[Ch 2] Nerd Noise Game Club - C2E11: ”It’s SPACE TIME!!”

Today’s Broadcast is C2E11 for Theme Thursday, March, 2nd, 2023 - the inaugural episode of Channel 2’s “Season 3!”. Today’s theme is music from space games and space biomes on a program we’re calling “It’s SPACE TIME!”

Tracklist

Track# - Track - Game - System - Composer(s) - Selected By

A1) Earcatcher - 00:00:00

01) Snow on the Moon - Fantavision (NA) - PS2 - Ashif Hakik - St. John

1. Music - 00:00:06
2. Intro - 00:05:11
3. Top of Show Business / Banter (including “[yet another] new mic, who dis?”) - 00:05:53
4. Discussion - 00:14:36

02) Moon’s Surface - Dig Dug Arrangement - Multiplatform - c: Yuriko Keino / a: Unknown - Hugues

1. Music - 00:19:05
2. Discussion - 00:21:15

03) Terran Theme 3 - Starcraft - PC - Glenn Stafford, Jason Hayes, Derek Duke, Big Tuna, and/or Tracy W. Bush - St. John

1. Music - 00:26:58
2. Discussion - 00:31:27

04) Track 4 - Alien 3 - Game Gear - Matt Furniss - Hugues

1. Music - 00:37:57
2. Discussion - 00:41:21

05) Track 3 - Colony Wars - PS1 - Tim Wright (aka CoLD SToRAGE) - St. John

1. Music - 00:47:18
2. Discussion - 00:51:07

06) The Moon - Duck Tales Remastered - Multiplatform - c: Hiroshige Tonomura / a: Jake Kaufman - Hugues

1. Music - 00:56:22
2. Discussion - 00:59:15

07) The Sun Station - The Outer Wilds - Multiplatform - Andrew Prahlow - St. John

1. Music - 01:05:33
2. Discussion - 01:08:18

08) Asteroid Core - The Dig - PC - Michael Z. Land - Hugues

1. Music - 01:11:53
2. Discussion - 01:14:11

09) Spatial Lullaby - Stellaris - Multiplatform - Gustav Landerholm - St. John

1. Music - 01:20:13
2. Discussion - 01:25:02

10) Eline’s Theme - JESUS: Kyoufu no Bio Monster - Famicom - Koichi Sugiyama - Hugues

1. Music - 01:29:45
2. Discussion - 01:31:28

11) Space BGM 5 - No Man’s Sky - Multiplatform - 65daysofstatic, Earcom, and/or Paul Weir - St. John

1. Music - 01:36:49
2. Discussion - 01:37:29

12) Outer Rings - Kirby’s Epic Yarn - Wii / 3DS - Tomoya Tomita - Hugues

1. Music - 01:43:23
2. Discussion - 01:45:17

13) Space - Yoshi’s Crafted World - Switch - Kazufumi Umeda - St. John

1. Music - 01:49:56
2. Discussion - 01:53:07
3. A special shout-out to a fellow VGM caster and family - 01:55:22
4. End of Show Business - pt 1 - 01:58:23
5. DID YOU KNOW?: St. John is -TECHNICALLY- a VGM Composer - 02:01:43
6. End of Show Business - pt 2 - 02:04:11
7. Final Track Discussion - 02:07:29
8. Sign-off - 02:09:29

14) Rounds 1, 9 - Space Invaders ‘91 - Mega Drive - Noriyuki Iwadare - Hugues

1. Music - 02:09:34

B1) Outtakes - 02:12:04

B2) Bonus: the noise reduction “residue” from my first [aborted] attempt at finessing “The Dig” - 02:20:47

Total Episode Runtime: 02:24:54

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 and Instagram @retrogameclubpodcast and on Twitter @rgcpodcast.

Hugues’ blog can be found here: 

https://huguesjohnson.com/

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 later this month (date TBD) for C1E73: featuring a special guest podcaster from the VGM scene. Delicious non-VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds. And wherever you are - Fly the N!