C64 Longplay - Thunder Blade ( 1/2 )

complete walkthrough from the c64 game "Thunder Blade"
Part 1 from 2

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Entertainment

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• c64
• thunder
• blade
• longplay

[marktait]

Thanks for the comments on the music - I did it (while working for Tiertex/US Gold) - remember having 1 day to finish it for Chris Butler, as it was going to feature on the cover tape of Zzap! 64.

Mark

[DerSchmu]

Nice to get a comment from the maker. :)

It`s one of my favourite sid`s you was one of my childhood heroes. :)

[frigginjoe]

Man, I never saw Thunderblade on the C64. Really impressive in every aspect.

[zedr77]

The conversion is really impressive, considering the machine it's running on. The real problem is that the arcade machine wasn't too playable either.

[blackmoorX]

@marktait Was it intentional that when going to the last "C" part of the song, before starting over, the drums goes "back beat"? Right from 2:25 forward you can hear the "fill in" goes a little weird, and the beats are not at 2 and 4 they go 1 and 3 :)

[obsidianrufus]

I want a Pepsi now!! ???

[y2k4ever1]

@marktait how was it working for US gold, please tell me you only worked on the music of things, because this is great, and street fighter for Amiga is well..., any who have any words of wisdom for a young game designer/ co composer?

[XTraaashX]

@mark

Nice Job, indeed. This track was my personal reason to play this game again and again in childhood :) A real deference to the C64 era.

[1xWertzui]

What the!?!... There is a C64 game with that kind of gfx? (I mean the top-down view)

Now I wonder if there is a GTA 1 or 2 clone for the C64...

[marktait]

@marktait I've came back to this to find more comments - which after all this time, still really touch me. Anyone commenting on the music - thank you very much. To answer a specific query, I'd love to redo the old C64 music for all the games I did - but I think Back In Time has already chosen all the good stuff (none of mine - but I'm as much a fan of all the other tunes by the other guys - Martin, Ben, Mark, Rob etc - so I've no problem there)

[marktait]

@marktait my setup after leaving Tiertex, was a Kawai K1, Roland D110, Roland JD990, and Steinberg Pro 24, then Cubase - these days it's FL Studio and soft synths...

[marktait]

hoques 1432 - working for Tiertex, we did a lot of stuff for US Gold at the time - me, music for Thunderblades, but programming by Chris Butler - who didn't work for us and Strider (music/sound by me, and the intro screen, programming of the game by Tiertex) - OutRun, not Tiertex...

tatsujincorp - thank you so much

[marktait]

Live1052/DoggyRock/MattTheSpra­t - and anyone else who liked the SID stuff me and all the other folks did at the time - thank you too - I can't believe people are still commenting on stuff we did all those years ago - compared to the huge productions of games that are about today.

All the best,

Mark