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Battle City

1985 · Namco · NES · music by Junko Ozawa

  1. Out now▶ Play

    All three tunes as notes falling onto a keyboard per voice — mute one, slow it down.

    Battle City as piano rolls
  2. Out now▶ Read

    The same three tunes as scores, read bar by bar — every note out of the cartridge.

    The score of Stage StartThe score of Game OverThe score of High Score

Guard the phoenix at the foot of the map from twenty tanks a stage, through thirty-five stages of brick and steel — Namco’s sequel to Tank Battalion, and three short tunes.

Nothing here was transcribed by ear: every note was read out of the cartridge and is played by an emulated NES sound chip — two pulse waves and a triangle, each on a keyboard of its own.

The music and the game belong to their composers and publishers; this site only shows how the cartridge plays it, for learning.