God, the Internet is amazing.
I was thinking fondly of a song from a childhood video game, but I could not recall how the song went or the exact name of the game. And I thought “Maybe I can fix that.”
Armed only with the information “there was this M&M-themed game on CD-ROM, and the song was the background music for level 5″, it took me all of a couple of minutes to track this down. (If you would like to skip to the best part, that is at 1:03. I tried linking to that timestamp, but it looks like you can’t do that with video posts.)
Bonus: apparently the game disc’s ISO is available from the Internet Archive.
(I wonder if Windows 7 is backwards-compatible with Windows 95 games, or if I would have to take stronger measures?)
Update:
I downloaded the ISO, installed some software that lets me run the ISO in a virtual CD-ROM drive*, and tried the game.
It works! Windows 7 had no problem (nor even complaint) installing and running this Windows 95 software. I played through level 1 and most of level 2 (out of, I think, 10). When I ran out of lives, I decided to stop for the moment rather than restarting the section.
*I do have a real CD-ROM drive, but I didn’t want to bother obtaining a blank disc to burn the file onto.
Tags:
#games #my childhood #food mention #oh look an update #Windows versions 8 and newer have virtual CD-ROM drives built in #so if I had one of those it would have been even easier than it already was #(assuming they didn’t break backwards compatibility with the game in those versions)
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