Platoon 128K Spectrum Title Music

128K Title Music for the ZX Spectrum version of Platoon. Composed by David Whittaker.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Platoon
• 128K
• Sinclair
• ZX
• Spectrum
• Title
• Music
• David
• Whittaker

[dmaystre]

My eyeees! What a color pixel mess on the title! Looks like raging purple crab suddenly found itself at the middle of toxic acid swamp. Dunn's/Whittaker's music is good as usual though.

[Otouto72]

@dmaystre The loading screen is not the best and the game frankly was rubbish........the music though is pretty impressive, Dunn and Whittaker are my two favourite composers ever.

[hb129]

Jonathan Dunn DID compose the music for Platoon, Whittaker ported it to the Spectrum.

quote from Dunn:

"David Whittaker just converted my music over to the spectrum. I'd only just started at Ocean and was originally only hired to do music for the c64, but eventually ened up doing every known platform under the sun."

From forum posts at oceanexp proboards com

Both great composers, hadn't heard the speccy version before. Thanks for the upload.

[Otouto72]

@hb129 Well I'll be....it's funny what you learn these days! Thanks for the information and no problem at all with the upload.

[kedeuger]

Crap game but brilliant music.

[Otouto72]

@kedeuger The game wasn't very good no but the music is awesome, classic Whittaker!

[Grayfog]

@dmaystre Probably because the ZX Spectrum 128 can only have 2 colours per character block and only 8 system colours.

[Otouto72]

@fentoc No this one was Whittaker's. Dunn made a number of tunes for Ocean/Imagine but this wasn't one of them. Dunn was one of the best too. =)

[fentoc]

@Otouto72 Agreed, Whittaker was one of the best - this one was Dunn, wasn't it?

[Otouto72]

@rob1969in Yeah it was brick hard, tried to make a video of it the other day and got nowhere with it! Great music though, Whittaker's my favourite of the composers.