 The game 's music was composed by Rare 's video game composer David Wise , his first NES composing job . In a December 2010 interview , Wise said that he found the NES sound board work challenging . He had to first code the <unk> values for each note by hand before converting them into subroutines with a computer . Wise recalled thinking that his first NES projects sounded like doorbells . He was humbled that others continue to remix his tracks . 
