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What is your All-Time favorite Atari 8-bit game song?


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Atarized version of "The Cure - A Forest" as used in the game "TRIX" (not the intro but the in-game tune).

 

http://youtu.be/Owfd6oX3QpY

 

 

It's a plain 16-8-8-bit Chaos Music Composer song but for some reason it just sounds good on pokey.

 

 

edit: format

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I wished , I had one .... either the tune isn't music and sounds ok-ish to the ears, or it is somehow clean music but one cannot listen to it for longer.

 

Some exceptions is to find in "The Goonies" or "Master of the Lamps", where music and style fits.

Some of the polish games do it well, using digis... and the game has been released.

 

http://asma.atari.or...ch.php?play=297

 

Most good tunes never made it to finalized games.... just demos

 

http://asma.atari.or...h.php?play=1547

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Beat sounding tune I have ever heard was for a Lemmings intro - I will see if I can dig up the YouTube link.

 

 

Hard to find there ...

 

Just "lemmings Intro Atari" 1st hit ;)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfo-tUHP7_o

 

Drums are really nice and the musical flow aswell. Just some yelling parts put it down here and there.... and the biggest mess: it has never turned into a game .

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Hall of the Mountain King from "Peer Gynt" in the game Mountain King

 

http://www.youtube.c...e&v=uMHZv6eC4G0

 

Great song, and perfectly legit to qualify as an Atari game song, though that's a classic composition (I forget who the composer is off-hand), which is probably why it's an appealing song to you, it's a famous composition.

 

The composer is Edvard Grieg.

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OK - found it

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfo-tUHP7_o

 

Best sounding music + digi-drums I have ever heard the little Atari do.

 

Yeah, the drums in that are really amazing. I've heard (and written :-) ) plenty of bad attempts at simulating drums, but this really does sound like drums. Do you think this is done with a digital sample?

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i've always been fond of Ultima III and Ultima IV rhythms... Forbidden Forest couldn't get that little victory tune out of my head... Ballblazer song was cool... Alternate Reality intro was funky... was blown away by Draconus and Zybex theme songs when I first booted up... Mouse Trap tune was fun... Amaurote I was pulling my hair out at the music and gameplay

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"Thalamusik", originally composed by the genial Rob Hubbard for the C-64´s shot´em-up "Sanxion" and ported to atari 8-bit for "The Extirpator": http://atariteca.blogspot.com/2009/04/intro-de-extirpator-audio.html

 

And here is what I consider the best cover of this song: http://atariteca.blogspot.com/2010/06/thalamusik-shitty-solo-version.html

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OK. Closest to a "favourite" . Fluid Kha...

 

http://asma.atari.or...h.php?play=1756

 

Audible sounds and nice tracks (not much melodic though). "Ingame" and "Intro".

 

Here a video of the tune. I mean, which other game do you know, playing a "real" MOD file in the title?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP0E6zbrjH0

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