C64 m.u.l.e. music

[jsmythib]

a personal all time favorite! :)

[orin71]

The Mountain Wompus is REAL!

[orin71]

Thank you for posting this. One of the good old games. Not many 4 player games where that good back then . . . .even if you had to be the key board, -sigh.

[mjs5150]

I don't know how many hours I lost playing this game. Truly a classic!

[Thormodr]

Man oh man! Good memories! This is a true classic. :)

[MICHAELandJELL0]

Thumbs up if Spore brought you here....or if you just really love this freaking song! :D

[Yeebok]

@SassyTheSkyDragon Yeah this came out way after Spore.. like -22 years after it.

[hippocrates72]

MUUUUULEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!

[TBTVJohnnyJohnny]

Aaah, man, this game was the BEST!

[zargos101]

Hey I am a DJ that looks for old video game song mixed with house. Anyone know where I can find this song mixed already?

[MyNameIsBucket]

@zargos101 Go find a SID player and then download the game's SID soundtrack (either from Lemon64 or from the HVSC). Then you can manipulate it however you like.

[msmith5150]

OMG, EA!! ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunn!!­1!11

[SassyTheSkyDragon]

lol I know that theme from Spore

It sometimes plays in an upbeat version in the communication screens in space Stage ^^

[AjmorrisProductions]

Thumbs Up If You Came Here Because It Was On ROBLOX

[harbourlunatic23]

@AjmorrisProductions ROBLOX fucking sucks, kid. play a real game. and nobody is going to thumbs you up because they played MULE.

not that little kiddie site.

[therealcubiksrube]

yay man, had that track stuck in my head for weeeeeeks back in the day :o)

[LegoMovieMan44]

Thumbs up if it looks like AT-AT from star wars!

[santran]

MY EARS....... STOP IT

[ImoenOfTelengard]

If you liked Danny's MULE, you'll love her "Modem Wars." That game was classic, and still rocks to this day. If Danny Bunton lived, she could have remade Modem Wars into something spectacular with today's graphics cards.

[ImoenOfTelengard]

RIP Danny Bunton. Your games will live forever, even if you can't.

[ScottyinKC]

Back in the day we would play MULE for days! Love it! Thanks for the memories. :)

[GrounderTheRobot]

Spore!

[GrounderTheRobot]

watch?v=DA0YEqi0gvc

listen this and compare the starting of it

[NwofilmsNESS]

Thumbs up if you first heard this in spore.

[SilverGummiShark]

@NwofilmsNESS

I'm not sure that's something to be proud of. xD

C64 forever.

[TyltyI]

Incredibly low on resources, but the C64 was able to make catchy music and intros.

[lucylovesguitar]

I loved this game so much. Actually, I still do.

[TheCarlitob]

COOL QUE VIEJOS RECUERDITOS te voto

[jahovahut]

pirates take all crystite

[Fudgaboutit]

Wow ...

The memories this brings back. I think I'll go see if I can find videos for all the Commodore 64 games I used to play. This is friggin' ancient! LOL

[takanaka100]

INCREDIBLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[legologo42]

Also I came back cus I want to thank you for uploading this video :D

[Crystalbloxcorp]

Theres a lot of versions on different consoles :D

[berniethedestroyer]

wish that a person could still play these commodore 64 games!! simple but awesome!!

[UrsidaeFilms]

A similar song is in spore when you trade with another empire :D

[darnjack0roll]

i like this

[SSBloxLines]

And this isn't stolen. Electronic Arts/EA Owns M.U.L.E. and Spore. :D

[eeek143]

i can feel my computer turning into a apple home computer

[zaphod77]

nice, but the game is NTSC, and thus the music is too slow on this video. switch your emu to NTSC and re-record. :)

[Silentchap]

The mother of all business sims, the most pirated game ever created, the first game that made you believe you could always win money in bars gambling: M.U.L.E.

Thank you, mighty Flying Banana, for letting everyone see a truly wonderful piece of gaming history.

[sevenwarlox]

I never played this game. It's an everlasting blemish on my geek cred.

[7heBored]

@sevenwarlox You may not be able to play it on the original systems, but it has been remastered and released as freeware.

[Anamnesia]

I loved this game back in the day!

The music was one of the attractions...

FML!

[SgtToni]

Used to play this on NES,Tournament mode FTW ^^

[arealify]

could never understand how to play this game

[rich0319726]

Exactly as I remember it, thanks for the memory. My age is showing, LOL. Had a Vic-20, C64, etc. way before a PC. Remember upgrading from a cassette, LOL, to a floppy disk, think it held 170K or something like that, ha. I use to turn my "elephant" brand floppies over, to notch the other side and record on "both" sides, LOL.

[KingAdrock99]

The ATARI one sounds better for sure.

[deizi1]

argh... now i got this again in my head... damn it :D

[IsisofDurnham]

Anyone know who made the music ?? Was that Hubbard or Galway or one of the others?

[lunarpollen]

@IsisofDurnham your answer appears at about 0:24 into the video

[surfitlive]

@IsisofDurnham

It says Roy Glover in the credits :38

GREAT Game.

Like Monopoly on crack!!!! (or at least in space) LOL

[whopper1209]

that "thing" at the begin reminds me of that Star Wars thing

[legoackbar]

Yeah the AT-AT

[Gigas0101]

@legoackbar I played the game before seeing the movie and I remember (or at least I was told that when I was 4) I yelled "BIG MULES! BIG MULES!"

[legoackbar]

Ha ha

[Criticsem]

That's a M.U.L.E. (Multipule Use Labor Element)

[elinqui9]

i gonna dancing!!

[heroineworshipper]

The SID arrangement of MULE was the best. The Atari arrangement was nowhere close.

[cuesight]

You can play M.U.L.E. online now! I found this last night. It is at planetmule (dot-com). Still enjoyable nearly 30 years later. Also, did you know that the theme music is used in the new game SPORE?

[kokody1995]

They used this in Spore 'cause EA made this and Spore... lol, just I saw there "Electronic Arts" :D

[mudkip96]

the music also goes on spore!

[legologo42]

the older the music gets the better it gets

[NoFak3rs]

The music is great!

PianoMan

[xrabohrok]

This is ridiculously catchy despite being so old.

[porridgesilt]

brock lesnars immune system runs on this soundtrack

[thelostrune]

CLICK ON THE Spore VERSION!!!!!!

Never though it was ANOTHER game!

[marioman6696]

i heard a faster version of this on spore while i was talking to one of my guys

[jimzie7]

this is so fantastic

[FlameAdder]

Oh man, this is way less obnoxious than the NES version. Still play that one, though.

[blackcats223]

dun dun dun dujn dundun dundun

[Pichuzpokemon]

saw this in spore.

[nicotinaddict]

I remember this version. I mostly just remember the title screen. I never really got into the game itself but my brother did and he loved it. He was definetly addicted to it. I only remember trying it once but thought it was too hard.

[Trackball816]

I never had a Commodore, but I played the NES version.

This rendition of the theme is infinitely superior.

Hopefully EA will someday bring this tremendously-fun game to Virtual Console. That way we won't have to deal with the Commodore's horrid load times anymore.

[DoubleVisionandco]

Wow this brings back so many memories. All my fav games on commodore 64. Fort Apocolypse, Blue Max, Snow Cat, Conan, Jump Man, Trash Man. I`d give anything to have those games back.

[LtBobby123]

lol I'm 16, I remeber playing this when I was growing up on an atari ^_^ (which I still have and use)

[TheSporeKitty]

No it says your 25

[LtBobby123]

I didn't put my real age on my youtube account.

[xXTheWhiteSheepXx]

Someone should definitely YTPMV this...

[SlurpeeTigger]

This was SUCH an addicting game :)

[Satoriga]

\o/ Mountain Wampus ftw!

[Elfman12234]

Ive found this in spore a couple times

[JismHChrime]

Those mischievous Glac-Elves stole my food!!

[CaboWabotv]

This game was so awesome on C64! I used to play M.U.L.E. and Archon all the time. I wish they would bring them back to the Xbox Live Arcade so I could polay multiplayer again.

[porcelina4]

Those were such huge parts of my childhood!!! :)

[StabbedInTheKunt616]

I forgot about comodore. Lol.

[JAF1970]

I always cornered the market on food. It was easy - just grab all the river tiles.

[annegiep]

We used to play this every day before school when I was in the 7th grade! Oh what fun!!!!!

[XgrimXrockerX]

That thing walking at the start looks like an star wars AT-AT

[impostirevil]

@XgrimXrockerX its a freaking mule get it?

[XgrimXrockerX]

yeah, but it looks like an at at

[impostirevil]

@XgrimXrockerX its a robotic mule... wiat whats the difference?! LOL

[JoeChrisMorris]

Awesome

[DaveMire]

Never bet on the 2-legged kazingas.

[duncan36]

Yannes the man who designed the SID was a synthesizer chip designer and gave the SID many of the same functions as a synthesizer. He also said this about the Atari sound chips:

"I thought the sound chips on the market, including those in the Atari computers, were primitive and obviously had been designed by people who knew nothing about music." - Robert Yannes, designer of the SID chip.

[melaniebuntenstark]

I am Dan's daughter and my brothers and I are working on a "secret project" that will have M.U.L.E. fans elated!

[fbaile42]

A fantastic game. Love it to the very day!

[rob052067]

C64 had the best sounding version of MULE! Thanks for posting! God, I'm so old...

[notoriouswhitemoth]

I LOVE M.U.L.E.!

[SlurpeeTigger]

This was a classic game, I loved playing this over and over again, you really learn about the effects of economy in this game......

[Freecell82]

Nostalgia ftw

[ReverendSyn]

I just *DARE* somebody to replicate this theme on Mario Paint.

[dynamitespoony]

I've tried. It's really hard. >_O

[Rellow2]

I heard this in Spore after I had bought a few things. It was a nice change from the normal "dun dun do do, dun dun do do" you normally hear in space. Too bad I never heard it again :(

[POOPTURTLE]

I've heard this too, much more pleasant to listen to than your national anthem.

[akualt]

YES, I use to play this on NES all the time. I love this game and it's music. I had a flash back the other day when I heard it in the SPORE trade menu. :D

[brerwolfe]

almost positive this wasn't on the nes...since the nes didn't actually come out for a few more years. i could be wrong, but i doubt it.

[MagicFingers001]

I don't doubt it. It was ported to the NES, among other systems also...

[grenadier33]

Yeah it came out on the NES. I saw it a couple years ago in a bin at a video game store and almost had a heart attack. I bought it and a used NES then and there.

[arathrael]

They've used this music in Spore, for the trade screen in the space phase. Nice touch I thought.

[Roxfox]

Not always. I've yet to find any kind of pattern. The first time I heard it, it was in the "thank you" dialog after saving my planet. But it's appeared in another dialog boxes, too. I didn't hear it the first ~2 hours I played, then I heard it four times in the space of another 3-4 hours. Since then I've probably played another 2-3 hours withour hearing it again.

I wonder about the pattern and reason...

[Glombus79]

How about "completely at random, and fairly rarely"?

[ngiyaxolisa]

Listening to this music reminds me again what a quantum jump the C-64 was over the Atari as a game machine. The SID (sound interface device) had like four voices alone. And so much game produced from a computer with so little for resources. Many of todays sloppy programmers could learn a lot from studying the code of games like M.U.L.E. Compare this intro with that available here on Youtube for the Atari version of the same game!

[Poops247]

The one thing the c64 couldn't do better than the Atari was sound, my troll friend. The c64 sound chip was capable of 3 voices or simultaneous sounds whereas the atari was capable of 4 voices. You can listen and count them (on the c64 you hear a "bass" a "drum" and the melody, the atari version has the same with two voices playing a harmony for the melody). Listen to the Atari version on youtube that is 1:13, it's played at the correct speed...

[LegoBloxxer]

my dad gots it on a xp

[mangaREDFIREFOX]

This is one of my favorite games.. I love the music. I was always the bird because you started the game with an extra $200. Geting the plot with your mules was great fun. Food near the river, mining near the mountain (for the most spots) and there was a little black dot with was the space rat and if you caught it you got an reward. (sad)

[occi2006]

one of the original 4 developers (dan bunten) changed his name and gender (danny bunten) and died a few years ago. i have original mule game and packaging (still wrapped). will probable never open it ;-)

[blacbraun]

That's probably worth some good money.

[hemightbegiant]

Quite literally some of the best music in a videogame ever.  I wish I could play it.

[collophonium]

i loved that game and exspecially that extraordinary soundtrack. thanks for puttin it

[eham06]

MULE: One of the greatest learning games of it's time. I learned about supply and demand in 1984 (9th grade) years before I took my Econ course in collge. This video brings back so many great memories of my brother and I having our MULE battles in 9th grade... Thanks for posting and sharing...

[LostAndroid]

Oh...my GOD. I remember playing game on my dad's C64... *cries tears of nostalgic joy* I miss it so much!

I hear you can get a windows-friendly version someplace?

[TheDopeMage]

I've never played a Commodore game in my life. I have some vague memories of my older cousins playing it (they were rich and had a computer) and for being only 2 at the time Im surprised I recognize this tune. Did Atari have the same games?

[TheFlyingBanana]

yes, in the 80s they made so many games for c64, atari 800, schneider cpc, spectrum, those were the days !

[TheDopeMage]

If that`s so then why did people buy Commodore. It was like $600 dollars back then (I googled the price). Whereas the Atari system was a third of that. Same game, dif price. Suckers. haha

[Paul19807]

Maybe it was $600 when if first came out, before the average person owned it.

I don't know how much I paid for mine back in 1984 or whatever, but I know for a fact it was a lot less than $600. $200 is probably closer.

Anyway the point was that I was 13 and C64 piracy was rampant, because everyone owned one. It paid you back on software. If you bought a C64 you'd have like 400 games within 6 months. I don't think I knew anyone who owned an Atari.

[cinqo7]

I totally agree with you. I remember my excitement when I bought the 10 floppy disks case because I knew that in a matter of weeks all those floppy disk were going to be filled with games!

[Listhevideomaker1]

AHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! How could I forget how awesome this tune was! Thanks for uploading:D

[TheFlyingBanana]

u r very welcome ! :)

[fonzysnap]

It seems slower than when i still play it on my C64!!

[foxyspinebuster]

This music is the best game music EVER. Everytime I hear it it puts shivers down my spine. Truely a classic... so glad to see it posted on here, and so many other M.U.L.E. fans!!

[youtubazer]

You could download the VICE (commodore emulator for PC ) and download this game and play it.. I do it.. nice to remember... nice to play it.

[86108610]

'Electronic Arts'. Bitter irony...the Chief of Police, a co-conspirator.

[hsftoshiba]

Does this fantastic game exists for Vista?

[datooie]

you can emulate it

[7ai5han]

Thanks for posting this. M.U.L.E. is classic.

The memories! Picking your characters, choosing your land, catching the Wampus...

...and screwing over those robot players at the auction! When selling, I'd meet the robots fairly and then raise my selling price bar line a few steps. The robot players would eventually walk up with lifelike reluctance. Then I'd repeat. Shameless fun. :P

[vanguard9797]

I still play M.U.L.E.!!! Anyone else reach 100,000???

[robcat2075]

I loved that game.

[saint4God]

In comparing the C-64 music versus the Atari 800, the Atari had better upper range sounds whereas this has better bass and a cleaner execution. Both are fantastic examples of game electronica. It would be nice to hear what the song sounds like done with modern equipment. As far as the game...my C-64 wouldn't run past the intro, but used to put it in for the song all the time :-D

[waskoma]

its youtube fucking up the high notes. on a real c64 it would sound cleanly.

[duncan36]

SID owned whatever sound chip the 800 had. It was a real synthesiser chip.

[zorglub667]

nah...on the atari version, the upper melodys are polyphonic, here they are monophonic. the SID was technically the better chip, but in this particular example the atari version was just programmed a lot better.

[duncan36]

Listen to the Atari version the sound sounds like mud in comparison even if it is a slightly more complex tune. The SID was a chip used in synthesizers it produced, crisp, clean, accurate sound. Also many of its limitations were largely overcome with programming tricks later.

[zorglub667]

the atari version on youtube is just a bad recording. the atari output had basically the same sound characteristics the commodore had, good old low resolution in-your-face directness :-)

the SID was not used in synthesizers, unless you could synths like the SID-station, who was built precisely because of the retro/lofi character of the SID. it was not built into synths at the time.

it was a good chip and the best in its time - but no need to blindly glorify it.

[xxxogchris]

SID was one of the first analog synth chips if not really the first!I have listened to some atari songs on youtube but I havent found anything as good as SIDtunes.

[surfitlive]

@zorglub667 'The SID was devised by engineer Robert "Bob" Yannes, who later co-founded the Ensoniq digital synthesizer company' Put that in your Atari HAT! The Man knew what he was doing and saying. "blindly glorify it"?????HAHAHAHAH You ALSO dont know music or what your tallking about There are --RADIO-- stations dedicated to the SID chip ALONE....... It is a COVETED ITEM. I have never seen people coveting Atari sound chips. I dont even know what it is called or its chip #. SAD.

[zorglub667]

@surfitlive i happen to be an ex-betatester and sounddesigner for ensoniq, do no need to showcase your wikipedia knowledge there, thank you ;) as i said, i agree that the sid was the best chip of its kind at the time, i love doing chiptunes myself. but: the mule theme doesnt actually use any of the sids capabilities that made it superior to the atari at all - its just pure waves, base and drumbeat. so in this case, the only difference that remains is (continued)

[zorglub667]

@surfitlive the difference in polyphony, where the atari had 4 voices and the sid only 3. and for *this* particular composition, thats important - the lead melody here lacks any harmonic context like in the atari version. so, your argument is just an "appeal to authority" fallacy - im just talking about this particular piece, not about which chip in general was better than the other.

[zorglub667]

@surfitlive and btw, radio stations are rarely devoted "to the SID chip alone" - they usually are devoted to chiptunes or 8bit themed music in general, i have yet to see one station of that kind that would insist "it must be generated by a SID chip or else we wont play it". there were other cool chips, you know...

...so, before you write stuff like "flame on", better first get your facts straight ;-)

[surfitlive]

@zorglub667

OK haha, But when they name themselves SIDRADIO or the likes its easy to assume(yes Im an ass here),& I dont spend time listening 2them just ran into some so know of them(which blew my mind that there would be a 'radio' station for my old game tunes and other creations)

Thanks to your well written rebuttal you win the argument!

I think if we take the Atari melodies and the C64 bassline&percussion we would have the PERFECT M.U.L.E. Mashup Melody(or M&M which makes friends!LOL)( ;

[surfitlive]

@zorglub667

OH, and umm...

Flame ON!

( ;

[darkangel284]

I still have absolutely no idea how to play this game, but the music kicks!

[dj9volt]

I actually used to have the rom for the NES version of this. I am going to download it again just so i can play this brillant game again.

[adari2006]

This brings back memories! I still have a C64 and M.U.L.E., but I haven't played it for years. I used to play all the time with my brothers and a friend of ours though. One of the greatest video games ever made!

[Gnorris73]

The game's creator, Dani Bunton, unfortunately died some years ago. Such a shame.

What a great game this was. I fear EA's trailblazing days are behind them now. Back in the 80s their games were all so brilliant and they treated their creators like rock stars. They always had amazing box art too!

[mcappp]

You can find on metacafe the sequel called MULE WARS with similar song

[lawfairy]

THANK YOU.

[GRANKOR]

rocks

[daevczen]

FUNKAY!

(Music by Glover)

(Lyrics by Jim Steinman)

[wrekt]

Challenge Everything

[stavr0]

Check out this remix by Mahoney:

w w w remix64 c o m / tune_140600.html

[docrosko]

MUSIC BY ROY GLOVER !! Isn't he the guy who did that iconic theme ... "Hot Pocket". Loved it.

[Arcinho]

whoa, that was an Electronic Arts game?! You(tube) just blew my mind!

[MyNameIsBucket]

It might surprise you to know that EA used to be a small company making awesome games, instead of a huge sports game spitting machine.

[geminito]

I love you for uploading this video. Marry me.

[wrenreader]

i learned sooooooo much about economics as a kid when our group of nerds played this.

how awesome to hear that music again@@@@!!!!!

[cootmaster]

YES I LOVE THIS i found game online its a nes port i think w cool graphix

[reticentblue]

Phenomenal! That just made my month. Great game. Fun music too.

[biskit83]

One of the best games ever made on any platform!!