fun hearing her experiences rocking out, and her work with companies like Maxis, Guitar Player magazine, and Avid/Digidesign.Music composed by Sue Kasper unless otherwise stated 0:00:00 Dawn of City (Sim City 2000) 0:06:44 Dancing Megalopolis 0:11:06 The SIM Magic: Experience Mode 0:15:04 Skycrapers 0:22:00 Tax & Money 0:28:35 (Excerpts) Tax & Money, Work Work Work! [with MIDI transcription issues] 0:31:18 Title Theme (Sim Farm) 0:34:13 Dead Farm / Debt Farm 0:39:15 Home Improvement (aka COWMAN) 0:41:53 Work Work Work (Sim City 2000) 0:48:25 Ultimate City 0:52:50 Key of Success 1:01:35 (Bedding) General Farm 1:04:12 Work Work Work! Composed by Sue Kasper Arranged by Ryuichi Katsumata for Sim-Melody from SimCity 2000Other things mentioned: MAGWest 2024 (Sep 27-29) MAGWest 2023 - George Sanger Pool Party set ROCKRGRL Magazine wiki Bonus link: Small World - Juliet Slip tribute videoAll songs using Roland SC-55, thank you to Valley Bell for providing the stellar recordings!
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- Gigandes – PA18626/01/202459:52Gigandes (ギガンデス) is an arcade game developed by East Technology in 1989 and released in February of 1990. It's a horizontal shmup in the style of R-Type featuring all of the bio-mechanical tropes common to the era. It was designed for the Taito X System hardware which used a YM2610, the same audio configuration used in the Neo Geo, and was composed by Akira Inoue and Takaro Nozaki.East Technology was a small developer based in Shinjuku that mostly worked on arcade games. The company was founded in 1987 and operated until around the mid-1990s. East Technology only produced around 10 games; their most notable were Double Dragon III: The Rosetta Stone published by Technos, and Operation Wolf 3 and Silent Dragon published by Taito.The soundtrack to Gigandes is eccentric and in some ways ahead of its time. Full of weird and off-putting samples, the tonal whiplash is at times abrasive and at others catchy, but always compelling. Relative unknowns Akira Inoue and Takaro Nozaki put together a one-of-a-kind soundtrack that is worth the time to explore and we hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we did.All songs composed by Akira Inoue and Takaro Nozaki 00:00 Brain Dump (Stage Start) 00:10 Speshul Atak Younit (Chapter 1: Round-37 Takes Off!) 06:23 Climax Without Foreplay (Chapter 2: The Rival Arrives) 09:04 Propagandasm (Stage 2 Boss) 14:27 Populism Answer (Chapter 3: Mesopotamian Nightmare) 17:37 Behold! This Face (Stage 3 Boss) 23:36 New Order (Chapter 4: Save the Colony Part 1) 27:21 Vertigo Factory (Chapter 5: Save the Colony Part 2) 33:09 Aquarium Island (Chapter 6: Showdown at Tatarajima) 36:14 Fight Fire with Fire (Stage 6 Boss) 41:40 It Ain't a Plot (Chapter 7: The Underground Kingdom of Larzan) 45:15 5-Count (Last Chapter: Sleep Quietly, My Friend) 49:12 Unused 4 52:29 Exposure Over (Last Boss) 54:49 Loving as Much as a Wound That Heals (Name Entry 1) 59:07 The Warrior and the Official (Name Entry 2) 59:46 5.67 Billion Years of Solitude (Game Over)Thanks to The Golden Horse of VGMRips for the pack!
- Plus Alpha – PA18502/11/202327:38We’ve got a really fun soundtrack to dive into this episode from a Jaleco arcade title released in 1989 called Plus Alpha,composed by Tsukasa Tawada.It’s an overhead shooter similar to Twinbee, Raiden, or 1942 and was re-released on the Nintendo Switch in 2020 under the Arcade Archives series published by HAMSTER Corporation. This is one of Tsukasa Tawada's earliest soundtracks, a composer still active in the 2020s with work on Pokemon and Harvest Moon titles. He brings lots of variety in this soundtrack, which is a ton of fun and also hits all the marks for an awesome arcade experience.Tracklist:All tracks composed by Tsukasa Tawada 00:04 Triumphal Return Overture (Title) 03:26 Wind Dancer (Stage 1 Wind Country) 08:25 Into Blue (Stage 2 Sea Colony) 09:39 Bird Island (Stage 3 Flower Town) 14:20 Sun Colors (Stage 4 Snow Country) 16:08 Last Heart (Stage 5 Sand City) 19:54 Neo Baroque (Stage 7 Eden) 21:11 Boss Stage 22:06 Harmonica for Peace (Unused) 26:47 Ending ThemeThanks to ctr from VGMRips for creating the pack!
- Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos – PA18417/10/202327:45In this latest mini episode we're talking about Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos, a childhood favorite on the NES composed by Tim Follin.Solstice released on the NES in the US and UK in mid 1990. It was developed by Software Creations and published by various companies in different regions. It's a challenging isometric puzzle platformer in the vein of games like Knight Lore and Lumo. Solstice only released on NES, but it did have a sequel on the SNES called Equinox.Tim Follin is a VGM composer that hardly needs an introduction. Master of VGM folk and prog rock and putting way more effort into game soundtracks than they usually deserved, Tim worked on games like Bionic Commando and Ghouls'n Ghosts for C64, Plok for SNES, Ecco the Dolphin for Dreamcast and a tons more games. More recently he's moved into game development with games like Contradiction: Spot the Liar.For more info about the illustrator of the box art, check out Michael Winterbauer's website.Tracklist:All tracks composed by Tim Follin 00:05 Title Screen 06:47 Introduction 07:10 Main Theme 18:50 Game Over 19:00 Credit ~ Continue 26:22 EndingThanks to Gnome from VGMRips for creating the pack!
