[Ch1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - C1E100: Now Go and Rest our Heroes
Today is C1E100 for Theme Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025. Today is our final non-retrospective episode of Channel 1. We made it to 100! Today’s episode is split into two halves: a) a massive pre-show that is actually about 18 minutes LONGER than the “episode proper”, and b) the “episode proper”. The theme for both are end credits and ending sequence music, on a program we’re calling “Now Go and Rest our Heroes!” Tracklist: Track Number (or letter) - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Timestamp A - Earcatcher and Talking Portion 1 of 3 - 00:00:00 Mini-block 1: B - Ending - Golden Axe Warrior - Master System - Chikako Kamtani - 00:13:08 C - Ending - Gunstar Heroes - Genesis - Norio Hanzawa - 00:15:09 D - Ending - Strider - Genesis - c: Junko Tamiya / a: Tadahiko Inoue - 00:18:42 E - Credits - Rayman - PS1/Saturn - Stéphane Bellanger, Didier Lord, Sylvain-Luc Brunet, Nathalie Drouet, Dominique Dumont, Kamel Founas, Rémi Gazel, Didier Gilbert Leglise, Jean-Marc Lichtmann, Frédéric Louvre, Olivier Mortier, Frédéric Prados, Stéphane Ronse, René De Wael, and/or Olaf Zalcman - 00:20:03 F - Credits - Hotel Mario - CD-i - Jack Levy - 00:21:08 G - Credits - Wii Fit - Wii - Toru Minegishi, Manaka Kataoka, and/or Shiho Fujii - 00:21:58 H - Fear of a Blank Planet - Control - Multiplatform - Porcupine Tree - 00:24:01 I - Ending - Legendary Axe II - TG16 - Hirotoshi Suzuki - 00:31:11 J - Ending Theme - Street Fighter 2010 - NES - Junko Tamiya - 00:34:22 K - To Far Away Times - Chrono Trigger - SNES - Yasunori Mitsuda and/or Nobuo Uematsu - 00:36:25 L - An Ending - Undertale - Multiplatform - Toby Fox - 00:40:41 M - Ending Theme - Final Fantasy X - PS2 - Nobuo Uematsu - 00:44:03 N - End Credits - Cloudpunk - Multiplatform - Harry Critchley - 00:49:25 O - End Credits - Cyberpunk 2077 - Multiplatform - Marcin Przybyłowicz, P.T. Adamczyk and/or Paul Leonard-Morgan - 00:53:37 P - Closing - Cuphead - Multiplatform - Kristofer Maddigan - 00:58:02 And Q - The Final Fall - LoZ: TotK - Switch / Switch 2 - Hajime Wakai, Manaka Kataoka, Tsukasa Usui, Maasa Miyoshi, and/or Masato Ohashi - 01:01:46 Mini-Block 1 Runtime: 00:50:27 R - Talkie Portion 2 of 3 - 01:03:33 Mini-block 2: S - Triforce Chamber - LoZ: LttP - SNES - Koji Kondo - 01:06:37 T - Ending - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - 01:08:05 U - Ending - Another World - Amiga - Thomas Detert (originally selected by Hugues) - 01:10:28 V - Ground Zero - Shinobi III - Genesis - Masayuki Nagao, Hirofumi Murasaki, and/or Morihiko Akiyama - 01:12:00 W - Good End - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima (originally selected by Hugues) - 01:14:17 X - End Credits - Mega Man 3 - NES - Yasuaki Fujita - 01:16:37 And Y - Credits Theme - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann van der Cruyssen - 01:18:54 Mini-block 2 Runtime: 00:15:39 Z - Talkie Portion 3 of 3 - 01:22:05 Pre-show Runtime: 01:34:30 Backing tracks during the pre-show talkie portions: 1) Sadness - Endless SaGa - PS2 - Masashi Hamauzu. 2) Track 15 - Tengai Makyou 3 (Fuun Kabuki Den) - PC Engine - Kohei Tanaka, and/or Keita Hoshi 3) To the Stars - Prune - iOS / Android / Windows - by Kyle Preston *********Episode Proper - C1E100: “Now Go and Rest our Heroes”********** A collection of end credits and ending sequence music from the same 27 games in the same order from which we heard the title screen music in C1E1. Recorded using the same hardware (where available), same production techniques, and same limited scripting as we used in late 2016 for our early episodes - the idea: make episode 100 sound and feel as much like episode 1 as possible so as to “end at the very beginning”. Tracklist: Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Timestamp A1) Intro - 01:34:30 01) Credits - Sonic 3 - Genesis - Brad Buxer, Bobby Brooks, Darryl Ross, Geoff Grace, Doug Grigsby III, C. Cirocco Jones, and/or Michael Jackson - 01:36:10 02) Ending Theme - Double Dragon - NES - Kazunaka Yamane - 01:39:33 03) Ending - Met