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Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Today’s broadcast is C1E54 for Theme Thursday, November 19th, 2020. Today’s theme is one of the most special we've ever had on the show – a celebration of 35 years of the most famous, iconic, and ubiquitous franchise in all of video game history – Super Mario Bros. To commemorate the occasion, we present you with a 35-track collection of music from Mario and extended universe games – including what is undoubtedly the most famous piece of video game music ever to be written, a piece that after nearly 4yrs and 2000 tracks, we have up til now never featured before. The name of today's celebration: "Do the Mario".
Track # - Track - Game - System - Composer - Timestamp
01) Intro - 00:00:00
02) Overworld Theme - Super Mario Bros. - NES - Kōji Kondō - 00:02:50
03) Athletic Theme - Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES - Kōji Kondō - 00:05:52
04) Athletic Theme - New Super Mario Bros. - DS - Asuka Ohta, and/or Hajime Wakai – 00:08:04
05) Delfino Plaza - Super Mario Sunshine - GameCube - Kōji Kondō and/or Shinobu Tanaka – 00:10:34
06) Vibe Island - Super Princess Peach - DS - Akira Fujiwara – 00:13:28
07) Minigame Theme 5 - Mario Party Advance - GBA - Ichirō Shimakura and/or Yoshimasa Ikeda – 00:14:16
08) Bowling - Game & Wario - WiiU - Masanobu Matsunaga, Takeru Kanazaki, Hiroki Morishita, Shoh Murakami, and/or Yoshito Sekigawa – 00:16:24
09) Toad's Turnpike - Mario Kart 64 - N64 - Kenta Nagata, Tarō Bandō, and/or Yoji Inagaki – 00:19:13
10) Snif City - Paper Mario: The Origami King - Switch - Shoh Murakami, Yoshiaki Kimura, Hiroki Morishita, and/or Fumihiro Isobe – 00:22:08
11) Discus Throw - Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games: Tokyo 2020 - Switch - Kenichi Tokoi, Tomoya Ohtani, Mitsuharu Fukuyama, Satoshi Okamura, DÉ DÉ MOUSE, Jimanica , Chroma, Tomonori Sawada, and/or YMCK – 00:24:57
12) Starring Wario - Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix - GameCube - Osamu Narita, Katsunori Takahashi, Ichirō Shimakura, Hideko Oka, and/or Kenichi Yoshimoto – 00:28:26
13) Bowser's Castle (Kingdom) - Super Mario Odyssey - Switch - Shiho Fujii and/or Kōji Kondō - 00:30:01
14) Bowser Road - Super Mario 64 - N64 - Kōji Kondō - 00:33:11
15) Airship - Super Mario 3D Land - 3DS - c: Kōji Kondō a: Asuka Hayazaki, Takeshi Hama, and/or Mahito Yokota – 00:35:23
16) Floor 5 (variation 1) - Hotel Mario - CD-i - Jack Levy – 00:37:45
17) A Stroll in the Cemetery - Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle - Switch - Grant Kirkhope – 00:39:10
18) 9F Unnatural History Museum - Luigi's Mansion 3 - Switch - Chad York and/or Darren Radtke – 00:41:43
19) Nightmare Lullaby - Mario & Luigi: Dream Team - 3DS - Yoko Shimomura – 00:42:55
20) Evil King Bowser - Super Mario World - SNES - Kōji Kondō - 00:44:13
21) Rainbow Road - Super Mario Kart - SNES - Soyo Oka, and/or Tarō Bandō - 00:45:52
22) Overture - Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Wii - Mahito Yokota, Ryo Nagamatsu, and/or Kōji Kondō - 00:47:38
23) Intro - Super Smash Bros.: Melee - GameCube - Tadashi Ikegami, Shogo Sakai, and/or Takuto Kitsuta – 00:48:57
24) Course World - Super Mario Maker 2 - Switch - Atsuko Asahi, Tōru Minegishi, and/or Sayako Doi – 00:50:25
25) Footlight Lane - Super Mario 3D World - WiiU / Switch - Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Kōji Kondō, and/or Yasuaki Iwata – 00:51:58
26) Space - Yoshi's Crafted World - Switch - Kazufumi Umeda – 00:54:00
27) BGM 3 - Mario Paint - SNES - Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka, Ryōji Yoshitomi, and/or Kazumi Totaka – 00:57:06
28) Mario Zone Map - Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins - GameBoy - Kazumi Totaka – 01:00:35
29) Design Theme - I am a Teacher: Super Mario no Sweater - FDS - Akito Nakatsuka – 01:01:25
30) San Francisco / New York - Mario is Missing - PC (AdLib) - Rob Wallace – 01:03:05
31) Fever - Dr Mario - NES - Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka – 01:06:15
32) Underground - New Super Mario U - WiiU / Switch - c: Kōji Kondō a: Shiho Fujii and/or Mahito Yokota – 01:08:32
33) Underground - Yoshi's Island - SNES - Kōji Kondō - 01:10:32
34) Course Select - Mario Galaxy - Wii - Mahito Yokota and/or Kōji Kondō - 01:12:51
35) Final Boss Defeated - Captain Toad - WiiU / Switch - Naoto Kubo – 01:13:44
36) Ending Theme - Super Mario Bros. 2 - NES - Kōji Kondō - 01:15:17
37) Outro - 01:17:38
Music Block Runtime: 01:14:51, Total Episode Runtime: 01:29:23
Special intro / outro music for this episode:
Intro: Land 1 - Super Mario Land - GameBoy - Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka
Outro: The End - Super Mario RPG - SNES - c: Kōji Kondō a: Yoko Shimomura
Produced using Ardour 6 / Audacity in Ubuntu Studio 20.04
The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" channel can be found here:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/77944/
or here
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radios-podcast/id1191400767
You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org
Our YouTube Channel can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio
Our episodes (and occasionally, other content) can be found on our blog here:
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.
Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.
Thanks for listening! Join us again Wednesday, Dec 2nd for C1E55a: "The Best of 2019 – pt 1: Listener Picks". Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds....and wherever you are....Fly the N!!!
Cheers!
Saturday Oct 31, 2020
Saturday Oct 31, 2020
Happy Halloween! Today’s broadcast is Episode 37 for Soundtrack Saturday, October 27th, 2018. Today’s soundtrack is the Super Castlevania IV soundtrack on the SNES, composed by Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo.
Note: While producing the video, I noticed (and corrected) a few mistakes in the show notes that I did not notice when recording the audio for the outro. So the spoken track list in the outro will have those mistakes. Sorry. :-(
Track Number / Track Name / Time stamp
01: Intro - 00:00:00
02: Opening - 00:03:30
03: Prologue - 00:04:10
04: Password - 00:06:36
05: The Courtyard (stage 1-1) - 00:07:22
06: Simon's Theme (stage 1-2) - 00:07:49
07: Boss 1 - 00:10:56
08: Stage Clear - 00:12:27
09: Map A - 00:12:31
10: The Forest of Monsters (stage 2) - 00:12:48
11: The Cave (stage 3-1) - 00:16:08
12: The Waterfall (stage 3-2) - 00:18:05
13: The Submerged City (stage 3-3) - 00:20:53
14: Clockwork Mansion (stage 4-1) - 00:25:23
15: The Rotating Dungeon (stage 4-2) - 00:28:51
16: The Courtyard (stage 5-1) - 00:30:18
17: The Castle Door (Stage 5-2) - 00:32:45
18: Map B -00:33:36
19: The Entrance Hall (Stage 6-1) - 00:33:49
20: The Chandeliers (stage 6-2) - 00:35:20
21: Boss 2 - 00:38:00
22: The Library (stage 7) - 00:39:39
23: The Torture Chamber (stage 8) - 00:42:45
24: The Treasury Room (stage 9) - 00:46:52
25: Map C - 00:52:14
26: Bloody Tears (stage A) - 00:52:32
27: Map D - 00:54:31
28: Vampire Killer (Stage B-1) - 00:54:45
29: Beginning (Stage B-2) - 00:55:51
30: Room of Close Associates (Stage B-3) - 00:57:42
31: Dracula Battle - 01:00:21
32: Dracula's Death - 01:04:02
33: Ending - 01:04:33
34: Player Miss - 01:08:49
35: Game Over - 01:08:54
36: Secret Room - 01:09:02
37: Outro - 01:11:08
Music Block Runtime: 01:07:41, Total Episode Runtime: 01:17:24
Our Outro Music is Funky Radio - Jet Grind Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights. Our Intro Music….is a surprise - a surprise that will be revealed in the outro. The haunted house image used is by DaakSM on DeviantArt
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
It’s the Dawning of a new Era! You are Tuned to Nerd Noise Radio – Channel 2! Today’s inaugural installment is C2E1, for Theme Thursday, Sept 17th, 2020. Today’s theme is “Songs of the Pandemic”.
Track# - Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Selected By – Timestamp
01: The Runaway (City on the Horizon – Instrumental) - 198X – Multi – Daniel Rosenqvist and/or Anton Dromberg (UFD?) - St. John
a: Music / Intro: 00:00:00
b: Conversation: 00:03:47
02: Overdrive – Saturday Morning RPG – Multi – Vince DiCola and/or Kenny Merideth - Hugues
a: Music: 00:11:05
b: Conversation: 00:13:19
03: Unholy Impact – Mother Russia Bleeds – Multi – Fixions – St. John
a: Music: 00:19:10
b: Conversation: 00:24:28
04: The Abyss – Trails in the Sky the 3rd - PC / PSP – Hayoto Sonoda - Hugues
a: Music: 00:27:28
b: Conversation: 00:30:04
05: They’re Back – Streets of Rage 4 – Multi – Yuzo Koshiro – St. John
a: Music: 00:35:17
b: Conversation: 00:38:24
06: Power or Technique – Trails of Cold Steel III – PC / PS4 / Switch – Hayato Sonoda - Hugues
a: Music: 00:42:17
b: Conversation: 00:45:27
07: Friend Select – Air Zonk – Turbografx16 – Daisuke Morshima and/or Hisashi Matsushita – St. John
a: Music: 00:48:43
b: Conversation: 00:49:44
08: Bar – Dungeon Explorer – Turborafx16 – Tsukasa Masuko - Hugues
a: Music: 00:53:18
b: Conversation: 00:54:59
09: Demons Undulate – Alien Crush – Turbografx16 – St. John
a: Music: 00:58:35
b: Conversation: 01:01:00
10: Mako Reactor – Final Fantasy VII Remake – PS4 – c: Nobuo Uematsu / a: Masashi Hamauzu - Hugues
a: Music: 01:06:59
b: Conversation: 01:10:29
11: Behind the Cosmic Curtain – Samarost 3 – iOS / Android – Floex – St. John
a: Music: 01:19:32
b: Conversation: 01:22:09
12: Beneath the Mask (Rain – Instrumental) - Persona 5 – PS3 / PS4 - Shōji Meguro - Hugues
a: Music: 01:26:20
b: Conversation: 01:29:59
13: 10pm – Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Switch - Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Nagata, Sayako Doi, and/or Masato Ohashi – St. John
a: Music: 01:32:40
b: Conversation: 01:35:03
14: Results (Golf) - Wii Sports – Wii – Kazumi Totaka - Hugues
a: Music: 01:45:29
b: Conversation: N/A (Included in previous conversation)
15: Blooper: 01:48:21
Total Episode Runtime: 01:48:55
LINKS:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680?mt=2
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radio/id1191401173
Twitter: @NerdNoiseRadio
Facebook: facebook.com/NerdNoiseRadio/
This is our LAST CALL for track submissions for December’s Channel 1 “Best of 2019 – listener picks!” Here is the list of eligible tracks!
https://archive.org/details/nerd-noise-radio-best-of-2019-eligible-track-list-simplified
Please get us tracks as soon as possible. Deadline is 09/30/2020!
On Archive dot org, there is a Super Bonus – music only! All the music from this episode, without any of the talking. This will be something we do with every Channel 2 episode moving forward! We also went back in time and created a parallel Super Bonus from last December’s “Episode Zero”: “Nerd Noise Game Club”. So, go check those out!
Lastly, make sure you catch the blog post, as it contains a lot of additional notes about Channel 2! Here’s the Link:
https://nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com/2020/09/nerd-noise-radio-channel-2-episode-1.html
Thanks for listening! Join us again in December for C2E2: Holiday / Wintry Theme [Episode Title TBD]
Monday Sep 07, 2020
Monday Sep 07, 2020
Today's Rerun is C1E27: "Mishmash Monday - vol 4", originally released April 23rd, 2018.
Please note that due to the attached ear catcher at the beginning regarding Best of 2019, the time stamps in the track list will be off by a minute, minute and a half. Up against a deadline to put this down for a couple months, I did not have time to update the time stamps accordingly. They're still reasonably close, I suppose. :-)
Cheers!
Track#, Game, System, Track Name, Composer, Timestamp:
01: Intro - 00:00
02: Chu Chu Rocket - Dreamcast - Challenge - Tomoya Ohtani - 02:07
03: Wolfchild - SNES - Map Screen - Martin Iveson - 05:00
04: Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge - multi - Rikuo - Takayuki Iwai, Akari Kaida and/or Hideki Okugawa - 06:41
05: Spellcaster - Mastersystem - Action Screen - Sachio Ogawa - 08:31
06: Nightmare on Elm Street - NES - Elm Street - David Wise - 11:24
07: Doom II - PC (Midi - Yamaha DB50XG) - Underhalls - Bobby Prince - 14:20
08: So Many Me - multi - Volcano - Christopher Gechan and/or Daniel Byrne-McCullough - 19:07
09: Souhou Blue Phoenix - X68000 - Stage 4 - Shinoda Nobuhisa - 23:06
10: Nin2 Jump - XB1 - Autumn - Ryu Umemoto - 26:26
11: Lucid 9 - PC/Mac - Process of Elimination - Blue Wolfie - 28:50
12: Final Fantasy Mystic Quest - SNES - Ice Pyramid - Ryuji Sasai, and/or Yasuhiro Kawakami - 32:48
13: Sonic 2 - Genesis - Mystic Cave Zone 2-player - Masato Nakamura - 35:46
14: Plok - SNES - Beach - Tim and/or Geoff Follin - 37:36
15: Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - Mirage - Kimmei - 42:42
16: Miitopia - 3DS - In That Holiday Mood (Vacation) - Toshiyuki Sudo, Shinki Ushiroda, Yumi Takahashi, and/or Megumi Inoue - 46:51
17: Outro - 49:03
Music Block Runtime: 47:02, Total Episode Runtime: 54:40
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights
Here's the link to the spreadsheet with all the eligible tracks for Best of 2019 (C1E55). I look forward to receiving your track submissions, and sharing your combined contributions with the world! :-)
https://archive.org/details/nerd-noise-radio-best-of-2019-eligible-track-list-simplified
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Today’s broadcast is C1E53 for TwoFer Tuesday, August 4th, 2020. Today’s episode will be TwoFerTuesday – volume 6.
01 – Earcatcher – 00:00:00
02 - Intro – 00:01:43
03 - Mystic Defender - Genesis - Chikako Kamtani
- Scene 1 – 00:03:53
- Scene 3 – 00:05:35
04 – Spiderman vs the Kingpin - Genesis - Mark Miller, John Karr and/or David Javelosa
- Warehouse – 00:06:50
- Peter Parker's Room – 00:09:50
05 - Streets of Rage 3 - Genesis - Motohiro Kawashima with Yuzo Koshiro
- Happy Paradise – 00:10:46
- Beat Ambience – 00:13:49
06 - Wipeout HD / Fury - PS3 - Unknown
- Fury Menu – 00:20:13
- HD Menu – 00:22:14
07 - Final Fantasy VII - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu
- Lurking in the Darkness – 00:25:03
- Main Theme – 00:27:28
08 - 3D Dot Game Heroes - PS3 - Shinji Hosoe, Ayako Saso, Teruo Taniguchi, Takahiro Eguchi, and/or Norihiro Hurakawa
- Indecisive Forest – 00:33:46
- Main Theme – 00:34:40
09 - Zelda II - NES - Akito Nakatsuka
- Overworld Theme – 00:36:19
- Palace Theme – 00:37:53
10- Ninja Gaiden - NES - Keiji Yamagishi and/or Ryuichi Nitta
- Act 2-2 – 00:41:04
- Act 5-1 – 00:43:55
11 - Xybots - Arcade - Hal Canon, Brad Fuller, and/or Earl Vickers
- Music 3 – 00:46:46
- Music 4 – 00:48:36
12 - Contra III: The Alien Wars - SNES - Konami Kukeiha Club
- Stage 05 – 00:50:10
- Stage 02 – 00:52:31
13 - Metroid Prime 2 - GameCube - Kenji Yamamoto
- Torvus Bog Main Theme – 00:55:25
- Dark Torvus Bog Main Theme – 01:03:53
14 - X-Men 2 - Genesis - Kurt Harland and/or Mark Miller
- Inside Avalon – 01:06:10
- Inside the Temple – 01:09:55
15 - Final Fantasy XIII - PS3/XB360 - Masashi Hamauzu
- The Vestige – 01:16:40
- March of the Dreadnoughts – 01:19:18
16 - Midnight Resistance - Genesis - Shogo Sakai
- Huge Battleship – 01:21:40
- The First Formidable Enemy – 01:22:39
17 - Chester Cheetah: Too Cool to Fool - SNES - Masako Sound Team
- Hidden Caves – 01:23:38
- Monkey Pit – 01:26:13
18 – Ironsword: Wizards and Warriors II – NES – David Wise
- Stage 3 – 01:27:16
- Inn (Game Over) - 01:30:07
19 - Pilotwings 64 - N64 - Dan Hess
- Birdman – 01:32:58
- Results – 01:36:28
20- Outro – 01: 41:23
Music Block Runtime: 01:37:33, Total Episode Runtime: 01:50:37
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
The link to the list of eligible tracks for "Best of 2019" can be found here:
https://archive.org/details/nerd-noise-radio-best-of-2019-eligible-track-list-simplified
Reminders: Deadline for track submission is September 30th! Also, if you do submit tracks, please remember to indicate whether you wish to lend your voice to recording the intro and outro, or if you just want to submit tracks. Either answer is fine, but please do let me know. Lastly, while submissions longer than five tracks are VERY welcome, if you're going to do so, maybe break it into "must make it" tracks (max five), and "would be nice if" tracks, so I know what to prioritize, and also have flexibility between many contributors or few.
Production notes:
Music Block originally produced Sept 4th, 2018 in macOS via GarageBand
Intro/Outro/Final Production: August 2nd, 2020 in Linux via Ardour 6 / Audacity.
To date, this episode is the record holder for the longest gap in time between music block production and music block release. VERY NEARLY 2 YEARS! However, there are at least two more music blocks I have in reserve which will exceed this length by the time I am able to release them. So, when all is said and done, this episode will not remain the record holder forever.
The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" channel can be found here:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/77944/
or here
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radios-podcast/id1191400767
You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org
Our YouTube Channel can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio
Our episodes (and occasionally, other content) can be found on our blog here:
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.
Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.
Thanks for listening! Join us again in October for C1E54 (Channel 1, Episode 54): Subject TBD - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Today's Rerun is C1E35: "The Floppy Show", originally released Sept 20th, 2018, it was our focus on music from games from Computer systems (as opposed to conventional game consoles). The episode was named after a local Des Moines-area kid's show from the 1950s-1980s, and features clips of the show in both the intro and the outro (as well as a little Kraftwerk and Sonic CD).
Please note that due to the attached ear catcher at the beginning regarding Best of 2019, the time stamps in the track list will be off by a minute, minute and a half. Up against a deadline to put this down for a couple months, I did not have time to update the time stamps accordingly. They're still reasonably close, I suppose. :-)
Cheers!
Track#, Game, System, Track Name, Composer, Timestamp:
01: Intro - 00:00:00
02: Doom - PC (ROLAND SC-155) - At Doom's Gate - Bobby Prince - 00:02:55
03: Guantlet III - Amiga - Title - Tim Follin - 00:06:11
04: Bad Toys - PC (AWE64) - Title Theme - J.T. Bob - 00:09:32
05: Contra - MSX2 (SCC) - Stage 1 - Kazuki Muraoka - 00:11:55
06: Grounseed - PC98 (OPNA) - Morning - Ryu Takami - 00:13:57
07: Dinosaur - FM Towns (YM2612) - Burning! - Falcom Sound Team J.D.K. - 00:17:38
08: Spindizzy II - X68k - Uranus - Toshiya Yamanaka - 00:20:03
09: Jaguar XJ220 - Amiga - Background Noises - Martin Iveson - 00:21:58
10: Sim Copter - PC (CD) - Jazz 3 - Jerry Martin - 00:24:42
11: Yu-No - PC98 (OPNA) - Different World 1 - Ryu Umemoto - 00:29:46
12: Agent X 2 - C64 - Level 1 - Tim Follin - 00:35:01
13: Xak: The Tower of Gazzel - MSX (MUSIC) - Water Floor - Tadahiro Nitta and/or Ryuji Sasai - 00:37:30
14: Dune - PC (OPL3) - Dune Variation - Stephane Picq - 00:40:25
15: Operation Wolf - FM Towns (CD) - Track 2 - Unknown - 00:43:30
16: Salamander - MSX (SCC) - Prophet Fire - The Konami Kukeiha Club - 00:47:32
17: Knight Arms - X68k - Blues for a Dark Star - Toshiya Yamanaka - 00:48:53
18: Advanced Power Dolls 2 - PC98 (OPN) - Believe in Motivation - Hiroto Saitoh - 00:51:18
19: Robocop - ZX Spectrum - Title Screen - Jonathan Dunn - 00:53:41
20: Jazz Jackrabbit - PC (Screamtracker 3 Module) - Industrius - Robert Allen - 00:57:05
21: Metal Gear - MSX (PSG) - Theme of Tara - Iku Mitzutani - 01:00:45
22: Genocide 2 - FM Towns (RF5C68 + YM2612) - Trap of Relics - Hideyuki Shimono and/or Naoyuki Kimura - 01:04:01
23: Last Ninja 2 - C64 - Central Park - Matt Gray - 01:06:17
24: Briganty - PC98 (OPNA) - Embraced Visual A - Takahiro Yonemura - 01:11:50
25: Fury of the Furries - PC (OPL2) - Lagoon - Frederic Motte - 01:15:03
26: Cyberblock Metal Orange EX - X68k - Stage 1 - Masahura Iwata, Hitoshi Sakimoto, and/or JKL Furakawa - 01:18:04
27: Turrican 3 - C64 - Level 1-2 - Soren Lund - 01:20:39
28: Wolfchild - Amiga - Stage 4 - Martin Iveson - 01:24:09
29: Marble Madness - FM Towns (RF5C68) - Beginner Race - c: Brad Fuller / Hal Canon / a: Unknown - 01:27:10
30: Star Cruiser II - PC98 (OPN) - I Cannot Trust Any of Them - Kenichi Yaguchi - 01:29:09
31: Chronos - ZX Spectrum - Title Music - Tim Follin - 01:31:12
32: Warcraft - PC (OPL3) - Human 1 - Glenn Stafford, Gregory Alper, Rick Jackson, and/or Chris Palmer - 01:34:17
33: My Eyes - X68k - Dome Echo - Tenpei Sato - 01:38:28
34: Outro - 01:42:13
Music Block Runtime: 01:39:21, Total Episode Runtime: 01:51:13
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio - Jet Grind Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights…..with a little help from "Home Computer" - Kraftwerk - Computer World (1981 album).
Here's the link to the spreadsheet with all the eligible tracks for Best of 2019 (C1E55). I look forward to receiving your track submissions, and sharing your combined contributions with the world! :-)
https://archive.org/details/nerd-noise-radio-best-of-2019-eligible-track-list-simplified
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
In delayed celebration of the delayed release of the Turbografx16 mini / PC Engine mini / CoreGrafx mini, our rerun this month will not be one episode, but three - each part of our three part mini-series on the TG16 / PC Engine from September of last year, which was made in conjunction with Bryce Dumond of the Turbotastic Podcast (a fantastic TG16/PCE "game by game" pod). The only difference being that instead of running them parts 1, 2, and 3, we are running them part 3, 2, and 1. This was originally planned for March, and planned to have part 1's rerun date coincide with the release of the mini on it's original release date of 03/19/20 as something of a "grand finale". When COVID pushed back the system's release indefinitely, it scrubbed this rerun scheme along with it. When the system finally did launch last month, it was with insufficient head's up to allow for my mini-series rerun scheme to materialize. So, here in June is our first opportunity. I hope you will accept / indulge the mulligan, enjoy the episodes if you've never heard them before...and enjoy them anew if you have.
Please note that due to the attached ear catcher at the beginning regarding Best of 2019, the time stamps in the track list will be off by a minute, minute and a half. Up against a deadline to put this down for a couple months, I did not have time to update the time stamps accordingly. They're still reasonably close, I suppose. :-)
Cheers!
Legend:
(BC) = Bryce's Picks – CD Audio
(BH) = Bryce's Picks – HuC6280
(JC) = John's Picks – CD Audio
(JH) = John's Picks – HuC6280
(JA) = John's Picks – HuC & ADPCM
01 - Intro - 00:00:00
02 - (BH) Blazing Lazers – Intro - Masatom Miyamoto, JTS, Masanobu Tsukamoto, Sydon Inoue, Keiji Takeuchi and/or Ozono - 00:03:10
03 - (BH) Raiden – Gallantry - Akira Sato - 00:05:09
04 - (JA) Cyber City Oedo 808 – Music S00 - Keiichi Yamamoto, Atsuhiro Motoyama, Miyuki Takagi, and/or Atsushi Yamaji - 00:07:37
05 - (BH) Salamander – Burn the Wind - Miki Higashino, Yoshiaki Hatano, and/or Kazuki Muraoka - 00:10:42
06 - (BC) Lords of Thunder – Auzal Stage - Satoshi Miyashita - 00:12:19
07 - (BH) Afterburner II – Final Take Off - Hiroshi Kawaguchi, and/or Shigeharu Isoda - 00:16:43
08 - (BC) Ys 1 & 2 – Palace of Destruction - c: Yuzo Koshiro / a: Mieko Ishikawa - 00:20:42
09 - (JH) Street Fighter 2CE – Character Select - Yoko Shimomura - 00:22:45
10 - (BC) Lords of Thunder – Llamarada Stage - Satoshi Miyashita - 00:23:49
11 - (BH) Bloody Wolf – Level 1 - Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida, Tatsuya Kiuchi, Hitomi Komatsu, Shuuji Segawa, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, and/or Yusuke Takahama - 00:28:14
12 - (JH) Dead Moon – Moon - Mamoru Ishimoda, and/or Yoko Sonoda - 00:30:12
13 - (JH) Metal Stoker – Computer System (Stage 6) - Hiroto Saitoh - 00:32:33
14 - (BH) Raiden – Fighting Thunder - Akiro Sato - 00:34:48
15 - (BH) Afterburner II – Afterburner - Hiroshi Kawaguchi, and/or Shigeharu Isoda - 00:38:01
16 - (BC) Ys 1 & 2 – Holders of Power - c: Yuzo Koshiro / a: Mieko Ishikawa - 00:42:59
17 - (BH) Blazing Lazers – Area 9 - Masatom Miyamoto, JTS, Masanobu Tsukamoto, Sydon Inoue, Keiji Takeuchi and/or Ozono - 00:44:37
18 - (BC) Lords of Thunder – Cielom Stage - Satoshi Miyashita - 00:46:51
19 - (BC) Castelvania: Rondo of Blood – Bloodlines - Mikio Saitou, Akiropito, Kinuyo Yamashita, and/or Satoe Terashima - 00:51:16
20 - (JC) Double Dragon 2 – Stage 5 - Togo Hiroyuki - 00:54:24
21 - (BC) Ys 1 & 2 – First Step Towards War - c: Yuzo Koshiro / a: Mieko Ishikawa - 00:57:11
22 - (JH) Magical Chase – Stage 3 - Hitoshi Sakimoto and/or Masaharu Iwata - 0:59:12
23 - (BH) Ninja Ryukeden – Level 1 - Keiji Yamagishi, BB, Hasake, and/or Makiko Tanifuji - 01:02:20
24 - (BH) Legendary Axe – Level 3 - Atsumi Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto - 01:04:12
25 - (BH) Salamander – Starfield - Miki Higashino, Yoshiaki Hatano, and/or Kazuki Muraoka - 01:06:31
26 - (BH) Salamander – Boss - Miki Higashino, Yoshiaki Hatano, and/or Kazuki Muraoka - 01:08:25
27 - (BH) Legendary Axe – Level 1 - Atsumi Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto - 01:09:04
28 - (BH) Bonk's Adventure – Boss - Tsukasa Masuko and/or Hirohiko Takayama - 01:11:10
29 - (BH) Ninja Spirit – Kessen - M. Ishida - 01:12:21
30 - (JC) Shubibinman 3 – Stage 2-2: Airship Interior - Koji Hayama - 01:14:35
31 - (JC) Ai Chou Aniki – Stage 1-3 - Iwasaki Taku - 01:16:37
32 - (JC) Fatal Fury Special – Duck Dub Dub - Shinsekai Gakkyoku - 01:20:12
33 - (JH) Batman – Stage 2 - Naoki Kodaka - 01:24:11
34 - (JH) Kaizu Chounin Shubibbinman – In-Game 3 - Koji Hayama - 01:26:23
35 - (BC) Castlevania: Rondo of Blood - Bloody Tears - Mikio Saitou, Akiropito, Kinuyo Yamashita, and/or Satoe Terashima - 01:29:08
36 - (JH) Metal Stoker – Metal Elephant (Boss 6) - Hiroto Saitoh - 01:30:46
37 - (JH) Air Zonk – Bubble Marine - Daisuke Morshima and/or Hisashi Matsushita - 01:32:58
38 - (BH) Bonk's Adventure – Level One - Tsukasa Masuko and/or Hirohiko Takayama - 01:36:12
39 - (BH) Outrun – Magical Sound Shower - Hiroshi Kawaguchi and/or Shigeharu Isoda - 01:37:18
40 - (BH) Yo Bro – I get Around - c: The Beach Boys / a: Unknown - 01:42:25
41 - (BH) Yo Bro – Help Me Rhonda - c: The Beach Boys / a: Unknown - 01:44:53
42 - Outro - 01:48:03
Music Block Runtime: 01:44:57, Total Episode Runtime: 01:59:33
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. Composer and track info vetted by "Pidge".
You can find the Turbotastic Podcast at:
turbotasticpodcast.libsyn.com, or on Stitcher, Spotify, iTunes, as well as on Facebook and Twitter at:
FB: @TurbotasticPodcast
TW: @TheTurbotastic
Here's the link to the spreadsheet with all the eligible tracks for Best of 2019 (C1E55). I look forward to receiving your track submissions, and sharing your combined contributions with the world! :-)
https://archive.org/details/nerd-noise-radio-best-of-2019-eligible-track-list-simplified
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
In delayed celebration of the delayed release of the Turbografx16 mini / PC Engine mini / CoreGrafx mini, our rerun this month will not be one episode, but three - each part of our three part mini-series on the TG16 / PC Engine from September of last year, which was made in conjunction with Bryce Dumond of the Turbotastic Podcast (a fantastic TG16/PCE "game by game" pod). The only difference being that instead of running them parts 1, 2, and 3, we are running them part 3, 2, and 1. This was originally planned for March, and planned to have part 1's rerun date coincide with the release of the mini on it's original release date of 03/19/20 as something of a "grand finale". When COVID pushed back the system's release indefinitely, it scrubbed this rerun scheme along with it. When the system finally did launch last month, it was with insufficient head's up to allow for my mini-series rerun scheme to materialize. So, here in June is our first opportunity. I hope you will accept / indulge the mulligan, enjoy the episodes if you've never heard them before...and enjoy them anew if you have.
Please note that due to the attached ear catcher at the beginning regarding Best of 2019, the time stamps in the track list will be off by a minute, minute and a half. Up against a deadline to put this down for a couple months, I did not have time to update the time stamps accordingly. They're still reasonably close, I suppose. :-)
Cheers!
Legend:
(BC) = Bryce's Picks – CD Audio
(BH) = Bryce's Picks – HuC6280
(JC) = John's Picks – CD Audio
(JH) = John's Picks – HuC6280
01 - Intro - 00:00:00
02 - (BH) Salamander – Power of Anger - Miki Higashino, Yoshiaki Hatano, and/or Kazuki Muraoka - 00:03:05
03 - (JH) Energy – Opening - Koji Hayama - 00:04:33
04 - (JH) Moto Roader – Shout in the Dark - Koji Hayama - 00:07:29
05 - (JH) Blood Gear – Ruined Base - Shinichi Sakamoto, and/or Jin W. - 00:09:46
06 - (JC) Ai Chou Aniki – Stage 3-3 - Iwasaki Taku - 00:12:21
07 - (JC) Strider Hiryuu – Third Moon Depths - c: Junko Tamiya / a: KM Brothers - 00:15:40
08 - (JC) Dungeon Explorer 2 – Ancient Ruins of Hyvoris - Masaaki Inoue, Akihiro Honma - 00:18:07
09 - (BH) Ys 1 & 2 – Fountain of Love - c: Yuzo Koshiro / a: Mieko Ishikawa - 00:20:09
10 - (JH) Cyber Dodge – Garden - Einosuke Nagao - 00:21:30
11 - (JH) Cratermaze – Evil Dante - Jun Chikuma, Keita Hoshi, Toshiaki Takimoto, Masaru Takahashi, and/or Takayuki Iwabuchi - 00:24:05
12 - (JH) JJ & Jeff – Field 3 - Takeaki Kunimoto - 00:26:19
13 - (JH) City Hunter – Gone with the Beauty - Tatsumi Yano - 00:28:59
14 - (JH) Cross Wiber – Chapter 2 - Hiroto Saito - 00:31:52
15 - (BH) Afterburner II – Maximum Power - Hiroshi Kawaguchi, and/or Shigeharu Isoda - 00:34:42
16 - (BC) Ys 1 & 2 – To Make the End of Battle - c: Yuzo Koshiro / a: Mieko Ishikawa - 00:35:31
17 - (BC) Lords of Thunder – Boss 2 - Satoshi Miyashita - 00:37:24
18 - (BC) Ys 1 & 2 – Final Battle - c: Yuzo Koshiro / a: Mieko Ishikawa - 00:40:19
19 - (JC) Cotton – Boss 3 - Kenichi Hirata - 00:41:52
20 - (BH) Legendary Axe – Level 5 - Atsumi Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto - 00:44:53
21 - (JH) Military Madness – Player's Victory - Jun Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto - 00:47:34
22 - (JC) Ai Chou Aniki – Stage 2-1 - Iwasaki Taku - 00:50:08
23 - (JH) 1552 Tenka Dairan – Fine Day - Masao Asakawa - 00:52:30
24 - (JH) Doukyusuei – Miho Suzuki's Theme - Manabu Kunieda, Noriuki Iwadare, and/or Isao Mizoguchi - 00:55:24
25 - (JH) Kuusou Kagaku Sekai Gulliver Boy – Marseille City - Kouhei Tanaka, and/or Kazuhio Sawada - 00:57:32
26 - (JH) Bomberman 93 – Map - Jun Chikuma and/or Keita Hoshi - 01:00:54
27 - (JH) Neutopia II – Cave 3 - Toshiaki Takamoto - 01:02:26
28 - (BH) Legendary Axe - Level 2 - Atsumi Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto - 01:04:48
29 - (JC) Shadow of the Beast – In Dark Passages - c: David Whittaker / a: Unknown - 01:06:50
30 - (BC) Castlevania: Rondo of Blood - Vampire Killer - Mikio Saitou, Akiropito, Kinuyo Yamashita, and/or Satoe Terashima - 01:13:18
31 - (BC) Castlevania: Rondo of Blood – Beginning - Mikio Saitou, Akiropito, Kinuyo Yamashita, and/or Satoe Terashima - 01:14:59
32 - (JC) Legend of Xanadu – The Successor - Mieko Ishikawa, Atsushi Shirakawa, Naoki Kaneda, Takahiro Tsunashima, Masaru Nakajima, and/or Hirofumi Matsuoka - 01:17:22
33 - (JC) Ai Chou Aniki – Stage 2-2 - Iwasaki Taku - 01:19:45
34 - (JC) Dungeon Explorer 2 – Outside Ref, the Pyramid of Ice - Masaaki Inoue, Akihiro Honma - 01:22:32
35 - (JH) Tengai Makyou: Fuun Kabuki Den – Parting Theme - Kohei Tanaka, Keiti Hoshi - 01:24:36
36 - (JH) Yawara! – Title - Mori Hideaki - 01:27:17
37 - (JH) Sekigahara – Music 3 - Koji Hayama - 01:29:47
38 - (JH) Bonk's Revenge – Ice Land - Hirohiko Takayama - 01:34:39
39 - (BH) Bonk's Adventure – Title - Tsukasa Masuko and/or Hirohiko Takayama - 01:36:33
40 - (JH) Shinobi – Level Theme 1 - c: Yasuhiro Kawakami / a: Unknown - 01:38:22
41 - (JC) Gain Ground SX – Europe in the Midde Ages - c: You Takada and/or Katsuhiro Hayashi / a: Unknown - 01:40:04
42 - Outro - 01:44:17
Music Block Runtime: 01:41:20, Total Episode Runtime: 01:56:45
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. Composer and track info vetted by "Pidge".
You can find the Turbotastic Podcast at:
turbotasticpodcast.libsyn.com, or on Stitcher, Spotify, iTunes, as well as on Facebook and Twitter at:
FB: @TurbotasticPodcast
TW: @TheTurbotastic
Here's the link to the spreadsheet with all the eligible tracks for Best of 2019 (C1E55). I look forward to receiving your track submissions, and sharing your combined contributions with the world! :-)
https://archive.org/details/nerd-noise-radio-best-of-2019-eligible-track-list-simplified
Sunday Jun 07, 2020
Sunday Jun 07, 2020
In delayed celebration of the delayed release of the Turbografx16 mini / PC Engine mini / CoreGrafx mini, our rerun this month will not be one episode, but three - each part of our three part mini-series on the TG16 / PC Engine from September of last year, which was made in conjunction with Bryce Dumond of the Turbotastic Podcast (a fantastic TG16/PCE "game by game" pod). The only difference being that instead of running them parts 1, 2, and 3, we are running them part 3, 2, and 1. This was originally planned for March, and planned to have part 1's rerun date coincide with the release of the mini on it's original release date of 03/19/20 as something of a "grand finale". When COVID pushed back the system's release indefinitely, it scrubbed this rerun scheme along with it. When the system finally did launch last month, it was with insufficient head's up to allow for my mini-series rerun scheme to materialize. So, here in June is our first opportunity. I hope you will accept / indulge the mulligan, enjoy the episodes if you've never heard them before...and enjoy them anew if you have.
Please note that due to the attached ear catcher at the beginning regarding Best of 2019, the time stamps in the track list will be off by a minute, minute and a half. Up against a deadline to put this down for a couple months, I did not have time to update the time stamps accordingly. They're still reasonably close, I suppose. :-)
Cheers!
01 - Intro - 00:00:00
02 - RyuuKyuu – Title Screen - Yasushi Kawasaki, and/or Hiroto Saitoh - 00:03:06
03 - Cross Wiber – Story Out - Hiroto Saitoh - 00:03:28
04 - Air Zonk – Opening - Daisuke Morshima and/or Hisashi Matsushita - 00:05:31
05 - Startling Odyssey II – Hamil's Lodge - Kenji Ikeda - 00:07:20
06 - Dungeon Explorer – Town - Tsukasa Masuko - 00:08:56
07 - Dragon Spirit – Stage 1 - Shinji Hosoe - 00:10:48
08 - Shockman - BGM 1 - Koji Hayama - 00:15:55
09 - Doraemon - Boss Battle - Maki Watanabe, Yoko Motoshuku, and/or Eiji Hasegawa - 00:19:05
10 - Metal Stoker – Floating Fortress (Stage 7) - Hiroto Saitoh - 00:20:48
11 - Dungeon Explorer – Dungeon 2 - Tsukasa Masuko - 00:22:49
12 - Psychosis – Stage 3 - Daisuke Morishima and/or Hisashi Matsushita - 00:24:38
13 - Jigoku Meguri – Stage 3 - Hisayoshi Ogura and/or Yasuhisa Watanabe - 00:25:51
14 - Vigilante – Level 2 - c: Masato Ishizaki / a: Unknown - 00:27:16
15 - Military Madness – Enemy's Victory - Jun Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto - 00:29:11
16 - Shockman – BGM 3 - Koji Hayama - 00:39:20
17 - Vigilante – Level 4 - c: Masato Ishizaki / a: Unknown - 00:33:04
18 - Legendary Axe II – Stage 6 - Tsukasa Masuko - 00:34:52
19 - Devil's Crush – Bonus 2, 5 - Toshiaki Sakoda and/or Masanobu Tsukamoto - 00:38:51
20 - Snatcher – The Entrance to Hell - Konami Kukeiha Club - 00:40:59
21 - Jigoku Meguri – Stage 4 - Hisayoshi Ogura and/or Yasuhisa Watanabe - 00:43:19
22 - Bomberman - Track 10 - Jun Chikuma and/or Keita Hoshi - 00:44:48
23 - Metal Stoker – Big Molecular (Boss 2) - Hiroto Saitoh - 00:46:24
24 - Magical Chase – Final Stage - Hitoshi Sakimoto and/or Masaharu Iwata - 00:48:19
25 - Military Madness – Opening - Jun Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto - 00:51:54
26 - Barunba – Stage 1 - M. Itoh, H. Nishikawa - 00:52:46
27 - Air Zonk – Friend Select - Daisuke Morshima and/or Hisashi Matsushita - 00:54:17
28 - Street Fighter 2CE – Balrog - Yoko Shimomura - 00:55:13
29 - Battle Royale – Spitfire Spike Win - Kyle Johnson - 00:57:04
30 - Hisou Kihei X-Serd – Opening 1 - Koji Hayama - 00:59:19
31 - Tatsujin – Unknown (Stage 5) - Masahiro Yuge - 01:02:03
32 - Dragon Spirit – Stage 4 - Shinji Hosoi - 01:04:18
33 - Obocchama Kun - Stage 1 - Junya Kozakai and/or Ako Matsudaira - 01:07:24
34 - Bomberman - Invincibility - Jun Chikuma and/or Keita Hoshi - 01:09:15
35 - 1552 Tenka Dairan – Get in Get Out - Masao Asakawa - 01:10:37
36 - Super Daisenraku – Track 4 - c: M. Asatomi / a: Unknown - 01:14:51
37 - Takeda Shingen – Boss - Unknown - 01:16:53
38 - Tengai Makyou 2 – Lightweight Vehicle - Joe Hisaishi, Hirohiko Fukada, and/or Keita Hoshi - 01:18:16
39 - Coryoon – Sound Test - Daisuke Morishima and/or Hisashi Matsushita - 01:19:49
40 - Alien Crush – Bonus 2 - Toshiaki Sakoda - 01:21:40
41 - Neutopia II – Cave 2 - Toshiaki Takamoto - 01:23:22
42 - Street Fighter 2CE – Chun Li - Yoko Shimomura - 01:25:11
43 - Takeda Shingen – Stage 4 - Unknown - 01:27:03
44 - Tengai Makyou: Fuun Kabuki Den – Reminiscence: Daimonkyou - Kohei Tanaka and/or Keita Hoshi - 01:28:51
45 - Yawara! 2 – Track 13 - Hisanori Oushiro - 01:30:52
46 - Tengai Makyou 2 - Goodnight - Joe Hisaishi, Hirhiko Fukada, and/or Keita Hoshi - 01:32:51
47 - Bomberman 93 – Password - Jun Chikuma and/or Keita Hoshi - 01:34:53
48 - Youkai Douchuuki – Main Theme - Hiroyuki Kawada - 01:36:13
49 - Tenchi Muyou Ryououki – Track 23 - Natsuko Karedou, Kayoko Maeda, and/or Shiori Ueno - 01:41:24
50 - Lady Sword: Ryakudatsu Sareta 10 Nin no Otome – Track 5 - Unknown - 01:43:30
51 - Magical Chase – Ending (Raka Raka Mode) - Hitoshi Sakimoto and/or Masaharu Iwata - 01:44:18
52 - Outro - 01:46:56
53 - Blooper Reel - 01:58:28
Music Block Runtime: 01:43:53, Total Episode Runtime: 02:10:45
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. Composer and track info vetted by "Pidge".
You can find the Turbotastic Podcast at:
turbotasticpodcast.libsyn.com, or on Stitcher, Spotify, iTunes, as well as on Facebook and Twitter at:
FB: @TurbotasticPodcast
TW: @TheTurbotastic
Here's the link to the spreadsheet with all the eligible tracks for Best of 2019 (C1E55). I look forward to receiving your track submissions, and sharing your combined contributions with the world! :-)
https://archive.org/details/nerd-noise-radio-best-of-2019-eligible-track-list-simplified
Sunday May 31, 2020
Sunday May 31, 2020
A quick update regarding the all-call for listener-picked track submissions for December's upcoming Best of 2019. List of eligible tracks can be found here:
https://archive.org/details/nerd-noise-radio-best-of-2019-eligible-track-list-simplified
A quick update on a TG16 mini celebration deferred - centered around a triple rerun of last Sept's TG16 mini-series created in collaboration with Bryce Dumond of the Turbotastic Podcast. As such, this special announcement ends with a replay of a small chunk from the Golden Episode describing the TG16 mini-series.
Lastly, a quick update on a brief break / vacation from show production on the part of your intrepid host, and a body of reruns to keep content coming.