c64 game music 1986-88 (VA)

[japantuning88]

aivan mahtava tuo uuno peli :)

[andwilmor]

It's great to see these videos. I designed Kikstart II with Shaun. If anyone has any of our other games, I would love to see them again. Humdinger was one of my favorites - haven't seen that for 20 years. Thanks for posting the video - Andrew Morris.

[Co19801003]

@andwilmor I LOVED Kikstart 2 on the C64, but unfortunately I sold my C64 complete with all my games one day to get an A500. I was young and ignorant ;-) Thanks for contributing to this great game :-)

While you must have disliked software pirates back in the eighties, they must have contributed a lot to the number of copies out there, thereby increasing your chance of finding what you are looking for now. It's terribly ironic, don't you think? *walks off singing the song* :-)

[einokeino303]

@Co19801003 I've always appreciated the work done by crackers despite the propaganda in computer magazines. It's not like they would "stream" games in TV so you could get a (VHS) copy. I had about 1000 games of which something like 90% were not originals. Even though I put most of my allowance and gift money into c64 games I was still missing more than half before I got Amiga and c64 was "obsolete".

[Co19801003]

@einokeino303 I only had two original games and since I was very bad at games then - even worse than now - I sorely missed the trainer a lot of crackers put in. That way, I actually enjoyed cracked games more. To be honest, I had no idea what piracy was in those days; maybe I was a little backward, but at least it meant I could enjoy games without a guilty conscience - the one keeping me away from pirated movies and software nowadays :-)

I genuinely hope you will find your old creations soon!

[megast2]

C64 was a kick ass platform, too bad they didn't release more games on cartridges, THEN it would've been insane. Think about it, indestructible machine with indestructible game format. Rrrocking!

[RONKAAA]

damn Alley kat is soooooooo f gooood...tnx for upload

[muffybommel]

superb,great,extraordinary,C64 SID at its best,i love alleycat

[HaligonianType1]

Oh man, just hearing that music took me right back to the day it was released. Good times....

[muffybommel]

alleykat,i have this this theme in my ears since 21 years,thank you!!!press fire to play,i love it,great stuff!!

[hayleyclips]

My ps3 died on me & so did my xbox360, & my commodore 64 is still going. good old 80's

[TheOldschool81]

@hayleyclips

That's because it wasn't assembled in China.

[BabylonWhore666]

@hayleyclips Thats because the C64 was forged in the fires of Ragnorak by Thor himslef!

[baramor83]

nice a c64 vid so 5/5 i hope for 10.000 views

[einokeino303]

Thanks, still a long way to go though...

[sillybuttons44]

Some of the best old game music was written by a guy called David Whitaker using just a synth and an assembler (the basics of the basic). Google his name and see the music he wrote. If your a retro fan then there are some real gems in his "game~musicography" ^^

[einokeino303]

I have previously uploaded some of his c64 game music here in tube. See the title of my upload below.

[c64] David Whitaker game music compilation (1987-1990)

I think the best stuff he wrote was the music for Shadow of the Beast on Amiga. I have just recently listened some of the sid conversions made by Joachim Wijnhoven and Fredrik Segerfalk (moppe). I might upload the music here later.

I'm also soon going to upload a video from an Amiga game 'return to genesis' which has Whitaker's music.

[einokeino303]

Ok it was Whittaker after all and not Whitaker, I assumed I had made a typo in the name and was already changing the title of my video ;)

There's also an English composer David Whitaker which fooled me at first, but i assume you didn't mean him.

[sillybuttons44]

He he yeah it is Whittaker. My error in the misspelling. I should have gotten it right cos Nathan Whittaker who worked with David at Reflections Interactive is my cousin. But yeah just a typo on my end.

Nice uploads btw. I always get all sentimental for the old 64 and the Amiga music. I put Monkey Island on last week just to show my gf the awesome sound track. Erm I don't think she was at all interested though lol. Ahhh the simple things eh?

[einokeino303]

I would give my left eye for such cool relatives!

No one can argue about the greatness of Monkey Island music, not even your gf ;)

Thanks for commenting!

[sillybuttons44]

To be honest I have no idea if David Whittaker is a relation or if his name is just coincidence to Nathan's. On the subject of his name though check out your

[c64] David Whittaker game music compilation (1987-1990)

upload at 9:49... I think we can be forgiven for not being sure of the spelling, it seems his peers weren't immune to that error either lol.

[einokeino303]

lol, indeed. I didn't even notice this.

I believe BHC was a lousy game so the typo couldn't have been drawing much attention anyways.

[Tipetso]

These are great tunes. When you realize how hard it was back then to make these tunes, just with 4 channels, then you would probably understand, it´s crazy. Most of todays musicproducers can`t even come close to this stuff despite the fact that they are using Protools or whatever. Anyways, these videos are much appreciated and music lives forever. Thank you very much!

[einokeino303]

I believe most of the sid tunes are made with only three channels. Check out Cybertracker video here in youtube for example.

Thank you for watching and commenting.

[terrahawk123]

kickstart 2 i had this lol.. thanks for uploading

[einokeino303]

I think it's actually kikstart, but I have seen it been called kickstart in many places. The tunes of this game aren't very good, but memorable still.