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Originally Posted by Foebane
I wonder about the Camptown Races music used like that. I notice that a lot of these old games used tunes like this, and I cannot imagine why, unless an old person was passing by when the child was playing the game so they could hum along to it. Wasn't there valid copyright on these old tunes in the past? Or had it expired?
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These games were usually a one or two man affair, and usually they were coders first, graphic artists second and very rarely musicians at all. Classical tunes like this had scores you could easily find in library books or other sources and often lent themselves well to beeper music as they had recognisable melodies.
This instance of Camptown Races appeared in a number of games; it's identical to the BASIC version in Derby Day for example.