The Blues Brothers (NES)

The Blues Brothers

Platform: NES Year: 1992 Developer: Titus Software Buy: Amazon

For other games in the series, see The Blues Brothers.

The Blues Brothers is a platforming game for the NES based on the movie of the same name. The player picks one of the two Blues Brothers and uses them throughout the whole game. The game's noted for it's awful gameplay. The graphics are decent though. It's also a really difficult game since most of the enemies you can't kill. The player can kill those enemies by jumping on a dog.

Screenshots

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Music

There's only 4 songs in the game, but the quality of the music makes up for it. The songs are directly from the movie. These songs are the Peter Gunn theme, Everybody Needs Somebody, Almost, and Shotgun Blues. After the songs end, it goes to another song in the game, so the music does not loop. The developers are listed at the end of the game by their first names as the band members. Programmer Eric Caen didn't remember much about the music for Blues Brothers except it was composed by Christophe Fevre as MIDI files which were then converted to the NES. He said the MIDI files could have possibly been composed in Cubase for the Atari ST.

Caen had to program a sound driver in 6502 assembly, as well as program the MIDI conversion tools. Caen said it was a challenging task, but he was satisfied with the overall output.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Programmer	Length	Listen	Download
01	Peter Gunn Theme	Henry Mancini	Christophe Fevre	Eric Caen	2:08		Download
02	Everybody Needs Somebody	Solomon Burke	Christophe Fevre	Eric Caen	3:13		Download
03	Almost	Donnie Walsh	Christophe Fevre	Eric Caen	2:52		Download
04	Shotgun Blues	Axl Rose	Christophe Fevre	Eric Caen	3:10		Download

Credits

• Ripper:
• Recorder: Doommaster1994
• Game Credits:
  • Band: Christophe Fevre credited as Chris
  • Band: Eric Caen credited as Eric
  • Not Credited Composer: Henry Mancini
  • Not Credited Composer: Solomon Burke
  • Not Credited Composer: Donnie Walsh
  • Not Credited Composer: Axl Rose

(Source, verification from Eric Caen.)

The game lists the developers only by their first names, and localizes it to English. We have contacted Eric Caen who identified Chris as Christophe Fevre, and himself as Eric. Eric also verified that he programmed the game's sound engine.

Game Rip

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Ripping NES music is a very arduous process that is beyond the scope of this site.

Releases

USA Title: The Blues Brothers Platform: NES Released: 1992-08-?? Publisher: Titus Software     France Title: The Blues Brothers Platform: NES Released: 1992-??-?? Publisher: Titus Software

Links

• https://www.mobygames.com/game/nes/blues-brothers - MobyGames
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blues_Brothers_(video_game) - Wikipedia

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Notable Songs	Peter Gunn Theme
Notable Personnel	Dimitris Yerasimos • Christophe Fevre
Notable Companies	Titus