[RERUN] "Nerd Noise Game Club" - the one-off which later became "Channel 2" (orig. 12/19/2019)

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!!

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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

 

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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!