Jul 8, 2026 · 2 hr 26 min · 23 segments
!https://xvgmradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Ep135.png Jeff Van Dyck’s musical career in video games has been a storied one. For over 30 years, Jeff’s music has continued blessing our ear…
Jeff Van DyckGuestMike LevyHostNikoHost
Yeah, it's always a lot of fun to get all nostalgic and listen to the old tunes.
I don't know if you've done too many video game music podcasts, like where you're the guest, but it must be weird to like talk to us.
So it's like, what's that like to like talk to, you know, these, these now, you know, gray 40 year olds or 30 year olds or whatever, you know?

Well, as a gray, you know, 50 year old, um, Yeah, it's very satisfying, to be honest, because, you know, you guys were the target audience, you know, and I was putting my headspace into the same headspace as you guys back then.

You know, it's like, what would be cool? What would sound cool? And I always put myself in the...

in the mindset of the gamer when coming up with the music and it was like okay let's just do something do something cool you know something makes you nod your head and get into it so yeah it's really satisfying to talk to people who have grew up with it and see it's actually amazing what an impact it had you know it was the the impact is was unexpected actually
Yeah, I would imagine you didn't probably think of that when you were originally doing the music, right?

What's interesting, the impact is that you listen to this stuff and it takes you back to those days.

You know what I mean? And that's the impact I wasn't expecting, that people would be listening to this stuff 30 years later.

Yeah, it's always a lot of fun to get all nostalgic and listen to the old tunes.
I don't know if you've done too many video game music podcasts, like where you're the guest, but it must be weird to like talk to us.
So it's like, what's that like to like talk to, you know, these, these now, you know, gray 40 year olds or 30 year olds or whatever, you know?

Well, as a gray, you know, 50 year old, um, Yeah, it's very satisfying, to be honest, because, you know, you guys were the target audience, you know, and I was putting my headspace into the same headspace as you guys back then.

You know, it's like, what would be cool? What would sound cool? And I always put myself in the...

in the mindset of the gamer when coming up with the music and it was like okay let's just do something do something cool you know something makes you nod your head and get into it so yeah it's really satisfying to talk to people who have grew up with it and see it's actually amazing what an impact it had you know it was the the impact is was unexpected actually
Yeah, I would imagine you didn't probably think of that when you were originally doing the music, right?

What's interesting, the impact is that you listen to this stuff and it takes you back to those days.

You know what I mean? And that's the impact I wasn't expecting, that people would be listening to this stuff 30 years later.
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