Channel 2 - C2E5: ”Nihon Dake De‪”‬ Nerd Noise Radio

Today’s Broadcast is C2E5, for Theme Thursday, September 23rd, 2021. Today’s Theme is music from games only available in Japan, on a program we’re calling “Nihon Dake De” (loosely translated: “Only in Japan”)!
 
Track Number - Track - Game - System - Composer - Selected by - Timestamp
 
01) Greeting - 00:00:00
02) Saturn - Star Cruizer - Sharp X68000 - Toshiya Yamanaka - St. John
Music - 00:00:03
Introduction - 00:02:49
Conversation - 00:04:57
03) Stage 1 - Madō King Granzort - SuperGrafx - Norihiko Yamanuki - Hugues
Music - 00:10:30
Conversation - 00:12:50
04) Torrid City - Metal Stoker - PC Engine - Hiroto Saitō, and/or Nozomu Takahashi - St. John
Music - 00:17:33
Conversation - 00:19:43
05) Knock You Down - Live-A-Live - Super Famicom - Yoko Shimomura - Hugues
Music - 00:24:57
Conversation - 00:27:05
Belated “Top of the Show” Business - 00:30:45
06) I’ll Introduce - Yu Yu Hakusho: Makyou Toitsusen - Mega Drive - St. John
Music - 00:41:35
Conversation - 00:44:07
07) I Wanna Close to You - Misty Blue - PC88 (OPNA) - Yuzu Koshiro - Hugues
Music - 00:47:47
Conversation - 00:50:33
08) Fu-Ten / Mojibri Unkorashu - Mojib-Ribbon - PS2 - Masaya Matsuura* - St. John
Music - 00:54:57
Conversation - 00:57:23
09) Title - Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School - Famicom Disk System - Nobuo Uematsu* - Hugues
Music - 01:02:05
Conversation - 01:03:42
10) Level 1 Warning - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake - MSX (SCC) - Masahiro Ikariko, Mutsuhiko Izumi, Yuko Kurahashi, Tomoya Tomita, Kazuhiko Uehara, Yuji Takenouchi, and/or Tsuyoshi Sekito - St. John
Music - 01:08:29
Conversation - 01:10:44
11) Springdale 2040 Night - Yo-Kai Watch 4 - Nintendo Switch - Kenchiro Saigo - Hugues
Music - 01:14:42
Conversation - 01:17:38
12) Stage 4 - Chip Chan Kick - PCFX - Hitoshi Sakimoto and/or Masaharu Iwata - St. John
Music - 01:21:06
Conversation - 01:23:06
13) Remain - Psychic Detective Series vol. 3: Aya - FM Towns / Mega CD - Yasuhito Saito - Hugues
Music - 01:26:18
Conversation - 01:28:45
14) A Refined Enchanted Cave - Chaos Seed: Fusui Kairoki - Saturn - Yasunori Shiono, Katsuhiro Hayashi, and/or Yukio Nakajima *
Music - 01:31:25
Conversation - 01:34:14
Housekeeping Cycle
Next Episode - 01:36:05
Special Announcement - 01:36:58
Our other shows - 01:37:42
Zero4 Champ II Discussion - 01:40:33
Sign-off - 01:42:32
15) Track 11 - Zero4 Champ II - PC Engine (CD) - Takeshi Ijima and/or Katsuhiro Hayashi - Hugues
Music - 01:42:46
16) Blooper Reel - 01:44:43
 
Total Episode Runtime: 01:46:38
 
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 @retrogameclubpodcast and on Twitter @rgcpodcast.
 
Hugues’ blog can be found here: 
 
https://huguesjohnson.com/
 
As promised in the episode, here are the links to the [now out of date] “all call” with the TG16 miniseries story included, as well as each of the three episodes:
 
June 2020 Special Announcement:
 
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/special-announcement-june-2020/id1191401173?i=1000476382960
 
C1E47a: “Turbotastic”:
 
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e47a-turbotastic/id1191401173?i=1000449555136
 
C1E47b: “The Little Engine that Could”:
 
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e47b-the-little/id1191401173?i=1000450383196
 
C1E47c: “Tidal Wavetable, aka ‘The Continuing Adventures of Buzz Lightyear’”:
 
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e47c-tidal/id1191401173?i=1000451330915
 
And a surprise bonus: In the episode, I had mentioned how wild the Chip Chan Kick track gets when you reverse it. Well, so, here is a sound file with the track in both directions, backward first, and then forward. It is taken from an Archive SUPER BONUS four-part series called “Back to Front - the 100” featuring each track from bo