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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.