♫BUBBLE BOBBLE Theme, 3 SNES Arrangements - NintendoComplete
127This is a recording of three different arrangements of Tadashi Kimijima's main theme from Taito's Bubble Bobble. They have been arranged for native playback on SNES hardware. All of the audio in this video was recorded directly from a launch-model SNES deck.
(Yes, that includes the sampled Taito slogan!)
Okay, I think I might actually be insane after hearing this song so many times. I suppose there are worse songs to be driven around the bend with, though. You really can't go wrong with Zuntata. I love this game!
0:00 Taito arcade logo, "Catch the heart, Taito!"
0:05 The classic theme, mimicking the sound of the original arcade game
1:53 The "Spare Parts Factory" stage's remix of main theme, based on the tune from the 2005 DS game Bubble Bobble Revolution. (Remember, the game with the hideously ugly box art? The one that had to be recalled because the initial release version had a game breaking bug?)
3:38 The remixed version of the main theme from the 2002 GBA game Bubble Bobble Old & New.
These were so much fun to do in different styles. I made the first one with samples recorded from the arcade game's PSG waveforms. It was the hardest of the three to put together because of the need to layer several samples at a time in order to get it to sound anywhere near close to the original version. Most of the samples are only 200-300 bytes each, so that was kinda neat.
I had to try my hand at the Spare Parts Factory stage theme since it's just so damned cool. I could imagine it being Super Drunk's favorite theme to whistle if he was an officer at some gulag that Bub and Bob had been locked away at. Or maybe an alternate theme for the Smithy fight at the end of Super Mario RPG.The key progressions are sweet, and I had a lot of fun with the anvil noises. I sampled those directly from a Fairlight CMI patch, which is actually the same sample that Brad Fiedel used in the T2 theme. (Random side note before I forget - none of the samples in this track or the next were pulled from the original game tracks. Most of them are custom original samples.)
The theme from Bubble Bobble Old & New was always one that I liked, and I wanted to try putting it on the SNES to try to improve its sound quality and play around with some different parts in it. I didn't care for the guitars in the original, so I decided to turn it into a Deliverance-style banjo solo. I was pretty happy with how that came out. Oh, and if you listened to any Brit pop back in the mid-nineties, you'll might recognize that famous quack that I used during the passage leading up to the loop point around 7.5 minutes in. Props if you know what it comes from :D I'm curious how many people actually remember the song, now that I think about it.
I also just realized that the two remixes are both video game-style dance tracks. I have no idea how that hadn't occurred to me until just now.
Anyways, thanks for listening!
If you'd like to see my playthrough of the NES version Bubble Bobble (where I pulled the background clip from), you can find it here: https://youtu.be/VyK_cpp9pT4
If you'd like to hear any of my other hardware-based covers/arrangements/remixes, you can find my playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3gSj_kh1fHueSujqQR8xQQ84DWIjrU4F
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