The One Game in C-64 history that actually had THE most awesome music/soundscape! Nothing EVER came close. I’m glad we can relive this in all its magnificent glory! Web Dimension runs a distant second.
I grew up with a C64 as a kid. This track... this freaking track man. I couldn't even get passed the title screen because this song scared the ever-loving crap out of me as a little kid... :(
This was the in-game music, and the eerie atmosphere really helped emphasize the enormity of the task that lay before the player. Eighteen sectors to clear, with locked doors, devious puzzles, laser defense systems around every corner, limited energy supplies, and time running short. The music was sometimes encouraging, sometimes depressing, but all the while, evocative of a lone operative on a desperate mission on a cold, unfriendly world. My favorite c64 tune ever, can you tell? :)
Oh my god the memories! Would load this game up over and over and over again just to hear this music play. The C64, in terms of music and the quality of the sound / SID chip, was leaps and bounds ahead of every single computer or game console available. A full MONO synthesizer really...
The Euro/UK programmers definitely had the Americans beat on programming tunes and music on the C64. I never got to hear much of the great music until the simulators became available.
Just be happy you can access it so easily. I spent years before the internet believing i'd never hear my childhood tunes ever again. So so many lost memories found again. I'll never grow old.
I remember when I got my Amiga, the games cost so much I sold my C64. Wish I had kept it. But then that C64 tunes demo for the Amiga came out. By the guys who went on to write the SID player for the Amiga. That got a lot of use.
The ZX Spectrum has just been launched again complete with rubber keys with 2000 games built in. I home the Commodore 64 does the same. Love this game and still play it now in 2015
Just finished Ready Player One on Audible and came here...because this isn't in it. I had a hunger for the theme that was my soundtrack to the book as well as this epic game.
Just love when it drops back down a gear at 6:10 Still gives me goosebumps. I found a way to improve the game too. Fire this tune up in sidplay. Mute your emulator and crank the emulation speed to about 500% ...It's the only way to play.
this and sabatier 2 on the amstrad cpc are the two most memorable tracks from any retro game pre mario. it's so different now, games are particaly voiced and scored by the top 10 artists of the day. I have no problem with it. it's just weird being of the generation that watched it happen.
+Sod Fish ..."are the two most memorable tracks from any retro game pre mario". You forgot to add "to me" as our mileage varies when it comes to taste. ;)
VR isn't really anything to write home about yet in my opinion. Also, I'd hardly count Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori, Akira Yamaoka, virt, Koji Kondo, or Nobuo Uematsu among the top 10 artists of the day, but they're the reason for the iconic music from (respectively) Halo, Silent Hill, a whole bunch of indie games, basically all the classic first-party Nintendo games, and many of the Final Fantasy games. If anything I'd say game musicians today need _more_ attention.
You may have had a slight nerdgasm there, or youre an imdb of game stuff. I can't comment, you clearly have superior knowledge of game music. However,. I bought PSVR. Fun, but not as fun as it could be. I want FPS sherlock holmes or monkey island. VR should make you think more thyan it makes you play. I can take the headset of to play if i wan to.
Decent piece although really because it's so atmospheric and well fitting. Not great in actual music terms if you compare it directly to say Forbidden Forest1 or Aztec Challenge
I wish there was a word epic enough to describe this. Pure genius. And to the dislikers: TURN THE SOUND ON!
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The One Game in C-64 history that actually had THE most awesome music/soundscape! Nothing EVER came close. I’m glad we can relive this in all its magnificent glory! Web Dimension runs a distant second.
I grew up with a C64 as a kid. This track... this freaking track man. I couldn't even get passed the title screen because this song scared the ever-loving crap out of me as a little kid... :(
same!
you need to listen to forbidden forest then, its even better and scarier
"Brilliant" is too weak. This is awesome Matt Gray's song!
And I'm proud to be a member of SID-Maniacs!
the most wonderfull and haunting music in the c-64 history sid-chip....EPIC.
childhood memories..dont play the game but lizsten to this tune haha
The memories come flooding back ... good times...good times.
:)
omg !!! what M A S T E R P I E C E !!!!
One of the best tracks ever on the 64, love it!
WOW that is awesome.Remember trying to play this game many years ago. Wonderful loading music.
THIS IS GOOD AS IT GETS. Thank you for posting this.
This was the in-game music, and the eerie atmosphere really helped emphasize the enormity of the task that lay before the player.
Eighteen sectors to clear, with locked doors, devious puzzles, laser defense systems around every corner, limited energy supplies, and time running short. The music was sometimes encouraging, sometimes depressing, but all the while, evocative of a lone operative on a desperate mission on a cold, unfriendly world.
My favorite c64 tune ever, can you tell? :)
This is not a sound, it is PURE athmosphere !
Back again in 2020 i think this decade will appreciate this style.
This music was used in final level from Platypus
2022, its starting to sound a bit more dystopian, and true.
Oh my god the memories! Would load this game up over and over and over again just to hear this music play. The C64, in terms of music and the quality of the sound / SID chip, was leaps and bounds ahead of every single computer or game console available. A full MONO synthesizer really...
The Euro/UK programmers definitely had the Americans beat on programming tunes and music on the C64. I never got to hear much of the great music until the simulators became available.
Just be happy you can access it so easily.
I spent years before the internet believing i'd never hear my childhood tunes ever again. So so many lost memories found again. I'll never grow old.
I remember when I got my Amiga, the games cost so much I sold my C64. Wish I had kept it. But then that C64 tunes demo for the Amiga came out. By the guys who went on to write the SID player for the Amiga. That got a lot of use.
I didn't understand this game back in the day but loved the music, and still do.
Ah this brings back childhood memories.
this soundtrack is realy good
Oh man.... How much i missed game when i was in my early teens, I use to spend hours on this awesome game. =D
The ZX Spectrum has just been launched again complete with rubber keys with 2000 games built in. I home the Commodore 64 does the same. Love this game and still play it now in 2015
There is a new Commodore 64 coming out soon (hopefully), called The 64
I remember 5:17 the most as I was loading the tape. It was the most epic piece I've ever listened too and still is.
This was the in-game music - an Ocean Loader was used while loading
@@HuntersMoon78 The title says loader tune and I specifically remember hearing this while waiting for the game to load.
Epic. Also love the Chris Huelsbeck stuff like Giana sisters and Zak McKracken theme.
One of my favorite C64 game!
Superb!!
Ein Meisterstück von Matt Gray !!!
Amazing sound for an amazing game!
This tune and platoon still reminds me of my youth
@Calle2k there is also a long winding tune in Delta that has resemblance to this.
great track.. thanx for putting it up gdreyband!
This game scared me when I was little, solely because of this music.
Seiklus.
Brilliant, have already sent off to a lot of my friends on RUclips. Thanks @gdrayband.
This is not the loading music - it's the in-game music
Awesome track!!!
The PC game Platypus has a remix of this in it
Not many know those 2 as well - especially kenilla but its one of my favourites.
Just finished Ready Player One on Audible and came here...because this isn't in it. I had a hunger for the theme that was my soundtrack to the book as well as this epic game.
epic
Inventor of Synthwave..I bow to you Matt Gray.
Great game
...great song...
Cos this is Driller, Driller ni- wait a second.
Didn't get the game.. understand it..but I played the tune one my parents speakers all the time
Just love when it drops back down a gear at 6:10 Still gives me goosebumps. I found a way to improve the game too. Fire this tune up in sidplay. Mute your emulator and crank the emulation speed to about 500% ...It's the only way to play.
this and sabatier 2 on the amstrad cpc are the two most memorable tracks from any retro game pre mario. it's so different now, games are particaly voiced and scored by the top 10 artists of the day. I have no problem with it. it's just weird being of the generation that watched it happen.
bring on vr!! we were promised it so long ago!!
+Sod Fish ..."are the two most memorable tracks from any retro game pre mario".
You forgot to add "to me" as our mileage varies when it comes to taste. ;)
+RetroMMA true. but I was drunk so I won't beat myself up over it. :-)
VR isn't really anything to write home about yet in my opinion.
Also, I'd hardly count Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori, Akira Yamaoka, virt, Koji Kondo, or Nobuo Uematsu among the top 10 artists of the day, but they're the reason for the iconic music from (respectively) Halo, Silent Hill, a whole bunch of indie games, basically all the classic first-party Nintendo games, and many of the Final Fantasy games. If anything I'd say game musicians today need _more_ attention.
You may have had a slight nerdgasm there, or youre an imdb of game stuff. I can't comment, you clearly have superior knowledge of game music. However,. I bought PSVR. Fun, but not as fun as it could be. I want FPS sherlock holmes or monkey island. VR should make you think more thyan it makes you play. I can take the headset of to play if i wan to.
Great.
Best c64 music track PERiod
Dominator is another classic by Matt Gray. Get a sid player and download the sid file. It has 4 or 5 versions there and they're all awesome.
Besides the other suggestions, try anything by Wally Beben.
Ah yes, this great old track. Often overlooked in those top 20s, best of.. etc c64 charts. Are there any good remakes, remixes of this one?
Inspired by John Carpenter I would say
How long did it take to load this from tape? I definitely know the entire track. I have a feeling it took like 2 hours or something lol.
awesome for 1 MHZ cpu
@Calle2k Dominator. Last Ninja 2.
halloween theam sounds like
nice playlist...but this to me is EASILY the best track on here....I even have various remixes of it
cheers
Its a pity the game didn't live up to the tune. Very slowly plodding around a barren landscape gets tedious fast.
Maybe one person had their monitor upside down. ;)
someone used this theme on a demo version of vvvvvv
wow cant believe iv heard this again?. what is the year of this game? 1987? or 88?.
You're welcome, cyberpunk 2077. This is still better.
What is "Freescape"?
kohina.com and hvsc.de the 2 goto sites for C64 musics.
@kirbykirbykirby1212
Haha that's exactly why I came here :D
Pink Floyd? Naaah, DRILLER!
Who dislikes this?
People whose idea of "good" music is Lil Wayne
Idiots
Decent piece although really because it's so atmospheric and well fitting. Not great in actual music terms if you compare it directly to say Forbidden Forest1 or Aztec Challenge