Music in games

[mizapf]

Do you know more about music in our TI games? In most cases they are heavily adapted and only sound remotely similar.

So far we have:

 

Alpiner

Peer Gynt Suite: Anitra's Dance

 

Tombstone City

Hell in Texas

 

Hunt The Wumpus

(Intro theme) Peer Gynt Suite: In the Hall of the Mountain King

(Success) ? Well-known hunting fanfare, don't know the name

(Failure) Chopin: Funeral March

 

A-Maze-Ing

(Escaped) Wilhelm Tell Overture Final

 

 

Maybe you can add more here.

 

 

 

[sometimes99er]

Alpiner

Peer Gynt Suite: Anitra's Dance

 

ralphb demoed Nonogram in the first post and video of his Flash ROM Cart development thread. I was surprised and thought something wrong. I then ran the music at 50 Hz instead of 60 Hz, and the tempo, and mood of the song really changed.

 

Try out that Alpiner song. At 60 Hz and you get something a bit happy and upbeat. And at 50Hz, it's almost sad.

 

 

 

 

 

[mizapf]

Hustle

Intro theme: Camptown Races

Finish: For He's A Jolly Good Fellow

[am1933]

Super Demon attack: No idea who did the music, but should probably be named "schizophrenic mania as programmed by a sick mind (with bluesy interlude)".

[Asmusr]

Protector 2:

[Asmusr]

Yathzee:

[Asmusr]

Music Maker:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoVSdF0xtwI

[Asmusr]

Driving Demon:

[mizapf]

Try out that Alpiner song. At 60 Hz and you get something a bit happy and upbeat. And at 50Hz, it's almost sad.

 

I fully agree. I first heard that song on my European TI console, so it was a surprise for me how joyful it appears on a 60Hz console. Yes, I always found the song somewhat sad or ... schicksalsträchtig ... I don't know an English word for that, maybe "fate-bearing" or so.

[mizapf]

Tennis

Te Deum (Charpentier), aka Eurovision Theme

 

Berlin

National anthem of Germany

 

Shamus

(Well-known, but Google doesn't react to my humming)

[LASooner]

Driving Demon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXBQ57em24A

Some of us know this as the music from the Commodore 64 ads.

[Asmusr]

Some of us know this as the music from the Commodore 64 ads.

 

I'm sure J. S. Bach would have appreciated that.

[senior_falcon]

Shamus = Funeral march of a marionette by Charles Gounod. Also used in "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" television show from the early '60s.

[+adamantyr]

Alpiner

The third successful song (heard in levels 7-9) is the opening of "Promenade" from "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Mussorgsky.

 

Edited September 12, 2016 by adamantyr

[+adamantyr]

Jawbreaker II

 

Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11, "The Turk March"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHRp7jjaOg

 

My favorite rendition of this was a full orchestra version I had an a cassette LONG ago, performed by the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

[mizapf]

Soccer

Oh When the Saints Go Marching In

 

Some more things to find out:

 

Moon Patrol

? (Sounds like some Blues)

 

Dig Dug

?

 

Blackjack & Poker

?

 

Burgertime

?

[Tursi]

Pretty sure that Moon Patrol and Dig Dug are original compositions... I've never seen or heard reference to otherwise.

 

(edit) Google credits Moon Patrol to Takashi Nishiyama (who also did work for Kung Fu Master and Street Fighter (1), they he may have been the designer rather than composer. Wikipedia doesn't go any deeper and further requests a citation on the name.)

 

Wikipedia credits Dig Dug's music to Yuriko Keino. Both credits are for the arcade versions, of course.

 

Burgertime is also (I believe) original - no credits online though.

Edited September 13, 2016 by Tursi

[unhuman]

Cannonball Blitz had the Caisson song IIRC. I don't think I have it anymore to check.

[senior_falcon]

Cannonball Blitz had the Caisson song IIRC. I don't think I have it anymore to check.

I remember it being "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", but I cannot check for a while. Remodeling the study and the computer is put up...Grrr....

[Toucan]

How about Protector II's title screen music? That seems like it was probably a classic composition.

[mizapf]

See #5 above.