@@dxtra30 The first place I ever heard the Peter Gunn theme. To this day, takes me right back to my young teen years :) Dangerous song to play when heading down the interstate though....
😂, I just posted the same damn thing. Can you imagine the run you had to be on to get through two cycles of that jazzy solo? You would be close to the boats.😆
An Easter egg in the NES version: Normally the theme would cut out after 30-40 seconds. But if you paused the game before that, it would play the full version.
The music sounds kind of like that of an SNES game. Part of it sounds like the music from the SNES version of Paperboy. But of course the Super Nintendo didn't exist at the time this game came out
One of the loudest also, is when that spider or beetle drops down on Centipede. Broke my friend's concentration while playing Joust, in our area arcade in the 80s. LMAO
I remember, back in '83, they opened an arcade near my house. It had this game in a sit down cabinet, with two 6" x 9" speakers right behind the player's head. You could hear the bass from the parking lot. It. Was. Awesome.
Lets see..... Five dislikes Somebody got bumped off the road by a couple of Big Bullies the second got their tires gutted the third just lost control and crushed into a tree. The fourth guy got oil slicked off the road. The last guy had a bomb dropped on him by a helicopter. That game was boss!
_Eight_ dislikes now: One guy who switched to the powerboat and got smacked by one of those barrel-dropping boats about two seconds later, one guy who couldn't navigate that spindly little road to get to the boathouse in the first place, and one guy who said "Screw that spindly little road," stayed on the big road and fell off the collapsed bridge instead. ;-)
The worst was getting shot off the road by the Enforcer. Long-ass Addams family car drivin' bastard. Exploding into a ball of flame after hitting a motorcycle 5 milliseconds after shifting into high was a close second.
As a kid, the Spy Hunter and Ms. Pac-Man tunes were the first thing to hear when walking in to the Arcade at Time Square back in the 80s .. aside to the Pinball machines.😍 Good ol'days.
@@andrewmontague9682 Not many arcade games allowed you to spend money to get more power. I think that wasn't introduced til Iron Stewart's Offroad. Now game manufactures abuse it so freaking bad in line with psychologists to fuck with us, that it ruins games hardcore.
Loved the random jazzy solos! When it kicked in, that's when you knew you were starting to wear the game out! One of the best ever made. Thanks for posting.
That moment when you're sitting at work, realize you're whistling a song you haven't heard since the 90s, and then realize there are amazing people online that uploaded said song.
I wasn't born yet during the arcade era of the 80s, but I used to play this on flash game websites back around 03 and this song randomly popped in my head. This game was super fun to play and was probably way ahead of its time.
I loved the music so much that I kept pumping in quarters in the hopes of hearing more of the song (that's true for other games too). Loved it when someone really good played and I got to hear the killer keyboard solos.
This was my favorite video games.I was pretty good at playing it.I first saw this game at the arcade in San Diego's Seaport Village.I liked listening to the music.By what I understood "Peter Gunn's Theme" was not what they originally wanted, they originally wanted the "James Bond Theme" but due to issues with obtaining the rights to the use of it they then went with the "Peter Gunn Theme".
I was playing Driver: San Francisco on my PS3 and I put on this music to replace the rather generic song that they had during the Blues Brothers themed mission. Needless to say, it helped me win the mission that had been plaguing myself for so long.
@@retrobrid2784 Yea dude, it's still there. Not how it was before back in the 80's but its pretty sweet and nostalgic walking around like when I was a kid. I think they still have Circus shows as well.
I played this up on an external speaker as I was navigating rush hour traffic back when I was a speed courier. The one time a cop caught me he played "bad boys" from his cruiser! It was a great day!
I have to say, judging by this and by playing Spy Hunter all the time as a teenager, that for being played on an 80's synthesizer, back in the pre-digital era, this version of Peter Gunn sounds very authentic- so much so, that I think one could easily mistake it for acoustic!
Loved the sit down version of this game. The speakers were directly behind the seat and between the throbbing bass beat and the synthsizer solo, one could really and I mean really get into the game.
The game designer that made & composed this music for the arcade game of SPY HUNTER is GEORGE GOMEZ! 😃 Loved the different long songs! Thanks for the memories!! This game i actually gotten a high score of 999,975! Love the cars on the arcade version.. limo is a 1935 Cadillac! Bulletin proof bully is a 1955 chevy nomad, red car a Ferrari, blue car, a VW.. switchblade, after all these years, can't make out what kind of car it is..
Actually, the game's audio was done by Neil Falconer, while Bob Libbe programmed the sound driver used in the game. George Gomez was not a sound designer.
when i was kid this game was at the local theater. The best memory was standing in the arcade not knowing this game was there, then the music would start playing. I'd get chills. It's almost like the Death Star's version of the tractor beam. As soon as the music played, I had to play this game.
Hey, Doommaster, thanks for putting this AWESOME track up as I have been looking for this version for years!! The only thing close I had was the 45 second tv theme song and this one just blows it away. Thanks again!
I don't think it would have been as awesome if it had the Bond theme. I mean, I'm a huge 007 fan, but it's the Peter Gunn theme that really makes this game, asside from the great gameplay of course. It became so popular that the experimental band The Art of Noise recorded their hit version of the Peter Gunn theme, featuring Duanne Eddy.
i always hated the tire slashers due to their Terminator-like persistance (especially when you had no oil slicks or smokescreens to get them off your tail).
(pull into back of semi truck) step back from the machine, run both hands through hair, BIG exhale, look around arcade, step up to the machine (next stage)
I just remember the trippy synth solo used to make me feel like I was really cracking into the high levels and now it was going to get MUCH harder! That crazy solo is f*cking genius on LSD!
my dad worked for a place that rented out arcade games and we got the OG sit in booth game for a month, the screen shocked the crap out of 5 years old me but I still played! We had spyhunter and then we got street fighter, my dad had a cool job and boss.
I feel as though I am back at ELECTRIC PLAYHOUSE in Mount Kisco, NY ...where I played this, along with Rampage, Dragon's Lair, and a slew of other games in the 80s. Thanks for the upload!
I used to play this game all the time as a kid and I wasn't even born in the 80s. It's all thanks to Midway Arcade Treasures, made me into an 80s kid in the 2000s The 3D version is also really cool. I wish that game got a remake
Mmm. Yes. With the sleek high-tech looking steering wheel that had the weapons van call button in the middle, the trigger on the right for the machine guns, the trigger on the left for the heat-seeking missiles, and the thumb buttons for oil slick and smokescreen. Yesss!
To think that this game reqared good players with just more of this killer turn. Back in my arcade when this started up all heads not in a game would be on this one to see how much we got to hear. Such a simple but powerful reward.
Loved and Hated this game in the 80s and/or 90s. So many quarters. Heard a song tonight that without a doubt had this theme to it which is why Im here. Nostalgia I guess. Anyway just dropping a post to say I was here, I guess.
I just looked at whats next in queue from this. Paperboy. My mind is now immediately back to Dr SBatsio. Sound Blaster when audio cards were needed. Roland cards. The imagination Inn. Sierra Network. The digital XMas 3.5 floppy's that were mailed (not emailed) as a holiday thank you. Oh my 'next gen' were the billions of AOL CDs in the mail. I digress.
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Rest In Peace, Mr. Neil Falconer, and thank you for bringing us this lovely conversion of the Peter Gunn Theme.
1948-2012
Is he in anyway related to bruce falconer
@Doommaster1994 - Is this version on iTunes at all?
@@dxtra30 The first place I ever heard the Peter Gunn theme. To this day, takes me right back to my young teen years :) Dangerous song to play when heading down the interstate though....
@@dxtra30 As far as I'm aware, it is not, I'm afraid. I got this from the Midway Arcade Treasures (PC) version's CD.
@@cwilson2012 Not sure, I'm afraid.
This song is the most accurate way I can describe driving for several months on an expired car registration.
Lmao!!!!! facts!!!!!
I absolutely LOVE this music!
Funniest youtube comment lol
I laugh every time I read this lmao
That's hilarious and so true. 😆
As a kid in the 80's, you could hear this song playing and calling out to you to spend every quarter you had.
This song, and the Punch-Out! theme.
My introduction to classical conditioning. Could not resist as a teenager. 25¢ x 100,000...
This is one of the best video game soundtracks I've ever heard in my whole life.
This:
Space Invaders
Paperboy
Gauntlet
Were the LOUDEST games on the arcade floor.
@@docnu5757 Gauntlet was my shit back in the day!
You could always hear this above all the other machines in the arcade.
Lol facts
Yup! I remember. Great memories 👌
love how it gets jazzy in the middle, of course you had to stay alive for more than a minute to hear it but....
😂, I just posted the same damn thing. Can you imagine the run you had to be on to get through two cycles of that jazzy solo? You would be close to the boats.😆
An Easter egg in the NES version: Normally the theme would cut out after 30-40 seconds. But if you paused the game before that, it would play the full version.
The music sounds kind of like that of an SNES game. Part of it sounds like the music from the SNES version of Paperboy. But of course the Super Nintendo didn't exist at the time this game came out
I never got to that part. I usually died right around "bridge out, detour on left".
@@smoothjazzonthewav i MAYBE got the boats twice at the arcade
uploaded this to my phone so I could listen while I drive. I got like 20 tickets in 4 months. And to top it off, I never saw a weapons van!
Lmao!!
How did the cops catch you? Were you out of oil slick or smoke screen???
Weapons van!!!!
@@torbinator9729 ROFL!
@@lucasr8658 how
Ha! One of the loudest arcade games! You could hear this tune anywhere in the arcade
Badass tune!! It has the doors vibe all over it!
that and Crossbow
One of the loudest also, is when that spider or beetle drops down on Centipede. Broke my friend's concentration while playing Joust, in our area arcade in the 80s. LMAO
you guys are forgetting sinistar, which was the first video game to be in stereo sound, only in the sit down version
As a matter of fact, I could hear that music playing when I went to Showbiz Pizza when they were still in existence.
I remember, back in '83, they opened an arcade near my house. It had this game in a sit down cabinet, with two 6" x 9" speakers right behind the player's head. You could hear the bass from the parking lot. It. Was. Awesome.
I remember when, in the fall of 1984, I went to Showbiz Pizza when I was in middle school and I heard this music
That version was the best, got all my money
Currently installing new 6x9's in my vehicle and transferring this to my phone.
I loved the sit-down version. Spent many a quarter on Spy Hunter back in college!
Have you played the sequel?
Lets see.....
Five dislikes
Somebody got bumped off the road by a couple of Big Bullies
the second got their tires gutted
the third just lost control and crushed into a tree.
The fourth guy got oil slicked off the road.
The last guy had a bomb dropped on him by a helicopter.
That game was boss!
Epic comment
_Eight_ dislikes now: One guy who switched to the powerboat and got smacked by one of those barrel-dropping boats about two seconds later, one guy who couldn't navigate that spindly little road to get to the boathouse in the first place, and one guy who said "Screw that spindly little road," stayed on the big road and fell off the collapsed bridge instead. ;-)
BloodyBay Jem!
Dale Mcilwain Jem is excitement! Oooooh, Jem! Jem is adventure! Oooooh... [tosses you the mic]
The worst was getting shot off the road by the Enforcer. Long-ass Addams family car drivin' bastard. Exploding into a ball of flame after hitting a motorcycle 5 milliseconds after shifting into high was a close second.
Henry Mancini must be pretty proud.He was famous for this theme (Peter Gunn) in the 60's then AGAIN in the 80's for Spy Hunter.......nice!!!
01:53 At this moment you know know your cruisin with style.
As a kid, the Spy Hunter and Ms. Pac-Man tunes were the first thing to hear when walking in to the Arcade at Time Square back in the 80s .. aside to the Pinball machines.😍 Good ol'days.
Me too! Playland arcades! Brooklyn in da house!
Just had a 1987 flashback listening to this. I'm glad the Barcade has it. This theme is by far one of the best in arcade history.
I agree! I always have a 1984 flashback listening to this music.
you do know this theme is from the old TV show “Peter Gunn”, written by Henry Mancini.
This was a magical age
To be young again.
Sad kids fhese days have microtransactions
@@GoodNewsJim As opposed to the macro transaction of 10p's in an arcade? 🤔😏
@@andrewmontague9682 Not many arcade games allowed you to spend money to get more power. I think that wasn't introduced til Iron Stewart's Offroad. Now game manufactures abuse it so freaking bad in line with psychologists to fuck with us, that it ruins games hardcore.
IF THIS was the ONLY thing to come out of the 80's, then it STILL would have been worth it !
Oh HELL yes :)
New comment for you. Brings me BACK to the early 80's
"There is simply no mistaking the soundtrack to this game! It takes me back to 7th grade at the Stop and Go where I first encountered it (Spr. '84)!"
This music takes me back to the first year I was in middle school and I went to Showbiz Pizza where I heard the music (fall of 1984).
Loved the random jazzy solos! When it kicked in, that's when you knew you were starting to wear the game out! One of the best ever made. Thanks for posting.
I have wanted this in its entirety for DECADES. Thank you thank you thank you!!!
This game took many of my hard-to-come by quarters as a kid.
The sit down version with the speakers in the headrest was the shit!
An arcade/skating rink where I lived in Tennessee had both stand up AND sit down versions of the game, Uncrazamatic.
Lucky dawg
That wouldn't be crap to ME!
That moment when you're sitting at work, realize you're whistling a song you haven't heard since the 90s, and then realize there are amazing people online that uploaded said song.
I love this game! Spy Hunter is one of the best games I ever played with the awesome Peter Gunn theme!
I'm not too crazy about the game, but I sure love the music
I wasn't born yet during the arcade era of the 80s, but I used to play this on flash game websites back around 03 and this song randomly popped in my head. This game was super fun to play and was probably way ahead of its time.
I remember hearing this late at nite on the boardwalk back in the 80s........GREAT DAYZ THEY WERE
Those were the days, keystone arcade in SJwas great too
"Big John's Arcade" was my place, even had a few Japan imports too.
I remember hearing it at Showbiz Pizza
I am blown away by the nuance and space created in this 8-bit masterpiece. Really... it's better than it should be.
I loved the music so much that I kept pumping in quarters in the hopes of hearing more of the song (that's true for other games too). Loved it when someone really good played and I got to hear the killer keyboard solos.
This was my favorite video games.I was pretty good at playing it.I first saw this game at the arcade in San Diego's Seaport Village.I liked listening to the music.By what I understood "Peter Gunn's Theme" was not what they originally wanted, they originally wanted the "James Bond Theme" but due to issues with obtaining the rights to the use of it they then went with the "Peter Gunn Theme".
I am 13 all over again at my favorite Video Acrade Grand Prix Race O Rama in Fort Lauderdale off of State road 84. Ahh!! the memories
I’m glad there wasn’t any lawsuits from this arcade classic and it sounds cooler to this day.
Originally, Midway planned on using the James Bond theme, but couldn't secure the rights.
OMG so many memories from this theme. 😀
TheLifeOnHigh yes I said the same 😩
I was playing Driver: San Francisco on my PS3 and I put on this music to replace the rather generic song that they had during the Blues Brothers themed mission. Needless to say, it helped me win the mission that had been plaguing myself for so long.
TheLifeOnHigh I remember this game. I used to play it a lot back then. I would enjoy listening to the theme.
Oh yes! Grand Prix Race O Rama in the 80s.
Weekends at the skating rink and Round Table Pizza arcade.
5:26 after my car blows up from getting bumped off the road..
loved this game as a kid. always thought the theme song was the best
To this day I still think this music is the best
OMG, I feel like I traveled back to the mid eighties! I was age 6,7 or 8, CIRCUS CIRCUS upstairs arcade. O_O I LOVE IT!!! thanks for uploading!
This music takes me back to the fall of 1984 when I went on a field trip to Showbiz Pizza and I heard this music playing
Circus circus still has a arcade?
@@retrobrid2784 Yea dude, it's still there. Not how it was before back in the 80's but its pretty sweet and nostalgic walking around like when I was a kid. I think they still have Circus shows as well.
@@mylefteye I'll be darn, arcades are few these days.. I have doctor who pinball, starcastle, assault tank game, and my favorite jr pacman speeded up
@@kenrutherford1109 I went there on vacation. There's a few arcades around the casino.
Memories back in the bowling alley arcade rooms in the early 90's
Memories of going to Showbiz Pizza in the mid 80s
Memories
0:05 thought a damn train was coming.
1:52
The only part you would want to play to impress a friend.
So much 80's. So much win!
I played this so many times at the local laundrymant where they had cheap slushies and 3 cigarettes for $1 back in the 1980's
I didn't know you played spy hunter jason i thought you like killing
@@HueyFreeman27 The man needs something to do when there's no kids hanging out at Camp Crystal Lake.
Laundromat
Could listen to this for hours
did back in the 80s -_-
I too could listen to it for hours, but I'd probably get an earworm
"Back in the day", for some reason I loved this game, and spent a lot of coin in the Arcades playing it.
this song is the anthem of why i was broke after getting off work at Kroger in the 90s - this and Mortal Kombat
I played this up on an external speaker as I was navigating rush hour traffic back when I was a speed courier. The one time a cop caught me he played "bad boys" from his cruiser! It was a great day!
out of nowhere I started humming the song, and now I'm here lmao
I have to say, judging by this and by playing Spy Hunter all the time as a teenager, that for being played on an 80's synthesizer, back in the pre-digital era, this version of Peter Gunn sounds very authentic- so much so, that I think one could easily mistake it for acoustic!
Loved the sit down version of this game. The speakers were directly behind the seat and between the throbbing bass beat and the synthsizer solo, one could really and I mean really get into the game.
I loved driving into the back of the truck to get a new car.
Whoo hoo ❤❤
Superb game...an absolute classic in gaming history.
The game designer that made & composed this music for the arcade game of SPY HUNTER is GEORGE GOMEZ! 😃 Loved the different long songs! Thanks for the memories!! This game i actually gotten a high score of 999,975! Love the cars on the arcade version.. limo is a 1935 Cadillac! Bulletin proof bully is a 1955 chevy nomad, red car a Ferrari, blue car, a VW.. switchblade, after all these years, can't make out what kind of car it is..
Possibly a FIAT or Opel.
Actually, the game's audio was done by Neil Falconer, while Bob Libbe programmed the sound driver used in the game. George Gomez was not a sound designer.
when i was kid this game was at the local theater. The best memory was standing in the arcade not knowing this game was there, then the music would start playing. I'd get chills. It's almost like the Death Star's version of the tractor beam. As soon as the music played, I had to play this game.
This game was at Showbiz Pizza
Hey, Doommaster, thanks for putting this AWESOME track up as I have been looking for this version for years!! The only thing close I had was the 45 second tv theme song and this one just blows it away. Thanks again!
The real TV theme song can't hold a candle to this version
I still play this masterpiece!
i spent more quarters on this game than i ever did buying a system like the ps3 XD lol this game was the stuff.
i still got the midway arcades on psp :) i might youtube one of these soon lol
that would be cool if you did
Amonthered this one and street fighter 2. Haha yeah could have bought a house.
I rode in a Lotus Esprit one time, and this was playing in my head the entire time I was in the car.
I don't think it would have been as awesome if it had the Bond theme. I mean, I'm a huge 007 fan, but it's the Peter Gunn theme that really makes this game, asside from the great gameplay of course. It became so popular that the experimental band The Art of Noise recorded their hit version of the Peter Gunn theme, featuring Duanne Eddy.
Getting the soundtrack to go ballistic was the entire point of getting good at this game.
Hell yeah it was!
How was this not in Ready Player One!?
Amazing... I love played this game and hearing the music going... it got my adrenaline going, and I always played better.
THIS TUNE IS EMBEDDED IN MY HEAD 4 LIFE
i always hated the tire slashers due to their Terminator-like persistance (especially when you had no oil slicks or smokescreens to get them off your tail).
I would often just jam on the brakes and let them zip right past me, worked most of the time.
(pull into back of semi truck)
step back from the machine, run both hands through hair, BIG exhale, look around arcade, step up to the machine (next stage)
Man, music programmer went crazy lol. Good stuff.
This is my favorite arcade game ever!
When I finally got better and could live more than one minute I was rewarded with the better part of the theme, a real step in my childhood
I just remember the trippy synth solo used to make me feel like I was really cracking into the high levels and now it was going to get MUCH harder! That crazy solo is f*cking genius on LSD!
I need this car on my daily commute in S. Florida, especially the weapons!
and daily Portland, OR traffic...
the first time I shot down the helicopter. I knew my life would only get better
my dad worked for a place that rented out arcade games and we got the OG sit in booth game for a month, the screen shocked the crap out of 5 years old me but I still played! We had spyhunter and then we got street fighter, my dad had a cool job and boss.
I feel as though I am back at ELECTRIC PLAYHOUSE in Mount Kisco, NY ...where I played this, along with Rampage, Dragon's Lair, and a slew of other games in the 80s. Thanks for the upload!
I feel as if I'm at Showbiz Pizza in Carrollwood, FL, but Showbiz no longer exists
That music brings back memories when i used to play this often at my local arcade. Thanks for the track!
The music brings back memories of when I went to Showbiz Pizza
How I miss this game!
5:27 i can't stop looping this part i like the end xD
how many 10ps did i spend on this machine lol.........loved it if i got as far with the boat and the funky music kicked in :)
Groovin'!
Thanks Pat!
this brings back memories
It brings back memories for me too
I used to play this game all the time as a kid and I wasn't even born in the 80s. It's all thanks to Midway Arcade Treasures, made me into an 80s kid in the 2000s The 3D version is also really cool. I wish that game got a remake
Love this Game back in the day.....
Song poped in my head yesterday 😁😁 had to look for it!
Childhood memories brought me here. :)
One of my all time favorite arcade games.
A blast from the past.
Dropped a LOT of quarters in this one at the Red Baron/Yogi’s arcade in Anaheim!
Excellent.
I MISSED THIS DAMN GAME!!!!!!!!
That bass riff tho! 😂
Mmm. Yes. With the sleek high-tech looking steering wheel that had the weapons van call button in the middle, the trigger on the right for the machine guns, the trigger on the left for the heat-seeking missiles, and the thumb buttons for oil slick and smokescreen. Yesss!
To think that this game reqared good players with just more of this killer turn.
Back in my arcade when this started up all heads not in a game would be on this one to see how much we got to hear.
Such a simple but powerful reward.
I never made far enough into the game to hear all of this!
Wow, the sound is pretty good for an 80s arcade game.
I loved the part of the song that was improvised
Use to play this on my cousin's Apple II in Toronto back in the 80s.
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Pax Humana welcome to r/iamverybadass
@@paxhumana2015 Darude - Sandstorm
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Loved and Hated this game in the 80s and/or 90s. So many quarters. Heard a song tonight that without a doubt had this theme to it which is why Im here. Nostalgia I guess. Anyway just dropping a post to say I was here, I guess.
Welcome, and thanks for stopping by!
I just looked at whats next in queue from this. Paperboy. My mind is now immediately back to Dr SBatsio. Sound Blaster when audio cards were needed. Roland cards. The imagination Inn. Sierra Network. The digital XMas 3.5 floppy's that were mailed (not emailed) as a holiday thank you. Oh my 'next gen' were the billions of AOL CDs in the mail. I digress.
Once you got good , it only took one, or two -if the game got "mad" at you. it sometimes would. The programming had some "personality" IMO.
This music music scared the absolute crap out of me when I was a kid....but I loved playing...
The best was the full size cabinet with the seat, steering wheel, brake and gas pedal with the HI and Low Shifter. Oh man!
and the 6x9 speakers ;) , it was loud on the outside, it was another world on the inside
My new alarm clock 😉
Why am I at work and this just starts playing in my head? Lol. I love youtube
WOW this takes me back about 30+ years!
This takes me back to 1984
ZAPCON coming up on April 16-17 2016 in Mesa, Arizona. There is usually at least one Spy Hunter there.
Peter Gunn brought me here