Burgers on the mountain (NES)

Entry posted by atari2600land May 21, 2021

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I got frustrated working on the Atari 2600 version of the game, so I went back to work on the NES version. I will likely give up the 2600 version because it wasn't being up to my high standards. The last time I was working on the NES version was a month ago. I thought about where I left off and I figured out that I needed a new song for the mountain level. I thought to myself "Self, what would be a good song about a mountain be?"

- "Billy the Mountain" Frank Zappa (too long)

- "First There Is a Mountain" Donovan (probably copyrighted)

I needed a song about a mountain IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. Then I thought about that old song "She'll be Coming Down the Mountain When She Comes." If that isn't in the public domain I'm still using it because it took a while to figure out the notes to it. (We used to sing that in grade school. All of us third and fourth graders would sit into the B pod place. They called them "pods". A pod was 1-2, B pod was 3-4, and C pod was 5-6. And sing songs that some old lady played on the piano. That was probably one of them. How I remember this I have no idea.)

So anyway I figured out the notes and put the song in there. I got it in the key of F major. I was trying for C major. But F major is still kind of easy because it only has one flat, whereas C has no flats nor sharps. Now with that done, I need to think of a new screen for the fifth level.

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carlsson 27,765

Posted May 21, 2021 (edited)

Night on Bald Mountain was composed 1867, orchestrated 1886. Mussorgsky passed away 140 years ago, Rimsky-Korsakov has been dead for 113 years. Except for if you use a modern rearrangement as your basis, I think it would fall under free music.

Perhaps though it would give the level too much of an enchanted feeling, like those are witchcraft burgers.

Edited May 21, 2021 by carlsson