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Notes on the episode

The "Phanta! Phantasy Star 30th Anniversary Cosplay" and interviews book is actually a doujinshi by someone called Memi Aizawa as far as I can tell. An example of a site selling it, that I'm not recommending but at least proves the books exists is at https://tinyurl.com/ps30doujin

Introducin' clip from The Big Lebowski.

Some sources of info

https://segaretro.org/Tokuhiko_Uwabo

https://www.sega-16.com/2004/07/sega-stars-tokuhiko-bo-uwabo/

Gamest magazine (JP), Feb 1989 issue

Beep magazine (JP) feature, not sure what issue https://web.archive.org/web/20230624103448/https://media.vgm.io/albums/61/6816/6816-1225830813.jpg

VGMs from https://www.smspower.org/People/TokuhikoUwabo

Satellite 7 music ripped by CRV of smspower

Action Fighter ripped by draldas of smspower

Columns, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP 2 ripped by Maxim of smspower

Great Volleyball, Zillion, Sukeban Deka 2, Ys ripped by Johnnyz of smspower

Woody Pop, Summer Games, Ys ripped by Sonic of 8! of smspower

Phantasy Star ripped by ValleyBell of smspower

Poseidon Wars 3D ripped by RN22 of smspower

Space Harrier ripped by Toog, CRV and MasteredRealm of smspower

Samples from original music

Sukeban Deka II OST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO-nHCLQEfI

Zillion OST - "Push" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z07Al7XG77o

Space Harrier arcade OST "Wiwi Jumbo" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrUadrqM71E&list=PLgVtr83SpybMr1JY4cv7ah75P_1bqsy5e&index=5

Falcom JDK Band "First Step Towards Wars" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVh74yQtRkc

Recorded at Denmark FM studios, and thanks to Cordehlia for the help and support.

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Sources: smspower.org, Moby Games, segaretro.org, Wikipedia entries, tcrf.net, Hardcore Gaming 101, the Digital Antiquarian, GDRI (https://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page), 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 for sanity and cross checked with other sources by yours truly.

Game summaries from box art, arcade flyers or in game screens, Level descriptions from in game screens or manuals.

interstitials:“Victory” Kenseiden, “Insert Coin” Sagaia, start up sound SMS BIOS, “Mission Start” Alien Storm, “Book of Death” The New Zealand Story, Space Gun “Insert Coin”, Choplifter “Round Start”, Super Monaco GP “The Checker Flag”

bg music (non-game): Entrance of the Gladiators, Rondo Alla Turca and Dance Macabre Op 40.

Sample from “Blackstar” by David Bowie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszLwBaC4Sw

“Do you want me to turn you into a snail?” The New Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh (TV show)

“I’m taking him into the maze” Tron (1982)

“You guys had the special stuff inside you all along” Space Jam (1996)

C64 Snail Maze music sample https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEJubT2QGAY

Leaded Solder link https://www.leadedsolder.com/2023/08/22/snail-maze-romhack.html

My Hero BG music – Entrance of the Gladiators

Planet of the Apes musical The Simpsons (“A Fish Called Selma”)

“Sweep the leg” The Karate Kid (1984)

“I want you to collect magazines from everybody” Aliens (1986)

My Hero music ripped by smspower user MarcK

Scramble Spirits SMS music by Kazuhiko Nagai (arcade music Tohru Nakabayashi and Yasuhiro Kawakami), ripped by Sherpa and marklincadet from smspower

Fire and Forget 2 music ripped by Maxim of smspower.

20 em 1 music ripped by Sonic of 8 on smspower.

BTTF 1-3 trailers from youtube

“Too bad there’s no sound” from Supergirl (1984)

Power Wash Simulator DLC commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qkSjzVbAww

SMS BTTF 2 music ripped by JohnnyZ of smspower

BTTF 3 music by Matt Furniss, ripped by Maxim of smspower

Telltale Games Back to the Future trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3blzGwd4xLg

All game music samples for other consoles and arcades from various youtube longplays.

SMS and GG digital samples from https://www.smspower.org/forums/15940-GameSamplesExtractionMegaThread

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Opening credits intro to The A Team series from youtube

Thread about SMS A Team music: https://www.smspower.org/forums/12315-ATeamSoundTrackNeedCompilingFiles

Jeroen Tel C64 music

• Wilderness (Main Theme) - from "Golden Axe" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFoN1ZMmNUA
• Intro theme from "Turbo Outrun" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG82RMyS07Y
• Intro theme from "Afterburner" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggPDoWLWMC4

Excellent work to Maxim and Kimuji from smspower, and of course Jeroen Tel for composing the music in the first place.

Recorded at Denmark FM studios. Thanks to Cordehlia for the help.

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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.

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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.