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On this episode of Game Jams we learn that it's amazing to see Capcom characters in the SNK pixel art style, incompetence is much scarier than any conspiracy theory, and Sylph Arcade is an underrated video game company SNK vs Capcom: SVC Chaos Website(https://game.snk-corp.co.jp/official/svc/english/svc_top.html) Slyph Arcade on Twitter(https://x.com/sylpharcade) (00:00:00) Shinsekai Gakkyoku Zatsugidan - Stormy Saxophone - The King of Fighters '98 (00:03:08) [BREAK] SNK vs Capcom Chaos / Mega Man Music (00:07:07) Yuko Takehara - Boomer Kuanger - Mega Man X (00:09:17) Mari Yamaguchi, Masato Kouda - Burst Man's Stage - Mega Man 7 (00:10:59) Yuko Takehara, Toshihiko Horiyama, Makoto Tomozawa - Stone Man - Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters (00:12:28) Ippo Yamada - Thunder Tornado - Mega Man 9 (00:15:14) [BREAK] NES Music (00:16:31) Hidenori Maezawa, Yūichi Sakakura - Gates of Fort Fire Storm - Super C (00:18:30) David Wise - Big Blag - Battletoads / Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team (00:20:42) Tsutomu Ogura - Jungle Infiltration - Snake's Revenge (00:22:30) Yoshihiro Sakaguchi - Bermuda - Duck Tales 2 (00:24:08) [BREAK] Crowdstrike / Incompetence is scarier than conspiracies (00:29:21) Sega - Stage Music 3 - Virtua Tennis 4 (00:32:34) Satoru Kosaki - Moonlit Wilderness - Tekken 5 (00:34:40) Clascy Jitto - Oregano Mirage - Pizza Tower (00:36:59) fizzd - 2-X Offbeats - A Dance of Fire and Ice (00:38:30) [BREAK] A Dance of Fire and Ice / Other Indies (00:43:00) Darvel - Zone 3 - Thrill Penguin (00:45:06) Darvel - It's Fun To Hit Blobs - Garlic (00:46:59) Tomoko Sasaki - Under Magma - Ristar (00:48:48) Keith Tinman, Dean Evans, Jonathan Dunn - Slash Club - Cool World (SNES) (00:51:08) Yuzo Koshiro - Ice Groove - Adventure Island (00:53:58) [BREAK] Yuzo Koshiro Rocks / Have a Great Day (00:56:32) Syun Nishigaki, Setsuo Yamamoto, and Tatsuro Suzuki - Guy's Theme - Street Fighter Alpha Gold

About: An episode all about Ending and Staff Roll themes. For a great game, these are usually bittersweet moments that follow a sense of accomplishment and finality. 00:00 - Staff Roll [The Messenger] by Rainbowdragoneyes > 02:52 - Staff Roll [Action Man: Search for Base X] by Iku Mizutani > 04:36 - Staff Credit [New Super Mario Bros. Wii] by Ryo Nagamatsu > 07:55 - Ending [Star Fox] by Hajime Hirasawa > 10:41 - Ending [Mega Man X] by Setsuo Yamamoto > 12:28 - Ending Theme [El Viento] by Motoi Sakuraba > 15:14 - Evergreen [Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse] by Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto, Yoshinori Sasaki > 16:19 - Credits [Golden Axe II] by Naofumi Hataya > 18:13 - Ending [Darkwing Duck] by Yasuaki Fujita > 19:59 - Dear Friends [Final Fantasy V] by Nobuo Uematsu > 23:55 - The Second Truth [Secret of Mana] by Hiroki Kikuta > 27:47 - Credits Pt. 1 [Mario Kart Wii] by Asuka Ohta, Ryo Nagamatsu > 29:33 - -HISTORIA- (Instrumental Ver.) [Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology] by Yoko Shimomura > 33:56 - Fake Verthandi [Steins;Gate] by Takeshi Abo > 36:11 - The Path (A New Beginning) [The Last of Us] by Gustavo Santaolalla > www.pixelbeatpod.com > pixelbeatpod@icloud.com > 

Episode #255 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. This week on the show, Bryan and Bedroth from RPGera welcome all the ghouls and goblins to another Spooky Month as we celebrate the season leading up to Halloween, kicking things off with a trip to the bayou and some excellent tracks centered on swamps and the bog! Email the show at bgmaniapodcast@gmail.com with requests for upcoming episodes, questions, feedback, comments, concerns, whatever you want really! Special thanks to our Executive Producers: Jexak & Xancu. EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS The Swamp Whistler from Rayman Legends [Christophe Héral, 2013] Swampland from Castle Crashers [Waterflame, 2008] The Swamp from The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures [Koji Kondo & Asuka Hayazaki, 2004] Unfinished Business -Mud Bog Theme- from Shantae and the Pirate's Curse [Jake Kaufman, 2014] Stage 1 from The Adventures of Bayou Billy [Jun Funahashi, Kiyohiro Sada, Hidenori Maezawa, Atsushi Fujio & Tsutomu Ogura, 1988] Moodymaze Marsh from Yooka-Laylee [Grant Kirkhope, 2017] Mangrove from Aura [Shootkapow, Unreleased] Monster Marsh from Skylanders: Trap Team [Lorne Balfe, 2014] The Deep Darkness from Earthbound [Keiichi Suzuki, 1994] Thornfelt Swamp from Ori and the Blind Forest [Gareth Coker feat. Tom Boyd, 2015] Wetland Theme from Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight [Junko Tamiya, 1990] Portabellohead from Crypt of the NecroDancer [Danny Baranowsky, 2015] Satorl Marsh -Night- from Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition [Manami Kiyota, 2020] Piranha Creeper Creek from Super Mario 3D World [Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Yasuaki Iwata & Koji Kondo, 2013] SUPPORT US Patreon: https://patreon.com/rpgera CONTACT US Website: https://rpgera.com Discord: https://discord.gg/cC73Heu Twitch: https://twitch.tv/therpgera Twitter: https://twitter.com/OriginalLDG Instagram: https://instagram.com/bryan.ldg/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/leveldowngaming RPGERA PODCAST NETWORK Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bgmania/message

Show Notes Matt and Kris bring you the 7th annual Winter Special, filled with winter-themed tunes, some of which were chosen by you!     Useful Links Celeste by Lena Raine Moonglow Bay by Lena Raine Snow Brothers by Osamu Ohta & Tatsuya Uemura Let it Snow by Bit Shifter Contra by Hidenori Maezawa and Kiyohiro Sada Winterbells arrangement by Eric Peel The Legend of Xanadu by Mieko Ishikawa, Atsushi Shirakawa, Hirofumi Matsuoka, Masaru Nakajima, Naoki Kaneda & Takahiro Tsunashima Octopath Traveler by Yasunori Nishiki Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze by David Wise Super Mario's Sleigh Ride by The OneUps Background Music Jolly Jump Jive by Sax Gordon & Doug James Social Stuff WaveBack Overplay WaveBack Discord Support us on Patreon WaveBack Facebook Geekade Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Twitch Website Contact Us

Yukie Morimoto, Hidenori Maezawa, sabao - Overheat Story of The Year - And The Hero Will Drown

It's beginning to look a lot like...well, winter! And you know what that means in VGM Podcast Land: a special, winter-themed episode! We wanted to start this tradition off with a bang, so Bedroth cooked up something wildly involved and time-consuming to bring you some wintry VGM you're unlikely to have heard before on other VGM winter specials. In fact, the hosts worked so hard to find you some bangin' good tracks to welcome in the season, there were too many to fit into one episode! You'll learn more about that as you listen to this, our first of TWO winter-themed shows. This episode, which we're calling "In the Land of Ice and Snow" features themes that fit the darker, more emotional side of the season. If it gets a little heavy for you, tune in in ONE WEEK to hear the 2nd show, which will be a lot more festive. Thanks as always to our amazing patrons and the artists who made our show art and theme song. Links to their content can be found below the playlist on our YouTube video! You, too, can become a patron at patreon.com/vgmvgm, and you can reach out to us by e-mail at verygoodmusicvgm@gmail.com, on Twitter @Shootkpow, or by leaving us a voice message at anchor.com/vgmvgm. You can also leave us a comment on YouTube and while you're at it, please let us know if you like the video, and subscribe and ring the bell to be notified of future episodes! We look forward to hearing from you! Track List: A Song of Ice and Snow - Heroes of Mana (DS, 2007) - Yoko Shimomura Iceberg - Kirbys Dream Land 3 (SNES, 1997) - Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando Northpole - Jett Rocket (WiiWare, 2010) - composer unknown Shackled Snowhorn - Super Smash Flash 2 (PC, 2007) - David Wise, arr. Auraka Auraka's Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/757MJas7q02YAHamq8ZDZE Glacius - Killer Instinct (Arcade, 1994) - Robin Beanland, Graeme Norgate Frostfall - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PC/PS3/360, 2011 | Frostfall Mod 2016) - Jeremy Soule Winter Night - Brave Dwarves 2 (Windows, 2002) - Valery Belozertsev, aka Butch Ice Mountain - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (DS/Wii, 2009) - Kumi Tanioka Stillsnow - Octopath Traveler (Switch, 2018) - Yasunori Nishiki Frozen Heel - Tales of Graces (PS3, 2009) - Motoi Sakuraba Blizzard - Addams Family Values (Genesis/SNES, 1995) - Keith Tinman Old Ferrum Town (Winter) - Pokken Tournament (Wii-U, 2015) - Hiroki Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Kawada, Rio Hamamoto, Taku Inoue, Eriko Sakurai, Yoshinori Hirai, Takafumi Sato, Mitsuhiro Kitadani, Yu Sugimoto, and/or Shota Kageyama Snow Sound - Touhou Arranged (originally from the album Fairy Queen, 2010) - Song by Itou Ken, aka NAGI☆ and Akagami, performd by Maika and FELT Snow Sound lyrics: https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Lyrics:_Snow_Sound Freezington - Pokemon Sword & Shield: The Crown Tundra (Switch, 2019 | DLC 2020) - Go Ichinose, Minako Adachi, and/or Junichi Masuda Blooper Reel - Snow Field - Contra (NES, 1988) - Hidenori Maezawa and Kiyohiro Sada --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vgmvgm/message

On June 20th, 2020, an era came to an end. After 200 episodes, the Power Pros podcast closed its doors…at least for the time being. However, on their next-to-last episode, the Pros did something I'd been bugging host “The Hoff” Chris Hoffman to do for months: an episode dedicated to 10 of each of their favorite video game soundtracks. I was so impressed with the Pros' picks and the heartfelt way they discussed each game that I just had to build our second bonus episode around those very same games. And you, gamers, are in for a treat. Along with Pete and Hoff, I recommend that everyone check out these full soundtracks. It's easier than ever these days to listen to game soundtracks, so get out there and enjoy some Very Good Music! Track list: Intro - Shark Flower - from the 2013 album Thirteen Orphans - Andy Myers, AKA Stenobot (the Power Pros theme song) 13:12 - Actraiser - Ending - Yuzo Koshiro - d.Quintet/p.Enix/SNES, 1990 17:18 - Contra - Base - Kazuki Muraoka/arr Hidenori Maezawa, Kiyohiro Sada - Konami/Arcade, 1987/NES, 1988 21:20 - Chrono Trigger - Ayla's Theme - Yasuonori Mitsuda - Square/SNES, 1995 24:51 - F-Zero X - The Long Distance of Murder (Red Canyon) - Taro Bando, Hajime Wakai - Nintendo/N64, 1998 28:15 - Double Dragon - Opening Level - Kazunaka Yamane - Technos Japan/Taito/Arcade, 1987/NES, 1988 32:11 - Metroid Prime - Tallon Overworld (remix of NES Brinstar) - Hirokazu Tanaka/arr Kinji Yamamoto, Kouichi Kyuma - Retro Studios/Nintendo/GameCube, 2002 38:21 - Ducktales - Himalayas - Hiroshige Tonomura - Capcom/NES, 1989/90 41:32 - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - Black Mist - Koji Kondo - Nintendo/SNES, 1991/92 45:36 - Final Fantasy VI - Epitaph - Nobuo Uematsu - Square/SNES/1994 50:30 - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - Grandma's theme - Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo - Nintendo/GameCube, 2002/03 54:35 - Gradius III - Continue Theme - Miki Higashino - Konami/Arcade, 1989/SNES, 1990/91 57:39 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Gerudo Valley - Koji Kondo - Nintendo/N64, 1998 1:01:25 - Legend of the Mystical Ninja/Ganbare Goemon: Yukihime Kyushutsu Emaki - Town of Yamato - Kazuhiko Uehara, Harumi Ueko - Konami/SNES, 1991/92 1:04:38 - Punch Out!! - Minor Circuit - Yukio Kaneoka, Akito Nakatsuka, Kenji Yamamoto/arr Mike Peacock, Darren Radtke, Chad York - Next Level Games/Nintendo/Wii, 2009 1:07:36 - Mega Man II - Dr. Wily Stage 2 - Takashi Tateishi - Capcom/NES, 1988 1:10:28 - Street Fighter II - Guile's Theme - Yoko Shimomura - Capcom/Multi-Platform, 1991 1:13:57 - Ninja Gaiden – Prison of the Dead (Act 5 Part 1) - Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta - Tecmo/Arcade, 1988/NES, 1988/89 1:17:16 - Super Mario Bros. 2 - Battle Against Wart - Koji Kondo - Nintendo/NES, 1988 1:20:26 - Super Castlevania IV - Dracula Battle - Masanori Adachi, Taro Kudo - Konami/SNES, 1991 1:32:50 - Super Mario World - Ending - Koji Kondo - Nintendo/SNES, 1990/91 Look for our next episode to drop on Tuesday, September 8th, and new episodes to come every other Tuesday following! Shout out @Shootkapow on Twitter or e-mail us at verygoodmusicvgm@gmail.com Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/vgmvgm Like and subscribe on YouTube! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vgmvgm/message

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 micro-music-block will be five tracks long, and each will represent the episode which it comes from. Rather than the usual NNR practice of focusing on the music block creating a logical, pleasing "flow", the Golden Episode (both parts one and two) will focus  instead on playing the tracks in episode order. So they won't flow nearly as well (unless by happy accident). But they will run in the order in which they appeared in the history of the show. Differing priorities this time. A typical NNR episode is all about a "journey through sound", and of course, this episode is that as well to some extent, but the real priority here is not about being a "journey through sound", but instead, is about being a "journey through time".   Here are the tracklists for the micro-music blocks for part 2, the "personal picks" installment:   Show Intro Music: somer assault (episode 1) - 00:00:00   Block 1 – Episodes 1-5 (2017 – part 1)   BGM Block 1 Music: yuukai douchuuki arcade (Episode 2)   Spoken Introduction - 00:05:04   01) Title – Spider-Man / X-Men – SNES – Tim and/or Geoff Follin - 00:13:06 02) Track 11 – Illusion Blaze – DOS – D.AC. - 00:14:07 03) Aitos – Actraiser – SNES – Yuzo Koshiro - 00:16:41 04) After the Battle – Loz: TP – Gamecube / Wii – Toru Minegishi and/or Asuka Ohta - 00:19:24 05) The Mechanic – Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake – MSX (SCC) - The Konami Kukeiha Club - 00:21:40   Block 2 – Episodes 6-10 (2017 – part 2)   BGM Block 2 Music: Fushigi no Umi no Nadia (episode 10)   Spoken Introduction - 00:23:42   06) September 2015 - N/A (System Music) - 3DS / WiiU – Kazumi Totaka - 00:30:22 07) Jiji Theme – Sword of Vermilion – Genesis – Hiroshi Kawaguchi and/or Yasuhiro Takagi - 00:33:33 08) Citizens of Luala - N/A (Battle of the Bits) - N/A (TG16) - Strobe - 00:34:18 09) Juno Unleashed – The Force Unleashed – Multi – Mark Griskey - 00:37:19 10) Space Opera – Tiny Toons: Buster Busts Loose – SNES – Kazuhiko Uehara and/or Yukie Morimoto - 00:38:23   Block 3 – Episodes 11-15 (2017 – part 3)   BGM Block 3 Music: Tyr (Heavy Armor) - Cosmic Carnage (Episode 13)   Spoken Introduction - 00:41:06   11) Enemy Turn (Stages 6-10) - Hisou Kihei X-Serd – PC Engine – Masaya Sound Team - 00:53:06 12) Stage 1 – Alien 3 – Genesis – Matt Furniss - 00:54:28 13) Zena Lan (Light Armor) - Cosmic Carnage  - 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto - 00:56:59 14) Lazarus (feat. Rudy Escobar) - N/A (Neon Dreams Album) - N/A - DYA - 00:59:13 15) West Side Andore Cage Match – Final Fight CD – Sega CD – c: Harumi Fujita, Hiromitsu Takaoka, Junko Tamiya, Manami Matsumae, Yasuaki Fujita, Yoko Shimomura and/or Yoshihiro Sakaguchi / a: T's Music - 01:02:53   Block 4 – Episodes 16-20 (2017 – part 4 of 4)   BGM  for intro to Block 4 Music: Kage Theme Genesis (Episode 18)   Spoken Introduction -  01:05:59   16) A Cool Reception – Shovel Knight – Multi – Jake Kaufman - 01:13:24 17) Vampyre Book – Bram Stoker's Dracula – Genesis – Matt Furniss - 01:16:06 18) Stage 3 – Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu – TG16 – Masakatsu Maekawa - 01:19:11 19) Rainbow Road - N/A (Super Mario Kart) - N/A - c: Soya Oka a: The OneUps - 01:21:01 20) Fly Like a Butterfly – Jet Set Radio Future – XBox – Hideki Naganuma - 01:26:28   Block 5 – Episodes 21-26a (2018 – part 1 of 4)   BGM for intro to Block 5 Music: Take Back – Fighting Run (episode 22)   Spoken Introduction - 01:29:44   21) Whisper and a Mantra – Secret of Mana – SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - 01:37:18 22) Aqua and Trees – Tobal No. 1 – PS1 – Yoko Shimomura - 01:38:23 23) Superleggera – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - 01:41:28 24) Inside Vah Naboris (1 Terminal) - LoZ: BoTW – WiiU / SWITCH! - Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata and/or Hajime Wakai - 01:46:55 26a) Music to Watch Girls By - N/A - N/A - c: Andy William a: RushJet1 - 01:48:46   Block 6 – Episodes 26-30 (2018 – part 2 of 4)   BGM  for intro to Block 6 Music: Ranquest (episode 30)   Spoken Introduction - 01:51:10   26) Boomer Kuwanger – Mega Man X – SNES – Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takehara, and Toshihiko Horiyama  - 01:58:54 27) Challenge – Chu Chu Rocket – Dreamcast – Tomoya Ohtani - 02:01:14 28) Coldman (Rockman and Fortissimo) (VGM Karaoke - originally "Coldman" from Mega Man and Bass (GBA) - original c: Toshihiko Horiyama, Naoshi Mizuta and/or Akari Kaida, Karaoke written and performed by Pieness 64 - 02:04:08 29) Brinstar - N/A (Metroid) - N/A - c: Hirokazu (Hip) Tanaka a: Luminist - 02:06:15 30) Sodden Hollow – Binding of Isaac: Rebirth – Multi – Matthias Bossi and/or Jon Evans - 02:07:59   Block 7 – Episodes 31-35 (2018 – part 3 of 4)   BGM for intro to Block 7 Music: Shinobi – theme 3 (episode 33)   Spoken Introduction - 02:11:57   31) Jungle Base – Streets of Rage 2 – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima - 02:25:50 32) Meteor – StarFox – SNES – Hajime Hirasawa - 02:29:24 33) Slammin' Sea – Bomberman '94 – PC Engine – Jun Chikuma - 02:32:25 34) Under the Feet – Super C – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka and/or Muoaki Furukawa a: Hidenori Maezawa - 02:35:29 35) Lagoon - Fury of the Furries - PC (OPL2) - Frederic Motte - 02:36:39   Block 8 – Episodes 36-40 (2018 – part 4 of 4)   BGM for intro to Block 8 Music: BGM 12  - Cross Wiber (Episode 38)   Spoken Introduction - 02:39:36   36) New Donk City – Super Mario Odyssey  - SWITCH! - Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii and/or Koji Kondo - 02:49:05 37)  The Torture Chamber – Super Castlevania IV – SNES – Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - 02:52:03 38) Chapter 5 - Cross Wiber - PC Engine - Hiroto Saito - 02:56:05 39) Planet 3 – Cyber Knight – PC Engine – Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, Junko Yokiyama - 02:57:11 40) Seven O'Clock – Crackin' DJ Pt. 2 – Arcade – c: Hiroshi Kawaguchi a: Mitsuhru Fukuyama - 02:58:17   Block 9 – Episodes 41-46 (2019 – part 1 of 2)   BGM for intro to Block 9 Music: What Can You Do (Episode 44)   Spoken Introduction - 03:00:25   41) Process Control – GT Sport – PS4 – Yasuhisa Inoue - 03:19:33 42) My Dear D – Shinobi 3 – Genesis – Masayuki Nagao, Hirofumi Murasaki, and Morihiko Akiyama - 03:23:05 43) Subtune 1 – Flash Gordon – C64 – Rob Hubbard - 03:24:57 44) The Blazing Sands – Final Fantasy X – PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu, Junya Nakano, and/or Nobuo Uematsu - 03:31:17 46) Trance Parlient in Blue – Night Striker – Sega CD – c: Masahiko Takaki a: Shuichiro Nakazawa - 03:34:16   Block 10 – Episodes 47a-49 (2019 – part 2 of 2)   BGM for intro to Block 10 Music: Gulliver Boy (episode 47b)   Spoken Introduction - 03:37:35   47a) Stage 1-3 – Ai Chou Aniki – PC Engine – Iwasaki Taku - 03:57:14 47b) Outside Ref, the Pyramid of Ice – Dungeon Explorer 2 – TurbografxCD – Masaaki Inoue and/or Akihiro Honma - 04:00:50 47c) Tengai Makyou 3 – Reminiscence: Daimonkyou - Kohei Tanaka and/or Keita Hoshi - 04:02:55 48) I Came, I Saw, N/A (Battle of the Bits) - N/A (SNES) - Kung Fu Firby - 04:05:43 49) Your Sunset - Tekken Tag Tournament - multi - Taku Inoue - 04:11:12   Show Outro Music: ESPIRIT.wav -  ESPRIT 空想 (episode 44) - 04:16:01   Bonus: Key - by Chris Chandler - 04:48:12   Total Episode Runtime: 04:52:57   The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" channel 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   Our YouTube Channel can be found here:   https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio   Our episodes (and occasionally, other content) can be found on our blog here:   nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com.   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.   Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.   Thanks for listening! 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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-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 the listeners, as well as tracks I can pick for myself (part 2)).   Each micro-music-block will be five tracks long, and each will represent the episode which it comes from. Rather than the usual NNR practice of focusing on the music block creating a logical, pleasing "flow", the Golden Episode (both parts one and two) will focus  instead on playing the tracks in episode order. So they won't flow nearly as well (unless by happy accident). But they will run in the order in which they appeared in the history of the show. Differing priorities this time. A typical NNR episode is all about a "journey through sound", and of course, this episode is that as well to some extent, but the real priority here is not about being a "journey through sound", but instead, is about being a "journey through time".   Here are the tracklists for the micro-music blocks for part 1, the "popular picks" installment:   Show Intro Music: Rapmaster Rocket Racket (episode 40) - 00:00:00   Block 1 – Episodes 1-5 (2017 – part 1)   BGM for intro to Block 1 Music: Super Mario World Theme (Episode 1)   Spoken Introduction - 00:07:29   01) Title – Double Dragon – NES – Kazunaka Yamane - 00:20:57 02) Stage 4 – Shinobi – Arcade – Yasuhiro Kawakami - 00:22:36 03) Bloodpool – Actraiser – SNES – Yuzo Koshiro - 00:24:12 04) Castle of Devils (Stage 4) – Magician Lord – Neo Geo MVS/AES - Hiroyuki Shimizu, Yuka Watanabe and/or Hideki Yamamoto - 00:25:33 05) Zanzibar Breeze – Metal Gear 2 – MSX (SCC) - The Konami Kukeiha Club - 00:27:20   Block 2 – Episodes 6-10 (2017 – part 2)   BGM for intro to Block 2 Music: The Pancake Department (ep 8)   Spoken Introduction - 00:30:10   06) Shop - N/A (System Music) - Wii – Kazumi Totaka - 00:39:10 07) Title Theme – Sword of Vermilion – Genesis – Hiroshi Kawaguchi - 00:41:05 08) Double Jump Moon Casino (feat Jredd) - N/A (Battle of the Bits) - N/A (on Genesis hardware) - DYA - 00:41:54 09) Imperial Death March – Empire Strikes Back – NES – c: John Williams a: Paul Webb - 00:44:21 10) Forest Funk – Super Meat Boy – Multi – Danny Baronowsky - 00:44:56   Block 3 – Episodes 11-15 (2017 – part 3)   BGM for intro to Block 3 Music: Sega CD Model 1 BIOS (ep 15)   Spoken Introduction - 00:47:41   11) Opening 1 – Hisou Kihei X-Serd – PC Engine – Masaya Sound Team - 00:59:46 12) The Neverglades – Bubble and Squeak – Genesis – Matt Furniss - 01:01:32 13) Naruto (Light Armor) - Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto - 01:04:48 14) Bad Dudes (Stage 2 cover – feat Rudy Escobar) - N/A (Neon Dreams album) - N/A - DYA - 01:06:33 15) Swing Time – Spider-Man vs The Kingpin – Sega CD – Mr. Big - 01:08:34   Block 4 – Episodes 16-20 (2017 – part 4)   BGM for intro to Block 4 Music: OneUps Mario Kart Title (episode 19)   Spoken Introduction - 01:12:33   16) Title Theme – ARMS – SWITCH – Atsuko Asahi - 01:17:10 17) Opening Theme – Bram Stoker's Dracula – Genesis – Matt Furniss -  01:19:58 18) Game Theme 1 – Spider-Man vs the Sinister Six – NES – David Whittaker - 01:21:56 19) Aquatic Ambience - N/A (Vol. 1) - N/A - c: David Wise a: The OneUps - 01:25:19 20) Anything but Tangerines – Earthworm Jim 2 – SNES – Tommy Tallarico - 01:29:34   Block 5 – Episodes 21-26a (2018 – part 1)   BGM for intro to Block 5 Music: Did you See the Ocean? (episode 21)   Spoken Introduction - 01:33:35   21) Meridian Dance – Secret of Mana – SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - 01:45:28 22) Titan's Realm – DOOM (2016) - Multi – Mick Gordon - 01:47:37 23) Van Air – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - 01:56:04 24) Alone in Love – Jewelmaster – Genesis – Motoaki Takenouchi - 02:01:08 26a) Fly Me to the Moon - N/A - N/A - c: Frank Sinatra a: Stuffy DJ - 02:03:18   Block 6 – Episodes 26-30 (2018 – part 2)   BGM for intro to Block 6 Music: Sigma Stage 1 (episode 26)   Spoken Introduction - 02:05:45   26) Title – Mega Man X – SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takehara, and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - 02:15:04 27) Mystic Cave Zone (2 player) - Sonic 2 – Genesis – Masato Nakamura - 02:15:28 28) Stage 1 - N/A (Golden Axe) - N/A - c: You Takada a: David KBD - 02:17:17 29) Ending - N/A (Metroid) - N/A - c: Hirokazu (Hip) Tanaka - 02:20:10 30) Daisuke – Hotline Miami – Multi – El Huervo (aka Shelby Cinca) - 02:22:23   Block 7 – Episodes 31-35 (2018 – part 3)   BGM for intro to Block 7 Music: stage 1 super c (episode 34)   Spoken Introduction - 02:24:46   31) S.O.R. Super Mix (Stage Vers) - Streets of Rage 2 – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima - 02:30:18 32) Main Theme – RC Pro-AM – NES – David Wise - 02:35:49 33) Title Theme – Street Fighter II – SNES – Yoko Shimomura - 02:36:22 34) Jungle – Contra – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka a: Hidenori Maezawa and/or Kiyohiro Sada - 02:36:50 35) At Doom's Gate – DOOM – PC (Midi) - Bobby Prince - 02:38:35   Block 8 – Episodes 36-40 (2018 – part 4)   BGM for intro to Block 8 Music: stage 1 astyanax (episode 38)   Spoken Introduction - 02:41:47   36) BFG Division - DOOM (2016) - Multi - Mick Gordon - 02:54:15 37) Bloody Tears (Stage A) - Super Castlevania IV – SNES – Masanori Idachi and/or Taro Kudo - 03:03:04 38) Vortex – Vortex - SNES –  Justin Sharvona - 03:04:57 39) Title – Cyber Knight – SFC – Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai and/or Junko Yokoyama - 03:08:37 40) Lifelight (English Vocals) - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – SWITCH! - Hideki Sakamoto - 03:09:53   Block 9 – Episodes 41-46 (2019 – part 1)   BGM for intro to Block 9 Music: solitary (episode 42)   Spoken Introduction - 03:13:34   41) Studiopolis Zone – Sonic Mania – Multi – Tee Lopes - 03:28:13 42) Whirlwind – Shinobi 3 – Genesis – Masayuki Nagao, Hirofumi Murasaki, and Morihiko Akiyama - 03:30:41 43) Subtune 1 – International Karate – C64 – Rob Hubbard - 03:32:39 44) King of Speed – Daytona USA – Saturn – Takenobu Mitsuyoshi and/or David Leytze -  03:43:16 46) Area 1 – Blaster Master – NES – Naoki Kodaka - 03:48:00   Block 10 – Episodes 47a-49 (2019 – part 2)   BGM for intro to Block 10 Music: guile sf2 arcade (episode 49)   Spoken Introduction - 03:50:10   47a) Bloodlines – Castlevania: Rondo of Blood – PC Engine – ikio Saitou, Akiropito, Kinuyo Yamashita, and/or Satoe   - 03:58:54 47b) Max Power – After Burner II – PC Engine – Hiroshi Kawaguchi and/or Shigeharu Isoda - 04:02:06 47c) Stage 1 – Dragon Spirit – Turbografx16 – Shinji Hosoe - 04:02:55 48) Another Adventure -- Part 1 - N/A (Battle of the Bits) - N/A (SNES) - Mega9man -  04:08:03 49) Stickerbush Symphony – DKC 2: Diddy Kong's Quest – SNES – David Wise - 04:12:33   Show Outro Music: Shower Fresh (episode 48) - 04:14:49   Total Episode Runtime: 04:21:49   The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" channel 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   Our YouTube Channel can be found here:   https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio   Our episodes (and occasionally, other content) can be found on our blog here:   nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com.   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.   Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.   Thanks for listening! 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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 02) A Strange New World – Papa y Yo – multi – Brian D'Oliveira - C1E30 - 00:00:59 03) Mirage – Gran Turismo 5 – PS3 – Kimmei - C1E27 - 00:03:18 04) Track 2 - Operation Wolf – FM Towns (CD) - Unknown - C1E35 - 00:07:25 05) Reckless Running - Sega Rally Championship – Saturn – Naofumi Hataya - C1E24 - 00:11:26 06) Japanese Four Star - Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - C1E23 - 00:15:30 07) Colour - N/A ("OM Lounge 6") - N/A (Music CD c 2004) - c: Soulstice a: Atjazz- C1E28 - 00:20:09 08) Main Menu – Sonic Mania – multi – Tee Lopes - C1E36 - 00:26:23 09) Beach – Plok – SNES – Tim and/or Geoff Follin - C1E27 - 00:27:54 10) Beach - N/A - Genesis – c: Tim and/or Geoff Follin a: Savaged Regime - C1E28 - 00:32:50 11) Milky Lake – Wave Race 64 – N64 – Kazumi Totaka - C1E24 - 00:37:54 12) Smog City Sewers - Spark the Electric Jester – PC – Michael Staple – C1E40 (originally contributed to C1E40 by The Diad) - 00:40:04 13) Jazz 3 – Sim Copter – PC (CD) - Jerry Martin - C1E35 - 00:44:09 14) Adult Talk – Lucid 9 - PC/Mac/Linux - Ultra Kitsune - C1E30 - 00:49:11 15) Bulberry Hill – Zool 2 – Amiga – Neil Biggin - C1E24 - 00:51:02 16) Too Deep - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - 00:53:58 17) Level 1-2 – Turrican 3 – C64 – Soren Lund - C1E35 - 00:57:28 18) Terminal Technicality – Ultrartron – multi – Allicorn - C1E30 - 01:01:00 19) Spin on the Bridge – Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - 01:05:35 20) Dialed-In – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - C1E23 - 01:09:55 21) Dual Moon – Metal Black – Arcade – Yasuhisa Watanabe – C1E40 (originally contributed to C1E40 by Electric Boogaloo) - 01:15:30 22) Prophet Fire – Salamander – MSX (SCC) - Konami Kukeiha Club - C1E35 - 01:18:09 23) The Rotating Dungeon (4-2) - Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - 01:19:31 24) Unit - N/A ("Logic") - N/A (Music CD c 1981) - Logic System - C1E28 - 01:20:53 25) Level 4 – Wolfchild – Amiga – Martin Iveson - C1E35 - 01:25:38 26) Visual Installation – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - C1E23 - 01:28:38 27) Process of Elimination – Lucid 9 - PC/Mac/Linux - Blue Wolfie - C1E27 - 01:34:11 28) Arkham Asylum – Batman Forever – Genesis – c: Tim and/or Geoff Follin a: Unknown - C1E33 - 01:38:08 29) The Room of Close Associates – Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - 01:42:21 30) Mystic Invasion - Secret of Mana - SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - 01:44:56 31) Bases 1 & 2 – Contra – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka a: Hidenori Maezawa and/or Kiyohiro Sada - C1E34 - 01:46:06 32) Aisuru Hito Yo - N/A ("Ai Ga Nakucha Ne") - N/A  (Music CD c 1982) - Akiko Yano - C1E28 - 01:47:40 33) City of Flickering Destruction – Legend of Mana – PS1 – Yoko Shimomura – C1E40 (originally contributed to C1E40 by Amber Peary) - 01:52:05 34) Razor Girl – Downwell – multi – Eirik Suhrke - C1E30 - 01:55:21 35) A Wish - Secret of Mana - SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - 02:00:47 36) Level 0 – Tetris – CD-I – Jim Andron - C1E32 - 02:01:43 37) Dark Forest 1 – So Many Me – multi – Christopher Gechan and/or Daniel Byrne-McCullough - C1E24 - 02:03:59 38) Norfair – N/A - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29 - 02:08:37 39) The Tundra Beast – Chakan – Genesis - Mark Steven Miller and/or Jason Scher - C1E38  - 02:09:59 40) Final Mission – Cyber Knight – PC Engine – Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, and/or Junko Yokoyama – C1E39 - 02:11:32 41) Kraid's Lair - N/A - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29 - 02:12:27 42) Rikuo – Night Warriors: Darkstalker's Revenge – multi – Takayuki Iwai, Akari Kaida, and/or Hideki Okugawa - C1E27 - 02:14:18 43) Stage 2 – Double Dragon 2 – Mega Drive – Kazunaka Yamane - C1E33 - 02:16:08 44) The Mall - Skate or Die 2 – NES – Rob Hubbard - C1E22 - 02:18:36 45) BGM# 20 – Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Yuna FX: Kanashimi no Siren – PCFX – Takanori Arisawa and/or Aya Tanaka – C1E40 (originally contributed to C1E40 by KeyGlyph) - 02:21:41 46) Copacabana '93 – N/A - SNES – c: Barry Manilow a: Machine Gaming - C1E26a - 02:23:08 47) Pleadians – N/A - Amiga – Beek - C1E28 - 02:27:09 48) Believe in Motivation – Advanced Power Dolls 2 – PC98 (OPN) - Hiroto Saitoh - C1E35 - 02:29:14 49) Little Money Ave – Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - 02:31:39 50) Bearhattan Transfur – Fist of Awesome – multi – Brendan Ratliff - C1E30 - 02:34:35 51) Segadore Genesid 64 - N/A - Genesis – Mr Sonic699 - C1E28 - 02:38:00 52) Squash - N/A - Famicom (w/ VRC7 + N163) - TQ_Jam - C1E28 - 02:40:03 53) Dreamer - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - 02:43:05 54) Chill Penguin – Mega Man X – SNES – Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 - 02:45:09 55) Elapsed Time – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - C1E23 - 02:46:36 56) Uranus – Spindizzy II – X68000 – Toshiya Yamanaka - C1E35 - 02:51:53 57) I Cannot Trust Any of Them – Star Cruiser II – PC98 (OPN) - Kenichi Yaguhi - C1E35 - 02:53:48 58) Federal Patrol Office – Star Cruiser – Mega Drive – Toshiya Yamanaka - C1E24 - 02:55:53 59) Level 3 – Tetris – CD-I – Jim Andron - C1E36 - 02:57:06 60) Old Man's Prayer – Ogre Battle – SNES – Masahru Iwata, Hiroshi Sakimoto, Hayato Matsuo - C1E22 - 02:59:33 61) Phantom and a Rose – Secret of Mana - SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - 03:00:48 62) Chrono Castle - So Many Me – multi – Christopher Gechan and/or Daniel Byrne-McCullough - C1E24 - 03:02:11 63) Main Theme – Microsoft Interactive Sampler 1996 – Windows 95 - Unknown - C1E28 - 03:06:18 64) That Bit of Hope – Prune – iOS/Android/Windows - Kyle Preston - C1E30 - 03:07:19 65) Macalania Woods – Final Fantasy  X – PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu - C1E36 - 03:10:06 66) Northwall - N/A ("Symphonic Actraiser") - N/A (Music CD c 1991) - c: Yuzo Koshiro a: Tokyo Symphony Orchestra - C1E28 - 03:12:40 67) The Descent – Monument Valley - iOS/Android - Stafford Bawler - C1E30 - 03:15:43 68) Ceremony – Secret of Mana - SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - 03:18:34 69) Different World 1 – Yu-No – PC98 (OPNA) - Ryu Umemoto - C1E35 - 03:19:54 70) Unknown City – Doxa (Unreleased) - PS4 – Daniel Capo – C1E22 - 03:25:07 71) Hanging Waters – Ecco: Defender of the Future – Dreamcast – Tim Follin – C1E40 (originally contributed to C1E40 by Electric Boogaloo) - 03:26:15 72) Outskirts – So Many Me – multi – Christopher Gechan and/or Daniel Byrne McCullough - C1E30 - 03:28:41 73) Lullaby - N/A - Genesis – Freezedream - C1E28 - 03:34:29 74) Menu 2 – Shenmue – Dreamcast – Ryuiji Iuchi, Yuzo Koshiro, Takenobu Mitsutoshi, Osamu Murata, and/or Takeshi Yanagawa - C1E38 - 03:36:39 75) Ending – Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - 03:38:03 76) One More Dash – One More Dash - iOS/Android/Windows -  Batterie - C1E30 - 03:42:15 77) Outro - 03:45:46   Music Block Runtime: 03:45:00, Total Episode Runtime: 03:46:28   SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT THIS "THE BEST OF 2018" PROJECT (this is a near exact repeat of the notes from part 1 if you read those): This is a once-a-year project that appears in two parts: a listener-picked part 1, which is more or less a standard episode, other than that the tracks are all pulled from episodes we released in the previous calendar year, and that those tracks were selected by the listeners, rather than myself. You heard that episode last week. This one, part 2, is all my picks, and is a MONSTER! 75 tracks, 3hr 45min! There are several reasons that we only resort to that kind of length just once a year. In part, to make it special and an event when it does happen, in part to not overwhelm the listeners and chase them off with it, and lastly…because it's a TON of work! :-D   One thing I like about the format of this once-a-year project is that it favors both the listeners and your host in differing ways. The listeners get the first word, with their episode releasing first. The listeners also get first dibs on any tracks, so if we both want the same track(s), they get them, and I don't. In this case, that happened with 16 tracks. In all those ways, this project favors the listeners. But then, where I come out on top is that I get the last word. Whereas the listeners only get 30-50 tracks to split amongst however many contributors we have (in this case, five), I come along afterwards, with an unreasonably gigantic allowance of 75 tracks….that I get all to myself.   Also, while the regular episodes are me trying to balance tracks I love with tracks that I think the listeners will like (which admittedly has something of a me-centric slant already), this 75 track outing is my one and only time a year where I don't have to worry about that balance at all, but is my lone shot of the year for complete, wanton, reckless hedonism. This one is all about me, baby! It's Papa's birthday! :-D But, if you ever wanted to get the clearest possible glance at where your intrepid host's own personal musical heartbeat lies…the 7X track John's Picks Best of 20XX episodes will be the best place to look, as all the filters are off…   ...well, save one: I make it a personal rule to include at least one track from every episode in my collection, even if that episode didn't have anything that would've otherwise made the list. Taris Apartments from C1E9 likely wouldn't have made my Best of 2017 outing last year, and neither Copacabana '93 from the April Fool's Episode (C1E26a), or maybe even Chill Penguin from C1E26, or Base 1 & 2 from C1E34 would've been likely to make my list this year either had it not been for my hard and fast rule to include at least one track from every episode. On the other hand, Taris Apartments, Copacabana '93, Chill Penguin, and Base 1 & 2 are all at least my actual favorite tracks from their given episodes.   Before I ever even approach any of the listeners for tracks, I already have a list of my own made up with a shorter auxiliary list of backups, and even a third list of backups to the backups, so that even if every single track the listeners pick is on my list, I still have enough in reserve to make my full 75. I get my 75 no matter what, but I can also stay completely out of the listener's way in picking tracks, and let them have everything they want. A win win for the both of us!   One last note about the Best of 20XX series (and this is true of both installments):   While it’s totally a labor of love, not only for myself, but also for the contributing listeners, it is also quite an undertaking for me - and in ways deeper than simply putting 105-125 tracks together! What it amounts to, metaphorically speaking, is my lining up all the statues I’ve sculpted over the previous year, and slicing little chunks out of them to use as building blocks to create an all new statue with the goal of making the new statues resemble the previous statues as little as possible.   A good song flow is more important than any of the following rules (and so any of the following are breakable – and were all broken at points – to make the flow work), but what else is going on besides simple song flow management is that I’m also trying to avoid placing tracks from the same episode too close together, or placing too many of the tracks in the same relative vicinity within the new music block as they were in their old music blocks, and even things like trying (in part 1) to limit the number of times where I feature tracks from the same listener back to back (though this rule was my lowest priority, and was the first to go out the window when there was a conflict).   I’m trying to use pieces of music that already have relational connotations in my mind to other pieces of music by way of the earlier episodes to create all new connotations with them. I will tell you that that’s much harder than it sounds. It adds a lot of cognitive "weight" to the processing load, because it creates reflexes with each piece that you now have to work against, more or less. In fact, each of our music blocks saw one or two scrapped iterations before I finally arrived at a track order that worked. And as is the case with part 2, when you’re staring at a list of 75 tracks, and asking yourself “what the hell am I supposed to do with these?”, it really makes you want to just curl into the fetal position on the floor!   But it’s also a lot of fun, and most of all, it gives me a chance to create all new art from existing art, and all new journeys and experiences from existing journeys and experiences. And so, at the end of the day, it’s all joy for me. I hope it will be for you as well, as the listener, and most of all, I hope that the contributing listeners will feel like I did their picks justice. Each of their contributions, from Jeshua’s three tracks all the way to Purnell’s twenty all mean the world to me. These episodes – both theirs and mine, are my love letter back.   As a bonus, for the curious, here is the list of backup tracks from my list that were not picked, and appear in neither episode (some of them I REALLY wanted, though):   Track, Game, System, Composer, Episode (spaces placed between episodes to better highlight)   1) Whisper and Mantra – Secret of Mana – SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 2) Take Back – Fighting Run – PCE – Unknown -  C1E22 3) Aqua and Trees – Tobal No. 1 – PS1 - Yoko Shimomura - C1E22 4) Vs Mode – Fantavision (US) - PS2 – Ashif Hakik - C1E22 5) Superleggera – Forza 3 - XB360 - Lance Hayes - C1E23 6) Van Air – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - C1E23 7) Inside Vah Naboris – LoZ: BotW - WiiU/SWITCH - Manaka Kataoka and/or Yasuaki Iwata C1E24 8) Copacabana - N/A - NES – c: Frank Sinatra a: NES Music - C1E26a 9) Music to Watch Girls By - N/A - NES – c: Andy Williams a: RushJet1 - C1E26a 10) It's Not Unusual - N/A - N/A - c: Tom Jones a: Lullabyte - C1E26a 11) My Way - N/A - N/A - Frank Sinatra a: JackyBoy - C1E26a 12) Sigma Stage 4 – Mega Man X – SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 13) Password - Mega Man X – SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 14) Vile - Mega Man X – SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 15) Challenge – Chu Chu Rocket - Dreamcast – Tomoya Ohtani - C1E27 16) Ice Pyramid – Final Fantasy Mystic Quest – SNES – Ryuji Sasai and/or Yasuhiro Kawakami - C1E27 17) Brinstar -  N/A (Metroid Album) - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29 18) Ridley's Lair - N/A (Metroid Album) - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29 19) Ending - N/A (Metroid Album) - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29 20) Sodden Hollow – Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - Multi  Matthias Bossi and/or Jon Evans - C1E30 21) Hypertension – Super Meat Boy - PS4/Vita (these versions specifically) - Scattle - C1E30 22) Meteor – StarFox - SNES – Hajime Hirasawa - C1E32 23) Load BGM - Wolfchild – Sega CD - Martin Iveson - C1E33 24) Slammin' Sea – Bomberman '94 – PC Engine – Jun Chikuma - C1E33 25) Seaside Front – Aero Blaster – PC Engine – Kunio Komatsu and/or Tsutomu Okuma – C1E33 26) Game Over – Juouuki – PC Engine – Tohru Nakabayashi 27) Under the Feet – Super C – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka and/or Motoaki Furukawa a: Hidenori Maezawa - C1E34 28) Steel Spider - Super C – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka and/or Motoaki Furukawa a: Hidenori Maezawa - C1E34 29) Mechanic Factory - Super C – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka and/or Motoaki Furukawa a: Hidenori Maezawa - C1E34 30) Military Fortress - Super C – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka and/or Motoaki Furukawa a: Hidenori Maezawa - C1E34 31) Jungle – Contra – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka a: Hidenori Maezawa and/or Kiyohiro Sada 32) Surface of SR388 – Metroid: Samus Returns – 3DS – c: Ryoji Yoshitomi a: Daisuke Matsuoka - C1E36 33) Faron Woods – Loz: TP - GameCube/Wii - Toru Minegishi and/or Asuka Ohta - C1E36 34) New Donk City – Super Mario Odyssey – SWITCH – Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii, and/or Koji Kondo - C1E36 35) The Cave - Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 36) The Library - Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 37) Prologue - Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 38) Menu - Vortex – SNES – Justin Sharvona - C1E38 39) Chapter 5 – Cross Wiber – PC Engine – Hiroto Saitou 40) Chapter 12 – Cross Wiber – PC Engine – Hiroto Saitou 41) Vortex – Vortex – SNES – Justin Sharvona - C1E38 42) Red Road – Astyanax – NES – Kiyoshi Yokoyama - C1E38 43) Space Battle - Cyber Knight – PC Engine – Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, and.or Junko Yokoyama - C1E39 44) Planet 3 – Cyber Knight – PC Engine - Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, and.or Junko Yokoyama - C1E39 45) Mentana – Cyber Knight – Super Famicom -Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, and.or Junko Yokoyama - C1E39 46) Ending 2 – Cyber Knight - PC Engine - Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, and.or Junko Yokoyama - C1E39 47) Berserker's Base – Cyber Knight – Super Famicom - Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, and.or Junko Yokoyama - C1E39 48) Dead Sea/Ruined Tower – Chrono Cross - PS1 - Yasunori Mitsuda – C1E40 (originally contributed to C1E40 by Amber Peary)   …..alright, and now, for all the regular "housekeeping" stuff. :-)   The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" channel 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   Our YouTube Channel can be found here:   https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio   Our episodes (and occasionally, other content) can be found on our blog here:   nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com.   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.   Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.   Thanks for listening! Join us again in July for a VERY SPECIAL Nerd Noise Radio Rerun. And then join us again in August for C1E46 (Channel 1, Episode 46): Face Off Friday - vol. 3 (featuring a very special guest host / curator / vetter) - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!   Cheers!

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) Intro - 00:00:00 02) Go Straight - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - Rebecca - 00:02:26 03) Central Park - Last Ninja 2 - C64 - Matt Gray - C1E35 - Rebecca - 00:05:28 04) Prairie - Devilish - Genesis - Hitoshi Sakimoto - C1E36 - Phillip & Purnell - 00:10:58 05) Sting Chameleon - Mega Man X - SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 - Purnell - 00:13:44 06) Metal Crusher - Undertale - Multi - Toby Fox - C1E40 - Jeshua & Rebecca (originally contributed to C1E40 by Jeshua Lack) - 00:14:56 07) Simon's Theme - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Idachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - Hugues - 00:17:00 08) Strike the Earth - Shovel Knight - Multi - Jake Kaufmann - C1E30 - Phillip & Purnell - 00:20:02 09) Flame Mammoth - Mega Man X – SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 - Purnell - 00:23:40 10) Wily's Castle 1 - Mega Man 2 - Takashi Tateishi - NES - C1E32 - Jeshua & Phillip - 00:25:37 11) Energy Zone - Contra - NES - c: Kazuki Muaoka a: Hidenori Maezawa and/or Kiyohiro Sada - C1E34 - Purnell - 00:28:14 12) Do or Die - Retro City Rampage - Multi - Norrin Radd - C1E30 - Hugues - 00:29:22 13) Stage Select (Mavericks) - Mega Man X - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 - Phillip - 00:30:08 14) The Tunnel - Metroid Metal - N/A - c: Ryoji Yoshitomi a: Stemage - C1E28 - Phillip - 00:31:07 15) Surface of SR388 - Metroid 2 - GameBoy - Ryoji Yoshitomi - C1E32 - Purnell - 00:35:13 16) Wicked Child - Castlevania - NES - Kinuyo Yamashita, and/or Satoe Terashima - C1E33 - Purnell- 00:37:23 17) Into the Thick of It - Secret of Mana - SNES - Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - Hugues - 00:40:13 18) Map Screen - Wolfchild - SNES - Martin Iveson - C1E27/C1E33 - Rebecca - 00:42:02 19) People of the Far North - Final Fantasy X - PS2 - Masashi Hamauzu, Junya Nakano, and/or Nobuo Uematsu - C1E32 - Hugues - 00:43:44 20) Title Theme - N/A (Metroid Album) - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29 - Phillip - 00:45:56 21) Action Screen - Spellcaster - Mastersystem - Sachio Ogawa - C1E27 - Hugues - 00:48:19 22) Shadow Man - Mega Man 3 - NES - Yasuaki Fujita - C1E22 - Phillip- 00:51:11 23) Woods Test - Whomp 'Em - NES - Tsukasa Tawada - C1E24 - Purnell - 00:53:16 24) Castle Lololo - Kirby's Dreamland - GameBoy - Jun Ishikawa - C1E40 - Purnell (originally contributed to C1E40 by Brian Peterson) - 00:55:20 25) Black Mage Village - Final Fantasy IX - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu - C1E32 - Hugues - 00:57:17 26) Onett - Earthbound - SNES - Keiichi Suzuki and/or Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka - C1E40 - Purnell & Hugues (originally contributed to C1E40 by Phillip Vaughn)- 01:00:31 27) A Curious Tale - Secret of Mana - SNES - Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - Purnell - 01:02:52 28) Elm Street - Nightmare on Elm Street - NES - David Wise - C1E27 - Purnell - 01:04:16 29) Underhalls - DOOM II - PC (Midi) - Bobby Prince - C1E27 - Hugues - 01:07:09 30) Resurrections - Celeste - multi - Lena Raine - C1E40 - Rebecca (originally contributed to C1E40 by Chris Murray) - 01:11:55 31) Stage 4-3 - Bram Stoker's Dracula - Genesis - Matt Furniss - C1E32 - Rebecca - 01:21:28 32) Dance of the Pales - Castlevania: SOTN - PS1 - Michiru Yamane - C1E36 - Phillip - 01:24:19 33) The Chandeliers - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Idachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - Phillip - 01:26:52 34) Riddle - Castlevania III - NES - Konami Kukeiha Club - C1E40 - Purnell (originally contributed to C1E40 by Valerie Wedgeworth) - 01:29:27 35) Boss 1 - So Many Me - multi - Christopher Gechan and/or Daniel Byrne McCullough - C1E38 - Phillip - 01:30:30 36) Back to the Industry - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima -C1E31 - Purnell - 01:32:53 37) Spirit of Night - Secret of Mana - SNES - Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - Phillip - 01:36:29 38) Race Results (Track 4) - Jaguar XJ220 - Sega CD - Martin Iveson - C1E24 - Hugues - 01:38:07 39) Current of the Times - Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - Yudai Satoh - C1E22 - Rebecca - 01:40:53 40) In the Bar - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - Purnell & Hugues - 01:46:00 41) Submerged City - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - Purnell - 01:47:50 42) Dire Dire Docks - Super Mario 64 - N64 - Koji Kondo - C1E32 - Purnell - 01:52:15 43) End Credits - Resident Evil - PS1 - Makoto Tomozawa, Akira Kaida, and/or Masami Ueda - C1E40 - Jeshua (originally contributed to C1E40 by John Jekel) - 01:55:16 44) Outro - 01:58:16   Music Block Runtime: 01:55:52, Total Episode Runtime: 02:15:10   Meet the contributors and support their projects:   Contributing Listeners (listed in order of first to last to submit tracks):   Rebecca Gruber (aka Zinn) - Jinxed Thoughts (blog) – Sweden Phillip Vaughn - Phoxmonkey ("Let's Play" and Artwork livestream on Mixer) - USA (Sylva, NC) Jeshua Lack - USA (Des Moines, IA) Pernell [Thrillho] Vaughn - Rhythm and Pixels (VGM podcast) - USA (Willmington, DE) Hugues Johnson - Retro Game Club  (VG podcast) [and former co-host of The Retro League (VG podcast)] - USA (Chicago, IL)   Jinxed Thoughts: http://jinxedthought.blogspot.com/ and on Twitter @JinxedThoughts   Phoxmonkey: https://mixer.com/Phoxmonkey Also, a HUGE special thanks to Phil for having now appeared in EVERY SINGLE listener-based NNR outing to date! He's the only one to have that distinction!   Rhythm and Pixels: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rhythm-and-pixels-video-game-music-podcast/id1061486328, on Twitter @Rhythm_n_Pixels and on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/rhythmandpixels/   Retro Game Club: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680   Also, should you ever find yourself in Des Moines on the last Wednesday of the month, join Jeshua and I for board game night at the Des Moines Social Club (Adam Huisman from C1E40 can be found there as well)!   https://www.facebook.com/desmoinessocialclub/   https://www.facebook.com/events/216681785791722/     SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT THIS "THE BEST OF 2018" PROJECT (these will also be repeated near-verbatim in the show notes for part 2): This is a once-a-year project that appears in two parts: today's installment, a listener-picked part 1, is more or less a standard episode, other than that the tracks are all pulled from episodes we released in the previous calendar year, and that those tracks were selected by the listeners, rather than myself. Next week, you will hear part 2, which is all my picks, and is a MONSTER! 75 tracks, 3hr 45min! There are several reasons that we only resort to that kind of length just once a year. In part, to make it special and an event when it does happen, in part to not overwhelm the listeners and chase them off with it, and lastly…because it's a TON of work! :-D   One thing I like about the format of this once-a-year project is that it favors both the listeners and your host in differing ways. The listeners get the first word, with their episode releasing first. The listeners also get first dibs on any tracks, so if we both want the same track(s), they get them, and I don't. In this case, that happened with 16 tracks. In all those ways, this project favors the listeners. But then, where I come out on top is that I get the last word. Whereas the listeners only get 30-50 tracks to split amongst however many contributors we have (in this case, five), I come along afterwards, with an unreasonably gigantic allowance of 75 tracks….that I get all to myself.   Also, while the regular episodes are me trying to balance tracks I love with tracks that I think the listeners will like (which admittedly has something of a me-centric slant already), this 75 track outing is my one and only time a year where I don't have to worry about that balance at all, but is my lone shot of the year for complete, wanton, reckless hedonism. This one is all about me, baby! It's Papa's birthday! :-D But, if you ever wanted to get the clearest possible glance at where your intrepid host's own personal musical heartbeat lies…the 7X track John's Picks Best of 20XX episodes will be the best place to look, as all the filters are off…   ...well, save one: I make it a personal rule to include at least one track from every episode in my collection, even if that episode didn't have anything that would've otherwise made the list. Taris Apartments from C1E9 likely wouldn't have made my Best of 2017 outing last year, and neither Copacabana '93 from the April Fool's Episode (C1E26a), or maybe even Chill Penguin from C1E26, or Base 1 & 2 from C1E34 would've been likely to make my list this year either had it not been for my hard and fast rule to include at least one track from every episode. On the other hand, Taris Apartments, Copacabana '93, Chill Penguin, and Base 1 & 2 are all at least my actual favorite tracks from their given episodes.   Before I ever even approach any of the listeners for tracks, I already have a list of my own made up with a shorter auxiliary list of backups, and even a third list of "backups to the backups", so that even if every single track the listeners pick is on my list, I still have enough in reserve to make my full 75. I get my 75 no matter what, but I can also stay completely out of the listener's way in picking tracks, and let them have everything they want. A win win for the both of us!   One last note about the Best of 20XX series (and this is true of both installments):   While it’s totally a labor of love, not only for myself, but also for the contributing listeners, it is also quite an undertaking for me - and in ways deeper than simply putting 105-125 tracks together! What it amounts to, metaphorically speaking, is my lining up all the statues I’ve sculpted over the previous year, and slicing little chunks out of them to use as building blocks to create an all new statue with the goal of making the new statues resemble the previous statues as little as possible.   A good song flow is more important than any of the following rules (and so any of the following are breakable – and were all broken at points – to make the flow work), but what else is going on besides simple song flow management is that I’m also trying to avoid placing tracks from the same episode too close together, or placing too many of the tracks in the same relative vicinity within the new music block as they were in their old music blocks, and even things like trying (in part 1) to limit the number of times where I feature tracks from the same listener back to back (though this rule was my lowest priority, and was the first to go out the window when there was a conflict).   I’m trying to use pieces of music that already have relational connotations in my mind to other pieces of music by way of the earlier episodes to create all new connotations with them. I will tell you that that’s much harder than it sounds. It adds a lot of cognitive "weight" to the processing load, because it creates reflexes with each piece that you now have to work against, more or less. In fact, each of our music blocks saw one or two scrapped iterations before I finally arrived at a track order that worked. And as is the case with part 2, when you’re staring at a list of 75 tracks, and asking yourself “what the hell am I supposed to do with these?”, it really makes you want to just curl into the fetal position on the floor!   But it’s also a lot of fun, and most of all, it gives me a chance to create all new art from existing art, and all new journeys and experiences from existing journeys and experiences. And so, at the end of the day, it’s all joy for me. I hope it will be for you as well, as the listener, and most of all, I hope that the contributing listeners will feel like I did their picks justice. Each of their contributions, from Jeshua’s three tracks all the way to Purnell’s twenty all mean the world to me. These episodes – both theirs and mine, are my love letter back.   …..alright, and now, for all the regular "housekeeping" stuff. :-)   The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" channel 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   Our YouTube Channel can be found here:   https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio   Our episodes (and occasionally, other content) can be found on our blog here:   nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com.   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.   Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.   Thanks for listening! Join us again this same bat time next week for C1E45 [PART 2] (Channel 1, Episode 45 [PART 2]): The Best of 2018 - pt 2: St. John's Picks (ULTRA MEGA KING KONG SIZED)” - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!   Cheers!

Topics Covered: 00:03:44 - Granblue Fantasy Versus Beta 00:26:11 - Paul's Train of Games 00:26:30 - Total War: Three Kingdoms 00:29:59 - The Way Remastered 00:35:02 - State of Mind 00:40:00 - Story Achievement Rant 00:45:38 - Pokemon Direct 00:58:04 - Yoshi's Crafted World 01:01:38 - God Eater 3 Email us at: email@saveourprogress.com Follow us on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/SaveOurProgress Or follow the hosts on twitter at: Craig - https://twitter.com/SearosCanoel Paul - https://twitter.com/pomorales Pete - https://twitter.com/EspadaPete Zac - https://twitter.com/AronZacField Produced by Zachary Field Podcast Artwork by Natalie Fang Dai Opening Theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJEPTk7FLmk Pamgaea by Kevin MacLeod [Check out more of Kevin MacLeod over at http://incompetech.com/] Ending Theme: Granblue Fantasy Versus "Lancelot's Theme" by Tsutomu Narita, Yasunori Nishiki, Hidenori Maezawa, Nao Tokisawa, & Azusa Chiba

We’re finally here at the end of the longest year in the history of long, bad years. We barely played any games this year, so pulling together our favorite songs was a mighty task, but we weren’t going to let you walk away empty-handed. Also, let’s be real, it’s way harder to find ten good games than games with good music. Good game music is easy. You here me, Capcom?? EASY! THERE’S NO EXCUSE FOR MEGA MAN TO SOUND LIKE THIS!*ahem*Please enjoy these hours of music and best of lists, and I hope everyone has a great end to the year from hell. May the hell be lessened and the games better in 2019. Thanks everyone, for everything.A few notes: you can find our episode for the music from games we played for the first six months of the year on Abnormal Mapping 79. Also, to enjoy this episode in higher quality than our hosting can support, please consider listening to it on YouTube if you're sensitive to that sort of thing!As always you can find Abnormal Mapping on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play!All of our shows, and this entire network, is Patreon supported! Please consider pledging to keep Abnormal Mapping going into 2019! Thank you so much!THE TRACKS IN THIS EPISODE, IN ORDER!Prelude by Hidenori Maezawa from Castlevania IIISoldiers of the Sea by Lucas Pope from Return of the Obra DinnLoose Cargo by Lucas Pope from Return of the Obra DinnThe Doom by Lucas Pope from Return of the Obra DinnThe Alexandrian Pleiad by Sarah Schachner from Assassin’s Creed: OriginsMysterious by Yugo Kanno from NiohGarbage Day by Daniel Koestner & Ben Esposito from Donut CountyMain Theme by Jason Graves from Murdered: Soul SuspectEvery Day is Night by Michael Kelly from VA-11 HALL-ADanganronpa V3 Opening by Masafumi Takada from Danganronpa V3God of War by Bear McCreary from God of WarI’m Yours Forever by Noboru Mutoh from Tetris EffectLook Up by Noboru Mutoh from Tetris EffectRed Flag by Dan Le Sac from Subsurface CircularChecking In by Lena Raine from CelesteHouse Building Theme by Woody Jackson from Red Dead Redemption 2Nuts and Bolts by Joakim Sandberg from IconoclastsNever Stop Sneakin by Hyperduck Soundworks from Never Stop SneakinMain Theme by Motoi Sakuraba from Mario Tennis AcesMemories of Mother by Bear Mccreary from God of WarMain Menu Theme by Joris de Man from Horizon Zero DawnSimple and Clean by Utada Hikaru from Kingdom HeartsHollow Bastion by Yoko Shimamura from Kingdom HeartsBeats in my Head by Hideki Okugawa from Street Fighter IIIJazzy NYC 99 by Hideki Okugawa from Street Fighter IIIKen’s Theme by various artists from Street Fighter VPale Court by Christopher Larkin from Hollow KnightThe Grimm Troupe by Christopher Larkin from Hollow KnightSealed Vessel by Christopher Larkin from Hollow KnightMinsky Dub by Dan Le Sac from Subsurface CircularWily Stage by Marika Suzuki from Mega Man 11Chapter 2 by Joel Corelitz from GorogoaClassic 1989 Theme by Noboru Mutoh from Tetris Effect City of Tears by Christopher Larkin from Hollow KnightMain Theme by Marika Suzuki from Mega Man 11Obelisk by Gavin Allen from The Mummy: DemasteredTitle Theme by Gavin Allen from The Mummy: DemasteredNate’s Theme 4.0 by Henry Jackman from Uncharted 4Overworld Theme by Mahito Yokota from Super Mario 3D LandCibele by Decky Coss from CibeleMain Theme by Koji Hayama from Ape Escape 2Find Me by Szjerdene from TacomaSnowdin Town by Toby Fox from UndertaleSpear of Justice by Toby Fox from UndertaleMetal Crusher by Toby Fox from UndertaleMegalovania by Toby Fox from UndertaleFloating Tower by Yoko Osaka from CrystalisMt Sabre by Yoko Osaka from CrystalisWorld of Sea by Unknown from AthenaReprise Medley by Gavin Allen from The Mummy: DemasteredTitle Theme by Toshiyuki Kishi, Hiromi Mizutan et al from DragonBall FighterZHangar Theme by Unknown from Gundam Breaker 3Main Theme by Koji Hayama from Ape Escape 2The Farthest by Kow Otani from Shadow of the ColossusPilots by Goldfrapp from Vampire: the Masquerade - BloodlinesHollywood by Rik Schaffer from Vampire: the Masquerade - BloodlinesTRAIN-TRAIN by The Blue Hearts from Taiko no TatsujinNext Chapter by Noboru Motoh from Tetris EffectMain Theme by Yugo Kanno from NiohYuna's Theme by Noriko Matsueda from Final Fantasy X-2The Opened Way by Kow Otani from Shadow of the ColossusBeginning by Yoshinori Sasaki, Jun Funahashi et al from Castlevania III: Dracula’s CurseLavender Town by Junichi Masuda from Pokemon RedLavender Town by Shota Kageyama from Pokemon Let’s Go!SS Anne by Shota Kageyama from Pokemon Let’s Go!Pallet Town by Shota Kageyama from Pokemon Let’s Go!Katamari on the Wings by Yuu Miyake, Yoshihito Yano from Katamari Forever

Episode 13 is here (four months later)!! With Smash Bros Ultimate two months away and pretty much a tsunami of other new games down the pipeline, there's plenty to talk about. Including Mega Man 11, Dragon Quest 11 and when Bowsette took over Twitter for a few weeks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Opening Track: Main Theme from Super Smash Bros Ultimate 1.) "Fight Against Monsters" - Super Mario RPG - Yoko Shimomura 2.) "Forest Maze" - Super Mario RPG - Yoko Shimomura 3.) "Cascade Kingdom" - Super Mario Odyssey - Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii and Koji Kondo 4.) "Tostarena Night" (Sand Kingdom) - Super Mario Odyssey - Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii and Koji Kondo 5.) "Torvis Bog Main Theme" - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - Kenji Yamamoto 6.) "Torvis Bog Hydrodynamo Theme" - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - Kenji Yamamoto 7.)"Skytown Main Theme" - Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Kenji Yamamoto 8.) "Sea Bottom Segue" - Sonic Lost World - Tomoya Ohtani Takahito Eguchi 9.) "Metallic Madness Zone Act 2" - Sonic Mania - Tee Lopes 10.) "Mirage Saloon (Knuckles Version) Act 1" - Sonic Mania - Tee Lopes 11.) "Area 1" - Contra Rebirth -Manabu Namiki 12.) "BGM 2" - The Adventures of Bayou Billy -Jun Funahashi Kiyohiro Sada, Hidenori Maezawa, Atsushi Fujio , Tsutomu Ogura 13.) Headquarters of the Otafu Army - The Legend of Mystical Ninja -Kazuhiko Uehara and Harumi Ueko 14.) "Title Theme" - Mega Man 11 - Marika Suzuki 15.) "Electric Communication" - Rockman 8 (Mega Man 8 JPN) - Ganasia 16.) "Guile's Theme" - Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo - Isao Abe and Syun Nishigaki 17.) "Beats in My Head" (Elena's Theme) - Street Fighter 3 Third Strike - Hideki Okugawa 18.) "Opening Sequence, Bombing Mission" - Final Fantasy VII - Nobuo Uematsu 19.) "J-E-N-O-V-A" - Final Fantasy VII - Nobuo Uematsu 20.) "Crazy Motorcycle Chase" - Final Fantasy VII - Nobuo Uematsu 21.) "Death Fight" (Dragon Quest 2 Battle Theme) - Dragon Quest Heroes - Koichi Sugiyama 22.) "War Cry" (Dragon Quest 8 Battle Theme) - Dragon Quest Heroes - Koichi Sugiyama 23.) "Are You a Loser?" (Dragon Quest 9 Battle Theme) - Dragon Quest Heroes - Koichi Sugiyama 24.) "C-R-O-W-N-E-D" - Kirby's Return to Dream Land - Hirokazu Ando and Jun Ishikawa 25.) "Divine Bloodlines Ver. 511" - Castlevania Pachislot 2 - Takeshi Kuramochi, Michiru Yamane, Yasuhiro Ichihashi, Konami Kukeiha Club ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the main site: otakugamerspot.com Check us when we go live: twitch.tv/chazmosis Check out the YouTube Channel: youtube.com/CJBlogman Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/chazmosis410 Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/otakugamerspot

Today’s broadcast is Episode 34 for Soundtrack Saturday, August 25th, 2018. Today’s Episode is "Nerd Noise Crossovers - vol. 2: TwoFer Soundtrack Saturday. Soundtracks are the Contra, and Super C soundtracks for the NES-Contra is composed by Kazuki Muaoka and arranged by Hidenori Maezawa and Kiyohiro Sada -Super C is composed by Kazuki Muaoka, and Motoaki Furukawa, and arranged by Hidenori Maezawa   NOTE: The music block runtime in the show notes as well as what is said in the intro is incorrect. I forgot to include the Title Theme and (JP) Intro music in the music block, and only realized my mistake at the last second. The episode DOES include those tracks, but the timestamp reflects the music block runtime as it was before the last second addition of those tracks. My apologies. :-)   Track Number / Track Name / Time stamp   01: Intro - 00:00   Contra (NES)   02: Title - 02:26 03: Introduction (JP only) - 02:31 04: Area 1: Jungle / Area 7: Hanger - 03:08 05: Areas 2 & 4: Bases 1 & 2 - 04:54 06: Area 3: Waterfall - 06:30 07: Area 5: Snow Field - 07:48 08: Area 6: Energy Zone - 09:03 09: Area 8: Alien's Lair - 10:13 10: Boss - 11:15 11: Area Clear - 12:30 12: Credits - 12:34 13: Game Over - 13:51   Super C (NES)   14: Stage 1 - Lightning and Grenades - 13:56 15: Stage 2 - Military Fortress - 15:51 16: Stage 3 - Jungle - 17:01 17: Stage 4 - Mechanic Factory / Stage 7: Xenophobic Organs - 18:37 18: Stage 5 - Perilous Cliff - 20:15 19: Stage 6 - Under the Feet - 21:22 20: Stage 8 - The Falling Wall - 22:34 21: Boss - 23:56 22: Steel Spider - 25:07 23: Last Boss - 26:01 24: Stage Clear - 26:46 25: Stage Clear All - 26:49 26: Game Over - 26:55 27: The Return of Heroes' Helicopter - 26:58   28: Outro - 27:44   Music Block Runtime: 24:37, Total Episode Runtime: 32:24   Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio - Jet Grind Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights   If you wish to subscribe to the "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" podcast - audio-only, there are two options:   Option 1: Subscribe right here to the "Nerd Noise Radio Network - All Channels" podcast feed. 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However, if you really are only interested in Channel 1 content, here's the RSS:    http://www.buzzsprout.com/77944.rss   Our episodes will also appear on our Nerd Noise Radio YouTube Channel - just search for Nerd Noise Radio, you'll find us! Here's today's episode:   https://youtu.be/lg73lwJ0B8w   Additionally, there are YouTube Playlists you can follow, both an "All Channels" Feed (recommended), as well as channel-specific feeds. You can find them here:   Nerd Noise Radio Network - All Channels Podcast Feed   Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 1 podcast   Nerd Noise Radio is now available on Twitch as well! Episodes 21 and forward will be uploaded as they're released, with the backlog of earlier episodes to follow. 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In Broken Chair Scores episode 12 we dive into contemporary classical music with Michael Nymans Score to the film "A Zed and Two Noughts" by Peter Greenaway which reminds me of my favourite guy from this genre (Philip Glass) and thus already makes this a very special episode for me. Then we do something even more cool in that we compare two versions of the same soundtrack. We dissect "Akumajou Densetsu" for the Famicom and "Castlevania 3" for the NES respectively (composed by Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto and Yoshinori Sasaki) with the Famicom version using the outstanding VRC6 chip (embedded into the cartridge as an addon to the systems' internal sound hardware!) instead of the NES' rather standard MMC5 chip. We listen to the (not so) subtle differences in the arrangements and have a lot of fun while doing so. And I hope you will have fun listening to it as well! New in 2018: This episode got the remastering treatment which means that some very light editing has happened for the dialogue but some heavy editing has happened for the Castlevania tracks. The original version had the "room sound" that we produced on the fly. The remastered version was edited so that the tracks have higher quality. Unfortunately this goes only for the Castlevania tracks. The "Zed and Two Noughts" tracks couldn't be retrieved and thus still have their classic sound. (Not too bad though). This remastering really shines a light on the difference between the NES and the Famicom version which makes it a must listen episode for all followers even if you already listened to the original episode edit. Fun fact: somewhere in the episode I mention that this is an unedited, almost life experience. Well this is no longer the case obviously but I think the new edit brings home the difference between the two versions nicely and thus I did it. Also: I mention the "bad dudes" several times. This is also wrong. The composers of the Castlevania soundtrack are NOT the people who created the soundtrack to the game Bad Dudes which themselves were referred to as the "bad dudes" by Brent Weinbach and Rob F. Switch on their legendary vgm podcast The Legacy Music Hour. I have so much to learn. download

In this episode of Wart Radio, DJ Deku Skrub spins the best tracks from the first levels of his favorite games.  Enjoy! www.nintendomainpodcast.com Music Credits: Magician Lord: Stage 1 by Yuka Watanabe, Hiroaki Shimizu, and Hideki Yamamoto Spider-Man and Venom: Separation Anxiety: Heart of the City by Suddi Raval, Paul Tonge, and Sound Images Streets of Rage 2: Round 1, Part 1 (Go Straight) by Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima Final Fight 3: Music for Metro City by Katsunari Kitajima BattleToads in Battlemaniacs: Khaos Mountain By David Wise Donkey Kong Country: Island Swing by David Wise, Eveline Fischer, and Robin Beanland Goldeneye: ByeLomorye Dam by Graeme Norgate, Grant Kirkhope, and Robin Beanland Splatoon: Single Player (No. 1) by Toru Minegishi and Shiho Fujii Star Fox: Corneria by Hajima Hirasawa Axelay: Unkai by Taro Kudo Ikaruga: Ideal - Chapter 1 by Hirushi Iuchi Darius Twin: Rilair by Shizuo Aizawa Gradius V: Universe - Stage 1 by Hitoshi Sakimoto Batman: Stage 1: Streets of Desolation by Naoki Kodaka and Nobuyuki Hara Journey to Silius: Stage 1 by Naoki Kodaka Ninja Gaiden: Galesburg by Keiji Yamagishi and Ryuichi Nitta Metal Storm: Stage 1 by Toru Watanabe Haunted Halloween 86: Stage 1: Dungeon by HumanThomas M.C. Kids: Level 1 by Charles Deenan Kirby's Adventure: Stage Music 1 by Hirokazu Ando and Jun Ishikawa Jackie Chan Stage 1-1 by Masakatsu Maekawa M. Maekawa Superman: Stage 1 by Kenji Yamazaki X-men 2: Clone Wars: Opening Level by kurt Harland Sonic the Hedgehog: Green Hill Zone by Masato Nakamura Altered Beast: Stage 1 by Tohru Nakabayashi Vectorman: Terraport - Bamboo Hill by Jon Holland Agent X II: The Mad Prof's Back: Flying Section by Tim Follin Wolverine: Level 1 by Tim Follin Contra: Stage 1 by Hidenori Maezawa and Kiyohiro Sada Scott Pilgrim vs The World: Another Winter by AnamanaGuchi Genocide 2: Again... by Hideyuki Shimono and Naoyuki Kimura Earthworm Jim 2: Anything but Tangerines by Tommy Tallarico Dragon Spirits: Area 1 by Shinji Hosoe Castlevania Aria of Sorrow: Castle Corridor by Michiru Yamane, Takashi Yoshida, and Soshiro Hokkai Sin and Punishment: Within Earshot by Toshia Yamanaka Wild Guns: Ammunition Depot by Hiroyuki Iwatsuki and Haruo Ohashi Klonoa of the Wind: The Windmill Song by Junko Ozawa Mighty Milky Way: World 1 (Space) by Jake Kaufman Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja :Fist of Fury by Azusa Hara and Hiroaki Yushida Megaman X: Opening Stage by Setsua Yamamoto Megaman 8: Opening Stage by Shusaku Uchiyama Mighty Flip Champs: World 1 (The Jungle Welcomes you) by Jake Kaufman Super Mario Odyssey: Bonneton by Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii, and Koji Kondo Credits Song: Timesplitters 2 By Graeme Norgate Cowboy Kid: Stage 1 by Masaharu Iwata

This is the OverClocked PodCast-- beware! Hide in your homes unless you’re up for a scare.Video game music straight from the morgue!Courtesy of OC ReMix.org. This week we discover in our bag of tricks,A new album treat from OC ReMix.YoshiBlade brought this monster to life,Using software and gumption-- and an old, bloody knife.Major Third joins the haunt with a brand new edition,Of his segment “The Big Ones” (now with decomposition)So join us, ye spectres, ye ghouls, and ye devils, For the OverClocked PodCast Halloween Special!Direct Download: https://ia601502.us.archive.org/20/items/OverClockedPodcastEpisode44/OverClocked%20Podcast%20Episode%2044.mp3Next week's Playlist: SEGA CD MusicReMix ReWind:The Old Mansion by the Road - Uninvited (Sir_NutS, WillRock, Stephen Kelly)Dance of Maddness - Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (YoshiBlade)Fritz Was Here - Chrono Trigger (YoshiBlade)I Never Drink… Wine - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (YoshiBlade)In-Tune Interview with YoshiBladeCandy Corn AlbumThe Big Ones with Matthew TucciaroneAll tracks are by Michiru Yamane from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night unless otherwise stated."Wandering Latinas (Castlevania Symphony of the Night)""I am the Wind (Feat. Cynthia Harrell)" by Rika Muranaka, Tony Hayes, and Jeff Lorber."Prologue""Iron Blue Intention" by Michiru Yamane from Castlevania: Bloodlines"Dracula's Castle""The Tragic Prince""Festival Of Servants""Moonlight Nocture""Dance of Gold""Dance of Pales""Vampire Killer" by Kinuyo Yamashita and Satoe Terashima from Castlevania"Deja Vu" by Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto, and Yoshinori Sasaki from Castlevania III"Illusionary Dance" by Tomoko "Sannopi" Sano from Rondo of Blood"Dance of Illusions" by Tomoko "Sannopi" Sano from Symphony of the Night"Marble Gallery" The Playlist: Spooky Music Pumpkin Hill - Sonic Adventure 2 (SquarEvil)Don’t Cry Jennifer - Clock Tower: The First Fear (M Disk Playlist Podcast)Mystic Mansion - Sonic Heroes (Sothen)Chapter 1 Main Theme - Corpse Party: Blood Covered… Repeated Fear (Zachary)Picture of a Ghost Ship - Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (Major Third)Shadow Temple - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Bola)Opening Theme - Skeleton Crew (Carlos)This is Halloween - Kingdom Hearts (Jeff)Stones & Bones Table - Pinball Fantasies (Eino)Providence - Ghost Trick (Kyle B)Bumper music:Late Night Sneakin' - HappyBivouacJet Set Groove #3 - Hideki NaganumaS.E. Tape - SEGAOldies But Happies - Hideki NaganumaThe Concept of Love - Hideki Naganuma Like It Like This Like That - Hideki NaganumaS.E. System01 - SEGAHang Castle - Sonic HeroesWrapped in Black - Sonic RushGrace & Glory (B.B. M.H. Mix) - Jet Set Radio Future Extra info:Twitter: @OCRpodcastBryan: @LordMeldorrStephen: @StephenKelly180Email: podcast@ocremix.orgYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ocremixGoogle Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ivb42azxllrsxwg7zavtptcho2iiTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/overclocked-podcast/id1057063792?mt=2Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/overclocked-podcastRSS: https://feeds.feedburner.com/OverclockedPodcastOverClocked ReMix is dedicated to the appreciation and promotion of video game music as an art form. Learn more at http://ocremix.org/info/About_Us!

In this Episode, Rick is  joined by his brother Sal where they discuss retro/modern gaming and play some spooky VGM tunes that will haunt your 16 bit dreams.  Website: www.retrogamingboombox.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/retrogamingboombox Twitter: @RGBoombox Instagram: @RGBoombox   Halloween Episode Intro Castlevania Bloodlines (SG/MD) Reincarnated Souls, Part 2 Composed by Michiru Yamane Released 1994 Sunsoft block Fester’s Quest (NES) Title screen Outside Streets Composed by Naoki Kodaka Released 1989 Gremlins II: The New Batch (NES) Stage 2: Ventilation Shafts Stage 1: The Office Composed by Naoki Kodaka Released 1990 Castlevania 8 BIT NES medley Castlevania (NES) Prologue (Castle Gate) Vampire Killer (Courtyard) Composed by Kinuyo Yamashita and Satoe Terashima Released 1989 Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest (NES) The Silence of The Daylight (Town) Monster Dance (Night time) Composed by Kenichi Matsubara, Satoe Terashima, and Kouji Murata Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse (NES) Mad Forest   Composed by Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto and Yoshinori Sasaki 16 bits of horror Ghouls N’ Ghosts (SG/MD) Music: The Hill of Torture (Stage 1) Composed by Tamayo Kawamoto Released 1989 Altered Beast (SG/MD) Rise from your Grave Composed by Tohru Nakabayashi Released 1988 Super Castlevania IV (SNES) The Cave Composed by Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo Released 1991 Zombies ate my Neighbors (SNES) Stage Theme Zombie Composed by by Joseph "Joe" McDermott. Released 1993 Red Book Audiovania Akumajo Dracula X: Rondo of Blood (PCE Super CD) Bloodlines Vampire Killer Composers: Akiropito (Akira Sōji), Keizo Nakamura, Tomoko Sano, Mikio Saito Released October 29, 1993 Castlevania SOTN (PS1) Prologue Dracula’s Castle Composed by Michiru Yamane Released 1997 Outro Night Trap (SEGA CD) Main theme Composed by Sunny BlueSkyes & Martin Lund Released 1992  

The series Castlevania is the focus this week. One of Konami's flagship series since the 80's, Castlevania games have always had great music, and have inspired many good remixes.Download MP3 Tracklist (full info here):

This weekend is the anniversary of the resurrection of someone very important to us. Someone who has changed lives by the masses. Someone who has a myriad of books and movies dedicated to telling the story of his life. Someone who has followers willing to do anything and everything it takes to see his return. I'm talking about our friend Dracula. This week's Musicast is dedicated to Castlevania.  One of my all time favorite series by Konami. Happy Dracula day everyone. Castlevania: Lead Designer Akihiko Nagata. Music Composer Kinuyo Yamashita. Story BGM: Black Knight Vampire Killer Stalker Wicked Child Heart of Fire Voyager Castlevania II Simon's Quest: Lead Designer H. Akamatsu. Music Composer Kenichi Matsubara. Story BGM: Password Bloody Tears Silence of Daylight Monster Night Dwelling of Doom Dracula's Castle Game Over Castlevania III Dracula's Curse: Lead Designer H. Akamatsu. Music Composers Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi, and Yukie Morimoto. Story BGM: Encounter Beginning Aquarius Clockwork Pressure Mad Forest Dead Beat Outro: Evergreen Please let us know what you think of the new series and don't forget to send us in your requests for game soundtracks for us to feature. We hope you enjoy this weeks Musicast. You can also subscribe to the podcast via iTunes