Vessel: A Tribute to Hollow Knight is the first album from a new video game collective, Player Experience.

For this article, I asked composer and arranger Fredrik Häthén to bring some visibility to a few of his favorite soundtracks—Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Alundra, Einhänder, and Unlimited SaGa. Here is why these soundtracks matter in his own words.

For this article, I caught up with five musicians (TorbyBrand, 2 Players for Life, RichGC, Justin Thornburgh, and Fredrik Häthén) to ask about their experience with the Pixel Mixers/GameGrooves charity album Heroes.

For this article, I asked several VGM musicians one very important question: “What was your first experience with the VGM community?”