Nerd Noise Radio

2026 Show Notes Addendum: If you're a NintenDomain listener who is new to NNR from Trey and I's "Nerd Noise Radio - Channel Trey" one-off simulcast collaboration, then this rerun should be uniquely interesting to you! So, "Channel Trey" was a one-off between Trey and I, in the style of an episode of the now-defunct "Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2" which I used to do with Hugues Johnson of Retro Game Club (so, another "so and so Johnson" out of Chicago), only with Trey at the mic instead of Hugues. It was in the exact style and format of Channel 2.  Well, funnily enough, what went on to become Channel 2 also began life as a similar fun one-off between Hugues and I all the way back in December 2019. And here is that 2019 one-off. Hugues and I's 6yr earlier parallel to Trey and I's recent outing. This was before I knew I was AuDHD (Autistic + ADHD), and before I knew I possessed African and Jewish ancestry. It was also before I started editing out the "ums". But it's remarkable to me how "different yet the same" it feels to our official Ch 2 episodes which came later, or "Channel Trey" which rose from the ashes of the now-defunct Ch 2. PRODUCTION CAVEATS: At this point, I had not switched from Mac to Linux, so I was using Garageband in MacOS on a late 2014 Mac Mini. Also, I had not yet upgraded to the Focusrite 4i4 (3rd Gen) XLR-to-USB interface, still using the lesser M-Audio MobilePre, and had not yet upgraded to the RODE Podmic dynamic microphone, let alone my current Shure SM7B, but was still using my original AudioTechnica AT2020 condenser mic, and lastly, was recording in a very very echoey room with no noise cancellation. But apart from inferior hardware, software, and production techniques, and apart from this being my very first time ever doing something even remotely like this, the seeds of all NNR Channel 2 episodes, as well as the seeds of "Channel Trey" are all very much present here! This is where it all started: Channel 2, Channel Trey.....all of it! My intent for this month is to also rerun not only our very first  official Ch 2 episode from Sept 2020, but also C1E16: "Songs with Words", the first episode of the last season, and what in my personal opinion is the very best Ch 2 episode of all, perhaps save for C2F, our "series finale". Also, if you look back to December 2025 on the NNR podcast feed, you can also catch C2E20: "...all good things...", our final non-retrospective episode of Ch 2. So, if your first experience with Nerd Noise Radio was "Channel Trey", then you'll get to hear a lot of the context behind that episode! In any case, enjoy the rogue one-off that became an entirely new Nerd Noise Radio program, which would ultimately culminate in yet another rogue one-off with Trey Johnson of NintenDomain!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Original show notes---------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. John of "Nerd Noise Radio" and Hugues Johnson of "Retro Game Club" (and "The Retro League" alum) join forces to cover and discuss some of their favorite pieces of VGM from the 2010's. It's about what you'd expect if you put Retro Game Club / The Retro League, Nerd Noise Radio, Legacy Music Hour, and an entire decade of VGM in a blender....ooh, or maybe the hadron collider! For the time-being, this is just a one-time "one-off" special, but if there is enough demand from either, or especially both of our respective listener pools, then we're open to making this an ongoing (albeit occasional, and likely irregular) thing. "Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2", maybe? ;-) Anyway, the power is yours, listeners! Make your voices heard! In the meanwhile? Enjoy!   Game - System - Track - Composer - Year - Selected By - Timestamp    - Earcatcher: 00:00:00    - Retro City Rampage - Multiplatform - Do or Die - Norrin Radd - 2012 - Hugues Music: 00:00:03 Intro / Discussion: 00:00:39    - Shovel Knight - Multiplatform - Strike the Earth - Jake Kaufman - 2014 - St. John Music: 00:04:25 Discussion: 00:08:07    - Tokyo Xanadu - Vita / PS4 / Windows - My Blaze, My Truth - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Hayato Sonoda, Mitsuo Singa, Takahiro Unisuga, and/or Koji Sekiguchi) - 2015 - Hugues Music: 00:12:45 Discussion: 00:16:07    - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Switch - Norfair - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka / a: Yuzo Koshiro - 2018 (orig. 2008) - St. John Music: 00:19:32 Discussion: 00:22:06    - Kirby's Epic Yarn - Wii / 3DS - Dino Jungle - Tomoya Tomita - 2010 - Hugues Music: 00:26:35 Discussion: 00:28:57    - Art of Balance - Multiplatform - World D - Martin Schjøler - 2010 - St. John Music: 00:32:17 Discussion: 00:34:41    - L.A. Noire - Multiplatform - Noire Clarinet - Andrew and/or Simon Hale - 2011 - Hugues Music: 00:39:17 Discussion: 00:43:49    - Gran Turismo Sport - PS4 - Process Control - Yasuhisa Inoue - 2017- St. John Music: 00:46:40 Discussion: 00:50:18    - Final Fantasy XV - Multiplatform - What Lies Within - Yoko Shimomura - 2016 - Hugues Music: 00:55:55 Discussion: 01:01:04    - n++ - Multiplatform - Fonction - Broca - 2015 - St. John Music: 01:04:15 Discussion: 01:11:21    - Ys VIII : Lacrimosa of Dana - Multiplatform - One Dream, One Reality - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Hayoto Sonoda, Takahiro Unisuga, Yukihiro Jindo, and/or Mitsuo Singa) - 2016- Hugues Music: 01:15:28 Discussion: 01:19:09    - Monument Valley - iOS / Android - The Garden - Stafford Bawler - 2014 - St. John Music: 01:23:45 Discussion: 01:28:34    - To the Moon - Multiplatform - Having Lived - Ken Gao - 2011 - Hugues Music: 01:31:33 Discussion: 01:34:10    - Prune - iOS / Android / Windows UWP - To The Stars - Kyle Preston - 2015 - St. John Music: 01:39:01 Discussion: 01:46:41    - Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - WiiU / Switch - Mipha's Touch - Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata and/or Hajime Wakai - 2017 - Hugues Music: 01:50:11 Discussion: 01:53:42    - So Many Me - Multiplatform - Outskirts - Christopher Geehan and/or Daniel Byrne-McCullough (HyperDuck Soundworks) - 2014 - St. John Music: 01:59:47 Discussion: 02:05:52    - The Last Story - Wii - Theme of Last Story - c: Nobuo Uematsu / a: Yoshitaka Suzuki - 2011 - Hugues Music: 02:09:10 Discussion: 02:14:10    - ARMS - Switch - Get ARMS - Atsuko Asahi and/or Yasuaki Iwata - 2017 - St. John Music: 02:18:22 Discussion: 02:21:22    - The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II - Multiplatform - Heated Mind - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Hayato Sonoda, Takahiro Unisuga, Yukihiro Jindo, and/or Toshiharu Okajima) - 2014 - Hugues Music: 02:24:26 Discussion: 02:27:02    - Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - Mirage - Kemmei Adachi - 2010 - St. John Music: 02:28:52 Discussion: 02:33:04    - Bravely Default - 3DS - Land of Light and Shadow - Revo - 2012 - Hugues Music: 02:35:37 Discussion / MiiTopia Discussion / Outro: 02:38:05    - Miitopia - 3DS - In That Holiday Mood - Toshiyuki Sudo, Shinji Ushiroda, Yumi Takahashi, and/or Megumi Inoue - 2016 - St. John Music: 02:44:56   Total Episode Runtime: 02:46:43   LINKS to our respective shows:   Retro Game Club:   retrogameclub.net   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680?mt=2   Nerd Noise Radio:   nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radio/id1191401173   Twitter: @NerdNoiseRadio   Facebook: facebook.com/NerdNoiseRadio/   e-mail: nerdnoiseradio@gmail.com   Merry Christmas, and/or whatever other holidays you celebrate, and a happy new year, from Nerd Noise Radio, and Retro Game Club!   Cheers!

Today's broadcast is a fun one-off between Trey Johnson of NintenDomain and W.A.R.T. Radio fame and myself in the style of a Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2 epiosde with the theme of "tracks we discovered in 2025".    Apologies for the absurdist length - but if you miss Ch 2, I think this one will scratch that itch for you! Also reminder that what would eventually go on to become Channel 2 also started as a fun one-off between Hugues and I, so you never know what the future holds! (I'll re-run that 2019 Ch F between Hugues and I later this month for contrast).   Tracklist:   Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Selected By   01) Zebra Bananza - DK Bananza - Switch 2 - Daisuke Matsuoka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, and/or Tsukasa Usui, Noato Kubo - Trey          a) Introductory Earcatcher - 00:00:00          b) Music - 00:00:03          c) Introduction - 00:02:13          d) Top of the Show - 00:03:56          e) Discussion - 00:20:09   02) PerfecT Shape - to a T - Multiplatform - c: Sakai Asuka and/or Keita Takahashi / v: Sam Bird - St. John          a) Music - 00:26:25          b) Discussion -00:28:12   03) When the Moon's Reaching Out Stars - Persona 3 Reload - Multiplatform - c: Shoji Meguro / a: Atsushi Kitajoh / v: Azumi Takahashi - Trey          a) Music - 00:45:00          b) Discussion - 00:48:37   04) Starview Peak - Mario Kart World - Switch 2 - Maasa Miyoshi, Takuhiro Honda, Yutaro Takakuwa, and/or Atsuko Asahi - St. John          a) Music - 00:54:59          b) Discussion - 00:56:50   05) Kronos Island (First Lap) - Sonic Racing Crossworlds - Multiplatform - Takahiro Kai, Tae Fujimoto, Kanon Oguni, Hidekuni Horita, Iona Takashima, Hiroki Kiriyama, Satoshi Okamura, Makoto Tokuyama, Satoshi Oike, Keisuke Tsukahara, and/or Saki Tsuda - Trey          a) Music - 01:03:48          b) Discussion - 01:06:17   06) Race Music 2 - New Star GP - Multiplatform - Benjamin Rooker, Alistair Edmond, Viraj Ramsharan, Giovanni D'Ambrosio, and/or Declan Birchall - St. John          a) Music - 01:19:49          b) Discussion - 01:22:11   07) Captain Falcon - F-Zero GX/AX - Game Cube - Hidenori Shoji - Trey          a) Music - 01:29:33          b) Discussion - 01:33:03   08) RedWood Forest - Fast Fusion - Switch 2 - Bjulin, and/or Francisco Cerda - St. John          a) Music - 01:39:32          b) Discussion - 01:43:17   09) Fury Green - Metroid Prime 4: Beyond - Switch / Switch 2 - Kenji Yamamoto - Trey          a) Music - 01:49:22          b) Discussion - 01:52:35   10) The First Day - Dungeons of Hinterberg - Multiplatform - David Zahradnicek, and/or Markus Zahradnicek - St. John          a) Music - 02:02:12          b) Discussion - 02:06:18   11) Lumiose City (Day) - Pokemon Legends Z-A - Switch / Switch 2 - Minako Adachi, Hiromitsu Maeba, Carlos Eiene, Shinji Hosoe, Ayako Sasō, Takahiro Eguchi, Hitomi Sato, and/or Shota Kageyama - Trey          a) Music - 02:14:02          b) Discussion - 02:18:05   12) Eggshell Hotel - DK Bananza - Switch 2 - Daisuke Matsuoka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, and/or Tsukasa Usui, Noato Kubo - St. John          a) Music - 02:28:24          b) Discussion - 02:32:20   13) Royal Capital of Grancel - Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC - Multiplatform - Wataru Ishibashi - Trey          a) Music - 02:42:02          b) Discussion - 02:45:28   14) Pull of the Light - God of War: Ragnarok - PS4 / PS5 / PC - Bear McCreary - St. John          a) Music - 02:51:32          b) Discussion - 02:53:16   15) Black Tar - Xenoblade X - WiiU - Hiroyuki Sawano - Trey          a) Music - 02:59:13          b) Discussion - 03:05:27   16) First Time Setup - N/A (System Music) - Switch 2 - Kazumi Totaka - St. John          a) Music - 03:10:40          b) Discussion - 03:13:09   17) Level 1 (Velgress) - UFO 50 - Multiplatform - Eirik Suhrke - Trey          a) Music - 03:21:01          b) Discussion - 03:22:49   18) Okada Clan HQ - Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons - Multiplatform - Arman Aspromonti  - St. John          a) Music - 03:28:33          b) Discussion - 03:31:24   19) Pride from Despair - Yakuza Kiwami 2 - PS4 / XB1 / PC - Hidenori Shoji, Yuri Fukuda, Chihiro Aoki, Saori Yoshida, and/or Takiya Kuroda - Trey          a) Music - 03:40:36          b) Discussion - 03:45:06          c) End of Show - 03:56:07          d) Closing Track Discussion - 04:01:09          e) Final Self-Promos - 04:03:05          f) Sign-off - 04:05:56   20) Credits Song (Legends of Trivia) - Jackbox Party Pack 11 - Multiplatform - Nate Sandberg - St. John            a) Music - 04:06:22            b) Outtake - 04:09:35   Total Episode Runtime: 04:17:38   You can find NintenDomain here:   https://nintendomainpodcast.com/   And you can find the NDM Episode 500 link here (where I make a cameo in the final 3/4 of the episode):   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/500-500-500-500-a-guest-for-every-hundred-we-made/id1055861408?i=1000741049701   NintenDomain can also be found on the podcatcher of your choice, as well as on most social media platforms!   As for Nerd Noise Radio, be on the look out for that 2019 Ch F rerun, probably a proper Ch 2 rerun, and of course, C1R8 - our Channel 1 "2025 best of year in review episode". Delicious VGM, on Nerd Noise Radio - and wherever you are.....Fly the N!

2025 Show Notes addendum:   In light of the release of C1E100 (the final "non-retrospective" Ch 1), I thought it would also be good to release C2E20 (the final "non-retrospective" Ch 2) as a nice tie-in. Though my production quality has improved somewhat since late 2024, it is nowhere even remotely close to the quantum leap that is the difference between my Dec 2025 and my Jan 2017 production quality difference with C1E1. Channel 2 was a COMPLETELY different kind of show, though. Rather than being a vaguely NPR-esque mixtape-style program that was "less a podcast per se" and more "a late nite FM radio music program which just so happened to go out over the podosphere", Ch 2 was a "proper podcast" with a co-host out of Chicago and myself taking turns sharing tracks and talking about them. We wrapped the show at the end of 2024 because my co-host had been podcasting since 2009, and would be turning 50 in 2025, and so he decided at the end of 2023 that he would be retiring completely from podcasting at the end of 2024, and I didn't feel like replacing him, so we just wrapped it together. Anyway, since we referenced C2E20 and even featured a few tracks from it in C1E100, and since we're rerunning C1E1, I figured I'd rerun this too. By the way: that one upcoming Ch F one-off with Trey Johnson of NintenDomain and W.A.R.T. Radio will be in this exact format - only, obviously, a different co-host.   Anyway....enjoy! Also, this rerun will release on Christmas Eve. So, Merry Christmas to anyone who celebrates it - and a belated Happy Hannukah to anyone who celebrates it instead (I celebrate both, myself!) :-D   ------------------------------------------------------   orig show notes   Today’s Broadcast is C2E20, for Theme Thursday, Oct 24th, 2024. All good things must come to an end. Today is the final “regular” (as in, “final non-retrospective” episode - and as opposed to “final all time” episode). This will be the final episode where we bring new tracks to the show, though. So it is still an ending. The theme, therefore, is ending music, on a program we’re calling “...all good things…”   Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Selected By   01) Summer Vacation - Tokyo Xanadu - Multiplatform - Takahiro Unisuga (Falcom Sound Team jdk) - Hugues Earcatcher - 00:00:00 Music - 00:00:03 Introduction - 00:05:23 Top of Show Business - 00:06:14 The Reveal of last episode’s mystery themes - 00:09:44 Discussion - 00:24:38 02) Credits - Sonic 2 - Genesis - Masato Nakamura - St. John Music - 00:30:16 Discussion - 00:33:01 03) Staff Roll - Phantasy Star III - Genesis - Ippo Takeuchi - Hugues Music - 00:35:17 Discussion - 00:37:15 04) Ending - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - St. John Music - 00:42:07 Discussion - 00:44:46 05) Ending - Another World - Amiga - Jean-François Freitas - Hugues Music - 00:54:53 Discussion - 00:56:27 06) Triforce Chamber - LoZ: Link to the Past - SNES - Koji Kondo Music - 01:00:40 Discussion - 01:02:09 07) The Credits Concerto - Donkey Kong Country - SNES - David Wise and/or Eveline Fischer - Hugues Music - 01:08:45 Discussion - 01:10:43 [EDITOR’s NOTE: I partially confused Vangelis with fellow Greek musician, Iasos. My bad! -St. J] 08) Ground Zero - Shinobi III - Genesis - Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama, and/or Masayuki Nagao - St. John Music - 01:16:19 Discussion - 01:18:38 09) Good End - Streets of Rage II - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima - Hugues Music - 01:34:07 Discussion - 01:36:30 10) End Credits - Mega Man 3 - NES - Yasuaki Fujita and/or Harumi Fujita - St. John Music - 01:43:56 Discussion - 01:46:14 11) Farewell and a Decision - Grandia II - PS2 / Dreamcast - Noriyuki Iwadare - Hugues Music - 01:49:38 Discussion - 01:54:26 12) Ending - Stray - Multiplatform - Jan van der Cruyssen - St. John Music - 02:01:40 Discussion - 02:05:12 13) 16th Floor - Speedrun Tower - Genesis - c: JAM / a: Hugues Johnson - Hugues Music - 02:10:48 Discussion - 02:12:38 End of Show Business - 02:22:27 Closing track Discussion - 02:29:49 Sign-off - 02:30:44 14) Ending - Super Mario World - SNES - Koji Kondo - St. John Music - 02:30:51 Outtakes - 02:34:52 BONUS - the “Composed by St. John / arranged by Jay Cook” collection “Floor It!” from the Game “X-Racer” (Hydra Development System) - 02:39:52 “In-Game Theme” from the Game “Ranquest” (Hydra Development System) - 02:41:07 Total Episode Runtime: 02:44:07 Hugues’ blog can be found here:    https://huguesjohnson.com/   St. John’s Mom’s flute business can be found here: Website:  www.valwedgeworth.com   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/UxpsjWw3Js5uUtLf/   Valerie's Flute Entertainment, LLC (Playing the Decades) Email: valerie@valwedgeworth.com Note: St. John called it “Val’s Flute Entertainment”, instead of “Valerie’s Flute Entertainment”, but it used to be called “Val’s Flute”.    You can find Nerd Noise Radio on Facebook and on Twitter each @NerdNoiseRadio. There are also two Facebook Groups: Nerd Noise Radio “Easy Mode” where we just have general video game and nerd fun, or for the gearheads among you, Nerd Noise Radio “Expert Mode” where we deep dive sound hardware, composer info, and music theory.    You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).   Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.   Thanks for listening! Join us again later this month for a very special Channel 1 (subject a surprise for now), and then again in November for a sequel Ch 1 and for our Ch 2 “Best of Season 4 retrospective” - which will be our second-to-last ever installment of Ch 2…..Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds, as well as Tasty VGM and Talk on Nerd Noise Game Club…and wherever you are….Fly the N!   Cheers!

2025 Show Notes addendum: With C1E100, you just heard how Ch 1 ends. Now, hear how Ch 1 began!   Also, C1E100 ends with a production deliberately designed to be as close to the much much MUCH worse production quality of the original episodes. With today's rerun, you can compare it to the C1E100 ending to see how well or how poorly 45yr old "2025 St. John" did at emulating and impersonating that clunky, and untrained, but "starry-eyed", "pocket full of dreams" 36yr old St. John from C1E1. I definitely want to know what you think at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com or on social media or Discord! Lastly, for as atrocious as the production quality is on this Dec 2016 production (Jan 2017 release), it is actually the [by far] superior version of the episode. In Oct 2016, I produced beta versions of the first four episodes, and shared them under the pseudonym of "Disco Santa's House of Impossible Conundrums" so I could put them out there for a very limited audience to solicit feedback without a mass release (this was before I was using cloud storage, mind you). The final releases of those four episodes were amended based on the feedback received from everyone from Mike Levy of XVGM, to Pieness64, to even Stephen Hill of NPR's decades-running New Age / Space / World / Ambient late-night FM radio program: Hearts of Space. Well, recently, I found the original beta versions of those first four episodes , and here is a Google Drive link to the episode 1 beta - the only NNR production to use an alternate version of the "St. John NNR shout". The version we ended up going with was recorded during the episode 2 beta and applied to everything thereafter. So this episode 1 beta is the only time in show history where an episode opens with an alternate St. John NNR shout - and boy is it pathetic! This one was recorded with me sitting down. The ep 2 beta shout (which eventually became the "official shout") was recorded standing up. Here's a Google Drive link to that original Oct 2016 Ep 1 beta: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FXWu6EsHeveev4h65yKcLkww7jAPPMtA/view?usp=drive_link In fact, here's a link to the entire "Disco Santa" folder, with the Oct 2016 beta versions of all of the first four episodes: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eueCDmOikIdTXxK_s6VDsWd3Z4QImZeu?usp=drive_link --------------------------------------------------- orig show notes:   The moment has finally come - the Channel 1 podcast is HERE!    Today's broadcast is Episode 1 for ThemeThursday, January 5th, 2017. Today's Theme is title screen music on a program we’re calling “Press Start”.    Tracklist - Track#, Game, System, Composer, Timestamp:    01: Intro - 00:00  02: Sonic 3 - Genesis - Tomonori Sawada - 01:50  03: Double Dragon - NES - Kazunaka Yamane - 02:05  04: Metroid - FDS - Hirokazu ("Hip") Tanaka - 03:44  05: Crash Bandicoot - PS1 - Josh Mancell - 05:17  06: SpiderMan/X-Men - SNES - Tim and Geoff Follin - 06:51  07:  Halo - Xbox - Martin O’Donnell - 07:48  08: Ballblazer - Atari 8-bit - Peter Langston and “Riffology” - 10:35  09: Doom 2016 - Multiplat - Mick Gordon - 12:59  10: Street Fighter 2 - Arcade - Yoko Shimomura - 15:20  11: SomerAssault - TG16 - Hidehito Aoki and Katsuyuki Inose - 15:46  12: Zelda II - FDS - Akito Nakatsuka - 18:29  13: LED Storm - ZX Spectrum - Tim Follin - 20:56  14: Streets of Rage - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro - 23:38  15: Mega Man 2 - NES - Takashi Tateishi - 25:05  16: Shovel Knight - Multi - Jake Kaufman - 26:48  17: Ocarina of Time - N64 - Koji Kondo - 27:40  18: Revenge of Shinobi - PC88 - Yuzo Koshiro - 30:03  19: Golden Axe - C64 - comp: You Takada  / arr: Jeroen Tel - 30:22  20: Final Fantasy VII - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu - 33:05  21: Bonk’s Revenge - TG16 - Hirohiko Takayama - 35:52  22: Wolfchild - Amiga - Martin Iveson - 36:10  23: Kirby’s Dreamland - Gameboy - Jun Ishikawa - 39:47  24: X-Men - Arcade - Junya Nakano - 40:24  25: Mortal Kombat - Genesis - Matt Furniss - 40:59  26: Black Belt - Mastersystem - Katsuhiro Hayashi - 42:01  27: Xybots - Arcade - Hal Canon, Brad Fuller, and/or Earl Vickers - 42:11  28: Super Mario World - SNES - Koji Kondo - 42:31  29: Outro - 44:03      Music Block Runtime: 42:14,  Total Episode Runtime: 50:31    Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights    If you wish to subscribe to the Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 1 Music block podcast, there are two options:    Option 1: Subscribe right here to the "Nerd Noise Radio Network - All Channels" podcast feed. Feed will include Channels 1, 2, 3, and any future channels not yet planned. Feed will also include podcasts in high quality, stereo where applicable, and episodes will never expire off the feed.    Option 2: If you're ONLY interested in Channel 1 episodes, and not in any of the other channels, there is a Channel 1-specific feed. But it's hosted on a free account, rather than an upgraded account like the "All Channels Feed" with lower quality sound (mono, I believe), a maximum 2hrs per month of content (so if the month's episodes run longer than that, they may need to be trimmed), and episodes expire off the feed forever after 90 days. If this is what you want instead, here's the RSS:     http://www.buzzsprout.com/77944.rss    Our episodes will also appear on our Nerd Noise Radio YouTube Channel - just search for Nerd Noise Radio, you'll find us! Here's today's episode:    https://youtu.be/xW4CSuCVyi4    You can also find us on The Retro Junkies Network:    www.retrojunkies.com    You can find us (and all of our episodes) as "Nerd Noise Radio" on Archive.org and can also find us and join the conversation on both our Nerd Noise Radio Network Facebook, Google+, and Twitter pages, as well as our Facebook and Google+ "Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode" and "Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode" groups.     Lastly, we share our episodes as well on our blog at nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. This specific episode can be found here:    http://nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com/2017/01/nerd-noise-radio-channel-1-podcast.html    As always, your feedback and input is DEEPLY appreciated, so we cheerfully invite you to "blow up the comments section", or you can always reach us by e-mail at nerdnoiseradio@gmail.com as well as all the aforementioned social media outlets.    Hope you enjoy the episode! Join us again in two weeks for C1E2 (Channel 1, Episode 2), and wherever you are - Fly the N!    Cheers! 

Today is C1E100 for Theme Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025. Today is our final non-retrospective episode of Channel 1. We made it to 100! Today’s episode is split into two halves: a) a massive pre-show that is actually about 18 minutes LONGER than the “episode proper”, and b) the “episode proper”. The theme for both are end credits and ending sequence music, on a program we’re calling “Now Go and Rest our Heroes!”     Tracklist:      Track Number (or letter) - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Timestamp        A - Earcatcher and Talking Portion 1 of 3 - 00:00:00        Mini-block 1:     B - Ending - Golden Axe Warrior - Master System - Chikako Kamtani - 00:13:08     C - Ending - Gunstar Heroes - Genesis - Norio Hanzawa - 00:15:09     D - Ending - Strider - Genesis - c: Junko Tamiya / a: Tadahiko Inoue - 00:18:42     E - Credits - Rayman - PS1/Saturn - Stéphane Bellanger, Didier Lord, Sylvain-Luc Brunet, Nathalie Drouet, Dominique Dumont, Kamel Founas, Rémi Gazel, Didier Gilbert Leglise, Jean-Marc Lichtmann, Frédéric Louvre, Olivier Mortier, Frédéric Prados, Stéphane Ronse, René De Wael, and/or Olaf Zalcman - 00:20:03     F - Credits - Hotel Mario - CD-i - Jack Levy - 00:21:08     G - Credits - Wii Fit - Wii - Toru Minegishi, Manaka Kataoka, and/or Shiho Fujii - 00:21:58     H - Fear of a Blank Planet - Control - Multiplatform - Porcupine Tree - 00:24:01     I - Ending - Legendary Axe II - TG16 - Hirotoshi Suzuki - 00:31:11     J - Ending Theme - Street Fighter 2010 - NES - Junko Tamiya - 00:34:22     K - To Far Away Times - Chrono Trigger - SNES - Yasunori Mitsuda and/or Nobuo Uematsu - 00:36:25     L - An Ending - Undertale - Multiplatform - Toby Fox - 00:40:41     M - Ending Theme - Final Fantasy X - PS2 - Nobuo Uematsu - 00:44:03     N - End Credits - Cloudpunk - Multiplatform - Harry Critchley - 00:49:25     O - End Credits - Cyberpunk 2077 - Multiplatform - Marcin Przybyłowicz, P.T. Adamczyk and/or Paul Leonard-Morgan - 00:53:37     P - Closing - Cuphead - Multiplatform - Kristofer Maddigan - 00:58:02  And     Q - The Final Fall - LoZ: TotK - Switch / Switch 2 - Hajime Wakai, Manaka Kataoka, Tsukasa Usui, Maasa Miyoshi, and/or Masato Ohashi - 01:01:46        Mini-Block 1 Runtime: 00:50:27        R - Talkie Portion 2 of 3 - 01:03:33        Mini-block 2:     S - Triforce Chamber - LoZ: LttP - SNES - Koji Kondo - 01:06:37     T - Ending - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - 01:08:05     U - Ending - Another World - Amiga - Thomas Detert (originally selected by Hugues) - 01:10:28     V - Ground Zero - Shinobi III - Genesis - Masayuki Nagao, Hirofumi Murasaki, and/or Morihiko Akiyama - 01:12:00     W - Good End - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima (originally selected by Hugues) - 01:14:17     X - End Credits - Mega Man 3 - NES - Yasuaki Fujita - 01:16:37  And     Y - Credits Theme - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann van der Cruyssen - 01:18:54        Mini-block 2 Runtime: 00:15:39        Z - Talkie Portion 3 of 3 - 01:22:05        Pre-show Runtime: 01:34:30     Backing tracks during the pre-show talkie portions:     1) Sadness - Endless SaGa - PS2 - Masashi Hamauzu.     2) Track 15 - Tengai Makyou 3 (Fuun Kabuki Den) - PC Engine - Kohei Tanaka, and/or Keita Hoshi     3)  To the Stars - Prune - iOS / Android / Windows - by Kyle Preston        *********Episode Proper - C1E100: “Now Go and Rest our Heroes”**********     A collection of end credits and ending sequence music from the same 27 games in the same order from which we heard the title screen music in C1E1. Recorded using the same hardware (where available), same production techniques, and same limited scripting as we used in late 2016 for our early episodes - the idea: make episode 100 sound and feel as much like episode 1 as possible so as to “end at the very beginning”.     Tracklist:     Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Timestamp     A1) Intro - 01:34:30     01) Credits - Sonic 3 - Genesis - Brad Buxer, Bobby Brooks, Darryl Ross, Geoff Grace, Doug Grigsby III, C. Cirocco Jones, and/or Michael Jackson - 01:36:10     02) Ending Theme - Double Dragon - NES - Kazunaka Yamane - 01:39:33     03) Ending - Metroid - FDS - Hirokazu (“Hip”) Tanaka - Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka - 01:39:55     04) The Great Hall - Crash Bandicoot - PS1 - Mutato Muzika, Mark Mothersbaugh,  and/or Josh Mancell - 01:42:08     05) Ending - Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge - SNES - Tim and/or Geoff Follin - 01:43:33     06) Ending Theme - Halo - XBox - Martin O'Donnell, and/or Michael Salvatori - 01:44:50     07) Theme of the Grid (alternate) - Ballblazer - Atari 5200 / 7800 / 8-bit - Peter Langston (via "Riffology") - 01:47:41     08) End Credits - DOOM (2016) - Multiplatform - Mick Gordon - 01:49:32     09) True Ending - Street Fighter II - Arcade (CPS1) - Yoko Shimomura - 01:53:19     10) Ending - Somer Assault - TG16 - Hidehito Aoki, Katsuyuki Inose - 01:56:17     11) Ending 2 - Zelda II: AoL - FDS - Akito Nakatsuka - 01:59:29     12) Results - LED Storm - ZX Spectrum - Tim Follin - 02:00:33     13) Ending Theme - Streets of Rage - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro - 02:03:17     14) Ending Part 1 - Mega Man 2 - NES - Takashi Tateishi - 02:05:11     15) Reprise - Shovel Knight - Multiplatform - Jake Kaufman (aka Virt) - 02:15     16) End Credits - LoZ: OoT - N64 - Koji Kondo - 02:08:59     17) My Lover - Revenge of Shinobi - PC88 - Yuzu  Koshiro - 02:16:05     18) Ending Credits - Golden Axe - C64 - Jeroen Tel - 02:18:09     19) Staff Roll - Final Fantasy VII - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu - 02:19:51     20) Ending - Bonk’s Revenge - TG16 - Hirohiko Takayama - 02:26:38     21) Ending - Wolfchild - Amiga - Martin Iveson - 02:27:55     22) Credits Roll - Kirby’s Dream Land - Game Boy - Jun Ishikawa - 02:29:18     23) Ending Theme - X-Men - Arcade - Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano , and/or Ayako Nishigaki - 02:30:38     24) The Pit - Mortal Kombat - Genesis - c: Dan Forden / a: Matt Furniss - 02:33:05     25) All Clear - Black Belt - Master System - Katsuhiro Hayashi - 02:35:13     26) Master Xybots - Xybots - Arcade - Earl Vickers, Hal Canon, and/or Brad Fuller - 02:35:49     27) Ending - Super Mario World - SNES - Koji Kondo - 02:36:36     B1) Outro - 02:40:42     Music Block Runtime: 01:04:34 / Total Episode [proper] Runtime: 01:12:43     Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by B.B. Rights     Episode [Grand Total] Runtime: 02:47:13    This episode is dedicated to the memory of my cousin, Madelaine "Maddie" Shouse. Links to Maddie!        a) Maddie's TikTok account:                https://www.tiktok.com/@maddie_baddieintraining?_r=1&_t=ZT-91vgM0LeAxr        b) Maddie's Instagram account:             https://www.instagram.com/maddie_baddieintraining?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==        c) BONUS: Maddie's Threads account:               https://www.threads.com/@maddie_baddieintraining?xmt=AQF0lGpKq3cYrDNQnjSLLyOIZaNtha_hSf8rwCRTzwY5yO0   ...I really do encourage you to check these out! She was a lovely person, and through these accounts, it's not entirely too late to [at least sorta kinda] get to know her! She was my mom's sister's daughter - and if I'm being completely honest, she reminded me more of mom than of aunt Karen. I suppose, in a way, she was the closest thing my brother and I had to a sister.   2) Links to C1E1 and C2E20!   I'll upload each this month as reruns. But meanwhile, here is the easiest way to hear them!         a) Link to C1E1:             https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/c1e1-press-start        b) Link to C2E20:               https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/ch-2-nerd-noise-game-club-c2e20-all-good-things   Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Workstation Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2023) laptop with perhaps a little support from a Dell Latitude 7480 (running Fedora COSMIC Linux), a 2017-spec DIY gaming PC (running Bazzite Linux) or the Steam Deck (running Steam OS Linux). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface! The "Episode Proper" portion was recorded using Audacity in Fedora Workstation like the others, but was recorded using an M-Audio MobilePre XLR-to-USB audio interface and an AudioTechnica AT2020 microphone deliberately used improperly in order to emulate my much much poorer production techniques as of 2016. An AT2020 actually failed during this recording. Fortunately, I had a second AT2020, so I was able to finish the recording without substantial variation. The first line recorded with the second AT2020 was "I'm John Wedgeworth – thanks for listening."    You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.    We are now a member podcast as well. You can find us there at  https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio. Also, check out their outstanding collection of other podcasts and radio stations at https://terraplayer.com/! From now on, when sharing episodes of Nerd Noise Radio, I will most likely use the Terra Player link rather than the Podbean link like I have been using.    Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:     https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio    Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here:    nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com.    Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at     https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/    We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/    Or, if you wish to connect with us direc

  Today’s broadcast is C1E99 for Theme Thursday, November 27th, 2025. Today’s broadcast is "Listener Picks – vol. 3" - the final installment of a trilogy of outstanding episodes, guest curated, and guest hosted by you.....the listener!    Tracklist:    Track# / Track Name / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Contributing Listener / Timestamp    A1) Intro – 00:00:00    01) Into the Darkness – Astal – Saturn – Tatsuyuki Maeda, and/or Tatsuya Kōzaki - Electric Boogaloo – 00:05:37    02) Snowfield – Gradius Gaiden – PS1 – Norikazu Miura – Electric Boogaloo – 00:08:50    03) Stormy Saxophone – King of Fighters '95 – Neo Geo MVS / AES - Masahiko Hataya, Yasuo Yamate, Brother-Hige, Pearl Sibakiti, and/or Akihiro Uchida – Professor Tom – 00:11:40    04) Endless Season – Alpine Racer – Arcade – Takayuki Ishikawa – Electric Boogaloo – 00:14:40    05) Refracting Feelings – Penny's Big Breakaway – Multiplatform – Tee Lopes – The Messenger – 00:17:53    06) Goomba Lagoon – Super Mario Party Jamboree – Switch / Switch 2 - Shigenobu Okawa and/or Yuta Yamaguchi – The Messenger – 00:21:03    07) Opening and Title – Mega Man 2 – NES – Takashi Tateishi – Zach Hugethanks – 00:23:12    08) Chaosium Sword – Ninja Gaiden II – NES – Ryichi Nitta and/or Mayuko Okamura – Zach Hugethanks – 00:24:35    09) Requiem – Ninja Gaiden – NES – Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta, and/or Ichiro Nakagawa – Zach Hugethanks – 00:26:07    10) Captain Neo – Metal Soldier Isaac II – Arcade – Hisayoshi Ogura and/orTadashi Kimijima – Electric Boogaloo – 00:24:48    11) Stage Theme – Bad Dudes – NES - c: Azusa Hara, and/or Hiroaki Yoshida / a: Masaaki Iwasaki, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, Yusuke Takahama, and/or I. Uchida – Justin Regan – 00:27:36    12) A New Day Dawns – Ninja Gaiden III – NES - Sugito Miyashiro, Kaori Nakabai, and/or Rika Shigeno – Zach Hugethanks – 00:30:27    13) Blighted Docks – Mina The Hollower – Multiplatform – Jake Kaufman (Virt) and/or Yuzo Koshiro – Adam Huisman – 00:32:28    14) Player's Turn – Military Madness – TG16 – Jun Chikuma – Professor Tom – 00:36:13    15) Irene Captured – Ninja Gaiden II – NES - Ryuichi Nitta and/or Mayuko Okamura – Zach Hugethanks – 00:38:00    16) Castle Demonic – Ninja Gaiden II – NES - Ryuichi Nitta and/or Mayuko Okamura – Zach Hugethanks – 00:39:34    17) Stage 3 – Solar Striker – Game Boy – Toru Osada – Electric Boogaloo – 00:39:59    18) NYC – X-Men: Wolverine's Rage – Game Boy Color – Bob Baffy and/or Ed Cosico – Justin Regan – 00:41:53    19) Start – R-Type – Arcade – Masato Ishizaki – Zach Hugethanks – 00:44:37    20) Bravery on the Clutches – Ninja Gaiden – NES - Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta, and/or Ichiro Nakagawa – Zach Hugethanks – 00:46:16    21) Tower of Faunus 1F-3F – Lady Sword – PC Engine – Keine – Justin Regan – 00:48:19    22) Successor of Fate – Castlevania: Harmony of Disonance – Game Boy Advance – Shoshiro Hokkai – Justin Regan – 00:49:59    23) Bloody Tears – Castlevania II – NES - Kenichi Matsubara, Satoe Terashima, and/or Kouji Murata – Zach Hugethanks – 00:51:15    24) Wily's Castle 1 – Mega Man 2 – NES – Takashi Tateishi – Zach Hugethanks – 00:52:52    25) The Third Sanctuary – Deltarune – Multiplatform – Toby Fox – Adam Huisman – 00:55:32    26) Horizons Unbound – Sea of Stars – Multiplatform – Eric W. Brown – Jeshua Lack – 00:59:37    27) Main Title (Orchestral) - Panzer Dragoon – Saturn / PC – Yoshitaka Azuma – Electric Boogaloo – 01:02:47    28) Compass Points to the Future – Intelligent Qube – PS1 – Takayuki Hattori – 01:07:54    29) Bonds Reforged – Chants of Senaar – Multiplatform – Thomas Brunet – Jeshua Lack – 01:09:51    30) Side Story – Gradius Gaiden – PS1 – Norikazu Miura – Electric Boogaloo – 01:14:02    31) Sarabande of Healing – Vampire Survivors – Multiplatform – c: Michiru Yamane / a: Keygen Church – Adam Huisman – 01:17:08    32) Rip and Tear – DOOM (2016) - Multiplatform – Mick Gordon – Zach Hugethanks – 01:24:19    33) The Entrance – Animorphs: Shattered Reality – PS1 – Chuck E. Myers, and/or Tom Hopkins – Electric Boogaloo – 01:28:35    34) Large Green Meadow – Master of Monsters – Genesis - Hayato Matsuo, and/or Hitoshi Sakimoto – Justin Regan – 01:30:48    35) The Axiom – Axiom Verge – Multiplatform – Thomas Happ – Zach Hugethanks – 01:33:00    36) Raphael's Final Act – Baldur's Gate 3 – Multiplatform – Borislav Slavov – Jeshua Lack – 01:36:18    37) Jelly – World of Goo – Multiplatform – Kyle Gabler – Zach Hugethanks – 01:43:14    38) Animal Well – Animal Well – Multiplatform – Billy Basso – Jeshua Lack – 01:45:44    39) Title – Cyber Shadow – Multiplatform – Enrique Martin – Justin Regan – 01:47:44    40) Ovin Nevarei – Blue Prince – Multiplatform – Trigg & Gusset – Jeshua Lack – 01:50:49    41) Spring Meadows – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Multiplatform – Lorien Testard – 01:58:26    42) Phendrana Drifts – Metroid Prime – GameCube / Wii / Switch - Kenji Yamamoto and/or Koichi Kyuma – Zach Hugethanks – 02:01:06    43) Memories of Memories – Tunic – Multiplatform - Lifeformed, Terence Lee, and/or Janice Kwan – Jeshua Lack – 02:04:44    44) Slingshot – Daytona USA 2: Battle on the Edge – Arcade - M: Fumio Ito / L: Fumio Ita and Ryuichi Hasigawa / V: Dennis St. James – Electric Boogaloo – 02:09:20    45) Rough "B" Rock – Rakuga Kids – N64 - Tomoya Tomita, Kozo Nakamura, and/or Masahiko Kimura – Electric Boogaloo – 02:13:57    46) Stage 4 – Sutte Hakkun – Super Famicom – Akito Nakatsuka – Electric Boogaloo – 02:16:49    47) Construction Site Chaos – Donut Dodo – Mutliplatform – Sean Bialo – The Messenger – 02:19:09    48) Original Mission 7 – Mercs – Genesis - c: Manami Matsumae / a: Yoshiaki Kashima – Justin Regan – 02:21:46    49) Slam Shuffle – Final Fantasy VI – SNES – Nobuo Uematsu – Adam Huisman – 02:23:54    50) Credits – Ninja Gaiden – NES - Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta, and/or Ichiro Nakagawa – Zach Hugethanks – 02:26:05    51) Follow the Knot - River City Ransom Underground (original soundtrack) - PC - Lexi & The Cheap Disaster (Richard Louis Vreeland, Alex Mauer, and/or Dino Lionetti) - Justin Regan – 02:27:48    52) Mr. Handagote – Machinarium – Multiplatform - Tomáš Dvořák - Zach Hugethanks – 02:23:04    53) Fascination Io Stage – Zero Divide – PS1 / PC - Hideyuki Shimono, and/or Akihito Okawa – Electric Boogaloo – 02:33:14    54) Garden Theme – Frogger 2 – PS1 / PC / Dreamcast – Andrew Morris – Electric Boogaloo – 02:36:20    55) Bonus Theme 1 – Croc: Legend of the Gobbos – PS1 / Saturn / PC - Karin Griffin, Martin Gwynn Jones, and/or Justin Scharvona – Electric Boogaloo – 02:39:04    56) Heat Man – Mega Man 2 – NES – Takashi Tateishi – Zach Hugethanks – 02:40:40    57) Stage 2-1 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan – Game Boy - Tomoko Nishikawa, and/or Michiru Yamane – Justin Regan – 02:42:55    58) Stage Theme 03 – ESWAT – Genesis – Dolphin and/or Takayuki Nakamura – Justin Regan – 02:44:39    59) Trons Castle – Willy Wombat – Saturn – Masayoshi Ishi – Electric Boogaloo – 02:48:21    60) Funky Spin – Sega Rally 2006 – PS2 – Takenobu Mitsuyoshi – Electric Boogaloo – 02:51:10    61) Revolution – IQ Remix + - PS2 – Tetsuo Ishikawa – Electric Boogaloo – 02:52:17    62) Ruines de Tarm – Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons – Game Boy Color - Kyoko Nakamura, and/or Minako Adachi – Justin Regan – 02:56:28    63) Slow Illusion – Gimmick! - Famicom – Masashi Kageyama – The Messenger – 02:58:18    64) Greenhouse – Game and Watch Gallery 3 – Game Boy – Noriko Nishikawa – The Messenger – 03:00:09    65) Wishes on Wind – Party Project – PC – Blue Loner Wolf – The Messenger – 03:02:01    66) Island Course – True Swing Golf – DS – Katsumi Yokokawa – Professor Tom – 03:05:26    67) T-Triangle – Race Drivin' a Go! Go! - Saturn / PS1 - Kenji Yokoyama, Kensudke Komatsu, and/or Naoki Tsuchiya – Electric Boogaloo – 03:08:20    68) Time – Metropolis Street Racer – Dreamcast - M: Richard Jacques / V: T.J. Davis – Electric Boogaloo – 03:11:49     69) Baka Mitai – Yakuza Zero – Multiplatform – Mitsuharu Fukuyama – The Messenger – 03:15:44    70) Ending – Battlecorps – Sega CD – Martin Iveson – Utopia Nemo – 03:20:29    B1) Outro – 03:24:33    B2) Outtakes – 03:54:56    Music Block Runtime: 03:19:15, Total Episode Runtime: 04:14:03    Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.    Link to Rerun of Listener Picks – vol 1 (C1E40 – Dec. 2018):    https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/nerd-noise-reruns-c1e40-listener-picks-vol-1-orig-released-12202018    Link to Rerun of Listener Picks – vol 2 (C1E60 – Dec 2021):    https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/nerd-noise-reruns-c1e60-listener-picks-vol-2-orig-released-12232021    Link to Shujin Academy VGM Club Podcast (Professor Tom):    https://terraplayer.com/shows/shujin-academy-vgm-club    Link to A VGM Journey Podcast (The Messenger):    https://terraplayer.com/shows/a-vgm-journey    Link to Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress (Zach Hugethanks):    https://absolutelythebest.net/    Link to Retro 411 - @reganjustin1 VGM YouTube Channel (Justin Regan):    https://www.youtube.com/@reganjustin1    Link to Pixelated Audio Discord Server (Utopia Nemo)    https://discord.gg/49ZDM4hQ    And to the A VGM Journey Discord Server (Utopia Nemo / The Messenger)    https://discord.gg/m4e6xmtrft    Also, link to an episode of The VGMbassy podcast which featured skits written / produced by – and starring Utopia Nemo:    https://thevgmbassy.com/tag/blind-listen/    Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Workstation Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2023) laptop with perhaps a little support from a Dell Latitude 7480 (running Fedora COSMIC Linux), a 2017-spec DIY gaming PC (running Bazzite Linux) or the Steam Deck (running Steam OS Linux). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!    You c

2025 Rerun Notes: In anticipation of this month's incoming C1E99: "Listener Picks - vol 3", we are rerunning both previous installments of the Listener Picks trilogy this month!  Today's rerun is the second installment, from December of 2021 And it is less of a sequel per se, and more of an omake (that is, more of an "outtakes" episode). While vol 1 was 40 tracks long and selected by 18 contributors, their total body of contributions was not 40, but instead, an absolutely insane 100!! Well, even in 2025, we'd never do an episode 100 tracks long! Such a mixtape could possibly hit 5hrs long, which is too long even for St. John! :-D  So, what I did instead in 2018 was take the 100 and narrow it down to 40, with the 60 track remainder kept in reserve, intended for a Channel F "F-isode" to immediately follow as a bonus and feature the remaining 60. This bonus was to feature Trey Johnson of the NintenDomain and W.A.R.T. Radio podcasts as co-host, and be in the original format of W.A.R.T. Radio as a "return the favor" tribute to Trey in return for W.A.R.T. changing formats to match the NNR format. It was also going to feature an interview with a composer, spearheaded by Trey. But schedules did not align, and so the F-isode never happened! Today's rerun, eventually released years later in 2021 as a numbered "official" Ch 1 episode is essentially what that F-isode would've been - only with no interview (scheduling conflicts). Trey would still go on to co-host with me, though. Lastly, as always: all the usual caveats about how much worse my production quality was back in 2021 than it is today, and not to judge the current state of NNR production quality by this rerun. If you are new, and this is your first exposure to NNR, and you enjoyed the content, but were put off by the production, either go back and listen to a recent episode, such as C1E98 or C1E96....or perhaps even better, keep your eyes peeled for C1E99, which is basically this all over again, but at 2025's far improved production quality standards! In fact, in this case, the situation is even worse! My side of the recording session with Trey was lost, and so we had to fallback on his side of the Zoom call for my voice, where I was using a super cheap wireless headset. So my voice quality sounds especially terrible. My apologies if any of that detracts from this otherwise excellent and joyous outing! And with that, please enjoy the very non-standard-formatted - Listener Picks - vol 2, thanks again to Trey for lending his voice and talents in joining me to make this one happen, and please keep an eye out for the trilogy's incoming 3rd (and final) installment! Cheers! -------------------------------------------------------------- Original Show Notes:   Today’s Broadcast is C1E60, for Theme Thursday, December 23rd, 2021 - our final episode of our very non-standard two-year long “Season 4”. So it is fitting that we’d end such a wildly non-standard season - filled with primarily wildly non-standard content already - with such a dramatically non-standard Channel 1 episode. Today’s episode abandons the customary Channel 1 “great big music block” mixtape format for a modified take on the original W.A.R.T. Radio format, featuring Trey Johnson of Nintendomain / W.A.R.T. Radio and St. John. Today’s episode is also a “Lost Level”, as it was originally intended to be a Channel F bonus “F-isode” to supplement “C1E40 - Listener Picks - vol. 1” from December 2018, and was intended to release right after it, in a nearly identical presentation to what you receive today. As such, today’s broadcast shall be “Listener Picks - vol. 2”. All music, other than the background music for the speaking portions was curated by listeners of the show, and are the roughly 60 remaining unused tracks from the pool of roughly 100 that were offered up for C1E40 in 2018, of which only 40 were used.    p.s. We apologize for the uncharacteristically poor audio quality on St. John's speaking voice. Details available upon request, but the short version is that John had technical difficulties on his end of the recording with "the good mic", but fortunately, we had a lower-quality backup recording on Trey's end over Zoom using St. John's built-in laptop mic. The sound quality is diminished, but the content is still preserved.     Note: All Speaking Portions originally produced in December 2021 by St. John     01: Intro     Timestamps: 00:00:00 - 00:05:18  Runtime: 05:18  Emceed by: Trey and St. John     02: Phillip Vaughn Music Block     Timestamps (Including Introduction): 00:05:18 - 00:24:00  Runtime (including introduction): 18:42  Timestamps (Music Block-Only): 00:07:30 - 00:24:00  Runtime (Music Block-Only): 16:30  Number of Tracks: 8  Emceed by: Trey  Intro Runtime: 02:12  Track Selection  by: Phillip Vaughn  Produced by: St. John  Run-Order by: St. John  Originally Produced in: 2018     Intro - 00:05:18  a)Title – TMNT – NES – JunFunahashi -  00:07:30  b)Final Dungeon – Zelda II – NES – Akita Nakatsuka - 00:09:19 c) Title Screen – Aero the Acrobat – SNES – Fox Productions - 00:10:32 d)Zombie Panic – Zombies Ate my Neighbors – SNES – Joe McDermott - 00:12:11 e)Fool's Play (Puppet Show) – Secret of Evermore – SNES – Jeremy Soule - 00:14:22 f)The Ancient Battleground – King's Field 2 - PS1 – Sound Kids Corp. - 00:16:39 g)The East Village – King's Field - PS1 – Koji Endo - 00:18:20 h)Decisive Battle with Magus – Chrono Trigger – SNES – Yasunori Mitsuda and/or Nobuo Uematsu - 00:21:15    03: Eric Barks Music Block     Timestamps (Including Introduction): 00:24:01 - 00:39:45  Runtime (including introduction): 15:44  Timestamps (Music Block-Only): 00:27:00 - 00:39:45  Runtime (Music Block-Only): 12:45  Number of Tracks: 2 (Fewest of the Day)  Emceed by: St. John  Intro Runtime: 02:59  Track Selection by: Eric Barks  Produced by: St. John  Run-Order by: St. John  Originally Produced in: 2018     Intro - 00:24:01  a)Hellwalker– DOOM (2016) – Multi – Mick Gordon - 00:27:00  b)Cyberdemon - DOOM (2016) – Multi – Mick Gordon - 00:32:04     04: Chris Randazzo Music Block     Timestamps (Including Introduction): 00:39:43 - 00:48:12  Runtime (including introduction): 08:29  Timestamps (Music Block-Only): 00:41:15 - 00:48:12  Runtime (Music Block-Only): 06:58 (Shortest of the Day)  Number of Tracks: 3  Emceed by: Trey  Intro Runtime: 01:31  Track Selection by: Kris Randazzo  Produced by: St. John  Run-Order by: St. John  Originally Produced in: 2018     Intro - 00:39:43  a)Chapter 2 – PAC PIX – DS – Yoshinori Kawamoto - 00:41:15 b)Goin Across Town – Tin Star – SNES – Chris Jojo, Matthew Cannon and/orSuddi Raval - 00:43:33  c)Drifting Brother – Balloon Kid -GameBoy – Hirukazu "Hip" Tanaka - 00:45:43     05: Adam Huisman Music Block      Timestamps (Including Introduction): 00:48:11 - 01:05:20  Runtime (including introduction): 17:09  Timestamps (Music Block-Only): 00:50:41 - 01:05:20  Runtime (Music Block-Only): 14:38  Number of Tracks: 6  Emceed by: St. John  Intro Runtime: 02:31  Track Selection by: Adam Huisman  Produced by: St. John  Run-Order by: St. John  Originally Produced in: 2018      Intro - 00:48:11  a)Blood Dragon Theme – Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon – PC / PS3 / XB360 - Power Glove -  00:50:41 b)Roller Mobster – Hotline Miami – Multi - Carpenter Brut - 00:53:41 c)Hills of Destiny (Past) – Messenger – Multi –Rainbowdragoneyes - 00:57:13  d)Hills of Destiny (Future) - Messenger – Multi –Rainbowdragoneyes - 00:58:36  e)Positive Force – VVVVVVV –  Multi - Magnus Pålsson -  00:59:59 f)Kyoto – Tree of Knowledge – PC98 –Yogurtbox -  01:02:46     06: Michael "Nestrogen" Raisner Music Block     Timestamps (Including Introduction): 01:05:19 - 01:15:44  Runtime (including introduction): 10:25  Timestamps (Music Block-Only): 01:07:51 - 01:15:44  Runtime (Music Block-Only): 07:52  Number of Tracks: 9  Emceed by: Trey  Intro Runtime: 02:33  Track Selection by: Nestrogen  Produced by: St. John  Run-Order by: Nestrogen  Originally Produced in: 2019     Intro - 01:05:19  a)Title Screen – Super Hyperactive Ninja – Multi –Nestrogen - 01:07:51  b)Story Theme – Super Hyperactive Ninja  - Multi –Nestrogen - 01:08:23  c)Level Select – Super Hyperactive Ninja – Multi –Nestrogen - 01:08:53  d)Main Boss Theme – Super Hyperactive Ninja – Multi –Nestrogen - 01:09:17  e)Tower 4 Hyperactive – Super Hyperactive Ninja – Multi –Nestrogen - 01:10:36  f)Tower 5 Main – Super Hyperactive Ninja – Multi –Nestrogen - 01:11:32  g)Tower 6 Main – Super Hyperactive Ninja – Multi –Nestrogen - 01:12:35  h)Final Boss Theme – Super Hyperactive Ninja – Multi –Nestrogen - 01:13:37  i)Game Clear Theme – Super Hyperactive Ninja – Multi –Nestrogen - 01:15:03     07: Jeshua Lack Music Block     Timestamps (Including Introduction): 01:15:44 - 01:40:07  Runtime (including introduction): 24:23  Timestamps (Music Block-Only): 01:19:12 - 01:40:07  Runtime (Music Block-Only): 20:55  Number of Tracks: 10  Emceed by: St. John  Intro Runtime: 03:28  Track Selection by: Jeshua Lack  Produced by: St. John  Run-Order by: St. John  Originally Produced in: 2018     Intro - 01:15:44  a)Ending – Sonic 2 – Genesis – Masato Nakamura –  01:19:12 b)In-Game Theme – Adventures of Lolo – NES – HidekiKanazashi – 01:20:25  c)Stage Theme 1 – Dino Riki – NES – Takeaki Kunimoto – 01:22:17 d)Bridge 05 – Hack Sign – PS2 –Norikatsu Fukuda – 01:25:10  e)Spider Dance – Undertale –  multi – Toby Fox – 01:25:54 f)Prologue – Shining Force – Genesis – Masahiko Yoshimura – 01:29:46 g)Save Room – Resident Evil 2 – PS1 – Masami Ueda – 01:31:00 h)Primal Eyes – Parasite Eve – PS1 – Yoko Shimomura – 01:32:50 i)Time's Scar – Chrono Cross – PS1 – Yasunori Mitsuda – 01:34:57 j)Casino – Sonic 2 – Genesis – MasatoNakmura – 01:37:18     08: Electric Boogaloo Music Block     Timestamps (Including Introduction): 01:40:07 - 02:20:42  Runtime (including introduction): 40:35  Timestamps (Music Block-Only): 01:44:13 - 02:20:42  Runtime (Music Block-Only): 36:29  Number of Tracks: 13 (Mos

2025 Rerun Notes: In anticipation of this month's incoming C1E99: "Listener Picks - vol 3", we are rerunning both previous installments of the Listener Picks trilogy this month!  Today's rerun is the inaugural installment, from all the way back in 2018. It features a semi-standard intro and outro, and a standard mixtape - with the exception of the fact that every track is selected by the listeners (40 tracks - 18 contributors) - and that the intro and outro are guest-curated by a collage of 11 of those same 18 contributors. It was also, at the time, the longest non-retrospective episode in show history - and featured a long, glorious outtakes reel at the end! C1E99 will share a great many of these same attributes! It will feature 70 tracks, collectively selected by 8 listeners (6 of which also contributed to today's rerun (and 3 of which were also featured in vol 2). At just under 3.5hrs, it will also be the longest mixtape in non-retrospective Ch 1 history (even if this new record nearly doubles the [then] record which the 2018 episode set). And it will also feature a semi-standard intro and outro, largely guest-hosted by a collage of the contributing listeners. In fact, unlike today's rerun, this time every single track contributor also contribute their voices to the intro and outro (except for the one which prizes anonimity and requested a text-to-speech be used in his place). And I also anticipate 99 to feature a fairly decent outtakes reel - though not quite as robust and spectacular as today's rerun. So, where vol 2 is less a "sequel" to vol 1 per se, and more of an "omake" (or an "outtakes") of vol 1, the upcoming vol 3 will be the true sequel to today's rerun. The long-awaited "echo". The "let's do this exact same thing one more time". In fact, due to a joint failure of double-checking from both St. John and the contributing listener, C1E99 will even feature one track that was featured in today's rerun. So be on the look out for that and see if you can spot which one it is before the reveal! And yes, it even was the same contributing listener in both episodes! D'oh! :-) Lastly, as always: all the usual caveats about how much worse my production quality was back in 2018 than it is today, and not to judge the current state of NNR production quality by this rerun. If you are new, and this is your first exposure to NNR, and you enjoyed the content, but were put off by the production, either go back and listen to a recent episode, such as C1E98 or C1E96....or perhaps even better, keep your eyes peeled for C1E99, which is basically this all over again, but at 2025's far improved production quality standards! And with that, please enjoy the absolute block party that is C1E40 - Listener Picks - vol 1, and keep an eye out for the trilogy's incoming 2nd (rerun) and 3rd (fresh) installments! Cheers! Cheers! -------------------------------------------------------------- Original Show Notes: Today’s broadcast is Episode 40 for Theme Thursday, December 20th, 2018. Today’s Theme is Listener Picks on a program we're calling "Listener Picks - vol. 1". Guest curated by the listeners - guest hosted by the listeners!    01 - Prologue - 00:00:00  02 - Intro - 00:00:10  03 - Wizards and Warriors – NES – Opening Theme – David Wise – Phillip Vaughn - 00:02:38  04 - Super Smash Bros. Ulitmate  - SWITCH – Lifelight (Main Theme – English Vocals) - Hideki Sakamoto – The Messenger - 00:03:13  05 - Twisted Metal 4 – PS1 – Neon City – Chuck Doud – Phillip Vaughn - 00:06:56  06 - King of Fighters 2000 – multi – Inner Shade – Hideki Asanaka, Marimo, USAKO-X, Yasuo Yamate, and/or ZOE – Justin Regan - 00:11:20  07 - Undertale - multi - Metal Crusher - Toby Fox - Jeshua Lack - 00:14:36  08 - Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Yuna FX: Kanashimi no Siren – PCFX – BGM# 20 – Takanori Arisawa and/or Aya Tanaka – KeyGlyph - 00:16:51  09 - Tower of Heaven – PC – Luna Ascension – Flashygoodness – Adam Huisman - 00:18:17  10 - Alter Ego Dreamwalker – multi – Hunters (Menu) - Coda, and/or Kulor – Chris Murray - 00:20:43  11 - PunchOut - NES - In-Game Theme - Yukio Kaneoka, Akito Nakatsuka and/or Kenji Yamamoto - Brian Peterson - 00:21:56  12 - Crackin' DJ Part 2 - Arcade - Seven O' Clock - c: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / a: Mitsuharu Fukuyama - Electric Boogaloo - 00:23:40  13 - Toe Jam and Earl – Genesis – Rapmaster Rocket Racket – John Baker – Jeshua Lack - 00:25:47  14 - Runner 3 – multi – CommanderVideo Runs Again – Matthew Harwood – Kris Randazzo - 00:29:36  15 - Majula Frontier – PC – Into the Abyss – Dale North – Chris Murray - 00:32:31  16 - DOOM (2016) - multi – Transistor Fist – Mick Gordon – Eric Barks - 00:34:35  17 - Castlevania III  - NES – Riddle – Konami Kukeiha Club – Valerie Wedgeworth - 00:40:37  18 - Wild Guns - SNES - Final Fight - Hiroyuki Iwatsuki and/or Harou Ohashi - Deirdre Fischer (aka Pieness 64) - 00:41:40  19 - Genji Tsuushin Agedama – PC Engine – BGM# 06 – T's Music – KeyGlyph - 00:43:16  20 - Pigskin 621 A.D. - Arcade - First Half - Dan Forden - Electric Boogaloo - 00:44:57  21 - Aldynes: The Mission Code for Rage Crisis – Supergrafx – Stage 6 – Keita Hoshi – KeyGlyph - 00:48:00  22 - Skyroads – PC (AdLib) - Road 8 – Ott M. Aaloe, Hasso Bruck – Justin Regan - 00:49:29  23 - Lady Sword: Ryakudatsu Sareta 10 Nin no Otome – PC Engine – 1F-3F – Unknown – Justin Regan - 00:52:28  24 - Kirby's Dream Land - GameBoy - Castle Lololo - Jun Ishikawa - Brian Peterson - 00:54:08  25 - Earthbound – SNES – Onett Theme – Keiichi Suzuki, and/or Hirokazu (Hip) Tanaka – Phillip Vaughn - 00:56:03  26 - Kero Blaster – multi – Hinterland Fort  (It's My Blaster)– Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya – Kris Randazzo - 00:58:23  27 - Mega Man 11 – multi – Bounce Man Stage – Marika Suzuki – Kris Randazzo - 01:01:47  28 - Super Hyperactive Ninja – multi – Tower 4 Main – Michael Nestrogen Raisner – Michael Nestrogen Raisner - 01:03:52  29 - Resident Evil – PS1 – End Credits – Makoto Tomozawa, Akira Kaida, and/or Masami Ueda – John Jekel - 01:05:39  30 - Modaozi - PC - Credits - Unknown - Oke Music - 01:08:41  31 - Metal Black - Arcade - Dual Moon - Yasuhisa Watanabe - Electric Boogaloo - 01:10:07  32 - Journey – PS3 / PS4 – Apothesis – Austin Wintory – Adam Huisman - 01:12:44  33 - Chrono Cross – PS1 – Dead Sea / Ruined Tower – Yasunori Mitsuda – Amber Peary - 01:19:31  34 - Legend of Mana – PS1 – City of Flickering Destruction – Yoko Shimomura – Amber Peary - 01:22:29  35 - Resident Evil 2 – PS1 – End Credits – Masami Ueda – John Jekel - 01:25:41  36 - Life is Strange – multi – Spanish Sahara – Foals – Amber Peary - 01:28:09  37 - Celeste – Multi – Resurrections – Lena Raine – Chris Murray - 01:34:46  38 - Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Yuna FX: Kanashimi no Siren – PCFX – BGM# 04 - Takanori Arisawa and/or Aya Tanaka – KeyGlyph - 01:44:19  39 - Botanicula – multi – Juchu – DVA, Bara Kratochvilova, and/or Jan Kratochvilova – Adam Huisman - 01:47:01  40 - Ecco: Defender of the Future - Dreamcast – Hanging Waters - Tim Follin - Electric Boogaloo - 01:50:34  41 - Kerbal Space Program – multi – Space Music (Track 2) - Victor Machado – Jeshua Lack - 01:53:01  42 - Spark the Electric Jester – PC – Smog City Sewers (Stage 4) - Faulk Au Yeong, Pejman Roozbeh, James Landino, Andy Tunstall, Paul Bethers, and/or Michael Staple - The Diad - 01:54:36  43 - Outro - 01:58:47  44 - Blooper Reel - 02:12:48    Music Block Runtime: 01:56:13, Total Episode Runtime: 02:25:51    Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights    If you wish to subscribe to the "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" podcast - audio-only, there are two options:    Option 1: Subscribe right here to the "Nerd Noise Radio Network - All Channels" podcast feed. 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Today’s broadcast is C1E98 for Mishmash Monday, Sept 29th, 2025. Today’s broadcast will be Mishmash Monday – vol. 17 – our final installment in the Mishmash Monday series on Ch 1. Also, while, barring circumstances far beyond my control, this is most certainly not the final episode of Nerd Noise Radio, it is "an end" in a certain manner of speaking. Details in the intro.    A1) Intro - 00:00:00     01) Splash Down - Ristar - Genesis - Tomoko Sasaki - 00:05:54     02) Metropolis Zone - Sonic 2 - Genesis - Masato Nakamura - 00:08:40     03) The Rosetta Stone - Double Dragon 3 - Arcade - Akira Inoue and/or Takaro Nozaki - 00:10:18     04) Menu - Fast Fusion - Switch 2 - Bjulin, and/or Francisco Cerda - 00:13:23     05) Best Tone - Driving Emotion Type S - PS2 - Shinji Hosoe, Ayako Sasō, and/or Takayuki Aihara - 00:16:48     06) Menu 3 - FIFA 94 - 3DO - Jeff van Dyck and/or Graeme Coleman - 00:21:55     07) Challenge Course 2 - Donkey Kong Bananza - Switch 2 - Daisuke Matsuoka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, and/or Tsukasa Usui - 00:24:07     08) Tidal Tempest Zone (Present) - Sonic CD (N/A version) - Sega CD / Windows 95 - Spencer Nilsen, David Young, and/or Pastiche - 00:26:50     09) Training Mode - Star Fox - SNES - Hajime Hirasawa - 00:28:31     10) Introduction 1 - Flimbo’s Quest - C64 - Johannes Bjerregaard - 00:30:21     11) Stage 2 - Kirby’s Block Ball - Game Boy - Sukezo Ouyama, and/or Ryoue Takagi - 00:32:32     12) There and Back - Rocket League - Multiplatform - Protostar - 00:34:34     13) Can’t Sleep - Olli Olli World - Multiplatform - Alex Swim - 00:38:18     14) Tubular 2 - Fantavision 202X - Soichi Terrada - 00:42:48     15) Pulse - Tetris Effect: Connected - Multiplatform - Hydelic - 00:47:08     16) The Streets - Skate or Die 2 - NES - Rob Hubbard - 00:50:07     17) Red Out - After Burner II - PC Engine - c: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / a: Kenichiro Isoda, and/or Shigeharu Isoda - 00:52:20     18) Main Theme - Crystal Hammer - Amiga - Karsten Obarski - 00:55:26     19) Pure Stone - Zillion - Master System - Tokuhiko Uwabo  - 00:59:31     20) Boss - Somer Assault - TG16 - Hidehito Aoki and/or Katsuyuki Inose - 01:02:49     21) Attacking Vah Rudania - LoZ: Breath of the Wild - Switch / Switch 2 - Hajime Wakai, Manaka Kataoka, and/or Yasuaki Iwata - 01:06:16     22) Fire Temple Phase 2 - LoZ: Tears of the Kingdom - Switch / Switch 2 - Hajime Wakai, Manaka Kataoka, Tsukasa Usui, Maasa Miyoshi, and/or Masato Ohashi - 01:08:46     23) El Quejio - Blasphemous - Multiplatform - Carlos Viola, and/or Daniel Parejo - 01:12:12     24) Temple of the Sands - The Talos Principle - Multiplatform - Damjan Mravunac - 01:17:14     25) Winter Night - Hitman Contracts - PS2/XB/PC - Jesper Kyd - 01:19:11     26) The Junction - Donkey Kong Bananza - Switch 2 - Daisuke Matsuoka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, and/or Tsukasa Usui - 01:22:34     27) Left to Bloom - Minecraft - Mutiplatform - Lena Raine - 01:24:34     28) Maintain the Firmament - Firmament - PS5/PC - Maclaine Diemer - 01:30:07     29) Crossroads - Hollow Knight - Multiplatform - Christopher Larkin - 01:33:05     30) Pokopoko - Minecraft - Multiplatform - Kumi Tanioka - 01:35:29     31) Main Theme - Atari 50 - Multiplatform - Bob Baffy - 01:40:12     32) Game Select - Kirby Super Star - SNES - Jun Ishikawa, and/or Dan Miyakawa - 01:47:51     33) Stage 1 - Legendary Wings - NES - Tamayo Kawamoto, Manami Matsumae, and/or Yoshihiro Sakaguchi - 01:49:19     34) Quick Man - Mega Man - Game Gear - c: Takashi Tateishi / a: David Lowe - 01:51:14     35) Title Music - Batman Returns - Lynx - Robert Vieira - 01:53:16     36) Aqueduct - Lagrange Point - Famicom (VRC7) - Akio Dobashi, Noriyuki Takahashi, Aki Hata, Makoto Kawamoto, Kenji Nakamura, and/or Tadashi Sawashita - 01:55:00     37) Viewros Overworld - Metroid Prime 4 (pre-release) - Switch / Switch 2 - Kenji Yamamoto - 01:57:07     38) The Divide - Donkey Kong Bananza - Switch 2 - Daisuke Matsuoka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, and/or Tsukasa Usui - 02:00:07     39) Puzzlebox - Minecraft - Multiplatform - Aaron Chernof - 02:02:45     40) Gerudo Town Night - LoZ: BotW / TotK - Switch / Switch 2 - Hajime Wakai, Manaka Kataoka, and/or Yasuaki Iwata - 02:07:34     41) North Point Mall - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - PS2 / PC - Lex Horton - 02:10:40     42) Whimsical Waypoint - Two Dots - iOS / Android - Upright T-Rex - 02:15:01     B1) Outro - 02:17:21     Music Block Runtime: 02:11:28  / Total Episode Runtime: 02:30:21    Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.    Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Workstation Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) laptop with perhaps a little support from a Dell Latitude 7480 (running Fedora COSMIC Linux), a 2017-spec DIY gaming PC (running Bazzite Linux) or the Steam Deck (running Steam OS Linux). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!    You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.    We are now a member podcast as well. 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Join us again in October for C1E99 (Channel 1, Episode 99): Listener Picks – vol 3 - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!    Cheers! 

In this very special edition of Nerd Noise Radio Channel F, St. John's 7yr old son, St. Wyatt makes his Nerd Noise Radio debut (at least, in all the ways that matter). This episode will be a miniature of the Channel 2 format - with only one track!  Circumstances: St. John *MEANT* to include a track from one of Wyatt's iPad games into the mixtape of C1E98: "Mishmash Monday - vol. 17", but realized way too late into that episode's production that he had completely spaced it off.  He briefly considered going back into the mixtape and the voice track and retroactively adding the track. But then decided to instead use the occasion of his complete air-headedness to "turn lemons into lemonade" and and introduce Wyatt into the show - something that had been in the back of St. John's mind since the day Wyatt was born. While Wyatt has yet to master the art of radio communication (I hope everyone likes "salad"), this F-isode absolutely melts my heart!....I hope it will you too! Lastly, I actually really like this track....and once again, I hope you will too! Given St. John's penchant for "ironically, humorously literal titles", this one is aptly named: "One for Wyatt!" Track:   01) Gettin' Freaky - Friday Night Funkin' - iOS/Android - Kawai Sprite

2025 Rerun Notes: In commemoration of this month release of the last-ever Mishmash Monday on Channel 1, I thought I'd rerun the first two installments of the series - both from all the way back in 2017 (Season 1 of the show). Therefore, all the obvious caveats on "absolutely atrocious production quality" and blah blah blah (especially on C1E10, the earlier of the two releases). Though this rerun is "officially" and "canonically" the first "Mishmash Monday" (free play) episode in Nerd Noise Radio history, it is really "Mishmash Monday in name only" as it wasn't truly a free play. Instead, it was designed with a very specific purpose and with each track housing a very specific meaning. Though I explain and elaborate fully in a 2019 special expanded rebroadcast of this episode we called "Chandlerfest", which I'll link to below, for now, the tl;dr is that this mixtape was actually made in commemoration for a friend who died entirely too young in Dec 2016, and whose absence we still feel regularly from here in 2025. When I got the news, I left work, went home, and turned my grief into tortured energy, and made this mixtape, with the design philosophy being to use the tracks and the particular arch of the track order to tell the story of the emotions of those of us left behind in his wake as we processed the news of his departure. With this being a 2017 episode, all the obvious caveats on "absolutely atrocious production quality" (especially episodes from the first half of 2017, which were even worse than those from the second half.) But content-wise, this early outing remains one of the most important episodes of Nerd Noise Radio....ever. Here's a link to Chandlerfest for anyone who wants to know more: https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/nerd-noise-radio-reruns-presents-chandlerfest Otherwise, enjoy! Original 2017 show notes below! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Today’s broadcast is Episode 10 for Mishmash Monday, May 22nd, 2017 on a program we're calling "Mishmash Monday vol. 1"    This episode is dedicated to the memory of Chris Chandler.    Tracklist - Track#, Game, System, Track Name, Composer, Timestamp:    01: Intro - 00:00  02: Shinobi 3 - Genesis - Japonesque - Hirofumi Murasaki, Masayuki Nagao, Morihiko Akiyama - 01:55  03: Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - The Vile Peaks - Masashi Hamauzu - 04:13  04: Trip World - Game Boy - Stage 2-2 - “Phase Out” - 06:59  05: Ninja Warriors - SNES - City - Hiroyuki Iwatsuki - 08:43  06: Quake 2 - PC - Quad Machine - Sonic Mayhem - 10:50  07: X-Men - Arcade - Ethnic Cave and Flame - The Konami Kukeiha Club - 14:22  08: Jumping Flash 2 - PS1 - Stage 1-2 - Takeo Miratsu - 16:56  09: Fushigi no Umi no Nadia - PCE - HES 12 - Shiro Sagisu - 18:34  10: Sim City - SNES - Capital - Soyo Oka - 20:33  11: Castlevania III - NES - Riddle - Konami Kukeiha Club - 22:54  12: Ai Chou Aniki - PC Engine - Stage 4-3 - Iwasaki Taku - 23:56  13: Star Wars: SOTE - N64 - Menu - Joel McNeely - 25:33  14: Super Meat Boy - PC/360 - Forest Funk - Danny Baronowsky - 26:34  15: Metroid Prime - GameCube - Metroid Prime Battle - Kenji Yamamoto and/or Kouichi Kyuma - 29:22  16: James Bond 007 - Genesis - Space Hop - Matt Furniss - 31:58  17: Tiny Toon Adventures: BBL - SNES - Space Opera -  Kazuhiko Uehara and/or Yukie Morimoto - 34:03  18: Chester Cheetah: TCTF - Genesis - To the Exit - Kaneko Sound Team - 36:46  19: Salamander - PC Engine - Crystal Forever - Konami Kukeiha Club - 39:41  20: Outro - 40:09    Music Block Runtime: 38:18, Total Episode Runtime: 46:39    Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights    If you wish to subscribe to the Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 1 Music block podcast, there are two options:    Option 1: Subscribe right here to the "Nerd Noise Radio Network - All Channels" podcast feed. 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2025 Rerun Notes: In commemoration of this month release of the last-ever Mishmash Monday on Channel 1, I thought I'd rerun the first two installments of the series - both from all the way back in 2017 (Season 1 of the show). Therefore, all the obvious caveats on "absolutely atrocious production quality" and blah blah blah (especially on C1E10, the earlier of the two releases). Though today's rerun is officially, canonically the "second" Mishmash Monday, it's actually the first "for real" Mishmash Monday. The first "actual free play episode". Not that it was produced before C1E10, but released later, but that C1E10 was a "Mishmash Monday" in name only, and was definitely not a true free play. I'll explain in that episode's rerun. But for now, numbers and dates aside, this was our first actual "free play" episode in NNR history. And even though the production quality is so absolutely horrible, I still regard this episode as an excellent collection of music! Easily in our top 50% of show history, and perhaps even top 25%. So, enjoy! Original 2017 show notes below! ------------------------------------------------------------------   Today’s broadcast is Episode 16 for Mishmash Monday, October 9th, 2017 on a program we're calling "Mishmash Monday - vol. 2".    Track Number / Game / System / Track Name / Composer / Time Stamp    01: Intro 00:00  02: Ghost in the Shell - PS1 - The Vertical - Joey Beltram 01:44  03: Solstice - NES - Title Theme - Tim Follin 08:10  04: Axiom Verge - multi - Inexorable - Thomas Happ 11:04  05: Silent Hill 2 - PS2 - The Reverse Will - Akira Yamaoka 15:44  06: Wai Wai Mahjong - PC Engine - Unknown Track 4 - Uncredited 19:09  07: Adventure Island - NES - Stage 1-1 - Jun Chikuma 20:50  08: Mega Man X - SNES - Central Highway - Toshihiko Horiyama 22:14  09: Tsuri Taro - SFC - Fishing for Seema - Katsuhiro Hayashi 25:14  10: Liquid Kids - Arcade - Waltz of Water and Bubble - Kazuko Umino 28:18  11: Metroid Fusion - GBA - Nightmare Battle - Minako Hamano 30:21  12: X-Men - Genesis - Shi'ar Empire - Fletcher Beasley 32:11  13: X-Racer - Hydra Development Unit - Floor it! - c: John Wedgeworth / a: Jay Cook 36:05  14: Shovel Knight - multi - A Cool Reception - Jake Kaufman 37:47  15: Destiny - PS4/XB1 - Passage - C. Paul Johnson 40:26  16: ARMS - Switch - Main Theme - Atsuko Asahi and/or Yasuaki Iwata 43:36  17: El Viento - Genesis - High Sky - Motoi Sakuraba 46:26  18: Magical Chase - TG16 - Waltz of Meditation (part 1) - Hitoshi Sakimoto 48:48  19: Wolverine - NES - Bonus Room - Geoff Follin 51:18  20: Castlevania II - FDS - The Silence of Daylight - Kenichi Matsubara 52:17  21: Final Fantasy IX - PS1 - Esto Gaza - Nobuo Uematsu 53:21  22: Animal Crossing: New Leaf - 3DS - 10pm - Kazumi Totaka 56:47  23: Outro 59:23    Music Block Runtime: 57:43, Total Episode Runtime: 01:05:49    Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights    If you wish to subscribe to the Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 1 Music block podcast, there are two options:    Option 1: Subscribe right here to the "Nerd Noise Radio Network - All Channels" podcast feed. Feed will include Channels 1, 2, 3, and any future channels not yet planned. 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Here's today's episode:    [LINK]    You can also find us on The Retro Junkies Network:    www.retrojunkies.com    You can find us (and all of our episodes) as "Nerd Noise Radio" on Archive.org and can also find us and join the conversation on both our Nerd Noise Radio Network Facebook, Google+, and Twitter pages, as well as our Facebook and Google+ "Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode" and "Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode" groups.     https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio  https://twitter.com/NerdNoiseRadio  https://www.facebook.com/NerdNoiseRadioNetwork/  https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/  https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/  https://plus.google.com/u/0/116712079232328588606  https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/115513825710696980758/116712079232328588606?pageId=115513825710696980758    Lastly, we share our episodes as well on our blog at nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. This specific episode can be found here:    [LINK]    As always, your feedback and input is DEEPLY appreciated, so we cheerfully invite you to "blow up the comments section", or you can always reach us by e-mail at nerdnoiseradio@gmail.com as well as all the aforementioned social media outlets.    Hope you enjoy the episode! Join us again Saturday, October 28th for C1E17 (Channel 1, Episode 17): the Bram Stoker's Dracula soundtrack, and wherever you are - Fly the N!    Cheers! 

Today's "F-isode" is the soundtrack to the upcoming indie game "MAKRANA" designed, developed, and scored by Matt Miller of Des Moines-based Chronarian Games. Matt sits in with St. John at Nerd Noise Studios for a Channel 2-style in-person conversation to discuss the soundtrack and various other matters of varying degrees of relevance. ;-) All tracks from the game MAKRANA, an upcoming game by Chronarian Games for PS5, XBSX and probably other platforms as well. All tracks composed, arranged, and performed by Matt Miller. Tracklist A1) "Production Disclaimer" Earcatcher (St. John on the now NNR-customary $400 Shure SM7B Mic) - 00:00:00 A2) "Episode Opener" Earcatcher (St. John on the now long-deprecated $100 AudioTechnica AT2020 Mic which was the mic St. John used on NNR from 2017-2022) - 00:00:59 01) "ZENITH" (game and track titles all capitalized for stylistic purposes by developer)  a) Music - 00:01:12  b) Discussion and Top-of-Show Business (St. John and Matt sharing a single AT2020) - 00:04:50 02) "OBSERVE"  a) Music - 00:29:39  b) Discussion (all voice recordings from here on out using that same single AT2020) - 00:33:27 03) "REFLECT"  a) Music - 00:47:59  b) Discussion (our shortest conversation of the episode by far!) - 00:51:47 04) "QUADRANT"  a) Music - 00:59:04  b) Discussion - 01:03:21 05) "DEVIATE"  a) Music - 01:28:28  b) Discussion and End-of-Show Business - 01:33:51   B1) Outtakes - 02:04:08 Total Episode Runtime: 02:10:02 Matt and Chronarian Games can be found at www.chronariangames.com as well as on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, Mastodon, YouTube, and X. Special Thanks to Erin Miller, Nora Miller, and Jodee Wedgeworth (aka "St. Jodee") for making this recording session / episode possible.  Produced in a mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux on a 2023-model Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop (docked in a "desktop" context) using the aforementioned mics, a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB audio interface, and in the case of the SM7B, a Cloudlifter in-line signal booster. No alcohol was involved in this recording - however, I do think sleep deprivation may have been a factor! ;-) :-D Enjoy!!

Today's bonus broadcast is the soundtrack to Lucid 9, created by Fallen Snow Studios, and composed by Ultra Kitsune (10 of 36 tracks), Breezee (15 of 36 tracks), Ziassan (4 of 36 tracks), Blue Wolfie (6 of 36 tracks), and Haven235 (1 of 36 tracks) - listed in order of appearance! The first game I ever played on Steam. Track list: A1) Intro - 00:00:00 01) Urban Disturbance (by Ultra Kitsune) - 00:05:06 02) Usual Routine (by Breezee) - 00:08:50 03) Hustle & Bustle (by Breezee) - 00:10:08 04) Peaceful Days (by Ziassan) - 00:11:35 05) Consequences of a fool (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:13:52 06) Marvelous Masa (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:15:38 07) Gover Mecher (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:16:30 08) Victory in Sight (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:18:07 09) Adult talk (by Ultra Kitsune) - 00:20:23 10) Empty Eyes (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:22:17 11) Optimist in shining armor (by Breezee) - 00:24:52 12) Stardust (by Ultra Kitsune) - 00:25:56 13) Rationality (by Haven235) - 00:28:02 14) Vision from my soul (by Ultra Kitsune) - 00:29:53 15) Unpredictable Youth (by Breezee) - 00:30:54 16) Eccentric Detective (by Breezee) - 00:33:18 17) Process of Elimination (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:35:55 18) Instinctive Suspicion (by Breezee) - 00:38:07 19) Instinctive Suspicion - music box (by Breezee) - 00:40:07 20) Instinctive Suspicion - ominous (by Breezee) - 00:42:03 21) Equanimity (by Breezee) - 00:43:58 22) Anxiety (by Breezee) - 00:48:44 23) Tasteless (by Ziassan) - 00:50:11 24) Introspection (by Ziassan) - 00:52:29 25) Melancholy (by Breezee) - 00:58:00 26) Melancholy - heavy (by Breezee) - 01:00:16 27) Hollow (by Ultra Kitsune) - 01:03:06 28) Restless (by Ultra Kitsune) - 01:05:27 29) Asphyxia (by Breezee) - 01:08:19 30) Electrifying Tension (by Breezee) - 01:10:07 31) Melancholy - emotional (by Breezee) - 01:12:59 32) Warm Feeling (by Ultra Kitsune) - 01:16:04 33) Secrets of Isamu (by Ultra Kitsune) - 01:17:49 34) Depths (by Ziassan) - 01:19:44 35) Disturbed (by Ultra Kitsune) - 01:22:09 36) Urban Disturbance - dark edit (by Ultra Kisune) - 01:25:11 Soundtrack Runtime - 01:22:47 Total Runtime - 01:27:53 You can find Fallen Snow Studios here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWfMivU4sAY https://vnchan.wordpress.com/ Background music for the introduction segment: Water Temple (Phase 1) from Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Nintendo Switch (and Switch 2) composed by Manaka Kataoka, Maasa Miyoshi, Masato Ohashi, and/or Tsukasa Usui

Today’s broadcast is C1E97 for Soundtrack Saturday, July 26th, 2025. Today’s soundtrack is the Super Metroid soundtrack on the Super NES, composed by Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano. This episode is Nerd Noise Radio's contribution to the VGM Hall of Fame ("HoF") project, created in collaboration with Alex "The Messenger" of "A VGM Journey" and Professor Tom from "Shujin Academy VGM Club" podcasts. Links to their programs will be found in the show notes! Stick around after the show for bonus content!    Tracklist:     Track# - Track - Timestamp     A1) Intro - 00:00:00  01) Title Theme - 00:05:16  02) Prologue - 00:07:28  03) Approaching the Space Colony - 00:10:01  04) Ceres Space Colony - 00:10:11  05) Ridley / Draygoon / Chozo Statue - 00:10:43  06) Approaching Planet Zebes - 00:12:52  07) Crateria (Surface Arrival) - 00:13:06  08) Crateria (Underground) - 00:14:47  09) Crateria (Space Pirates) - 00:16:25  10) Mysterious Statue Chamber - 00:19:58  11) Item Room - 00:21:48  12) Brinstar (Overgrown Area) - 00:23:23  13) Brinstar (Red Soil) - 00:27:00  14) Spore Spawn / Botwoon - 00:29:12  15) Tension - 00:31:27  16) Kraid / Crocomire / Phantoon - 00:33:17  17) Norfair (Fire of Zebes) - 00:35:07  18) Theme of Samus Aran - 00:37:22  19) Wrecked Ship (Deactivated) - 00:41:01  20) Wrecked Ship (Activated) - 00:43:11  21) Maridia (Drifting Sands) - 00:45:34  22) Maridia (Underwater) - 00:49:30  23) Norfair (Ancient Ruins) - 00:52:23  24) Golden Four Statue - 00:57:00  25) Tourian - 00:59:13  26) Mother Brain - 01:03:03  27) Escape - 01:05:21  28) Finale - 01:07:33  29) Continue - 01:10:51  B1) Outro - 01:11:41  B2) BONUS: Super Metroid Medley - performed on June 22nd 2025 by the Des Moines Gamer Symphony Orchestra (“DSMGSO”), and arranged by the DSMGSO’s very own Joseph Mullin! - 01:20:59     Music Block Runtime: 01:06:27 / Bonus Music Runtime: 00:13:15 / Total Episode Runtime: 01:33:25     Our intro and outro is Funky Radio from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by B.B. Rights     You can find Alex’s show: “A VGM Journey” here:     https://terraplayer.com/shows/a-vgm-journey     And you can find Professor Tom’s “Shujin Academy VGM Club” here:     https://terraplayer.com/shows/shujin-academy-vgm-club     You can find the Des Moines Gamer Symphony Orchestra here:     https://www.dsmgso.org/  https://youtube.com/@desmoinesgamersymphonyorch3631?si=hq8tUJYKOR0-ynjr     You can find Valerie’s Flute Entertainment here:    https://www.valwedgeworth.com/    Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Workstation Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2023) laptop. Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!    You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.    We are now a member podcast as well. You can find us there at  https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio. Also, check out their outstanding collection of other podcasts and radio stations at https://terraplayer.com/! From now on, when sharing episodes of Nerd Noise Radio, I will most likely use the Terra Player link rather than the Podbean link like I have been using.    Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:     https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio    Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here:    nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com.    Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at     https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/    We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/    Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:     Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.    Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.    Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com    You can also follow us on Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at  And we are also now on TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible!     But frankly, probably the absolute best way you can connect with us is on our new Discord Channel: "Nerd Noise Radio – Channel D", which includes various sub-channels for all sorts of different types of connection and conversation:     https://discord.gg/GUWdaXUw    Thanks for listening! Join us again in August (or more likely, September) for C1E98 (Channel 1, Episode 98): Mishmash Monday – vol. 17 – our final ever Mishmash Monday on Channel 1, and our third-to-last [quote] "regular", "ordinary", "standard" episode of Channel 1, though certainly not our third-to-last all-time production of Nerd Noise Radio. Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!    Cheers! 

2025 Rerun Notes: A very unique episode in show history, the only time we ever did a "ThreeFer". It's a bit of a long episode, and this was back when I was still using a cheaper mic and less sophisticated production techniques, but I still remain very proud of this episode from a content perspective. Original 2022 show notes below! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Today’s broadcast is C1E64 for Nerd Noise Crossovers, Thursday, 05/12/2022. Today’s Crossover is "ThreeFer Thursday" - which is, among standard format Ch 1 episodes for "just ordinary occasions", our longest episode to date. So hunker down and buckle up for what is going to be quite the musical journey! Also the Ch 1 debut of the new mic, higher quality copies of the intro/outro background music, and my new production techniques. I'm exceptionally proud of this episode, and hope you will find it exceptionally enjoyable!    Track Number / Game (Composer) / Track Names (Composers) / Time Stamp    01) Intro – 00:00:00  02) Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars – Multiplatform  A) Pursuing the Dragon (vocalvers) - Keiichi Okabe (vocal by Saki Nakai) - 00:06:16 B) Midday Town – Oliver Good – 00:08:36 C) Tears of the Black Witch – Shotaro Seo – 00:11:53 03) Twilight - X68000 - Ryu Umemoto, Ryu Takami, and/or Hiroaki Sano  A) AsVreaSa Merg La (Ending) - 00:15:28  B)Dimineate(Morning) – 00:18:03  C)BisericaNeagra (Opening) - 00:23:11  04) Final Fantasy X – PS2  A) Fantasy (aka Phantoms) – Junya Nakano – 00:26:43 B) The Travel Agency – MasashiHamauzu– 00:29:59  C) Moment of Truth – MasashiHamauzu– 00:32:53  05)  DOOM Eternal - Multi  - Mick Gordon  A) Icon of Sin – 00:36:22 B) Doom Eternal – 00:41:48 C) Cultist Base – 00:46:43 06)  Cyberpunk 2077 - Multi  A)WushuuDolls – Marcin Przybylowicz – 00:52:14  B) Adam Smasher – Paul Leonard-Morgan – 00:54:27 C) The Rebel Path – P.T. Adamczyk – 00:57:44 07) Super Mario Sunshine – GameCube - Kōji Kondō, and/or Shinobu Tanaka  A) Delfino Airstrip – 01:01:48 B) Sirenna Beach – 01:04:02 C) Secret Stage – 01:06:19 08) Tiny Death Star - iOS/Android - c: John Williams / a: GMLeto  A) Main Theme – 01:09:20 B) Imperial Death March – 01:10:43 C) Force Theme – 01:11:52 09) Sim Copter – PC  A) Jazz 1 – Jerry Martin – 01:12:25 B) Jazz 5 – Marc Russo – 01:17:56 C) Jazz 4 – Marc Russo – 01:22:44 10) Pebble Beach Golf Links - Genesis - Yumi Satake, Shigekazu Kamaki, and/or Yusaburo Shimojyo  A) Hole Overview – 01:27:40 B) Main Menu – 01:29:43 C) Tea Break – 01:33:33 11) Art of Balance – Multi - Martin Schjøler  A) Title Theme – 01:36:04 B) World A – 01:38:04 C) Challenge – 01:40:29 12) N++ - multi  A) Confined Spaces – ASC – 01:42:39 B) Surrender – Sam KDC – 01:50:48 C) Outlaw –VolorFlex – 01:56:48  13)  Trickstyle – Dreamcast / PC – Richard Beddow  A) UK Race 2 – 02:02:06 B) Japan Race 2 – 02:05:03 C) USA Race 2 – 02:07:35 14) Doshin the Giant – GameCube - Tatsuhiko Asano  A) Time – 02:10:50 B) Jungle Morning – 02:13:36 C) Yellow Giant – 02:16:34 15) Magic The Gathering Shandalar - PC – Roland J. Rizzo  A) Track 8 - 02:19:07 B) Track 10 - 02:20:50 C) Track 19 - 02:22:28  16) Reigns – iOS/Android - MAGO   A) Benevolent Deeds – 02:24:23 B) William the Great – 02:26:54 C) Dark Deeds – 02:30:38 17) Mega Man 2 – NES – Takashi Tateishi  A) Heat Man Stage – 02:33:36 B) Quick Man Stage – 02:35:21 C) Crash Man Stage – 02:37:20 18) Outro – 02:40:11    Music Block Runtime: 02:34:02 /// Total Epsiode Runtime: 02:53:08    Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.    Produced using Ardour 6 / Audacity 3 in Ubuntu Studio [Linux] 22.04    You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.    Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:     https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio    Our episodes (and occasionally, other content, including expanded show notes) can be found on our blog here:    nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com.    Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at     https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/    Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:     Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.    Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.    You can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio. And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and Vurbl.    Thanks for listening! Join us again in June (dates TBD) for both Hugues' and I's separate "Best of 2020 / 2021" Channel 1 Retrospective episodes as well as Nerd Noise Radio's contribution (via Channel 2) to the great big VGM Podcast communities common theme group project initiaitve.    Cheers! 

[2025 Addendum] Our third and final rerun which we’re releasing for July, and third and final rerun celebrating the memory of Masters of VGM (“MoVGM”), and our third and final of my bids to drum up excitement for the “VGM Hall of Fame” (“HoF”)  series spearheaded by Alex “The Messenger” Messenger of “A VGM Journey” (https://terraplayer.com/shows/a-vgm-journey), Professor Tom from “Shujin Academy VGM Club” (https://terraplayer.com/shows/shujin-academy-vgm-club), and myself (as well as any other shows which have elected to join us in the time since my drafting this on July 2nd), we look, at last, to MoVGM’s final year: 2024. The Theme of 2024’s MoVGM was a focus on female and LGBTQIA+ (particularly trans) composers. And Nerd Noise Radio’s contribution for this year was a Channel 1 featuring the soundtrack to the game Celeste, composed by the fabulous trans composer Lena Raine. The pride connection goes even deeper, though, as the game was written and designed by Maddie Thorson, who is also trans, and upon whom the [also also trans] protagonist, Madelaine is also based. From a production standpoint, this is going to be pretty close to on par with a 2025 production as it is using all the same recording hardware, and most of the same production techniques, but may not quite match the current crop due to my using less sophisticated monitoring headphones resulting in a final mix which might be a tad on the “hot” side. Either way, it’s a showcase of great people making great music to a great game with a great message. So, we are quite pleased to present C1E86: “The Celeste Soundtrack” (originally released 06/15/2024). Enjoy ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original Show Notes: Today’s broadcast is C1E86 for Soundtrack Saturday, June 15th, 2024. Today’s episode is our contributions to the annual VGM podcast scene group project, Masters of VGM (https://www.mastersofvgm.com/). Today's broadcast is the soundtrack to the game Celeste (Mutliplatform) - composed by Lena Raine!    Tracklist: Track# / Track / Timestamp    A1) Intro - 00:00:00  01) Prologue - 00:03:52  02) First Steps - 00:04:57  03) Resurrections - 00:08:31  04) Awake - 00:18:09  05) Postcard from Celeste Mountain - 00:20:34  06) Checking In - 00:22:02  07) Spirit of Hospitality - 00:29:05  08) Scattered and Lost - 00:30:45  09) Golden - 00:36:36  10) Anxiety - 00:45:00  11) Quiet and Falling - 00:46:50  12) In the Mirror - 00:54:13  13) Madeline and Theo - 01:03:43  14) Starjump - 01:06:50  15) Reflection - 01:08:59  16) Confronting Myself - 01:14:48  17) Little Goth - 01:18:50  18) Reach for the Summit - 01:21:46  19) Exhale - 01:32:48  20) Heart of the Mountain - 01:35:08  21) My Dearest Friends- 01:41:02  B1) Outro - 01:43:10    Music Block Runtime: 01:39:23, Total Episode Runtime: 01:49:48    Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.    Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) laptop with perhaps a little support from a Dell Latitude 7480 (also running Fedora Linux) or the Steam Deck (running Steam OS). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!    You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.    Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:     https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio    Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here:    nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com.    Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at     https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/    We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/    Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:     Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.    Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.    Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com    You can also follow us on X (Twitter) at https://twitter.com/NerdNoiseRadio , Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at  And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible! There is technically a Discord channel, but we may or may not ever take it public!    Thanks for listening! Join us again in June (date TBD) for C2E18 (Channel 2, Episode 18) for a TBD-titled fous on music from Unreleased Games and in July for C1E87 (Channel 1, Episode 87): TwoFer Tuesday – vol. 10 – Tasty VGM and Talk on "Nerd n Noise Game Club", as well as Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N! 

[2025 Addendum….sorry for the long-winded] Our second of three reruns which we’re releasing for July, and second of three reruns celebrating the memory of Masters of VGM (“MoVGM”), and the second of three of my bids to drum up excitement for the “VGM Hall of Fame” (“HoF”)  series spearheaded by Alex “The Messenger” Messenger of “A VGM Journey” (https://terraplayer.com/shows/a-vgm-journey), Professor Tom from “Shujin Academy VGM Club” (https://terraplayer.com/shows/shujin-academy-vgm-club), and myself (as well as any other shows which have elected to join us in the time since my drafting this on July 2nd) is just one of, this time, four contributions we made to the series that year. I’ll share links to the other three below, as well as two other bonus links which are acutely relevant to two of them (as well as to C1E96, our “fresh episode” from last month). The Theme of 2023’s MoVGM was sort of the opposite of the year prior. 2022’s theme was a celebration of “big named composers”, like Yuzo Koshiro or Nobuo Uematsu, or The Follin Brothers and so on. Names that probably EVERYBODY already knows, 2023’s theme was “unsung and undersung composers”. Names that were not nearly as well-known as they should be. And so, our Channel 2 contribution followed the same format and design philosophy of our 2022, only with the opposite theme. It’s a little longer, though, because in addition to the same “four and four” as before, we added a ninth and final pair - tracks by unknown composers”. Production notes on this episode relative to the 2022 rerun: by this time, two major changes had happened: 1) I had upgraded from the $100 RODE Podmic I had been using to the current $400 Shure SM7B that I use today, and 2) I had started actively editing out “Umm”s from our conversation. I can’t guarantee that I caught every single one of them. But they’ll certainly be much less present and much less invasive. It still won't rise to the level of a 2025 production (and sounds a little worse with the SM7B’s presence boost turned on at the time, which I’ve since turned off), but it comes appreciably closer than C2E8. Links to the other 2023 Nerd Noise Radio MoVGM contributions: C1E76: “The Big Sound of the Little Guy - vol. 2” (originally released 06/01/2023 - the episode which kicked off MoVGM 2023 at large): https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/ch-1-noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e76-the-big-sound-of-the-little-guy--vol-2   Ch F: “Highlights from ‘Stray’” (originally released 06/29/2023): https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/channel-f-highlights-fromstray-masters-of-vgm   Ch F: Composer Mini-Focus: rayjkayj (originally released  07/26/2023 - also, this might’ve been the final MoVGM 2023 episode as well, meaning, I might’ve gotten to provide both “bookends” to that year’s celebration!) https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/channel-f-composer-minifocus-rayjkayj-masters-of-vgm   Lastly, two bonus links which relate to the above: 1) C1E30: Big Sound of the Little Guy - vol. 1 (originally released 09/14/2018 - apologies for the atrocious production quality and anemic intro, but the music collection itself is GREAT!) - not only is this obviously relevant to C1E76 above, but it’s also relevant to last month’s C1E96, which was (unofficially, but for all intents and purposes) “Big Sound of the Little Guy vol 3”: https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/nerd-noise-radio-channel-1-noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-podcast-c1e30-the-big-sounds-of-the-little-guy-vol-1   2) C1E73: “UNKAYJ THE RAYJ” (originally released ) - guest-hosted by rayjkayj himself, the above minifocus on rayjkayj was comprised of outtakes from this original episode: https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/ch-1-noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e73-unkayj-the-rayj …and with that, I’ll leave you with C2E13: “Songs of the Unsung” (originally released 07/06/2023) - a title which I came up with, and if we’re being honest, I’m probably WAY too proud of!). :-D Enjoy!   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original Show Notes: Today’s broadcast, for Theme Thursday, July 6th, 2023 is an episode of the Masters of VGM - season 2 (www.mastersofvgm.com) and is a focus on music from unsung and undersung composers - on an episode we’re calling “Songs of the Unsung”.   Tracklist:   01) John’s 1st composer (of 4): C418 (aka Daniel Rosenfeld)   John’s Track: Dreiton - Minecraft - Multiplatform Earcatcher - 00:00:00 Music - 00:00:07 Introduction - 00:08:16 Top of the Show pt 1 - 00:09:12 Discussion - 00:12:00 Top of the Show pt 2 - 00:14:19 Hugues’ Track: Enforcer Brittanica - Catacomb Snatch - PC Music - 00:28:44 Discussion - 00:32:23   02) Hugues’ 1st composer: Takahiko Abe   Hugues’ Track: Templo del Sol - Asuteka II - PC88 Music - 00:37:18: Discussion - 00:39:31 John’s Track: Machi - Susanoou Densetsu - PC Engine Music - 00:46:36 Discussion - 00:48:24   03) John’s 2nd composer: Soichi Terada   John’s Track: Subspace 2 - Fantavision 202X - PC Music - 00:56:06 Discussion - 00:59:27 Hugues’ Track: TV Tower - Ape Escape on the Loose - PSP Music - 01:03:30 Discussion - 01:06:54   04) Hugues’ 2nd composer: Katsumi Tanaka   Hugues’ Track: Memories of Puyo Puyo - Puyo Puyo CD - PC Engine Music - 01:11:09 Discussion - 01:13:25 John’s Track: Black Hole Anomalies - Space Megaforce - SNES Music - 01:19:17 Discussion - 01:21:41   05) John’s 3rd composer: Hikoshi Hashimoto   John’s Track: Zena Lan (Heavily Armored) - Cosmic Carnage - 32X Music - 01:23:57 Discussion - 01:25:50 Hugues’ Track: Halftime - Pat Riley Basketball - Genesis Music - 01:31:15 Discussion - 01:31:47   06) Hugues’ 3rd composer: Toshio Murai   Hugues’ Track: Office  Theme - Wall Street Kid - NES Music - 01:37:29 Discussion - 01:39:16 John’s Track: Stage 6 - Cyber Core - PC Engine Music - 01:43:31 Discussion - 01:45:01   07) John’s 4th composer: Joris de Man   John’s Track: Eternal Conceit - Horizon Forbidden West - PS4 / PS5 Music - 01:48:22 Discussion - 01:53:09 Hugues’ Track: Violet’s Theme - Black Belt Challenge - GBA Music - 02:02:56 Discussion - 02:04:59   08) Hugues’ 4th composer: Yoshihiko Miyazaki   Hugues’ Track: Search Break - JB Harold Murder Club - PC88 Music - 02:10:56 Discussion - 02:12:43 John’s Track: Dream of the Murder - Manhattan Requiem - LaserActive Music - 02:18:37 Discussion - 02:21:011   09) BONUS: “Unknown composers”!!!   John’s Track: Login Screen - N/A (System Music) - PS5 Music - 02:24:25 Discussion - 02:27:28 End of show discussion - 02:31:12 Masters of VGM shout-out - 02:34:26 Closing track Discussion - 02:36:13 Sign-off - 02:39:39 Hugues’ Track: Track 5 - Hyper Catalog - PC Engine Music - 02:39:48 Masters of VGM earcatcher (feat. Ed Wilson of “The VGMbassy”) - 02:41:51 Outtakes - 02:43:48   Total episode runtime: 02:51:22   Produced using a mix of Audacity and Ardour (various versions of each), primarily in KDE Neon (Linux) on St. John’s main laptop, and secondarily on St. John’s Gaming PC “Big Rig” running Garuda KDE Dr460nized Gaming Edition (also Linux).   Retro Game Club can be found here:   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680   You can also follow Retro Game Club on Facebook and Instagram @retrogameclubpodcast and on Twitter @rgcpodcast.   Hugues’ blog can be found here:    https://huguesjohnson.com/   The referenced Hugues articles can be found here:    JB Harold Article: https://www.huguesjohnson.com/guides/jb/    Ultravox Article: https://huguesjohnson.com/features/ultrabox/   X-Files DVD Article: https://huguesjohnson.com/features/xfiles-dvd/   You can find Nerd Noise Radio on Facebook and on Twitter each @NerdNoiseRadio. There are also two Facebook Groups: Nerd Noise Radio “Easy Mode” where we just have general video game and nerd fun, or for the gearheads among you, Nerd Noise Radio “Expert Mode” where we deep dive sound hardware, composer info, and music theory.    You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).   Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.   Thanks for listening! Join us again later this month for a Ch 1 on an unnamed soundtrack (and very likely featuring a guest), as well as another Channel F on the VGM compositions of a fellow VGM podcaster, collectively wrapping up our involvement in MoVGM 2! Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds, and Try Before You Buy on Channel F! And wherever you are….Fly the N!

[2025 Addendum….sorry for the ultra long-winded] Normally, we only share one rerun a month at Nerd Noise Radio. But due to the confluence of a) our having missed the May rerun completely, b) our not getting a June rerun out until the very end of the month, and c) a very important thematic connection to an event currently happening in the VGM podcast scene this month, I’m releasing…..not one……not two……not four…..but THREE reruns in July! From 2022 through 2024, the greater VGM podcast community participated in a glorious group experiment called “Masters of VGM” (or “MoVGM” for short - I think I might’ve even been the one to coin the shorthand…..maybe), where a master theme was decided upon by the community, and then every participating podcast would do an episode, or a handful of episodes in keeping with the crowdsourced theme. Nerd Noise Radio participated all three years - with a Channel 2 in 2022, a Channel 1 in 2024, and in 2023, with a whopping FOUR installments where we had a Channel 1, a Channel 2, and two Channel Fs. Channel F, for the new faces in the crowd is our mechanism for betas, and bonuses, and things which just don’t fit the mold for a regular episode. Channel F is “format agnostic” and does not have any sort of regular release cadence whatsoever. So, “F-isodes” as I call them (and am probably WAY too proud of myself for that), can be just whatever, and come out just whenever. The people who devised and oversaw MoVGM have largely significantly reduced their presence in the podcast scene over the past couple years, and so had elected to not continue MoVGM into 2025. However, a handful of us, Alex “The Messenger” Messenger of “A VGM Journey” (https://terraplayer.com/shows/a-vgm-journey), Professor Tom from “Shujin Academy VGM Club” (https://terraplayer.com/shows/shujin-academy-vgm-club), and myself have decided that, while not formally reviving MoVGM, we were going to do something of our own, in that same spirit. While the name hasn’t been officially finalized as of this writing on July 2nd, and could still change, the “working title” (that will very likely become the final title), which was proposed by Professor Tom is “VGM Hall of Fame” I’ll go ahead and dub it “HoF” for short. Naturally, we’re trying to also inspire other podcasters to join us so that it is not just we three, but at the very, very least, there will be an HoF episode from all of us on the theme of “a soundtrack that belongs in a theoretical “VGM Hall of Fame” (hence the name). Nerd Noise Radio’s contribution to this will be a Channel 1 featuring the Super Metroid soundtrack (C1E97). If I have the time, and the mental energy, I might also supplement this with an F-isode on a much more obscure soundtrack that begs to enjoy greater awareness and celebration (Lucid 9, if it ends up happening). One other major difference between HoF and MoVGM is that MoVGM occurred in June (2023 was so big that it extended into July) where HoF will occur in July. We all wanted to do this in June, but we were all too deep into production of our respective June content at the time that we all agreed to just push it back to July instead. Anyway, over the river and through the woods, to the point I *FINALLY* get: in a bid to not only help draw extra attention to HoF and hopefully drum up a little excitement for it, among both listeners as well as other podcasters, especially prospective participants, as well as to simply celebrate some of the glory that was this remarkable moment in time for a community, this month, I will rerun our 2022 MoVGM contribution, our 2023 Channel 2 contribution, which was a sort of “spiritual sequel” to our 2022 outing (with links to our other 2023 contributions in that rerun’s show notes), and finally, to our 2024 offering. And naturally, we’ll start with 2022. The theme of 2022 was “which composers would you put on your ‘VGM Mount Rushmore’”? So everyone was to pick four composers. Since Ch 2 was Hugues and I, rather than picking just two, we each picked four for a grand total, of course, of eight, and then did a thing where we each picked one track from each of the eight composers (one each for our own composers, as well as one each for the other guys’ composers). With this being a 2022 production, all the usual caveats about production quality differences and deficiencies. Between a lesser mic and less fully developed production techniques, the sound quality will not be up to the standards of a 2025 episode (I also hadn’t started editing out the “umms” yet….apologies for that!). But it’s still pretty decent. Certainly decent enough that it doesn’t really feel like a barrier to enjoyment like, say, a 2018, or especially 2017 episode would be. And so, without further ado: our first of three reruns this month, the first of three to celebrate the memory of MoVGM as well as hopefully whet people’s appetites for HoF: C2E8: “Our Four Favorites” - originally released 06/30/2022.   Enjoy!   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original Show Notes: Today’s Broadcast is C2E8 for Theme Thursday, June 30th, 2022. Today’s episode will be Nerd Noise Radio’s contribution to the greater VGM podcast scene massive group project “Masters of VGM” (https://mastersofvgm.com) and like all “MoVGM” episodes from all the participating podcasts, will be a focus on our four favorite composers (with a surprise “East meets West” twist) - on a program that we’re quite simply calling “Our Four Favorites”   01) Earcatcher: 00:00:00 02) Hugues’ Composer #4: Yoko Shimomura! Hugues’ Yoko track: Ken’s Theme - Street Fighter II - Arcade Music - 00:00:03 Intro: 00:02:13 Top of Show Business: 00:04:08 Track (and composer) Discussion: 00:19:19 John’s Yoko Track: Kairi 1 - Kingdom Hearts - PS2 Music - 00:24:26 Discussion - 00:26:09 03) John’s Composer #4: Martin Iveson! John’s Martin Track: Shop Theme - Jaguar XJ220 - Sega CD Music - 00:33:23 Discussion - 00:34:48 Hugues’ Martin Track: Country Select - Jaguar XJ220 - Sega CD Music - 00:38:24 Discussion - 00:39:44 BEGIN: Bad Audio for voice (backup copy - see note after track list) - 00:40:15 04) Hugues’ Composer #3: Yuzo Koshiro! Hugues’ Yuzo Track: Daiba Freezing Town - 7th Dragon 2020 - PSP Music - 00:42:38 Discussion - 00:45:55 John’s Yuzo Track: Undiscovered Realm (in-game symphonic vers) - Actraiser Renaissance - multiplatform Music - 00:50:21 Discussion - 00:52:39 05) John’s Composer #3: Spencer Nilsen! John’s Spencer Track: Cathedral and Sewers - Batman Returns - Sega CD Music - 00:57:33 Discussion - 01:00:44 END: Bad Audio for voice (backup copy) - 01:06:09 Hugues’ Spencer [maybe] Track: The Vents - Ecco the Dolphin - Genesis (possibly composed by Andras Magyari and/or Brian Coburn instead - or as well) Music - 01:06:25 Discussion - 01:08:38 06) Hugues’ Composer #2: Nobuo Uematsu! Hugues’ Nobuo Track: The Oath - Final Fantasy VIII - PS1 Music - 01:14:53 Discussion - 01:18:09 John’s Nobuo Track: Esto Gaza - Final Fantasy IX - PS1 Music - 01:25:26 Discussion - 01:29:05 07) John’s Composer #2: Matt Furniss! John’s Matt Track: The Red Woods - Puggsy - Genesis Music - 01:34:57 Discussion - 01:37:59 Hugues’ Matt Track: Title - Sega Chess - Mastersystem Music - 01:42:39 Discussion - 01:44:46 08) Hugues’ Composer [TEAM] #1: Hayato Sonoda and/or Takahiro Unisuga [Falcom Sound Team JDK]! Hugues’ Falcom Track: Blue Destination - Trails of Cold Steel II - Vita/PS3/PS4/PC Music - 01:51:41 Discussion - 01:56:28 BEGIN: More Backup voice audio - 02:01:07 END: More Backup voice audio - 02:01:13 John’s Falcom Track: Crystal Valley - Zwei II - PC [EDITOR’S NOTE: I missed my chance to point out that Zwei (pronounced “TsvI”)is the German word for “two”. So this game is basically called “Two Two”. :-D - St. John] Music - 02:07:38 Discussion - 02:10:10 09) John’s Composer [TEAM] #1: The Super Follin Bros [Tim and/or Geoff Follin] John’s Follin Track: Gambit - Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge - SNES Music - 02:13:51 Discussion - 02:17:56 End of Show Business (and FINALLY titling the episode!) - 02:23:47 Our other Programs - 02:29:09 Hugues’ Follin Track Discussion - 02:31:46 Sign Off - 02:34:38 Hugues’ Follin Track: Parking Garage - Target Renegade - NES - 02:35:33 10) Blooper Reel (contains both high and low quality voice audio - AND OUR CENSOR SOUND!!!) - 02:38:48 11) Bonus 1: The Oath - Distant Worlds Symphonic Concert Version - 02:46:29 12) Bonus 2: Rain Angel - AtJazz (post-VGM non-VGM works by Martin Iveson) - Lab Results (album) - c 2002 - 02:51:47   Total Episode Runtime: 02:58:04   NOTE ON BACKUP [bad] AUDIO - SHORT[ISH] VERSION: when Hugues and I meet, we have our Google Meet output recording, as well as each having higher quality Audacity recordings of just our own sides of the conversation. We keep the Meet recording in case there is an emergency with the Audacity recording, but otherwise don't use it in the final episode, and I just align and combine our high quality Audacity recordings. On this episode, however, (a first for Ch 2) we lost a portion of Hugues' Audacity recording, so we did have to use our fallback a little bit. At the very bottom of the show notes, I'll include a LONG[ISH] VERSION which explains more. I did everything I could to minimize the impact of the Google Meet recording in the final episode. But it is noticeable at points.   You can find Brian and Kristen Peterson's GoFundMe here: https://gofund.me/1ef0f855. 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2025 Addendum (original show notes below) Today’s rerun includes a tacked on 2025 introduction directed primarily at listeners on Terra Player, and also references links to two other “made on Steam Deck” NNR episodes. See those links below: C1E71: “The Wonder Years” [Channel 1]: https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e71-the-wonder-years/ C2R3: “Best of 2023” [Channel 2]: https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/ch-2-nerd-noise-game-club-c2r3-the-best-of-season-3/ -------------------------------------------------------- Original show notes (minus updated timestamps) -------------------------------------------------------- Today’s Broadcast is C2E10 for Theme Thursday, October 20th, 2022. Today’s episode (our final “normal” episode of Season 2 [calendar 2022]) will be a focus on Sega CD music to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the system’s North American launch. Also, including an endearingly terrible improvised gag attempt at the very beginning! :-D   Track # / Track / Game [System, of course, will always be Sega CD, or at least Mega CD] / Composer (s) / Selected by   A1) 2025 “For The Terra Player Listeners” Addendum: 00:00:00  01) False Intro (Gag!) - 00:09:30 02) Track 03 - Robo Aleste - Katsumi Tanaka, and/or Satoshi Shimazaki - Hugues Music - 00:11:50 Introduction - 00:06:06 Top of Show Business pt 1 - 00:15:36 Opening Track  Discussion - 00:24:09 Return of the Top of Show Business pt B - 00:28:20 02) West Side Andore Cage Battle - Final Fight CD - c: Harumi Fujita, Yasuaki Fujita, Manami Matsumae, Yoshihiro Sakaguchi, Yoko Shimomura, Hiromitsu Takaoka, and/or Junko Tamiya / a: T’s Music - St. John Music - 00:31:08 Discussion - 00:34:23 03) Track 08 - Spider-Man vs The Kingpin - Spencer Nilsen and/or David Young - Hugues Music - 00:40:36 Discussion - 00:43:52 04) Rolling Bad Guys - Lethal Enforcers - Kenichiro Fukui - St. John Music - 00:56:33 Discussion - 01:01:37 05) Ice Berg - Popful Mail - c: Mieko Ishikawa / a: Hirofumi Matsuoka - Hugues Music - 01:10:31 Discussion - 01:13:01 06) Wacky Workbench (past) - Sonic CD - Naofumi Hataya, and/or Masafumi Ogata - St. John Music - 01:16:27 Discussion - 01:20:04 07) Ending - Earnest Evans - Motoi Sakuraba, and/or Hiroki Itou - Hugues Music - 01:26:54 Discussion - 01:31:30 08) Track 7 - Keio Flying Squadron - Tsukasa Tawada - St. John Music - 01:36:12 Discussion - 01:40:56 09) Overworld Theme - Vay - Shigeki Sako - Hugues Music - 01:49:13 Discussion - 01:51:23 10) Ancient Temple - Wolfchild - Martin Iveson - St. John Music - 01:53:50 Discussion - 01:59:05 11) Meribia - Lunar: The Silver Star - Noriyuki Iwadare - Hugues Music - 02:03:42 Discussion - 02:06:14 12) The Undercaves - Ecco the Dolphin - Spencer Nilsen - St. John Music - 02:08:45 Discussion - 02:01:56 13) Melee Island - The Secret of Monkey Island - Michael Z. Land, Barney Jones, Andy Newell, Patric Mundy - Hugues Music - 02:16:53 Discussion - 02:19:06 End of Show Business / Our Other Shows - 02:24:06 Final Track Discussion - 02:31:41 Sign-off - 02:35:16 14) Jamie's Theme - Snatcher - The Konami Kukeiha Club - St. John Music - 02:35:48 Blooper Reel - 02:38:15   Total Episode Runtime: 02:47:09   Retro Game Club can be found here:   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680   You can also follow Retro Game Club on Facebook and Instagram @retrogameclubpodcast and on Twitter @rgcpodcast.   Hugues’ blog (and his Sega Genesis demo) can be found here:    https://huguesjohnson.com/   You can find Nerd Noise Radio on Facebook and on Twitter each @NerdNoiseRadio. There are also two Facebook Groups: Nerd Noise Radio “Easy Mode” where we just have general video game and nerd fun, or for the gearheads among you, Nerd Noise Radio “Expert Mode” where we deep dive sound hardware, composer info, and music theory.    You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).   Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.   Thanks for listening! Join us again one week from today (Thurs, Oct 27th, 2022) for C1E68: “They’re Coming to Get You, Barbara” - spooky, dissonant, and unsettling music for the occasion of the Halloween season”. Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds! And wherever you are….Fly the N! -------------------------------------------------------- 2025 Addendum 2: C1E68 was an incredible episode! One of the most sophisticated[ly sorted] mixtapes I’ve ever made! Here’s the link if you’re curious! https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/channel-1-noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e68-they-re-coming-to-get-you-barbara/ --------------------------------------------------------