# Trying to identify this tune from a video game I can't remember. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 28, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-this-tune-from-a-video-game-i-cant-remember/617091 "2012-03-28T22:54:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lonlonmilklover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@lonlonmilklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lonlonmilklover)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-this-tune-from-a-video-game-i-cant-remember/617091/1 "2012-03-28T22:54:24Z")
I made a MIDI file of a tune that has become stuck in my head for months now, and I’m on a desperate mission to find what it’s from. I for some reason thought it was a tune from “The Neverhood” or “Conker’s Bad Fur Day” but nothing on their soundtracks matches the tune. Also I’m fairly certain I remember clicking around with a mouse only, as if this was a mouse based clicking game like a puzzler or possibly a unique platformer or adventure game. I have played games on PC from 1993 through present, but I’m certain it’s a game at least 5 years old, possibly much more, closer to mid or late 90’s? It could be a console game possibly, but I just can’t place it. The instrumentation I used was exactly and closely as I could remember each part: Sneaky Jazzy Drum Ride Cymbals & Hi Hat Upright Acoustic Bass Acoustic Rhythm Guitar Melody (chosen as “Choir” MIDI voice) supposed to be a Detective-like whistle, echoing as if walking through an alleyway. I remember associating this tune with a detective-like feel, I suppose that’s why I’m guessing it was a click-based puzzle adventure. Please I beg you, does anybody recognize this? [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TflbGXcAJrQ) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-this-tune-from-a-video-game-i-cant-remember/617091/2 "2012-03-28T23:12:13Z")
I’m guessing [Grim Fandango](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkUb1UyiArs). (If not the linked piece, then maybe another from the soundtrack.) ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-this-tune-from-a-video-game-i-cant-remember/617091/3 "2012-03-28T23:53:37Z")
I feel like an idiot because I kept waiting for the background music to stop and someone to whistle. ---
**Author:** ![lonlonmilklover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@lonlonmilklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lonlonmilklover)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-this-tune-from-a-video-game-i-cant-remember/617091/4 "2012-03-29T00:05:42Z")
Sorry about the confusion, Yah that high pitched synth noise is the closest I found in MIDI voices that fit the mood. Imagine somebody actually whistling that tune through an echo-ing alley. ---
**Author:** ![lonlonmilklover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@lonlonmilklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lonlonmilklover)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-this-tune-from-a-video-game-i-cant-remember/617091/5 "2012-03-29T00:36:36Z")
It’s been found! The tune IS from “The Neverhood” but only the first batch of demo discs produced for it. That’s why my queries on youtube came up zilch, even when searching “The Neverhood Demo” because later demos had different music. This cut never made the official Original Sound Track List. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DVxx7fPhJHE/hqdefault.jpg "Neverhood - Unreleased Music Track") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVxx7fPhJHE) Written by a cool musician named Terry S. Taylor. Check out this game, AND the full Soundtrack if you like creative, original projects. The game is published from Dreamworks Interactive, and plays a lot like a 3rd person, 2 dimensional MYST concept, and here’s the coolest part - It’s 100% Claymation 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-this-tune-from-a-video-game-i-cant-remember/617091/6 "2012-04-02T10:12:13Z")
Are the third person controls better than Grim Fandango? I loved that game, but the controls drove me nuts. (Character relative controls never worked well in 3D games, and the camera relative controls often couldn’t get you into a lot of places because it took Manny three or four times his width to turn.) I think the controls are part of what made GF a flop. Mouse controls are much better, and I’m glad they eventually made it to third person 3D adventure games.