c64 music: Elite Loader & Ikari Warriors by M. Cooksey & J. Brooke

[basraw]

commando warriors was at least kooler

[FeNsTa]

used to play this to death on my old shit casio keyboard, sweet tune....

[MysticRonin101]

It sounds like that song, "Love isn't always on time" by Toto.

[megast2]

oh, the amount of tunes I heard first on C64, and only much later elsewhere. Hard Days Night on Mikey, Turkish Rondo on Dynamite Dan, this tune here, etc etc. The C64-versions will ALWAYS sound better than the orig! SWAG!!!!!!!!

[ShauKenshin]

COMMODOR 64!!! >XD! I had one .. and my game was SAMMY LIGHTFOOT and NINJA...

[krbosak]

3:35 Why is the soldier drinking so much ;-)

[spacexploder]

sick

[manzathaking]

the first minute  sounds like u96- love has no colour

[caffrey75]

God bless you for uploading this....I've not heard this music in over 20 years :)

[videofreakcologne]

Just type only LOAD the c64 will load the first file he found on the Datasette....

[Enysvar]

This reminds me of Kernkraft 400 aka. Lazy Jones

[maxheadroom22and26]

The first song is a very good version of "Living on video" by "Trans-X".

I think it was a canadian band, the song must be from 1983 or '84... Look for the song here on Youtube and read more on Wikipedia.

[einokeino303]

Thanks a lot for mentioning about this, very interesting to hear the original! I had no idea the track was a cover. I'm quite surprised it had to be borrowed since the melody is so simple (though catchy).

Despite this, it's a good example how much air pop songs usually contain since Cooksey was able to reduce a three and a half minute track into a one minute and even added some new notes.

[Bobaklives]

Elite actually redid the game, I had the awful Data East version. The UK had the better of the two by a country mile.

[einokeino303]

Thanks for pointing this out. I never tried the Data East version myself. I corrected re-release" to "remake" in the description.

[cosine303]

john twiddy coded the UK one.. the guy who worked on last ninja and also the expert cart... and also cyberload.. as featured here.. most US ports of games were bad.. except things like afterburner where the US one was FAR better. This is the UK loader.. I remember the music

[morgurthion]

Never understood what those blinking things that the enemies dropped were though...

[einokeino303]

Indeed the arcade and amiga versions both had some sort of icons representing the items. Hard to guess what they do, just have to collect and try.

[morgurthion]

The C64 version pwns all other versions... xcept for the loading time that is.. jeesh, remember how I sat waiting for the game to start, felt like it took forever... Then when you were just about to give up, you heard the intro song and saw the airplane-intro... man, that was awsome... Worst of all was when you'd been sitting there for five minutes waiting for it to start and the loading failed...

[einokeino303]

People nowadays are also too impatient.

I can't remember ever having problems loading games on either the old (grey) or new (white) model of c64, unless the games were permanently broken. Maybe I just had better cassette decks ;)

[morgurthion]

Yeah, I agree... If a game would take five minutes to load today I'd probably think the game crashed and hit ctrl-alt-del...

Well, I mostly used the disks, our casette deck broke down after a while... And besides, we traded games with our friends, always on disks...

[einokeino303]

You got me there ;)

I still remember when my Christmas was ruined when my cousin received the floppy drive and I got some useless junk. When I finally got the floppy drive it was almost obsolete because amiga was already out there. It wasn't a major disaster because I had a good collection of games for cassettes, but I couldn't play all the games that were out there because some were only available for discs.

[jarskkii]

Ehkä yks vaikeimmista commodore peleistä mitä pelannu.. Ainakin muistaakseni mitä tuli pienempänä pelattua.. Ookko ite pelannu kuinka kyseistä peliä?

[einokeino303]

I have played both the amiga & c64 versions, but not very recently. I think I completed this game on c64, but I'm not sure. This game as many others co-op games was obviously most fun to play with a friend, but nowadays in my current location, I'm having trouble to find people who would be interested in playing. If nobody else is posting a decent gameplay on either of these two platforms in a few months, I might consider trying to play it through myself.