"Sorry Menu Theme" from Battleship/Connect Four/Sorry!/Trouble on the Nintendo DS (2006)
Composer: Mark Cooksey (?)
Album: No Official Release
Publisher: DSI Games
Developer: Gravity-I
Mark Cooksey is credited with audio and sound for Battleship/Connect Four/Sorry!/Trouble, and I couldn't find anyone else credited in that department, so we're going to go with Mr. Cooksey as the most likely person to have composed this menu theme for Sorry! What I actually like about a lot of the menu themes from this game (which I've never played, likely because of my existing paranoia about playing board games against a computer opponent) is that they are quite good while the in-game music is still reminiscent or at least in the same wheelhouse as the menu theme. You can tell they're in the same family using similar instrumentation, and rhythms to have some semblance of connective tissue between the different games; although Sorry! and Trouble are variations on Parcheesi.
But the menu theme from Sorry! I just really dug. I like that the first 10 seconds sound like it's going to be an upbeat jazzy little ditty, but then six seconds later the listener is like, "Oh, we're in a minor key. I guess that makes sense with Sorry!" I really love that about this song, since the whole premise of Sorry! is that you're encouraged to be antagonistic to the people you're playing against, knocking their pieces off the board and sending them back to the start when your piece lands on theirs, prompting the player to say "sorry." Maybe that wasn't everyone's experience playing the board game growing up, but I think the bouncy beat in a minor key is a perfect theme before you jump into the actual game and the computer always happens to have the right card to take you out of the game. Every time. Because they will.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
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