Memorable Melodies: Theme of Cody from Super Street Fighter IV

Song: Theme of Cody (Cody's Theme)

Game: Super Street Fighter IV

Arranged by: Hideyuki Fukasawa

Today I chose Cody's Theme from Super Street Fighter IV both because I think it's dope, and not a lot of people understand where it came from. At first you hear it and think that Hideyuki Fukasawa really knows how to make a sick jam, but if you listen closely you'll notice that it isn't an original piece at all. It is however heavily altered.

In the early 90's Capcom put out an arcade beat em' up called Final Fight. The two main characters of that game are Cody and Guy, who you may now recognize as Street Fighter characters. The mayor of Metro City, Mike Haggar, gets a call that the Mad Gear Gang has kidnapped his daughter. It's up to Cody and Guy to rescue her!

At some point Capcom decided it would be cool to have Cody and Guy transfer over to street fighter starting with the Alpha series. This is what makes Cody's theme doubly cool. It's an arrangement of the original Final Fight's opening theme.

If you watch the above video you'll be able to hear the sweet sounds of Final Fight. The soundtrack was contributed to by seven different composers, so credit for it could go to Manami Matsumae, Yoshihiro Sakaguchi, Yasuaki Fujita, Hiromitsu Takaoka, Yoko Shimomura, Junko Tamiya, or Harumi Fujita.

Cody is my main in Street Fighter IV, and I love listening to his theme. It gets me super pumped up, so if I ever need to get things done I can always crank up Cody's Theme and get down to business. 

Note: In case you don't know anything about Street Fighter IV, there have been four major iterations of the game. Cody came in during the second iteration Super Street Fighter IV.

Hot Podcast Action

I've been thinking about doing a podcast for a long time, but have held myself back for multiple reasons. The main one is that I recorded three episodes of a podcast in college with some of my friends, which wasn't exactly what I would call brilliant. It is no longer on Itunes, but I keep it on my computer as a constant reminder of how not to make a podcast.

The second reason is that I didn't know how I wanted to do it. You can go to any video game website and hear them rehash the weekly news. So I came up with the idea to talk about a different video game related topic, or specific video games each episode. That kind of specific and in-depth conversation would be interesting to me, so I hope it'll be interesting to other people as well.

Today I actually went ahead and recorded the first episode of the Game Time With Manny podcast. This past weekend my friends and I went to a fighting game tournament in Philadelphia, PA. Fighting game tournaments aren't something a whole lot of people have context for, so I thought it would be cool to talk about the experience for a bit.

I have embedded the podcast below for your listening pleasure. This is the first episode, so any criticism, comments, or suggestions would be extremely welcome. Also yes, I realize the audio quality is kind of bunk. My mic sounded fine, but Willy and Noukeo's weren't exactly the hottest. Next time I'll try to find new mics and mess around with the settings a bit more.