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  • Still remembering and whispering during the day. Thank you Rob.

  • Rob Hubbard apparently wrote this in 1 day... from 8pm until 8am... he explains the story of how it came about on his talk

  • I still remember finnish the game and keep playing, turning numbers in to simbols in lives left , hoursand hours enjoying the game and of course the music.

  • This soundtrack and the Last Ninja theme is my two favorites.

  • awesome

  • ABSOLUTE 8bit MASTERPIECE !!!

  • @DJMC277711 Really? My only complaint about it that I can see is that internally it should have a whole motherboard heatsink like the original one did, and I think they should Build Commodore OS from ground up in Commodore BASIC. With that much available hardware resources it would scream in BASIC, and you could still run linux by allowing a C+ environment under BASIC.

  • What a great game! I appeared in 'The Scorelord Speaketh' in Zzap! 64 with my score for this! Still got the mag! Pity there were only 3 levels......they had to remove a level or 2 to accommodate the music. Well worth it! Great tune by Mr Hubbard! I would buy the games regardless of how good they were if he wrote the music!

  • This was always one of my favourites. There were a few games where I would just leave the start screen and let the intro play. This was one of em.

  • One of the most powerful action games for the C-64. Hubbard wrote a bomb-track for that one!

  • rob hubbard is a legend.

  • i must check, if my C64 is still running...except the Games...

  • Rob Hubbard, boss composer

  • BEST VIDEOGAME SOUNDTRACK EVER

  • TUNE!!!

  • Precioso !!!!!

  • This music is amazing!!!

  • I have faith in Commodore USA ^_^

  • @DJM1NDFL3X I'll have faith in Commodore USA when they stop threatening web sites with law suits, when said web sites criticize the product and/or Commodore USA's website!

  • Without having to do it in an emulated environment.

  • Nostalgic??? lol You see the new Commodores yet? i7 Core processing baby!! ^_^ You know what would be PIMP? If they took Commodore basic and built an OS platform from the ground up with it with C+ and Visual basic interpreters built in but firewalled for improved security. Why Commodore basic? Think about it, that language was powerful with todays hardware resources they could really do some stuff that is incapable by most programming standards today, and have universal compatibility

  • @DJM1NDFL3X That's some strong crack you got there man.

  • Rob Hubbards soul is in here.

  • FUCK ME<, cant beat the original ;)

  • noooooo, I was also expecting the score background music!!! that ballad is great!!!! pls upload that one!

  • great music for this game

  • Mon premier jeu, et une incroyable musique, c'est sans doute le meilleur souvenir que je conserve de mon C64.

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  • I sucked at this game so much. Not sure I ever actually beat it. I think one of the only reasons I kept playing it was the awesome soundtrack. Loved the intro to Maniac Mansion. I was good at that game though.

  • played this so much :D

  • Never even played this game and the tune was imbedded in my head for days after the first time i heard it ,this music is beyond nostalgia

  • MIDTOWN MADNESS 2

  • Fantastic....

  • PRESS PLAY ON TAPE

    SEARCHING

    FOUND COMMANDO

    READY.

    RUN

    ...and don!t start the game, just listening to the awesome music...

  • @dexter1981 Was just telling my wife that i did that just before I read your coment. lol She didn't understand & thinks I'm a geek now.

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  • Thanks for uploading this. I had totally forgotten about this game until I heard the music and recognised it and the title screen instantly. Not heard this since I was about 7.

  • It's a Port of the Arcade game Commando. A very good port for the day. It's not anything to do with the movie Commando.

  • great Game great Soundtrack! Mosh!!

  • Still my top soundtrack on all of C64, the computer of my childhood. The machine had an amazing sound generator for its archaic epoch. And Rob Hubbard rules.

  • One of my fav track for C64!!! Love!

  • This reminds me most of my little bro' getting the game and playing it constantly over xmas, and then hating it. Hubbard's "engine" was good programming, but the skill in code to me overarched the toonz. A year later my bro and myself reverse-engineered/disassmbled his code to make our own stuff (toonz) for fun personal use. Will always love Hubbard for that code; otherwise a bit blah. Don't "Idolise" but an big-player in UK 80s gaming .

  • This sounds amazingly good for a C64 game.

  • Knew "Bionic Commando Rearmed OST: Meet the Enemy & Descend". faithfull version of this.

  • this tune is way better played at NTSC speeds.

  • In the 80s who did thought this is my ringtone in 2011 ?!?!?

    XD

  • Brilliant. I would like to have a good remixed/remastered version of this, to bad all of them sound pretty crappy compared to the original.

  • @Hydralisk24 try remix.kwed.org

    Most of the best C64 remixes are on there, a couple of good commando ones too.

  • Was this game based off the Arnold Swartzenneger movie?

  • @TeamRocketReviews Highly unlikely - especially as they have nothing in common...

  • @TeamRocketReviews Yes it is. It was a licensed Capcom production, look at the date of release and google the production date for Commando the movie...

  • @TelvanniArchMagister - The two are absolutely not connected, and googled release dates do not prove otherwise :) They may have taken hints from the movie for sure (the japanese arcade industry was forever "borrowing" ideas from everywhere it coudl), but there was no license and that is not intended to be Arnie in the game.

  • @dazman76 Actually you are right. When I owned the game I always thought it was licensed, like Cobra or Action Force, but in fact it has nothing to do with the movie. Just the name causes confusion I think.

  • This music is still pretty cool !! Oh these days with my C64 ,still got it ,still got all the games !! Time to make a retro party !!! :)

  • @76MKIIDub16V I still own all of my original floppies, and best of all, now some 25yrs later, they still work :-D

  • do you have the download link to this. I wanna use it for something

  • @kalebparham It's in the High Voltage SID Collection (hvsc.c64.org) under \C64Music\MUSICIANS\H\Hubbard_­Rob\

  • Definition of intense music.

  • just EPIC awesomeness

  • notch?

  • Rob Hubbard - Making you wish games played themselves so you could simply listen to every tune he put in the game without enduring the actual game. :)

    For many games, his music was the only reason why you would even bother to play the game...

  • Rob Hubbard - Making you wish games played themselves so you could listen to every tune he put in the game. :)

    For many games, his music was the only reason why you would even bother to play the game...

  • Unbelievable awesome, remember when I played it as a child - gameplay was absolutely mindblowing:D!Miss those times...

  • @talikalu I'm only 18 and I love this. Fuck modern VGM, late 80s/90s stuff is awesome.

  • An all time classic!

  • 19Guys are younger than 25 :-)

  • my favorite tune was when you died and where typing in your name...

  • @IntolerantAtheist1 This has nothing to do with scientology you idiot.

  • Ahh the days of sitting at the game menu listening, reset the music, listen, happy C64 days. Monty on the run, sanxion, delta, rambo loader, great music days.

  • I heard that this tune was made within a day.

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  • eternal

  • This has always been my favorite video game tune. I had to do my own cover of it. If you go to my channel you'll see it.

  • used to play this all day... ahhhhh happy times.. :)

  • Like this if you got sent here from nostalgic feelings instead of a fat swede.

  • @MooseHeadMoosic Agreed, this idolatry is driving me nuts. I like Minecraft and I see nothing wrong with helping people find a great piece of art, but it deeply annoys me that these people brag about being here, not because "they" like something, but "someone else" liked something.

  • @myulk666 Yeah...all those "___ liked this/favorited this!!!" comments are just as dumb as the "x dislikers are ___" and "FIRST!!" crap.

  • @myulk666 I'm here because I love SID music  :D

  • God this song gets me so pumped up.

  • as soon as i saw "PRESS FIRE TO START" my hand went for my joystick.. yet it wasnt there :/

  • Hat off to the Grandmaster of midi music.This piece is just....explosive :).

  • Actually, the music was made by one of capcoms musicians, listen to the arcade and you Will see rob only did à cover, but à great one. Preferens it over the original.

  • who the fuck is notch

    

  • @xraymone go on google, and find out.

  • If you get the chance, go to his lectures, he is amazing, but he doesn't know it. x

  • Hell saved for 19 people.

  • Anyone know where to find the Commando High Score music?

  • @TheDoomSquid Yes. Type "Commando High Score" into the search bar and hit the "enter" key.

  • Who Dares Wins II was a better game, but Commando's music was ace.

  • Hubbard = god

  • I was always impressed with the way that it actually sounds like it should be the theme tune to a game called Commando; it's dramatic and the drums are really loud.

  • GRANDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!­

  • holy shiat .... hahahaha time travel - now! thanks a lot.

  • 1 pixel sized bullets in yo face!

  • i love the part from 2:24 -3:20 omg!!!

  • After this he invented Scientology.

  • @EightAlek Rob's the other Hubbard, mate. the good one

  • @EightAlek

    You're thinking of the late Lafayette Ron Hubbard. Totally different dude. ._.

  • @VikutaaChyaaruzu Yes and unlike the guy you just mentioned Rob Hubbard took the voices in his head and created something that's actually been a benefit to society.

  • This tune is still stuck in my head since the 80's

  • Kick-ass the tune :) Love this track.

  • shitload of awesomeness!

  • OMG this game rulezzz, memories:P

  • This game was and still is the shit! Real Men grow up with this game

  • supposedly i wrote awesome game music. what an awesome namesake

  • One of my favorite games/scores from the C64. Just picked up a new C64 (sold my old ones almost ten years ago and regretted it almost immediately) and this is prett much #1 on my list to pick up for it!

  • kickass 8bit sound

  • This is the most awesome and epic game music ever. Oh, how I miss those C64 games.

  • Rob did this music on a pretty primitive computer, at the time, and it surpassed the arcades by a bloody mile!

  • dope

  • This = ear sex

  • correct me if I'm wrong but there was a slow theme also, maybe playing after you die. I can't find it.

  • @goksunv Download commado.sid from lemon64 dot com and then grab sidplay2/w (do a google). All commando tunes and effects are included in the sid file (4kb). (Tip. search for Rob Hubbard at lemon64 and you will find the tune). Sidplay2/w works with all windows version.

  • @goksunv Search for commando high score theme

  • almost completed this game back then....pure fun

  • Shivers down my spine, C64 music still owns the world!

  • more epicness is not allowed - you playd commando your a winner! -

  • One of the best computer game musics EVER!

  • This has to be one of the most craziest 8-bit music themes ive ever heard

  • those parts like what starts at 1:47 get annoying :\

  • And he did this in ~12 hours... Respectz!

  • still awsome

  • thumbs up if you watched the whole things waiting for him to start the game.

  • @IRUSIpanzermaster *thumb down*

  • @HawtDawg925 you and your jokes

  • @IRUSIpanzermaster thumb beggers, Wow.

  • @FlashFireSix gime gime gime gime gime gime, thumbs up.

  • Thumbs up if a popular user did something.

  • like this if notch sent you here

  • @JokerzHD Neither Minecraft nor Notch got me here.

    But this game was and still is awesome.

  • Man, I Missed an Awesome Era!

  • @nottinylil Why not? This is awesome.

  • Let off some steam, Bennett!

  • About 25 years ago only once I watched one of my friends play this game for about 5 minutes. The music was etched into my brain. Even after, so many years I found myself humming this music. I never listened the whole theme until I listened here. Thanks.

  • guter soundtrack

  • MIGHTY SID

  • Many thanks for this...brings back super memories...and the C64 was well ahead of it's time for it's sound.

  • if they droped this badboy in the club, i would mash up de dance hall!!

  • @PalebobUK I have a theory that british dance music had it's genisis from the 8 bit era. All those school kids playinging these games, got older and started raving!

  • @geetee74 Haha, you might be onto something there!

  • I cant't believe I found this! The legend lives again, thanks to youtube.

  • Yeah ..

    Love it sooo much..

    a little bit Mortal Kombat music style in it .. but who cares ? XD

  • @Deathbringer99699 other way around surely ??

  • @Deathbringer99699 dude this came out a decade before Mortal Kombat, you cannot refer to it as having "MK music style". The original is what defines the genre, not any derivative of it.

  • the music made it. every monday after school round my mates on his state of the art c64 to play this. we loved it. i wouldn't dream of socialising with him now though, he turned out a complete twat.

  • This music was implanted in my brain over 20 years ago. It has resided there ever since and now thanks to Youtube it lives again.

  • The great old SID chip and the greatest composer of our times Rob Hubbard!!!Great memories, great music....Those who voted negative may burn in hell....

  • The enthusiastic sound of the Commodore 64 - the good old SID chip!

  • another awesome choon from the master. monty on the run, lightforce, i-i-i- ball and thundercats aint not bad either sonny. 8 bit 4eva!!!!

  • loistava

  • so much memories ^^ great <3 ring tone !! :D

  • Visit my channel for the largest collection of c64 music on youtube.

  • the riff at 2:56 sounds very similar to the music from the first level of earthworm jim 2 /watch?v=7vL43LhxxeY&feature=r­elated

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  • People must listen to Reason4 version, made by the same Rob Hubbard /watch?v=xdqfgR1SV8E

  • I remember this game well, it crashed ever time after playing for a short time on my C64 even though all other games were fine. I learnt that there was various versions of C64 with slightly different chips that were produced on different dates and this game crashed on one particular version (I was unlucky I guess). The music is a classic example of what could be achieved on the stunning SID music chip which was well ahead of it's time since the C64 was first produced back in 1982.

  • Hrm... as standalone music, this doesn't seem insanely impressive... but just imagining playing a game as background music makes me drool.

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  • @Lancer873 What you don't see is this music was produced on a 1982 computer, please compare music on other computers in the day like the Sinclair Spectrum or Amstrad CPC 464 and you'll see how amazing this was back then. Even more expensive computers released later like the Atari ST didn't come close to the C64s programmable 3 channel sound. In fact the C64 wasn't beaten until the release of the Commodore Amiga, but even then, the C64's SID sound chip kept a unique style of it's own.

  • @pjcnet

    Not to mention it could produce way better sounds than whatever sound chips were in the 8-bit gaming consoles from Nintendo and Sega. Seriously, I've never heard any composition on the NES being on the level of Hubbard and Galway's level for the SID on the C64.

  • @TekoMuto : Who is Kanye West ??

    Remeber : This track was composed in 1985 !!!

  • @TekoMuto Was Kanye even born in 1985?

  • @TekoMuto kanye west was about 7 when this game and it's music was released, you fucking tool...

  • I still play this game just for the music :)

  • isn't there a remix of this song in bionic commando: re-armed? "meet the enemy and descend"?

  • @david02129 Holy shit you're right! :O

  • In Harvey Smith Showjumper is there very lovely classical music. Do you know which is it? I know it's not A Musical Joke from Mozart

  • i wanna hear the game over/writing your name at the end...

  • Rob Hubbard a C64 legend. I would actually buy games sometimes just because it had a Rob Hubbard sound track. Even if the game was rubbish, I'd quite often load the game just to listen to his tune.

  • @wearecity You are not alone in that! :-)

  • I'd love to have this as a ringtone. This game brings me back to summer camp where one of the counselors copied it for me. I used to play the hell out of this and Rambo FB Part II

  • i love this music :) i played that game so much back in the good old days :)

  • at 1:47 - soooo brilliant !

    thx 4 the upload and the memories ! :)

  • OMFG I USED TO LISTEN TO IT OVER AND OVER

    (thanks for the memories)