SDEX-0011: Game Sound Museum ~Famicom Edition~ 02 Donkey Kong

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Based on interviews, Shigeru Miyamoto seems to have composed "Game Start" and "100M (Level 3) Clear":

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltech...ous-characters

"I read that — I think it was with Donkey Kong — you wrote the music?

Well, there are two versions of Donkey Kong, and the version on the Nintendo Entertainment System I did only a very little bit of the music. But in the arcade version, I did the opening music and then the end of it as well.

How come you did the music?

I grew up watching a lot of cartoons and anime, so I just had this image that at the beginning there's always this dramatic music to start things off — that's where the dramatic (sings tune) came from. And then for the ending, I play guitar a little bit, and so the end song I put together as a bit of a parody of a song I used to play on guitar."