So, I've had a video game jingle stuck in my head for like decades, and every time I looked at let's plays of the game I *knew* it was from, it wasn't the right music.
The game in question was Capcom's 1942, an arcade shooter from 1984 where you fly a P-38 off of a carrier in the Pacific (somehow), shoot down a bunch of planes, sink a bunch of ships, and rack up your high score. But the *original* score for the game is some weird theme using only a drum and a whistle, and I was remembering something far more epic.
So today I made another search, and finally found a port comparison - because like most arcade games it was ported to every platform imaginable - and when it got to the C64 port I finally heard it again.
As it turns out, the music isn't even original to the game, it's a rearrangment for the C64s sound chip of the theme from the movie "633 squadron", which is a movie I'd never even heard of:
Aside from the music, which I for whatever reason like a lot better than the original Capcom "music", the C64 port of 1942 is pretty much crap, as the resolution of the C64 was terrible and they cut the game down to where I found one full "longplay" that was only fifteen minutes.
So, what video game music do *you* remember fondly from your childhood, and can you still find it?