Toki Atari ST Soundtrack 1/2

The Atari ST version of the Toki Soundtrack. Part 1 of 2.

Composer: Pierre-Eric Loriaux
Developer: Ocean
Year: 1991

This is one of the best game soundtracks ever written, and I like the Atari ST version best because of the unique and biting flavour of its synthesized sound over the Amiga's sample based version. Also note the title music is an homage to Martin Galway's Green Beret on Commadore 64.

Tracks:
0:00 Title
0:52 Ruins Level
1:21 Boss
1:53 Water Level
3:36 Fire Level
4:12 Ice Level

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQzWxjmSwIo

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Toki
• Atari ST
• Pierre-Eric Loriaux
• Game
• Music
• Soundtrack
• YM2149
• just eyeball jumping no biggie

[brobbeh]

Cant wait for the adaptation of toki by golgoth studio to come out :)

Too bad they didnt keep the amazing soundtrack.

[Sakanakao]

@brobbeh Yeah, I felt the same way when I saw their trailer for it. Excited about playing it, but really missed the music.

[RonTaboga]

Why the Music on the Atari ST sucked so much compared to the Amiga? Many musicians from that time had an ST for professional music making. So why the music in games was so bad compared to the amiga?

[Sakanakao]

@RonTaboga Professional musicians tended to use the Atari ST's built in MIDI ports to control their own expensive sound hardware. Not many games had a MIDI soundtrack because most gamers wouldn't have that hardware. The built-in sound device (YM2149) had three simple oscillators and a noise generator; it was a fairly limited palette of sound compared to the Amiga, which had built-in a four channel sampler (it could play back recorded sounds on each channel, not just a simple oscillation).

[rkarpiuk1]

@Sakanakao thanks for expalinin' i was curious too

[an1m4l]

Thanks for these videos, i too love the ST's music, i personaly think it has way more 'character' than the Amigas samped sound, which jsut sounds a bit boring to me. But i can listen to those ST sounds all day!

[brobbeh]

@Sakanakao As you say the atari had a unique in its sound that the amiga lost with its samples. Thanks a lot for bringing that soundtrack on the web ! I never forget those songs and still sing them even though I havent played toki in maybe 10 years.

[ojideagu]

@r8qt7 The Lynx boss music is the best

[alexsoko]

One of the greatest games of all times!

[r8qt7]

the best version