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 - Metroid - FDS - Hirokazu (“Hip”) Tanaka - Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka - 01:39:55 

04) The Great Hall - Crash Bandicoot - PS1 - Mutato Muzika, Mark Mothersbaugh,  and/or Josh Mancell - 01:42:08 

05) Ending - Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge - SNES - Tim and/or Geoff Follin - 01:43:33 

06) Ending Theme - Halo - XBox - Martin O'Donnell, and/or Michael Salvatori - 01:44:50 

07) Theme of the Grid (alternate) - Ballblazer - Atari 5200 / 7800 / 8-bit - Peter Langston (via "Riffology") - 01:47:41 

08) End Credits - DOOM (2016) - Multiplatform - Mick Gordon - 01:49:32 

09) True Ending - Street Fighter II - Arcade (CPS1) - Yoko Shimomura - 01:53:19 

10) Ending - Somer Assault - TG16 - Hidehito Aoki, Katsuyuki Inose - 01:56:17 

11) Ending 2 - Zelda II: AoL - FDS - Akito Nakatsuka - 01:59:29 

12) Results - LED Storm - ZX Spectrum - Tim Follin - 02:00:33 

13) Ending Theme - Streets of Rage - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro - 02:03:17 

14) Ending Part 1 - Mega Man 2 - NES - Takashi Tateishi - 02:05:11 

15) Reprise - Shovel Knight - Multiplatform - Jake Kaufman (aka Virt) - 02:15 

16) End Credits - LoZ: OoT - N64 - Koji Kondo - 02:08:59 

17) My Lover - Revenge of Shinobi - PC88 - Yuzu  Koshiro - 02:16:05 

18) Ending Credits - Golden Axe - C64 - Jeroen Tel - 02:18:09 

19) Staff Roll - Final Fantasy VII - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu - 02:19:51 

20) Ending - Bonk’s Revenge - TG16 - Hirohiko Takayama - 02:26:38 

21) Ending - Wolfchild - Amiga - Martin Iveson - 02:27:55 

22) Credits Roll - Kirby’s Dream Land - Game Boy - Jun Ishikawa - 02:29:18 

23) Ending Theme - X-Men - Arcade - Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano , and/or Ayako Nishigaki - 02:30:38 

24) The Pit - Mortal Kombat - Genesis - c: Dan Forden / a: Matt Furniss - 02:33:05 

25) All Clear - Black Belt - Master System - Katsuhiro Hayashi - 02:35:13 

26) Master Xybots - Xybots - Arcade - Earl Vickers, Hal Canon, and/or Brad Fuller - 02:35:49 

27) Ending - Super Mario World - SNES - Koji Kondo - 02:36:36 

B1) Outro - 02:40:42 

Music Block Runtime: 01:04:34 / Total Episode [proper] Runtime: 01:12:43 

Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by B.B. Rights 

Episode [Grand Total] Runtime: 02:47:13 

This episode is dedicated to the memory of my cousin, Madelaine "Maddie" Shouse.

     a) Maddie's TikTok account: 

            https://www.tiktok.com/@maddie_baddieintraining?_r=1&_t=ZT-91vgM0LeAxr

     b) Maddie's Instagram account:

          https://www.instagram.com/maddie_baddieintraining?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

     c) BONUS: Maddie's Threads account:

            https://www.threads.com/@maddie_baddieintraining?xmt=AQF0lGpKq3cYrDNQnjSLLyOIZaNtha_hSf8rwCRTzwY5yO0

...I really do encourage you to check these out! She was a lovely person, and through these accounts, it's not entirely too late to [at least sorta kinda] get to know her! She was my mom's sister's daughter - and if I'm being completely honest, she reminded me more of mom than of aunt Karen. I suppose, in a way, she was the closest thing my brother and I had to a sister.

2) Links to C1E1 and C2E20!

I'll upload each this month as reruns. But meanwhile, here is the easiest way to hear them!

      a) Link to C1E1:

     b) Link to C2E20:

            https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/ch-2-nerd-noise-game-club-c2e20-all-good-things

Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Workstation Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2023) laptop with perhaps a little support from a Dell Latitude 7480 (running Fedora COSMIC Linux), a 2017-spec DIY gaming PC (running Bazzite Linux) or the Steam Deck (running Steam OS Linux). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface! The "Episode Proper" portion was recorded using Audacity in Fedora Workstation like the others, but was recorded using an M-Audio MobilePre XLR-to-USB audio interface and an AudioTechnica AT2020 microphone deliberately used improperly in order to emulate my much much poorer production techniques as of 2016. An AT2020 actually failed during this recording. Fortunately, I had a second AT2020, so I was able to finish the recording without substantial variation. The first line recorded with the second AT2020 was "I'm John Wedgeworth – thanks for listening." 

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But frankly, probably the absolute best way you can connect with us is on our new Discord Channel: "Nerd Noise Radio – Channel D", which includes various sub-channels for all sorts of different types of connection and conversation:  

Thanks for listening! Join us again in December or January for a Channel F one-off co-hosted by Trey Johnson of NintenDomain Podcast and W.A.R.T. Radio in the style of a Channel 2, and also in December or January for C1R8 (Channel 1, Retrospective 8): our "best of year in review" episode for 2025's "Season 8" - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N! 

Cheers!