Loved playing this, as did my mom...she actually broke the stones & bones floppy disk by playing it so much on a nighttime, that when she sent the disc back, the guys at Digital Illusions actually wrote her a letter and it said that they were not able to break her high score. XD
I used to load this game up with no intention of playing it just to listen to the music!! Fantastic game as well to be fair. Computer games have lost their soul since the days of the Amiga :(
My PC in 1996 had only the "internal pc speaker" but I still loved that song... Two years later, I had my first full multimedia PC and when I heard this song in the speakers...WOW! What a delight...
@@markgeater5288 Yeah they've internally coded a sound driver for PC speaker in this game. The thing bitbanged everything to the poor circuitry handling the speaker. Mindblowing.
It still is in my opinion. We've come so far with technology, but I can't think of a single piece of technology nowadays that blows my mind as much as the Amiga did / still does.
I remember recording this and board songs on a casette deck, so I could play them in my room even when I couldn't be on the family pc! Only game songs I ever did that for. Cue some 20-25 years later and I'm still loving it. Thanks to Synthwave artists, too there's a whole genre dedicated to this type of music. But they were there first!
I would leave the game at the menu screen for this track alone! I had it for MS-DOS, and it still had the *awesome* tracker music. Another really cool tracker-based soundtrack I like is Jazz Jackrabbit. :)
@@bluebull399 Except (according to MobyGames) the PC port of Pinball Dreams was released in 1993, before Jazz Jackrabbit which was released in 1994. Jazz Jackrabbit does have some kickass music though. Epic's own Epic Pinball was also a 1993 release, also with good tracked music by the same composers.
The education of my ears start with this, and grow me up to electronic music until today. AMIGA miss so much that time. There is also "Lethal Weapon" "Double dragon 3" "Killerball" "Hired Guns" crazy sounds. Hug for all Commodores brains on this page!
TUSEN TACK FÖR DENNA UPPLADDNNGEN!!! Har spelet och brukar kunna sitta vid våran gamla amiga och spela detta. Men nästan mer för att få höra denna underbara låten. Helt underbar låt. riktigt mysig.
This is still my favorite 4 channel MOD, and god knows there are mountains of those! The harmony and pacing of this thing is so amazing, not to mention the explosive samples!
Amazing how Digital Illusions went on to be known as DICE and produce great games like the Battlefield series! I bet they never thought they'd be where they are now.
still sounds just as good, infact better than I remember, we had it good as amiga owners, shame it didn't last rip commodore _/ may the Amiga memories live on.
I sat shivering to this music when buying it for the PC, it was fckng blown away fantastic... They even made it sound sweet on a crappy PC SPEAKER without sound card!!! That had never been done at that level before...
I searched sooo long for this Song omg. Heard a dnb remix and emediatly recognized the Sound. But didnt know how the game Was called. After 1 month i Finale found it
Still coming here now and then, to listen to this. Part of my teenage years, just like Metallica, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin and all the great bands we used to listen to. This is no lesser art than the best songs of those bands
When I was child, I listened to this tune with open mouth and in silence for all over the duration. It's one of the BEST Amiga tunes I've ever listened, if not the best. In truth, the entire pinball dreams soundtrack shows the extraordinary talent of the composer, Olof Gustaffson. It shows also EVERYTHING you must know and learn in order to use Protracker with only 4 channels: fantasy, skill, originality, tecnique. Simply amazing.
Starting from 04:50 sequence at the end Olof Gustafson gave a drum session as home work for all of us that many famous drummers find hard to mimic.Adrenaline bomb.One of the best drumming session in computer games.All that on 7 MHZ cpu built computer in 1985 year(no mistake in typing) with 512kb(0,5 MB RAM).
Those were the times when devs entertained you with brilliant art (like this piece) while your machines chewed slowly on your floppy disc. ;) Today we have the "circle of patience" most of the time.
Oh yeah, I remember that too. White message in white frame on the black screen. After changing disk, there was table selection, that was depending on the disk you've inserted. One disk was containing Stones n' bones + Billion dollar, and second one Party Land + Speed Devils.
For this game...and especially this score alone, i wish the original creators were millionaires...I hope you are healthy and doing well... Me and the community salute you
This and Project X were the best themes I can remember from the day, they were created using Octamed or similar using the MOD fileformat, which like a midi file that contains the notes, MOD files also contain samples which are played through the sequencer :D Love those days!
An awesome useage of PROTRACKER!! And I totally agree. Music these days may as well be ripped off a CD.. no real passion involved anymore.. The sheer amount of work that went into this 1 tune probably blows away most modern day productions..
@TheUrbanaStyle Thanks a lot for the reminder, just didn't remember that he did music for that particular game. The brain just remembered the "Pinball something - GREAT MUSIC" thing and the last fast verse. :)
I agree with the sentiment wholeheartedly but unfortunately moronic fps' are what brings in the money these days. Hell, when I was a kid in the early 90s I think I owned 3 original games. I had a ton of floppies brought to me by the wonder that was x copy lol
David Ross xcopy was a wonder indeed..except those times that skipped sectors during copyand you couldn't finish copying the games that your cousin\uncle brought to you..and that he was going to get back..-_-
Zontar82 or those that let you copy and the copy _seemed_ perfect but you had no idea you've just wasted lots of time for mere data junk..."Wolfchild" was one of them. You thought...yeah, now I got a copy of it for me too! Fired it up ... cool logo, lots of thunder noise from the speakers, logo about to transform/flip ... aaaand...red LEDs flashing...CRASH. A _programmed_ crash by the makers. Game used either a long track (or a deliberately "defective" track) the check of which had to be positive or otherwise the illegal dupe was detected as such. X-Copy loved to "fix" these "errors" w/copying. Ah the memories...
Heh, I remember saving all the MOD files from the PC version that was floating about at college at the time and being amazed that they played through the tracker program on the STE, loved this music.
I got the hold Pinball Dreams and Fantasies in .mod format with all the songs for each level mixed into one single tune. Do not remember who did these but amazing work. I should still have these files, but I have no doubt they exist on the net still.
@aalataur I strongly agree! Game music today has nothing compared to early 90's! Back then music was done with pure passion and that is something what you could hear!
this brings back memories I am so getting the port on the PSP go I have just asked gamestation to hold for me till thursday when i can pay for it and pick it up.
It's not from a table, this is the "second" menu theme from when you play a table and back out to the main menu, the MOD is generally named "steel_chambers_2.mod"
![Pinball Fantasies - Title Theme [Amiga]](/img/1.gif)
Loved playing this, as did my mom...she actually broke the stones & bones floppy disk by playing it so much on a nighttime, that when she sent the disc back, the guys at Digital Illusions actually wrote her a letter and it said that they were not able to break her high score. XD
Love this story!
Your mom is a legend!
Holy shit, Grim Reaper approves.
Lol brilliant
And so the idea of achievements in games was born lol.
I used to load this game up with no intention of playing it just to listen to the music!! Fantastic game as well to be fair. Computer games have lost their soul since the days of the Amiga :(
Exactly this! I would just listen to it till the end before playing. Sweet memories
Always admired the complexity of this tune on so many levels.
Przemysław Sikorski it is sick
This is the golden age of games. 80s and the 90s.
this is pure oldskool
Genius composition, sort of progressive rock thing, except not rock. Better than Pinball Dreams music in my opinion
This soundtrack goes straight to the source code of my soul. True meditation.
Me too, since 1998
Good thing not a Guru Meditation ;)
@@pyrobison2002 the golden age of amiga
@@99nerka Underrated comment.
My PC in 1996 had only the "internal pc speaker" but I still loved that song... Two years later, I had my first full multimedia PC and when I heard this song in the speakers...WOW! What a delight...
I had no idea the PC speaker could do anything other than beep until I got this game. It blew me away!
@@markgeater5288 Yeah they've internally coded a sound driver for PC speaker in this game. The thing bitbanged everything to the poor circuitry handling the speaker. Mindblowing.
Even on the internal PC speaker this game sound was great!
The switch from minor to major is insane
ピンボールらしからぬ重々しい雰囲気かつ跳ねるような金属音、某所で聴いて以来好きなBGM、今も聴いてます。
Absolutely fantastic tune from the "demoscene era" by Olof Gustafsson
full agree ! :) long live olof
Hang on, Gustafsson? The same guy that made the Motorhead soundtrack?
@@charlesgreenday996 Yep. The same. Have a listen to the demo Black Lotus "Rift" to check out his newer sounds.
It still is in my opinion. We've come so far with technology, but I can't think of a single piece of technology nowadays that blows my mind as much as the Amiga did / still does.
indeed ;-)
The jump from 8-bit to 16-bit is probably never going to be matched.
Amiga was unique and way ahead of it's time. It could have owned the entire PC market if Commodore management had known what they were doing.
I remember the feeling well, even after all these years. Seeing & hearing Turrican for the first time on an A500 🤯
spoken true words
One of the best intro music for Amiga games ever! I have goosebumps always, when I hear it!
These times...when music was an integral part of the playing experience. I miss those times
Thank you for this, one of the best soundtracks ever in the videogames world.
for sure yeah!
2:10
confirmed
@@topdecker1334 spoken true words
So good! I remember taping this from my Amiga and listening to it on repeat.
I remember recording this and board songs on a casette deck, so I could play them in my room even when I couldn't be on the family pc! Only game songs I ever did that for. Cue some 20-25 years later and I'm still loving it. Thanks to Synthwave artists, too there's a whole genre dedicated to this type of music. But they were there first!
Such amazing music! sent chills through me when I heard this again! So many memories...
Autumnblueskies it blew me away
I would leave the game at the menu screen for this track alone! I had it for MS-DOS, and it still had the *awesome* tracker music. Another really cool tracker-based soundtrack I like is Jazz Jackrabbit. :)
Jazz Jackrabbit had awesome music. I'm pretty certain that was the first PC game to use tracked music.
I would relax to the visuals and this song on jaguar, still do
@@bluebull399 Except (according to MobyGames) the PC port of Pinball Dreams was released in 1993, before Jazz Jackrabbit which was released in 1994. Jazz Jackrabbit does have some kickass music though. Epic's own Epic Pinball was also a 1993 release, also with good tracked music by the same composers.
Same here, but with Epic Pinball 👍
Crusader: No Remorse introduced me to MOD files and it’s still imho one of the best soundtracks. On PC, at least.
The education of my ears start with this, and grow me up to electronic music until today. AMIGA miss so much that time. There is also "Lethal Weapon" "Double dragon 3" "Killerball" "Hired Guns" crazy sounds. Hug for all Commodores brains on this page!
Just stunning, what an amazingly broad sound this guy pulled out of 4 tracks... :O
This and Olympos from Motörhead are his crowning achievements
I wonder what Mozart would say upon hearing this masterpiece.
I get so pumped at 2:20 when after a long tease the song really takes off! This is still epic!
I cry so much...
TUSEN TACK FÖR DENNA UPPLADDNNGEN!!! Har spelet och brukar kunna sitta vid våran gamla amiga och spela detta. Men nästan mer för att få höra denna underbara låten. Helt underbar låt. riktigt mysig.
The 'Orch Hit'... iconic ubiquitous Amiga music sample!
This is still my favorite 4 channel MOD, and god knows there are mountains of those!
The harmony and pacing of this thing is so amazing, not to mention the explosive samples!
this intro has blown my mind
Amazing how Digital Illusions went on to be known as DICE and produce great games like the Battlefield series! I bet they never thought they'd be where they are now.
The "SID Metal" band Machinae Supremacy did awesome covers of the Pinball series music.
I remember opening this track in proTracker and backing out....quietly....
still sounds just as good, infact better than I remember, we had it good as amiga owners, shame it didn't last rip commodore _/ may the Amiga memories live on.
Developer: Hey, we need some music for our pinball game. Don't do anything special.
Composer: *Made a banger.*
I sat shivering to this music when buying it for the PC, it was fckng blown away fantastic...
They even made it sound sweet on a crappy PC SPEAKER without sound card!!! That had never
been done at that level before...
I searched sooo long for this Song omg. Heard a dnb remix and emediatly recognized the Sound. But didnt know how the game Was called. After 1 month i Finale found it
Theres something very uniquely beautiful in tracker music. Sounds so amazing while so optimized
Well, this is probably the best composition that ever was made with a tracker. I don't think all tracker music was noteworthy, or even most
Still coming here now and then, to listen to this. Part of my teenage years, just like Metallica, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin and all the great bands we used to listen to. This is no lesser art than the best songs of those bands
I'm still blown away by the sound capabilities of the Amiga. Pure bliss!
Oh my God! My eyes got soaked when I closed them and heard this sounds
People say "one of the best tunes/soundtracks"...no guys, this is the BEST soundtrack without any doubt
Just total epic. Olof Gusfafsson, what a legend!
When I was child, I listened to this tune with open mouth and in silence for all over the duration. It's one of the BEST Amiga tunes I've ever listened, if not the best. In truth, the entire pinball dreams soundtrack shows the extraordinary talent of the composer, Olof Gustaffson.
It shows also EVERYTHING you must know and learn in order to use Protracker with only 4 channels: fantasy, skill, originality, tecnique. Simply amazing.
I would leave it running as i settled in for bed
Great music. I has a PC without a soundcard, and self-made DAC of resistors soldered to printer port instead.
Aah! Hell! The memories, cant take it.. Allmost crying.. I remeber all the battles we had as little boys with these games..
Starting from 04:50 sequence at the end Olof Gustafson gave a drum session as home work for all of us that many famous drummers find hard to mimic.Adrenaline bomb.One of the best drumming session in computer games.All that on 7 MHZ cpu built computer in 1985 year(no mistake in typing) with 512kb(0,5 MB RAM).
You needed a small ram expansion (+ another 512kb) to have music and sound, though :D
I remember hearing that sound from my pc speaker. One of the rare games that pulled of propper music without a soundcard requirement.
Those were the times when devs entertained you with brilliant art (like this piece) while your machines chewed slowly on your floppy disc. ;)
Today we have the "circle of patience" most of the time.
Exquisite track, just splendid. This song pwns all new game music for sure. And go figure they made this back in 1992. :)
I really didn't play the game much but the intro music still brings so nostalgic memories.
So much nostalgia it hurts :(
I went from hoping my zx spectrum game would load on cassette to looking forward to maybe having to load this in twice? Genius.
Music in the old day games! AMAZING
memories of around 0:54 the system telling me to insert disk 2. Oh shit.
indeed,especially with an amiga 500 ;)
Oh yeah, I remember that too. White message in white frame on the black screen. After changing disk, there was table selection, that was depending on the disk you've inserted. One disk was containing Stones n' bones + Billion dollar, and second one Party Land + Speed Devils.
you have good memory,congrats ;)
Right! Did the song pause until disc 2 was inserted, and then resume with that orchestra hit stab?
No, the song continued!
This was first game I had on my first PC (386) back in 90's. Nostalgia mode on ❤
The actual version is full stereo. You can hear the music "breathing" from left to right. I advise finding the mod and listening from there.
I had a compact pc with a sound blaster card and DOS. And I loved these games! Wish I had that PC now. I could play all these games over again.
You can play oldies with your PC, just install DosBox :-)
Wow!!!. This brings a lot of memorys to me!!
Ow my!! I almost forgot about this one!
Holy cow what insane this track was!
For this game...and especially this score alone, i wish the original creators were millionaires...I hope you are healthy and doing well... Me and the community salute you
Stunningly awesome music!!! Epic and timeless!!!
This and Project X were the best themes I can remember from the day, they were created using Octamed or similar using the MOD fileformat, which like a midi file that contains the notes, MOD files also contain samples which are played through the sequencer :D Love those days!
This was 💯 thank you for uploading ❤
The good old days, when dice wasn't owned by satan.
wow i actually remembered the game because of the music here. usually it is the other way around
i remember going to school listen this music recorded in a cassete. good old times!
Så jävla bra!!
An awesome useage of PROTRACKER!!
And I totally agree. Music these days may as well be ripped off a CD.. no real passion involved anymore.. The sheer amount of work that went into this 1 tune probably blows away most modern day productions..
Such an amazing track! Pinball games had the best music (including their cracktros haha).
Stones & Bones!!
@TheUrbanaStyle Thanks a lot for the reminder, just didn't remember that he did music for that particular game. The brain just remembered the "Pinball something - GREAT MUSIC" thing and the last fast verse. :)
Oh yeah this is the good stuff, that sound hits me right in the nostalgia
Had this on the PC, I think... lovely game either way I had it. All the boards were fun and had great music, too!
Der beste Flippersimolator der je gemacht worden ist einfach nur geil gewesen die Zeit
ahh back when DICE was associated to cool Amiga games,rather than moronic fps that 10 years old plays all day insulting each other
thanks for the information. Never recognize that this is the same company.
unfortunately,yes,it is :\
I agree with the sentiment wholeheartedly but unfortunately moronic fps' are what brings in the money these days. Hell, when I was a kid in the early 90s I think I owned 3 original games. I had a ton of floppies brought to me by the wonder that was x copy lol
David Ross xcopy was a wonder indeed..except those times that skipped sectors during copyand you couldn't finish copying the games that your cousin\uncle brought to you..and that he was going to get back..-_-
Zontar82 or those that let you copy and the copy _seemed_ perfect but you had no idea you've just wasted lots of time for mere data junk..."Wolfchild" was one of them. You thought...yeah, now I got a copy of it for me too! Fired it up ... cool logo, lots of thunder noise from the speakers, logo about to transform/flip ... aaaand...red LEDs flashing...CRASH. A _programmed_ crash by the makers. Game used either a long track (or a deliberately "defective" track) the check of which had to be positive or otherwise the illegal dupe was detected as such. X-Copy loved to "fix" these "errors" w/copying. Ah the memories...
From the creators of Battlefield franchise.
The Amiga 500 was the 8th wonder :)
Thanks very much Vulk :)
Yes you are right, it is the music when you get back to the menu!
Whoa, I didn't know about the stuff playing around the 5:00 mark... Same samples and vibe as Epic Pinball's Android table!
Heh, I remember saving all the MOD files from the PC version that was floating about at college at the time and being amazed that they played through the tracker program on the STE, loved this music.
This Song was so stunning back in Time
still listening to this :)
This game was able to play this music and sound effects on a PC-speaker!! (without soundcard)!
I bloody miss my Amiga 500! :-(
I like this a lot. Then again, I like most of the music Digital Illusions put into their pinball games.
Oh my god what an amazing track this is, amazing game too, but that track really is a pinball fantasy.
I used to play this in PC using the PC Speaker (no sound card) ant the sound was very similar!!! It was just amazing!!! Good old times!!!
I get more of a kick out of these old classics than i do any 360 game despite the advance in graphics.
Long live the Amiga
I got the hold Pinball Dreams and Fantasies in .mod format with all the songs for each level mixed into one single tune. Do not remember who did these but amazing work.
I should still have these files, but I have no doubt they exist on the net still.
christ this takes me back.
It's the end of the "title" music. The music after is the "menu" music, the one which was played when the player was choosing the table.
@aalataur I strongly agree! Game music today has nothing compared to early 90's!
Back then music was done with pure passion and that is something what you could hear!
I'm sitll love it. First track called "Steelchambers2", it's fantastic track.
Second short track called "Adrenaline", which also very good.
0:53 - This part sounded like a fighter selection/how to play song which reminded me of "The King Of Fighters '99".
I'll definitely use it for MUGEN.
awesome tune, dark and catchy.
Great music, great memories...
The gratest music on Amiga music card.
this brings back memories I am so getting the port on the PSP go I have just asked gamestation to hold for me till thursday when i can pay for it and pick it up.
the first PC I had was a 386 then a 486 DX 100 with a 80Mb hard drive so big took up the space in the chassic in the old ISA Motherboard hehe ;-)
AHHHHH I remember this song it was called Steel chambers
All Pinball's from 21c are true art !!
All this wonder on just four channels? Really? Very impressive...
Do not use drugs!
yeah! i found it! fantastic, thanx!
It's not from a table, this is the "second" menu theme from when you play a table and back out to the main menu, the MOD is generally named "steel_chambers_2.mod"