September 9 is a special day: Castmas! The day each year where we celebrate the Dreamcast, Sega’s swan song console. To prepare for this holiday, I’m devoting a whole episode to this groundbreaking system.
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Track Listing:
00:00 - Show Tagline
00:06 - Dreamcast Startup Tone
Chapter 1: Sega’s First Party Games
00:15 - Intro Talk Segment & Sonic Discussion
03:14 - Sonic Adventure - Open Your Heart (Main Theme)
08:23 - Sonic Adventure 2 - Escape From The City
10:43 - Jet Set Radio Introduction
11:53 - Jet Set Radio - Let Mom Sleep
14:44 - Jet Set Radio - Everybody Jump Around
18:54 - Phantasy Star Online Introduction
19:32 - Phantasy Star Online - After the Story 1
21:54 - Phantasy Star Online - Empty Space Out of Control PART2
23:24 - Shenmue Introduction
24:59 - Shenmue - Main Theme
28:54 - Shenmue - Tomato Convenience Store
Chapter 2: Arcade-Perfect Fighting Game Ports
30:57 - Intro Talk Segment and Soulcalibur Discussion
32:40 - Soulcalibur - Unblessed Soul (Ivy’s Theme)
35:14 - Capcom vs SNK Introduction
36:46 - Capcom vs SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 - “Stage of Capcom - Keep My Fire”
39:50 - Marvel vs Capcom 2 Introduction
41:53 - Marvel vs Capcom 2 - Player Select (aka Take You For A Ride)
42:22 - Marvel vs Capcom 2 - Cave Stage
Chapter 3: Things Get Weird
44:02 - Intro Talk Segment and Space Channel 5 Discussion
45:52 - Space Channel 5 - Spaceport: Introducing Ulala!
49:14 - Rez Introduction
50:11 - Rez - Buggie Running Beeps 01
56:01 - The Typing of the Dead Introduction
57:09 - The Typing of the Dead - Item Selection
58:40 - Seaman Introduction
59:33 - Seaman - Main Theme from Seaman
Chapter 4: Other Stuff
1:03:46 - Intro Talk Segment and NFL2K Discussion
1:05:13 - NFL2K - Menu Music
1:08:46 - Metropolis Street Racer Introduction
1:09:23 - Metropolis Street Racer - Am I Only Dreaming?
1:13:00 - Ikaruga Introduction
1:14:18 - Ikaruga - “Chapter 04 - Reality”
1:19:00 - Outro Talk Segment
1:20:46 - Sega Bass Fishing 2 - Shop
I mentioned the “beautiful cinnamon roll too good for this world” meme in the show’s introduction, and you can find the original article in The Onion at https://www.theonion.com/beautiful-cinnamon-roll-too-good-for-this-world-too-pu-1819576048. (And for the record, my favorite “cinnamon roll” character in fiction is probably Haru from Persona 5. I actually dated her in one of my P5 playthroughs because I couldn’t bear to reject her and break her heart.)
While I was talking about Jet Set Radio, I mentioned the extra tracks added to the game for the international version. Here are some links to a couple of them:
Here’s the promised playthrough of Capcom vs SNK, so you can see how dynamic the game looks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjUhKtrcs84
