this is wonderful. something about that SID chip that sounds soooo good, no matter how basic the sounds are. The composers, back then, really utilised it beautifully...
Saboteur and especially Saboteur II is such an underestimated game and music score, perhaps one of the best of Rob Hubbard; it would surely be in my personal top 5.
if still no luck try searching for Tribute to Rob Hubbard - SID chip legend on FB,and check out his guy on you tube : C64 Alien (1984) LIVE - SID Main Theme by LukHash
Man, that OST from 'Storm Warrior' still gives me chills. The whole mood of the game freaked me out as a kid. Also 'Battle Valley' and "Rambo: Last Blood part 2' are awesome bits of music as well.
I minimized this browser so I can hear your music while I do other things, but every now and again I find myself checking your slideshow to see what memorable tune I am listening to. Kudos for adding the visuals =)
I played Aztec Challenge as a kiddo... OMG... is the Screenies for "Thanaius" saying that ya play AS a Dragon on that Game!? OMG now I wish I had ever gotten to play that during my C64 days... :'(
Mountie Mick's Death Ride....loved to play it back in the days but never remembered the Name of the Game. So thanks for your Video! Nice Collection of really great tunes!!!
Ghost n' Goblins, Delta, Commado, Thing on a Spring are all some of my favorites.... There's also a bunch of my favorites missing, like Sacred Armor of Antiriad, Master of Magic, Combat School, Crazy Comets, Thrust, Mega-Apocalyspe, Sanxion loading music. Wow oh wow, the C-64 just had so much music that kicked ass.....
While I wouldn't agree with some of your music choices (where are Total Eclipse, Krakout, Defender of the Crown, etc?), thanks for introducing me to a few very promising looking games that I have never heard of before. I'll be sure to try some of them! However, are you sure all of them are from the C64? The Last Ninja 2 screen at around 17:00 doesn't look like it should (compare it with 29:30), nor does the music sound like a SID tune.
27:08 min Jason C. Brooke- Outrun Intro synth + percussion! 39:33 min Fred Grey- Bounces Arpeggio zone! 46:02 min Rob Hubbard- Thing on a Spring bleep bass riff! 51:52 min Rob-Hubbard- Ricochet vocal synthesis alongside dirty hard bell! ... so many more good sections... to many to list. Anyone care to comment on: MMSIAH vs. MIDIbox SID (or variant) vs. LSDJ vs. MIDInes vs. MCTRL vs. CHIP MAESTRO ?.
Nice list but think you are missing some of the best ones Driller, One man and his droid & Parallax (loader), way of the exploding fist but some nice noslagia here )
C64 best Homecomputer EVER! You want a Cartridge of your game stored on tape? (loading time 15minutes or more) BURN IT TO AN EPROM (yippieee) Put it on an serial Card. Plug into C64. Start it, and Play within 2secons :-) Command a Robot? Build someone! And use c64. Ports an interfaces can everytime used with direct Memory access, whithout any drivers or eq. You can do anything what you want! Hardware near! C64 best Homecomputer EVER!
Good point. ...Sorry if there are so many missing, but these on this video are the ones i liked on my childhood. Recently i have revalued my personal favorites, and if i will make this video now, probably all of them will be there, but it's really hard to choose only 60.
Seems you've picked up not only the tunes but plus the games as well. It can explain this "chart". I could easily throw out "Human Race", "Dante's Inferno".... here I've started to rewind this "movie" and realised that I've slept for about 25-35 minutes :D ))) Generally I could remove many of tunes that are too simple technically + without a nice solo or remarkable idea, that means nothing than just copying some movie's melodies (IMHO Ghost Busters could be made much better than it sounds!). I'm a perfectionist. That's why I was suprised that here is no Sanxion. It's one of the most perfect tracks for C64.
i tried to skip forward not missing any songs...might have done so anyway...but was glad to see monty on the run on the list...but i missed(if they where not there) Druid and hyperball
Somebody give me Rob Hubbards music for "Human Race" published by Mastertronic!!!!!!!!! THANKS!!!! (I think Depeche Mode produced "Enjoy the silence" after playing this game - seriously!) ^^
What? )) Where is the famous Sanxion's tracks? I've thought it will be on the 1st place and was really surprised that you've picked up the track from Ricochet! Well... technically it may be superrior for that time but this track is simply below something really cool. Like Sanxion. OK, it's _your_ favorite tunes :) not mine. At least Last Ninja 2 and Monty on the run. BTW, MoR's music is one of the most popular for C64 fans.
You are right, but sadly i didn't play Sanxion when i was young, so i was not able to appreciate the game tune, but i revaluated it among with other great tunes only "recently" thanks to rooms and emulators, and my actual favorite tunes list will differ quite a bit from this one, still Ricochet is my favorite n°1 =)
+Oki Uimonen Entirely true. The last Ninja 1 & 2 songs are for me among the best ones ever composed on the C64. Such an analogue feel on them, and extremely well composed.
True fact: you can listen to most Last Nina 1 and 2 themes when emulating other consoles and other games and it makes them better. What the C64 lacked in graphics it sure did not lack anything in the sound department. Even the later revision chip in some of the 64C computers sound great. Not just that but with some of the composers really made some great tracks. There is an RPG game, that that had a Nordic metal theme song I can never remember the game, but the song stayed in my mind so well that I learned it on guitar over a 2 decades later,..from memory.
Karate Chop,Commando,Rambo,PaperBoy,GFL Football,Test Drive,Bruce Lee,Karateka,Exploding Fist,Black Thunder,White Viper,Yie Ar Kung Fu I,The Last Ninja,Renegade,etc,etc,C-64 Music is Very Mentally Engaging.
I know a lot of people like to praise Rob Hubbard and Martin Galway as true innovators of the SID chip (and rightfully so) but BEFORE both of those incredible musicians came along, there was Paul Freakin' Norman. To me, he was the real first guy to truly see the potential of the SID chip. His music from Aztec Challenge and his Forbidden Forest games (ESPECIALLY the first game) still hold up to this day.
Wait ... did the Human Race tune get recycled into some other game? Exolon or Goldrunner or something? It occasionally pops up from my memory and rattles around my head, a remnant of my Atari ST days... I've never played THR before, and I doubt I've heard its music elsewhere either...
I have listened many c64 "best tunes" video, and my 2 favourites are really missing from everywhere: 2.: Myth loading music (not the title music!) and: 1.: Iron Lord title music.
Good selection. I'm also recommending: Flimbo's Quest (1), Spehrical (5), Mask 3 (1), Savage (3), One man and his droid (1), Supremacy (1), Hawkeye, Hollywood or Bust (3), Wizball (4), Strike Force (intro music), Invest (Intro music) Numbers mark the recorded track in the high voltage collection versions.
I still think the Chris´s Songs are better. His Sid Songs Sound more Natural then Hubbards. Hubbard often uses this Bubbelish sounding Tune wich is very anoying after a short Time. Hüsbecks Tunes sound much mor like Synthesiser Muski from that Age. Even the Digi Drums sound much better, wich he only stopped using couse Commodore changed the chip sid in the newer C64 Models. Hubbard made wonderful Sounds thats True but i would choose Hülsbeck Tunes any Time.
Just a suggestion in case you make another one of these. Give a bit more time for each track, some of these songs were cut off before they got a chance to open up. I'm sure your fan fan base would not mind the video being a bit longer. But great collection, thanks for the upload.
There are two different versions of Last Ninja 2, the one at 17:00 is a remix version with different music and little changes in graphics (like the ninja face in the lower corner) and yes the music is from the game and a SID tune as well.
![C64 Stereo Sid - Dane [c64 Commodore Stereo Sid Music]](/img/n.gif)
The c64 just have 3 audio channels and the song still awesome LOL
this is wonderful. something about that SID chip that sounds soooo good, no matter how basic the sounds are. The composers, back then, really utilised it beautifully...
Saboteur and especially Saboteur II is such an underestimated game and music score, perhaps one of the best of Rob Hubbard; it would surely be in my personal top 5.
Saboteur II music is amazing, top 5 for me too :)
rob hubbard is still going and he has a facebook fan group
-GA- Mancsfinest
I can't find it. Is it just "Rob Hubbard", or is it called something else?
wwwdotfacebookdotcom/groups/2331668157/
if still no luck try searching for Tribute to Rob Hubbard - SID chip legend on FB,and check out his guy on you tube : C64 Alien (1984) LIVE - SID Main Theme by LukHash
Man, that OST from 'Storm Warrior' still gives me chills. The whole mood of the game freaked me out as a kid.
Also 'Battle Valley' and "Rambo: Last Blood part 2' are awesome bits of music as well.
Had forgotten how funky the theme to Bump Set Spike was.
46. ghost n' goblins, !! you jus made my day!! i loved the game when i was a little boy. beautiful times.....
I minimized this browser so I can hear your music while I do other things, but every now and again I find myself checking your slideshow to see what memorable tune I am listening to. Kudos for adding the visuals =)
The Citadel tune... freaking HEAVY. Electric dreams, for sure.
Me → straight to SOASC.
Tanks you for this nice collection Rattopaz.
Ya forgot Myth! Then again, it's your top 60. Good memories!
+Tiwaking “Tiwaking” Tiwaking like turrican
I played Aztec Challenge as a kiddo...
OMG... is the Screenies for "Thanaius" saying that ya play AS a Dragon on that Game!? OMG now I wish I had ever gotten to play that during my C64 days... :'(
Mountie Mick's Death Ride....loved to play it back in the days but never remembered the Name of the Game. So thanks for your Video! Nice Collection of really great tunes!!!
I'd have to mention that all parts of Rick Dangerous had quite epic music.
The games back then tend to be pretty much in playable nowadays, but their music will always be great.
Ahhhh Shadowfire... long time no see :)
Great songs altogether. I just missed the Ocean loaders.
Just brilliant, well done mate, you are a star, that views number should say 500,000+
Kudos. x
Ghost n' Goblins, Delta, Commado, Thing on a Spring are all some of my favorites.... There's also a bunch of my favorites missing, like Sacred Armor of Antiriad, Master of Magic, Combat School, Crazy Comets, Thrust, Mega-Apocalyspe, Sanxion loading music. Wow oh wow, the C-64 just had so much music that kicked ass.....
I didn't really like Delta that much apart from the music in all honesty. Armalyte on the other hand...
..thanks for putting this up man, brought back a lot of memories, cheers again...
thanks for making this video, takes me waaaaaay back
My favorites were always Seven Cities of Gold, Way of the Exploding Fist, and Legend.
Needs Myth: History in the making and Bionic Commando.
While I wouldn't agree with some of your music choices (where are Total Eclipse, Krakout, Defender of the Crown, etc?), thanks for introducing me to a few very promising looking games that I have never heard of before. I'll be sure to try some of them!
However, are you sure all of them are from the C64? The Last Ninja 2 screen at around 17:00 doesn't look like it should (compare it with 29:30), nor does the music sound like a SID tune.
Awesome tunes C64 was amazing for its time
Almost one hour of goodies
SID chip fucking marvelous!
Batman The Caped Crusader..........best game music ever
1:40 sounds like the Pokemon gym music.
COOL SOUNDS
27:08 min
Jason C. Brooke- Outrun
Intro synth + percussion!
39:33 min
Fred Grey- Bounces
Arpeggio zone!
46:02 min
Rob Hubbard- Thing on a Spring
bleep bass riff!
51:52 min
Rob-Hubbard- Ricochet
vocal synthesis alongside dirty hard bell!
... so many more good sections... to many to list.
Anyone care to comment on: MMSIAH vs. MIDIbox SID (or variant) vs. LSDJ vs. MIDInes vs. MCTRL vs. CHIP MAESTRO ?.
RICOCHET sound like Amiga on a C64 O_O
my faves were Ghosts n goblins and commando loading screen music :)
Nice list but think you are missing some of the best ones
Driller, One man and his droid & Parallax (loader), way of the exploding fist
but some nice noslagia here )
C64 best Homecomputer EVER!
You want a Cartridge of your game stored on tape? (loading time 15minutes or more)
BURN IT TO AN EPROM (yippieee)
Put it on an serial Card. Plug into C64.
Start it, and Play within 2secons :-)
Command a Robot? Build someone! And use c64.
Ports an interfaces can everytime used with direct Memory access, whithout any drivers or eq.
You can do anything what you want! Hardware near!
C64 best Homecomputer EVER!
what can i say? awesome.
super nice ,it remember me my young age thanks!
Cybernoid 2 & Last Ninja 2 The Mansion
The best C64-music ever made is for the LN-Series
Where are these game musics? Cybernoid, Battle valley, Golden axe, Platoon, Flimbo's quest...
Good point. ...Sorry if there are so many missing, but these on this video are the ones i liked on my childhood. Recently i have revalued my personal favorites, and if i will make this video now, probably all of them will be there, but it's really hard to choose only 60.
***** The simple fact of it was there is so much awesome SID music that these lists are neigh on impossible. :D
Flimbo's quest...!!!!!!!!!! one amazing track!
Seems you've picked up not only the tunes but plus the games as well. It can explain this "chart". I could easily throw out "Human Race", "Dante's Inferno".... here I've started to rewind this "movie" and realised that I've slept for about 25-35 minutes :D )))
Generally I could remove many of tunes that are too simple technically + without a nice solo or remarkable idea, that means nothing than just copying some movie's melodies (IMHO Ghost Busters could be made much better than it sounds!). I'm a perfectionist. That's why I was suprised that here is no Sanxion. It's one of the most perfect tracks for C64.
i tried to skip forward not missing any songs...might have done so anyway...but was glad to see monty on the run on the list...but i missed(if they where not there) Druid and hyperball
Great collection! Please if you have not heard it listen to music from Suicide Express. Amazing music in this game!
dei capolavori ad 8 bit!
Best music at 30:22...
International karate
puts my 48k spectrum in its place ;-)
The music from Yogi bear is criminally underrated. The game itself is kind of meh, but the music was epic
Got this by searching spam but i like it
No Paradroid? No Sacred Armour of Antiriad? No Uridium?
Paradroid didn't have a sid tune, dumbass
Somebody give me Rob Hubbards music for "Human Race" published by Mastertronic!!!!!!!!! THANKS!!!! (I think Depeche Mode produced "Enjoy the silence" after playing this game - seriously!) ^^
For me Moonshadow is the best.
1 - great giana sisters
2 - ghost n goblins
3 - Commando
thaaaaaaanks!!!
Wow, epic.
Thank you
There only 3 evil tunes so far one c64 at 34.05 really evil tune
do you have Giana Sisters music
Why do you cut the songs so short? Some barely get started when they end.
Nice job m8 ..respect ....
What? )) Where is the famous Sanxion's tracks? I've thought it will be on the 1st place and was really surprised that you've picked up the track from Ricochet! Well... technically it may be superrior for that time but this track is simply below something really cool. Like Sanxion.
OK, it's _your_ favorite tunes :) not mine. At least Last Ninja 2 and Monty on the run. BTW, MoR's music is one of the most popular for C64 fans.
You are right, but sadly i didn't play Sanxion when i was young, so i was not able to appreciate the game tune, but i revaluated it among with other great tunes only "recently" thanks to rooms and emulators, and my actual favorite tunes list will differ quite a bit from this one, still Ricochet is my favorite n°1 =)
Action Biker was the shit
Sorry, but this list is not complete without Wizball and the Lightforce tunes, there are outstanding!
u should make it ur fav 64 music hit ;))) anyway fucking nice job thks
You put dante's inferno twice...
Spectrum never had music, it had noise...
god how good did red heat look and sound but how shit did it play yuck
GHOSTBUSTERS
why dint you took 64 songs, it would fit much more...
To short fragments imo
Thanks for uploading. Fantastic work. :)
And Target Renegade. Seems playing too much C64 destroys short term memory.
Too many Hubbard tracks.
I'd be lucky to hear something as good as 29:00 in a game today.
true
Jyo Lemos There's some serious nostalgia here. Before Windows. The Commodore 64 was seriously ahead of its time.
+matthewakian2 exactly. not being able to emulate any real instruments forced people to craft some very interesting sounds.
+Jyo “HomeSlice” Lemos What about Hitman series and World Of Goo?
+Oki Uimonen Entirely true. The last Ninja 1 & 2 songs are for me among the best ones ever composed on the C64. Such an analogue feel on them, and extremely well composed.
True fact: you can listen to most Last Nina 1 and 2 themes when emulating other consoles and other games and it makes them better. What the C64 lacked in graphics it sure did not lack anything in the sound department. Even the later revision chip in some of the 64C computers sound great. Not just that but with some of the composers really made some great tracks. There is an RPG game, that that had a Nordic metal theme song I can never remember the game, but the song stayed in my mind so well that I learned it on guitar over a 2 decades later,..from memory.
+kris reddish Hi! You should check out the Last Ninja music currently on KickStarter!! :D
For the time the C64 certainly did not lack in graphics. Only the Atari 800 would have been a more capable home machine for sprite-based games.
Coulda used a List of the Tunes & their Time Stamps in the Vid Info...
Wait, was Fred Gray's "Mutants" in there? That track is absolutely knockout.
I really was looking for the Ikari warriors theme without remembering the title. You sir just earned fanart xD
I use the Fist2 music as a ringtone
I looked it up, and I was shocked when I realised, the Yogi Bear track was created by MATT GRAY!
Karate Chop,Commando,Rambo,PaperBoy,GFL Football,Test Drive,Bruce Lee,Karateka,Exploding Fist,Black Thunder,White Viper,Yie Ar Kung Fu I,The Last Ninja,Renegade,etc,etc,C-64 Music is Very Mentally Engaging.
I know a lot of people like to praise Rob Hubbard and Martin Galway as true innovators of the SID chip (and rightfully so) but BEFORE both of those incredible musicians came along, there was Paul Freakin' Norman. To me, he was the real first guy to truly see the potential of the SID chip. His music from Aztec Challenge and his Forbidden Forest games (ESPECIALLY the first game) still hold up to this day.
A very good list and a very interesting yet brilliant taste. Makes me want to play the old games right away!
17. International Karate kind of copycat of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence by Ryuichi Sakamoto from 31:03 :) just a bit
thx
Wait ... did the Human Race tune get recycled into some other game? Exolon or Goldrunner or something? It occasionally pops up from my memory and rattles around my head, a remnant of my Atari ST days... I've never played THR before, and I doubt I've heard its music elsewhere either...
I have listened many c64 "best tunes" video, and my 2 favourites are really missing from everywhere: 2.: Myth loading music (not the title music!) and: 1.: Iron Lord title music.
track list anyone please ? :) cause the last ninja 2 theme is not the original version for example - looking for this version ? anyone? greetz
Good selection. I'm also recommending:
Flimbo's Quest (1), Spehrical (5), Mask 3 (1), Savage (3), One man and his droid (1), Supremacy (1), Hawkeye, Hollywood or Bust (3), Wizball (4), Strike Force (intro music), Invest (Intro music)
Numbers mark the recorded track in the high voltage collection versions.
the multilayered gem that is number 52, seems slightly out of place wedged between the shrill ye ar kung fu 2 and target renegade.
I hate this nostalgia... i should be looking forward but instead i keep looking back. :P
havn't checked but if one man and his droid, freescape driller, and the last v8 are not here, then the list to me is a joke......
Nearly hitting 40, this takes me back before I was legally an adult.....way to go fella!!
Very Original and good selection. Congratulations!
Great music, but you're missing some of my favorites :D
Search for Crazy Comets and the sequel, Mega-Apocalypse :D
Rob Hubbard is the Nº1!!!
Chris Huelsbeck ;-)
***** yes he did, couse he made the BETTER songs !
heiko and thomas from Germany right?.......sorry guys, Rob did BETTER songs than Chris.
Thats a matter of taste (i hope thats right so)
I still think the Chris´s Songs are better. His Sid Songs Sound more Natural then Hubbards. Hubbard often uses this Bubbelish sounding Tune wich is very anoying after a short Time. Hüsbecks Tunes sound much mor like Synthesiser Muski from that Age. Even the Digi Drums sound much better, wich he only stopped using couse Commodore changed the chip sid in the newer C64 Models. Hubbard made wonderful Sounds thats True but i would choose Hülsbeck Tunes any Time.
So the 18th and the 3rd are Last Ninja 2. Mansion and Central Park ftw.
load an eternful cassette game just to hear loading music
SPELLBOUND , Armagedden Man ;-)
No wizardry, Barbarian or master of lamps?
Excellent compilation but no Crazy Comets?
Just a suggestion in case you make another one of these. Give a bit more time for each track, some of these songs were cut off before they got a chance to open up. I'm sure your fan fan base would not mind the video being a bit longer. But great collection, thanks for the upload.
There are two different versions of Last Ninja 2, the one at 17:00 is a remix version with different music and little changes in graphics (like the ninja face in the lower corner) and yes the music is from the game and a SID tune as well.
Deathwish kills everything!
Wow, Psycho Pigs - great game.
IKAAAAAAARIIIIII WARRIOOOOORRRRRSSSS!!!!!