Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy! Episode IV: Secret of the Oracle
System: PC/AT
Publisher: Apogee Software
Release date: 1991-12-15
01. | Shadows Don't Scare Commander Keen!! 0:21 + 0:21 | |
02. | You've Got to Eat Your Vegetables!! 0:54 + 0:54 | |
03. | Too Hot to Handle 0:17 + 0:17 | |
04. | Tropical Ghost Oasis 0:46 + 0:46 | |
05. | Welcome to a Kick In Yore Pants In Good Ole Hillville! 0:33 + 0:33 | |
06. | In a Land of Wonderment and Awe 0:13 + 0:13 | |
07. | Bullfrog 1:02 + 1:02 | |
08. | Dopey 0:32 + 0:32 | |
Total: 4:35 + 4:35 |
Version | Date | Author | Description |
---|---|---|---|
1.00 | 2014-08-24 | The Golden Horse | Initial release. |
1.50 | 2014-08-25 | The Golden Horse | Added the lyrics to "You've Got to Eat Your Vegetables!!" in this text file and in the track's Notes. |
Episode IV of the "Commander Keen" hexalogy and the first episode of "Goodbye, Galaxy!" is the first to have music, and it gets a suitably whimsical soundtrack courtesy of Bobby Prince in his earliest game work besides "Catacomb 3-D." The one track in "Catacomb 3-D," "Too Hot to Handle," also appears in this game, where it's used in eight different stages! The second listed track here, "You've Got to Eat Your Vegetables!!", has since become the official theme of the Dopefish, the most famous enemy from this game thanks to becoming an industry in-joke through many cameos in unrelated games. This pack and the rest of the packs for the second half of the "Commander Keen" hexalogy were created at the request of RichterEX2. I did so by using imf2vgm to convert the IMF files to VGMs, and then hex-editing the first command of each VGM to change it to a "Waveform Enable" command (which the driver performs when starting up but is not done by imf2vgm). The loops may sound a bit weird, but that really is how they loop in the game. The tracks are named and arranged in this pack according to the game's track list at the Videogame Music Preservation Foundation. The names for the first six tracks are confirmed to be the official names by Bobby Prince himself, according to that site. It also includes two unused tracks, "Bullfrog" and "Dopey," which were included in an archive supplied by co-programmer John Romero. The tracks have been set to loop, as they were probably meant to. Finally, the aforementioned "You've Got to Eat Your Vegetables!!" has lyrics associated with it, written by Bobby Prince himself. They are available at the VGMPF (http://www.vgmpf.com/ Wiki/index.php?title= You%27ve_Got_to_Eat_Your_Vegetables!!) and read as follows: --- [Billy's mother says in that muted trumpet style of her's:] You've got to eat your vegetables! Can you hear me? You've got to eat your vegetables! Tell him father. [Then Billy's dad, in his muted bass trumpet voice says:] You've got to eat your vegetables. NOW! [But, worst of all, then comes this tiny, high-pitched muted trumpet voice of the little sister:] You've got to eat your vegetables! Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyaaaah nyaaah! --- If you're wondering what all this vegetable business is about, the tune was originally written for "Keen Dreams," published by Softdisk instead of Apogee Software. It was about the series' hero, Billy Blaze, having a nightmare about boy-eating vegetables after being sent to bed for not eating his vegetables. However, Softdisk wanted the whole game to fit on one 360kb floppy disk, and so the music was cut. In any case, enjoy!
Source: VGMRips
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