♪Mayim Mayim
Mayim Mayim
Maim Maim
Maimu maimu
Mime mime
20th-century Israeli folk song. Murky origins. Account unconfirmed.
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1983.?? / Main BGM
Same for Eastern Commerce Inc-licensed regional variants "BlockBuster", "Crazy Blocks"
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1988.11.10 / Password BGM
Featured and specifically highlighted on Clarice Disc's first collection of Natsume "ROM" music
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1991.07 / Used for "Event 4" interstitial cutscene of "Don't Pull". Check OST
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1992.07.03 (SNES) / BGM for the SNES-exclusive "OMAKE!" | "LOLLIPOP" score-attack mode stage level
Seems to foreshadow the Sexy Parodius version, including allusion to Yie Ar Kung-Fu theme?
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1993.03.26 / Seems to feature a song called "House Maim Maim", confirmed arrangement but usage/name origin unclear, latter may come from hidden sound test
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1993.06.25 / "The Mime's Theme" or somesuch in English sound test
If you pick up a hidden, seemingly useless "Mime Ticket" on stage battle map fight #5, and keep it through the whole game, an extra "Mime Theater" scene plays after the credits. It seems to feature the overhead sprites of the various story characters performing some approximation of the actual folk dance, set to the proper music.
Can also be accessed as option #12 of the hidden debug menu.
Song and dance sequence seem to have be n removed from the "Shining Force CD'' remake, with the hidden item now unlocking Book 4, a literal dream match (bonus fight against all story bosses on one map)
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1994.04.22 / Stage 7 BGM ("Mirror Palace")
Might just be my imagination, as it's just a fragment of the song. Need to review the AST (which may have been used directly for the PS1 arrangements), and the vocal version (on the CD that came with the original release)
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1995.12.08 (SFC) / Level BGM, third type?
Seems to be a completely different soundtrack than any other version, aurally shares a lot in common with Firestriker (same dev)
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1996.03 / "Lovely Otohime", stage 3-A boss
Probably the most famous game version? A few articles were written about it.
Features the Yue Ar Kung-Fu adaptation of the oriental riff. One of a handful of themes the developers of Parodius Portable realized weren't actually public domain, so the "Mayim Mayim" portion was replaced by "Korobeniki" (yes, the Russian folk song that Tetris made semi-iconic. Earconic?)
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1998.02.21 / Ball minigame BGM, apparently
I wonder. I wonder.
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God, I don't know. Nightmare metafranchise. Look it up yourself if you want, it's in the Konami rhythm hellscape as both itself and part of some song called "Fire Fire"?
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2005.09 / Stage 1 BGM
Labeled as such on the obscure OST.
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2007.01.11 / unknown use, found in files
It apparently was rather directly in the OVA based on the original light novel, so presumably that inspired it being featured in this adventure game. Apparently the game may actually talk about the history of the song a bit?
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2013.07.11 / It seems the song arrangement and BGA are themed around some comedy manga I don't know much about.
Featured in every version after thus?
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2019.06.27 (Switch) / "DANDY DANCING3-1" (3-2, 3-3)
Don't know if it's in any version before the Switch one, where I located it by filename ("jingle_maimmaim.fsb"). Actually a set of three jingles.
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Sour Buddies (iOS, Android?)
Sometime in the past 100 years. Or maybe 2017.
Album can be found on Bandcamp
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MementoMori
Some god damn galgacha game which features sung character themes. You're looking for "VI. THE SWORD"
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