5 More Rare Crossover Motif Melodies
by Lerako on Jan 23rd, 2012
Not satisfied with submersing your eardrums in choice boffo tunes during our first Top 5 Rare Crossover Motif Melodies List, we’re back at it a second time with not more, or less, but the same number of tunes we featured last time. That’s right, prepare yourself for 5 more Crossover tunes that we’ve managed to find since publishing our last list! This time around we’ve managed to use the power of technology, sheer will and Alchopops to feature short excerpts of the tunes in question with a little nifty player that you’ll find underneath each image. The first player will give you a snippet of the songs latest appearance wherever it’s managed to find itself, and the player directly underneath will play the tune in its original uncanny context; allowing you to stop and swap on the fly to compare both tunes in seconds! Treat yourself to a bit of audio Déjà vu that will further link your favorite Rare tunes (and perhaps a few you haven’t heard before) for this spangly late January feature. This is 5 More Rare Crossover Motif Melodies!
#5. TAKING THE MICKEY OUT OF DIDDY
While Diddy Kong might have wriggled free from his platforming roots to take part in the self-proclaimed Wild Racing Adventure back in 1997, Diddy Kong Racing would hardly spell the last effort for Rare to strap a few woodland creatures in Go-Karts to have at it. While a spiritual port of Diddy Kong Racing for Game Boy Color wasn’t in the cards, Mickey’s Racing Adventure took the reigns from the chimp instead, offering players a chance to race as their favorite Disney characters – albeit Pluto – as nobody cares about him. If you’re still missing Diddy however, there’s a bit of solace if you listen to Mickey’s Frontier Theme which features an identical tune to Haunted Woods which was featured initially in Diddy Kong Racing. Spooky stuff to be sure!
Mickey’s Frontier – Mickey’s Racing Adventure (David Wise)
Haunted Woods – Diddy Kong Racing (David Wise)
#4. PERILOUS PUTREFIED PIÑATA PARTIES!
Perhaps the Lord Of Games was trying to tell us something when discussing Viva Piñata‘s possible survival horror sequel in Banjo-Kazooie: Nut’s & Bolts. While the series seems ill-fitted for such a transition with its adorable Island inhabitants, the latter half of a certain song called Ripen and Bloom might change your mind. Once you’ve spent an entire week on Piñata Island this charming pastoral tune will have you recalling the Zombie Pirates Theme featured in Grabbed by the Ghoulies. Considering the amount of classic tunes that have been remastered and orchestrated for a new lease on their virtual lives, it warms our hearts to see this timeless shanty from Grabbed by the Ghoulies join the fray. Run ye through!
Ripen and Bloom – Viva Piñata (Grant Kirkhope)
Zombie Pirates – Grabbed by the Ghoulies (Grant Kirkhope
#3. ACT YOUR AGE, JOANNA! GADGETS FOR TOYS
As Joanna Dark uses her prowess of stealth to progress through the corridors of dataDyne for her initial investigation, you could be forgiven for paying too much attention to your objectives in Perfect Dark rather than listening to the chilling ambiance instead. If you were to take a few seconds away from saving the universe however, you’ll likely notice a familiar tune play off as the pace quickens, which can be attributed to the previous Nintendo 64 title, Donkey Kong 64. Manage to find your way into the foreboding Frantic Factory level and you’ll come across a massive cobbled-together toy monster with an identical sounding theme. Going from frantic to futuristic, Ms. Dark is prepared to take on a sinister corporation with an appropriated toy monster tune!
DataDyne Central Investigation – Perfect Dark (Grant Kirkhope)
Toy Attack! – Donkey Kong 64 (Grant Kirkhope)
#2. FROM THE DESERTS TO THE DESSERTS
Aside from hosting a plethora of new Piñatas with Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise, the sugarcoated sequel also saw the introduction of two new areas called the Piñarctic and Dessert Desert, the latter of which featured a number of hot beats to complement the sweltering humidity. The atmosphere might be comparable to the massive stretching desert in Donkey Kong 64 called Angry Aztec and if you happened to hear a bit of a new tune in Trouble in Paradise called Sunrise Whisper as you tended and toured your sandy gardens it becomes obvious where the two titles share their correlation. Specifically the choruses of both tunes are one in the same, with Piñata adding a new dimension of desert depth to take the ancient tune into modern music.
Sunrise Whisper – Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise (Grant Kirkhope)
Angry Aztec – Donkey Kong 64 (Grant Kirkhope)
#1. STOP THIS TUNE ‘N’ SWOP IT FOR ANOTHER
Released just years apart, and featuring many of the same team, Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong 64 share many traits that go beyond standard game mechanic. If you’ve played through the Apes’ adventure in the third dimension it’s likely you’ve come across a gluttonous pair called Scoff ‘N’ Troff who you’ll have to unwillingly feed all your combined bananas to in order to have the pair explode never to be seen again – we hoped. If you happened to satiate their hunger, you’d have a victory theme sound off as you unlocked the bosses door behind them. While Banjo-Kazooie was released first, an identical theme for the Stop ‘N’ Swop Mystery Egg locations could be heard, but it wasn’t unearthed until much later, making itself a musical paradox…
Scoff ‘N’ Troff Reward – Donkey Kong 64 (Grant Kirkhope)
Stop ‘N’ Swop Reward – Banjo-Kazooie (Grant Kirkhope)
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