It's 2PM. You've finished lunch and are looking for a way to kill time as the day slowly draws to a close. A perfect opportunity, methinks, to listen to some classic chiptunes courtesy of YouTube and your good friends at Kotaku AU.
Today we're going with a choice selection of tracks from an old favourite of mine: The Last Ninja on Commodore 64. Composed by Ben Daglish and Anthony Lees, these tunes are just as amazing now as they were in 1987.
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And my personal fave:
God love the SID chip, eh?
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Daglish (along with Martin Galway) is perhaps my favourite composer of that era.
System 3 really knew how to push that C64 soundchip.
Thanks for the memories.
ahhhh this was brilliant. Thank you! This and Matt Grays' Last Ninja 2 were classics. Bit of useless info - Matt Gray has gone onto quite a career in pop music, including co-writing "Believe" By Cher.
...but don't hold that against him.
This is awesome. More chiptunes in the future please!
Last Ninja was one of the first games I persevered with and finished.
Oh and the ol' SID chip produced some fo the createst gaming music ever heard. Some favourites...
- Wizball
- Creatures
- Retrograde
- Head over Heels (intro)
Oh to be 10 again.
Oh yeah, now we're talking. You've just become my favourite Kotaku.au contributor Dan!
For those who love this sort of stuff, I can't recommend the awesomeness that is Slay Radio (http://www.slayradio.org/) any more than is possible. Also worth checking out the Blibb Blobb chiptunes podcast (http://blibbblobb.untergrund.net/) on iTunes - They haven't updated in a while, but the 26-odd podcasts available are full of solid chiptune stuff from the C64 right through to the Amiga & Atari ST.
For the record I was always a Rob Hubbard fan, loved everything he put out (even if the games were a touch naff).
I sucked at those games but I loved them. Music is very awesome.
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