"Winter" from Kelly Club: Clubhouse Fun on the Game Boy Color (2001)
Composer: Manfred Linzner
Album: No Official Release
Publisher: Vivendi Universal Interactive Publishing
Developer: Vicarious Visions Inc.
You know, for the life of me I can't find where this song plays in the game, and I watched two longplays to see if the music that plays during Snowball Run changes at all throughout the game, but it doesn't. And from all of the soundtracks for Kelly Club: Clubhouse Fun and Shelly Club: Clubhouse Fun (the European title of the game), I couldn't find the music used in Snowball Run. So I don't rightly know what is going on with either the soundtrack or the video game.
My assumption is that Manfred Linzner wrote this particular track for the game and it was included in the game's audio files but it was never used. But if this song wasn't used for Snowball Run, being the only winter-related activity in the game, then I don't know where the music for that mini-game came from. I didn't recognize it in any of the other songs from all of the collections of music from this game either; or supposedly from this game.
But as for the music, when I first heard it, I wouldn't've placed it in a wintry scene, at least for the first 15 seconds. Then for some reason that I can't explain, from 0:16 through when the song repeats at 0:25, I could imagine some kind of kids playing in the snow. Something to do with throwing snowballs, running among a forest of snowmen, and sledding down a hill, standard winter activities when you're seven years old. That simple eight seconds is where this song clicked for me, even though it doesn't really have any of the hallmarks of classic wintry effects for video game music. And for that simple reason is why I'm sharing it with y'all today.
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