Name that tune

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4357

Rather splendid empire quiz on video game music

http://www.empireonline.com/features/retro-video-game-music-quiz/

Reminds me of making my parents listen to the Swiv and Silkworm theme tunes I'd recorded onto tape while we decorated the xmas tree when I was 8. Poor sods.

nickachu · **Posted:** Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:13

That's pretty hard, I only managed about 8 of the easy ones!

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5413

I didn't even get that many!
Looking at the clues didn't help much either..

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:26

5 of the first lot

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3. sonic
4. tetris
5. Monkey Island
8. goldeneye
9. Doom

3 of the second

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1. Bubble bobble
11. Link to the Past
14. Gauntlet

2 of the third

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7. golden axe
13. IK+

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:32

This can fuck right off. Doesn't even contain the single greatest game music ever.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4357

Dimrill wrote:

This can fuck right off. Doesn't even contain the single greatest game music ever.

Can barely believe that's real.

Must confess I've not tackled the quiz in earnest yet, waiting for a spot of lunch first.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:51

Dimrill wrote:

This can fuck right off. Doesn't even contain the single greatest game music ever.

Should I be worried how well I know that song despite not owning the game?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Didn't enjoy that at all. Fussy way to enter your guess (e.g just Sonic 1 wouldn't do) + loads of generic console games that I never gave 2 hoots about. + no 8 bit tunes. To talk about computer game music and make no mention of SID is a crime.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38667

Number 13 is made quite easy by the guy shouting the name of game seconds into the track

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

What I've got so far - Medium level 2 is the one thats really bugging me - i know the tune I just cant place it but i'm quite sure i'm going to start it up sometime and go "oh yeah its Blah"

Breaking this up in case you want part of the answers only

All 15 Easy

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1 - Street Fighter II
2 - Lemmings
3 - Sonic the Hedgehog
4 - Tetris
5 - The Secret of Monkey Island
6 - Command and Conquer
7 - Diablo 2
8 - Goldeneye
9 - Doom
10 - Super Mario Bros
11 - Mortal Kombat
12 - Metal Gear Solid
13 - Daytona
14 - Shadow of the Beast
15 - The Legend of Zelda

All 15 Medium

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1 - Bubble Bobble
2 - Double Dragon
3 - Final Fantasy 7
4 - Starcraft
5 - Mario Kart
6 - Halo
7 - Super Mario 64
8 - Silent Hill
9 - Speedball 2
10 - Quake
11 - A link to the past
12 - Unreal Tournament
13 - Baldur's Gate 2
14 - Gauntlet
15 - Outrun

12 of 15 Hard

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1 - Duke Nukem
2 - Homeworld
3 -
4 - Strider
5 - Tomb Raider
6 - Xenon 2
7 - Golden Axe
8 - Shadow of the Colossus
9 - Morrowind
10 -
11 - Sensible Soccer
12 -
13 - IK
14 - 720
15 - After Burner

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5413

Easy 6 is

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Command and Conquer

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Dr Zoidberg wrote:

Easy 6 is

Ta - got 2 others which I've added to my list above

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

DavPaz wrote:

Number 13 is made quite easy by the guy shouting the name of game seconds into the track

Aside from Fantasy World Dizzy, does any other game shout its name at you upon loading?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38667

SEGA RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Aside from Fantasy World Dizzy, does any other game shout its name at you upon loading?

If they rename it to "V8 return to base Immediately" instead of "The Last V8" then that one :-)

And I think Chimera did ?

devilman · **Posted:** Thu Feb 21, 2013 15:43

Most of the Resident Evil games seem to announce its title on the main screen. Not really shouting though.

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

Medium 4 is

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Starcraft

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

devilman wrote:

Most of the Resident Evil games seem to announce its title on the main screen. Not really shouting though.

1 and 2 did when you hit start (I'm pretty sure they both 'shouted' it as well

Resident ........ EVIL ............. two

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

lasermink wrote:

Medium 4 is

Ta - updated - i'm going back to listen to 2 again .... and I got it (finally)

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

zaphod79 wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Aside from Fantasy World Dizzy, does any other game shout its name at you upon loading?

If they rename it to "V8 return to base Immediately" instead of "The Last V8" then that one :-)

And I think Chimera did ?

Also Codies, "Welcome To Robin Hood".

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Also Codies, "Welcome To Robin Hood".

Generally for those ones having a voice in it was something special and was up front simply because of the amount of memory involved.

I cant remember if the arcade game Sinistar said it by itself - all I seem to remember from the arcade machine was "I HUNGER"

Gorf 'announced itself' but it was something like "I am a gorfinsomething - Insert Coin - HA HA HA HA HA HA ... space cAAdet"

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Aside from Fantasy World Dizzy, does any other game shout its name at you upon loading?

On the C64

"Ghost busters" with the follow the bouncing logo for the song - but you could never get back there once you started the actual game (i assume it dumped all that stuff when you hit the start button)

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Didn't enjoy that at all. Fussy way to enter your guess (e.g just Sonic 1 wouldn't do) + loads of generic console games that I never gave 2 hoots about. + no 8 bit tunes. To talk about computer game music and make no mention of SID is a crime.

Hard 14 is a C64 tune.

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5413

zaphod79 wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Aside from Fantasy World Dizzy, does any other game shout its name at you upon loading?

On the C64

"Ghost busters" with the follow the bouncing logo for the song - but you could never get back there once you started the actual game (i assume it dumped all that stuff when you hit the start button)

And that was absolutely amazing back then, along with the "Kung Fu Fighting" demo which was basically a few seconds of sampled music that looped round.

Exciting times!

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

lasermink wrote:

Hard 14 is a C64 tune.

I think you may be mixing 14 up with 13 and I also think thats the Amiga rather than C64 version (there are quite a few Amiga tunes in there)

There *are* some 8-bits but they are from the NES

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

zaphod79 wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Also Codies, "Welcome To Robin Hood".

Generally for those ones having a voice in it was something special and was up front simply because of the amount of memory involved.

CPC Super Robin Hood had more speech than just the game opening. It spoke again when you started playing and every time you collected a heart and if you got a high score. And all in a standard 64k game.

The game intro speech would also alternate between different words. So it may say "Enter Robin Hood...... Good luck" or "Enter..... Good luck Robin Hood".

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

zaphod79 wrote:

lasermink wrote:

Hard 14 is a C64 tune.

I think you may be mixing 14 up with 13 and I also think thats the Amiga rather than C64 version (there are quite a few Amiga tunes in there)

There *are* some 8-bits but they are from the NES

Absolutely not. Proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1phUg7aHuw

YOG · **Posted:** Thu Feb 21, 2013 16:11

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Easy 7 is 'Tristram' from Diablo, but it only accepts 'Diablo 2' (which also features the tune, but it's still weird)...

Adding to Zaphod's list, Medium 13 is Baldur's Gate 2.

Hard:
4. Strider
10. Killer Instinct

Slightly Green · **Joined:** 26th Aug, 2010 **Posts:** 2069

YOG wrote:

Easy 7 is 'Tristram' from Diablo, but it only accepts 'Diablo 2' (which also features the tune, but it's still weird)...

Spoilers!

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

lasermink wrote:

Absolutely not. Proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1phUg7aHuw

Your right - and one of my favorite arcade games of all time but something that even now you cant play well in MAME because of the custom controller.

If anyone else like it then the recent Midway collection (on the 360 / PS3) has quite a good version of it which works with the left thumbstick

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

Finally figured out medium 13:

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Baldur's Gate 2. Never actually played it, but it sounds very similar to the first one, so I took a guess.

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

OH! And hard 2 is

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Homeworld

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Thanks for those - just missing 6 hard's now.

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

Hard 9 is

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Morrowind

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2013 0:53

For what it's worth, I got Easy 2,3,4,5,8,9,10,15. Medium 1,3,6,9,11,12,15 and hard 6,8,9. And Dimrills video.

Which I believe makes me better than Dimrill.

Runcle · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2013 1:37

Hard 4 is:

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Strider, literally no idea how I guessed that, it reminded me of megaman, was strider or something similar in a megaman?

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Just 4 left to get

Pod · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2568

My guesses. I've looked at yours since guess. I CRINGE at my answers to easy 1 and medium 1 :/ I'm also ashamed that I liked medium 3 when I hate that sort of game and the music that usually accompanies it. Also I typed in the answer to hard 9 as a guess but it said NO.

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easy

1. No idea. Something like Double Dragon/Street Fighter?
2. Lemmings
3. Sonic The Hedgehog
4. Tetris
5. Monkey Island
6. Command and Conquer 1
7. No idea? Some Ultima or something.
8. Goldeneye, or any other the other 10,000 bond games.
9. DOOM/e1m1
10. Mario -- the ghost house levels
11. It didn't contain the "MORTAL COMBAT" scream nor the famous melody, but it's definitely that.
12. WHO KNOWS.It's some final fantasty style crap.
13. Daytona. I didn't know this, but it has a japanese guy saying "Daytona" over and over again.
14. Shadow of the beast
15. fuck knows. Sounds like FF/Zelda crap.

Medium
1. So familiar

Puzzle Bobble/Rainbow Island, but it says no.
2. Double Dragon
3. whatever this is: PROG!
4. No idea
5. No idea. Some Mario thing?
6. No idea. Nintendo Rubbish.
7. No idea. Japanese rubbish.
8. No idea.
9. SPEEDBALL 2
10. Quake
11. No idea. Nintendo Rubbish.
12. Unreal Tournament (terrible soundtrack)
13. No idea
14. Gauntlet
15. Tune at 52s is very familiar. Some racing game.

HARD:
1. Duke Nukem 3d
2. Homeworld. Not as good as Yes - (Homeworld) The Ladder

3. Not sure. Splinter Cell/Rainbow Six type.
4. No idea. Castlevania?
5. Tomb Raider Tomb Raider Tomb Raider Tomb Raider Tomb Raider !
6. No idea, but cool.
7. GOLDEN AXE!
8. No idea.
9. No idea. Sounds like an LOTR style RPG crossed with the planet suite.
10. No idea.
11. Original Sensible Soccer
12. No idea. Wipeout?
13. IK+. FIGHT.
14. No idea. Crazy.
15. Afterburner!

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