Channel 2 [“Nerd Noise Game Club”]: C2E10 - “Sega CD 30”

Today’s Broadcast is C2E10 for Theme Thursday, October 20th, 2022. Today’s episode (our final “normal” episode of Season 2 [calendar 2022]) will be a focus on Sega CD music to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the system’s North American launch. Also, including an endearingly terrible improvised gag attempt at the very beginning! :-D

Track # / Track / Game [System, of course, will always be Sega CD, or at least Mega CD] / Composer (s) / Selected by

01) False Intro (Gag!) - 00:00:00

02) Track 03 - Robo Aleste - Katsumi Tanaka, and/or Satoshi Shimazaki - Hugues

Music - 00:02:20

Introduction - 00:06:06

Top of Show Business pt 1 - 00:06:31

Opening Track  Discussion - 00:14:39

Return of the Top of Show Business pt B - 00:18:50

02) West Side Andore Cage Battle - Final Fight CD - c: Harumi Fujita, Yasuaki Fujita, Manami Matsumae, Yoshihiro Sakaguchi, Yoko Shimomura, Hiromitsu Takaoka, and/or Junko Tamiya / a: T’s Music - St. John

Music - 00:21:38

Discussion - 00:24:53

03) Track 08 - Spider-Man vs The Kingpin - Spencer Nilsen and/or David Young - Hugues

Music - 00:31:06

Discussion - 00:34:22

04) Rolling Bad Guys - Lethal Enforcers - Kenichiro Fukui - St. John

Music - 00:47:03

Discussion - 00:52:07

05) Ice Berg - Popful Mail - c: Mieko Ishikawa / a: Hirofumi Matsuoka - Hugues

Music - 01:01:01

Discussion - 01:03:31

06) Wacky Workbench (past) - Sonic CD - Naofumi Hataya, and/or Masafumi Ogata - St. John

Music - 01:06:57

Discussion - 01:10:34

07) Ending - Earnest Evans - Motoi Sakuraba, and/or Hiroki Itou - Hugues

Music - 01:17:24

Discussion - 01:22:00

08) Track 7 - Keio Flying Squadron - Tsukasa Tawada - St. John

Music - 01:26:42

Discussion - 01:31:26

09) Overworld Theme - Vay - Shigeki Sako - Hugues

Music - 01:39:43

Discussion - 01:41:53

10) Ancient Temple - Wolfchild - Martin Iveson - St. John

Music - 01:44:20

Discussion - 01:19:35

11) Meribia - Lunar: The Silver Star - Noriyuki Iwadare - Hugues

Music - 01:54:12

Discussion - 01:56:44

12) The Undercaves - Ecco the Dolphin - Spencer Nilsen - St. John

Music - 01:59:15

Discussion - 02:01:56

13) Melee Island - The Secret of Monkey Island - Michael Z. Land, Barney Jones, Andy Newell, Patric Mundy - Hugues

Music - 02:27:23

Discussion - 02:09:36

End of Show Business / Our Other Shows - 02:14:36

Final Track Discussion - 02:22:11

Sign-off - 02:25:46

14) Jamie's Theme - Snatcher - The Konami Kukeiha Club - St. John

Music - 02:26:18

Blooper Reel - 02:28:45

Total Episode Runtime: 02:37:22

Retro Game Club can be found here:

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

You can also follow Retro Game Club on Facebook and Instagram @retrogameclubpodcast and on Twitter @rgcpodcast.

Hugues’ blog (and his Sega Genesis demo) can be found here: 

https://huguesjohnson.com/

You can find Nerd Noise Radio on Facebook and on Twitter each @NerdNoiseRadio. There are also two Facebook Groups: Nerd Noise Radio “Easy Mode” where we just have general video game and nerd fun, or for the gearheads among you, Nerd Noise Radio “Expert Mode” where we deep dive sound hardware, composer info, and music theory. 

You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).

Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.

Thanks for listening! Join us again one week from today (Thurs, Oct 27th, 2022) for C1E68: “They’re Coming to Get You, Barbara” - spooky, dissonant, and unsettling music for the occasion of the Halloween season”. Delicious VGM