[Ch 1] ”Noise from the Hearts of Nerds” - “C1E70A: ’The Best of 2022 – St. John’s picks’”

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Today’s broadcast is C1E70A for Wayback Wednesday, December 21st, 2022. Today’s episode is "The Best of 2022 – St. John's Picks" - a look back on John's favorite tracks of calendar 2022 on Nerd Noise Radio (includes tracks from Channel 1 and from Channel 2)

Track# - Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Originally from – Originally selected by - Timestamp

01) Earcatcher – 00:00:00

02) Intro – 00:00:07

03) We Interrupt this program – 00:03:48

04) Intro (continued) - 00:04:38

05) Radix Malorum Est Cupidatas – N/A (VGMusic Discord: Sample Pack Contest XII) - N/A (Widlchip) - zenkusa – C1E66 – KungFuFurby – 00:20:40

06) Gambit – Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade's Revenge – SNES – Tim and/or Geoff Follin – C2E8 – St. John – 00:26:54

07) BGM 4 (Stage 3-2) - Shadow Dancer – Genesis – Keiisuke Tsukahara – C1E69 – St. John – 00:30:53

08) Area C (aka "Darkness") – Puyo Puyo Tsuu – Arcade / Mega Drive - Tsuyoshi Matsushima, Einosuke Nagao, Nobuaki Yamasaki, and/or Tomoo Minami – C1E67 – St. John – 00:32:53

09) Track 7 – Keio Flying Squardon – Sega CD – Tsukasa Tawada – C2E10 – St. John – 00:34:54

10) Flight – Panzer Dragoon – Saturn – c: Yoshitaka Azuma / a: Tomoyuki Hayashi – C1E69 – St. John – 00:39:17

11) Tunnel – X – Gameboy – Hirokazu ("Hip") Tanaka and/or Kazumi Totaka – C1E67 – St. John – 00:42:59

12) Shop – Phantasy Star – Master System (PSG) - Tokuhiko Uwabo – C1E67 – St. John – 00:44:20

13) Jus' Dance (Sole Channel Mix) - Gran Turismo Sport – PS4 – Mr. V – C1E69 – St. John – 00:45:11

14) Confined Spaces – n++ - Multiplatform – ASC – C1E64 – St. John – 00:52:46

15) noidea.xm - N/A (Battle of the Bits: Super Pseudo-SNES Compo) - N/A (Wildchip – S3XMODIT) - Chip Champion – C1E66 – KungFuFurby – 01:00:46

16) Unknown Track 22 – Team Innocent – PCFX (HuC) - Kenji Kawai – C1E69 – St. John – 01:02:43

17) Battle – LaPlace no Ma – PC Engine – Unknown – C1E68 – St. John – 01:04:29

18) Sirena Beach – Super Mario Sunshine – GameCube / Switch - Kōji Kondō, and/or Shinobu Tanaka – C1E64 – St. John – 01:06:36

19) Nocturne – 3D Museum – LaserActive – Goh Hotoda – C1E61 – St. John – 01:08:45

20) Fantasy – Final Fantasy X – PS2 – Junya Nakano – C1E64 – St. John – 01:10:54

21) Benevolent Deeds – Reigns – iOS / Android – MAGO – C1E64 – St. John – 01:14:18

22) Goddess of Love – Immortals: Fenyx Rising – Multiplatform – Gareth Coker – C1E62 – St. John – 01:16:45

23) Dry Desert Sky – Two Dots – iOS / Android – Upright T-Rex – C2E9 – St. John – 01:20:17

24) New Beginning pt. 1 – L.A. Noire – Multiplatform – Andrew and/or Simon Hale – C1E69 – St. John – 01:22:18

25) Twilight – LoZ: Twilight Princess – GameCube / Wii – Toru Minegishi and/or Asuko Ohta – C1E68 – St. John – 01:23:17

26) Freak you Out – Vay – Sega CD – Shigeki Sako – C1E68 – St. John – 01:26:24

27) Inside Deep Darkness – Lagrange Point – Famicom (VRC7) - Akio Dobashi, Noriyuki Takahashi, Katsuhiro Suzuki, and/or Atsushi Fujio – C1E68 – St. John – 01:28:22

28) Cabin – Friday the 13th - NES – Hirohiko Takayama – C1E68 – St. John – 01:30:34

29) Password Screen – Castlevania Bloodlines –Genesis – Michiru Yamane – C1E68 – St. John – 01:32:03

30) The Icon of Sin – DOOM Eternal – Multiplatform – Mick Gordon – C1E64 – St. John – 01:33:56

31) Challenge – Final Fantasy X – PS3 – Masashi Hamausu – C1E68 – St. John – 01:39:15

32) Metroid Prime Battle – Metroid Prime – GameCube – Kenji Yamamoto and/or Kouichi Kyuma – C1E68 – St. John – 01:41:57

33) Kao Kao Kao (Face Face Face) - Midnight Resistance – Gensis - Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida, Fuse, Tatsuya Kinichi, and/or Hitomi Komatsu – C1E67 – St. John – 01:44:36

34) Hurry! - Final Fantasy X – PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu – C1E68 – St. John – 01:47:23

35) Boss 3 – Legendary Axe – TG16 – Atsumi Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto – C1E68 – St. John – 01:49:53

36) Ghost Valley – N/A (Super Mario Kart [album] - originally Super Mario Kart [game] - N/A [originally SNES] - c: Soya Oka / a: The OneUps – C1E63 – St. John – 01:51:36

37) This is Your Story – Final Fantasy X – PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu – C1E69 – St. John – 01:54:45

38) The Lunarians – Final Fantasy IV (FFII US) - SNES – Nobuo Uematsu – C1E62 – St. John – 01:56:58

39) Sealed Temple – LoZ: Skyward Sword – Wii / Switch - Hajime Wakai, Shiho Fujii, Mahito Yakota, Taeshi Hama, and/or Kōji Kondō - C1E69 – St. John – 01:59:02

40) Building Mode 5 – The Sims – PC – Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo – C1E62 – St. John – 02:01:44

41) The Thunder Plains – Final Fantasy X – PS2 – Nobuo Uematsu – C1E62 – St. John – 02:08:04

42) Moth and Cortisone – 3D Museum – LaserActive – Yasuaki Shimizu – C1E61 – St. John – 02:11:41

43) OST 08 – Magic the Gatherirng: Shandalar – PC – Roland J.Rizzo -C1E64 – St. John – 02:15:53

44) Cobbleston, Nestled in the Hills – Octopath Traveller – Multiplaform – Yasunori Nishiki – C1E69 – St. John – 02:17:36

45) The Travel Agency – Final Fantasy X – PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu – C1E64 – St. John – 02:20:36

46) USA Race 2 – Trickstyle – Dreamcast / PC – Richard Beddow – C1E64 – St. John – 02:23:29

47) World A – Art of Balance – Multiplatform - Martin Schjøler - C1E64 – St. John – 02:26:44

48) La sons et Perfume (Pacific Mix) - 3D Museum – LaserActive – Goh Hotoda – C1E61 –St. John – 02:29:08

49) Message from Nightopia – NiGHTS into Dreams – Multiplatform – Naofumi Hataya – C2E7 – St. John – 02:30:46

50) Island of Memory – Doshin the Giant – GameCube – Tatsuhiko Asano – C1E69 – St. John – 02:33:26

51) Shadow Man – N/A (Volume 2) [Originally Mega Man 3] - N/A [originally NES] - c: Yasuaki Fujita / a: The OneUps – C1E63 – St. John – 02:37:28

52) The Flatfields – Quizzes and Dragons – Arcade – Isao Abe – C1E69 – St. John – 02:43:10

53) Title Theme – Art of Balance – Multiplatform - Martin Schjøler - C1E64 – St. John – 02:44:51

54) Surrender – n++ - Multiplatform – Sam KDC – C1E64 – St. John – 02:46:50

55) Outro – 02:52:51

Music Block Runtime: 02:32:18, Total Episode Runtime: 03:12:01

Our Intro Music is "Record of Samus" (aka "Results Theme") from Metroid Prime on the GameCube and Wii, composed by Kenji Yamamoto. Our Outro Music is "Results Parade" from the Check Mii Out Channel on the Wii, composed by Kazumi Totaka.

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And here is the YouTube video that James Bierly of Secure Point had wished me to share: Secure Point Solutions Presentation at the InnoVenture Iowa and Bunker Labs event.

Link to the full list of every track featured on Nerd Noise Radio in calendar 2022 in case you wanted to submit tracks for a potential future "Best of 2022 – Listener Picks" - REMEMBER: to unlock Listener Picks, we need a minimum of 20 unique tracks form a minimum of 5 unique contributors:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uZn4WX9uhY7xXbDzRJxovxVZXyQxZGvOwpuChi-JxcM/edit?usp=sharing

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