[Ch 2] “Nerd Noise Game Club”: C2E19 - “Mystery Flavors”
Today’s broadcast is C2E19 for Theme Thursday, Sept 26th, 2024. Today’s theme is…..well, there are two themes, and they’re both a secret. Each host has their own mystery theme - can you guess what the themes are? Today’s episode is called “Mystery Flavors”. [Production Note: more details below, but we apologize if the conversation on the opening track sounds a little more halting or broken up than usual, as if it were broken up into small chunks spaced apart. Also, this episode has an unusually long post-episode bonus reel. Everything that gets mentioned as “maybe I’ll add that to the back of the episode” gets added! :-D ] Track# (total ) / Track# (episode) - Track - Game - System - Composer(s) - Selected By 01) "I can't believe you" (aka "Betrayal") - Grounseed - PC98 (OPN version) - Daisuke Takahashi - St. John Earcatcher - 00:00:00 Music - 00:00:02 Introduction - 00:02:39 Top of Show Business (losing ourselves in the weeds) - 00:03:51 Discussion - 00:13:13 02) Bridge - Spider-Man: Web of Fire - 32X - Sam Powell and/or Brian Schmidt - Hugues Music - 00:19:21 Discussion - 00:21:14 03) Bulberry Hill - Zool 2 - Amiga - Neil Biggin - St. John Music - 00:27:14 Discussion - 00:30:09 04) Site-B Area - The Lost World: Jurassic Park - Game Gear - Kōjirō Mikusa - Hugues Music - 00:36:09 Discussion - 00:37:42 05) Passage - Destiny - Multiplatform - C. Paul Johnson - St. John Music - 00:41:38 Discussion - 00:45:03 06) Knockturn Alley - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Game Boy Color - Ian Stocker - Hugues Music - 00:50:03 Discussion - 00:52:35 07) Quiet - Edge - Multiplatform - Richard Malot - St. John Music - 00:56:37 Discussion - 00:59:02 08) Puzzle - 3D Tetris - Virtual Boy - Ken Kojima - Hugues Music - 01:03:27 Discussion - 01:06:06 09) Bonus Room - Wolverine - NES - Geoff Follin - St. John Music - 01:13:12 Discussion - 01:15:07 10) Title Screen - Wario's Woods - NES - Shinobu Amayake and/or Soyo Oka - Hugues Music - 01:20:35 Discussion - 01:22:02 11) Reckless Running - Sega Rally Championship - Saturn - c: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi / a: Naofumi Hataya - St. John Music - 01:25:54 Discussion - 01:30:04 12) Bridge Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog - Mastersystem - c: Masato Nakamura / a: Yuzo Koshiro - Hugues Music - 01:34:33 Discussion - 01:36:22 13) Martinis for 2 - The Sims - PC - Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo - St. John Music - 01:40:14 Discussion - 01:46:49 End of Show Business - 01:54:19 Closing Track Discussion - 02:01:53 Sign-Off - 02:02:50 14) The Old Man's Rainbow Shop - Magic Knight Rayearth - Saturn - Yayoi Wachi and/or Sumio Okamoto - Hugues Music - 02:03:19 Outtakes - 02:05:34 BONUS 1: John’s first [successful Paulstretch] Paulstretch - 02:08:27 The Source Material (“You Lose” sound from Price is Right) - 02:13:16 BONUS 2: John’s Deflemask noodlings - [All circa 2016 - VERY LOW AUDIO QUALITY!!] Riff 1 (Sega Genesis) - 02:13:20 Algorithm Play 1 (Sega Genesis) - 02:15:09 Riff 2 (Sega Arcade - YM2151) - 02:17:23 Riff 3 (Turbografx16) - 02:18:53 “Take My Breath Away” (cover) (Sega Genesis) - 02:19:10 My First Try with FM (Sega Genesis) [—WARNING: ABRAISIVE!---] - 02:19:31 Decay to Sine (Sega Genesis) [—WARNING: ABRAISIVE!---] - 02:20:06 Riff 4 - Take 1 (Sega Genesis) - 02:21:10 Riff 4 - Take 2 (Sega Genesis) - 02:21:33 Algorithm Play 2 (Sega Genesis) - 02:21:54 Riff 5 - Take 1 (Sega Genesis) - 02:23:11 Riff 5 - Take 2 (Sega Genesis) - 02:23:20 Ur-Quan Victory (cover) (Sega Genesis) - 02:23:29 BONUS 3: [REVERSE] Edge - Quiet - 02:23:36 Total Episode Runtime: 02:27:59 Supplemental content: Portal - Taste of Blood (for cross-reference to the track from Destiny - and Paulstretched tracks): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMp-lW6mfdI Two more examples of Paulstretch - neither of which were made by St. John: https://youtu.be/BnoX3E2WFcc?si=beUzqdiOQsM4q5Uw https://youtu.be/Aa5yZz2Xvhk?si=oh0p4XKora5-3J58 A primer on FM (so you understand what’s happening with the “Algorithm Play” Deflemask sound files): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v