Author Archives: Gene Dreyband

LIVE: MAGWest 2024 – Persona – PA193

Pixelated Audio is back from this year’s Persona themed MAGWest. In honor of the theme we threw together a quick show about the music of the mainline Persona games from Persona 1-5 with a little bit of early Megami Tensei history. We’re also joined by co-host and our good friend AJ aka “rayjkayj” of the… Read More »

SimCity 2000 and SimFarm – PA192

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… Read More »

Masters of VGM 3: Women of Capcom – PA191

Pixelated Audio is back for the third annual Masters of VGM (@MastersofVGM), which happens every June. Various podcasts come together to highlight game composers with the theme this year focusing on the amazing women in the industry. We decided to take a more narrow focus on some of the lesser known composers at Capcom and… Read More »

LIVE: Midwest VGM at VGMCon 2024 – PA190

Pixelated Audio is back from a wonderful weekend at VGMCon in Minnesota! Gene was slated to represent us but along the way drummed up a party including Pernell from Rhythm and Pixels, Carlos from Heroes Three, and Thomas Kresge head of the Game Brass (check out their new album Barrel Brassed)! When in Minnesota do… Read More »

Kamen Rider Agito & Kuuga Wild Battle – PA189

Kamen Rider Agito & Kuuga Wild Battle [仮面ライダーアギト&クウガ ワイルドバトル] is a 2001 game for the Sega Pico developed by Arc System Works and published by Bandai. It is based on the Kamen Rider superhero license property which started in the 1970s. To keep it brief, the Sega Pico is less a console and more a… Read More »

Ultimate Brain Games – PA188

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… Read More »