Everquest 1 Music - Freeport

[Mikenoronha]

I remember taking my High Elf Mage into Freeport for the first time by the ship that left from the dock at Butcher Block Mountains. The first person I saw was a Dark Elf chick standing on a rock outcropping by the docks. I jumped off the boat and swam up to say hi. I was killed in 2 or 3 hits and in total shock. Good times.

[sanforce]

I remember running the stein of mogok (+10 int) at a really low level on my enchanter. It took me all afternoon to go from freeport, to qeynos, back to freeport, and then to Oggok. My little gnome enchanter put on Illusion Ogre, ran all over Oggok looking for the place to turn in the items. After what seemed like forever, I found the right guy, and handed in the stuff.... SHIT, i forgot to cast a spell to increase my faction, and got nothing!!! On my way out of Oggok, my illusion dropped, dead.

[Kurtanius21]

Everyone come on over to Project 1999! It is a free to play Classic everquest server! It boasts 800 players at peak times! It recreates the classc experience up to velious. Kunark was just released 3 months ago.

[begeura]

Reminds me of the days where crushbone was a challange

[wwazman]

that is a HECK of a loading time!

[whycantirem]

google project1999 to play classic eq again

[Zolatos]

yah, in my opinion they ruined the game, with the No trade items, and by making it so I couldent buff players who where too low of a level, my favorit past time was sitting in crushbone as a druid just Powerleveling people, I LOVED that zone, I spent years there just sitting, very content like, then they ruined it -_-, Loved the estate of unrest too

[Verrie77]

lol what !!? happy music in freeport ?

[secretk33per]

^w^ This brings back SO many memories of killing the guards out of frustration lol

[Hammerman24]

Remember the deadly boats anyone?

[Hiraghm]

@Hammerman24

lol yes

[SaberTanker22]

looking for water pst =P please send 10 gold pieces to that last me a week on the game .

[whycantirem]

google project 1999

[Andylong99]

the spectors arent hard to deal with :)

[Galgamemnon]

I HATE how they re-textured freeport, it is completely retarded now

[Madhatta777]

Everyone you can experience this nostalgia again. Just google "Everquest Project 1999" the old days are back. Im playing a druid im level 8 and in NRO hunting dervs now!

[Taelin11285]

never understood what training specs or SGs was spose to do, 9/10 just a bunch of lvl 12-20s there lol

[wingwing0404]

I still remember EC camp 1 and camp 2. I was a n00b and don't even know those are but keep asking for group and ppl ask me to go there but i don't know how. so she came over and lead me and I explored that zone!!!

And at night some giant kicked my ass tho but those days were great.

[Andylong99]

OMG have u guys seen Freeport as of recently they made it into a Fortress the guards r more deadlier now

[Magisterdark]

I remember the very first time I logged into EQ, I made a human shadow knight and walked around exploring this awesome new world I was put into. I went inside a bar and got attacked by the NPC Lady Shaye(sp?) Being the newbie i was I thought it was another playing trying to kill me. I respawned and ran up to her and ask her why she is killing me and telling her to STOP. LOL. Not a word just a constant death over and over.

*sigh* I miss those old EQ days..

[withered962]

@Magisterdark

LOL I remember when I got a bat to attack the PoD by charming him and the guards were killing him... The newbies around me were like, WHAT'S HAPPENING!? I said it was a GM event and a GM was the PoD. Then a real GM came as the Priest of Order lol

[firesyde424]

This was the game I fell in love with. I miss it so much, I really do.

[thekithless]

I miss this game. The original, no frills, no Plane of Knowledge, no Luclin, no bazaar game. Nothing quite like running through EC and hearing all the auctions, or fighting for spawns in Oasis, or those first few trips to the Plane of Hate.

[edgetiq]

@thekithless I'm with you mate never again will we witness such a community in a game! Europeans and Americans all playing on the same servers all before ventrilo etc! I was 14 when I first played EQ in 1999 seems so long ago now!

[AirwarriorX2]

Man i wish this game was still taking me to 1999 to 2005 with where the greats days ever . having raids on dragons and frost giants.

[gamefan1980]

This song reminds of trying to catch the boat as well. I remember trying to catch the boat with my Dark Elf and running past the Dwarf guard who would whack me for multiple 70's as I made it safely on board. =P

[BicycleDay25]

this reminds me of riding that boat

[Cornicer1]

I'll never forget when I first hit the edge of West Freeport, and this music started playing as I left; absolutely EPIC.

[chrishayden82]

I remember starting out as a light elf, and my first journey to freeport on the boat was so epic! lol

It's weird anymore I dont get such a feeling of adventure as I did in EQ in games now

[DdragonforceF]

Well said - and as I've always said, this was the only true mmorpg. it was all about adventuring, exploring and enjoying the world and not worrying about getting max level and max items. you could spend days just checking things out and running scared from that random high level zombie you'd run into =P

[RebelRadius]

I remember the very first time I visited Freeport. In the old days you have to run all the way through the Karana's to get there. It took a huge amount of time because invariably we all got killed along the way.

[Jesus45U]

This does invoke a whole slew of memories.

I even remember that when you ran around in Freeport and got near the Bard guild, another tune would start playing.

Sure is a trivial bit of info right there .. I wonder why we keep remembereing stuff like that ?

[AllowExpression]

Anyone know if this has been remixed? : ]

[inks1973]

Everytime I hear this song, I think about when I would sit at the docks and fish and get my spell skills up. I cannot wait to be able to experience it all over again!

[joshxxt]

what do you mean experience it all over again?

[inks1973]

Check your messages! :)

[last1standing00]

ahhhh damn this reminds me of being a newbie monk roaming the ashen order and selling my fire beetle eyes to boomba the big haha

[balancex3]

them good ol days, how did they make it feel so epic? the music is bar none the best of any mmorpg

[TheNilvarg]

The composition might be good, but the format sucks. MIDI is so dated.

[balancex3]

the format gave it charicter

[TheNilvarg]

No. The format is outdated and mediocre. It sounds like shit.

[Shawkab]

Higher Quality does not always mean better..

I still prefer the original Zelda music over any of the newer stuff..

[TheNilvarg]

Well, you just fear change. Liking something more for the sole reason that it is older, is just idiotic.

[tropix93]

It is far easier to like something that is older because it is impossible to go back to it and have it be the same.

[momobney]

too true, but dont make me cry :(

[TheChrisRWaldrop]

@tropix93 NOt impossible Tropix.....I've recently found a free server that uses the 1999 game engine that is AMAZING

[Gotrilliten]

I agree. EQ music sounds alot like Zelda music to me...

[krayzee001]

I love the train in Crushbone. LMAO!

[CheckThisOutFoo]

im getting on classic eq right now

pwnedemu(dot)com and no this isnt spam. im just typing this right now.. its free too!

[mtk2a46]

I remember hearing this upon my first arrival off the boat in Freeport coming from Kaladim as a level 5 dwarf cleric. Epic.

[sowhatnowhere]

GOAT!!

[ShinyMarshtomp]

Never played EQ1, but wow, the upbeat theme of this is so different than the sequel's dismal Freeport.

[doeda]

Run to Kaladam? the dwarth city. then run to the near by sea port. watch some druids kite the people inside around in wolf form while i wait for the boat to ocean of tears which was about 20minutes of waiting. sit with a friend on the boat ride learning how to speak elvish/human(common i think?) land on Freeport West i believe? then run through the desert onto the Oasis. the memories!

[George21T]

Oasis was a bitch man the orcs trying to solo there and that island in the water with the ghost like things sucked man . die to much there .

[SHOE788]

SGs TO DOCKS!

[adisharr]

lol I was just thinking that :) Half the time some wiseguy would kite one over to the low levels :-P

[DefaultShinobi]

lol--Oasis, good memories. Remember the huge rock jutting out of the water along the coast, it was one of the main gathering spots for pulling. A SG came charging in one time and we all scattered, players jumped off the rock desperately into the water. I remember one little halfling was sitting, obviously afk or not paying attention, and maybe was meditating, but that SG singled him out and it only took a few fist poundings to crumple him over.

[Enanon]

@SHOE788 i tried to kill one at lvl 45, playing the role of the powerfull char on the zone... caziel? whatever....

you can imagine the result lol what a shame on me

[roewedge]

SPECTRES!

LJ NEAR DOCKS!

[JJcrew2]

@George21T Spectres!

[BVargas78]

Brings back memories! I used to be the defender of Freeport on Tallon Zek! The darks would love attacking it from neriak

[Andylong99]

yo shoe did u hear that freeport got attacked by a horde of GIANT orcs a year back ????

[KMC0324]

Aw MAN do I miss this music! The old Freeport all together! Why did it have to go!? Wish my compter could run the MAC version =/ Now I'm just playing Everquest II

[gamefan1980]

I used to get so excited when I would come off the boat from Faydwer to Freeport in Antonica.

[thecardrawer10]

i miss everquest 1... maybe ill go back but they changed freeport and commonlands... and a billion other cities... I LOVED THE CRAPPY GRAPHICS I MISS IT :(

[buddieclub1]

u kno u can change it :/

[thecardrawer10]

how do i go about doing such a thing? Lol

[buddieclub1]

just go to the options and its like little check marks on ones u want to keep old and ones u wanna keep new

[Neowolf882]

Memories.....tooo many memories

[tehbecca]

This is only the ... I want to say East? Freeport music, though. You wouldn't happen to have the West Freeport music, would you?

Thanks again for all the uploads. I spent the most time in Freeport, and this is making me all nostalgic.

[EdMan6623]

Indeed, this is the "Docks" theme that played in both Qeynos and Freeport, but it was originally written for Freeport alone (and the name totally fits the song).

The one you're thinking of is Kaladim, which is titled for a similar reason. The version that plays in Kaladim has more instruments and better volume leveling anyway.

How do I know all this? I was the person that ripped the midis in the first place :P

[norathorr]

This is so much better than the crappy freeport music we have today. That and the old freeport was so much better. I miss North Freeport particularly. On Mithaniel Marr its where all the auctioning happened. Evil people would be skulking in the sewers!

[sox4d]

barbeau really likes string ensembles...

i think they're featured in every song.

great composer though.

[SHOE788]

He bases a lot of the songs off of classical artists like Bach and Mozart. In fact, one of the names for city music is "JTBach"