"Track 2: Visitors at Bat" from Bases Loaded on the Nintendo Entertainment System (1987)
Composer: Akihito Hayashi, Kouji Murata
Album: No Official Release
Publisher: Jaleco
Developer: Tose Co. Ltd.
I have a hard time hearing this song, which I've decided to name "Visitors at Bat" (more on that in a moment) from Bases Loaded, without my brain planting in the staticky-garbled "Ball!" or "Strike!" or "You're out!" from the umpire. Then there are the ancillary sound effects like the 'shhht' as the ball leaves the pitcher's hand and the 'smack' of the ball in the catcher's mitt. There's the oddly metallic 'clink' of the batter hitting the ball (odd, because in Major League Baseball, only wooden bats are allowed) and the high-pitched 'whero!' as the ball is thrown around the field. There's also an anomaly that occurs with the music between frames, when switching between the pitching/hitting view and the field view, which briefly extends the note the song is currently on. I hear all of that during the short 15 seconds of this song before it repeats.
I decided to call this song "Visitors at Bat" simply because it's the song that plays whenever the visiting team is at bat. There's a different song when the home team is at bat, and then there's a third song that plays whenever you have at least two runners on base. I could have just as easily picked either of those two songs, as I still hear all the in-game sound effects when they play, too, but this is the one I decided on. Who knows, maybe we'll dig up this game again, so if there's a Game 5.
No comments:
Post a Comment