[Ch 1] ”Noise from the Hearts of Nerds” - “C1E82: Run and/or Gun”

Today’s broadcast is C1E82 for Theme Thursday, March 21st, 2024. Today’s theme is music from Run and Gun games (as best as I can define them), on a program we're quite hedgingly calling "Run and/or Gun"! 

 

 

Tracklist! 

 

Track# - Track Name – Game – System(s) - Composer(s) - Timestamp 

 

A1) Intro – 00:00:00 

 

01) Dice Dance Days – Gunstar Heroes – Genesis – Norio Hanzawa – 00:03:45 

 

02) Garden – Die Hard – PC Engine – Kenji Yoshida – 00:05:55 

 

03) Stage Theme 1 – Rush'n Attack – NES – Kiyohiro Sada – 00:07:51 

 

04) Bad Fairy – Rolling Thunder 3 – Genesis – Masakatsu Maekawa – 00:09:58 

 

05) The Hard Corps Blues – Contra: Hard Corps – Genesis - Hiroshi Kobayashi, Akira Sōji, Kenji Miyaoka, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka, and/or Hirofumi Taniguchi – 00:13:06 

 

06) River – Bloody Wolf – TG16 - Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, and/or Yusuke Takahama – 00:15:17 

 

07) Level 4-1 – Blazing Chrome – Multiplatform - Dominic Ninmark, Tiago Santos, and/or Kristine – 00:16:16:47 

 

08) Hoodlum Dolls – Huntdown – Multiplatform – Tommy Gustafsson – 00:19:19 

 

09) Drifter – Ruiner – Multiplatform - Piotr Niedzielski – 00:22:07 

 

10) It Will All Come Together – Neon Abyss – Multiplatform – Min He – 00:25:32 

 

11) Future World 1 – The Chaos Engine 2 – Amiga – Richard Joseph – 00:28:41 

 

12) Infested Living Quarters – Cyber Lip – Neo Geo AES / MVS – Yasuo Yamate – 00:31:00 

 

13) Himitsu Factory – Metal Slug 3 – Neo Geo AES / MVS - Takushi Hiyamuta, Yoshihiko Wada, Hori_Hori, Q_Jirou, and/or Maitaro – 00:32:55 

 

14) Sunset Strip – NARC – Arcade - Eugene P. Jarvis, George N. Petro, Todd Allen, Jack E. Haeger, Mark Loffredo, John Newcomer, Larry DeMar, Brian Schmidt, Mark Locasio, Glenn Shipp, Lin Young, and/or Al Lasko – 00:35:04 

 

15) Venus – Doom Troopers – Genesis – Fletcher Beasley – 00:36:45 

 

16) Neo City – Gunstar Super Heroes – GBA – Norio Hanzawa – 00:39:56 

 

17) Mountains – Super Cyborg –  Multiplatform - Vladimir Tugay (aka Darkman007) - 00:42:26 

 

18) Stages 1, 3, 5, 6 & 8 – Sly Spy – Arcade – Azusa Hara, and/or Hiroaki Yoshida – 00:44:25 

 

19) City (Low Intensity) - Broforce – Multiplatform - Deon van Heerden – 00:47:03 

 

20) High Tech Level 1 – B.O.B. - Genesis – Alex Rudis – 00:48:52 

 

21) Farmtown Theme – Guerrilla War – NES - Kazuhiro Nishida, Yoko Osaka, and/or Toshikazu Tanaka – 00:50:36 

 

22) Cobra Main Base – G.I. Joe – NES - Yusuke Takahama, and/or Nobuyuki Shioda – 00:52:28 

 

23) What the Heck? - Earthworm Jim – Genesis – Tommy Tallarico – 00:54:09 

 

24) Clip Joint Calamity – Cuphead – Multiplatform – Luke Hatton, Michael Benzie, Chris Sweetman, Jack Raeburn, Samuel Justice, Joe Hudson, and/or Hannah Marsh, Luke De Ayora, and/or Denise Hatton – 00:56:30 

 

25) Alley / Sewer – Dick Tracy – Genesis -  STI Sound Team – 01:00:20 

 

26) Neo Kobe Steel Factory – Contra III: The Alien Wars – SNES - Miki Higashino, Masanori Adachi, Tappi Iwase, and/or Aki Hata – 01:02:10 

 

27) Gate to Hell – Super Ghouls and Ghosts – SNES – Mari Yamaguchi – 01:05:56 

 

28) Anything But Tangerines – Earthworm Jim 2 – Saturn – Tommy Tallarico – 01:07:58 

 

29) Missions 2-2 and 4 – Rambo III – Genesis – Kazuhiko Nagai – 01:12:05 

 

30) Kessilag – Super Time Force Ultra – Multiplatform – Jason DeGroot – 01:14:20 

 

31) Red Afterimage – Elevator Action Returns – Saturn – Yasuhisa Watanabe – 01:17:16 

 

32) Joule's Wish – Azure Striker Gunvolt – Multiplatform – Ippo Yamada, Ryou Kawakami, Katsunori Yoshino, Mina Hatazoe, and/or Kotaro Yamada – 01:21:32 

 

B1) Outro – 01:25:56 

 

 

Music Block Runtime: 01:22:14, Total Episode Runtime: 01:39:46 

 

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

 

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Thanks for listening! Join us again April 1st for C1E83 (Channel 1, Episode 83):A very unique look at 27 tracks! - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N! 

 

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