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NiGHTS Fan Notices Music Samples "Home Alone"
A game composer notices that the menu track from the SEGA classic NiGHTS Into Dreams samples audio from the iconic Christmas movie Home Alone.
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Game composer Joey Freeze took clips from the main menu music of Nights Into Dreams, titled Gate of Your Dream in the soundtrack, and compared them directly with short clips from the 1990 Christmas movie Home Alone. Careful listening reveals that the seemingly random voice clips that play under the main melody are taken directly from the movie with minimal editing. The sound itself seems to be used just to fill more space in the audio and make it more atmospheric, but Home Alone specifically is an interesting source to take such sounds from.
The samples actually make more sense when NiGHTS Into Dreams itself is provided additional context; a shortened version of the game was released in Japan as Christmas NiGHTS, functioning both as a demo and as a holiday-themed spin on the game. It was distributed as a free gift to Saturn owners in Japan as part of a special holiday bundle, and uses the system's internal clock to change the theming of the game according to the real-life date and time. Interested players can also play through the content in Christmas NiGHTS by beating the main game in the HD re-releases.
