I love the times when they made musical odysseys that would go on for 5-15 minutes, including long, moody intros and blood-pumping synth action sections, followed by apocalyptic, brooding bridges just to lead straight back into groovy rock tunes while the glorious Amiga bass lines blast your eardrums, like you're partaking in a sonic journey you're never going to forget. Just for a fucking pinball game.
The days when the soundtracks were outstanding even on otherwise unremarkable games. There are so many Amiga and C64 games I love dearly because of the great music but wouldn't dare to actually play.
It's not about the hardware. It's the amazing work of the composer and arranger Olof Gustaffson, who managed to cram this beautiful piece in only 4 monophonic channels.
@@NotEnoughPrana Oh, PAULA is way more complex than the SID. The SID is a 3 voice monophonic chip. PAULA has 4 channels but each has 16 voices, IIRC. I mean for a simple C major chord you'd need all 3 of SID's channels but PAULA plays it on a single channel. You can "fake" chords on the SID by arpeggiating them really fast, though and this was commonly done.
+BlackGymkhana Guitar Slinger by Jogeir was quite amazing, too. Considering game music, commodore (c64 and amiga) - users were really lucky. Bomb the Bass Megablast (Xenon 2) was really fantastic, too.
Remember the excitement when you would load a game for the first time and how you sat listening to cool tunes like this. Glad I was around to expierience that :)
Olof Gustafsson is in my opinion the best amiga composer (among those i heard and i think i heard a lot). Its just amazing what can be done with this machine. Pure magic.
I agree totally. His arrangements and the quality of the samples he used was unrivaled. Among the true greats Tim Follin, Jason Page and Mathias Steinwachs come to mind.
Heh. I'm 4 again. Walking into my grandparent's living room. With their long Wine-red curtains (good for hide n seek).. It's cold but beautiful weather outside, Pinball Dreams loading..... Takes a while, but I don't mind cause the music is great.
187 KB in Digital Illusion's own "packed" format, 217 KB when converted to ProTracker... For "fun" about seven years ago I wrote a tool to solo a ProTracker instrument (zero all other sample data) and rendered every instrument (22 of them) to a wav using a "unix" module player, and pulled the result into Logic Studio... This track sounds pretty fantastic with just a touch of reverb added to certain parts (e.g. the drums) and fascinating to watch the levels of all the parts bounce around...
born in 71 and have to echo what some of the guys have already said amiga music is second to none a lot of happy memories for me for sure,on the look out for an a500 or 1200 if anyone out there getting shot of one or knows someone that is!!! :)
This is perfect .. I played it with my brother, who constantly had to hit the Amiga 500 so it ate the disk... and then I played it tons on my very very old PC.. man this certainly brings back memories - thanks :).
webvid mb Pinball Fantasies(4 tables) & Pinball Dreams(4 tables) were both released a long while ago on psn in the form of minis, I think they might be slightly touched up versions as well.
I've gone back to many computer and arcade games (via MAME). Most of them I've resigned myself to the fact that they were great back then, but Pinball Dreams/Fantasies are _still_ the best set of digital pinball tables! Maaaan, how many games of Nightmare did I play ?!?!?
damn i was lucky. my best friends bigger brother and his friends were making these games in his basement :D i was there to see, listen and try it out loooong before release. pre alpha, woooot :D TSL FTW !!
I am just applying to university and planning on buying a minimig, My first computer was an amiga 500 with Zany golf, Sim city, Lemmings, Wings, Gods and this awesome game. all my friends had wimpy N64's and SNES's at the time
But where's the bit that came RIGHT at the beginning, the sort of synth fanfare with dramatic chords that went into an ultra-rapid rhythm pattern and THEN into this theme?
Just in the last few weeks this has finally got a port to the PSP and I have actually have to say that the new delevoper has really kept it inch perfect to the orignal and it looks good for it , the only bits to change is the start menu and controls (neccessary as it's not an Amiga!)
Great composition for a great game. I wonder what software he used to compose it. I used the different trackers a lot back then. Makes me miss my Amiga 500. The thrill of going from the C64 to the Amiga can never be recreated.
@highkick239 - it wasn't at all. It was written in Protracker on Amiga. Digital Illusions were members of The Silents, an AMIGA demo group, and all development of Pinball Dreams was done on Amiga. Simply studying the internals of the mod files clearly shows the "M.K." marker in the file that identifies it as such.
I know! I don't even have any in my town anymore. The only real arcades are far far away. The only nearby ones aren't even what I would call close to arcades :(
Ah! If you do a search for Pinball Dreams Digital Illusions Amiga The first hit is a vid that has the bit I mean. Without it, this feels a bit like the Star Wars theme without the Fox Fanfare: still good, but not quite right... :)
@dilithium72 Re your comment on Pinball Dreams Music.. I agree with that, and Nightmare was my favourite as well, awesome table and I remember if you flipped it round the outside say 5, 6 ,7 times your score went up millions at a time!! Well said I gave your comment thumbs. Is the 72 in your name the year you were born?, my youtube name as you see is gary72 thats the year I was born making us the same age. We were there from the dot on the screen......:-))
Used to have loads in my city, but the rise of home-consoles put an end to it. Two survived and neither have video games in them any more, just fruit machines. A new one with video games opened in a bowling alley. There was a time when your home machine couldn't complete with the power of the arcade machines, that's not true any more either. Arcade games are basically PC boards these days with Nvidia and AMD graphics accelerators.
@dilithium72 yes I am, I just googled Winuae as I didn`t get that.. Now I know what it is I just got to try that out....Oh the Amiga days...sniff sniff
Sound is a bit "musty"... wonder where this was recorded - on a real thing maybe, not the emulator? This tune would sound even better (read: more brilliant) with the audio filter turned off. I remember that I even used a hacker patch disk before loading this that turned the filter off (resident in memory), and then I rebooted and started the game disk! :) Though mostly useless, that filter sometimes did have a good purpose even: it had the nice effect of changing hearing impression in racing games while in a tunnel :) (I think Lotus II made use of that "feature")
Many hours i spend next this great machine:D sound of floppy bzzz bzzz:D and the games:D sometimes i think they're better of today games special greetings for all amiga fans:) _____________ sorry but my english is weak
I always remember this as the Pinball Dreams theme but recently discovered it's taken from these watch?v=vz3Wsl7Z1O0 or even older watch?v=rf94A-DZrxw (1989).
Put this on my phone and everyone was wondering what it was ! one person said who is the artist. I said as i got off the bus look up amiga ! on youtube.
@gary72carol61 Yeah. Born in '72... and after just watching your 'dog attacked by Swan', you sound like a Geordie, too. Right then... Where's my winuae exe? LOL!
![Rob Hubbard - Nemesis the Warlock [C64]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/kdzfOXkZrY0/mqdefault.jpg)
I love the times when they made musical odysseys that would go on for 5-15 minutes, including long, moody intros and blood-pumping synth action sections, followed by apocalyptic, brooding bridges just to lead straight back into groovy rock tunes while the glorious Amiga bass lines blast your eardrums, like you're partaking in a sonic journey you're never going to forget.
Just for a fucking pinball game.
The days when the soundtracks were outstanding even on otherwise unremarkable games.
There are so many Amiga and C64 games I love dearly because of the great music but wouldn't dare to actually play.
The nostalgia kicks in in less than a second. That opening synth is so cool
I cry a lot when listening to this... How could a 1985 Hardware do this... Piece of... Awesomeness
PAULA was quite amazing. It's such a shame that she never got an upgrade. IIRC, the only chip that never got an upgrade.
It's not about the hardware. It's the amazing work of the composer and arranger Olof Gustaffson, who managed to cram this beautiful piece in only 4 monophonic channels.
@@NotEnoughPrana Oh, PAULA is way more complex than the SID. The SID is a 3 voice monophonic chip. PAULA has 4 channels but each has 16 voices, IIRC. I mean for a simple C major chord you'd need all 3 of SID's channels but PAULA plays it on a single channel. You can "fake" chords on the SID by arpeggiating them really fast, though and this was commonly done.
I played this game with my parents as a child loved it so much it does make me cry I'm a adult played this game since I was 7
It's incredible how old it is and still an amazing soundtrack XD
Also born '72 here. Amiga is the greatest platform in the entire history of computers. Always will be. Only the Amiga makes it possible!
7 years u still alive lol
5 years you still alive lol.
@JimSting the legend! Amiga4Ever
I remember loading the game and listening to the song for some time before starting to play. Beautiful tune!
Rick Chaves yeah there so much going on with this track. Amazing.
So funny to have a such epic music on just a pinball game. :D
Probably the best title theme ever composed on Amiga.
+BlackGymkhana Guitar Slinger by Jogeir was quite amazing, too. Considering game music, commodore (c64 and amiga) - users were really lucky. Bomb the Bass Megablast (Xenon 2) was really fantastic, too.
Don't forget Lotus Turbo Challenge II, SWIV, Speedball 2 ... the list goes on!
Dont forget pinball fantasies :)
It's incredible and one of my favourites but I prefer the Fantasies theme. Either way it's incredible both were made on the 4 channel Amiga.
lotus and lost patrol
Still absolutely incredible music! And thanks to you, I can listen to it on my mobile phone any time I want! So many great memories!
Remember the excitement when you would load a game for the first time and how you sat listening to cool tunes like this. Glad I was around to expierience that :)
This is one of my best amiga music ever. Olof Gustafsson and Chris Huelsbeck are the best! Simple as that! :)
Follin
I remember during which parts of this loading music the floppy drive would make it's scrubbing sounds. The song sounds incomplete without them.
Olof Gustafsson is in my opinion the best amiga composer (among those i heard and i think i heard a lot). Its just amazing what can be done with this machine. Pure magic.
I agree totally. His arrangements and the quality of the samples he used was unrivaled. Among the true greats Tim Follin, Jason Page and Mathias Steinwachs come to mind.
His bass lines are among the coolest I ever heard in Amiga music, just listen to his tunes from Benefactor, whoo…
He is NOT the genius behind the tracks. He bought the music. I work with the real composer.
Unbelievably tasty soundtrack for the first true great Pinball game on the Amiga.
You are SUCH A LEGEND for uploading this. It's like a nostalgia overload.
when you listen that song, you should have patient and focus, then you will get your gift!
Bob lennon ?
Oui mon pote ! ;)
Yep
I listened to this one a lot.
DAMN!!!! I'm 12yrs old all over again! This brings back LOTS of memories! Miss those times x
Heh. I'm 4 again. Walking into my grandparent's living room. With their long Wine-red curtains (good for hide n seek).. It's cold but beautiful weather outside, Pinball Dreams loading..... Takes a while, but I don't mind cause the music is great.
Caught my kid reloading this intro on my emulator. Apparently the music was just too cool. That's my girl.
Great music! I recorded the SNES version and listened to this endlessly while playing Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception.
What beautiful sound and musical composition! My God!
187 KB in Digital Illusion's own "packed" format, 217 KB when converted to ProTracker... For "fun" about seven years ago I wrote a tool to solo a ProTracker instrument (zero all other sample data) and rendered every instrument (22 of them) to a wav using a "unix" module player, and pulled the result into Logic Studio... This track sounds pretty fantastic with just a touch of reverb added to certain parts (e.g. the drums) and fascinating to watch the levels of all the parts bounce around...
born in 71 and have to echo what some of the guys have already said amiga music is second to none a lot of happy memories for me for sure,on the look out for an a500 or 1200 if anyone out there getting shot of one or knows someone that is!!! :)
This is perfect .. I played it with my brother, who constantly had to hit the Amiga 500 so it ate the disk... and then I played it tons on my very very old PC.. man this certainly brings back memories - thanks :).
Amiga seriously has some hidden gems, both in games and soundtracks!
Awesome Track. I loved it back then and still love today
the best amiga tunes
...jaguar xj200 was good too.
this game should have a re release on PS4 and XBOX One. It would be very succesfull !
webvid mb Pinball Fantasies(4 tables) & Pinball Dreams(4 tables) were both released a long while ago on psn in the form of minis, I think they might be slightly touched up versions as well.
I hear that this was one of my favs as a kid
1:00 - The System - Don't Disturb This Groove
Oh god I remember this! :D This bring back memories, one of my first games for my old A1200. Loved it.
One of the best music I ever heard in Pinball Dreams/Fantasies
I've gone back to many computer and arcade games (via MAME). Most of them I've resigned myself to the fact that they were great back then, but Pinball Dreams/Fantasies are _still_ the best set of digital pinball tables! Maaaan, how many games of Nightmare did I play ?!?!?
Seriously, this is one of the best tracks I ever heard for Amiga. It's at least as good as the one for the Great Giana Sisters :)
now i wish i had an amiga i was born to late in 91....this sounds far better than the super nintendo version (which i have)
One of my favorite Amiga songs ! :)
holy damn, i just realized this was in someway the first song that introduced me to electronic music! =)
Great track!
Great Olof!
amazing! incredible!
Great game, great music...I specially love this intro.
One of my favorites :D
damn i was lucky. my best friends bigger brother and his friends were making these games in his basement :D i was there to see, listen and try it out loooong before release. pre alpha, woooot :D TSL FTW !!
brilliant music
My Favorite Game!
You know what's fun? the generation born now will have never seen a pinball machine
Early '90s Amiga nostalgia FTW.
Never played this game (I was a PC user), but I'm strangely drawn to this soundtrack.
AMAZING SONG OH GOD
Real classic, great track - AMIGA
Memories........god bless Amiga
HOLY NECROS!
Does this brings back memories.
Amiga 4 ever!
I am just applying to university and planning on buying a minimig, My first computer was an amiga 500 with Zany golf, Sim city, Lemmings, Wings, Gods and this awesome game.
all my friends had wimpy N64's and SNES's at the time
Timeless delicous.
pinball dreams, lemmings and zool was all a 7-year old kid needed to make him happy.
this music sucks me straight into a timewarp!
old school MOD music brings back so many memories
indeed
Machinae Supremacy did this song justice when they did a cover called Multiball
That's what brought me back here today. Multiball is a constant in my playlists.
I bought it for my iPhone...Love how it has the orginal Miggy music!
I found the snes port of this in a box of old games, but this music is amazing.
brings a tear to my eye, lol
yeah, i bought the game yesterday ^^
it's a little bit difficult but it's great fun after 18 years!!
But where's the bit that came RIGHT at the beginning, the sort of synth fanfare with dramatic chords that went into an ultra-rapid rhythm pattern and THEN into this theme?
Just in the last few weeks this has finally got a port to the PSP and I have actually have to say that the new delevoper has really kept it inch perfect to the orignal and it looks good for it , the only bits to change is the start menu and controls (neccessary as it's not an Amiga!)
Back when D.I.C.E. was proudly Swedish and great
Like it amiga forever
Love this music, i wish it had more of the part from 3:02 that sounds so awesome!.
Still epic!
Great composition for a great game. I wonder what software he used to compose it. I used the different trackers a lot back then. Makes me miss my Amiga 500. The thrill of going from the C64 to the Amiga can never be recreated.
I went from a spectrum to a PC with screamtracker, now that was a big step up. Of course whilst I had the spectrum I had c64 SID dreams ;-)
@highkick239 - it wasn't at all. It was written in Protracker on Amiga. Digital Illusions were members of The Silents, an AMIGA demo group, and all development of Pinball Dreams was done on Amiga. Simply studying the internals of the mod files clearly shows the "M.K." marker in the file that identifies it as such.
I always cry when listening to this... No Words...
Probably "Octamed".
I know! I don't even have any in my town anymore. The only real arcades are far far away. The only nearby ones aren't even what I would call close to arcades :(
0:33 - 1:00 Always gives me shivers
me too :D
@GTiR23 So true!
I played this...
my amiga 500 still works !!!!! and my ps3 just broke down with blu-ray issues... what happened? thank you for uploading this
ther is a version of this for the iphone. i did not know until played it is was the same game. made me get the A1200 out of the spare room
@gorauma
So true...!
Back in the days when DICE was still Awesome and mostly known as Digital Illusions.
These pinballs games were better than real pinball, why??? BECAUASE OF THE DAMN MUSIC! :D
Ah! If you do a search for
Pinball Dreams Digital Illusions Amiga
The first hit is a vid that has the bit I mean.
Without it, this feels a bit like the Star Wars theme without the Fox Fanfare: still good, but not quite right... :)
*epic introduction* - - > 'Insert disk 2'
@dilithium72
Re your comment on Pinball Dreams Music..
I agree with that, and Nightmare was my favourite as well, awesome table and I remember if you flipped it round the outside say 5, 6 ,7 times your score went up millions at a time!! Well said I gave your comment thumbs.
Is the 72 in your name the year you were born?, my youtube name as you see is gary72 thats the year I was born making us the same age.
We were there from the dot on the screen......:-))
Used to have loads in my city, but the rise of home-consoles put an end to it. Two survived and neither have video games in them any more, just fruit machines. A new one with video games opened in a bowling alley. There was a time when your home machine couldn't complete with the power of the arcade machines, that's not true any more either. Arcade games are basically PC boards these days with Nvidia and AMD graphics accelerators.
@dilithium72
yes I am, I just googled Winuae as I didn`t get that.. Now I know what it is I just got to try that out....Oh the Amiga days...sniff sniff
And now they are EA DICE. Good memories tho.
Sound is a bit "musty"... wonder where this was recorded - on a real thing maybe, not the emulator?
This tune would sound even better (read: more brilliant) with the audio filter turned off. I remember that I even used a hacker patch disk before loading this that turned the filter off (resident in memory), and then I rebooted and started the game disk! :) Though mostly useless, that filter sometimes did have a good purpose even: it had the nice effect of changing hearing impression in racing games while in a tunnel :) (I think Lotus II made use of that "feature")
Many hours i spend next this great machine:D
sound of floppy bzzz bzzz:D and the games:D
sometimes i think they're better of today games
special greetings for all amiga fans:)
_____________
sorry but my english is weak
@Shazbut01 Yeah the synth is cool the baseline really makes the song though IMO.
+love this theme I was 15 than ;)
I always remember this as the Pinball Dreams theme but recently discovered it's taken from these watch?v=vz3Wsl7Z1O0 or even older watch?v=rf94A-DZrxw (1989).
How could they go from this to Battlefield 3... I prefer their older games.
First the made this, later Battlefield...now do something again for the Amiga :)
Nice music indeed. I hope you don't have any issue with me using this as music in a podcast?
Put this on my phone and everyone was wondering what it was ! one person said who is the artist. I said as i got off the bus look up amiga ! on youtube.
@gary72carol61 Yeah. Born in '72... and after just watching your 'dog attacked by Swan', you sound like a Geordie, too. Right then... Where's my winuae exe? LOL!
Dream Theater and Jan Hammer play some type of this stuff.
Hey guys, instead of fighting over who did Olaf rip off from, listen to this and tell me what you think of it! v=vlFXjOTTwnI
------------ grets ---------------- > amiga rulez napisal ---------- >
thecompany.pl/game/Pinball+Dreams
DICE need to stop with this Battlefield nonsense and do another Pinball game