Open your edit with this clip, then move straight to gameplay and follow it with Enemy Spotted when the action starts, saving Bomb Has Been Planted for the moment a plan goes wrong.
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This is the title screen theme from Contra, a short burst of driving 8-bit music lasting about eight seconds, with a bright, urgent melody over punchy retro percussion. It feels tense and heroic, like the countdown before a mission starts, and it instantly takes longtime players back to the arcade-era run-and-gun game.