Music by Hubbard? Should've realized. This game, especially this intro, really made an impression on me when I was... 8 or 9 years old, I guess. Never got the hang of the game, really, but that didn't matter that much, at least to me it didn't. It was just... magical to simply play around and try stuff on my Amiga 500.
Beautiful memories. Thank you sir for bringing back some blissful images from my childhood. And awesome music, too. It still comes to my head at times, after all these years.
I did some checking the other night and Shadow of the Beast has an awesome soundtrack. Bloodmoney is great. I owned an Atari ST at the time but swapped it for an Amiga 2000 because a) the Amiga had better games and b) the music was much and much better. I had a great time when I'd figured out how Protracker worked and was able to load songs from games such as Lotus TC 2 and create mixes. Those were the days... :)
Amiga had slightly better graphical capabilities due to it's customized graphical chips with hardware scrolling (also paralax) and blitter (thanks to which we could enjoy 64-colour graphics and in some cases after loads of "hacking" and pushing machine to its limits even 256 on vanilla A500). As for music the only difference was that Atari ST had MIDI port which Amiga didn't (by default as there were obviously MIDI extensions).
@kad3t It's different. Cannon Fodder was just a bunch of samples that got repeated and mixed a lot. Pinball Fantasies is great, but I used to skip it as I always wanted to play the game as quick as possible.. :P But Populous' intro song has a fantastic composition.
Less great but also one I still love is the intro from Lotus Turbo Challenge 2.
Fair enough... What about Shadow of the Beast, Blood Money and likes? I actually always also like the song from Lemming 2 The Tribes even though it was stylised to be in theme with the game.
Well, next to Mega-lo-mania it was one of the first few "be a God" games. I actually also enjoyed a shareware title Shepherd's something... Don't really remember what it was that it belong to the Shepherd from the title but the game on Amiga was awesome and in the same theme.
And it's one of the first games that Peter Molyneux designed. It's amazing to realize that creator of Black and White, Spore, etc. started of like that...
Oh god, that end part of the title song is so cool. You know, when the lone snare comes in.
raskaskoneisto 4 days ago
Music by Hubbard? Should've realized. This game, especially this intro, really made an impression on me when I was... 8 or 9 years old, I guess. Never got the hang of the game, really, but that didn't matter that much, at least to me it didn't. It was just... magical to simply play around and try stuff on my Amiga 500.
raskaskoneisto 4 days ago
Lame!!! Atari ST destroys all!!!!
tuegy 1 month ago
Beautiful memories. Thank you sir for bringing back some blissful images from my childhood. And awesome music, too. It still comes to my head at times, after all these years.
7StringsLover 6 months ago
who is rob ? XD XD
zecle 7 months ago
This was fantastic in its day. The only game I ever played all night. I remember the shock of seeing daylight out of the window
jaybo197306 9 months ago 3
I did some checking the other night and Shadow of the Beast has an awesome soundtrack. Bloodmoney is great. I owned an Atari ST at the time but swapped it for an Amiga 2000 because a) the Amiga had better games and b) the music was much and much better. I had a great time when I'd figured out how Protracker worked and was able to load songs from games such as Lotus TC 2 and create mixes. Those were the days... :)
KStone66 1 year ago
@KStone66
Amiga had slightly better graphical capabilities due to it's customized graphical chips with hardware scrolling (also paralax) and blitter (thanks to which we could enjoy 64-colour graphics and in some cases after loads of "hacking" and pushing machine to its limits even 256 on vanilla A500). As for music the only difference was that Atari ST had MIDI port which Amiga didn't (by default as there were obviously MIDI extensions).
kad3t 1 year ago
@kad3t The Amiga had a four channel stereo sound chip and the St didn't???!
beIIend 1 year ago
@beIIend
Four channel stereo 8bit 22kHz IIRC. As for ST, I'm not sure...
kad3t 1 year ago
I haven't found an Amiga game yet that has a better song than this one! Thanks for uploading it! (Too bad you miss the last 20 seconds.. ;) )
KStone66 1 year ago
@KStone66
What about the intro to Pinball Fantasies? Or to Cannon Fodder?
kad3t 1 year ago
@kad3t It's different. Cannon Fodder was just a bunch of samples that got repeated and mixed a lot. Pinball Fantasies is great, but I used to skip it as I always wanted to play the game as quick as possible.. :P But Populous' intro song has a fantastic composition.
Less great but also one I still love is the intro from Lotus Turbo Challenge 2.
KStone66 1 year ago
@KStone66
Fair enough... What about Shadow of the Beast, Blood Money and likes? I actually always also like the song from Lemming 2 The Tribes even though it was stylised to be in theme with the game.
kad3t 1 year ago
I used to looooove this game! thanks!
zfh10 1 year ago
@zfh10
Well, next to Mega-lo-mania it was one of the first few "be a God" games. I actually also enjoyed a shareware title Shepherd's something... Don't really remember what it was that it belong to the Shepherd from the title but the game on Amiga was awesome and in the same theme.
kad3t 1 year ago
Oh god, I remember. That theme is so amazing, especially the ending makes my flesh crawl!
raskaskoneisto 1 year ago
@raskaskoneisto
And it's one of the first games that Peter Molyneux designed. It's amazing to realize that creator of Black and White, Spore, etc. started of like that...
kad3t 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this - I always loved the epic music of the Populous intro on my A500 - your video brings back good old memories! favorited
luki79uk 1 year ago 6
@luki79uk
Welcome!
It's a great game as well. ^__^
kad3t 1 year ago