Bad Game Music: Double Dribble (Arcade) - 'National Anthem'

Please rise for our National Anthem, in this inaugural entry of the Bad Game Music Hall of Fame.

DOUBLE DRIBBLE (ARCADE) - "NATIONAL ANTHEM"
Konami, 1989
composer unknown

[MangusBeef]

“Composer unknown”. They knew perfectly well this was garbage

[sarahearthworm-len]

Damn, these Vocaloids are getting more and more realistic every day

[punkopunko]

I love how the singer is half on-key and half off-key.

[kagevista]

It sounds like the singer felt depressed while singing, then after the song finishes, someone offs himself in front of the crowd, which causes them to scream in horror.

[peterw]

I love how it sounds like the crowd is screaming in pain at the end XD

[cjpunkrandall]

1:00 They literally opened fire on the crowd

[peepsiee]

Oh, say can you 𝕤𝔼𝔼𝔼𝔼𝔼𝔼𝔼𝔼𝔼𝔼
ᵦᵧ ₜʰᵉ dawn's early light
What so pʀＯＵＬＤＬＹ we hailed
at the ₜ𝓌ᵢₗᵢ𝓰ₕₜ'ₛ ₗₐₛₜ 𝓰leaming

[ChilliusVGM]

this was the first ever rendition of the us national anthem i ever heard, what a way to first listen to it

[JoshuaMckenzie-tv]

This should be the official version played in schools

[Natendowii]

I love how the "Singer" goes from Tenor to Baritone to Bass at the end.

[Ford-GOTY-Edition]

the second the "national anthem" stopped everyone in the audience started screaming for their lives

[potatortheomnipotentspud]

I'm pretty sure this is classified as treason.

[givecamichips]

This is an accurate rendition of the average performance of The Star Spangled Banner.

[BinglesP]

I love anxiously quiet singing like this. It's bad, yes, but it's just so charming. It's also part of why I love Safety Dance, because the casual, natural vocals feel like the singer's guiding someone else through something. This, though, sounds like the singer has such exaggerated stage freight he's tip-toeing occasionally, while staring at the audience without blinking. Then losing his balance when the crowd cheers.

[Titleknown]

It feels like every year this gets more and more relevant to our national mood...

[paunchstevenson]

Everyone, this is not a digitized recording of a person singing. It's a completely synthesized voice, and was also used in Konami's Track & Field arcade game. Even though some notes were out of tune, I acknowledge the technical effort that went into this. (By comparison, the voices in the NES port of Double Dribble *are* digitized recordings, played back slightly faster and therefore higher pitched than they were recorded due to technical limitations of the NES.)

[eightcoins]

I love how even through all of the bitcrush you can still hear the thick japanese accent of whatever intern they had sing the US anthem over at Konami's HQ.

[FletcherReedsRandomness]

I'll take this over the 4Kids version.

[ailaxvo_]

I unironically like this- wait did that just say "purple blue skies?"

[famitronic]

Yes it sounds bad, but I think most people keep thinking it’s this bad because they think it’s a real person singing. This is voice synthesis in an arcade game from 1986 singing an entire song. To convey emotion with voice synthesis is not very easy, especially at the time. While it doesn’t sound good, I have to commend the attempt.