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Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
SPECIAL NOTE: I may or may not be choosing this episode as November’s rerun because it may or may not directly relate to December’s special episode of Channel 1 (I can neither confirm nor deny such rumors!) ;-) :-P
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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
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Today’s broadcast is C1E59, for Theme Thursday, Oct 14th, 2021. Today’s Theme is a focus on music from games by Falcom, on a program we’re simply calling “The Falcom Episode”.
SPECIAL UP-FRONT NOTE 1: This episode is EXTRA SPECIAL for three reasons: 1) it is curated and hosted (and produced) by Hugues Johnson of Nerd Noise Radio Channel 2, and Retro Game Club, 2) it is the first episode in the ENTIRE HISTORY of Nerd Noise Radio that was not at least partially produced by St. John (St. John DID handle these show notes, though*), and 3) it is our half of a special collaboration with Trey Johnson of W.A.R.T. Radio and Nintendomain, who are also releasing a Falcom-themed episode today. Although, “synchronization” is probably a much better word here than “collaboration”. We didn’t listen to each other’s episodes ahead of time, nor did we share and compare track lists. We simply decided to coordinate the simulcast of our Falcom episodes once we discovered the other was also making one, and decided to each treat them as halves of an informal two-parter. So, we look forward to joining you, the listener, in discovering together just how much or little overlap there is between them.
*= Tracklist and timestamp info originally provided by Hugues, but reformatted for the notes by St. John into our standard “track number, track name, game name, system(s), composer, timestamp format.
SPECIAL UP-FRONT NOTE 2: Typically, the composer credits on Falcom games simply say “Falcom Sound Team JDK, as opposed to listing specific composers, leaving the composer shrouded in mystery, and devoid of the credit they deserve. But thanks to the wondrous, arduous work done by The Falcom Composer Breakdown Project (link can be found below the tracklist), we now have a much better idea of just who was behind each track. Presumed Composers, as found on The Falcom Composer Breakdown Project will be provided for each track in the tracklist, as well as in the episode outro.
Track# - Track - Game - System - Presumed Composer - Timestamp
01) Intro - 00:00:00
02) Genesis Beyond the Beginning - Ys Origin - PC / PS4 / Switch - Ryo Takeshita - 00:01:59
03) The Legend of Xanadu - Xanadu - PC Engine (CD) - Yoshiya Takahashi - 00:04:15
04) Daybreak - Faxanadu - NES - Jun Chikuma - 00:06:52
05) Snowbound Sacred Mountain - Nayatu no Kiseki - PSP - Saki Momiyama - 00:07:49
06) Defend and Escape - Ys VI - PC / PSP / PS2 - Maiko Hattori - 00:10:09
07) Guruguru Majin De Pon - Gurumin - PC / PSP / 3DS - Takahide Murayama - 00:14:28
08) Jungle - Popful Mail - PC Engine (CD) - c: Atsushi Shirakawa / a: Hirofumi Matsuoka - 00:18:17
09) A Heretic Researcher - Trails of Cold Steel III - PC / PS4 / Switch - Hayato Sonoda - 00:19:31
10) Cave - Brandish - PC Engine (CD) - Atsushi Shirakawa - 00:22:22
11) Fantasy Pastel Normal - Lord Monarch - PC - Atsushi Shirakawa - 00:24:38
12) Town - Legend of Heroes 1 - Sega Saturn - Mieko Ishikawa - 00:26:29
13) Survey Legwork - Tokyo Xanadu - PC / Vita / PS4 - Hayato Sonoda - 00:28:09
14) Tripolka Lake - Zwei - PC / PSP / PS2 - Maiko Hattori - 00:30:43
15) Origins of the Earth - Trails in the Sky the 3rd - PC / PSP - Takahiro Unisuga - 00:34:34
16) La Noche Triste - Asteka II - PC88 - Takahito Abe - 00:37:44
17) Feel at Home - Trails of Cold Steel IV - PC / PS4 / Switch - Hayato Sonoda - 00:39:54
18) Division - Brandish VT - PC - Naoki Kaneda - 00:41:50
19) Ryo Ni Kaero - Trails of Cold Steel - PC / Vita PS3 / PS4 - Tomokatsu Hagiuda - 00:43:54
20) Afternoon in Crossbell - Zero no Kiseki - PC / PSP - Takahiro Unisuga - 00:47:14
21) Illusion - Ys IV - PC Engine (CD) - Atsushi Shirakawa - 00:49:37
22) Oldium Shrine - Zwei II - PC - Ryo Takeshita - 00:51:42
23) Enforcers - Trails in the Sky SC - PC / PSP - Takehide Murayama - 00:54:07
24) Delusion of a Thousand Years - Ao No Kiseki - PC / PSP - Saki Momiyama - 00:55:55
25) Marionette, Marionette - Ys IX - PS4 - Mitsuo Singa - 00:58:07
26) Chester’s Theme - Oath in Felghana - PC / PSP - c: Masaaki Kawai a: Yukihiro Jindo - 01:00:25
27) Turning Death Spiral - Ys V - Super Famicom - Satoshi Arai - 01:03:22
28) Ruins of Moondoria - Ys II Chronicles - PC / PSP - Hideya Nagata - 01:06:01
29) Road to Solitary Death - Ys Seven - PC / PSP - Saki Momiyama - 01:08:44
30) Silver Will - Trails in the Sky FC - PC / PSP - Wataru Ishibashi - 01:10:56
31) Sunshine Coastline - Ys VIII - PC / Vita / PS4 / Switch - Takahiro Unisuga - 01:13:19
32) Field - Legend of Heroes II - PC Engine (CD) - Mieko Ishikawa - 01:16:31
33) See You Again - Ys - PC88 - Yuzo Koshiro - 01:19:27
34) Irreplaceable You - Trails of Cold Steel 2 - PC / Vita / PS3 PS4 - Takahiro Unisuga - 01:23:45
35) Invitation for the New World - Xanadu II - PC Engine (CD) - Atsushi Shirakawa - 01:23:45
36) A Tear of Vermilion: Memoria - The Legend of Heroes IV - PC / PSP - Masaru Nakajima - 01:25:03
37) Ending 1 - Sorcerian - PC88 - Yuzu Koshiro - 01:26:46
38) Outro: 01:30:54
Music Block Runtime: 01:28:58 Total Episode Runtime: 01:43:29
Our Standard Intro and Outro Music (which you get to hear for about five seconds) is Funky Radio - Jet Grind Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights
Our Special Intro and Outro Music is Beep Magazine - Falcom Mega Mix - unknown composer (so, Falcom Sound Team JDK)
You can find the Falcom Composer Breakdown Project here:
Hugues’ website can be found at https://HuguesJohnson.com/
You can subscribe to the Retro Game Club podcast here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680
Or connect with them on social media at:
Twitter: @rgcpodcast
Facebook: @retrogameclubpodcast
Nintendomain Podcast (as opposed to “Nintendo Domain”, to answer that question) can be found at:
https://nintendomain.libsyn.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nintendomain/id1055861408
Or on social media at:
Twitter: @Ninten_Domain
Facebook (page): https://www.facebook.com/nintendomainpodcast
Facebook (group): https://www.facebook.com/groups/290368051669515
And you can find the W.A.R.T. Falcom episode, which is the parallel to our episode here:
[GO BACK AND EDIT IN LINK FROM TREY HERE!]
NOTICE: The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" feed will be going away after December of 2021, and consolidating its output with the main feed. However, in the meanwhile, it will remain active with rerun content, and 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 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:
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 December on Channel 1 for a special team up between St. John, Trey Johnson of Nintendomain and W.A.R.T. Radio, and a bunch of listeners. Also join us in December on Channel 2 for our first ever “Best of” episode - “Best of Season 1”, featuring St. John and Hugues. And lastly, join us in December on the dedicated Rerun feed as a going away celebration - an all-new episode that will be a timed exclusive for the listeners over there....and wherever you are....Fly the N!!!
Cheers!
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Today’s Broadcast is C2E5, for Theme Thursday, September 23rd, 2021. Today’s Theme is music from games only available in Japan, on a program we’re calling “Nihon Dake De” (loosely translated: “Only in Japan”)!
Track Number - Track - Game - System - Composer - Selected by - Timestamp
01) Greeting - 00:00:00
02) Saturn - Star Cruizer - Sharp X68000 - Toshiya Yamanaka - St. John
Music - 00:00:03
Introduction - 00:02:49
Conversation - 00:04:57
03) Stage 1 - Madō King Granzort - SuperGrafx - Norihiko Yamanuki - Hugues
Music - 00:10:30
Conversation - 00:12:50
04) Torrid City - Metal Stoker - PC Engine - Hiroto Saitō, and/or Nozomu Takahashi - St. John
Music - 00:17:33
Conversation - 00:19:43
05) Knock You Down - Live-A-Live - Super Famicom - Yoko Shimomura - Hugues
Music - 00:24:57
Conversation - 00:27:05
Belated “Top of the Show” Business - 00:30:45
06) I’ll Introduce - Yu Yu Hakusho: Makyou Toitsusen - Mega Drive - St. John
Music - 00:41:35
Conversation - 00:44:07
07) I Wanna Close to You - Misty Blue - PC88 (OPNA) - Yuzu Koshiro - Hugues
Music - 00:47:47
Conversation - 00:50:33
08) Fu-Ten / Mojibri Unkorashu - Mojib-Ribbon - PS2 - Masaya Matsuura* - St. John
Music - 00:54:57
Conversation - 00:57:23
09) Title - Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School - Famicom Disk System - Nobuo Uematsu* - Hugues
Music - 01:02:05
Conversation - 01:03:42
10) Level 1 Warning - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake - MSX (SCC) - Masahiro Ikariko, Mutsuhiko Izumi, Yuko Kurahashi, Tomoya Tomita, Kazuhiko Uehara, Yuji Takenouchi, and/or Tsuyoshi Sekito - St. John
Music - 01:08:29
Conversation - 01:10:44
11) Springdale 2040 Night - Yo-Kai Watch 4 - Nintendo Switch - Kenchiro Saigo - Hugues
Music - 01:14:42
Conversation - 01:17:38
12) Stage 4 - Chip Chan Kick - PCFX - Hitoshi Sakimoto and/or Masaharu Iwata - St. John
Music - 01:21:06
Conversation - 01:23:06
13) Remain - Psychic Detective Series vol. 3: Aya - FM Towns / Mega CD - Yasuhito Saito - Hugues
Music - 01:26:18
Conversation - 01:28:45
14) A Refined Enchanted Cave - Chaos Seed: Fusui Kairoki - Saturn - Yasunori Shiono, Katsuhiro Hayashi, and/or Yukio Nakajima *
Music - 01:31:25
Conversation - 01:34:14
Housekeeping Cycle
Next Episode - 01:36:05
Special Announcement - 01:36:58
Our other shows - 01:37:42
Zero4 Champ II Discussion - 01:40:33
Sign-off - 01:42:32
15) Track 11 - Zero4 Champ II - PC Engine (CD) - Takeshi Ijima and/or Katsuhiro Hayashi - Hugues
Music - 01:42:46
16) Blooper Reel - 01:44:43
Total Episode Runtime: 01:46:38
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 @retrogameclubpodcast and on Twitter @rgcpodcast.
Hugues’ blog can be found here:
As promised in the episode, here are the links to the [now out of date] “all call” with the TG16 miniseries story included, as well as each of the three episodes:
June 2020 Special Announcement:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/special-announcement-june-2020/id1191401173?i=1000476382960
C1E47a: “Turbotastic”:
C1E47b: “The Little Engine that Could”:
C1E47c: “Tidal Wavetable, aka ‘The Continuing Adventures of Buzz Lightyear’”:
And a surprise bonus: In the episode, I had mentioned how wild the Chip Chan Kick track gets when you reverse it. Well, so, here is a sound file with the track in both directions, backward first, and then forward. It is taken from an Archive SUPER BONUS four-part series called “Back to Front - the 100” featuring each track from both C1E52 “Backtracks” -AND- the supplemental Channel F “F-isode” “Backtracks - the OTHER 50”, where each track is featured in both directions (backward first). If this sounds interesting, go find them on Archive.org, along with the other six Backtracks-related SUPER BONUSES out there:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_w7HgMHzBxhN8dermWryQJKINpmHnV3K/view?usp=sharing
And if you haven’t heard the actual proper Backtracks Episodes, you can find them here:
C1E52: “Backtracks”
Channel F: “Backtracks - The OTHER 50!”
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 in October for a very special Channel 1 with an incredible theme, and someone other than St. John at the helm. Also, this episode will be one half of a two part collaboration with another esteemed VGM podcast... and wherever you are…..Fly the N!!
Cheers!
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Today's rerun was a VERY special occasion that I'm very excited to get to share anew. It was a Channel F "F-isode", originally broadcast December 19th, 2019 that at the time was intended to be nothing more than just a fun "one off" between two friends and fellow podcasters. And yet, it ended up becoming something so much more than that. Though not intended to be at the time, and though it will probably never "officially" be classified as such, it has retroactively become something of a "beta", or a "pilot", or maybe an "Episode Zero" for what would go onto become "Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2". Though this trial run is much longer than a standard Channel 2 episode - because it contains nearly twice as many tracks, and though the conversation and production are clunkier, the basic formatting is fundamentally the same, and thus, this really can be retroactively considered to "the birth of Channel 2". Enjoy!
Nerd Noise Game Club
Tracklist with timestamps
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:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680?mt=2
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Today’s rerun is C1E53 for TwoFer Tuesday, originally broadcast 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.
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
Today’s rerun is C1E43 for Theme Thursday, originally broadcast April 10th, 2019. Today’s theme is a focus on those wonderful Commodore 64 pieces (generally title and loader screens) that are just too long for most other formats, on a program we're calling Commodore 64 Epics - guest hosted, guest curated, and guest vetted by Henrik Andersson of the C64 music and remix podcast "Commoflage".
Track# Game (Track Name if not Title or Loader) - Composer - Timestamp
01: "Vad Svenskan?!" - 00:00:00
02: Intro - 00:00:20
03: Knucklebusters (Subtune 1) - Rob Hubbard - 00:03:26
04: Trap - Ben Daglish - 00:20:02
05: Kentilla - Rob Hubbard - 00:29:46
06: Times of Lore (Subtune 1) - Martin Galway - 00:42:45
07: International Karate - Rob Hubbard - 00:50:28
08: IK+ - Rob Hubbard - 01:01:11
09: Last Ninja 2 (Subtune 12 - The Mansion) - Matt Grey - 01:09:10
10: Flash Gordon (Subtune 1) - Rob Hubbard - 01:17:02
11: Tetris - Wally Beben - 01:23:23
12: Lightforce - Rob Hubbard - 01:49:05
13: Outro - 01:56:09
14: Blooper Reel - 02:03:43
Music Block Runtime: 01:52:45, Total Episode Runtime: 02:04:22
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Today’s Broadcast is C2E4, for Theme Thursday, June 24th, 2021. Today’s theme will be summery and seasonal music on a program we’re calling “Summer Jams”. Today’s panelists are Hugues and St. John.
Tracklist:
Track# - Track - Game - System - Composer - Selected by:
01) The Only Song in the Game - T&C Surf Designs - NES - Tsukasa Masuko - Hugues
- Episode Greeting - 00:00:00
- Music - 00:00:03
- Episode Introduction - 00:02:07
- Discussion - 00:02:13
02) Passing Breeze - Outrun 2006: Coast to Coast - Multiplatform - c: Hiroshi Kawaguchi a: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Yasuhiro Takagi, and/or Fumio Ito - St. John
- Music - 00:10:44
- Discussion - 00:16:30
03) Costa Del Sol - Final Fantasy VII - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu - Hugues
- Music - 00:21:18
- Discussion - 00:23:42
04) Sirena Beach - Super Mario Sunshine - GameCube - Koji Kondo and/or Shinobu Tanaka - St. John
- Music - 00:28:22
- Discussion - 00:30:38
05) DK Isle - Donkey Kong 64 - N64 - Grant Kirkhope - Hugues
- Music - 00:38:13
- Discussion - 00:42:03
06) Ayane - Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 - PS4 / Vita - Masayoshi Sasaki, Mari Yoshida, and/or Kosuke Mizukami - St. John
- Music - 00:46:26
- Discussion - 00:50:26
07) Outset Island - Legend of Zelda: Windwaker - GameCube - Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Toru Minegishi, and/or Koji Kondo - Hugues
- Music - 00:53:12
- Discussion - 00:57:06
08) In-Game Theme - Pink - iOS / Android - Bart Bonte - St. John
- Music - 01:02:34
- Discussion - 01:06:21
09) Mishelam Wonderland - Ao no Kiseki - PSP - Falcom Sound Team JDK (probably Saki Momiyama) - Hugues
- Music - 01:09:58
- Discussion - 01:13:30
10) Snif City - Paper Mario: The Origami King - Switch - Shoh Murakami, Yoshiaki Kimura, Hiroki Morshita, and/or Fumihiro Isobe - St. John
- Music - 01:18:14
- Discussion - 01:21:02
11) Side Crawler’s Dance (Beach) - Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap - Mastersystem (PSG) - Shinchi Sakamoto - Hugues
- Music - 01:24:37
- Discussion - 01:27:01
12) Door into Summer - Knuckles Chaotix - 32X - Junko Shiratsu and/or Mariko Nanba - St. John
- Music - 01:31:27
- Discussion - 01:33:55
13) School’s Out - Bully - Multiplatform - Shawn Lee - Hugues
- Music - 01:38:23
- Discussion - 01:41:17
- “Our Other Projects” / Housekeeping Discussion - 01:46:10
- Closing Track Discussion - 01:53:09
- Wrap-Up / Episode Sign-off - 01:55:20
14) Castle City - Waverace 64 - N64 - Kazumi Totaka - St. John
- Music - 01:55:49
- Blooper - 01:57:58
Total Episode Runtime: 01:59:26
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Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Today’s broadcast is C1E58 for TwoFer Tuesday, June 8th, 2021. Today’s broadcast will be TwoFer Tuesday – vol 7, and a very special 40th birthday celebration of / collaboration with a listener and someone very special to me – my brother, Jesse.
Tracklist:
Game #, Game Name, System, Composer(s), track info, Timestamp
01) Intro - 00:00:00
02) Zelda II - NES - Akito Nakatsuka
- Overworld Theme - 00:04:11
- Battle Theme - 00:06:21
03) LoZ: Link to the Past - SNES - Koji Kondo
- Seal of the Seven Maidens - 00:08:21
- Lost Ancient Ruins - 00:10:13
04) Super Metroid - SNES - Kenji Yamamoto and/or Minako Hamano
- Brinstar Red Soil - 00:12:08
- Norfair Ancient Ruins - 00:16:05
05) Castlevania - NES - Kinuyo Yamashita, Satoe Terashima, and/or Hidenori Maezawa
- Poison Mind - 00:18:27
- Nothing to Lose - 00:19:08
06) Castlevania II - NES - Satoe Terashima
- Bloody Tears - 00:20:54
- Monster Dance - 00:22:23
07) Castlevania III - NES - Yoshinori Sasaki, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto and/or Hidenori Maezawa
- Epitaph - 00:24:22
- Demon Seed - 00:25:52
08) Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Adachi, Akira Soji, and/or Taro Kudo
- Simon’s Theme - 00:27:13
- The Rotating Dungeon pt 2 - 00:30:23
09) Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - PS1 / Saturn - Michiru Yamane
- Dance of the Pales - 00:31:47
- Lost Paintings - 00:36:26
10) Shin Megami Tensei IV - 3DS - Ryota Koduka, Kenichi Tsuyicha and/or Toshiki Konishi
- Distress - 00:39:37
- Ashurai-Kai Authorized Shop - 00:41:44
11) Mega Man II - NES - Takashi Tateishi, Manami Matsumae and/or Yoshihiro Sakaguchi
- Flash Man - 00:44:46
- Ending 1 - 00:46:05
12) Mega Man III - NES - Yasuaki Fujita
- Select Screen - 00:47:09
- Gemini Man - 00:47:48
13) Final Fantasy IV - SNES - Nobuo Uematsu
- Prelude - 00:49:38
- Illusionary World - 00:51:42
14) Final Fantasy VI - SNES - Nobuo Uematsu
- The Phantom Forest - 00:53:48
- Celes - 00:56:57
15) Final Fantasy VII - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu
- Anxious Heart - 00:59:45
- If you Open Your Heart - 01:03:29
16) Final Fantasy IX - PS1 - Nobuo Uemtasu
- The Place I’ll Return to Someday - 01:06:16
- Terra - 01:08:07
17) Final Fantasy XII - PS2 - Hitoshi Sakimoto, Hayato Matsuo, and/or Masaharu Iwata
- The Streets of Rabanastre - 01:11:50
- Cerobi Steppe - 01:14:33
18) Ninja Gaiden II - NES - Ryuichi Nitta and/or Mayuko Okamura
- Act II Part 2 - 01:17:48
- Act V - 01:19:30
19) Actraiser - SNES - Yuzo Koshiro
- Filmore - 01:21:28
- Bloodpool - 01:23:06
20) Persona IV - PS2 / PS3 - Kenichi Tsuchiya, Atsushi Kitajoh and/or Ryota Koduka
- Poem for Everyone’s Souls - 01:25:03
- I’ll Face Myself (Special Version) - 01:27:41
21) Eternal Sonata - PS3 / XB360 - Motoi Sakuraba
- The Boundary Between Snow and Ice - 01:30:58
- A Light - 01:33:53
22) Outro - 01:37:25
23) BONUS: “All Eight Takes” - 01:53:57
Music Block Runtime: 01:33:20, Total Episode Runtime: 01:55:19
- Customary Intro / Outro Music - Funky Radio - Jet Grind Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights
- Special Intro Music - Happy Birthday - Gimmick - Famicom - Masashi Kageyama
- Special Outro Music - Neighborhood 2 - The Sims - PC - Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo
Links to items referenced in the episode:
The full 100: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15MfbNGaMA6mfBSBgjw-fFsdqKBb8FdWcbC6m78qYYzM/edit?usp=sharing
The Comparative List: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h9z6u1QkeQT5oyQqLqRQP8evDjqEolkLrpOSuAwWgZ8/edit?usp=sharing
The Amusing Word Online Predictive Text fail: https://photos.app.goo.gl/NwZYAPdPeWfamHRM7
C1E51: "Mishmash Monday – vol. 9" - My own 40th birthday episode (Feb 3, 2020): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/noise-from-hearts-nerds-c1e51-mishmash-monday-vol-9/id1191401173?i=1000464455857
Produced using Ardour 6.6.0 / Audacity 2.4.2 in Ubuntu Studio 21.04
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Cheers!
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Today’s rerun is C1E48, originally broadcast Scene Sunday, October 13th, 2019. Today’s episode is a [return to a] return visit to the wonderful sounds of the spectacular internet chiptune artist collective "Battle of the Bits". Each and every "chipist" to have appeared in spring 2017's "Battle of the Bits - vol 1" reappears here, and is joined by a legion of faces, names, and sounds which are all new to the program!
Track# - Track Name – System Sound Hardware – Composer – BotB Event - Timestamp
01 – Intro - 00:00:00
02 – Electric Starbounce – C64 - Kulor – Winter Chip VI - 00:02:25
03 – Evil Bug Judgment Squad – Wild Chip – Diagamblic – Summer Chip VI - 00:05:07
04 – Ice Queen – C64 – Mibri – Winter Chip XIV - 00:08:03
05 – Strawberry Jam – TG16 –Tristendo – Summer Chip VII - 00:11:45
06 – Sunset Machine – Genesis – null1024 – Winter Chip VIII - 00:14:18
07– Velvet Fog – Genesis – Warlord – Winter Chip VII - 00:15:29
08 – Redrum Ave – Genesis – kfaraday – Summer Chip III - 00:16:49
09 – Bliss – C64 – linde – Winter Chip III - 00:18:00
10– Fuse Gymnast – NES+ - kandyfan – Summer Chip III - 00:19:17
11 – Junebug – NES - gyrouh – Winter Chip X - 00:21:34
12 – Mint Choco Mint – TQ-Jam – Winter Chip X - 00:25:14
13 – The Singular Hilarity – NES – Mootbooxle – "they're not even privileges, it's an absurd workar" - 00:27:33
14 – Well Beefington – AY-3-8910 – DoctorGentleman – Winter Chip X - 00:29:14
15 – 7 Trillion GHz – Genesis – Strobe – Summer Chip III - 00:36:46
16 – Circuit Angel 3 – Amiga – Strobe – Winter Chip VIII - 00:40:01
17 – A Mega Drive Down the Genesis Highway – Genesis – KungFuFurby – Summer Chip III - 00:42:35
18 – SPC Lover – SNES – Mibri – Winter Chip XIV - 00:45:10
19 – Coda-Cola Zone – Genesis – Jredd – Summer Chip VII - 00:46:34
20 – RAD__ASS – AdLib - Baron Knoxburry – Summer Chip V - 00:48:25
21 – Battle Rush – TG16 – Diagamblic – Spring Tracks V - 00:49:54
22 - Radiant Overlord – SNES – Strobe – Summer Chip III - 00:52:00
23 – Genesis Does What Nintendonk – Genesis - Zlew – Summer Chip V - 00:54:29
24 – Hotline Milan – Amiga – Mibri – Winter Chip XIV - 00:56:11
25 – VIC-Xinity – VIC20 – pigdevil2010 – Summer Chip VII - 00:57:43
26 – Tech No No – Atari 2600 - Chip Champion – Winter Chip X - 01:00:54
27 – Krungeon Creeper – Channel F - Irrlicht project – Winter Chip VI - 01:03:26
28 – Tocsik Waiste – TG16 – SexyElf – Summer Chip III - 01:04:28
29 – Internal Destroyer – TG16 – RatShack – Summer Chip V - 01:06:15
30 – Spirit Dough – TG16 – Beard – Winter Chip X - 01:09:12
31 – An Audience With the King – TG16 - Slimeball – Summer Chip II - 01:11:05
32 – Lost in a Forest – POKEY - FearofDark – Winter Chip VII - 01:11:19
33 – I Came I Saw – SNES – KungFuFurby – Summer Chip VIII - 01:14:43
34 – Music for 32 Partials – MT-32 – Sintel – Spring Tracks VII - 01:20:14
35 – Facing Your Formidable Fate – MIDI – kgb525 – Spring Tracks VII - 01:25:18
36 – Another Adventure: Part 1 – SNES – mega9man – Summer Chip V - 01:27:21
37 - 森嫁語り (Mori Yome Katari) - NES+ - Melon – Summer Chip VII - 01:31:50
38 – Masked Byte – TG16 - RazerBlue6 – Summer Chip VII - 01:36:23
39 – Shower Fresh – Genesis – Diagamblic – Winter Chip XIII - 01:42:43
40 – Outro - 01:46:10
Music Block Runtime: 01:43:48, Total Episode Runtime: 01:56:20
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Sunday Apr 18, 2021
Sunday Apr 18, 2021
Editor's Note: There's a very special reason why chose today's episode for this month's rerun. And it's not just because it originally released one year ago today....
....it's that because of a technical glitch on the podcast feed....you never got to hear it in its entirety.
Here's the story: originally a Channel F "F-isode", and originally released 04/28/2020, it was meant to supplement C1E52: "Backtracks", a focus on VGM that we played in reverse, ostensibly as last year's April Fool's gag. Only, as the intro to today's rerun reveals, it wasn't a gag after all, but instead, we were simply using the occasion of the gag as a cover for a subject too weird for many - if presented as the serious study that it was.
It also had the distinction of being the very first episode I had ever produced in Linux. Other than for the recordings of my voice in the end of 2019 "looking back" pair that we collectively referred to as "The Golden Episode", and most of the voices of my family in C1E51, "the birthday episode", which were all done in the Audio Evolution studio [Android] app in ChromeOS on a cheap old Chromebook, everything I had done up to this point had been done in GarageBand on macOS. I had been wanting to make the jump for some time, and with "The Other 50", I finally took the plunge, using a mix of Audacity, and at that time, Ardour 5 in Ubuntu Studio 19.10 (I've since upgraded to Ardour 6 and Ubuntu Studio 20.04).
I am convinced that Ardour and Audacity allow for better production, by way of cleaner, louder, fuller productions. And I'm much happier working under them than I was using the old methods. But if there's one thing they lack, it's the user-friendliness of GarageBand. And so, little things like start and end timers don't automatically move as you add files sometimes, and I have to remember to manually move them, lest some of the beginning or the end get cut off of the final production.
And that's exactly what happened here. The original draft of the file was missing the final, well, approx 30 minutes of the show. The trouble is, I didn't realize it until AFTER I had already uploaded it to podbean. SO, I went back in, deleted the bad file, and replaced it with the good one. But since the file names were the same, it doesn't appear to have made the swap up on the server, and if you go back to the original episode today, it still cuts off early. At least it does on the iTunes website.
So, the most significant reason for today's rerun is to finally allow you to hear the entire production. If the backwards music drove you nuts, fear not: after today, I don't plan to rerun them again until we get close to April Fool's 2026, which will be a Backtracks sequel. However, if this is the first you're hearing of the Backtracks series, and you like it, definitely scroll back on the feed through the back catalog of episodes, find C1E52 "Backtracks", and give it a listen. On balance, after a year to reflect on it, I really do think the original was better than this supplement. And besides, that outro! Oh my goodness, that Outro!!!
Tracklist with timestamps below. Also, here's a link to the an Blogspot post which links to several of the Backtracks series Archive.org-exclusive SUPER BONUSES with additional content:
http://nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com/2020/04/track-lists-for-backtracks-and-other-50.html?m=1
I hope you will enjoy today's rerun, at long last, presented in its entirety!
Cheers!
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Track# – Track Name – Game – System – Composer – From Collection – Original Episode – Timestamp
01) Intro – 00:00:00
02) Options – Daffy Duck in Hollywood – Genesis – Matt Furniss – Best of 2017 – Ep 12 – 00:12:13
03) September 2015 – N/A (eShop) - 3DS / WiiU – Kazumi Totaka – Golden Personal – Ep 6 – 00:16:33
04) The Mall – Skate or Die 2 – NES – Rob Hubbard – Best of 2018 – Ep 22 – 00:19:44
05) Evil Dante – Cratermaze – TG16 - Jun Chikuma, Keita Hoshi, Toshiaki Takimoto, Masaru Takahashi, and/or Takayuki Iwabuchi – Miscellaneous – Ep 47b – 00:21:21
06) Character Select – Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Best of 2017 – Ep 13 – 00:23:01
07) Ethnic Cave and Flame – X-Men – Arcade – Konami Kukeiha Club – Best of 2017 – Ep 10 – 00:25:06
08) Jazz 3 – Sim Copter – PC – Jerry Martin – Best of 2018 – Ep 35 – 00:27:36
09) Reckless Running – Sega Rally Championship – Saturn – Naofumi Hataya – Best of 2018 – Ep 24 – 00:32:38
10) Collision Chaos Zone (Present) – Sonic CD (US) – Sega CD – Spencer Nilsen w/ David Young and Mark Crew – Best of 2017 – Ep 15 – 00:36:45
11) Main Menu – Sonic Mania – Multiplatform – Tee Lopes – Best of 2018 – Ep 36 – 00:40:02
12) Opening 1 – Hisou Kihei X-Serd – PC Engine – Koji Hayama – Golden Popular – Ep 11 – 00:41:10
13) Brinstar (Red Soil) – Super Metroid – SNES – Kenji Yamamoto and/or Minako Hamano – Miscellaneous – Ep 18 – 00:42:56
14) Stage 3-3 – Ai Chou Aniki – PC Engine – Iwasaki Taku – Miscellaneous – Ep 47b – 00:46:40
15) Options – Bram Stoker’s Dracula – Genesis – Matt Furniss – Best of 2017 – Ep 2 – 00:50:00
16) The Vile Peaks – Final Fantasy XIII – PS3 – Masashi Hamauzu – Best of 2017 – Ep 10 – 00:51:26
17) Twilight Palace (Outside) – L.o.Z.: Twilight Princess – GameCube / Wii – Toru Minegishi and/or Asuka Ota – Best of 2017 – Ep 4 – 00:54:49
18) Outside Ref, The Pyramid of Ice – Dungeon Explorer 2 – PC Engine – Masaaki Inoue and/or Akihiro Honma – Golden Personal – Ep 47b – 00:58:00
19) After the Battle – L.o.Z.: Twilight Princess – GameCube / Wii – Golden Personal – Ep 4 –01:00:05
20) The Vertical – Ghost in the Shell – PS1 – Joey Beltram – Best of 2017 – Ep 16 – 01:02:23
21) Spin on the Bridge – Streets of Rage 2 – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima – Best of 2018 – Ep 31 – 01:08:44
22) Cycle 1 – Streets of Rage 3 – Genesis – Motohiro Kawashima and/or Yuzo Koshiro – Best of 2017 – Ep 2 – 01:13:03
23) Track 11 – Illusion Blaze – PC (AdLib) - D.A.C. – Golden Personal – Ep 2 – 01:16:12
24) Naruto (Light Armor) - Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Golden Popular – Ep 13 – 01:18:45
25) Bases 1 & 2 – Contra NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka / a: Hidenori Maezawa and/or Kiyohiro Sada – Best of 2018 – Ep 34 – 01:20:31
26) Imperial Death March – Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back – NES – c: John Williams / a: Paul Webb – Golden Popular – Ep 9 – 01:22:05
27) Fly Like a Butterfly – Jet Set Radio Future – XBox – Hideki Naganuma – Golden Personal – Ep 20 – 01:22:43
28) At Doom’s Gate – DOOM – PC (Midi) - Bobby Prince – Golden Popular – Ep 35 – 01:25:59
29) Alone in Love – Jewelmaster – Genesis – Motoaki Takenouchi – Golden Popular – Ep 24 – 01:29:13
30) Naja – Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Best of 2017 – Ep 13 – 01:31:26
31) Swamp – Samurai Ghost – TG16 – Gappy, Miyoshi Okuyama, and/or Hiroyon – Best of 2017 – Ep 20 – 01:33:36
32) Segadore Genesid 64 – N/A (Non-VGM) – N/A (Genesis) – MrSonic699 – Best of 2018 – Ep 28 – 01:34:43
33) Stage Theme 4 – Shinobi – Arcade – Yasuhiro Kawakami – Golden Popular – Ep 2 – 01:36:48
34) Title Theme – Double Dragon – NES – Kazunaka Yamane – Golden Popular – Ep 1 – 01:38:24
35) Field 3 – J.J. and Jeff – TG16 – Takeaki Kunimoto – Miscellaneous – Ep 47b – 01:40:05
36) Zena Lan (Light Armor) – Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Golden Personal – Ep 13 – 01:42:07
37) Bearhattan Transfur – Fist of Awesome – Multiplatform – Brendan Ratliff – Best of 2018 – Ep 30 – 01:44:22
38) Map – Wolfchild – Genesis – Matt Furniss – Best of 2017 – Ep 12 – 01:47:47
39) Tyr (Heavily Armored) – Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – Golden Personal – Ep 13 – 01:49:03
40) Level 1 – Chip Chan Kick – PCFX – Yoshio Furakawa, Masahara Iwata, and Hitoshi Sakamoto Best of 2017 – Ep 4 – 01:50:46
41) Stage Theme 1 – Spider-Man vs. The Sinister Six – NES – David Whittaker – Golden Popular – Ep 18 – 01:55:13
42) S.O.R. Super Mix (Stage vers.) - Streets of Rage 2 – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiko Kawashima – Golden Popular – Ep 31 – 01:58:37
43) Stickerbush Symphony – DKC2: Diddy Kong’s Quest – SNES – David Wise – Golden Popular – Ep 49 (originally selected by Mario Mendez) – 02:04:06
44) Level 3 – Tetris – CD-i – Jim Andron – Best of 2018 – Ep 36 – 02:06:22
45) Unknown City – Doxa (Unreleased) – PS4 – Daniel Capo – Best of 2018 – Ep 22 – 02:08:51
46) Microsoft Interactive Sampler – N/A (Non-VGM) – PC – Unknown – Best of 2018 – Ep 28 – 02:10:06
47) Althena’s Shrine – Lunar: The Silver Star – Sega CD - Noriyuki Iwadare, Hiroshi Fujioka, and/or Isao Mizoguchi – Best of 2017 – Ep 15 – 02:11:09
48) Zora’s Domain (Day) L.o.Z.: Breath of the Wild – WiiU / SWITCH – c: Koji Kondo / a: Yasuaki Iwata – Best of 2017 – Ep 18 – 02:12:12
49) Martinis for Two – The Sims – PC – Jerry Martin – Best of 2017 – Ep 4 – 02:15:24
50) Ending – Super Castlevania IV – SNES – Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo – Best of 2018 – Ep 37 – 02:21:46
51) Ending – N/A (Non-VGM) – N/A – c: Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka / a: Luminist – Golden Popular – Ep 29 – 02:25:58
Total Episode Runtime: 02:28:13