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Our MIDI Week Single today comes from the 2011 indie bullet-hell, Jamestown, with amazing music by Francisco Cerda, from the stage right before the difficulty really ramps up:

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MIDI Week Singles: "Prisoner of the Badlands" - Jamestown (PC)
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September 23, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single is the amazing song by Darren Korb & sung by the soulful Ashley Barrett, from the 2011 indie game Bastion.

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July 1, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single today is from the classic pixel-perfect platformer, Super Meat Boy, with Hellish good music by Danny Baranowsky.

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MIDI Week Singles: "Hot Damned (Level 4 Light World)" - Super Meat Boy (PC)
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September 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single today will make more sense from Friday's article, but it's from the 2009 physics-based indie game, Hammerfight from Kranx Productions & music by qMattp

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MIDI Week Singles: "Action Boss" - Hammerfight (PC)
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August 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single today is a short song from the indie physics-platformer NightSky by Nacalis, with music by Chris Schlarb.

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August 19, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single today harkens back to the simpler times of 1850s, 1980s, & the early 2010s with sparsevector's take on epic wagon train music.

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MIDI Week Singles: "Plains Theme" - Super Amazing Wagon Adventure (PC)
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May 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single today is from the often belittled Chrono Cross, w/ music by Yasunori Mitsuda, from an area that I've never been to.

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MIDI Week Singles: "Garden of the Gods" - Chrono Cross (PSX)
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August 28, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Stage Select Start is now a stan account for Alberto Jose Gonzalez and the one song he wrote for Metal Masters, released on the Game Boy in 1993.

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September 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single today is from the soundtrack to Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster w/music by Nobuo Uematsu & arranged by Ayumu Murai.

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MIDI Week Singles: "Castle Cornelia" - Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster (VSD)
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July 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single today takes one of my favorite songs from the first series of Pokémon games released on the Game Boy between 1996 - 2000, with music by Junichi Masuda:

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MIDI Week Singles: "Pokémon Center" - Pokémon Red/Green/Blue/Yellow
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April 3, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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We go back to the Commonwealth's own Diamond City Radio for that 1941 classic by the Ink Spots, "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire."

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MIDI Week Singles: "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" - Fallout 4 (VSD)
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July 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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For our MIDI Week Single today, we return to the early 80s and the Atari 2600 with music from Dancing Plate from Bit Corporation.

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MIDI Week Singles: "Main Theme" - Dancing Plate (A26)
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July 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single goes back 36 years to #Contra & the first time we all heard this classic theme by Kazuki Muraoka & arr. by Hidenori Maezawa/Kyouhei Sada

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MIDI Week Singles: "Jungle Battle (Main BGM)" (NFC/NES)
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February 28, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single today comes from playing 18+ hours in Mario's Picross and not caring at all if the music doesn't change.

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MIDI Week Singles: "BGM 3" - Mario's Picross (DMG)
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April 17, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Here we are, with another piece by Nobuo Uematsu from the 1989-1991 release of The Final Fantasy Legend on the Game Boy.

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MIDI Week Singles: "Prologue" - Final Fantasy Adventure (DMG)
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November 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single today is from the 2011 JRPG homage, Cthulhu Saves the World from Zeboyd Games w/ music by Gordon McNiel.

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MIDI Week Singles: "Descending Forever" - Cthulhu Saves the World (VSD)
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June 17, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single today comes from playing Cave Story+ for the past couple of weeks. Nearing the end (of my first run?) & did not expect this song late in the game.

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MIDI Week Singles: "Cave Story/Plantation" - Cave Story+ (VSD)
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March 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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We're starting off our spooky MIDI Week Singles with a bloody bang! "Bloody Tears" by Kenichi Matsubara from Castlevania II: Simon's Quest.

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MIDI Week Singles: "Bloody Tears (Street-day time-BGM)" - Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (NES)
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October 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single today is a contemplative song from the minimalist art game PULMO, w/ music by Artem (archivariouss) Chubarkov & Areniy Shadrin

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MIDI Week Singles: "Maybe You'll Kill (Everybody Does)" - PULMO (NS)
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June 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single today plays during the closing credits of the stamina-required SEGA Game Gear version of Bust-A-Move, aka Puzzle Bobble:

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MIDI Week Singles: "Staff Roll" - Bust-A-Move (SGG)
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June 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single today is a bit out of left field, but it's the field that's covered in the crumpled remains of snowmen, thanks to our friends Kelly & #ManfredLinzner.

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MIDI Week Singles: "Winter" - Kelly Club: Clubhouse Fun (GBC)
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December 11, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single today is an accidental double dip from Dragon Spirit, although this time it's from the version released on the TurboGrafx-16 in 1988

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MIDI Week Singles: "Mitsurin" - Dragon Spirit (TG16)
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May 1, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Once again, we're going the slightly silly route, this time with music from Cho Aniki: Legend of the Sacred Protein, a bodybuilding shmup released on the PS2 in 2003.

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MIDI Week Singles: "One-Man Festival Theme" - Cho Aniki: Seinaru Protein Densetsu (PS2)
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July 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single today is fun, but also kinda funny if you take it in the context of the game itself. Music by Canadian duo Powerplant circa early 2000s.

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MIDI Week Singles: "Yellow Card" - Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 (PSP)
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May 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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The MIDI Week Single today is from the mid-NES era game, Conquest of the Crystal Palace, with mountain climbing music by Tomohisa MItsuyasu.

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MIDI Week Singles: "Mount Crystal" - Conquest of the Crystal Palace (NES)
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January 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM