♫MAIN THEME from The Secret of Monkey Island (SNES Arrangement) - NintendoComplete
119This is my arrangement of Michael Land's theme from the 1990 LucasArts PC adventure The Secret of Monkey Island. I have arranged the song for native playback on SNES hardware, and the audio in this video was recorded directly from a launch-model SNES console.
"Look behind you, a three headed monkey!"
Monkey Island is one of those games I played as a kid that I still have am unbelievable amount of nostalgia for. The humor was brilliant - I can still remember much of its dialogue word-for-word all these years later - and I always loved the Caribbean setting.
A huge part of that setting was the soundtrack, so here's my go at rendering the classic intro theme on the SNES. I gotta say, I had no idea quite how difficult it would be to track a song that was 90% percussion instruments on the SNES, but if you're a fan of marimbas, steel drums, and bongos, there's plenty of all that going on here.
I hope you enjoy this one as much as I did making it! :)
And if you haven't played the game, I'd highly recommend it! ...the original versions, that is. Not the HD remake.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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