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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: marcfrick2112 on November 22, 2011, 08:23:01 AM
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Hey everyone,
In my humble opinion, what the Amiga can do with sounds and music via little old Paula (poor girl never got an upgrade :( ) is nothing short of amazing. First off, try to explain to a PC person how you play MP3's, MIDI, etc. on a computer with no sound card.... :roflmao:
Soo, I ask this of you:
What is your favorite, or most impressive Amiga game music?
While the game is hampered by no 2-button support (grrr!) Alladin AGA's opening music... wow.. Sure, the music part is only a bit better than on the MegaDrive (Genesis) version.... but then the song is SUNG! I was simply Blown Away.
Certainly, the entire Turrican series has great music.
For some odd reason, I really love the title track from Theatre of Death (Psygnosis) by Mike Clarke... so much in fact, I DL'd that track ripped from the game.
So, any others?
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Turrican, end of discussion :hammer: :lol:
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There is a lot i like e.g.:
North & South - funny intro music
Jumping Jackson
Flashback - Terminatorlike music in the menue
On Escapee - intro music
Jet Strike - CD32 very rocking
Monkey Island 1 - epic intro music
Project X
Banshee - there was an epic track on the demo disk don´t know if it was also in the full game
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Shadow of the Beast 1, 2, and 3 into musics.
Agony's intro music and the cutscene musics.
Universe's atmospheric music. (Only played the demo at the time.)
Test Drive II intro music.
Leander's intro music.
Geesh.. Never actually realized I liked alot of intro musics to games lol! Oh yea, one of my favorites is Lemmings 2 The Tribes's intro music lol. Great stuff.
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Astaroth in game music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdA_4ve1S7A
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All the Psygnosis games had great sound. I remember Awesome and Killing Game Show having particularly good sound. Also, the Cinemaware titles had very good, fitting music. Overall, it wasn't until about 1995 or 1996 I remember PC games coming close to my Amiga 500 games in the sound department and that was with a $100 sound blaster card!
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OH yes, Psygnosis had some great tunes in their games!
And, I forgot the Beast series.... I think 3 had the most 'realistic' sounding music.
Thanks for everyone's input!
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RType title screen.
Saying Amiga has no soundcard is a bit of a stretch though. Do pcs with onboard sound also qualify as having no sound card? Not just that, but having DMA is also an advantage vs. pc sound of old. So technically the amiga had/has dedicated sound hardware. Telling a pc person what the amiga can do "without a soundcard" isnt as impressive when you live in reality :P
For its day the Amiga had good sound, but the sid chip on the c64 is at least (probably moreso) as impressive for its day (give it the same sort of memory as paula has access to and see what it can do).
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Obliterator was the first Amiga game I had that I left running just to listen to the in game music (like Cybernoid 2 on the C64).
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Hey everyone,
While the game is hampered by no 2-button support (grrr!) Alladin AGA's opening music... wow.. Sure, the music part is only a bit better than on the MegaDrive (Genesis) version.... but then the song is SUNG! I was simply Blown Away.
Aladdin supports 2-button controllers, you can jump with one and either use your sword or throw apples with the other button, but you still had to use space bar to switch between them, or you could choose to use each of the buttons for the two weapons and up for jump. Unfortunately there's no 3-button or CD32 pad support, which would have been welcome.
Some of my favourite sounding games are:
Stardust
Super Stardust
Lionheart
Agony
Dune
SlamTilt
Pinball Illusions
Ruff 'n' Tumble
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Hybris was one of my favorites..:)
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I always loved the music to "Menace", theme tune to "Cannon Fodder" and the ever catchy "Xenon 2: Megablast"
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Lemmings and Cannon Fodder.
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Hybris's music wasn't especially technically complicated, but the idea to use chiptune-style guitar sounds was genius, it's oh so expressive without having to take up a lot of space :)
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Astaroth in game music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdA_4ve1S7A
4:08 -> always gets me shiver. fukken brilliant
This rocks as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bzFbrufMyw
(oh yes, Jogeir has covered this one, but I prefer the original)
Edit: Bleh, no embedding
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Super Stardust AGA disk version (beats the CD soundtrack too) by Rib
Shadow of the Beast by David Whittaker.
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The intro music to No Second Prize.
Moody Breeze (Jaguar XJ220).
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Hybris was one of my favorites..:)
+1 for Hybris, Stormlord is another one that comes to mind. And Lemmings. And Awesome.. I think this could be a really long list if I thought about it long enough...
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Shadow Warriors intro would be one of my all time favs. Also love the Sinbad music throughout.
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Turrican 2 and Turrican 3 are the games in the history of computers and consoles with the best music
no one can discuss that
I think that Chris Huelsbeck was inspired by God when composed those wonderful tunes
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other amiga games with great tunes
Superfrog
Troddlers
Fire and ice
Yoi yoe
Bubble and Squeak
genetic species
Aladdin
Arabian nights
bckid
PP hammer
benefactor
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Lots of mentioned above + lets listen First Samurai intro music! Remember to bring some snacks and cold beer, please! :)
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Just listening to Pinball Fantasies intro music, Lotus 3 intro and Turrican 2 and 3 intro's now on my 600. Really love them and the turrican tunes always make the hairs on my neck stand up.
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Ninja Warriors intro
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I'm against listening to Amiga music on this crappy laptop PC, but here's the first music that truly amazed me: Amberstar intro music. Let it play for a while, until full percussion starts. It's SO f**ng epic!! European RPGs from the 80's and the 90's... no personal computer should be without games like these!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxlH6y-_Cww&feature=related
Don't listen to it in a lame laptop, it loses all it's powerful pumping sound.
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The intro music to Utopia has always been one of my favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y6r0m3-ZAs&feature=feedlik
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BTW, if you like Amiga chip music, check out cTrix's set from Blipfest 2011. It's absolutely amazing and is available for download as a mp3.
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The simplistic Tune for the Ultima VI opening has stuck in my head for years and I always find my self searching for it. Never played the games mind you ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqyt4Qk3IsQ&feature=related
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Loads of great tracks mentioned already. I'm a big Chaos engine fan myself and loved te in-game music it used. Xenon 2 was awesome with a good bass speaker too.
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Greetings,
• Cannon Fodder 1 "WAR! Never been so much fun!!" still catchy after all these years!
• Turrican Trilogy! Ahh! Nostalgia landia!
• R-Type Nothing beats the original!
Regards,
GiZz72
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Too many to mention but right now I've got the music to Fantasy World Dizzy rattling around in my head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oas5G9po2q0
WARNING!! Once you've heard it, you can't UNHEAR IT!
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Turrican, level 1-2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqspYDC59qE
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQkA07AtwPk&feature=related
I love the intro to Lotus III
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Xenon 2 'MEGA BLAST' ah, ah, ah, Ah YEAH!
good times...
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Oh Cammy reminded me: Pinball Illusions, oh yea, esp. the hi-score music from Babewatch!
Actually, most of Amiga pinball games from Digital Illusions had some great music!
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While following are taken from demos and not games, they're still impressive:
"Kefmania Theme" - http://aminet.net/mods/demo/kefmania.lha
"1991 Not a Number" - http://aminet.net/mods/demo/1991NotANumber.lha
"Digital Innovations 2" - http://aminet.net/mods/demo/DigitalInnova2.lha
"Echoing" - http://aminet.net/mods/demo/echoing.lha
"Knulla Kuk" - http://aminet.net/mods/rock/KnullaKuk.lha
I couldn't find the link for it, but "AddioElonora" (sp) is another one to look out for.
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Wow, three votes already... and one more for Hybris, my definite favorite game music! Totally awesome fast paced tune that's a perfect fit for the unmatched most kick-ass insane fast paced violent shoot 'em up ever on any system!!!
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i know it's not paula or chip generated, but i liked the in game "musak" from diggers CD32.
really nice "Audio Wallpaper" background noise that kinda captured a bit of a echoy underground feeling. all wooshy synths, and then deep into the track, the contrasting pure sound of an electronic squarewave bluring out into reverb, burning out like a guitar riff falling into the sun....
sorry, imagination got the better of me there... :)
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Turrican 2 +1, the only Amiga game music in regular rotation on my mp3 player. Really awesome!
Cannon Fodder too.
Also I know it's mostly licensed (is it?) but I love the music in Frontier, a true space opera :)
Speedball 2 loader tune captures the theme of the game perfectly.
Simon the Sorcerer 1, ah, nostalgia...
XP8 intro tune
and many many more I can't remember right now..
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- Shadow of The Beast
- Stardust
- Pinball Illusions
I realized now that I've heard all of them not so long after release.
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Turrican 2 +1, the only Amiga game music in regular rotation on my mp3 player. Really awesome!
Back in the day I recorded the entire Turrican 2 soundtrack onto audio cassette. It's the only game I ever did that with. Chris Huelsbeck is a legend. His R-Type theme was good as well.
But speaking of insanely catchy tunes I think the Robocod music will be with me forever, not to mention Bubble Bobble. And another one off the wall: Rodland.
Oh and mustn't forget Apidya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZcT_Kr7tLs
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Back in the day I recorded the entire Turrican 2 soundtrack onto audio cassette. It's the only game I ever did that with. Chris Huelsbeck is a legend. His R-Type theme was good as well.
I was working a booth at Comdex or CES 95 flogging Gravis Ultrasound's when a guy wandered in and handed me "Rainbows" and "Turrican" CDs. I tried to give them back saying I wasn't in a position to use his composing services but he insisted I keep them. It wasn't later on into the age of the internet that I clued in he'd composed the music for many of the Amiga games I played years earlier. While I played Turrican and probably others I should maybe be ashamed to say that the music from Hollywood Poker Pro is what still sticks vividly in my mind after all these years for some reason :P.
My professional life has actually led me to work with some of the most famous retro era composers. Again I sometimes didn't find out until years later what their contribution was since I started out after that retro era was over, but it sure is interesting to know.
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The intro music to Utopia has always been one of my favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y6r0m3-ZAs&feature=feedlik
Nice music from Utopia.
My favorite is from Nicky Boom, there are others too. Amiga games had one of the best music compositions of any platforms :banana:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okpRmAg0ttk
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Did anyone mention Killing Gameshow?
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Did anyone mention War in Middle Earth? Luved that moody intro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOEPyxXmaGw
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harlequin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c468tHl_Vgo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHRl16LKUWY
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I'm going to mention Wizkid here now because nobody else has yet.
Mount Wizimanjaro is my favourite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYI1tYeIIdQ
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Dreamweb
Alien Breed Tower Assault
Desert Strike
Cannon Fodder
Sensible Soccer
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Resurrecting an old thread, but has any of you listened to the intro track (theres no more for this type of game) of "World Cup 90" from Genias? Please do so, won't regret it.... ;)
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I don't usually post, I'm more of a lurker (is it a bad thing?), but I had to butt-in this time, and say that I'm really surprised that throughout this discussion no one mentioned either
Battle Squadron , or one of the greatest "Defender" clones for the Amiga: Datastorm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYgZomThHL0&feature=related
Here are a few others on my list,
Crystal Hammer
The Great Giana Sisters
SuperFrog
Project X
Blood Money
Swiv