Top 20 countdown of C64 music awesomeness
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2024
- This is my list of the Commodore 64:s cream of the crop.
#20 Wizardry - Mike Alsop
#19 Ghosts'n'Goblins - Mark Cooksey
#18 Comic Bakery - Martin Galway
#17 International Karate - Rob Hubbard
#16 R.I.S.K. - Wally Beben
#15 Odysseus: Trojan Warrior - Steve Barrett
#14 Bubble Bobble - Peter Clarke
#13 Krakout - Ben Daglish
#12 Chimera - Rob Hubbard
#11 Tarzan Goes Ape - Steve Barrett
#10 Last Ninja 2 - Matt Gray
#9 Supremacy - Jeroen Tel
#8 Auf Wiedersehen Monty - Rob Hubbard & Ben Daglish
#7 Master of Magic - Rob Hubbard
#6 BOFH Servers Under Siege - Olli Niemitalo
#5 Crazy Comets - Rob Hubbard
#4 Last Ninja - Ben Daglish & Anthony Lees
#3 ???
#2 ??
#1 ?
And yeah... i can't play for sh*t so don't bother pointing that out. Anyway, super thanks for watching! '(^.^)' 
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Chris Huelsbeck is absolutely missing: The Great Gianna Sisters, Turrican etc.
Yes, and his Demos "Chip Wars" and "It's drum time".
Jeroen Tel cybernoid 1 and 2
nice video, what about Commando though, that has to be one of the alltime classic music tracks on C64
Christ! Got such a nostalgia kick right now by listening to these tunes. I MISS THE OLD DAYS! ^^
me too i still have my c64 and play it often
I miss the music but the most games aren't that fun
Thanks for quite an unusual selection.
Have been into C64 games since the 80s and I didn't even know a bunch of these here.
The "Comic Bakery" music was also used in the Commodore 64 game "Top Gun" while you're sitting on the aircraft carrier prior to launching for a mission. It was later used on the the NES game "Jurassic Park" as the music for the opening stage, although it takes about 20 seconds before you will recognize it because the tempo is about 30% slower and it has a slightly unique intro before the music begins to loop. Of course, this is because Martin Galway worked on all three titles.
Beautiful harmonies. Thank you.
Indeed, the C-64 is a treasure trove of music :)
Bubble Bobble rulez!!! :D And thank you for this wonderful video... :)
Nice compilation, thanks :)
Thanks for including Bubble Bobble music ! :)
Good video. I also liked the rambo and commando music on the c64
Good compilation, with some of my favourites. It's interesting that one of the most famous tunes, Commando (by Rob Hubbard) did not get place here. And what about Shoot Out? The country style musics of that are really joyful. It worths a search.
I loved the electric guitar in WIZBALL, one of my favorite games for c64
That was a lovely selection, that has quite a few overlaps with my personal favourites. It does miss a few highly influential and famous tunes, though.
My personal favourites include almost everything Ben Daglish ever did. The sounds he used as "instruments" were often weirdly wonky or even dissonant, but the melodies and compositions were just so damn catchy and interesting!
The Dizzy games had outstanding music. And Fist 2. My god, Fist 2. Depending on what day you ask me, I could well tell you that Fist 2 had the best music on the C64. Certainly in my top 10, any day. Just incredible. The atmosphere is intense.
There are so many great C64 songs that I remember , Its so hard to choose which is the best because everyone will probably choose a different one :)
You did a great job.
I loved CRAZY COMETS! Rob Hubbard seemed to have a lot of tunes.
One that I see didnt make the list but had super -awesome music was..."COMMANDO"
and dont forget about BREAKSTREET an PAPERBOY, GYRUSS.
Too many to list! Awesome job Spelarkivet !
Really nice list, bring back some fond memories!
I would have found some place for Fairlight and Bomb Jack :)
SUPREMACY ... WOW. Great tune.
Flimbo's Quest is my favorite too. I ended this game as one of the few, finding all hidden places.
Nice collection. My fave was and still is Last Ninja. Awesome music.
Some slack has been cut! ;)
Loved the video.
Thanks to everyone who's been watching and commenting on this video. I promised myself years ago that i would do an alternative top 20 list with more uncommon tunes. Hopefully that day will be soon. ^^
+Spelarkivet Dont forget Yie ar Kung Fu. For me that is best music for video game ever. Other sugestions Madness, Gianna sisters, geep commando,...
acajelen Amazing arcade port for the system
Nicely done Sir. My choice of games would be Krack out, Thing on a Spring, and Flimboy's Quest. The team that did the music for Flimboy's Quest should receive an award, but for now you honoring them here will do. Thanks for uploading this and once again, your video is very well done.
good selection. i can agree!
Wow, I didn't know the game at number 1. That's a good choice, amazing job with the sounds there. I didn't know that a C64 could do that (and I played A LOT!)
Definitely not my list but big props for really professional commentary and presentation :)
Thanks a bunch! ^^
If you are curious, check out relatively recent SID tunes by C64 demosceners. You would be surprised what can be squeezed out of this chip ;) Greetz!
Looking at these comments, I can only assume no one here has heard the music to “Parallax” or “Green Beret”. My two favourites. Also Platoon, Aztec Challenge, and the almighty Forbidden Forest. Paul Norman brought a sense of atmosphere to his music that fee could match.
Wizzball had some kickass tunes!!!
1 - great giana sisters
2 - ghost n goblins
3 - Commando
My all time favorite was the theme for Defender of the Crown.
Yeah, nice tune but a bit short
IMHO the music from the videogame "Myth" by Jeroen Tel could have been also in this ranking
You are welcome sir. It's been my pleasure. Great vid-prod. mate. x˝)
ARKANORID is my favorite c64 music 🎶
Excellent 😎
Some of those I've never heard of. Flimbo's Quest must've been after my time and is outstanding. But Maniacs of Noise have always been and still are outstanding. However, weird to have all the mega classics missing. You could easily fill the countdown with Rob Hubbard's stuff alone, hehe, and not to have Delta in there is somewhat of a crime, hehe. However, now I want to listen to the whole tunes, darned, hehehe...bet they're all on youtube, too, pffff. THANKS! Great fun for sure!
Very nice list...
This is an excellent selection of games. Of course, Rob Hubbard made the music for many of the games listed, as confirmed by the in-game credits in some of the games.
I have not played or even heard half of these, but I still get the nostalgy kick.
SID is awesome.
Can't agree with you more. There is something special about the SID... something magical, which even makes simple tunes like the one from Bagitman sound good. ^^
Thanks ^^
2:23 The music of "Comic bakery" is the same music used in the nes version of "Jurassic park"
Great list!!
Personally my favourite for the C64 were always LED storm and Ghouls n ghosts. Tim Follin fan :)
There's so many good ones ^^
Great video, but I personally would have had Monty on The Run or The Last Ninja as Number 1, still great video :D
Tarzan goes ape rocked. Best graphics and music of any c64 game. Addictive too!
Love it! Älskar't! Krakout var alltid en favorit. ^ω^
Great compilation! Keep improving your gaming ;)!
Action Biker? Park Patrol? Hunchback? Cmon you can't leave out these greats.
first wobble bass i have ever heard was in krakout. damn that game rocked...
lol I remember playing flimbos quest, it was one of the games that came backed in with the C64 when I got it 20 years(or more) ago
Good music top 20 :). Also I love Hunter's Moon, Starace and genious Bionic Commando, Deliverance, Delta, Wizball, Slaine, Fernandez must die, Rambo: First Blood, Driller and brilliant Castle Master and awesome Terra Cresta and of course a lot of more :). BOFH is a great, that's right :). Thanks for add, waitin' for more :).
hi, nice list ! - did you consider the ocean loader ( specifically ver.02 ) , or is it not really suited to your list, because its not a soundtrack as such? just that would be top of my personal list :) do you like the soundtrack to " Nonterraqueous " too?
Bubble Bobble is there... this is getting good
#12 Chimera - Rob Hubbard - THE BEST IN MY OPINION:)
OMFG the memories!!!
Wow memories
Bubble Bobble is my favourite from that set
Deflektor , Katakis, Startrash top music on c64
cool list.
My personal favorite is DRACONUS
04:03 Oh my God ;-) This is the music of my childhood.
I had played this games so many hours with my brother...
But now i´m 31 ^^ and still love this Game
Cobra,Ace 2,Commando,Thalamus....And many more
Armageddon man had a haunting tune. I loved playing it late at night.
Hhahahahaa i almost got tears in my eyes when hearing Bubble and Krakout :))
Missed the old Times played this Game in 1988
Especially level 4 - in the dungeons. Spooky!
Sounds good, and don't forget to include Cauldron II as a possibility as well? ;)
By the way, is Flimbo's Quest any good?
Available on any form of emulator?
I kinda get massive nostalgia by watching your video.
My entire childhood flashing before my eyes haha!
Where is commando
great list,but where's monty on the run?
I'm missing Enigma Force, Commando, Delta Force and Wizball, among others. Ghost n' Goblins deserves top 10. :)
I actually thought u were from an English-speaking country until the last song.
Just heard "Swedish Swedish Swedish" :P Awesome
It's no doubt impossible to compile the definitive list of top tunes for the C64, but this one looks strong.
For me, all of the Dizzy games stand out as having outstanding music tracks and would dominate my top 20 list.
Pitfall II and Exploding Fist have the most hypnotic music scores.
Fruit Machine Simulator II title screen is really groovy.
Operation Wolf title screen brings a tear to the eye.
Milk Race is an overlooked gem.
Hypa-Ball... check out PPOT's cover version. Wow.
Ok, old C64 tunes keep popping up in my head now, what about the score from "commando" and "platoon" both intromusic and especially end-credit tune, oh so sad :)
Isn't Krakout a sped-up version of "Can't Get Used To Losing You"?
Some very good choices there sir but some glaring omissions too. May I suggest Panther, Thrust, Arkanoid loader, Quedex, Sanxion, Delta, Rambo loader (listening to that a lot lately) and One Man and his Droid (how can you miss that?). Somebody else already said Commando, I'd add that too.
How come Rob Hubbard's Commando isn't here and in top five? Unbelievable.
The Temple of Apshai Trilogy title screen music was my favorite tune.
Yes, software for C64 is one of the biggest in the world :). Also I'm writing two games for Commodore 64 which I want to published on my own cartridge so C64 is one of my fav too :). Best regards!
Flibo's Quest! Good choice! It's my ringtone ;)
Well, it ain't ever stops begin fun to listen to them tunes, hehe, so I bet it'll be at least enjoyable for you...for some time, haha. There exists a threshold, too. Good luck, for sure. However, it's your top 20 list, so unless you want to do a vote based top 20 it's all up to you anyway. And I've enjoyed your selection and the reminder of some I almost forgot. GOOD LUCK with top 20/20, haha.
Trazan got a mouse pointer stuck over the C64 emulator :D
And a friend of mine, actually my best friend which is my common sense, says if a site claims to publish a well kept secret it's dupery.
Totally agree with Last Ninja 2- and Remix. You needed Robocop, Turbo Outrun intro, JT's remix of Hubbards 'Crazy Comets'... Arkanoid II. Whittaker's Glider Rider.
The Krakout tune is nasty.
Weird, I've remixed song #11 years ago, except that it wasn't "Tarzan goes ape", the name of the SID was "Bignose's USA adventure" (never even saw it as a real C64 game, though). But all is right since both are actually crediting the same musician.
What about Zoids, Chip War, R-Type, Robocop, Cybernoid II and Myth??
Excelente!. Pero te falto la música de "Commando", "Cybernoid 2", "Rastan" y "MOONSHADOW" que si no me equivoco era un juego italiano. La música de ese juego era espectacular, maravillosa!. Que placer es escuchar esos temas de aquellos grandiosos juegos!. Saludos!.
I take great comfort in the failure to actually attack the NPC in both last ninja clips. I suddenly feel less crap about how i never got into those games, mainly because the fighting was way too hard :)
You'd get better with practice, though. The most frustrating part was the jumps over water or marsh. But the fantastic graphics and music lured me back every time again.
I heard the Comic Bakery music in an NES game, Jurassic Park 😂
Hyvä lista
I hear ya man... but it's impossible to get all the good ones in one list. Maybe a top 50 would cover it? ^^
Great and very nostalgic video but I think the top 40 would be more fair because it is impossible to cover everything in top 20.
SID chips are actually quite different from each other when it comes to the filter (especially with the 6581). That game's soundtrack uses the filter extensively for the music.
64K RAM system 38911 basic bytes free
READY.
I didn't remember that those spectacular machines had complex bytes also - wow!
Jeroen Tel FTW
Nice selection :) You can hear my own playlist while playing to an Arkanoid clone with the free game FURIOD i have done :) (last version is 1.7)
Theres literally thousands of GREAT tunes on the C64, its down to personal taste as to whats the 'best'
I like spikey harold, last ninja simulator, racing destruction set, one man and his droid etc etc etc
Nice choice though i must raise...Sanxion by Rob Hubbard !!!
Nice. I'd rank them differently and include some tunes from the demoscene, but cool anyway.
BE FAST BE ALERT OR BE DEAD.
That is some pretty good advice.
the list is great! But id love to have it, with your speaking on it, but with full songs. So i can listen to it at work while coding.
Yeah thanks... i retrospect i think i sound really weird. A version with full songs won't probably happen any time soon but thanks for watching though! ^^
You dont sound weird at all. I enjoyed the radio feel of the clip. Like if chiptunes where mainstream. :D
Nice countdown.. but mine would definitely include Cybernoid 1 & 2, Parallax, Knucklebusters, Auf Wiedersehen Monty, Gauntlet III, Nemesis the Warlock, Warhawk, Starforce Fighter, Delta and Sanxion. :)