FM Towns & FM Towns Marty

Episode #435 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth dust off two of gaming's most fascinating oddities: the FM Towns and the FM Towns Marty. If you've ever wanted to hear what happens when a Japanese computer decides it wants to be an arcade machine... well, today's your lucky day.

The guys dive into a library packed with enhanced ports, forgotten exclusives, gorgeous CD audio, and enough FM Towns weirdness to make you wonder why the rest of the world wasn't paying attention. They also inevitably spend way too much time talking about hardware that roughly seventeen people have actually seen in person. Whether you're a longtime FM Towns fanatic or just here because you thought "Marty" was someone's cousin, you're in for one wonderfully obscure ride!

Email the show at bgmaniapodcast@gmail.com with requests for upcoming episodes, questions, feedback, comments, concerns, or any other thoughts you'd like to share! Special thanks to our Executive Producers: Jexak, Xancu, Jeff & Mike.

EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS

Scene from AZURE [Ryu Umemoto, 1993]

Burning Drift from Dengeki Nurse 2: More Sexy [Naoki Kanamori, 1994]

Sync from Ningyou Tsukai [Koichi Yamada & Yoshifumi Doiichi, 1993]

Take the Field from Power Dolls 2 [Hiroto Saitoh & Kayoko Maeda, 1994]

Last Defence Line from Alltynex [Satoshi Yoshida, 1996]

Kokoro no Fantasy from Blandia Plus [Hisao Shiomi & Akira Inoue, 1994]

Track 6 from Life & Death II: The Brain [Peter Stone, 1992]

Easy Victory Battle from Rance 4.1: Okusuri Koujou wo Sukue!! [Dragon Attack! & Hanns Eisler, 1995]