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Man, the soundtrack of the original Lemmings is indelibly etched into my brain -- cheery MIDI tracks of everything from classical music to folk tunes.

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Same here! However a friend had an Amiga and the music there was sample-based like a demoscene 'tracker' (but in a proprietary format), so it also had that lovely sample-based aspect ;) I still listen to extracted/covered versions of some of those to this day!

I just learned that one can get the mods here (lemmings 2 actually even used a real tracker called OctaMED!):

https://www.camanis.net/lemmings/music.php

Such a classic sound! Reminds me of the similarly brilliant Star Control II soundtrack (which was also tracker music)!

The musical number I recall best was a medley mash-up of the Bridal Chorus and the Funeral March.

Apparently it’s called “Twang” or “Tenlem” depending on the port. I had the DOS version: https://youtu.be/Z2zN6ljRNnU?t=3523 (timestamped)

"Ten Green Bottles" is the base of that song.

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