It was the best of times .. I recall the moment I first heard this soundtrack ... it changed my life. Just 4 years after first loading this game and hearing Martin Galway's masterpiece I was working on game soundtracks at Ocean. I'm convinced this would never have happened if I hadn't heared this music.
Then back 1/8th then finally tweaking a final 1/12th turn back again to acquire azimuth lock . Those were the days! Actually you've just reminded me I hacked my C2N datassette to use one of those old portable radio ear buds (white cheapo, mono jobs) so I could listen for optimal audio strength.
+Rod C For sure! I had boxes full of C-casettes with games we'd copy between friends. The thing is you had to remember the correct cassette drive setting for every cassette, it wasn't the same. I used to turn it all the way down and remembered how much you had to then open it for each cassette :D Those were the days!
I get goosebumps hearing that loading tune. Takes me back to my mid teens, making toasted cheese sandwiches in the kitchen and hearing this playing in the lounge. Usually my food and drink was made by the time most tape games loaded. I'm thankful for this era for many reasons but one of them is that loading times today don't phase me one bit.
Takes me back I do miss the excitement you get when you were young with a new game, sitting at your c64 for days trying to complete games. Now there all to easy and that excitement has gone,all graphics and no game most of the time. The music is awesome so many great tunes.
This is bloody amazing. Does anyone remember "C64 Data Hits"? It was an audio cassette of five pieces of music from the C64 that was enhanced in the studio. Rambo loading music was the first song. Other songs were Crazy Comets, Ghostbusters, Never Ending Story and Chariots of Fire. I've got them on MP3 and listen to Rambo in the car sometimes (much to the annoyance of my family!).
I used to stop the tape (not bother with the game) with some of the Ocean / Galway loading tunes and just blast them out. What he, Hubbard and a few others could do with the SID chip was amazing, best thing about the 64.
I remember when this came out... Late 1985. It was so breathtaking and groudbreaking you had to just sit down in the dark, eyes closed and take it all in. It was magical. Same with Yie Ar Kung Fu, Hypersports, Green Beret, Miami Vice. Galway was on a roll.
Ahh man, I love the music and sounds of this. Back in the day when Ocean made the games of films.. Loved the Robocop and Batman games for the C64 and Amiga. What an era.
Oh my God.. The 1:22-1:26... Yeah, it was the most horrifying moment of waiting for a game to load, or fail to load. Thank you for sharing this video! A lof of memories for me :)
*joy overload* one of the first computer games I ever played, age 6-7. My dad swears to this day the C64 was the best money he ever spent on anything ever!
This takes me way back to when I was pre-teen give or take. The whole atmospheric of getting the tape, pressing shift+runstop and waiting eagerly for the game to load in the day was awesome. It was like you were wired up to electric, you just couldn't wait for it because it's not like today where games come out every microsecond. In our day (and I use "our day" very exclusively), games were awesome ground breaking of the technology we had and pushing it to the limits stuff in any way they could.
i have this ony ipod shule with normal tunes, and when it comes on it is pure indulgance, this is one of the best chip tunes ever for so many reasons, and i still love it so much, sheer genius, martin galway, if u were born about 200 years ago you would have been bigger than beethoven, you wont get the credit he got in years to come but you should, you are a living legend..
Pretty apparent it's genuine hardware and not emulation as it decrunches at 1:25... ...who on earth would use real-time loading-times on an emulator today ;) Thanks for the UL, this little loadingtune got me in to music at the age of 12!
Oh wow! I was 13 when this came out, I remember the music it was awesome and I especially liked the highscore music screen. Uploader I loved the way you started the video from the front screen of C64 and showed us the Press play on tape and searching found Rambo, that really made a difference in bringing back the memories, Thank you very much for uploading this well done. Oh by the way was it me or where games in those days borderline impossible to complete, although I did complete this game.
At the end of the loader music the glissando down is missing!!! It was such a surprise when I had the patient to wait the end of the Hall of Fames music. But the biggest surprise was the second part of the in game music! I've even recorded them on audio tape with other C64 music.
Always gotta love real stuff. And like RogerThat said... Indeed it was big part of gaming, just to wait it load. And that is why C64 has these awesome tunes when loader loads the actual game. Oh man... this music gets into me tears...........
Bloody awesome! I never had a C64 but a friend did and I was amazed at the loading music. There was an audio tape called Data Hits which was the result of taking a C64 into a professional studio and enhancing some music. Rambo was one of five tracks on it. It's well worth a listen - do a Google search for "datahits" if you want the MP3 files.
From Sly Stallone's point of view, you truly know you are an icon of your time when your likeness is etched across a screen in classic 1980's 64 bit technology
It's not just whether it was the best they could do, I think for most people in that decade and myself it is also additionally the nostalgia, the feeling of being part of a new ground breaking technology as it developed. Most games that came out pushed that boundary just that little bit further with just limited resources on one box of tricks. That box of tricks lasted well over a decade and is still widely appealing today. Todays computers breed sloppiness and lack of imagination in comparison.
This loader brings back so many good memories.Even made Sly Stallone look better with the dodgy shading. But, in the days we had this, even on the loaders in comparison to today, you even looked at the shading and made your own mental image. Just as much as you did the music. It was an awesome time. It was a new technology time, a time of using your imagination and putting it all together with what you saw and heard. Unfortunately, those times of using your brain and imagination are gone :(
My kids would have thrown the C64 away by the 2 minute point :). My god we used to love ours. Dizzy, Last Ninja, Vendetta and all the good stuff. :) We spent countless hours on Spy Vs Spy, man what a 2 player game.
one of the few good things about being older is that we appreciate the likes of battlefield et al..coz we've seen games progress from manic miner to modern day. this equals more satisfaction. the only thing i can compare it to.. for kids nowadays to buy a game and inputi a cheat to gain instant access to everything. dont know they're born etc. i remember when all this were fields etc..
What a ground breaking childhood we had. I think us born in the 70s and grew up in the 80s had the best ever life.
1 million % agree I had exactly the same conversation some time ago we are blessed
You're right.
It was the best of times .. I recall the moment I first heard this soundtrack ... it changed my life. Just 4 years after first loading this game and hearing Martin Galway's masterpiece I was working on game soundtracks at Ocean. I'm convinced this would never have happened if I hadn't heared this music.
Apart from the threat of nuclear war at any moment you are completely right
Well sad for me that i was born 2004 then
Oh man, that ocean loader music still gives me goose bumps!
Anytime
Anyone remember turning the screw a quarter turn when the cassette didn't load? I miss my c64 :(
Then back 1/8th then finally tweaking a final 1/12th turn back again to acquire azimuth lock . Those were the days!
Actually you've just reminded me I hacked my C2N datassette to use one of those old portable radio ear buds (white cheapo, mono jobs) so I could listen for optimal audio strength.
James Bond haha lock on to the best pulse sounds it was an art I personally had a tiny speaker in mine and a permanent knob installed by my dad
+Rod C For sure! I had boxes full of C-casettes with games we'd copy between friends. The thing is you had to remember the correct cassette drive setting for every cassette, it wasn't the same. I used to turn it all the way down and remembered how much you had to then open it for each cassette :D Those were the days!
+James Bond Oh, thats cleaver. Would have saved me a lot of time :D
no, but do you remember cutting the notch out of the 5 1/4" to be able to write to both sides. lol.. awesome. brings back memories.
Waiting was a big part of gamers life back in the day...
and now spoiled kids want everything just now
Damn.. this gi joe and commando on the c64.. good living.
Goose bumps all around. And a few tears of melancholy.
same here... or was it some trash which went into my eye....
The music is definitely the best thing about C64 :)
Totally agree. I'm a Speccy fan, but I think the C64 had amazing music at the time.
I get goosebumps hearing that loading tune. Takes me back to my mid teens, making toasted cheese sandwiches in the kitchen and hearing this playing in the lounge. Usually my food and drink was made by the time most tape games loaded.
I'm thankful for this era for many reasons but one of them is that loading times today don't phase me one bit.
03:11 One of the finest moments in SID music history.
Takes me back I do miss the excitement you get when you were young with a new game, sitting at your c64 for days trying to complete games. Now there all to easy and that excitement has gone,all graphics and no game most of the time. The music is awesome so many great tunes.
I love it when stuff I recall fondly from my childhood can still stand on its own merits; this music is amazing! Thanks for sharing
The music and build up to play this classic game was AWESOME!
…and then you’d DIE 30 seconds into the actual game 😂
I don't think I ever got past the river in the first level. The helicopter always took me out.
The music alone sends shivers down my spine, and i was about 5-8 playing these games.. amazing. I will never forget this.
My favourite C64 music, I think the music was better than game, not that the game was bad, Rob Hubbard was a genius.
+David Norman
This was Martin Galway. But, along with Rob, he was also a genius.
Thanks for correcting me, I now feel like a idiot, 30yrs thinking of the wrong person
+David Norman Hahaha! Still, that comment made my day :D
Kim, which comment do you mean, my first or second?.Any way glad it made your day
That you were 30yrs thinking about the wrong person. Not laughing with you, it sounded funny somehow. :-)
This is bloody amazing. Does anyone remember "C64 Data Hits"? It was an audio cassette of five pieces of music from the C64 that was enhanced in the studio. Rambo loading music was the first song. Other songs were Crazy Comets, Ghostbusters, Never Ending Story and Chariots of Fire. I've got them on MP3 and listen to Rambo in the car sometimes (much to the annoyance of my family!).
This lack of d/l speed was put to it's best use.. first the music, then some graphics, then the action! :-)
6 minutes for a game to load, and these days is a website takes 6 seconds to load we're ranting! Where did our patience go?
TL;DR
:)
6 minutes and then, LOAD ERROR ;)
Ain't nobody got time fo' that!
Right? I’m so glad he didn’t edit out the load time.
To be fair I think the ranting is by the people who never had to use a cassette to load games.
I used to stop the tape (not bother with the game) with some of the Ocean / Galway loading tunes and just blast them out. What he, Hubbard and a few others could do with the SID chip was amazing, best thing about the 64.
This game had one of the best soundtracks, especially when the hi scores would start scrolling.
COMMODORE = PERFECTION, no flickering, great sound, everything was good and funny.
musicmaniac1965 he must have had a c128 or perhaps a newer version of the game or c64
THE best loading tune ever - also one of my top 3 c64 tunes, alongside Delta and Lightforce
When I was 14/15 I though both Martin Galway and Rob Hubbard were geniuses for their music on the C64...watching this....I still do.....
I LOVED this loader and game....along with The Last Ninja....good times C64
In my youth we had to wake up every morning at 5 o'clock to load
Rambo , 10 kilometers in thick snow, uphill both ways .. modern kids ...
I remember when this came out... Late 1985. It was so breathtaking and groudbreaking you had to just sit down in the dark, eyes closed and take it all in. It was magical. Same with Yie Ar Kung Fu, Hypersports, Green Beret, Miami Vice. Galway was on a roll.
Ahh man, I love the music and sounds of this. Back in the day when Ocean made the games of films.. Loved the Robocop and Batman games for the C64 and Amiga. What an era.
Ace loading music, and then the added satisfaction that it didn't crash
Music is epic!!! I remember when the graphic loaded it would freeze on the last line for a moment and then start up again
Oh my God.. The 1:22-1:26... Yeah, it was the most horrifying moment of waiting for a game to load, or fail to load. Thank you for sharing this video! A lof of memories for me :)
Oh My! I just close my eyes and I'm back at school!!!
The youth of today have NO idea :-/
!!!!! They don't!!! :D tapes and disc with less than a MB capacity!! Still it was the world!! HATS OFF!!! To the masters!!
Egil Hansen And waiting 15 minutes for an error so you would have to rewind the tape and start all over! :D
Tom Jacobs lol
sadly i dont have a tape drive so ill use a sd for my commodore (sd to tape)
Tom Jacobs lol i hated when that happened! IT seemed to happen more on this one
+utubenoobie01 I talked to my colleagues 8-10 year old kids the other day. They didn't know what a joystick is.
Still here in 2020! Love everything about this time!
Best tune ever on any platform!
*joy overload* one of the first computer games I ever played, age 6-7. My dad swears to this day the C64 was the best money he ever spent on anything ever!
i do love this and something me and my brother {both commodore 64 enthusiasts from the 80s} always agree that was amazing.
7:00 mission briefing - you must under no circumstances engage the enemy - LOL :)
This was truly the best era. The games were so challenging yet so enjoyable, the Sid chip was the game changer.
playing music, while loading a game..with just 64kb of memory...it's art, and that's on of the reasons i loved the c64, and still love it.
Used to play this over n over when i worked in a computer shop back in the day... wicked toon.
This takes me way back to when I was pre-teen give or take. The whole atmospheric of getting the tape, pressing shift+runstop and waiting eagerly for the game to load in the day was awesome. It was like you were wired up to electric, you just couldn't wait for it because it's not like today where games come out every microsecond. In our day (and I use "our day" very exclusively), games were awesome ground breaking of the technology we had and pushing it to the limits stuff in any way they could.
i have this ony ipod shule with normal tunes, and when it comes on it is pure indulgance, this is one of the best chip tunes ever for so many reasons, and i still love it so much, sheer genius, martin galway, if u were born about 200 years ago you would have been bigger than beethoven, you wont get the credit he got in years to come but you should, you are a living legend..
Beautiful 8-bit heaven.
Oh the nostalgy!!
It's between 15 to 20 years since the last time i started up my C64 :)
True classic from the golden Era of Video games when It was not all about the graphics Games had innovation and a LOT of soul back then
fantastic music
this is the awesome "ocean loader 2 " from Martin Galway!
what a great tune!!
@jonprelf Forgot to add that Martin Galway did a great job with the music!
Memories....Epic game...epic music....just epic!!!
This is one of the best games I have ever played. End of story. Was one hell of a challenge too!
Pretty apparent it's genuine hardware and not emulation as it decrunches at 1:25...
...who on earth would use real-time loading-times on an emulator today ;)
Thanks for the UL, this little loadingtune got me in to music at the age of 12!
More than 20 years ago and I remember as if this was yesterday. Thanks for sharing man!
6 minutes and 15 seconds and finally ready to play. But wait there's more...music to listen to.
I can imagine modern producers wanting to use this in their songs :)
Awh gawd, the full-frontal SID arpeggio BLAST after t=8:08 😍😍😍
vay beee yahu ne güzel günlerdi gerçekten 15 dk. beklediğimiz oyunlar olurdu büyük heyecanla başka bi güzeldi eskiler eskilerden herşey...
Oh yes.welcome to memory lane 1986. I played this game for hours.but not on tape on floppydisk.i can remember if it was yesterday.
Oh yeah... this is the REAL DEAL.
Pure, raw, C64 emotion in all its glory.
Excellent post my friend - well done :-)
Oh wow! I was 13 when this came out, I remember the music it was awesome and I especially liked the highscore music screen. Uploader I loved the way you started the video from the front screen of C64 and showed us the Press play on tape and searching found Rambo, that really made a difference in bringing back the memories, Thank you very much for uploading this well done. Oh by the way was it me or where games in those days borderline impossible to complete, although I did complete this game.
I don't remember much about our C64 back in the 80's but I do distinctly remember big floppies and entering LOAD "*",8,1
If I had a band THIS would be my giant stadium intro-song
Love the intro song :)
Thanks for uploading this!!!! Can't believe how much time has passed....
Sylvester Stallone looks so young in this picture ;) lol. Awesome music which takes me back to a kid. Awesome and love it :)
At the end of the loader music the glissando down is missing!!!
It was such a surprise when I had the patient to wait the end of the Hall of Fames music. But the biggest surprise was the second part of the in game music! I've even recorded them on audio tape with other C64 music.
>I've even recorded them on audio tape with other C64 music.
I made C64 mixtapes as well. People gave me the weirdest stares lol.
i love the sound of the old shapers, so clear :)
This makes me wanna go back into time.. Love it!!!!
Always gotta love real stuff. And like RogerThat said... Indeed it was big part of gaming, just to wait it load. And that is why C64 has these awesome tunes when loader loads the actual game. Oh man... this music gets into me tears...........
The_Viceman the Best conversion
Yeess rlly brings back memories.Good old days
I remember this game quite fondly.The most fun part is going back to the camp with the chopper and then use your bazooka to blow up all the buildings.
Nostalgia!
Bloody awesome! I never had a C64 but a friend did and I was amazed at the loading music. There was an audio tape called Data Hits which was the result of taking a C64 into a professional studio and enhancing some music. Rambo was one of five tracks on it. It's well worth a listen - do a Google search for "datahits" if you want the MP3 files.
This is so like the original tape loadings! C64 rules!
great video brings back memories! loved this loading music
It's been like 20+ yrs, I have goose bumps right now. I just have to get my old C64 back :'(
the best in-game music was ghouls n Ghosts in my opinnion for c 64
the last ninja
Mega Apocalypse for me! :)
The first time I saw this intro I was in shock !
From Sly Stallone's point of view, you truly know you are an icon of your time when your likeness is etched across a screen in classic 1980's 64 bit technology
This still makes me tingle thinking of the good old days of originally creative music generated real time and not sampled
7:06 "PLACE YOUR WEAPON INTO PORT TWO" Ooh Matron!
It's not just whether it was the best they could do, I think for most people in that decade and myself it is also additionally the nostalgia, the feeling of being part of a new ground breaking technology as it developed. Most games that came out pushed that boundary just that little bit further with just limited resources on one box of tricks. That box of tricks lasted well over a decade and is still widely appealing today. Todays computers breed sloppiness and lack of imagination in comparison.
This loader brings back so many good memories.Even made Sly Stallone look better with the dodgy shading. But, in the days we had this, even on the loaders in comparison to today, you even looked at the shading and made your own mental image. Just as much as you did the music. It was an awesome time. It was a new technology time, a time of using your imagination and putting it all together with what you saw and heard. Unfortunately, those times of using your brain and imagination are gone :(
This was such a cool game, had a real atmosphere to it. It inspired about a million SEUCK games :D.
Both loader and in game music is ACE. 100% nostalgia.
Analogue harmonics - can't beat 'em!
The music in this game was sooooo good.
exceptional piece
Platypus 2
Real men also still have their C64, the games and most importantly, the experience of the important times :)
Oh, i used to love the scoreboard music from 6:40 on. This brings back memories
OCEAN software where the masters of C64 games in the 80s!
My kids would have thrown the C64 away by the 2 minute point :). My god we used to love ours. Dizzy, Last Ninja, Vendetta and all the good stuff. :) We spent countless hours on Spy Vs Spy, man what a 2 player game.
Oh Dear God.....its Like yesterday after 23 years later.....i want to go back the time :(
This music is classic.
Nostalgic feeling watching this
one of the few good things about being older is that we appreciate the likes of battlefield et al..coz we've seen games progress from manic miner to modern day. this equals more satisfaction. the only thing i can compare it to.. for kids nowadays to buy a game and inputi a cheat to gain instant access to everything. dont know they're born etc. i remember when all this were fields etc..
No where near almost, but he's probably the most famous composer. There were hundreds of composers throughout the entire C64 lifespan.
"Press play on tape"
I hated the tape deck so much. Getting a disc drive was like a dream come true. And then the fast loader cartridge. Bliss!
Great song, great game, great computer!
classic...absolute classic!
Funny how they stop attacking when the POW's are released.
I remember making a copy of the title and game music for this to cassette to listen to.
Totally forgot how long this took. And even longer, sitting with the Commodore magazine, typing the game in, saving it and then loading it...