"Song C" from Gauntlet on the Nintendo Entertainment System (1988)
Composer: Hal Canon
Album: No Official Release
Publisher: Tengen
Developer: Tengen
Memory and the passage of time are a fickle thing. I could have sworn that I wrote the MIDI Week Single article for "Treasure Room" a year or two back, thinking that I didn't need to feature another song from Gauntlet so close to the previous article. But that article was from five years ago. Surely the previous article for "Song A" was more recent than no, that was 11 god damn years ago! So maybe we're doing Gauntlet music every five-ish years at this point?
Maybe it's also some kind of commentary on the music itself, and at this point, I don't need to go into my personal history with Gauntlet. Something that did surprise me while researching this article was that it appears that the music in the game is random, as a couple of the longplays I watched had different songs play for different levels. In my mind, this is the music that I would hear in Room 2. Maybe it's something about the layout of the room or the color palette, but something about this music harkens back to that, and I can't fully figure out why if the music is indeed random. Maybe my memory is faulty as it has been over 30 years since I last played Gauntlet on the NES, but I'll be damned that this game had some great music.
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