Main Title (Theme From "Jaws")

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Main Title (Theme From "Jaws")
Composer John Williams
Released 1975-06-20
Title Origin Official

The Jaws Theme was composed by John Williams for the movie Jaws as the shark's theme.

Title

The title comes from the original 1975 LP release of the soundtrack.

Games

Jaws (NES)

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Jaws (NES)
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Arranger Shinichi Sakamoto
Released 1987-11-??
Format NSF


King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella (DOS)

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King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella (DOS)
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Arranger William Goldstein
Released 1988-??-??
Length 0:13.83
Format SCI
Loops No

Five different types of output were designed for the DOS release, each output corresponds to a different group of devices, the Roland, Yamaha, OPL2, 3 Voice, and PC Speaker.

The official version of the song uses the MT-32 output which uses a similar bass line with the aggravating melody. Both the 3 Voice and PC Speaker renditions are severely lacking in notes to the point where the song is barely discernible.

The file is sound.078 in the resource files.

Game-Maker (DOS)

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Game-Maker (DOS)
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Arranger Unknown
Released 1993-02-??
Length 1:12.97
Format CMF
Loops Yes

The Jaws theme is one of the stock tracks included in Game-Maker, and used in several pre-made games. The song would have been converted from a Jaws ROL file.

The song's file name is GMSONG4.CMF.

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