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 orig...
Jun 21, 2020•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 65
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 orig...
Jun 14, 2020•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 64
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 orig...
Jun 07, 2020•2 hr 12 min•Ep. 63
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 ch...
Jun 01, 2020•26 min•Ep. 62
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 befor...
May 23, 2020•27 min•Ep. 61
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: T...
May 12, 2020•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 60
[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 ...
Apr 28, 2020•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 59
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 “Ba...
Apr 01, 2020•2 hr 54 min•Ep. 58
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...
Feb 03, 2020•2 hr 46 min•Ep. 57
Special Rerun NOTE: all three of the reruns chosen in January and February (Jan on main feed, and Jan/Feb on rerun feed) were chosen because they have a special connection to C1E51, which hits the C1E51 feed Feb 3rd, 2020. ---------------------------------- 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:...
Jan 23, 2020•2 hr 26 min•Ep. 56
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 (minu...
Dec 30, 2019•4 hr 53 min•Ep. 53
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!
Dec 26, 2019•20 min•Ep. 55
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 ...
Dec 19, 2019•2 hr 47 min•Ep. 54
An 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 1 is "popular picks" - picks that I thought would be picks likely to be chosen by the listeners (a "John's Best Guess on Listener Picks" episode) - 1 track from each previous episode (minus best...
Dec 15, 2019•4 hr 22 min•Ep. 52
Today’s broadcast is C1E49 for Mishmash Monday, November 11th, 2019. Today’s Episode will be "Mishmash Monday - vol. 8" - guest hosted, guest curated, and guest vetted by Mario Mendez of the excellent Grown-Up Pixels podcast! Track# - Track - Game - System - Composer - TimeStamp: 01) Intro - 00:00:00 02) Toxic Caves - Sonic Spinball - Genesis - Brian Coburn, Barry Blum and/or Howard Drossin - 00:02:36 03) The Palace that was Found - Sonic and the Secret Rings - Wii - Kenichi Tokoi - 00:05:13 04)...
Nov 11, 2019•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 51
Today’s broadcast is C1E48 for Scene Sunday, October 13th, 2019. Today’s episode is 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 – E...
Oct 13, 2019•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 50
Today’s broadcast is C1E47c for Theme Thursday, September 26th, 2019. Today is part 3 of 3 in our first ever mini-series. The theme of our miniseries is music from the Turbografx16 / PC Engine - co-created with Bryce Dumond of the TG16 Game by Game podcast, "Turbotastic". Today's installment is called "Tidal Wavetable - aka 'The Continuing Adventures of Buzz Lightyear'". 01 - Intro - 00:00:00 02 - RyuuKyuu – Title Screen - Yasushi Kawasaki, and/or Hiroto Saitoh - 00:03:06 03 - Cross Wiber – Stor...
Sep 26, 2019•2 hr 11 min•Ep. 49
Today’s broadcast is C1E47b for Theme Thursday, September 19th, 2019. Today is part 2 of 3 in our first ever mini-series. The theme of our miniseries is music from the Turbografx16 / PC Engine - co-created with Bryce Dumond of the TG16 Game by Game podcast, "Turbotastic". Today's installment is called "The Little Engine that Could." 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) S...
Sep 19, 2019•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 48
Today’s broadcast is C1E47a for Theme Thursday, September 12th, 2019. Today is part 1 of 3 in our first ever mini-series. The theme of our miniseries is music from the Turbografx16 / PC Engine - co-created with Bryce Dumond of the TG16 Game by Game podcast, "Turbotastic". Today's installment is called "Turbotastic. 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 - ...
Sep 12, 2019•2 hr•Ep. 48
Today’s broadcast is C1E46 for FaceOff Friday, August 9th, 2019. Today’s episode will be FaceOff Friday - vol 3 - guest hosted, guest curated, and guest vetted by Electric Boogaloo! 01) Intro - 00:00:00 02) Ogre Battle - Overture - Hitoshi Sakimoto a) SNES [March of the Black Queen] - 00:02:45 b) GBA [Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis] - 00:03:44 c) N64 [Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber] - 00:04:43 d) PS1/PSP [Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling Together] - 00:05:45 03) Blaster Master - Area 1 - c: N...
Aug 09, 2019•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 43
Buried somewhere around the middle of this 2hr, 22min long, profoundly bittersweet, and deeply emotional tribute to my dear friend Chris Chandler on the occasion of what would've been his 40th birthday is a complete, and unmodified rerun of Nerd Noise Radio C1E10 (originally broadcast 05/22/2017) - which itself was originally intended as a tribute to Chris. The music block portion of C1E10 was produced on the day of his passing, 12/28/2016. Technically, today's production is categorized as a rer...
Jul 31, 2019•2 hr 22 min•Ep. 47
Today’s broadcast is C1E45 [PART 2] for Wayback Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019. Today’s Episode is "The Best of 2018 pt 2 - St. John's Picks (an ULTRA MEGA KING KONG-sized episode) Track# - Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Episode - Timestamp (NOTE: Tracks in bold and italics were backup tracks I pulled to fill in the gaps left by the tracks on my list that the listeners claimed for their episode. I may get the last word…but they get the first….and first dibs on any tracks). 01) Intro - 00:00:00...
Jul 03, 2019•3 hr 46 min•Ep. 45
It's the most wonderful time of the year….for Nerd Noise Radio! :-) Today’s broadcast is C1E45 [PART 1] for Wayback Wednesday, June 26th, 2019. Today’s Episode is "The Best of 2018 pt 1 - Listener Picks" Track# - Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Episode(s) - Listener(s) - Timestamp (NOTE: Tracks in bold and italics were tracks that I had on my list for my episode (part 2) that the listeners claimed for theirs. I may get the last word…but they get the first….and first dibs on any tracks). 01...
Jun 26, 2019•2 hr 15 min•Ep. 45
Changes to the show that will most heavily impact the viewers on YouTube.
Jun 24, 2019•23 min•Ep. 46
Today’s broadcast is C1E44 for TwoFer Tuesday, May 7th, 2019. Today’s Episode will be TwoFer Tuesday - vol. 5. Track Number / Game (Composer) / Track Names (Composers) / Time Stamp 01 - Intro - 00:00:00 02 - Daytona USA - Saturn - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi and/or David Leytze King of Speed - 00:02:09 Sky High - 00:06:54 03 - WipEout - PS1 - Cold Storage Messij - 00:11:29 Cardinal Dancer - 00:16:40 04 - Shadow Squadron - 32X - Teruhiko Nakagawa and/or Masaru Setsumaru Mission 5 - 00:21:56 Mission 4 - 0...
May 07, 2019•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 42
Today’s broadcast is C1E43 for Theme Thursday, 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 ...
Apr 11, 2019•2 hr 4 min•Ep. 41
A development has occurred that will change the very face of Nerd Noise Radio forever! I'm soooooo sorry for the very last second nature of this notice, but as things happen to us that change our world in the blink of an eye, so goes it with our entertainment and entertainers as well. If you're a fan of NNR, then it is IMPERATIVE that you not miss this announcement! Thank you for everything, my friends!
Apr 01, 2019•8 sec•Ep. 44
Today’s broadcast is C1E42 for Soundtrack Saturday, March 9th, 2019. Today’s Soundtrack is the Shinobi 3 Soundtrack, on the Sega Genesis, composed by Masayuki Nagao, Hirofumi Murasaki, and Morihiko Akiyama. Track Number / Track Name / Time stamp 01: Intro - 00:00 02: Shinobi - 02:05 03: Storm Wind - 03:00 04: Japonesque - 03:11 05: Hassou! - 05:33 06: Stage Clear - 07:04 07: He Runs - 07:07 08: Mandara - 12:15 09: Round Clear - 14:21 10: Idaten - 14:26 11: Ninja Soul - 16:54 12: Shadows - 19:09 ...
Mar 09, 2019•56 min•Ep. 41
Today’s broadcast is C1E41 for Mishmash Monday, February 4th, 2019. Today’s Episode is Mishmash Monday, vol. 7 - the inaugural episode of 2019's "Season 3". 01 - Intro - 00:00:00 02 - Fantavision (US) - PS2 - intro - Soichi Terada - 00:02:08 03 - Sonic Mania - multi - Studiopolis Zone Act 2 - Tee Lopes - 00:02:40 04 - Ernest Evans - Genesis - Stage 2 - Motoi Sakuraba - 00: 05:09 05 - Sim City Classic - PC (SC-88) - Theme - Steve Hales / Will Wright - 00:07:50 06 - Traffic Rush - iOS/Android - In...
Feb 04, 2019•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 40
Happy New Year! Today, we take a few minutes to talk about the future of Nerd Noise Radio, and what that will look like in 2019 moving forward (hint: no, we're not going off the air). :-) Afterwards, we include our first ever Nerd Noise Radio RE-RUN! And what better way to kick things off than the start with our VERY FIRST EPISODE: C1E1: "Press Start"?! Tracklist - Track#, Game, System, Composer, Timestamp: 01: Intro - 00:00 02: Sonic 3 - Genesis - Tomonori Sawada - 01:50 03: Double Dragon - NES...
Jan 09, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 39
