The Old School Challenge

[industrian]

Mwahahaha! This contest should only be attempted by those who are truely from the School of Old. Basically it's a "Name That Game" game using songs from times long gone. I post songs, you tell me the game, simple as that.

I thought I'd start with a fairly easy one to start off with:

http://www.rpgdesign.com/01.mp3

And then a more intermediate one:

http://www.rpgdesign.com/02.mp3

And you'll never get this:

http://www.rpgdesign.com/03.mp3

Happy guessing. I've got a lot more where that came from, so if someone finds the answers, then there will be a lot more questions.

[Samor]

the second is outrun, splash wave, atari ST version, which is the same as the MSX tune, only higher pitched.

Everyting seems to be from ST.... I don't know the first song, third seems vaguely familiar, but ..nah, dunno.

All the games use the AY/YM soundchip, which I know well enough to remember in itself (it's in the MSX, y'know).

[industrian]

The force is strong with this one.

Yeah, i got them from the ST. It's the computer I had/have. There's some good memories in those tunes. But I made sure the games I chose were multiplatform.

[Samor]

alright. Let's make this not too easy, here's a few of my own.

http://www.samor.nl/x.mp3

http://www.samor.nl/y.mp3

http://www.samor.nl/z.mp3

Notes: Just for fun, I took a few different systems (but they're multiplatform games as well, allthough I do not know if song z is specific for just that version). Hint for song Y: if you do not recognize it at first, you still might later on.

[CKemu]

http://www.rpgdesign.com/03.mp3

This reminds me of Deflektor....probably well and truly wrong

http://www.samor.nl/z.mp3 << Virtua Racing

[industrian]

Originally Posted by CKemu

probably well and truly wrong

Yup. Here's a clue: Hewson published it. (Man, just mentioning that name takes me back to the early 90s.)

[Samor]

Originally Posted by CKemu

http://www.samor.nl/z.mp3 << Virtua Racing

indeed; nice one.

[Metalmurphy]

Hum is the second one really from Outrun? Somehow i'm associating that song to an Accolade logo (Probably an old Test Drive game)

And Samor, the last one you posted, i was gonna say it River City

I dont know the other ones, although the first one industrian posted is familiar

(Bleh i should get some sleep :S)

[Samor]

Originally Posted by Metalmurphy

Hum is the second one really from Outrun? Somehow i'm associating that song to an Accolade logo (Probably an old Test Drive game)

It's really Outrun.
The Accolade games were more common on pc, I think? That was either beeper or adlib sound, quite different too....

[refraction]

http://www.geocities.com/picketf.geo/swaveawe.mid

the forementioned outrun song

[Metalmurphy]

Here's one for you

Song

took me a while to record this. Its a bit diferent from the original couse of the DOS emulator but im sure you'll recognize it.

[Samor]

Originally Posted by Metalmurphy

Here's one for you

Song

took me a while to record this. Its a bit diferent from the original couse of the DOS emulator but im sure you'll recognize it.

Lotus III

by Gremlin/Magnetic Fields, also released on Amiga with superior music
The same guys (MF) later made RAC Rally Championship and International Rally Championship. The latter using a system similar to Lotus III's recs system (generating random car tracks).
And, you should've recorded the PC speaker version

[CKemu]

Okay got one for you myself, wasn't sure on the timing with regards to the loop, so after ripping it from the game, I just converted it to a 1 minute sample

All this music reminds me I have a KSS convertor to try out ...though I won't be posting MSX2 music here, Samor would have them answered in a split second

http://www.ckemu.com/woot.mp3

[Samor]

Originally Posted by CKemu

Okay got one for you myself, wasn't sure on the timing with regards to the loop, so after ripping it from the game, I just converted it to a 1 minute sample

All this music reminds me I have a KSS convertor to try out ...though I won't be posting MSX2 music here, Samor would have them answered in a split second

http://www.ckemu.com/woot.mp3

sounds like some Castlevania, but I don't know *edit* style is a lot like Super Castlevania 4....

And leave the posting of difficult to guess MSX music to me
Though there are some that I think are just mean, that I prolly won't do
....and I don't know every MSX tune in the world myself either... but with Konami on the MSX you'll have a hard time finding a tune I don't know (not saying it isn't possible )

[CKemu]

Funny you should meantion Konami, I had just fired up BlueMSX and dropped Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake into it

As for woot.mp3, the clue there would be it's SNES

[Samor]

I got that far (see edit above). but I'm wrong on Castlevania?

[CKemu]

Miles off

[Samor]

Then I don't know

[CKemu]

Well, I am off to bed in this glorious (erfff) 28C heat, at 2:30am, so I'll let ya know, and perhaps you can torture people via the ol' MSX1/2.

Soul Blazer - Master (that chamber where the voice from aboce tells you your quest).

[Samor]

It's also too hot to sleep here...
I'm gonna give a few hints on x and y I posted earlier.

X - http://www.samor.nl/x.mp3 - the company was already named before, and it was not Hewson or Konami. The game is on MSX and C64 (prolly Spectrum as well). Also, remember that cartoon from the 80's.

Y - http://www.samor.nl/y.mp3 - No dice? The first part of the song is kinda misleading, unless you were good at the game. Listen to the second half as well... try beatboxing on it, and get rid of those dreams and illusions! This game was on Amiga, PC, SNES, and even GameBoy.