Chris Hülsbeck (Giana Sisters, Turrican, R-Type and many many more) and Barry Leitch (Hero Quest, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 and many many many more) are THE two music icons of the Amiga Soundtrack, they really knew how to get the very best out of the Amiga Soundchips! Amazing talents!
Our first Amiga was an A500 Screen Gems pack, with Shadow of the Beast 2. The game was sado-masochistically difficult and not that good, but its music blew me away, really showing what the Amiga could do
Thank you for standing out and showing off Jimmy Fredriksson's (sorry, wasn't Allister Brimble!) Full Contact "Menu" track instead of the "Main Title" track for once! :D
Thank you for watching this video. I had thought that for the first video it was more interesting to propose excellent titles less present in the compilations. I didn't choose the title music of Turrican 220 or Jaguar XJ220 either. I like this music very much and I was wrong, it's Jimmy Fredriksson who composed this title and not Allister Brimble. thanks to you I'll modify the description
Reading the title Leander is always so funny to me because a friend of mine is called Leandro (which sounds very similar) and he's an amiga enthusiast aha
As a tribute to a Gods of Game Music Composers this is my TOP10: Honorable Mentions: Gods, Syndycate, Walker, Speedball II, Lemmings, Cannon Fodder 10. Silkworm 9. Alien Breed SE 8. Lotus II 7. Formula One Grand Prix 6. Flashback 5. Agony 4. Pinball Dreams/Fantasies 3. Lost Patrol 2. Shadow of the Beast I, II & III . . . . . 1. Turrican II
Congratulations because the game is long and without the possibility to save. I never finished it but I saw a longplay. Indeed the final boss is awesome
Really loved the ending to the video. Getting the Software failure screen was traumatic. Fortunately, using Xcopy a second time after wiping the disk would always solve it ;)
It was essential, for me, to finish with a Guru Meditation :) this error screen is part of the history of the Amiga. It was often caused by corrupted data or a bad hack of the game.
At the beginning of the Amiga the first tracks composed with trackers used the same sample disks called "PT-XX". From 1987 to 1988 many tracks had the same sound. Then everyone could buy good synthesizers and samplers to create his own samples like Chris Hülsbeck : as soon as he got his Korg synthesizer he found his own sound identity.
I always think that RType theme is the Turrican 2 one for some reason. Maybe it's because of who wrote them both. Excellent compilation as always though Alex.
There was a quality to Amiga and ST games that has since been eradicated - a certain level clunkiness that made it necessary to get intimately familiar with a game and its quirks. When people think "retro", they think "NES", with smooth full-screen scrolling, 1:1 controls and lightning fast jumps, and any game that deviates from that is automatically pegged as bad.
there was more creativity and daring: a time when only one man could concretize his idea without having to discuss it with business man and market studies
You would think this quality would be alive and well in the age of Indie goldrush, but instead everyone is too busy either making asset flips or cloning successful 8 and 16-bit console titles. New releases that channel the love, inventiveness, determination and off-the-wall nature of 80s-90s home micro games are sadly almost nonexistent. I cherish those few that I stumble upon though, and even try to make my own: )
@@darkfalzx modern indie industry is targeting win10 and 4k resolutions with millions of colors. It will always be looking bad trying to mimic retro feel in 4k. Instead you need to target the original retro platforms: atari, c64, amiga or dos...There is still a thriving community of game makers for those old platforms.
Hey Alex, this is a super compilation of Amiga songs! Can you please tell me from where the intro music is? I hear it in Lotus 1 (Magnetic Fields!) I mean, which orchestral music piece is it exactly? Thanks for your info!
I recall playing a game in my youth where you controlled a kid/teen that had a weird(a bit creepy if I recall) smile and there was a goose or swan that he could use to fly around(I think). If I recall correctly the human was blonde-ish with blue eyes or something. Haven't been able to find it since. It may have been an amiga or atari ST game, but I'm unsure. Ringing any bells?
+Andrew Pliakis (Valkaar) is it Nicky boom 2 ?Picture:images.google.fr/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fimage.jeuxvideo.com%2Fimages%2Fjaquettes%2F00007740%2Fjaquette-nicky-boom-2-amiga-cover-avant-g.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jeuxvideo.com%2Fjeux%2Famiga%2F00007740-nicky-boom-2.htm&h=638&w=500&tbnid=ngmBYmPtShQ3kM%3A&docid=GnRql6hU_UEk9M&itg=1&ei=NNzNVpbnF4H_auyQr9AN&tbm=isch&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=5467&page=1&start=0&ndsp=17&ved=0ahUKEwiW0bnq6pDLAhWBvxoKHWzIC9oQrQMIMzAH
absolutely! Moby is a French named Frédéric Motte who today uses the pseudonym "El Mobo" not to be confused with the artist "Richard Melville" who enjoyed success in 1999 with the album Play. it's not the same guy
Does anybody know the name of/remember a game where you drove a dune buggy or off road vehicle. It was TopDown view or skewed slightly behind vehicle maybe. The desert scrolled at you from the top of the screen, you could move up and down as well as side to side. You had to avoid pyramids I think. I was sure it was called Desert Run but I can only find a pinball game by that name :(
@@AlexMenchi hmmm no, but thank you I will check that page out. It was more top down and zoomed out than that. It reminded me of Ski Free but scrolling the opposite way
Un jour, j'ai contacté Charlie Skilbeck, coder de Sky High Stuntman publié par Codemaster en 1991, pour enfin savoir qu'elle était la raison de la présence de Coluche dans ce jeu anglais : " I can’t remember where I got that from, this was long before the internet- I had no idea who it was. I think I just thought it was a cool picture, sorry, no mystery!" traduction : "Je ne me souviens pas d'où j'ai eu ça, c'était bien avant l'internet - je n'avais aucune idée de qui c'était. Je pense que j'ai juste trouvé que c'était une photo cool, désolé, pas de mystère !" Bref! comme quoi des fois faut pas chercher
Chris Hülsbeck (Giana Sisters, Turrican, R-Type and many many more) and Barry Leitch (Hero Quest, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 and many many many more) are THE two music icons of the Amiga Soundtrack, they really knew how to get the very best out of the Amiga Soundchips!
Amazing talents!
Seeing speed ball! Hit me in the feels!
Speed ball got tge goth club jumpin😂great sound
The music in Unreal was my kind of thing... Sounding unrealistically Realistic 😁 and also Really Liked all the Turrican's Theme...
Love that Jaguar XJ220 track, such great memories.
it was my favorite music when I played this game. I always preferred Jaguar to the Lotus series
@@AlexMenchi Me too. Core Design did some fantastic work on the Amiga.
@@naviamiga I take this opportunity to tell you that your youtube channel is great!
@@AlexMenchi Thanks, love the Amiga stuff on your channel too.
Speedball was GREAT!
Oh, Moby... Years ago I got a music disc with his Cortouchka and after some months of misunderstanding it becomes my most favorite tune.
Amiga FOREVER !!!
Our first Amiga was an A500 Screen Gems pack, with Shadow of the Beast 2. The game was sado-masochistically difficult and not that good, but its music blew me away, really showing what the Amiga could do
my opinion: this second episode is not a very good game, it still lacks a gampeplay that would be fun. it remains a contemplative game.
Thank you for standing out and showing off Jimmy Fredriksson's (sorry, wasn't Allister Brimble!) Full Contact "Menu" track instead of the "Main Title" track for once! :D
Thank you for watching this video. I had thought that for the first video it was more interesting to propose excellent titles less present in the compilations. I didn't choose the title music of Turrican 220 or Jaguar XJ220 either. I like this music very much and I was wrong, it's Jimmy Fredriksson who composed this title and not Allister Brimble. thanks to you I'll modify the description
Reading the title Leander is always so funny to me because a friend of mine is called Leandro (which sounds very similar) and he's an amiga enthusiast aha
Great memories, thank you!
As a tribute to a Gods of Game Music Composers this is my TOP10:
Honorable Mentions: Gods, Syndycate, Walker, Speedball II, Lemmings, Cannon Fodder
10. Silkworm
9. Alien Breed SE
8. Lotus II
7. Formula One Grand Prix
6. Flashback
5. Agony
4. Pinball Dreams/Fantasies
3. Lost Patrol
2. Shadow of the Beast I, II & III
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1. Turrican II
nice ranking
Great video! my favorites are R-Type, Apidya, Lotus 2, Jaguar XJ220, Lost Patrol and of course Turrican 2!
C'est tellement nostalgique...
Me encanta ese final con el guru meditation XDDD. Good!!!
gracias ;-)
Leander was my first game on Amiga. Hard to finish. Final boss is devilish.
Congratulations because the game is long and without the possibility to save. I never finished it but I saw a longplay. Indeed the final boss is awesome
Je ne connaissais pas cette musique de la preview de Superfrog !
De mémoire c'était sur la disquette 1 d'Alien Breed 92
Really loved the ending to the video. Getting the Software failure screen was traumatic. Fortunately, using Xcopy a second time after wiping the disk would always solve it ;)
It was essential, for me, to finish with a Guru Meditation :) this error screen is part of the history of the Amiga. It was often caused by corrupted data or a bad hack of the game.
@@AlexMenchi I used to hate seeing it back in the day but had forgotten about it until I saw it. Then it brought a smile to my face :D
wow - Romeo Knight owed a lot to Huelsbeck and the R-Type music for his RSI Mega Demo :-)
At the beginning of the Amiga the first tracks composed with trackers used the same sample disks called "PT-XX". From 1987 to 1988 many tracks had the same sound. Then everyone could buy good synthesizers and samplers to create his own samples like Chris Hülsbeck : as soon as he got his Korg synthesizer he found his own sound identity.
I always think that RType theme is the Turrican 2 one for some reason. Maybe it's because of who wrote them both. Excellent compilation as always though Alex.
Charles Deenen's - Unreal title is F lit! ❤
My favorite track!
There was a quality to Amiga and ST games that has since been eradicated - a certain level clunkiness that made it necessary to get intimately familiar with a game and its quirks. When people think "retro", they think "NES", with smooth full-screen scrolling, 1:1 controls and lightning fast jumps, and any game that deviates from that is automatically pegged as bad.
there was more creativity and daring: a time when only one man could concretize his idea without having to discuss it with business man and market studies
You would think this quality would be alive and well in the age of Indie goldrush, but instead everyone is too busy either making asset flips or cloning successful 8 and 16-bit console titles. New releases that channel the love, inventiveness, determination and off-the-wall nature of 80s-90s home micro games are sadly almost nonexistent. I cherish those few that I stumble upon though, and even try to make my own: )
@@darkfalzx Let the '80s and '90s come back with their good games.
@@darkfalzx modern indie industry is targeting win10 and 4k resolutions with millions of colors. It will always be looking bad trying to mimic retro feel in 4k.
Instead you need to target the original retro platforms: atari, c64, amiga or dos...There is still a thriving community of game makers for those old platforms.
These released as podcasts would be awesome!
worldofmenchi.fr/Amiga/Musics/06%20Compilations/ :)
Alex Menchi Thank you very kindly. Listening now!
I'm glad you're happy!
Nice work!
Um clássico, uma lenda!
Thank you :-) I hope the rest of the videos will please you!
Gee someone had sn Amiga in the late era. So many missed games with arguably better music.
*Ammmeeeeeegggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!*
Perfect games, perfect music!
Thank you for the movie.
Very nice compilation bro
Thanx ;)
Hey Alex, this is a super compilation of Amiga songs! Can you please tell me from where the intro music is? I hear it in Lotus 1 (Magnetic Fields!) I mean, which orchestral music piece is it exactly? Thanks for your info!
this music which is used as a jingle in Lotus 1 was composed by Richard Wagner / Siegfried's Funeral March th-cam.com/video/a53s4jyCqqU/w-d-xo.html
@@AlexMenchi This is it, thanks a lot! :)
Che ricordi
NICE nice nice sin comentarios nada mas que decir lo maximo
Great thanks
Amiga IS my life
and mine too
@@AlexMenchi yee
@@AlexMenchi especially games with the mole. what a marvel, a wealth of music. like impassomole
Lol, great intro love Wagner
amiga mia nunca vas a morir
+Nestor Gamarra tienes razón
Une compil sans fausses notes !
great
Wonderful, thank you very much!
Have you got the raw MP3/MP4/FLAC music somewhere downloadable?
not yet, but I'll post a download section on my website soon : worldofmenchi.fr/amiga/
Nice
+Hirvibongari2 Thanx :-)
leander r_type music super. wolfefstein turrican 2. pinball fantasies. gods.
✌️
What is that music from in the intro, I think I've heard it before, but I can't place it.
this music which is used as a jingle in Lotus 1 was composed by Richard Wagner / Siegfried's Funeral March th-cam.com/video/a53s4jyCqqU/w-d-xo.html
Also in Excalibur from John Borrmann
@@AlexMenchi Excalibur, that is what I know it form! My first DVD movie. Thank you, it was driving me crazy trying to remember.
@@PurpleKnightmare you're welcome :)
@26:38 Coluche ! 27:30 too
yes and I don't know why his picture appears in an English game :)
I recall playing a game in my youth where you controlled a kid/teen that had a weird(a bit creepy if I recall) smile and there was a goose or swan that he could use to fly around(I think). If I recall correctly the human was blonde-ish with blue eyes or something. Haven't been able to find it since. It may have been an amiga or atari ST game, but I'm unsure. Ringing any bells?
+Andrew Pliakis (Valkaar) is it Nicky boom 2 ?Picture:images.google.fr/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fimage.jeuxvideo.com%2Fimages%2Fjaquettes%2F00007740%2Fjaquette-nicky-boom-2-amiga-cover-avant-g.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jeuxvideo.com%2Fjeux%2Famiga%2F00007740-nicky-boom-2.htm&h=638&w=500&tbnid=ngmBYmPtShQ3kM%3A&docid=GnRql6hU_UEk9M&itg=1&ei=NNzNVpbnF4H_auyQr9AN&tbm=isch&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=5467&page=1&start=0&ndsp=17&ved=0ahUKEwiW0bnq6pDLAhWBvxoKHWzIC9oQrQMIMzAH
That's it. Thank you so much! Time for a trip down memory lane.
+Andrew Pliakis (Valkaar) you're welcome :-)
Did u realise Moby made the music of Fascination ? :)
absolutely! Moby is a French named Frédéric Motte who today uses the pseudonym "El Mobo" not to be confused with the artist "Richard Melville" who enjoyed success in 1999 with the album Play. it's not the same guy
Does anybody know the name of/remember a game where you drove a dune buggy or off road vehicle. It was TopDown view or skewed slightly behind vehicle maybe. The desert scrolled at you from the top of the screen, you could move up and down as well as side to side. You had to avoid pyramids I think. I was sure it was called Desert Run but I can only find a pinball game by that name :(
Big Run? hol.abime.net/109
@@AlexMenchi hmmm no, but thank you I will check that page out. It was more top down and zoomed out than that. It reminded me of Ski Free but scrolling the opposite way
@@1tychoma The search engine of this site is very precise, it is a very good database.
Why there arent good and free emulators for amiga like they are for spectrum?
27:28 Coluche ???
Un jour, j'ai contacté Charlie Skilbeck, coder de Sky High Stuntman publié par Codemaster en 1991, pour enfin savoir qu'elle était la raison de la présence de Coluche dans ce jeu anglais : " I can’t remember where I got that from, this was long before the internet- I had no idea who it was. I think I just thought it was a cool picture, sorry, no mystery!" traduction : "Je ne me souviens pas d'où j'ai eu ça, c'était bien avant l'internet - je n'avais aucune idée de qui c'était. Je pense que j'ai juste trouvé que c'était une photo cool, désolé, pas de mystère !" Bref! comme quoi des fois faut pas chercher
@@AlexMenchiMerci pour l'anecdote :)
La musica del principio me suena mucho...pero no se de donde
Es la intro de Magnetic Fields de Gremlin, muy conocida por su saga Lotus.
carrionfernandez es una de las obras más famosas de Richard Wagner, «la marcha fúnebre de Siegfried». Aparece en la película Excalibur de John Boorman
I recognise the intro sample, but can't place it...
Siegfried's Death by Wagner also in each Magnetc Fields game's (Lotus Esprit Turbo challenge, Super Cars)
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