I just tried playing Sword of Hope on Gameboy and got a big surprise at the first battle. The bgm was ripped from level 60 of Snoopy's Magic Show. Any more examples of music recycled across unrelated games? There's also the sound fx from Bart vs. the Space Mutants used in Home Alone 2 and Swamp Thing. *ick*
My favorite was "Erika to Satoru no Yumebouken" (Track #24). It's straight out of Karate Kid. So here's a game using mostly expansion sound, then suddenly you press Next Track, and hear Karate Kid!
strat wrote:
I just tried playing Sword of Hope on Gameboy and got a big surprise at the first battle. The bgm was ripped from level 60 of Snoopy's Magic Show. Any more examples of music recycled across unrelated games?
- Pro Wrestling wasn't the only game to use Pro Wrestling's title screen music.
- Joust wasn't the only game to use Joust's title screen music.
- Guitar Hero and Rock Band use the same music occasionally, and GH3 even used "Paranoid" that was earlier heard in Rock n Roll Racing.
- The NES version of Jurassic Park used the theme from Comic Bakery, whose bass line has more than a passing resemblance to "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)".
- E1M1 from Doom sounds awfully similar to "Caverns of Cthulu" from Klax for NES.
- K.K. Song. Oh gosh, K.K. Song.
- Konami has recycled some of its old games' songs into Beatmania and Dance Dance Revolution songs. Compare Burning Heat from Gradius 2 to Burning Heat from DDRMAX 2: DDR 7th Mix.
Some examples involve appropriation of pieces that are either public domain or believed to be public domain:
- Home Alone (for Super NES) used two pieces by Tchaikovsky that have appeared in Tetris: "Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy" (music 1 from Tetris for NES) and "Russian Dance Trepak" (the B-type level 9 completion music from Tetris for Game Boy).
- Tetяis by Atari Games used "Troika" and "Karinka" from Tetris (J), and here's the kicker: the NES port of Atari Games's version even kept the Engrish misspelling of the latter.
- Dance Dance Revolution Extreme used "Sakura", the entry theme of a Punch-Out!! opponent, as one of the "Legend Road" songs.
- Tetris for NES used another Punch-Out!! opponent's entry theme as the B-type completion music.
- The SMB3 world 1 music seems to use something from the song Jingle Bells, by The Jordanaires & Orion (at time 0:40).
- The MM9 credits/staff music seems to be based on Punch-Out's ending theme (SNES).
Many composers recycle themselves non-purposely. For example it's fun how "Kuja's theme" in FF9 is partially recicled off "Intention of the Earth" from FF5, and how "Riding Shoopuf" of FF10 is partially reciled of "Main Theme" of FF4.
It's not like the intentionally remixed songs however, such as "Fanfare" or "Gurugu's Volcano".
Track 29 of the Mario Tennis GBS (the song that plays when you're inside a training building) is the same as Track 6 of the Star Ocean Blue Sphere GBS.
Both games have the same composer though, obviously.
Adventure Island 2 and 3 (NES) seem to share a lot of music as well, but that's really no surprise.
Edit: And then there's Totaka's song that shows up in numerous games, but that's another story for another time.
- Hello Kitty World bonus levels and Nintendo World Championships intermissions.
- "Fever" from Dr. Mario and "Bad" from the album Bad by Michael Jackson.
- Half of the original soundtrack from Sonic the Hedghehog 3 and a bunch of Michael Jackson songs.
- Another part of "Fever" from Dr. Mario and an old Play-Doh commercial.
- "Chill" from Dr. Mario and the theme from TV's 3-2-1 Contact.
- "Resetti's theme" from Animal Crossing: Wild World and "Take Me Out" from Guitar Hero. proof
Track 9 in Ninja Gaiden Shadow on the GB is more or less the same as the boss fight song from Blue Shadow on the NES (Shadow of The Ninja for you americans).
Several songs were borrowed wholesale from FF4j into SMRPG (Since Square did work on it, it's not plagiarism but I was disappointed.)
I'm pretty sure there's no Final Fantasy music in SMRPG except the Culex battle.
I almost forgot a really cool one.
Listen to the VS theme from Wario's Woods (NES), and then listen to Rainbow Road from Mario Kart (SNES).
- "Ode to Joy" appears in Dian Shi Mali (the "PUSH START TO RICH" game) as the win jingle. It also appears in Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix as "End of the Century".
- "Korobeiniki" appears in Tetris 1.1 (for Game Boy) as "A-TYPE" and in subsequent Tetris games to the point where The Tetris Company managed to register the song as a sound trademark. But it also shows up in Dance Maniax 2nd Mix as "Happy-hopper".
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
It seems likely that the thread starter meant music literally reused across games such as his example or Jurassic Park/Comic Bakery, but it is also interesting to just point out similarities between themes.
One I always thought was neat is the melody from the ending of Super Mario Bros. 2 making an appearance in Breath of Fire 2, only much slower. Unlike many reappearing melodies which are only vague similarities, this one is almost note for note. Compare:
Mario 2
Breath of Fire 2
Of course it's kind of an obvious chord progression, which I can imagine being recreated by accident. It sounds like it's based on Canon in D's sort of progression.
By the way am I the only once who find a strong similarity between those 2 (not that I like them) ?
Breah of Fire 2
Super Mario Bross
UncleSporky wrote:
Of course it's kind of an obvious chord progression, which I can imagine being recreated by accident.
You mean like how "Vertigo" by U2
accidentally recreated "You Keep Me Hanging On" by the Supremes?
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It sounds like it's based on Canon in D's sort of progression.
Don't get me started, ha.
Don't get me started in here.
The wisemen chambers in Rygar resembles the title music in Dr. Jekyll & Me. Hyde... not sure if it originally was borrowed somewhere. Confused
Edit: Defender II has that Joust music & Punch Out!! character theme.
Well, I know Bart Vs. The Space Mutants, Swamp Thing, and Home Alone 2 are all composed by Mark Van Hecke and were developed by Imagineering. Bart's Escape at Camp Deadly for the Game Boy uses Space Mutants' music, so if you ever want to hear that game's music on GameBoy...
Also, Ode to Joy is used in Die Hard when the terrorists are attempting their escape.
I know a lot of Color Dreams musicians used real songs in the public domain so they wouldn't have to worry about copyright issues.
Most of the Beam Software games also used borrowed or ported music as well.
Dwedit wrote:
My favorite was "Erika to Satoru no Yumebouken" (Track #24). It's straight out of Karate Kid. So here's a game using mostly expansion sound, then suddenly you press Next Track, and hear Karate Kid!
It actually wasn't used in the game proper; someone suck it in there to use as an easter egg... and what an easter egg!
http://tcrf.net/Erika_to_Satoru_no_Yume_Bouken
Listen to the title music for Days of Thunder and track 8 of Dash Galaxy. It's basically the same song just on a different sound driver. The Days of Thunder version is extended though.
Wagyan Land 1 and 2, and Yo! Noid has the same engine, NOW Productions made the game engine used in these games.
Widget also has a song (Track 7) that reminds me of the building level from Yo! Noid (Tracks 8 and 9).
For more details, check out the Wiki at PinEight, Of which it is posted in ''Songs that Sound Alike in Video Games''
By the way, Hello Kitty World is a conversion of Balloon Kid for Famicom.
Doommaster1994 wrote:
Well, I know Bart Vs. The Space Mutants, Swamp Thing, and Home Alone 2 are all composed by Mark Van Hecke and were developed by Imagineering.
You forgot Barbie for the NES?
Well, Mark has composed so many NES games, so I
not gonna list all if them. I also forgot to mention these two things:
1. Both Days of Thunder and Dash Galaxy were composed by the beautiful Tania Smith.
2. The Imagineering sound driver was created by Alex DeMeo so maybe he did the sound effects. I know Frank Covitz and Scott Marshall also worked on audio there. Speaking of which, does anyone have the manual to Heavy Shreddin'?
Jaleco's two games "EDF" (arcade/SNES) and "Dogfight Spirit" (FDS) share the same song in stage 1.
Some songs in Action 52 are recycled from some songs Ed Bogas composed for The Music Studio. This is kinda stupid, everyone already knows about it, and nobody will care, but it still counts, right?
tepples wrote:
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It sounds like it's based on Canon in D's sort of progression.
Don't get me started, ha.
Don't get me started in here.
nes version of might and magic has that as the opening theme. very well done.
shadowgate, deja-vu, and uninvited all share the same music as well and its the same company making the games.
in megami tensei II the slot machine/poker/betting games sound almost like johnny B Goode
maniac mansion apparently has some tunes that are based off songs too.
the boys are back in town
the boys are still back -dave's cd player for example.
lotta cool stuff.
Zepper wrote:
- The MM9 credits/staff music seems to be based on Punch-Out's ending theme (SNES).
I was going to say "no way", but after listening to it it does resemble it quite much. I think it could be unintentional but not coincidental.