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Posted - 03/22/2004 :  22:26:42  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
re- Pixies "theme from narc" [1991]

I know the original tune the song is based on comes from the arcade game Narc circa 1988, but I'm not familiar with the game.. Has anyone heard the theme tune and/or do they maybe have a sound clip/ mp3 of the music?? It would be interesting to hear, for me anyway..

btw, while the song writer is usually credited as "unknown" or "copyright control" I suspect it was written by Tony Williams, who wrote the theme music for other similar era games produced by his company...



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Posted - 03/23/2004 :  04:31:18  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
NARC is being remade right now. It's due for release in the fall. Maybe they'll use the Pixies version of the song for the new game... probley not, but it'd be cool.



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Posted - 03/23/2004 :  05:14:39  Show Profile  Visit vilainde's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I have the original Narc theme on CD-R. I'll try to convert it to mp3 and upload it somewhere if I have time.


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Douglas
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Posted - 03/23/2004 :  10:17:02  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by LoganZ

I remember having downloaded a nintendo emulator (probably 'Nesticle') with a rom/game for Narc, with the cheap midi theme while you played being instantly recognizable as the song the Pixies did.


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Posted - 03/23/2004 :  16:08:38  Show Profile  Click to see guy_nolan's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
My god!! I just read an article about the remake of 'N.A.R.C' and it sounds fucking hillarious. Apparantly as you bust the dealers you've got to ingest the drugs they drop as power ups, weed slows down time, LSD makes all the bad guys grow giant devil heads etc. That has got to be the most controversial game of all time, if they put the Pixies cover in there I know this will be my all time favourite game regardless of how shit it plays. I swear I'm not making any of this up see for yourselves...

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Yeah right, keep this guy away from your kids then :)

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Posted - 03/23/2004 :  17:11:46  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The original Narc coin-op video game was a side-scrolling shooting game. You were a drug-enforcement agent with an automatic rifle or two, shooting the bad guys, and I think also seizing cash and drugs along the way. Two could play at once and team up. I never really got into it but I do remember the game.

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ShakeyShake
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Posted - 03/24/2004 :  12:22:33  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I downloaded it just out of sheer interest,i think its level 1 the songs on,or the title.not sure.never got into the game though,too hard


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Posted - 03/24/2004 :  16:29:01  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks for all the info/help guys!


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boom_cheek_aroon
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Posted - 03/27/2004 :  23:34:59  Show Profile  Visit boom_cheek_aroon's Homepage  Reply with Quote
ha! i know this is irrelavent now but i was watching the teenage mutant ninja turtles movie the other day. In the first scene at the foot soldier's pad, there are ruffians playing narc on arcade. I chukled. that is all.

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Edited by - boom_cheek_aroon on 03/27/2004 23:35:44
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porkbone1
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Posted - 04/01/2004 :  19:27:53  Show Profile  Visit porkbone1's Homepage  Reply with Quote
My -other- favorite video game theme cover is Korobeiniki (tetris theme) by Ozma. You can find it on Kazaa but be sure to get the one that is 2162 Kb, because this is the non-live version. The live version is somewhat crappy recording.

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Ediger
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Posted - 04/01/2004 :  23:55:42  Show Profile  Click to see Ediger's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
funny story. Theme From Narc was actually the first Pixies song I heard.

Well... that wsnt all that funny, and it wasnt quite a story, but hey, you learned something today.

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