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archardJoined: Jan 11 2007 |
Nice job http://www.gametabs.net/carnival-of-penguins/thin-ice Loved the fun facts too.
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thanks, but you switched the
xuwawa
god of empty NES Location: san antonio -ish Joined: Apr 22 2009 |
thanks, but you switched the game name with the song name
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I switched
auriplane
Joined: Sep 06 2008 |
I switched 'em!! http://www.gametabs.net/carnival-of-penguins/thin-ice The URL is still the same, because those don't change even when you update the title/game, unless you remake the tab. But the title and game are renamed :-)
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STATS FTW
xuwawa
god of empty NES Location: san antonio -ish Joined: Apr 22 2009 |
thank you! my guess is cos it's the first and only intellivision song on here, can't imagine many people know the game, but then again it's been in all the intv game bundles released. yeah no, i'm sticking with it being the only game for that system here.
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I think it also helps being
auriplane
Joined: Sep 06 2008 |
I think it also helps being on the most recent tabs list on the front page :-) I'm old enough that I had an Intellivision ^-^ Well, my mom did--I was born in '81 and played it a little bit, but she got it before I was born IIRC. But I was too young to remember it very well these days. My earliest gaming memories are of Pitfall 2 for Atari 2600, Quest for the Rings for Odyssey 2, and Smurfs for Colecovision XD
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true, it's my only tab that's
xuwawa
god of empty NES Location: san antonio -ish Joined: Apr 22 2009 |
true, it's my only tab that's been on the front page while stats were going. the earliest i remember [born 85] was sucking at super mario brothers cos i'd just try to run through the entire thing- i was 3. the guy who owned the ranch my dad worked on had an nes. that and i remember a super mario bros 3 arcade machine at some restaurant we'd go to with our dad. don't think i ever played it there, but i do remember watching the intro [red curtain bit] way too much. thinking about that earliest one, now i'm remembering stuff i haven't thought about in a long time, from that house and the house we lived in even before that [we moved around so much it's the easiest way to figure out timeframes].
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xuwawa
god of empty NES
Location: san antonio -ish
Joined: Apr 22 2009
Intellivision - Thin Ice - Carnival of the Penguins transcription [txt,mid,zip]
Useless Information Follows:
The first game music George "the fat man" Sanger wrote, for an Intellivision game developed in 1983 [released in 1986 post-crash] called Thin Ice. It also went through incarnations as Arctic Squares, Iceman, Duncan's Thin Ice, Voochko on Ice ('84 Sarajevo Winter Olympics mascot) but the original version was released post-crash by a different company named INTV.
The ~15 seconds of music was originally going to be licensed for $100, but Mattel kept putting it off and after demoing the game at trade shows with the music, Sanger was able to negotiate for $1200. That's $80 per second, and more than $10 per note.
On a non-musical note, the programmer for the game, Julie Hoshizaki, was one of my Game Development and Computer Science professors here in San Anto.