Flight of the Bumblebee is an orchestral interlude composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and that is featured in his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan. The song is played at an incredible tempo making it a difficult tune to master. It is featured in several games because it has long since been in the public domain.
Tree Insects song got some sound from this classic tune.
Games
Donkey Kong 3 (NES)
Plays in first two levels
Buzz Off! (C64)
Road Runner (ARC)
Creative Music System (DOS)
Flight of the Bumblebee is located on Song Disk 1 as Bee.cms. The file's metadata credits arrangement to Seng Kwong. The title in the metadata spells "bumblebee" as two words. The tune is played on the SAA1099 chips in the Creative Music System.
Parodius: Tako wa Chikyuu o Sukuu (MSX)
Captain Comic: The Adventure (NES)
Road Runner (NES)
Flight of the Bumblebee plays during the second round. According to Gavan, because of his going on tour, he had Tania Smith finish up the arrangement, though she was not yet an employee of Beam Software at the time. Gavan also explained that they had originally done the whole song, but due to space constraints on the cartridge, they had to cut down the track.
The song plays at 300 BPM, a tempo that, according to Gavan, was set by the programmers. Gavan and Tania wrote the music in Music Macro Language using Neil Brennan's version of Beam Software's NYNTH sound driver. Though the game was developed in Australia, a country that uses the PAL format, it plays in the same key as the original song, so Gavan and Tania probably did the arrangement with NTSC consoles in mind. Its internal name is BEE.T.
Parodius Da! Shinwa kara Owarai E (ARC)
Much like its MSX predecessor, Parodius Da! uses "Flight of the Bumblebee" as the primary boss theme. This arrangement (titled "ボスBGMだ！", or "It's the Boss BGM!", on the official soundtrack) uses the YM2151 and K053260 chips.
Parodius (NES)
Exterminator (C64)
Some percussions along with the simplified version of Flight of the Bumblebee is the main theme of the game.
Tiny Toon Adventures (NES)
Ultima VII: The Black Gate (DOS)
In Ultima VII: The Black Gate (DOS), Flight of the Bumblebee is played in the Bee Cave where giant bees have made their hive. In the game, you must harvest their honey for a quest, and the game offers multiple ways to deal with the bees. Interestingly, the song ends with silence, and then a few odd notes.
This song is track 54 in the game's data files.
Aero the Acro-Bat (SNES)
Played when you fight the bosses at the circus and the funpark.
Aero the Acro-Bat (GEN)
Played when you fight the bosses at the circus and the funpark.
DX-Ball (W32)
Crash Twinsanity (PS2)
Plays when you chase Dr. Neo Cortex with bee swarm
Crash Twinsanity (XBOX)
DX-Ball (WEB)
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