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Jonny welcomes Michael "TYP" Cole of Radio Trivia: Podcast Edition to showcase video game music in quite a different way. For this episode of DMP, we focus on the quirky output of electronic composer Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka, the man behind many familiar Nintendo songs from the 80s and early 90s. Anyone could recognize at least a few of these songs, but we tried to set the context of Tanaka's work for gamers and non-gamers alike. You couldn't ask for a much better expert than Mike, and Jonny knows a little about this stuff as well. Listing every single song would be overkill, but here are the classic games we cover on the show, plus a couple of odd non-game singles at the end. 1. Wild Gunman (NES) 2. Urban Champion (NES) 3. Gyromite (NES) 4. Stack-Up (NES) 5. Balloon Fight (Arcade/NES) 6. Gumshoe (NES) 7. Kid Icarus (NES) 8. Metroid (NES) 9. Mother (NES) 10. Earthbound a.k.a. Mother 2 (SNES) 11. Super Mario Land (GB) 12. Tetris (GB) 13. Game Boy Camera (GB) 14. The Hirokazu Tanaka Song 15. HVC-1384 (Play for Jap