Fun with classic C64 computer tunes

[Tom]

I'm bored and feeling old, so heres a little game.

Basically what you do is visit this site, find a tune that you remember from the list of games and download the music file, then use this app to convert it to a midi file and we have to guess what tune the game is from.

Or if you grew up on other platforms (ie you're not an old bastard like me) just get the tune for whatever game you like and post it here.



So I'll start:

What game am I?

 

[Trem]

Sanxion loading tune was the best game music EVER!

Closely followed by the Last Ninja music.

 

[babs]

Not quite the same, but jump forward a generation and enjoy the Turrican utter prawnage on this (from about half way, but watch it all) - http://andrediamant.free.fr/videos/duracell1.mov

Space Harrier fans will be happy with the first one

 

[Draylor]

1 word: Delta

 

[Zill]

So I'll start:

What game am I?

Defender Of The Crown.

 

[Zill]

I can't believe that's Steve Turner. The last time I saw a picture of him he was a freshed faced thing with long brown hair! When I was a young fresh faced kid myself I wrote to him asking whether he intended to release a follow up to the game Dragontorc. I remember going to great lengths to get his address too firstly by writing to C & VG magazine.

 

[Tom]

Defender Of The Crown.

bah.

 

[old.Tohtori]

I'd post but can't find the file hosting site i use that needs not registering

 

[Zill]

bah.

I had it on the C64 and Atari ST. Great game, and I never won one jousting tournament. I killed lots of horses though.

The Atari ST version is supposed to be the best - much better than the Amiga's. Worth a look if you've got an emulator.

<--- feeling nostalgic

 

[xane]

Console forum FFS !

 

[Tom]

What about this then Zill

 

[Tom]

Sanxion loading tune was the best game music EVER!

Closely followed by the Last Ninja music.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tom.jeffs4/c64 music/Sanxion_subtune1.mid



http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tom.jeffs4/c64 music/Last_Ninja_subtune1.mid

 

[Zill]

What about this then Zill

Not a clue mate.

I'm going to try and look for the intro and in-game music to a very old C64 game called Forbidden Forest. Now that was excellent.

 

[GDW]

Console forum FFS !

C64 a console, I think not:touch:

 

[Tom]

OMFG.

The emulator (piss easy to use)

The games (all downloadable for free)

They've got the lot, The Last Ninja, Gilligans Gold, Fort Apocalypse, Raid over Moscow, International Karate+ - they're all bloody there! All I did was set the keys in the emulator (F9 to get into the options), then you press F9 to get into the loading screen, navigate to the games on your HD, and bingo - you're playing C64 classics!

AWESOME!

 

[phazey]

Yes, good old memories. I spent last night playing Last Ninja 1 on me psp - followed by a nice session of IK+

 

[babs]

I was a child of Sir Clive Sinclair, and had very limited experience of C64.

What games should I get? I remember a very good version of exile on it

p.s. Spectrum fans should visit www.worldofspectrum.org , you can play 99.9% of every speccy game ever in your browser through the magic of Java.

 

[GDW]

VIC 20 was the winn3r :worthy:

 

[TdC]

OMFG.

The emulator (piss easy to use)

The games (all downloadable for free)

They've got the lot, The Last Ninja, Gilligans Gold, Fort Apocalypse, Raid over Moscow, International Karate+ - they're all bloody there! All I did was set the keys in the emulator (F9 to get into the options), then you press F9 to get into the loading screen, navigate to the games on your HD, and bingo - you're playing C64 classics!

AWESOME!

OMG OMG THE BARDS TALE!!!!11


*dies*

 

[Whipped]

Bored of the Rings was better

 

[TdC]

nuh-uh! BT4TW!!11

 

[babs]

Noone's given me this definitive list of what games to play.

Stuff I haven't played on spectrum would be good, but everything considered.

 

[djpringle]

Paradroid, similar to Quazatron iirc
Bards Tale 3....number 1 pfft!
Project Stealth Fighter
California Games
Last Ninja
Anything by Jeff Minter
Impossible Mission
Zak Mackraken and the Alien Mindbenders
Wizball


Plenty more which escape me at the moment

 

[Mazling]

I never had a commodore, but I remember playing an msx version of this, and it sounds very similar. Before it got midi'd.

Answer here.

Spoiler

Feud.