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I've been reminded by the "identify this game" thread about how ace some retro 'title' music was. Shouts to Lotus 2 (with subliminal message), Project X, pretty much every Bitmap Brothers game and the rather spooky Lords Of Chaos, but my favourite is the theme to DMA Design's Walker.

You may have a listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEWwqKPr4E0

Note: I was never that impressed by the Cannon Fodder theme as a song. The sampling was great, sure, but song-wise it didn't float my boat.

I'd have to give the Bitmap Brothers a bit of a shout for their music too - Speedball 2 had a great theme tune and The Chaos Engine is filled with great music.

All three Shadow Of The Beast games have some of the best music ever put into a computer game.

For me "No Second Prize" on the Amiga was great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfX7tRNzsHA

Also, special mention goes to Chuck Rock. That still makes me chuckle today and has special memories of a better time.

Flimbo's Quest!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JloYS-OA ... re=related

I am sure there was a tune on the later levels that was better still, but I can't find it.

The Turrican games on the Amiga had some fucking amazing music as I recall.

Come to think of it, virtually all the game music I like comes from the Amiga.

Midnight resistance on the speccy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twc22gZkrRM

Alley cat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZDG4dlU ... re=related

The cracked copy of Pinball Fantasies I had started with an instrumental of 'Let it Be' that was pretty pro (© MaliA, 2010) but I'm not sure it was on the retail version having never, erm, actually, erm, owned it

Good lord.. Now there's a game I'd forgotten about totally.

I had it on my Atari 800XL and it was great!

**Edit - The Atari version had better music IMO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkj71R16 ... re=related ***

There was a game I had on the Amiga, I can't remember what it was, nor what you had to do, allI can remember was it was shareware/Freeware and came on a magazine disk. The theme tune was a remix of Old MacDonald. Does anyone have any idea what I am talking about?

Rob Hubbard was the SID chip* master.

*Another reason why Speckies were the C64s poor relation.

Here's another one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7CYcHRS_48

screw you you bastard dog, eat the god damn steak not me you buggy arse.

Ooh, i remember this one from the C64:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZv0zKiCc78

I remember half the cracktros having better music than the games

Gimme some old chiptune music any day.








Among many millions of other fab stuff.

Been messing around with PC Engine emulator Ootake recently and the theme to Alien crush is probably the best chip stuff I've heard in a while. If I can find it the game over theme is pretty rocking too.

Turrican 2 obviously:



I did like Navy Seals on the GX4000:



I also like Prehistorik 2's title screen music on the CPC as the technical achievement of doing full sampled music on the CPC shouldn't be underestimated:



Not the best tune ever, but 10/10 for doing that on an 8 bit. I know the ST could do that kind of stuff with the same sound chip, but it's CPU is over 4 times faster!

Robocop on the Gameboy

TMNT 3 on the NES

Outlander on the Genesis (only three pieces of music, but they are all great!)

Ducktales 'Moon' on the NES, legendary

Megaman 3 "Spark Man" on the NES (all the others are good too

For fun, the vocaloid Megaman 3 is here, and the jolly password music here!

Turrican II has my favourite game title music Ever.

Silly me. Monkey Island. That counts as retro, right?

Monkey Island is indeed a goody. I prefer the theme tune to Monkey Island 2 though (even if it is largely the same).

I'm going to presume we're only allowing chiptune stuff here BTW, otherwise I'd be waffling on about how excellent the title screen music to Panzer Dragoon is, not to mention all of the music in Panzer Dragoon Saga.

I'm going to presume you missed the first post

Says retro title music, but doesn't actually specify chiptune as opposed to red-book audio. And I'd call a Saturn game 'retro'.

Admittedly I am being a pedantic twat, but there you go.

I'm still going to presume you missed the first post

Well you know what happens when you presume? You make a pre out of... um... ah...

So there.

I wrote about Amiga stuff, as that's what I remember liking. Tell us about anything you wish, sir.

When retro gamer did that cover cd of chiptune covers I heard Monty on the Run for the first time.

It's so ace I play it in the car sometimes.

Something tells me that the music creator liked their synthpop

I wish I could alter Halo to play this on the matchmaking screen:



Also....CAR!

Ninja Massacre (this is the Speccy version, same as the CPC except mono)

Some speccy favourites -


Super Scramble Simulator 128k
(I'm sure bits of it sound wrong in the video, but you get the idea)


Chronos 48k


Agent X 48k

Leander


Trantor (Music kicks in around 48 secs in.)


Predator (Samples? On the ST?!)

Another favourite: Auf Wiedersehen Monty, 128K Spectrum version. Much better than the C64 version.

Here's my fave - LED Storm on the Speccy. Tim Follin was always excellent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b9XjxK2RJc

the whole intro movie though, with the anticipation of following the bikes, really is one of my favourite little intromovies..

I agree. The Amiga version of Gods had a great tune too.

Although Follin is correctly identified as an awesome beeper (and AY etc) musician, I think that Martin Galway is my favourite beeper composer 'back in the day'



I used to spend ages just listening to that music and the next tune...



Although he didn't create much on the Speccy, he composed two of my favourite beeper tunes.

Those paying attention would have noted the CPC doing fully sampled music with the same sound chip further up the thread, except with considerably less memory, storage space and CPU power.

Samples weren't rare on the ST, were they?

There is a link to the .mp3 somewhere.

Not really, but fairly rare to have fully sampled music because the Yamaha soundchip was only 4 bit and frankly sounded shocking compared to the Amiga.

On the ST you could just throw CPU grunt and memory at the problem. On an 8 bit like the CPC it was more of an achievement to do stuff like that because you didn't have the power or storage space to play with.

That said the Prehistorik music was on the CPC Plus only which had DMA support. On a standard CPC if you wanted to play samples basically the entire computer had to come to a halt to facilitate it. With DMA it enabled the sound chip to access the memory directly which stops the seizing up problem.

Demos don't count I suppose. Even though its a great disco theme, kind of like all Da Jormas.

Have we had Thing on a Spring yet

I may have been the only person who liked Turrican 3 but I seem to remember the end music being great.

My faves are anything that Tim Follin did using his three-channel trickery on the 48k Speccy, the music to Quazatron and a couple of bits from Target Renegade.

Was the end music the piano-heavy song?

I used to have an Atari ST and my mind would boggle that it was used as a serious tool by musicians. Apparently Your Woman by White Town was made on one. I love that song.

What was the shoot em up where you controlled an owl?

That had nice music it I remember correctly.

Well I could have written "Samples? Used as instruments in tracker-style music? Within a game? On the ST?!" instead, but I thought that in a thread titled "Retro Game Theme Music", in relation to a video of an in-game sequence, that context might have been... ooooh what's the phrase? ...fucking obvious?


But yeah, that practise was sufficiently rare that I'm struggling to think of a single other example. I'm not talking about one-shots (Xenon & Return To Genesis) or when they just sampled some music and played it back (Microprose Golf and... do I remember Super Hang-On doing likewise?)

Agony