For sure: it definitely has a lot of his general stylings and tropes in general, down to how the jackpot collected theme doubles as the high score theme (like in many of his games)
Admittedly, it’s because a couple of distributors really, really didn’t like the original main theme, and refused to buy the game unless they composed a new one. Therefore, they made the European one. Personally, I think it still sounds pretty good, though less iconic for sure, but to each their own.
@@pieman240 Hmmm. I own one of these and mine appears to have been originally sold in the German market (the warning labels are all in German and the ROM in operator mode refers to a German language pack) but then reimplanted here into the UK. It has the "normal" main theme.
@@RJRC_105 huh! That’s odd. I’m pretty confident that I extracted that theme from the German ROM available online. Maybe they made one that still keeps the original theme though?
@@pieman240 I may have to have a look in the operator settings again. It's European Level 3, date 31 May 1990. Reference to Install German in the settings but all those are "no."
I looked into this: the samples are slightly different, but are both turn table/record scratch sound effects. As far as I’m aware, it’s not the same exact SFX or source, but I could be wrong.
Thank you for uploading this!
No problem! Let me know if there are any others I should do
@@pieman240 Not any i have at the moment, but thank you!
You can tell that Dan Forden was responsible for the sound on this machine, it has his signature style
For sure: it definitely has a lot of his general stylings and tropes in general, down to how the jackpot collected theme doubles as the high score theme (like in many of his games)
Never knew there was a separate theme for the European market. Makes sense due to licensing and whatnot. Too bad theirs sucks though lol.
Admittedly, it’s because a couple of distributors really, really didn’t like the original main theme, and refused to buy the game unless they composed a new one. Therefore, they made the European one. Personally, I think it still sounds pretty good, though less iconic for sure, but to each their own.
@@pieman240 Hmmm. I own one of these and mine appears to have been originally sold in the German market (the warning labels are all in German and the ROM in operator mode refers to a German language pack) but then reimplanted here into the UK. It has the "normal" main theme.
@@RJRC_105 huh! That’s odd. I’m pretty confident that I extracted that theme from the German ROM available online. Maybe they made one that still keeps the original theme though?
@@pieman240 I may have to have a look in the operator settings again.
It's European Level 3, date 31 May 1990. Reference to Install German in the settings but all those are "no."
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The jackpot theme sounds like it uses samples from the C64 "Turbo Outrun" loader. Is there a common source for those?
I looked into this: the samples are slightly different, but are both turn table/record scratch sound effects. As far as I’m aware, it’s not the same exact SFX or source, but I could be wrong.