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Today’s broadcast is C1E55b for Wayback Wednesday, December 9th, 2020. Today’s episode will be "Best of 2019 pt.2 - St. John's Picks" - a 75 ULTRA-MEGA KING-KONG jumbo-sized episode so long that we only do these kinds of shows just once a year (and forego the usual intro /outro). All tracks in this retrospective selected by St. John, and pulled from episodes featured in our calendar 2019 "Season 3".     Track# – Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Original Episode – Originally Selected in original episode by – Timestamp    01) Intro – 00:00:00    02) Process Control – GT Sport – PS4 – Yasuhisa Inoue – Ep 41 –St. John – 00:01:39    03) Dandy Lady – Super Chase: Criminal Termination – Arcade – Yasuhisa Watanabe – Ep 46 – Electric Boogaloo – 00:05:09    04) Bloodlines – Akumajou Dracula: Chi no Rondo (Castlevania: Rondo of Blood) - PC Engine – Mikia Saitou – Ep 47a – Bryce Dumond – 00:08:43    05) Sky High – Daytona USA – Saturn – Tanobu Mitsuyoshi and David Leytze – Ep 44 – St. John – 00:11:52   

Today’s broadcast is C1E55a for Wayback Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020. Today’s episode will be "Best of 2019 pt.1 - Listener Picks" - a 50 track collection culled from 79 total, and 61 unique submissions between nine distinct contributors, all from episodes featured in our calendar 2019 "Season 3".     Track# – Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Original Episode – Selected for this collection by* – Originally Selected in original episode by – Timestamp    01) Intro – 00:00:00    02) Main Theme – Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – WiiU / Switch – Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata, and/or Hajime Watai – Ep 49 – Jeshua Lack / Chris Murray – Mario Mendez – 00:02:19    03) The Scars of Time (Opening) – Chrono Cross – PS1 – Yasunori Mitsuda – Ep 49 – Jeshua Lack / Chris Murray / Mario Mendez – Mario Mendez – 00:04:09    04) My Intellivision – Intellivision Lives – Multiplatform – Michael Schwartz and/or Tom Kahelin – Ep 41 – Electric Boogaloo – St. John – 00:06:30    05) Studiopolis Zone Act 2 – Sonic

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

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:

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

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 - Volc

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

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: Contr

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 ep

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 ep

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 ep

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.

In celebrating my receipt of the all-new Turbografx16 Mini yesterday, I thought that I would share my own personal Turbografx story from my childhood. Unfortunately, I don't have a recording that is nothing by the TG story. But what I do have is the Channel F Introduction post, which not only contains my TG16 story (centered around Christmas 1992 / December 2000), but also my "NES Story" - Christmas 1989, which, apart from the simply terrible production value as my very first release (even before the release of Episode 1) is just an incredible story! And in my opinion, the Christmas 92 story is not that far behind it in terms of story worthiness.   I don't know whether I'd stand behind every single word I say in this recording, but I know one thing that hasn't diminished is my love for the TG16 / PC Engine. In fact, as a make-up for not doing this in March, I believe our rerun cycle for June will also center around the TG16...specifically, a certain mini-series co-starring Bryce Dumond of the Turbotastic Po

With today's rerun, I wanted to provide the listener with a taste of "normalcy". We haven't had a truly "normal" episode since at least C1E48 (October 2018), and arguably.....not since this episode first released almost exactly one year ago. It's been a wonderful year for the show in terms of innovative, ambitious, and quality output. But it's been a terrible year for the show in terms of giving newcomers an idea of what to expect from it.   So let's get back to center with today's Rerun: C1E44: TwoFer Tuesday - vol 5.   For the newcomers, a "TwoFer Tuesday" is a free play (no theme), but in pairs. So, two pieces from each game. This is our most recent TwoFer Tuesday episode. Also, over on our secondary "dedicated reruns feed"....unsurprisingly called "Nerd Noise Radio Reruns", I am sharing our very first TwoFer Tuesday - C1E4, all the way back from February 2017. Not only are both well known and beloved episodes, both both episodes saw heavy feature in our recent Backtracks series. But most of all, I wan

[edit: A technical glitch I caught fairly quickly: if you go to listen to this, and it stops about an hour and 44 minutes in, and/or the timestamps behave all weirdly, delete it, mark it unread, and download it again, then you'll get the full episode....first timer blues, we'll call it.] :-)   You are tuned to Nerd Noise Radio – Channel F. Today’s “F-isode” is significant not only for being only the second F-isode we’ve had in over a year, when they used to be quite a bit more common, but is also significant for being the first ever production of Nerd Noise Radio of any type to be produced entirely on Linux. Historically, the show has been produced on Mac. With a small backlog of previously-produced, but not-yet-released music blocks that were, of course, produced on the Mac still in reserve for future episodes, it will be some time yet before the Mac presence fades from the show completely. But it is my hope to do the lion’s share of future all-new production on Linux moving forward. So, the shift will be

Today’s broadcast is C1E52 for Wayback Wednesday, April 1st, 2020. It’s April 1st, dear listeners, and we haven’t had a retrospective in AGES! In such dark, uncertain days as we face today, it’s extra important to have a look back at brighter, clearer, saner days as a reminder that as the wheel of time continues to churn, we will inexorably find our way back.   So, sit back and relax as we travel back through 2hrs 25min, and 56 sec of Nerd Noise History and Nostalgia on a program we’re calling “Backtracks”.   As a twist, I am actually withholding the track list in the show notes. Call it a game. See how many tracks you can recognize and identify as you are surprised and delighted with what a change of perspective occurs when you turn back time. So, get ready……for “Backtracks”!   It is certain to be an experience unlike any other!   Mystery Tracklist (a blogspot.com article with full tracklist info will be coming in the following weeks)   01) Intro – 00:00:00 02) Track 01 – 00:02:39 03) Track 02

Today’s broadcast is C1E51 for Mishmash Monday, February 3rd, 2020. Today’s broadcast is Mishmash Monday - vol 9. The inaugural episode of Season 40, and a special celebration of St. John's 40th birthday, guest hosted by various members of his family.   01 - Ear Catcher - 00:00:00 02 - Intro - 00:00:12 03 - Sonic CD - Sega CD - Stardust Speedway Zone (Past) - Naofumi Hataya and/or Masafumi Ogata - 00:02:10 04 - FIFA 20 - Multi - Vámano - Buscabulla - 00:04:33 05 - Prey - multi - Everything's gonna be Okay - Mick Gordon - 00:07:57 06 - Lumines II - PSP - Star Guitar - The Chemical Brothers - 00:12:37 07 - Jurassic Park - SNES - River - Jonathan Dunn - 00:18:58 08 - TMNT: TF - Genesis - Sisyphus Stage - Miki Higashino - 00:21:10 09 - Jet Set Radio - Dreamcast - Funky Radio (IN-GAME VERSION) - BB Rights - 00:25:32 10 - Dragon Sabre - Arcade - Volcano - Shinji Hosoe - 00:28:56 11 - Last Resort - Neo Geo - The Melting Point -  Toshio Shimizu and/or Yasuo Yamate - 00:32:28 12 - Wolfenstein 3d - PC (Adl

Another extended play, very non-standard format, very talk-heavy retrospective of the first 49 episodes and three years of the show - in the style of an old W.A.R.T. Radio episode meets The Diad Presents meets Sound Test Roulette meets VGM Jukebox – multiple short micro-music-blocks with talking between.   Part 2 is "personal picks" - picks that I really like myself, most of which were near picks from my previous two "Best of 20XX – John's Picks" episodes - 1 track from each previous episode (minus best-of episodes), tracks chosen by either John or the listeners in any "Best of 20XX" installment are ineligible for The Golden Episode (and if a track that appeared in say, Episode 2, was chosen, but it also appears in Episode 17, 36, and 48, it is stricken from the eligible pool all the same. Each track must be totally unique to a "Wayback Wednesday" episode of NNR, which narrows the playing field, both in terms of tracks I can pick for myself as well as tracks I can pick for the listeners (part 1).   Each m

Audio taken directly from a Facebook Live recording of myself recounting the tale of Christmas 1989 on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the most momentous and impactful December 25th of my life. It was the second of two such recordings to happen tonight on Facebook Live. Merry Christmas (and/or whatever other holidays you celebrate), and Happy New Year from Nerd Noise Radio. Cheers!

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 - Multipla