My top 10 Amiga music tracks

[sasfcps]

My list in no particular order:  Alien Breed 2, shadow of the beast (all of them), leander, fury of the furries, chaos engine, chuck rock 2, cannon fodder, stardust, full contact, wiz n liz, honourable mentions: Gods, wicked, north and south, superfrog, james pond 2, pinball dreams/fantasies/illusions

[GBWPawel]

Projext X music IMBA

[LupiaeTown]

Excuse me , Turrican 3 , the best music intro.....EVER!

[ZroDfects]

Shadow of the beast still beats any side scroller today, even back then Shadow of the beast was using something like 9 seperate scrolling bakgrounds with no slow down on a incy 7mhz machine. Show me just 1 game that does just half that today ?

[Kartissa]

@ZroDfects If I recall, Shadow of the Beast (simply called Beast on the title screen) was originally just a tech demo to show variable scrolling sections that somebody decided to make into a full game. And the music was just as awesome.

[Grakesch]

I think I'm born some years too late...I love such songs 8-bit, chiptune and stuff like that

but it's kinda sad I never could experience games back then and I know how songs of games get a total different meaning to you if you played the game

and sorry no, playing them today is just not the same

[dangermouse1999]

OH SHIT! BLOOD MONEY!

[0wner69]

I used to make music tracks like these , but then i took a arrow in the knee.

[blade004]

@0wner69 Please take an arrow to the head. 

[GBWPawel]

project x number one!

[NukeCorruption]

i'm glad i have an older brother, without him i might have never got familiar with amiga in the past! good old times!

[ZroDfects]

It is humanly impossible to create a top 10 best Amiga music collection since there are hundreds and hundreds of awesome tracks out there that make current gen consoles sound like a pocket watch.

[Sulstus]

R-Type Nr 8?? why not better??

[RolandDeschain1]

Boy, I remember the graphics and sound of SHADOW OF THE BEAST being revolutionary, even though the gameplay was ass.

But I think Psygnosis were known for making gorgeous games that played poorly.

[warwick2155]

Come on, no Superfrog? Chaos Engine? Turrican 2? What about James Pond 1 or 2? Wrath of the Demon? So many amazing soundtracks you missed

[Zenon66]

Overdrive reminds me of Led Storm !

[Kamenos4ever]

used to play R-Type on the gameboy color. it was actually the first game I've ever owned on the GB

[6344Dragonkingon]

Project-X looks like Gradius clone

[flystatic]

Awesome video.. 10 songs aren't enough! :)

As someone else on here has also said: the day I realised the Amiga days were over was after playing a deathmatch serial link up of Doom. The Amiga is always gonna be a huge part of my life and I still get shivers watching these vids.

The name "Amiga" is apt.. it's like remembering your first girlfriend.

[deftones1007]

Oh god yes - The blood Money intro was great, but the in-game music was the best.

[circlestrafe]

@deftones1007 Yup, the in-game music was spectacular. Psygnosis was the best...Blood Money, Awesome, Shadow of the Beast series, Denaris, Menace....all great games with killer soundtracks!

[jasonwoodland96]

its sort of strange listening to this just after dubstep, this is what new-age electronica evolved from. like the amigas gonna die out though ;) live long AMIGA!

[jasco86]

AMIGA 500 WAS my Babysitter, Thanks Commodore, Thank you for let me revival wonderful games.

the first time that I finished spydya a was 4 yo :)

[zevex747]

These are all great music tracks! And does anyone else agree that most Amiga games are better looking than today's 2d games?

[realhoneybear]

AWESOME was just awesome

[Geekzon]

I remeber a game where you are a big dragon, that covers the most of the screen. And you shoot fire at enemies. What was the game called? Simular to Project X, but instead a massive dragonsnake. kinda.

[Thiima52]

@Geekzon Sounds like DragonBreed

[Geekzon]

@Thiima52 It was close, however. Thanks to you I could find the right game. Saint Dragon was the game. Nostalgic.

[cracktroscom]

@Thiima52

lol does not even sound close to alien breed, sounds like saint dragon.

[kuryakin75]

@Geekzon Saint Dragon

[jamescydonia]

@Geekzon saint dragon?

[jamma1986]

@Geekzon it's saint dragon

[Turrican4D]

@Geekzon

Saint Dragon. IMO it sucked.

[gavstar79]

@Geekzon Think that could be ST Dragon



[chroik]

@Geekzon Dragon Breed

[heikkint]

woot. Someone else played Projectyle. The game rocked so much and not one single clone or anything during the years. Forget Angry birds. make this game again and it will rock the casual market.

[metsuri69]

@heikkint Couldn't say it better myself. All the way to the sentence "woot someone else played projectyle". The game was damn good, fresh idea and so much fun with a friend!

[jasonwoodland96]

Amiga's technology didn't match the year.

[jasonwoodland96]

year and technology didnt matter for Amiga

[leonguy1]

i have a remix of zool on blockland :D

no wonder it sounds familiar:P

[hvorego]

first song reminds me of Coolio - I'll C U When U Get There



[hatize]

Truely classic game scores on amiga, forgot about Awesome game tune.

My Top 5

(1) Turrican

(2) Turrican 2

(3) Lotus Turbo Challenge 2

(4) Nitro

(5) Blood Money

When did the Amiga die for me?

After playing Doom 1 deathmatch on 486 PC's on a 3-way serial link. I remember it said in the readme, cross your fingers, it only sometimes works LOL. That was it, i was converted, X-wing helped too.

[blade004]

A beautiful choice that you made for Turrican :) It's a tune from the game that NO ONE else on YouTube seems to have truly bothered with despite it being one of best.

[KaitainCPS]

Hulsbeck's stuff sounds very Tangerine Dream influenced (80s-era).

[rotokka]

The start of Project-X sounds little wierd =(? What did you use to record these?

[Thiima52]

@rotokka now that you mention it, it doesn't sound quite as I think I remember it, but I don't know. It was recorded with the video and audio recorders built into winuae so perhaps the emulation or the compression breaks the music a bit.

[MrLolKins]

Watching some of these videos makes me wish i had have got an Amiga when i was a kid.. I was a c64 person..

[whiteyorm]

also project x.. same scheme ....katakis rocks

[whiteyorm]

r-type is the same of katakis...?

[Hertje73]

I remember them all.. god I feel old...

[RaNdOmBrEeZe]

dam, zool 2... i can't believe i remember playing it. Watching your vid reminded me of the game, which i played when i was 4, 5 years old. sooo old school.

[xyzzy41001]

Before I watched the video I said to myself, "If Blood Money isn't in it, the list is Fail!" Good thing is was there. ;) Great stuff!

[thebluemeaner]

wtf, the graphics are so amazing, why was the NES so overhyped over the Amiga? maybe the price=?

[DingKong]

@thebluemeaner Yep - the Amiga was FAR superior to the NES, or the Master System and Megadrive for that Matter. PC's finally toppled the Amiga in the mid 1990s

[ZroDfects]

@DingKong..... You should be shot for even saying that... PC never toppled AMIGA.... AMIGA will always be the king no matter what.... You for sure are not AMIGA material..... sorry but you gotta go dude.........

[KaitainCPS]

@ZroDfects

Depends what's meant by "toppled". By the mid-90s, you could play games on a 1995 PC that were broadly superior to a 1985 Amiga. Is that impressive? (Shrugs.) Not really.

Note also that many of the graphics cards coming out for the PC copied ideas from the Amiga's custom graphics chipset. The Amiga was an amazing machine, years ahead of its time, mishandled for the most part by Commodore, and also perhaps so far ahead that the world wasn't ready for it.

[blade004]

@ZroDfects I used my Amiga from 1990 till the year 2000 before buying a PC so i was a die hard Amiga fan and the Amiga was an immediate upgrade path from the C64 for me BUT even i will admit that by the mid 1990's the Amiga had lost it's mantle as king of the hill, although that's not to say it still didn't kick arse! :)

[stickmakerman]

GO CHRIS HÜLSBECK!

[xXTrue]

you shoulda had blood money's intro. I still think about that to this day

[y2k4ever1]

and to think the Amiga was made in 1985, it was way ahead of its time!!!

[Fr0zenNightmare]

Oh yeah Apidya! I often starts the game just to listen to the music from Meadows Edge and The Pond. If this game comes out for the virtual console I will difinately buy it, just to listen to the music!

And then, when I listened 3 or 4 hours I will play that awesome shooter again! I really loved this game!

[NotQuarex]

I have a new favorite Allister Brimble song that I had never heard before (Overdrive), thanks to this video. Thank you!

[madmomentsgo]

cool vid ,love all them tracks.

[GenyaArikado]

I've never heard the first song before ^^ ! It was really good

[QwaarJet]

Is that the music from Project-X SE? Because the original music was much better imho.

[DashROW]

Very nice :).

[HelloFade2]

You know what sucked about Blood Money (at least the version of it I played)? The fact that you had to choose between having music or sound effects,,,,you couldn't have both.

[funkydoodycool]

@HelloFade2 That was a common problem on the Amiga - it had amazing sound chip, but not enough sound channels for sound FX and music together in many games :(

[ElectricSmell]

Apidya music was amazing, no scratch that.. It still is! Miss them days when games actually had music worth listening to.

[Pinman1973]

Big fan of the Blood Money tune !

[ciolamorta]

9:17: Were you trying to stop a rocket with a punch?

Are you mad or what?

Just joking, try Hybris music. ;-)

[superw4yne]

great tunes. but you have forget the lotus 2 title. (from barry leitch)

[arnevanknopp]

#9  Project x sounds familiar...

it's like Superfrog ^^

[PJAriz]

I've ended Apydia without losting =) Good memories... !!!

[TheSanaeKochiya]

There's many Amiga games I remember but there's one where I know the music is relly good, but I don't know what it is. Looks like an evil Grdius type. Diskette also featured Video Poker if that helps.

[ShadowDreadblade]

Hehehe! Anyone noticed that the zool music is a remix of a Lotus III track?

[deloose]

great comp!

[StayTogetherOnePiece]

Im missing some tunes special some Chris Huelsbeck titles (Turrican2, GemX, ...)

[Lm3ntz]

1:58 ZOMG XENOMORPH!

[PrimeAmsterdam]

Nice video! Also your cool selection since it is different from what i'd expect to be the best music on Amiga. A top ten without out the Jaguar Xj220 hmmm?. Apidya's track was a funny choice since you show us the level : "the pond" but chose Meadows edge as your favorite. the actual song from the pond is 10 times better in my opinion but hey! Everybody his own taste right?! Thanx a lot!

[lukelewisDOTnet]

Lol at all these people saying "OMFG U MISSED OUT [game]". It's his favourites, not the top tracks ever.

[bigepi]

The music in Awesome was just Awesome

[r8qt7]

I knew from the title that you would choose the lamest music from the whole machine

[Vebinz]

Very good top quality xselection.

You obviously like your flying shoot 'em up's.

Thanks for sharing!

[gp3runescape]

wheres elf

[patnais102]

Arlequin's intro music is missing.

[TheNutzerdame]

jumping jackson?

[macdeath69]

Where is Ghouls and Ghost's tune ???

[Thiima52]

As much as I hate to admit, i've never played ghouls and ghosts, or heard the tune :(

[macdeath69]

But the tune is great...you should be ashamed !

;-p

[mortundad]

Great selection, but I miss the Turrican 2 intro music, Pinball Dreams saga (all great), Lotus Saga... From my point of view, the best songs of your selection are Overdrive and Project X.

[drfreezepop]

remindes meh of the 16-bit erra!

dos lives!

[darius9000]

i would vote #1: the shadow of the beast

[ash81b4u]

Some good amiga tunes there. Were so many good ones to choose from. Nice one.

[TheCommodore64Player]

Out of these 10 games, I've only played Project X and Turrican and they are one of my favorite games on the Amiga. I personally think there is better music than this on the Amiga, but I give it 5 stars because the list is well presented and has some good ingame video ;)

[trimer34]

Excellent vid.. Thanks Dude..

[TimHaywood]

I always thought Alistair was a bit weird calling that track a "rave" track - the beat is a bit slow for that. :)

[DantheGermanGamer]

zool2 got the same music then lotus 3 or lotus 3 gots the same music then zool2

[Thiima52]

One of the lotus 3 tracks is the same as the main theme for the original zool

[RetroSpectreUK]

@Thiima52 yep, it just got a revamp

[latarteauxconcombres]

Not the best AMIGA musics (for me ;-) ) but really cool !!!