I cannot say that I am overly familiar with this game, although I have played the arcade game (the first time being in 1992-93 at Disneyland where I got my ass handed to me while playing as Hawkeye), but like a lot of arcade games, the music always felt drowned out by the din of the rest of the arcade and the sounds of digitized screams. That and I have never made it to Scene 4 - The Giant Laser Canon, where this music is featured. This is all to say that the music that is used in the Game Boy port is just that, a Game Boy version of the same music that plays during Scene 4.
If you listen to the theme played in the highest quality arcade music chip that Data East had to offer in 1991 to the music from the Game Boy port of 1994, you can still tell that this is the same song. It is a Game Boy-ified version of the song, but it is a far cry from the shrill monotones (literally out of the Game Boy's single speaker) that you could risk converting a song to the Game Boy sound chip. And this is a fun song, great to have in the back ground while beating up the defense forces of Red Skull as you approach his apparent lacky Juggernaut (although the fight with Juggernaut has his own theme), and this was the one track from the entire game (being the Game Boy version) that stuck out to me.
Great job Eric Swanson!
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