We are still here, in the future of 2022! I remember compiling this thing back in 2013. The world was a different place and I was a young business man! I made this with Windows Movie Maker and it kept crashing all the time. Eventually I got it rendered and it was the happiest moment of my life! I never imagined this video getting almost 750 000 views! Of course the real credit goes to the amazing composers and Amiga artists! I think I speak for everyone when I say that without Amiga, our lives and personalities would be different! Amiga 4 ever! Ps, I love AmigaBill
I'm thankful you made this video. When I play modern videogames on my PC, I turn off the music and bring up your compilation to listen to instead, and the experience is ten times better.
+Domhnal Tilliere Ever tried "Biing!"? A whopping 19 discs :) (Don't remember if I actually *played* it though, I think I had the discs in a box "just for fun" :) (And not to mention "Willy Beamish"! Jeez...12 discs, a plain 1mb A500, no hd and just one extradrive - that one nearly drove me insane. :-) )
It's hard to explain , what I feel inside when I hear all this music. Memories of my youth , a simpler life with less worries and really happy , fun gaming sessions , both with my friends and alone. I hook up clips like this to my sound system when I feel low , and it always makes me in a better mood.
I know this comment is 3 years old but I wanted to chime in. I COMPLETELY understand where you're coming from. If you allow it, the yearn for the past is sometimes almost painful. Not in a "I have depression and I need help" kind of way but I could see some people heading down that path. It's a natural part of mid life, and personally I think it's something to be embraced in a healthy way. I've invested in a replacement Amiga in as good condition as I could find, and I've also, to loose weight and reduce blood pressure, been back into mountain biking for over a year now with great results. The same "child" lives within us for our entire lives. Our body matures but I really do think our mind simply adapts to the expectations forced on us from external sources, rather than "growing up" intentionally.
3 years passed, so what?! That music is even older ; -) Same feelings here. These tracks make me happy but also sad to some degree. Miss those days of youth and glory.
This collection remains one of my favorite things someone has ever made. I listen to it during LOTS of my activities. We appreciate old-school music, and we appreciate _you!_ Thanks so much man!
Sure : this sound is very actual, but written few decades ago. A lot of new bands which love 80's / 90's use NOW this kind of sounds. So ... Future before Future ! :)
Daniela Dundel all bullshit, the only real thing was the SiD ...only programmers and real musicians could/may use it... compared 2 it makes the amiga a cheap sampleplayer (paula: 4 digital Audio channels max 8bit) with gr8 software like soundtracker, octamed, protracker etc) nothing more.. coz of the relative cheap system and free composing Software, every stupid coksuka could "compose", therefore a lot shit tunes were" produced"...
@@daniela_dundel Sorry, but don't blame a machine for the design. Of cause the SID has an analogue synthesizer inside and the amiga doesn't have it. Shall I now make you feel bad two kids were able to make real bird sounds just by programming on a CPC from Amstrad which has no synthesizer and just four bit for volume, no sprites at all? There were and are now people making amazing things with all kinds of 8 bit and 16 bit home computers, with great audio, video and gameplay they make possible what most people would think is impossible.
@@cicakmuhamed It's a curious thing. People spent a small fortune in time and effort to make PCs do all the things that the Amiga could do way back when, but by then they'd sunk so much time and effort into the damn thing that they weren't willing to give it up.
Shadow of the Beast. I remember being so blown away by the audiovisual prowess of it back in the day, but then being so spooked by the gameplay. I was so young and innocent back then.
Take a look at Alien - Isolation. Also a great background music and ambient sound. But: I agree - Amiga was a great time. Why? Because small individual groups, individuals could create a game and not large for-profit companies! At that time, the few people responsible with their name still stood for the quality of the product. A big, anarchic, lively time!
1:01:02 - it never gets old listening to Lost Patrol. So many memories, the golden age of gaming at its finest. What a computer the Amiga was, what a period of my life with so many fond memories. Got a £2k custom built, custom water loop, MGPU high end gaming PC and it doesn't even come close to the feels of the Amiga.
So, so true. We'll never get those days back, but the nostalgia, having lived through the time at precisely the right moment in our lives, precious beyond words. We're so lucky. Anyone who loved a Vic 20, C64 or Amiga variant, I consider you my brother/sister.
The first second of the first track, I immediately think 'Alien Breed' and the cinema in my head, with all those memories. starts rolling. And it's one of my most treasured gaming memories and rarely any gaming achievement makes me feel as satisfied and proud to this very day as getting _all_ of my men in 'Lost Patrol' safely home.
400 000 views! The amount of positive feedback this video gets truly tells the amazing story of Amiga and how it influenced people back then and even today. Like if you still listen to this time to time!
:D Give some people a box and tell it has wonderful things inside. You can't go outside the box, but inside you can make your world. They had 4 tracks and only creativity was their boundary. The things programmers and artists did with Amiga, are still greatly unappreciated. Amiga was the most important thing for me as a child and I believe it has really pushed me into the modern internet/ICT/digital era, eventhough I'm pushing 35 soon!
Thanks for this awesome compilation. You have really done great job choosing tracks on this. Takes me way back in time playing great games like chaos engine and such with my lilttle brother.
I started with a VIC20 (Ancestor of Amiga 500) then the Amiga. I always tried to program games on them and now I'm a game programmer. Thanks for this compile :) (I miss HYBRIS)
Indeed.. I run FS-UAE on my macbook air and still play games from my A500.. I do miss my 1200 and video toaster though.. One of my fave games is MechForce by Ralph H. Reed.. I even sent him a money order in the nineties to register it... EDIT: Is it me, or did Psygnosis have some of THE best Intro demos AND music?
And you could do your homework on it. Show me a games console that can do that? Sure you can "game" on a PC, but to do that well, you need a PC at an "Amiga 2000" price point. The A500, A600, and later A1200 were all at console prices, and were the best of both worlds. What a time!
I can't believe the Commodore Amiga was capable of such music masterpieces back in the mid 80s. It was truly revolutionary for its time. And even now it awes and inspires as it stands the test of time. A true feat that is rarely replicated in computing these days. And for this, it has remained as one of the best and most memorable pieces of computing engineering of all time! A real game changer for the gaming world, that forever changed a generation.
I always looked forward to switching it in an playing a game or two! The Amiga was iconic in my younger experiences. The music was incredible with incredible artists! This takes me back... wish I could go back and feel that excitement when playing an Amiga game for the very first time, after saving all my pocket money on it!
+Marco Polo Like Nicholas below said, the most amazing thing was the people/artists who were inspired by Amiga's capabilities. They created these games, scores and the feel. Nothing quite like it has ever come after in my opinion, which might be mostly "golden memories", but my children will surely play Amiga games ;) Just for the dad-nostalgic!
***** Ahhh the enigmatic Commodore Amiga, it was a formidable home computer, technological great wonder, friend, intellectual equal, creative outlet and gaming powerhouse all rolled into one.
@@nicholasgalliano8541 I think over saturation also has something to do with it. Back then a new game was something special, and not quite as easy and cheap to come by as today. Nowadays there are like a thousand new games every month, if not more, many or most of them utter crap, of course. The whole thing just loses its appeal if games are mass-produced from generic cookie cutter templates.
some says, when you die, your whole life rolling down front of your eyes. don't know about it. but if I close my eyes, and listening this compilation, my childhood rolling down for me. so many awakening nights playing on my amiga. was priceless times. for us, 80's kids was more unbelievable to see those games on amiga, then this new generation, it is so basic to have gigaherz, giga bytes, HD and whatever...but 7 or 14mhz 1-2mb ram dude, and we were amazed for years.....thanks to brought back to me those memories . peace
Yes this is the music of our childhood, above anything else. Loved my Amiga 1200. i think that era of gaming and game music was what the 60`s are to pop music. Great programmers, great games full of imagination. And Commodore`s technology being state of the art at the time.
When I was a kid I sat in font of my computer for hours listening to this stuff and eventually got into creating it. The demo and game scene was a great time, its a shame its not done this way any more.
***** Well, gurus and hang-ups happened with a brand new machine aswell, so that's to be expected :D But you're right, you can get an A500 really cheap
Hi, thanks for the comments and I'm glad this brought back memories! Actually, this video can't generate any money since some of the tracks are under identified copyright. But it really doesn't matter, since it takes MILLIONS of views in a a short amount of time to even generate DOLLARS :) So this is purely made for me and Amiga fans!
Oh bring back those days sitting in my house my Amiga in front the Windows closed and a dark room. And the only light from my Amiga and the screen. And then listen to this awesome Music in the games...... No ps4 no xbox one..... On Games Sound and enjoy nothing beats the Amiga in my opinion
I think the reason my compilation is more popular than the longer ones, is that I chose each song from a different game and yes I cut them shorter, since a LOT of Amiga tracks just repeat for ever or don't change a lot. I, and it seems others too, really don't want to listen eleven tracks of Lemmings or Turrican (we know them already), rather go 'quickly' forward changing the game and tune. The other compilations really don't 'do it' for me :) Note that I think still my compilation has the most games (not tracks or length).
Taking the time to split into tracks too. I liked this video years ago and just stumbled back onto it. I thoroughly appreciate your contribution to making CZcams a better place. This is an actual time machine for me, I'll listen to this for as long as I can hear.
Here's a fact for you. The music to Lotus II contains a subliminal message which I found back in the day while ripping the samples to use in Octamed! Around 10 to 15 seconds in, there is a sample of a voice saying "You will not copy this game". You can't hear it unless you take the original mod from the disk and load it onto a sequencer.
It's true. I remember I ripped the mod out of the RAM with the Action Replay MK3 cartridge, saved it and loaded it into ST, there was this odd sample there, though I remember it saying: "don't make a copy of this beat." Anyway It's so long ago I could be wrong about the exact words.
This is even better than I expected. I'm sitting working in another window and trying to remember the name of the game each tune is from. I'm back here because, shamefully, I could not place the Speedball2 music!
So many Incredible music themes on the Amiga its Unreal ! The Themes defined so many great and unique games back through the 80's and 90's this machine was just light years ahead of its time and still is pretty amazing even now for people that will look into it nowdays.
Mann Mann Mann ... das waren noch Zeiten! Die Welt war damals (oder so schien es zumindest) noch in Ordnung. Die 80er Jahren hatten alle inspiriert. Aber so eine Zeit wird wieder kommen.
Music that makes you wanna dance like that in your own home yet hun you like 👍😘you like the rest of the day it's meant to be purchased for the next day and I have excellent communication with my team
It's amazing how good many of these themes still sound even today, when computer sound systems have evolved way beyond what even the Amiga had to offer back in the late 80s / early 90s.
Olof Gustafsson's work for the Pinball series is Amiga Music hall of fame material. What an absolute legend. And Chris Huelsbeck's Turrican 2 main theme is one for the history books.
Listening to this over and over and over again. Alien Breed is a great start and hooks me straight away. It's keeping me going through the endless number-crunching I do for upgrading the UK internet - so you may well get superfast broadband just because this kept me cheery and sane! Perhaps I listen too often though - I sometimes hear the playlist playing through my head even when I'm nowhere near a computer...
ME TOO! Although my my family would happily burn it an my thousands of PD and Game floppies (They are storing them) plus my A1200 and intellivision and Speccy 48 (buggered) .... They won't appreciate them until they are gone and one of their smug posh friends tells them how their perfect clever son sold theirs for half a million quid... probbly.
Hearing the First Samurai soundtrack is always emotional for me... I was eight years old when first hearing that. We'd just got an Amiga 500+ and borrowed some games from my brother's friend. Coming from old 8-bit Amstrad console I was blown away by music and graphics at that age. We soon had to give the disks back and I never played that game again (could never find it in any shops) until a few years back when I got into Amiga emulators. Even then the emulation is still too buggy to play though to the end. Will always have an air of nostalgia and mystery for me ;)
This is the best of the best. Unreal, Shadow of the Beast (1 & 2) and Agony are my all-time favourites. Takes me right back. But all of them are epic in their own way (and instantly memorable). I hadn't heard the Flashback theme in about a decade and I knew what it was instantly. THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING!!! :)
Those were the days. My older brother kept our family a Commodore household throughout the 80s and into the 90s. We went through the VIC-20, C128, A1000, A500, and A1200 in that time right up and even after Commodore went bankrupt. I never even touched an MS-DOS/Windows based computer until 1996 when it was clear that was the direction the industry had gone en masse. The Amiga still holds a special place in my heart though. Thanks to a long-time family friend, I now have a "new" A500 that's in impeccable condition and almost every game back we ever had.
Bastet Furry 1,000 Peoples have the AMIGA 500 Super Digital Clean Digital Super Graphic and Music Synthesizer AMIGA 500++++++ Computers, swipes ALL Atrai 500ST inferior Computers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Bastet Furry Quite true, but Atari had one advantage.... A DSP. It's power was immense... Altought i've got Delfina PLUS-soundcard to my A4000 and... i Whipped the floor from Any same price soundcard of a PC..
34 Years old, and I enjoy listening the Amiga Music today, imagine what I feel the first time that a I listen an Amiga game music...WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have absolutely picked my spirits up with this. So many great fun times playing a load of these games with my dad & sister when I was young, I feel like crying with happyness. Thank you for this.
There are so many games here that deserve to be remastered and /or rereleased on PC and possibly on consoles. Personally I would the Turrican series to get that treatment.
RulerOffice: I would also like the Lotus Trilogy, the music is still out standing - best would be if you could change on the fly between original and new version. The new version should have more realistic cars (and not only Lotus) and the features modern racing games have, tuning, much more tracks and story mode included. I still am in party mode for the music and the track editor.
Amazing 👏 My go to games back then were Cannon Fodder, Chaos Engine, Speedball, Sensible Soccer to name a few. So many memories 😭 Quickly scanning through the list on here I've played about 55/60 of em. ❤
If you ever get the chance to hear Darklands music on an original PC speaker, you might be surprised. I mean it's still beeps and boops, but at the same time it actually sounds like medieval dittys. They really did a lot with it. Not that I would ever compare with something like Project X theme.
+Cipher76 Yep! I think the signal/noise ratio was FAR better in the old Amiga days than nowadays. These days, developers probably churn out more games per month than were ever made for the Amiga, but most of them are utter junk. The old Amiga games contained a much larger share of titles that could rightly be called a work of art. Today it's mostly half-finished, soulless, mass-produced crap. Even the few good games barely ever reach their full potential because game studios prefer to rush from one unfinished product to the next instead of taking a bit of time to refine and polish their games, so we're stuck with a myriad of crap games and a few ones that _could have been_ great but are merely good.
Mielettömän isot kiitokset tästä Amiga kombosta! Ihan loistavaa kuunneltavaa, ja oman lapsuuden klassikko pelit! Kaikkea hyvää sinulle ja oikein loistavaa kesää! Kiitos!
Simply fabulous! Taps straight into the sheer joy, excitement and comforts of childhood. I can hear the distinct click after the floppy slides into my Amiga 500, and loading starts. Thanks so much for this jewel - perfect during a time of corona crisis, when everything is fubared.
Holy shit! Alien Breed - goddamn I played that game ALOT! My favorite games on Amiga was; "Galaga Deluxe", "Megaball", "Alcatraz", "Walker", "Cannon Fodder" - oh, and "Chaos Engine"! :D
It must been a real BIG work to get this all done, thanks for your great production working with this retro scene, music. This brings good memories when everything was on diskettes. :)
swampchocobo Guess what ? I have good news. You actually can play almost all the fabulous Amiga games for free. Just download WinUAE Amiga Emulator for Windows (Or the one you prefer since there are many) and then search for amiga game ROMs, there are many sites full of free Amiga ROMs you can download. Enjoy !!!
The artists soul went into this game music. Some music was well before trackers or midi, so music was programmed in, as a result sometimes the music is perfectly timed to the screen. Not these days. These days we get elevator music :)
SWIV used to get left on the title screen for several rotations of that theme. Such a legendary game, broke some records and never got re release or put on a budget label (console versions don’t count). All on one disc, no loading screen between levels, just one continuous blast fest. Silkworms theme was a copy of the theme to an older game called Juno First. Silkworm was also the spiritual predecessor to SWIV. Nitro was a great game, I used to cheat though. I loved the music between races where you upgrade your car. That Flashback intro was great, anything Delphine touched was instantly cool back then. Speedball 2 got left on for the theme. A few years back I had the “Ice cream, Ice cream” sample as my message alert tone. Flood was a fun little game, very odd but great. Xenon 2 theme is called Megablast by Bomb the Bass. Magic Pockets theme is Doin the Do by Betty Boo. Chaos Engine music on the Amiga was the absolute best by far. Shadow of the Beast 2 music is astounding throughout. The death screen music was taken from an episode of Miami Vice. Harlequin was an amazing game, a substantial platformer. First (and Second) Samurai was an all time favourite for many on the Amiga. The in game sounds were brilliant. The Lemmings 2 theme is music from a level in the first instalment of the game. And we end by going “Into, the wonderful” I recently purchased Gods Remastered for the PS4. Very disappointed that the original theme is missing but the original game is included.
Great compilation. I do miss some of my personal favorites: Battle Squadron, the Great Bath from Turrican (probably the best theme I know on the Amiga), Leathernecks and Obliterator. But I agree the compilation is good enough without them :)
We are still here, in the future of 2022! I remember compiling this thing back in 2013. The world was a different place and I was a young business man! I made this with Windows Movie Maker and it kept crashing all the time. Eventually I got it rendered and it was the happiest moment of my life! I never imagined this video getting almost 750 000 views! Of course the real credit goes to the amazing composers and Amiga artists! I think I speak for everyone when I say that without Amiga, our lives and personalities would be different! Amiga 4 ever! Ps, I love AmigaBill
wow,youre still here XD
this compilation is great i keep coming back to it every once in a while!
I'm thankful you made this video. When I play modern videogames on my PC, I turn off the music and bring up your compilation to listen to instead, and the experience is ten times better.
To be honest ... a couple thousand views are mine. _Not_ listening to this great collection makes my body hurt. ;-) Stellar job, young business man!
"Years stepping to golding memories" :)
I love u so much for this compilation. ❤
Anyone still remember the sheer EXCITEMENT you used to feel when holding a 3.5 inch disk with a new Amiga game in your hands?
+antred11 Or five of them. I'll admit, I don't miss all that disk swapping. Great times though :)
+antred11 i also remember sheer anticipation of guru meditation as well
+napalmhardcore 15 disks for Beneath a Steel Sky was when I realized it was getting ridiculous...
15!!! Lol, you have me beat. I think the most I ever had to deal with was 6.
+Domhnal Tilliere Ever tried "Biing!"? A whopping 19 discs :) (Don't remember if I actually *played* it though, I think I had the discs in a box "just for fun" :)
(And not to mention "Willy Beamish"! Jeez...12 discs, a plain 1mb A500, no hd and just one extradrive - that one nearly drove me insane. :-) )
It's hard to explain , what I feel inside when I hear all this music. Memories of my youth , a simpler life with less worries and really happy , fun gaming sessions , both with my friends and alone. I hook up clips like this to my sound system when I feel low , and it always makes me in a better mood.
That's exactly how I feel. Great times! :D
Same here :)
I know this comment is 3 years old but I wanted to chime in. I COMPLETELY understand where you're coming from. If you allow it, the yearn for the past is sometimes almost painful. Not in a "I have depression and I need help" kind of way but I could see some people heading down that path. It's a natural part of mid life, and personally I think it's something to be embraced in a healthy way. I've invested in a replacement Amiga in as good condition as I could find, and I've also, to loose weight and reduce blood pressure, been back into mountain biking for over a year now with great results. The same "child" lives within us for our entire lives. Our body matures but I really do think our mind simply adapts to the expectations forced on us from external sources, rather than "growing up" intentionally.
3 years passed, so what?! That music is even older ; -) Same feelings here. These tracks make me happy but also sad to some degree. Miss those days of youth and glory.
Exactly. For me retromusic is like a timetravel to my childhood. It opens up all the memories of that time and how awesome my childhood was.
FACT: 84.37% gurus around the world choose this compilation for their meditation.
funny thougt wasted at a community with no taste of music... most of this "commercial" tunes r really x*%%€&%&!!!
Especially the Turrican 2 theme song.
Lol, I hated the Guru Medidation errors, saw too many of those when trying to make older games work on my A1200
Hahahahhh!! Great comment. Guru Meditation ftw
@@daniela_dundelWho is this "human" Ceph spy yapping about bruhhhhhhhhhh?????????? 🐌❓️❓️❓️❓️❓️❓️❓️❓️❓️❓️❓️❓️❓️❓️☠️☠️☠️☠️❓️❓️❓️❓️❓️❓️
500 000 views! Still going strong! Like if you listen to this in 2019!
Of course I am!... almost... ;)
No Nightmare/Graveyard table music? It's the best!
Disc has an incredible soundtrack by the way.
How did 10 people like this from the future?
@@bennyhaha66 Because Amiga IS the future :D
i love you man.
Over 640K views! We survived the year 2020. Thanks for listening to this compilation! Like this comment to show your love and appreciation for Amiga!
The first Mad Max movie takes place in 2021, just saying.
@@Leo___________ thankfully, you're wrong. First Mad Max takes place in the 80's, no exact date is ever given but it's assume around 1984-85
@@Leo___________ Yeah this is not correct lol xD The first Mad max movie is set between 1983 and 1985
640K ought to be enough for anyone.
Thanks for posting this. I must be the only Amiga music fan that never owned Amiga. :)
300 000 views. Like if you are still listening to this! Thank you my Amiga amigos y amigas!
+Hirvibongari2 hell yes! Thanks for the effort of putting 3 hours of amiga music together... the world needs heroes like you!
+Hirvibongari2
Helps my night dreaming of a better time. Big thank you.
This collection remains one of my favorite things someone has ever made. I listen to it during LOTS of my activities. We appreciate old-school music, and we appreciate _you!_ Thanks so much man!
+Hirvibongari2 333 333 views!
+SchwaWarrior Thanks and my pleasure!
Amiga, incredible machine. Future before the future.
Sure : this sound is very actual, but written few decades ago.
A lot of new bands which love 80's / 90's use NOW this kind of sounds.
So ... Future before Future ! :)
The Future Freaks in 8971 ! Greetings to Energy and Subway Scoopex (J.O.E.)
Daniela Dundel
all bullshit, the only real thing was the SiD ...only programmers and real musicians could/may use it... compared 2 it makes the amiga a cheap sampleplayer (paula: 4 digital Audio channels max 8bit) with gr8 software like soundtracker, octamed,
protracker etc) nothing more.. coz of the relative cheap system and free composing Software, every stupid coksuka could "compose", therefore a lot shit tunes were" produced"...
@@daniela_dundel Sorry, but don't blame a machine for the design.
Of cause the SID has an analogue synthesizer inside and the amiga doesn't have it.
Shall I now make you feel bad two kids were able to make real bird sounds just by programming on a CPC from Amstrad which has no synthesizer and just four bit for volume, no sprites at all?
There were and are now people making amazing things with all kinds of 8 bit and 16 bit home computers, with great audio, video and gameplay they make possible what most people would think is impossible.
@@cicakmuhamed It's a curious thing. People spent a small fortune in time and effort to make PCs do all the things that the Amiga could do way back when, but by then they'd sunk so much time and effort into the damn thing that they weren't willing to give it up.
Shadow of the Beast. I remember being so blown away by the audiovisual prowess of it back in the day, but then being so spooked by the gameplay. I was so young and innocent back then.
It terrified me more than anything I can remember. Even now the title screen makes me shiver a bit
The golden age of games and especially game music.
@PHILIP WALKER i also think hes right
Take a look at Alien - Isolation. Also a great background music and ambient sound. But: I agree - Amiga was a great time. Why? Because small individual groups, individuals could create a game and not large for-profit companies! At that time, the few people responsible with their name still stood for the quality of the product. A big, anarchic, lively time!
It feels like the next step of the GENESIS soundfont
1:01:02 - it never gets old listening to Lost Patrol. So many memories, the golden age of gaming at its finest. What a computer the Amiga was, what a period of my life with so many fond memories. Got a £2k custom built, custom water loop, MGPU high end gaming PC and it doesn't even come close to the feels of the Amiga.
So, so true. We'll never get those days back, but the nostalgia, having lived through the time at precisely the right moment in our lives, precious beyond words. We're so lucky. Anyone who loved a Vic 20, C64 or Amiga variant, I consider you my brother/sister.
Wow, do really a 1 bit game console gives that feelings?
with 2k you get get an amiga 4000, sell the pc
@@rovstam7989 yes
The first second of the first track, I immediately think 'Alien Breed' and the cinema in my head, with all those memories. starts rolling.
And it's one of my most treasured gaming memories and rarely any gaming achievement makes me feel as satisfied and proud to this very day as getting _all_ of my men in 'Lost Patrol' safely home.
400 000 views! The amount of positive feedback this video gets truly tells the amazing story of Amiga and how it influenced people back then and even today. Like if you still listen to this time to time!
:D Give some people a box and tell it has wonderful things inside. You can't go outside the box, but inside you can make your world. They had 4 tracks and only creativity was their boundary. The things programmers and artists did with Amiga, are still greatly unappreciated. Amiga was the most important thing for me as a child and I believe it has really pushed me into the modern internet/ICT/digital era, eventhough I'm pushing 35 soon!
This is my childhood. Thank you for this! It's amazing what influence Amiga had on my life... ended up in gaming industry, thanks to Amiga.
Thanks for this awesome compilation. You have really done great job choosing tracks on this. Takes me way back in time playing great games like chaos engine and such with my lilttle brother.
I started with a VIC20 (Ancestor of Amiga 500) then the Amiga. I always tried to program games on them and now I'm a game programmer. Thanks for this compile :) (I miss HYBRIS)
Same here mate Amiga summed up my childhood playing it at a friends house as well as my own good old days!
Without a doubt, one of the best gaming systems ever made.
Indeed.. I run FS-UAE on my macbook air and still play games from my A500.. I do miss my 1200 and video toaster though.. One of my fave games is MechForce by Ralph H. Reed.. I even sent him a money order in the nineties to register it...
EDIT: Is it me, or did Psygnosis have some of THE best Intro demos AND music?
And you could do your homework on it. Show me a games console that can do that? Sure you can "game" on a PC, but to do that well, you need a PC at an "Amiga 2000" price point. The A500, A600, and later A1200 were all at console prices, and were the best of both worlds. What a time!
Straight up one of the greatest computers ever made.
Not only one of the best but literally *the* best!!
I can't believe the Commodore Amiga was capable of such music masterpieces back in the mid 80s. It was truly revolutionary for its time. And even now it awes and inspires as it stands the test of time. A true feat that is rarely replicated in computing these days. And for this, it has remained as one of the best and most memorable pieces of computing engineering of all time! A real game changer for the gaming world, that forever changed a generation.
I always looked forward to switching it in an playing a game or two! The Amiga was iconic in my younger experiences. The music was incredible with incredible artists! This takes me back... wish I could go back and feel that excitement when playing an Amiga game for the very first time, after saving all my pocket money on it!
Funny that I don't feel the same excitement when playing modern pc games.
+Marco Polo Like Nicholas below said, the most amazing thing was the people/artists who were inspired by Amiga's capabilities. They created these games, scores and the feel. Nothing quite like it has ever come after in my opinion, which might be mostly "golden memories", but my children will surely play Amiga games ;) Just for the dad-nostalgic!
***** Ahhh the enigmatic Commodore Amiga, it was a formidable home computer, technological great wonder, friend, intellectual equal, creative outlet and gaming powerhouse all rolled into one.
@@nicholasgalliano8541 I think over saturation also has something to do with it. Back then a new game was something special, and not quite as easy and cheap to come by as today. Nowadays there are like a thousand new games every month, if not more, many or most of them utter crap, of course. The whole thing just loses its appeal if games are mass-produced from generic cookie cutter templates.
some says, when you die, your whole life rolling down front of your eyes. don't know about it. but if I close my eyes, and listening this compilation, my childhood rolling down for me. so many awakening nights playing on my amiga. was priceless times. for us, 80's kids was more unbelievable to see those games on amiga, then this new generation, it is so basic to have gigaherz, giga bytes, HD and whatever...but 7 or 14mhz 1-2mb ram dude, and we were amazed for years.....thanks to brought back to me those memories . peace
The good old times, when Game Music was ART
Yes this is the music of our childhood, above anything else. Loved my Amiga 1200. i think that era of gaming and game music was what the 60`s are to pop music. Great programmers, great games full of imagination. And Commodore`s technology being state of the art at the time.
Pinball Dreams, oh my God, it's beautiful...
:) one the best games ever!
Playlist: 1. Alien Breed 0:00 2. Assassin 0:4:33 3. Navy Seals 0:7:16 4. Swiv 0:9:00 5. Awesome 0:11:20 6. Amnios 0:12:26 7. Body Blows 0:13:50 8. Disc 0:15:52 9. Kult 0:17:43 10. Nitro gameplay 0:20:34 11. Project X 0:21:41 12. Space Crusade 0:23:44 13: Final Fight 0:26:55 14. Silk Worm 0:30:25 15. Paradroid 90 0:32:44 16. Dogs of War 0:35:04 17. Shadow of the Beast 0:37:26 18. Flashback intro 0:39:51 19. Flashback main theme 0:40:43 20. Double Dragon II 0:42:00 21. Dune 0:43:58 22. Super Cars 0:46:51 23. Super Cars II 0:49:00 24. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge 0:51:13 25. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge II 0:52:42 26. Rise of the Dragon 0:55:23 27. Rise of the Dragon gameplay 0:57:06 28. Speed Ball 2 0:59:06 29. Lost Patrol 1:01:03 30. Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monster 1:03:56 31. Laser Squad 1:04:40 32. Castle Master 1:06:45 33. Universe 1:10:10 34. Mega Lo Mania 1:12:17 35. Syndicate 1:14:02 36. Elvira Mistress of the Dark 1:14:58 37. Elvira Mistress of the Dark ingame music 1:16:04 38. Pit Fighter 1:16:57 39. Pinball Dreams 1:18:23 40. Pinball Fantasies 1:23:20 41. Pinball Illusions 1:28:11 42. Monkey Island 2 1:32:01 43. IK+ 1:34:17 44. Wolf Child 1:36:28 45. The Faery Tale Adventure 1:39:19 46. Flood 1:40:26 47. Cabal 1:42:22 48. Lure of the Temptress 1:43:34 49. Narco Police 1:46:37 50. Rick Dangerous II 1:47:59 51. Midnight Resistance 1:49:02 52. Baal 1:50:42 53. Hero Quest 1:52:40 54. Heimdall 1:55:00 55. Turrican 1:56:44 56. Turrican II 2:00:51 57. Cannon Fodder 2:05:16 58. Apidya II 2:06:10 59. Xenon II Megablast 2:10:30 60. Shufflepuck cafe 2:11:59 61. Space Quest III 2:13:56 62. Magic Pockets 2:15:11 63. Thunder Cats 2:16:12 64. Covert Action 2:17:53 65. James Pond - Robocod II 2:19:15 66. Take em Out 2:20:13 67. The Chaos Engine 2:22:22 68. Shadow of the Beast II 2:24:17 69. Shadow of the Beast II ingame music 2:26:30 70. Unreal 2:28:07 71. Space Hulk 2:33:36 72. The Killing Gameshow 2:38:20 73. Harlequin 2:41:15 74. First Samurai 2:44:38 75. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge III 2:48:02 76. X-IT 2:51:02 77. Katakis 2:53:11 78. Agony 2:54:54 79. Fury of the Furries 2:57:49 80. Lemmings 2 The Tribes 3:01:00 82. Full Contact 3:02:29 83. Superfrog 3:04:27 84. Gods 3:06:38
please like this comment, it deserves to be up there.
As I've gotten older, I leave jazz, instrumental, rock, classical, pop, and even vocal behind. Give me my good old videogame music !
When I was a kid I sat in font of my computer for hours listening to this stuff and eventually got into creating it. The demo and game scene was a great time, its a shame its not done this way any more.
The Speedball 2 music is unlocking deep core memories.
This IS my childhood right here ;) Makes me want to download an Amiga emulator again
Glad you liked it :)
Buy an old classic Amiga instead :D
*****
Well, gurus and hang-ups happened with a brand new machine aswell, so that's to be expected :D
But you're right, you can get an A500 really cheap
My A1200 runs great, the occational guru but really nothing to complain about.
But with such great computers you can tolerate some errors :D
Rambling Rapscallion I was 21 when I bought my first gaming computer ,the Amiga.
The Amiga has the best video game music of all time!
Hi, thanks for the comments and I'm glad this brought back memories! Actually, this video can't generate any money since some of the tracks are under identified copyright. But it really doesn't matter, since it takes MILLIONS of views in a a short amount of time to even generate DOLLARS :) So this is purely made for me and Amiga fans!
Amiga was simply the best. Thanx for this masterpiece. Now I'm truly back in the 80's....
You are most welcome.
Oh bring back those days sitting in my house my Amiga in front the Windows closed and a dark room. And the only light from my Amiga and the screen. And then listen to this awesome Music in the games......
No ps4 no xbox one.....
On Games Sound and enjoy nothing beats the Amiga in my opinion
I think the reason my compilation is more popular than the longer ones, is that I chose each song from a different game and yes I cut them shorter, since a LOT of Amiga tracks just repeat for ever or don't change a lot. I, and it seems others too, really don't want to listen eleven tracks of Lemmings or Turrican (we know them already), rather go 'quickly' forward changing the game and tune. The other compilations really don't 'do it' for me :) Note that I think still my compilation has the most games (not tracks or length).
Also it is nicely cut without any pauses, extra game sounds nor hiccups. Flawless victory!
Taking the time to split into tracks too. I liked this video years ago and just stumbled back onto it. I thoroughly appreciate your contribution to making CZcams a better place. This is an actual time machine for me, I'll listen to this for as long as I can hear.
Here's a fact for you. The music to Lotus II contains a subliminal message which I found back in the day while ripping the samples to use in Octamed! Around 10 to 15 seconds in, there is a sample of a voice saying "You will not copy this game". You can't hear it unless you take the original mod from the disk and load it onto a sequencer.
It would play around the 52:49 point in this video.
It's true.
I remember I ripped the mod out of the RAM with the Action Replay MK3 cartridge, saved it and loaded it into ST, there was this odd sample there, though I remember it saying: "don't make a copy of this beat." Anyway It's so long ago I could be wrong about the exact words.
Clearly didn't work!
2:24:17 Say what you want about Shadow of the Beast II, its music was - is - fantastic. Hope the reboot has great music.
What Reboot?
Shadow of the beast 3 had amazing score too! 🙌
@@cicakmuhamed Now now, there's no need to be so pendantic. We all know what I meant.
This is even better than I expected. I'm sitting working in another window and trying to remember the name of the game each tune is from. I'm back here because, shamefully, I could not place the Speedball2 music!
Blasphemy!!! ^^
Ice cream! Ice cream!
I'm back... because I could not place the speedball2 music again... then I saw my own comment from 8 years ago. Oh the shame.
Never take this down, I've been using it to drive myself through freelancing work for years
Shadow of the Beast has to without doubt be my all time favourite. Loved that game.
Creepy, mysterious,, brilliant and hard as fu*k but still a favorite.
Man, I'm not even halfway and it's been one giant nostalgic trip down memory Amiga-lane. I can't believe its over 25 years ago.
Thanks for this
It can't be a "massive" trip down memory lane.....
There is only 10,24KB available
@@JETJOOBOY But still a massive work on the bench, where you really had to kickstart it all.
lost patrol, wings, speedball 2...etc..etc....what memories , incredible games and soundtracks
"ICECREAM! ICECREAM!"
It’s crazy, this still sounds futuristic today
Yes indeed !
Commodore Amiga Games & Audio. Still "classic" and "never reached". Now it's 2019 and the Amiga is still alive...
So many Incredible music themes on the Amiga its Unreal ! The Themes defined so many great and unique games back through the 80's and 90's this machine was just light years ahead of its time and still is pretty amazing even now for people that will look into it nowdays.
So true!
All the great memories come flooding back! Atmospheric, original, pure genius. Hail Amiga forever!!!!!!!!
AMiGA FOREVER :)
Mann Mann Mann ... das waren noch Zeiten! Die Welt war damals (oder so schien es zumindest) noch in Ordnung. Die 80er Jahren hatten alle inspiriert. Aber so eine Zeit wird wieder kommen.
January 2024 now and this has cheered me right up! Thanks dude! AMIGA FOREVER!
Perfect compilation!!!
Music that makes you wanna dance like that in your own home yet hun you like 👍😘you like the rest of the day it's meant to be purchased for the next day and I have excellent communication with my team
I listen to Amiga game theme songs while working on my own game development. Takes me back to a time when gaming was fun and exciting.
It's amazing how good many of these themes still sound even today, when computer sound systems have evolved way beyond what even the Amiga had to offer back in the late 80s / early 90s.
Looking back, Amiga music and the later Playstation EDM/DnB/big beat heavy track really shaped everything I still love about music.
Cool, I had no idea Amiga had such high-quality audio. Some of those beats are pretty legit even by today's standards. Thanks for sharing.
Olof Gustafsson's work for the Pinball series is Amiga Music hall of fame material. What an absolute legend.
And Chris Huelsbeck's Turrican 2 main theme is one for the history books.
Olof's a genius. That's my opinion.
Listening to this over and over and over again. Alien Breed is a great start and hooks me straight away. It's keeping me going through the endless number-crunching I do for upgrading the UK internet - so you may well get superfast broadband just because this kept me cheery and sane! Perhaps I listen too often though - I sometimes hear the playlist playing through my head even when I'm nowhere near a computer...
I've been listening to this, for the last 2 hours while programming computer games - this brings inspiration and good mood! Thanks alot :)
Thanks! :)
I still have the good old A500 that my family bought in the early 90's and it still works great! I'd never part ways with it :)
ME TOO!
Although my my family would happily burn it an my thousands of PD and Game floppies (They are storing them) plus my A1200 and intellivision and Speccy 48 (buggered) .... They won't appreciate them until they are gone and one of their smug posh friends tells them how their perfect clever son sold theirs for half a million quid... probbly.
Hearing the First Samurai soundtrack is always emotional for me... I was eight years old when first hearing that. We'd just got an Amiga 500+ and borrowed some games from my brother's friend. Coming from old 8-bit Amstrad console I was blown away by music and graphics at that age. We soon had to give the disks back and I never played that game again (could never find it in any shops) until a few years back when I got into Amiga emulators. Even then the emulation is still too buggy to play though to the end. Will always have an air of nostalgia and mystery for me ;)
@2:44:39 BTW ;)
This is the best of the best. Unreal, Shadow of the Beast (1 & 2) and Agony are my all-time favourites. Takes me right back. But all of them are epic in their own way (and instantly memorable). I hadn't heard the Flashback theme in about a decade and I knew what it was instantly. THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING!!! :)
crazyandvegancatlady No problem :)
Those were the days. My older brother kept our family a Commodore household throughout the 80s and into the 90s. We went through the VIC-20, C128, A1000, A500, and A1200 in that time right up and even after Commodore went bankrupt. I never even touched an MS-DOS/Windows based computer until 1996 when it was clear that was the direction the industry had gone en masse. The Amiga still holds a special place in my heart though. Thanks to a long-time family friend, I now have a "new" A500 that's in impeccable condition and almost every game back we ever had.
The bass riff for Turrican II at the 2:02:00 mark is one of the greatest things ever.
The Amiga's sound chip was so ahead of its time, sounded way better than Adlib/SB Clones of the time. Love these tunes
22 people had an Atari ST. ;)
Bastet Furry That was the original fight, long before Mac-PC or Apple-Android... Amiga vs. Atari ST was a question of honor! ;-)
Bastet Furry 1,000 Peoples have the AMIGA 500 Super Digital Clean Digital Super Graphic and Music Synthesizer AMIGA 500++++++ Computers, swipes ALL Atrai 500ST inferior Computers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bastet Furry
And they all liked this video, only Amstrad owners can dislike this.
+Bastet Furry
Quite true, but Atari had one advantage.... A DSP. It's power was immense... Altought i've got Delfina PLUS-soundcard to my A4000 and... i Whipped the floor from Any same price soundcard of a PC..
+Gerald Kitzmüller
In my family it was always Amiga vs PC.
My parents had pc and me I had A600+ram and A500
34 Years old, and I enjoy listening the Amiga Music today, imagine what I feel the first time that a I listen an Amiga game music...WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
38 I'm still enjoy this music :)
The Chaos Engine soundtrack is a genuine masterpiece.
It really holds up as a coherent album of great techno.
Turrican II will forever be one of my favourites.
I lose my shit every time Elvira's theme begins. Love this whole compilation. Thank you so much!
+Retro Island Gaming Thanks! :)
Good old days of gaming music.
Still nothing beats the vibe of the amiga days :)
Great compilation this brings back so many memories of awesome games,most were light years ahead of anything else on the planet at that time
... and just look at the world around us now. We will never get these times back. Thanks for uploading these. You're awesome!
You have absolutely picked my spirits up with this. So many great fun times playing a load of these games with my dad & sister when I was young, I feel like crying with happyness. Thank you for this.
You are most welcome!
Loving it.....the pinnacle of gaming history.
37:41 Chills!!!!!!!!!! Literal chills....
Dang this game was hard one but so cool...
ABSOLUTE CLASS COLLECCTION! Soundtrack to my childhood born in 74!
There are so many games here that deserve to be remastered and /or rereleased on PC and possibly on consoles. Personally I would the Turrican series to get that treatment.
RulerOffice: I would also like the Lotus Trilogy, the music is still out standing - best would be if you could change on the fly between original and new version. The new version should have more realistic cars (and not only Lotus) and the features modern racing games have, tuning, much more tracks and story mode included. I still am in party mode for the music and the track editor.
Amazing 👏 My go to games back then were Cannon Fodder, Chaos Engine, Speedball, Sensible Soccer to name a few. So many memories 😭
Quickly scanning through the list on here I've played about 55/60 of em. ❤
I'm crying
This isn't music. This is an intravenous injection of nostalgic emotion :D
The Amiga's sound chip pissed all over the PC's crappy beeps and boops. Shame their marketing dept was shit.
Take it you don't live in the UK.. The Amiga was MASSIVE over here
+Space Monkey Huh? I'm English mate. I said the marketing dept was shit because they allowed it to die out.
If you ever get the chance to hear Darklands music on an original PC speaker, you might be surprised. I mean it's still beeps and boops, but at the same time it actually sounds like medieval dittys. They really did a lot with it.
Not that I would ever compare with something like Project X theme.
and the funny thing is windows was kinda bad copy of workbench
Thanks for bringing back these good old memories. I still have my Amiga 1230/50 16meg ram. Still rocks to this day :)
Random digging around on CZcams, and lo and behold ! pure gold from way back then!
.. Amiga music, brings me back to my Amiga 500 days .. So many good games. :)
+Cipher76 Yep! I think the signal/noise ratio was FAR better in the old Amiga days than nowadays. These days, developers probably churn out more games per month than were ever made for the Amiga, but most of them are utter junk. The old Amiga games contained a much larger share of titles that could rightly be called a work of art. Today it's mostly half-finished, soulless, mass-produced crap.
Even the few good games barely ever reach their full potential because game studios prefer to rush from one unfinished product to the next instead of taking a bit of time to refine and polish their games, so we're stuck with a myriad of crap games and a few ones that _could have been_ great but are merely good.
Mielettömän isot kiitokset tästä Amiga kombosta! Ihan loistavaa kuunneltavaa, ja oman lapsuuden klassikko pelit! Kaikkea hyvää sinulle ja oikein loistavaa kesää! Kiitos!
Eipä kestä ja mukavaa loppuvuotta!
Was feeling nostalgic for the Amiga so I played all three hours of this at my workplace this morning - it was well received!
Currently listening to this as I edit maps for a brand new Amiga game called Scourge of the Underkind.
Simply fabulous!
Taps straight into the sheer joy, excitement and comforts of childhood. I can hear the distinct click after the floppy slides into my Amiga 500, and loading starts.
Thanks so much for this jewel - perfect during a time of corona crisis, when everything is fubared.
Thanks for the reply! All the best from Finland!
200 000 views. Like if you are listening to this!
We listen to it all the time!
Thanks! Added of to my CZcams favourites!
The Guru Meditation Thanks!
Christoffer Lilja Thanks!
Yes I m!
The themes of International Karate and Commando, they are etched into my memory so deeply. Rob Hubbard is such a genius.
Holy shit! Alien Breed - goddamn I played that game ALOT! My favorite games on Amiga was; "Galaga Deluxe", "Megaball", "Alcatraz", "Walker", "Cannon Fodder" - oh, and "Chaos Engine"! :D
still listening - great for background music when concentrating and brings back memories of my early teenage days.
Same same 🙏
Shadow of the beeeeeast ! The memories
Aww, Speedball 2 Brutal Deluxe!
This is bringing back some memories.
It is mine! 560K times viewed! Like if you LIKE!
10/5 jos minulta kysytään mutta 5/5 jos totta puhutaan
Apache like's!!!!!
I'll make it 573.269 views. Good comp mate.
It must been a real BIG work to get this all done, thanks for your great production working with this retro scene, music. This brings good memories when everything was on diskettes. :)
Great compilation indeed!
I have managed to look after my amiga 1200 like new from the day I got it but with MUCH love. Amiga changed my life. I play on it lots.
Great compilation!! It brought back some cool memories of the Amiga games I used to play. Thanks.
the amiga rocked mine died in a power surge overloaded the internals.
there were some utterly awesome audios to be had.
WOW!!! the memories are flooding back, thanks for the video :), I really wish I could play these games again :)
swampchocobo Guess what ? I have good news. You actually can play almost all the fabulous Amiga games for free. Just download WinUAE Amiga Emulator for Windows (Or the one you prefer since there are many) and then search for amiga game ROMs, there are many sites full of free Amiga ROMs you can download. Enjoy !!!
The artists soul went into this game music. Some music was well before trackers or midi, so music was programmed in, as a result sometimes the music is perfectly timed to the screen. Not these days. These days we get elevator music :)
All are old good nostalgic memories. Thank You my friend.
SWIV used to get left on the title screen for several rotations of that theme.
Such a legendary game, broke some records and never got re release or put on a budget label (console versions don’t count).
All on one disc, no loading screen between levels, just one continuous blast fest.
Silkworms theme was a copy of the theme to an older game called Juno First.
Silkworm was also the spiritual predecessor to SWIV.
Nitro was a great game, I used to cheat though.
I loved the music between races where you upgrade your car.
That Flashback intro was great, anything Delphine touched was instantly cool back then.
Speedball 2 got left on for the theme.
A few years back I had the “Ice cream, Ice cream” sample as my message alert tone.
Flood was a fun little game, very odd but great.
Xenon 2 theme is called Megablast by Bomb the Bass.
Magic Pockets theme is Doin the Do by Betty Boo.
Chaos Engine music on the Amiga was the absolute best by far.
Shadow of the Beast 2 music is astounding throughout.
The death screen music was taken from an episode of Miami Vice.
Harlequin was an amazing game, a substantial platformer.
First (and Second) Samurai was an all time favourite for many on the Amiga.
The in game sounds were brilliant.
The Lemmings 2 theme is music from a level in the first instalment of the game.
And we end by going “Into, the wonderful”
I recently purchased Gods Remastered for the PS4. Very disappointed that the original theme is missing but the original game is included.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
i am happy i was born in the gameing golden era aka the 80/90ths and a few yrs into 2k rest is crap
Wonderful! Amiga was the best machine ever built. Thank you for the video!
These sounds are magic!
a testament to your dedication by listing not only titles but time stamps. big old thumb way up to you my friend :) amiga forever and ever
pure awesomeness!!! love it
Great compilation. I do miss some of my personal favorites: Battle Squadron, the Great Bath from Turrican (probably the best theme I know on the Amiga), Leathernecks and Obliterator. But I agree the compilation is good enough without them :)