

Especially if your parents were cool enough to get you a Genesis.

With the exception of the Ecco games (I never could get behind a game about dolphins), I highly recommend every title on the list.

ToeJam & Earl: Cool before cool was a thing. There are some classic titles here, including the original Sonic the Hedgehog trilogy, Golden Axes I and II, Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle, the Streets of Rage games and, my personal favorites, ToeJam & Earl and its sequel, ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron. The games are downloaded straight from Amazon and can be played on PCs running the Windows XP operating system and later. The game publisher's 48-Game Arcade Pack is available for download at $4.88 today, about 7 percent of the usual $70 price tag for the set. We are extremely lucky to have access to such a great space to record, as well as so very fortunate to have an opportunity to join in on the fun for this project! The average age of the group is 25, so many of us distinctly remember Ecco the Dolphin as being a part of our 90's childhood.If you get goosebumps thinking about the boot-up music of the Sega Genesis, Amazon has a major deal for you today. Post-restoration, it now stands as one of the finest in the country. The organ at Saint Paul's is the oldest pipe organ in San Diego (1887) and recently underwent a $1.5 Million restoration a few years ago. We recorded the music at Saint Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, where many of us sing on a weekly basis. Tim Poulin (arranger) was inspired to write the text after playing through the first two games and heavily researching the overarching storyline of the Ecco series.

Beginning the track with the 'Tides of Time' felt a little jarring, so we borrowed the 'Medusa Bay' theme to provide a contrasting introduction. "Our arrangement of the Tides of Time/Medusa Bay uses harmonic progressions inspired by English-Romantic composers like Herbert Howells (1892-1983) and Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934).
