[Ch 2] “Nerd Noise Game Club”: C2E19 - “Mystery Flavors”

Nerd Noise Radio

Today’s broadcast is C2E19 for Theme Thursday, Sept 26th, 2024. Today’s theme is…..well, there are two themes, and they’re both a secret. Each host has their own mystery theme - can you guess what the themes are? Today’s episode is called “Mystery Flavors”.

[Production Note: more details below, but we apologize if the conversation on the opening track sounds a little more halting or broken up than usual, as if it were broken up into small chunks spaced apart. Also, this episode has an unusually long post-episode bonus reel. Everything that gets mentioned as “maybe I’ll add that to the back of the episode” gets added! :-D ]

Track# (total ) / Track# (episode) - Track - Game - System - Composer(s) - Selected By

01) "I can't believe you" (aka "Betrayal") - Grounseed - PC98 (OPN version) - Daisuke Takahashi - St. John

1. Earcatcher - 00:00:00
2. Music - 00:00:02
3. Introduction - 00:02:39
4. Top of Show Business (losing ourselves in the weeds) - 00:03:51
5. Discussion - 00:13:13

02) Bridge - Spider-Man: Web of Fire - 32X - Sam Powell and/or Brian Schmidt - Hugues

1. Music - 00:19:21
2. Discussion - 00:21:14

03) Bulberry Hill - Zool 2 - Amiga - Neil Biggin - St. John

1. Music - 00:27:14
2. Discussion - 00:30:09

04) Site-B Area - The Lost World: Jurassic Park - Game Gear - Kōjirō Mikusa - Hugues

1. Music - 00:36:09
2. Discussion - 00:37:42

05) Passage - Destiny - Multiplatform - C. Paul Johnson - St. John

1. Music - 00:41:38
2. Discussion - 00:45:03

06) Knockturn Alley - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Game Boy Color - Ian Stocker - Hugues

1. Music - 00:50:03
2. Discussion - 00:52:35

07) Quiet - Edge - Multiplatform - Richard Malot - St. John

1. Music - 00:56:37
2. Discussion - 00:59:02

08) Puzzle - 3D Tetris - Virtual Boy - Ken Kojima - Hugues

1. Music - 01:03:27
2. Discussion - 01:06:06

09) Bonus Room - Wolverine - NES - Geoff Follin - St. John

1. Music - 01:13:12
2. Discussion - 01:15:07

10) Title Screen - Wario's Woods - NES - Shinobu Amayake and/or Soyo Oka - Hugues

1. Music - 01:20:35
2. Discussion - 01:22:02

11) Reckless Running - Sega Rally Championship - Saturn - c: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi / a: Naofumi Hataya - St. John

1. Music - 01:25:54
2. Discussion - 01:30:04

12) Bridge Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog - Mastersystem - c: Masato Nakamura / a: Yuzo Koshiro - Hugues

1. Music - 01:34:33
2. Discussion - 01:36:22

13) Martinis for 2 - The Sims - PC - Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo - St. John

1. Music - 01:40:14
2. Discussion - 01:46:49
3. End of Show Business - 01:54:19
4. Closing Track Discussion - 02:01:53
5. Sign-Off - 02:02:50

14) The Old Man's Rainbow Shop - Magic Knight Rayearth - Saturn - Yayoi Wachi and/or Sumio Okamoto - Hugues

1. Music - 02:03:19
2. Outtakes - 02:05:34
3. BONUS 1: John’s first [successful Paulstretch]
   1. Paulstretch - 02:08:27
   2. The Source Material (“You Lose” sound from Price is Right) - 02:13:16
4. BONUS 2: John’s Deflemask noodlings - [All circa 2016 - VERY LOW AUDIO QUALITY!!]
   1. Riff 1 (Sega Genesis) - 02:13:20
   2. Algorithm Play 1 (Sega Genesis) - 02:15:09
   3. Riff 2 (Sega Arcade - YM2151) - 02:17:23
   4. Riff 3 (Turbografx16) - 02:18:53
   5. “Take My Breath Away” (cover) (Sega Genesis) - 02:19:10
   6. My First Try with FM (Sega Genesis) [—WARNING: ABRAISIVE!---] - 02:19:31
   7. Decay to Sine (Sega Genesis) [—WARNING: ABRAISIVE!---] - 02:20:06
   8. Riff 4 - Take 1 (Sega Genesis) - 02:21:10
   9. Riff 4 - Take 2 (Sega Genesis) - 02:21:33
   10. Algorithm Play 2 (Sega Genesis) - 02:21:54
   11. Riff 5 - Take 1 (Sega Genesis) - 02:23:11
   12. Riff 5 - Take 2 (Sega Genesis) - 02:23:20
   13. Ur-Quan Victory (cover) (Sega Genesis) - 02:23:29
5. BONUS 3: [REVERSE] Edge - Quiet - 02:23:36

Total Episode Runtime: 02:27:59

Supplemental content:

Portal - Taste of Blood (for cross-reference to the track from Destiny - and Paulstretched tracks):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMp-lW6mfdI

Two more examples of Paulstretch - neither of which were made by St. John:
https://youtu.be/BnoX3E2WFcc?si=beUzqdiOQsM4q5Uw
https://youtu.be/Aa5yZz2Xvhk?si=oh0p4XKora5-3J58

A primer on FM (so you understand what’s happening with the “Algorithm Play” Deflemask sound files):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4g1Y3HNPF8

The non-VGM piece St. John’s dad mistakenly guessed was VGM in lieu of correctly guessing the track from the Sims: “Sweet Summer Nights” by Najee:

https://youtu.be/kFJGC3kPGr8?si=mWI6BPq0K8RwjcyT

More detailed production note: so, re: the haltingness of the conversation on the opening track: I had to sync the opening conversation up with a particular moment in the track, and doing that would’ve caused the conversation to come in half a loop too late, and with it being the opening track, I didn’t like that idea either. So, the only solution available to achieve BOTH starting at the right time, AND syncing to the right moment was to break the opening conversation into several small chunks and then create a little space between all of the chunks. So, that’s why the opening conversation sounds the way it does. I actually had to break up the conversations on one or two other tracks too - but to so much less extreme of a degree that it’s not noticeable other than on the opening conversation.

Hugues’ blog can be found here:

https://huguesjohnson.com/

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