Creepy! Elvira - Mistress of the Dark

Today, without much ado, I present you "Elvira", a game for the Commodore Amiga. The game itself was "so-so", but the music was so very, very creepy. Especially during the first steps through the game.

Just give it a listen, but be patient - this is a longplay, so the vid takes some time to kick into gear.

Another real classic: Title theme of "Pinball Dreams"

I can remember it quite vividly: Being 12ish years old, sitting in front of my Amiga 2000, and just listening to the awesome music of "Pinball Dreams". To be honest, I was a pretty bad player, but that didn´t matter ;) Nevertheless, that game was a real hit back in the days, as was its successor "Pinball Fantasies". By the way, the coolest table by far was "Steel Wheels" - it had pretty nice music, too.

Do you happen to know these games? What was your favourite table? Comment!

Now - is this dancy or what!?

Another classic from the Amiga age: the title theme of "Crystal Hammer" for the Commodore Amiga. The 1988 game was just a breakout clone (for those of you who are too young to know what that means: you control some sort of a rectangular "bat" to bounce a ball against stones to destroy them. You lose the ball, you lose a life), but the soundtrack... oh yeah, the soundtrack. Whenever I give this track a listen, I absolutely have to move to the music. A real classic everyone should know.

Makes for a good summer day listen at the beach, too...

Oldschool all the way: Title tune of "Gods"

"Gods" was a platformer for the Amiga, developed by the much-renowned software studio "Bitmap Brothers". It received widespread accolade during the early nineties. In the game, the player becomes Hercules on his quest for eternal life (which is kinda cheesy but much better than the usual "goblins took my family" stories of that time ;)

The music is pretty special. It was composed by "Nation 12", whoever that may be :) The title track is really famous... by the way, the voice says "Into the wonderful".

Classical game music: The title track of "Hybris" (Amiga)

This is REALLY oldschool now. No fancy modern kickdrums, no remix, just Amiga soundchip goodmess. "Hybris" is a vertical shooter, released in 1989. The tune was composed by Paul van der Valk, who also did the music for "Imploder". He is one of the less-important artists of the Amiga gaming scene of the 80s/90s, nevertheless this track is great.

By the way, did you know that the soundchip of the early Amigas (like the A500), named "Paula", also did manage the disc drive and the serial port of the computer? Poor thing, prone to burnout syndrome :D

Welcome to Turrican!

One of the best Game-Chiptunes ever, the title track of "Turrican" for the Commodore Amiga. Made by Chiptune-God Chris Hülsbeck.

Did you know that he´s still producing game music? He is currently working on some titles for the iPhone, i.e. Zombie Smash ( http://gamedrs.com/all-games/games/zombie-smash/ ).

This guy has to keep composing...

Such a good-looking machine...

...the Amiga 500 was. To be honest, I was one of the few people that had an Amiga 2000 (with 20 Megabytes of HD! WOW!). I cannot really remember where that machine went, I guess I did sell it at some point to be able to afford a PC... damn :)

However, my former girlfriend, now wife, has supplied me with her A500... so I am a proud owner of an authentic commodore computer again. Just missing the hard drive to some extent :D