Maniac Mansion punk song

What about “Crowded House”? :wink:

Ah! That’s why Ron doesn’t answer phone calls!

Great. Now I have a earworm…

@all (and especially @ZakPhoenixMcKracken): Is there a remix of that tune out there? :thinking:

Hardware limitations: The C64 loads the Sphinx always first!

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Hehe, my theory is that had it been true to life and you still entered from north (game direction not irl) you would have had to approach the Sphinx facing away from you to the left side with all three of the pyramids on the right side (and none in the background).

In Zak you enter from 4 big pyramids in the background (raising the total count of Zak´s big pyramids to 5 instead of 3 :sweat_smile:, yes there are smaller ones but not with the big peaks like that) with the Khufu Pyramid on the left with the Sphinx looking at it to the right instead of away (which is something you can see on every photo where the frontfacing Sphinx has the Khafre Pyramid directly behind it and the Khufu Pyramid slightly to the right).

But I only thought of that in recent years as well and didn´t realise that when I was there myself.

So they might have re-arrgenged the whole area because it looks and plays better that way (with more pyramids in the backround than just two). But would still be interesting how much thought they put into that.

…now, does anyone know how the pyramid plateau in mexico actually looks like? :joy:

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Not that I know.

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Yes!

(Well I consider that to be a remix of the original)

An actual remix on the original hardware of another tune:

This one is pretty impressive too with actual musical instruments:

There’s a whole bunch of remixes of the intro tune out there, but this one remains the reference version:

(I also realize now that one of my favorite tunes, the airport jingle is hard to find as it wasn’t ported to the FMTowns version)

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To stay closer to the original topic (haha, as if!)

The original

The punk remix

The bit-more-than-I-can-bear remix

The awesome-they-should-play-this-in-a-jazz-club version (keep listening for the bonus bit near the end … that is the kind of music Syd and Razor actually played!)

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This guy reminds me of a certain Italian gentleman I know. There’s especially a slight resemblance around the eyes. :thinking:

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Yeah, I also thought for a minute it was @Guga Must be the joyful light in their eyes while playing “nerdy” videogame music on piano.
His youtube channel is has some other great C64 tunes on piano - highly recommended!

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Must to check!
But my Italian gentleman is generally called Zak.

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Wohoo! Thanks for the music list(s)! :smiley: I’ll listen to them after work!

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… well, I was referring to the tune played by Melissa on Mars :sweat_smile:

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AHAHAHA!!! Well, I should try to play that tune on the piano!

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Also listen and try playing some others like Defender of the Crown or Master of Magic (from memory!) here’s the complete playlist:

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OK, then: I need a dark red shirt, a black vest, a black bow tie, black pants, a sharp look on camera, that’s all. The face is already like that! :grin:

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You’ll need a few more outfits… (click on the playlist icon on the top to see all 24 videos)
Or do you already have a caveman and wrestler with eye patch costume ? :sweat_smile:

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I have this one :slight_smile:

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You might also need a fingerpoke-worn piano