[Channel 2] “Nerd Noise Game Club” - C2E12: “House Music”

Today’s episode is C2E12, for Theme Thursday, April 27th, 2023. Today’s theme is music from Houses and/or Towns and/or Town Locations, on a program we’re calling “House Music”  - episode theme and title both selected by Hugues!

Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Selected By

01) Training - Luigi’s Mansion - GameCube - Kazumi Totaka, and/or Shinobu Tanaka

Earcatcher - 00:00:00

Music - 00:00:03

Introduction - 00:02:32

Top of show business - 00:03:15

Discussion - 00:15:30

02) Itchy and Scratchy - The Simpsons: Bart’s Nightmare - Genesis - Dean Morrell, Mark Ganus and/or H. Kinsley Thurber - St. John

Music - 00:20:39

Discussion - 00:22:25

03) The Ominous Mansion - Crisis Core: FFVII - Multiplatform - Takeharu Ishimoto - Hugues

Music - 00:28:36

Discussion - 00:32:02

04) Alone in the Town - Silent Hill 2 - PS2 - Akira Yamaoka - St. John

Music - 00:37:16

Discussion - 00:39:39

05) A Quiet Moment - Ys III - TG16 - c: Mieko Ishikawa (Falcom Sound Team J.D.K.) / a: Keita Hoshi - Hugues

Music - 00:46:32

Discussion - 00:48:37

06) Statts - Sword of Vermilion - Genesis - Hiroshi Kawaguchi - St. John

Music - 00:57:19

Discussion - 00:59:31

07) Shenhua’s House (Day) - Shenmue II - Dreamcast / XBox - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Yuzo Koshiro, Ryuji Iuchi, Takeshi Yanagawa, Satoshi Miyashita, Koji Sakurai, Masataka Nitta, Shinji Otsuka, Fumio Ito, Megumi Takano, Osamu Murata, and/or Shinichi Goto - Hugues

Music - 01:04:58

Discussion - 01:08:43

08) Build Mode 4 - The Sims - PC - Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo - St. John

Music - 01:16:41

Discussion - 01:20:27

09) My Quiet Forest Home - Octopath Traveller - Multiplatform - Yasunori Nishiki - Hugues

Music - 01:27:00

Discussion - 01:30:24

10) Hometown - Last Bible III - Super Famicom - Hiroyuki Yanada - St. John

Music - 01:35:52

Discussion - 01:38:47

11) Dezolis Town 2 - Phantasy Star IV - Genesis - Izuho Numata, and/or Masaki Nakagaki - Hugues

Music - 01:46:19

Discussion - 01:48:03

12) House Theme - LoZ: Breath of the Wild - WiiU / Switch - c: Koji Kondo / a: Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata, and/or Hajime Wakai - St. John

Music - 01:51:02

Discussion - 01:54:07

13) Agitha’s Castle - LoZ: Twilight Princess - GameCube / Wii / WiiU - Toru Minegishi, Asuka Ota, and/or Koji Kondo - Hugues

Music - 01:57:07

Discussion - 01:59:10

End of Show business - 02:02:19

Our other shows pt 1 - 02:05:18

[INTERLUDE] A funny May 4th Story -  02:06:37

Our other shows pt 2 - 02:08:28

Final Track Discussion - 02:10:00

Sign-off - 02:11:33

14) Town #2 - RPG Maker VX Ace - PC - Unknown - St. John

Music - 02:11:43

Outtakes (general) - 02:14:36

Outtakes (bonus 1 - We interrupt this program) - 02:25:38

Outtakes (bonus - John’s crazy little sound experiment which got COMPLETELY out of hand!) - 02:26:21

Total Episode Runtime: 02:28:56

Produced using a mix of Audacity and Ardour (various versions of each), primarily in KDE Neon (Linux) on St. John’s main laptop, and secondarily on St. John’s Gaming PC “Big Rig” running Garuda KDE Dr460nized Gaming Edition (also Linux).

PRODUCTION NOTE: Sword of Vermilion enemy death sound was reused in Shinobi III, and was much more accessible there, so that’s actually where my sound file for the episode came from!

Retro Game Club can be found here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680

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Hugues’ blog can be found here: 

https://huguesjohnson.com/

BGM for “John’s crazy little sound experiment”: “Momentary Visions - composed by Afro-Mystik (non-VGM) on OM Records 2004 release “OM Lounge 8”: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrvSCfNFvfg

“NNR Reruns presents - ‘Chandlerfest!’” can be found here:

Link for Spotify users (best): 

https://open.spotify.com/episode/04EMpO0NKR6RCBvuHaxDMq?si=533cf6c1944a42abhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/04EMpO0NKR6RCBvuHaxDMq?si=533cf6c1944a42ab

Link for non-Spotify users (open to all):

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