[2025 Addendum….sorry for the ultra long-winded] Normally, we only share one rerun a month at Nerd Noise Radio. But due to the confluence of a) our having missed the May rerun completely, b) our not getting a June rerun out until the very end of the month, and c) a very important thematic connection to an event currently happening in the VGM podcast scene this month, I’m releasing…..not one……not two……not four…..but THREE reruns in July! From 2022 through 2024, the greater VGM podcast community p...
Jul 02, 2025•2 hr 58 min•Ep. 155
2025 Addendum (original show notes below) Today’s rerun includes a tacked on 2025 introduction directed primarily at listeners on Terra Player, and also references links to two other “made on Steam Deck” NNR episodes. See those links below: C1E71: “The Wonder Years” [Channel 1]: https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e71-the-wonder-years/ C2R3: “Best of 2023” [Channel 2]: https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/ch-2-nerd-noise-game-club-c2r3-the-best-of-season-3/ ----...
Jun 27, 2025•2 hr 47 min•Ep. 154
Today’s broadcast is C1E96 for Theme Thursday, June 26th, 2025 (happy 27th "dating" anniversary to my dear wife, St. Jodee). Today’s theme is a collection of music from games in my own personal Steam Library – planned, curated, produced, and distributed entirely on/from the Steam Deck (SteamOS desktop mode)! A collection dominated by music from indie games from the 2010's and 2020's and peppered with music from bigger-named games from the 1990's and 2000's and contains not one, but TWO chill zon...
Jun 26, 2025•2 hr 34 min•Ep. 153
Today’s broadcast is C1E95 for VibeOff Vrijdag, May 9th, 2025. Today’s broadcast will be a one-time-only special twist on a FaceOff Friday, where, instead of comparing different versions of the same track against each other, we're comparing pairs (and occasionally trios) of different songs against each other which either have similar movements, or melodies, or instrumentation, or simply just vibes and asking you, the listener to not only tell us which one you like better, but whether or not the ...
May 09, 2025•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 152
2025 Show Notes Amendment: I love the setup we have here where on the first day of the month, we released our final ever TwoFer Tuesday, and now, here at the last day of the month, we re-release our first ever TwoFer Tuesday! It feels like a wonder twist on "bookends". As always when re-running early episodes, please excuse the atrocious production quality. One of my favorite things looking back on the early episodes of the show is how "different, yet the same" they are. From a sound quality per...
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 151
Today’s broadcast is C1E94 for Theme Thursday, April 24th, 2025 (Switch 2 pre-order day.....take 2......we hope!). Today’s broadcast is a celebration of the music from the various mainline installments of the Jackbox Party Pack – the greatest "social lubricant" in the history of video games - and the longest run-time [quote] "ordinary" Channel 1 episode in Nerd Noise Radio history, So, buckle up for nearly 2 ½ hours of the sweet sweet sounds which have made family gatherings and other social eve...
Apr 24, 2025•2 hr 40 min•Ep. 150
Today’s broadcast is C1E93 for TwoFer Tuesday, very conspicuously releasing on April 1st, 2025. Today’s "can you find the hidden gag" broadcast will be TwoFer Tuesday – vol. 11 – our final ever installment of the TwoFer Tuesday series, and though technically the second-to-last planned April Fool's episode, our last April Fool's episode to present a novel idea (since 2026's installment is slated to just be a sequel to 2020's reverse-playing "Backtracks"). Tracklist: Game# / Game / System(s) / Com...
Apr 01, 2025•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 149
2025 re-run bonus notes: This episode is the third in a trilogy of music blocks (parts 1 and 2 were our January and February reruns). Long time listeners may already know what this trilogy is all about, but for those who don't and have been following the reruns, the introduction to this episode finally explains what the trilogy is all about. So, the fun [for me] question: of the three music blocks in the trilogy, which did you like best (and why), which did you like least (and why), and do you o...
Mar 05, 2025•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 148
Today’s broadcast is C1E92 for Soundtrack Saturday, February 15th, 2025. Today’s broadcast will be the soundtrack to the game Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore, on multiple platforms (St. John played it on Steam Deck), composed by Button Masther aka Jake Silverman – an episode originally intended to release in June 2024, and then again in October 2024 before being bumped both times. Tracklist! All tracks from Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore on multiple platforms, composed by Button Masher (aka Jake ...
Feb 15, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 147
2025 re-run bonus notes: This rerun is releasing on the precise 5yr anniversary of its original release - in other words, this celebration of St. John's 40th birthday, featuring his wife, both his kids, both his parents, and his brother is re-releasing on St. John's 45th birthday! Also, it is the second of a trilogy of music blocks (the first of which was last month's rerun), which, if not already clear to long-time listeners of the show will be explained in the intro to the third track of the t...
Feb 03, 2025•2 hr 46 min•Ep. 148
Today’s broadcast is C1E91 for Mishmash Monday, January 27th, 2025. Today’s Broadcast will be Mishmash Monday – vol. 16 – the debut episode of season 8, and our final "regular", "ordinary", "standard:, "customary" [pick your preferred term] season. Tracklist! Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Original Episode(s) / Originally Selected By / Timestamp A1) Intro - 00:00:00 01) Next Chapter - Tetris Effect Connected – Multi - Hydelic - 00:04:05 02) Asian Shuffle - Cho Aniki: Kyuukyoku Mu...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 147
2025 re-run bonus notes: Our first re-run of our return to the practice is also the first-released [second produced] of a trilogy of music blocks. Long-time listeners of the show may already know what I'm talking about, but newer listeners and/or those who do not remember may be perplexed by what I'm talking about. Well, it will all be explained in the intro to the final of the trilogy (releasing in March). DISCLAIMER: the production value was much worse back in 2019. So if this is your first ti...
Jan 23, 2025•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 148
Today, I have two special announcements for you - actually, three (though only the first two appear in the announcement recording)! Apologies for how awkward and unscripted this recording is: - The first is a repeat of the all-call, calling our listeners away from Spotify - redundant, but worth repeating! - The second is an all-call to the listeners to get me tracks (see the links below to relevant documents and/or episodes). More deets in the announcement recording! - Also, a last-minute third ...
Jan 23, 2025•11 min•Ep. 148
[Ch 1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1R7: The Best of 2024” ——————————————————— ——————————————————— ——————————————————— Today’s broadcast is C1R7 for Wayback Wednesday, January 15th, 2025. Today’s broadcast will be "The Best of 2024" - our look back at the previous year of Channel 1 as well as Channel 2 not already featured in the Ch 2 retrospectives. Tracklist! Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Original Episode(s) / Originally Selected By / Timestamp A1) Intro - 00:00:00 01)...
Jan 06, 2025•2 hr 51 min•Ep. 146
Well, this is it, folks - our very last episode of Channel 2, taking a long….VERRRRRRY LONG last look back through the entirety of our show’s history, and featuring at least one track from every single episode! This episode really is obscenely long - just shy of 5 ½ hours! But it covers so much history, and is our way of putting a bow on everything. So we hope you will stick with us for the entire thing! Presented in a hybrid-format of Ch 2-style talkie portions and Ch 1-style mini-mixtapes, and...
Dec 28, 2024•5 hr 23 min•Ep. 145
A 2024 rebroadcast of a 2016 production (with 2024 introduction) reading a 2012 essay on the events of Christmas 1989 - also a tribute to Christmas 1994 (by way of the 2024 intro) Background music in the 2016 production by Doctor Octoroc (mistakenly said "DJ Octoroc" in the recording) from their collection "8-bit Jesus" - except for brief interludes by Billy Joel and The Gregory Brothers. Background music in the 2024 introduction: "Tyr (Heavily Armored) - Cosmic Carnage - 32X - Hikoshi Hashimoto...
Dec 26, 2024•25 min•Ep. 144
Today’s broadcast is C2R4 for Wayback Wednesday, December 11th, 2024. Today’s Episode, our 2nd-to-last Ch 2 episode ever (or at least, 2nd-to-last one we PLAN to ever do) is our annual retrospective of the previous year of Channel 2 - in this case, of our Season 4. Today’s broadcast, therefore, is “C2R4 - The Best of Season 4” containing our customary two passes through history (by host), and bookended by wildcards! ----- Opening Wildcards: Track# / Track / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Origi...
Dec 11, 2024•3 hr 10 min•Ep. 143
Season 4 (2024) - The Final Season of Channel 2! 70 Tracks Season Runtime (MUSIC-ONLY vers.) - 03:27:17 Complete Season (MUSIC-ONLY vers.) Release Date: 12/08/2024 ---------------------------------------------------------- Episode: C2E16: "Songs with Words" Original release date: 03/07/2024 Episode Theme: Game Music with Vocals Theme Elaboration: N/A Episode Theme by: Hugues Episode Title by: Collaborative Opening Track: Hugues Closing Track: St. John Full Episode Link (Podbean): https://nerdnoi...
Dec 09, 2024•3 hr 27 min•Ep. 142
Today’s broadcast is C1E90 for Theme Thursday, November 21st 2024. Today’s Broadcast is part 2 of a 2 part series on music from 100 of Hugues' favorite games as a part of his "farewell tour" to podcasting – 50 apiece for the occasion of his upcoming 50th birthday – curated, produced, and hosted by Hugues himself - on a program we're calling "Turning 50 – The B-Sides" Tracklist! Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Timestamp A1) Earcatcher - 00:00:00 A2) Intro - 00:01:35 01) Overworld -...
Nov 21, 2024•2 hr 20 min•Ep. 141
Today’s broadcast is C1E89 for Theme Thursday, November 14th, 2024. Today’s Broadcast is part 1 of a 2 part series on music from 100 of Hugues' favorite games as a part of his "farewell tour" to podcasting – 50 apiece for the occasion of his upcoming 50th birthday – curated, produced, and hosted by Hugues himself - on a program we're calling "Turning 50 – The A-Sides" Tracklist! Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Timestamp A1) Earcatcher - 00:00:00 A2) Intro - 00:01:37 01) Entrance -...
Nov 14, 2024•2 hr 15 min•Ep. 141
Today’s Broadcast is C2E20, for Theme Thursday, Oct 24th, 2024. All good things must come to an end. Today is the final “regular” (as in, “final non-retrospective” episode - and as opposed to “final all time” episode). This will be the final episode where we bring new tracks to the show, though. So it is still an ending. The theme, therefore, is ending music, on a program we’re calling “...all good things…” Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Selected By 01) Summer Vacation - Tokyo Xa...
Oct 19, 2024•2 hr 44 min•Ep. 140
Today’s broadcast is C1E88 for FaceOff Friday, Sept 27th, 2024. Today’s broadcast will be FaceOff Friday – vol. 7 – very likely to be our final FaceOff Friday episode! A1) Intro – 00:00:00 01) Double Dragon - Mission 2 - Kazunaka Yamane A) Arcade – 00:03:39 B) Genesis – 00:05:19 C)MastersystemFM – 00:06:59 D)MastersystemPSG – 00:09:06 E) NES – 00:11:15 F) Gameboy – 00:12:43 G) GBA – 00:15:55 H) Double Dragon Trilogy – 00:17:40 02) Mortal Kombat – The Courtyard – Dan Forden A) Arcade – 00:19:16 B...
Sep 27, 2024•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 139
Today’s broadcast is C2E19 for Theme Thursday, Sept 26th, 2024. Today’s theme is…..well, there are two themes, and they’re both a secret. Each host has their own mystery theme - can you guess what the themes are? Today’s episode is called “Mystery Flavors”. [Production Note: more details below, but we apologize if the conversation on the opening track sounds a little more halting or broken up than usual, as if it were broken up into small chunks spaced apart. Also, this episode has an unusually ...
Sep 26, 2024•2 hr 28 min•Ep. 139
Today’s broadcast is C1E87 for TwoFer Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024. Today’s broadcast will be TwoFer Tuesday – vol. 10. This episode is dedicated to my lovely wife, Jodee, on the occasion of releasing on our 25th wedding anniversary! A) Intro – 00:00:00 01) Fantavision 202X – Multi – Soichi Terada A)Fantavision202X – 00:03:57 B) Expositor 2 – 00:04:56 02) Futuri no Fantavision (JP) - PS2 – Soichi Terada A) Portal – 00:08:10 B)Starshell– 00:12:19 03) Fantavision (JP) - PS2 – Soichi Terada A) Infinite...
Jul 23, 2024•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 138
Today’s broadcast is C2E18 for Theme Thursday, July 4th, 2024 (the holiday connection was a pure coincidence - but happy holidays to everyone who celebrates it!). Today’s theme is music from unreleased (and usually unfinished) games - on a program we’re calling “It Never Happened” - subject selected by Hugues, and episode title by St. John! Track# / Track / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Selected By 01) Ending Theme - Fido Dido - Genesis - Matt Furniss - Hugues Earcatcher - 00:00:00 Music - 00...
Jul 04, 2024•2 hr 26 min•Ep. 137
[RE-UPLOAD NOTE: When I had previously uploaded this episode, I had accidentally included the sound file to the previous episode instead. So I deleted that upload and am uploading the correct sound file now. My apologies for the mix-up! Original show notes (which were correct) are below - St. John] Today’s broadcast is C1E86 for Soundtrack Saturday, June 15th, 2024. Today’s episode is our contributions to the annual VGM podcast scene group project, Masters of VGM ( https://www.mastersofvgm.com/ ...
Jun 15, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 136
Today’s broadcast is C1E85 for FaceOff Friday, May 31st, 2024 Today’s broadcast will be FaceOff Friday – vol 6, a collection of "this version vs that version" of various pieces of Delicious VGM! A1) Intro - 00:00:00 01) Super Mario Bros. - Overworld Theme - Koji Kondo - SNES [Super Mario All Stars] (a: N/A) - 00:02:35 - NES (a: N/A) - 00:05:26 - PC 88 [Super Mario Bros. Special] (a: Fumihiko Itagaki and/or Megumi Kawamata) - 00:09:48 02) Fatal Fury – Howard Arena (Tung Fu Rue) - Kazuhiro Nishida...
May 31, 2024•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 135
A promised update on the status and future of the show!
May 15, 2024•7 min•Ep. 134
Today’s broadcast is C1E84 for TwoFer Tuesday, April 30th, 2024. Today’s episode will be TwoFer Tuesday – vol 9. A1) Intro - 00:00:00 01) Metroid Prime - GameCube - Kenji Yamamoto A) Planet Tallon IV - 00:02:29 B) Crashed Frigate - 00:06:36 02) Diver's Dream – PS1 - Takayuki Ishikawa and/or Shinya Watanabe A) Paradise - 00:11:30 B) Big Pudding - 00:13:36 03) Shenmue – Dreamcast - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Hideaki Miyamoto, Akiko Hashimoto, Ryoko Okada, Shingo Murakami, Tadahiro Nitta, Yayoi Okumura, ...
Apr 30, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 133
Today’s Broadcast is C2E17 for Theme Thursday, April 11th 2024. Today’s broadcast is a focus on pre-turn of the century music from computer systems (as opposed to consoles) - on a program we’re calling “20th Century Floppies”. Tracklist Track Number / Track / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Selected by 01) Bootup Sequence - N/A (System Music) - FM Towns Marty - Unknown - St. John a) Earcatcher - 00:00:00 b) Music - 00:00:02 c) Intro - 00:01:35 d) Opening Track Discussion - 00:02:30 e) Top of Sh...
Apr 10, 2024•2 hr 12 min•Ep. 132
