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Even if you've never played Ducktales on the NES, or its remake, there's still a good chance you've heard one of the game's biggest legacies: the Moon Theme. And thanks to a new prototype build that was discovered and written about on The Cutting Room Floor, fans will be able to listen to a brand new-old track that never made it to the final build of the game. Dated February 5, 1989, the Ducktales beta cart dump predates the final release on the NES by around seven months, with quite a few changes and missing features, as they hadn't been developed yet. However, one thing that's exclusive to the prototype build is a song simply called Map. It sounds similar to the Stage Select theme from the retail version, but with more variation and detail. It's not known why the song was cut, but you can listen to it on YouTube.

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[NNate]

Ah, good memories playing this game when I was a kid.

 

[raxadian]

The song was most likely cut to save space, as was usual back then were every byte counted.

 

[Deleted member 506316]

DUCKTALES, OOOOOO

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

I don't know this song. BOOOO!

 

[The Real Jdbye]

It sounds very Ducktales indeed. Pretty good, too bad it was cut.

 

[slaphappygamer]

One of my favorite games. The xbox360 remake is nice too. Play this if you like platformers. You never really “die” you just begin at the beginning of the stage. The moon stage was pretty hard and I fell many times.

 

[Dust2dust]

Not to sound nitpicky, but that would be a tune, not a song. A song is sang, it has vocals.

 

[gaga941021]

One of my favorite games. The xbox360 remake is nice too. Play this if you like platformers. You never really “die” you just begin at the beginning of the stage. The moon stage was pretty hard and I fell many times.

You mean the iOS, PC, PS3, Wii U, Xbox 360 remake?

 

[Kwyjor]

Never got around to playing Ducktales Remastered. I really should do that sometime. I played the heck out of the two Game Boy games.

The Moon theme wound up being used prominently in several episodes of the new (2017) Ducktales cartoon, sadly ending after this season.

 

[tfocosta]

The song sucks, but the game brings me great memories.

 

[White_Raven_X]

One of my favorite games growing up.

 

[PatrickD85]

Neat so much memories, so much wow ... so much love

 

[KimKong]

This is awesome! Also one of my favorite games growing up! I played this to death.. Could prob beat it blindfolded..

 

[DaFixer]

Cool, that song good.
I played Duck Tales a lot back in the day.

 

[Deleted member 397813]

why does this song sound so familiar like why

 

[Jacklack3]

Not to sound nitpicky, but that would be a tune, not a song. A song is sang, it has vocals.

Pfft that can't be true, a song doesn't need voca-

 

[DarkCoffe64]

Watch everyone and their grandmas remix this everywhere now

 

[godreborn]

ah, those 8-bit chiptunes bring back memories.

 

[DerpDingus]

why does this song sound so familiar like why

The beginning starts off like Roy Orbison - Pretty woman