[RERUNS] C1E1: Press Start (orig. rel. 01/05/2017) - see 2025 show notes addendum
2025 Show Notes addendum: With C1E100, you just heard how Ch 1 ends. Now, hear how Ch 1 began! Also, C1E100 ends with a production deliberately designed to be as close to the much much MUCH worse production quality of the original episodes. With today's rerun, you can compare it to the C1E100 ending to see how well or how poorly 45yr old "2025 St. John" did at emulating and impersonating that clunky, and untrained, but "starry-eyed", "pocket full of dreams" 36yr old St. John from C1E1. I definitely want to know what you think at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com or on social media or Discord! Lastly, for as atrocious as the production quality is on this Dec 2016 production (Jan 2017 release), it is actually the [by far] superior version of the episode. In Oct 2016, I produced beta versions of the first four episodes, and shared them under the pseudonym of "Disco Santa's House of Impossible Conundrums" so I could put them out there for a very limited audience to solicit feedback without a mass release (this was before I was using cloud storage, mind you). The final releases of those four episodes were amended based on the feedback received from everyone from Mike Levy of XVGM, to Pieness64, to even Stephen Hill of NPR's decades-running New Age / Space / World / Ambient late-night FM radio program: Hearts of Space. Well, recently, I found the original beta versions of those first four episodes , and here is a Google Drive link to the episode 1 beta - the only NNR production to use an alternate version of the "St. John NNR shout". The version we ended up going with was recorded during the episode 2 beta and applied to everything thereafter. So this episode 1 beta is the only time in show history where an episode opens with an alternate St. John NNR shout - and boy is it pathetic! This one was recorded with me sitting down. The ep 2 beta shout (which eventually became the "official shout") was recorded standing up. Here's a Google Drive link to that original Oct 2016 Ep 1 beta: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FXWu6EsHeveev4h65yKcLkww7jAPPMtA/view?usp=drive_link In fact, here's a link to the entire "Disco Santa" folder, with the Oct 2016 beta versions of all of the first four episodes: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eueCDmOikIdTXxK_s6VDsWd3Z4QImZeu?usp=drive_link --------------------------------------------------- orig show notes: The moment has finally come - the Channel 1 podcast is HERE! Today's broadcast is Episode 1 for ThemeThursday, January 5th, 2017. Today's Theme is title screen music on a program we’re calling “Press Start”. Tracklist - Track#, Game, System, Composer, Timestamp: 01: Intro - 00:00 02: Sonic 3 - Genesis - Tomonori Sawada - 01:50 03: Double Dragon - NES - Kazunaka Yamane - 02:05 04: Metroid - FDS - Hirokazu ("Hip") Tanaka - 03:44 05: Crash Bandicoot - PS1 - Josh Mancell - 05:17 06: SpiderMan/X-Men - SNES - Tim and Geoff Follin - 06:51 07: Halo - Xbox - Martin O’Donnell - 07:48 08: Ballblazer - Atari 8-bit - Peter Langston and “Riffology” - 10:35 09: Doom 2016 - Multiplat - Mick Gordon - 12:59 10: Street Fighter 2 - Arcade - Yoko Shimomura - 15:20 11: SomerAssault - TG16 - Hidehito Aoki and Katsuyuki Inose - 15:46 12: Zelda II - FDS - Akito Nakatsuka - 18:29 13: LED Storm - ZX Spectrum - Tim Follin - 20:56 14: Streets of Rage - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro - 23:38 15: Mega Man 2 - NES - Takashi Tateishi - 25:05 16: Shovel Knight - Multi - Jake Kaufman - 26:48 17: Ocarina of Time - N64 - Koji Kondo - 27:40 18: Revenge of Shinobi - PC88 - Yuzo Koshiro - 30:03 19: Golden Axe - C64 - comp: You Takada / arr: Jeroen Tel - 30:22 20: Final Fantasy VII - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu - 33:05 21: Bonk’s Revenge - TG16 - Hirohiko Takayama - 35:52 22: Wolfchild - Amiga - Martin Iveson - 36:10 23: Kirby’s Dreamland - Gameboy - Jun Ishikawa - 39:47 24: X-Men - Arcade - Junya Nakano - 40:24 25: Mortal Kombat - Genesis - Matt Furniss - 40:59 26: Black Belt - Mastersystem - Katsuhiro Hayashi - 42:01 27: Xybots - Arcade - Hal Canon, Brad F