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Chiptune Friday: Dangerous Disney Ducks!

Posted by Derrick Sanskrit

As previously reported, Capcom is all about the retro revivals these days, what with Bionic Commando Rearmed, Mega Man 9 and the upcoming Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. Unfortunately, some of their best retro games are likely to never be revisited due to complex liscensing issue.Yes, once upon a time there were fantastic platformers staring unlikely heroes like Mickey Mouse and Little Nemo, action puzzlers staring Goofy, and more! Of course, their most remembered liscensed property is Ducktales, which has gotten some 61FPS love in the past. Ducktales for the NES even got a sequel and its action spinoff Darkwing Duck got its own sweet NES action-adventure.

So now, chiptune lovers, the NES renditions of both duck-cartoon theme songs. Feel free to sing along after the break.

Life is like a hurricane
Here in Duckburg
Race cars, lasers, aeroplanes
It's a duck-blur
Might solve a mystery
Or rewrite history

DuckTales (oooh ooooh)
Every day they're out there making
DuckTales (oooh ooooh)
Tales of daring do bad and good
LuckTales (oooh ooooh)

D-D-D-Danger! Watch behind you
There's a stranger out to find you
What to do? Just grab on to some

DuckTales (oooh ooooh)
Every day they're out there making
DuckTales (oooh ooooh)
Tales of daring do bad and good
LuckTales (oooh ooooh)

Not pony tales or cotton tales, no
DuckTales

––––––––––

Daring duck of mystery,
Champion of right,
Swoops out of the shadows,
Darkwing owns the night.
Somewhere some villain schemes,
But his number's up.

Darkwing Duck (When there's trouble you call DW)
Darkwing Duck (Let's get dangerous)
Darkwing Duck (Darkwing, Darkwing Duck!)

Cloud of smoke and he appears,
Master of surprise.
Who's that cunning mind behind
That shadowy disguise?
Nobody knows for sure,
But bad guys are out of luck.

'Cause here comes (Darkwing Duck)
Look out! (When there's trouble you call DW)
Darkwing Duck (Let's get dangerous)
Darkwing Duck (Better watch out, you bad boys)
Darkwing Duck!

Related articles:
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Chiptune Friday: Little Nemo The Dream Master
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Posted Oct 10 2008, 12:01 PM

Filed under: derrick sanskrit, capcom, nes, chiptune friday, disney, retro, ducktales, darkwing duck

Comments

Alex said:

Capcom NES music still amazes me. They made the most of what the hardware gave them. I was playing the Rescue Rangers game the other day, and I had two of its songs stuck in my head for hours.

October 10, 2008 12:37 PM

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