What game system did you work with Hulsbeck on ?. I like this top 10 lists from people that played the amiga, their personal picks. It got me thinking that really any personal list i would draw up would preface with the fact i consider C.Hulsbeck the best composer of the era, even if none of his themes were on the list. Seams back then literally every piece he done, even tiny segments, are very memorable, from playing the games back then.
@@m.p.jallan2172 Yes, on Amiga and C64, Chris' tracks were very memorable, even tiny side music tracks! I listened to Chris Hülsbeck's music and played games with his music in 80s already as pupil in elementary school! I played C64 in 80s and Amiga in 90s. I met Chris in 1995 so that was already after C64/Amiga era. Game systems I worked on with Chris include PC (Windows 95 to Windows 10), Playstation 3/4, Xbox 360/one, Wii U, Switch, and more. I always wanted to make music for 8/16bit systems but I was kid & teen in 80s and 90s. :)
@@RaptureMusicOfficial I heard your Gadget tunes and think they have aged well, its cool how one of the those tunes has reached a new audience. Did Vision Meda just do the one game ?. I wondered if you worked on any more ps1 games.
Awesome video.. 10 songs aren't enough! :) As someone else on here has also said: the day I realised the Amiga days were over was after playing a deathmatch serial link up of Doom. The Amiga is always gonna be a huge part of my life and I still get shivers watching these vids. The name "Amiga" is apt.. it's like remembering your first girlfriend.
Project X, Apidya, Overdrive (I had forgotten about that!) and Turrican! But I owned Turrican II and that soundtrack kicks ass still to this day! -- Lovely video.
@ZroDfects If I recall, Shadow of the Beast (simply called Beast on the title screen) was originally just a tech demo to show variable scrolling sections that somebody decided to make into a full game. And the music was just as awesome.
Oh yeah Apidya! I often starts the game just to listen to the music from Meadows Edge and The Pond. If this game comes out for the virtual console I will difinately buy it, just to listen to the music! And then, when I listened 3 or 4 hours I will play that awesome shooter again! I really loved this game!
Nice video! Also your cool selection since it is different from what i'd expect to be the best music on Amiga. A top ten without out the Jaguar Xj220 hmmm?. Apidya's track was a funny choice since you show us the level : "the pond" but chose Meadows edge as your favorite. the actual song from the pond is 10 times better in my opinion but hey! Everybody his own taste right?! Thanx a lot!
@HelloFade2 That was a common problem on the Amiga - it had amazing sound chip, but not enough sound channels for sound FX and music together in many games :(
Few people know this, but it was _also_ due to Chris Huelsbeck. Not only did he create some awesome and memorable soundtracks like Turrican, R-Type, Apydia, etc. he is also the inventor of the very first "modtracker" that actually allowed to create such distinct ahead-at-its-time music in the first place.
@rotokka now that you mention it, it doesn't sound quite as I think I remember it, but I don't know. It was recorded with the video and audio recorders built into winuae so perhaps the emulation or the compression breaks the music a bit.
It is humanly impossible to create a top 10 best Amiga music collection since there are hundreds and hundreds of awesome tracks out there that make current gen consoles sound like a pocket watch.
To be honest, I feel like when they were creating the game "Awesome", that they all sat around a table and one guy said to the group, "We need to create a game with awesome graphics and awesome gameplay otherwise we are screwed"... to which Tim Wright replied... "how about instead I just pack it with several untouchable awesome music tracks and the rest of the game won't matter"... and the rest is history.
Out of these 10 games, I've only played Project X and Turrican and they are one of my favorite games on the Amiga. I personally think there is better music than this on the Amiga, but I give it 5 stars because the list is well presented and has some good ingame video ;)
@heikkint Couldn't say it better myself. All the way to the sentence "woot someone else played projectyle". The game was damn good, fresh idea and so much fun with a friend!
Great selection, but I miss the Turrican 2 intro music, Pinball Dreams saga (all great), Lotus Saga... From my point of view, the best songs of your selection are Overdrive and Project X.
Actually, the SNES had a CPU that could run at different rates up to 3.58Mhz and a nice PPU which I believe pulled its clock from the CPU speed. But it did some nice parallax scrolling, true...Of course it was released 5 years after the Amiga and you'd expect some great graphics features for games, as its a console.
I remeber a game where you are a big dragon, that covers the most of the screen. And you shoot fire at enemies. What was the game called? Simular to Project X, but instead a massive dragonsnake. kinda.
katakis is from factor 5. At the time they tried to move famous arcade and console titles onto the home computer. So, Giana Sister for Mario, Katakis for R-Type....imho
@deftones1007 Yup, the in-game music was spectacular. Psygnosis was the best...Blood Money, Awesome, Shadow of the Beast series, Denaris, Menace....all great games with killer soundtracks!
It was. Factor 5 made the R-Type Clone Katakis and were sued by Activision who had the rights for R-Type computer-versions because of the similarity of the games. So Katakis was withdrawn from sale and later re-released as Denaris with reworked levels. But Activision was impressed by the game and the abilities of Factor 5, so they contracted them for the official Amiga conversion of R-Type.
Anyone looking for old games should join the lemon amiga forum. It's quite active with like minded people and any questions regarding "i remember a game with,... what was it?" can easily be answered most of the time :P
its sort of strange listening to this just after dubstep, this is what new-age electronica evolved from. like the amigas gonna die out though ;) live long AMIGA!
My list in no particular order: Alien Breed 2, shadow of the beast (all of them), leander, fury of the furries, chaos engine, chuck rock 2, cannon fodder, stardust, full contact, wiz n liz, honourable mentions: Gods, wicked, north and south, superfrog, james pond 2, pinball dreams/fantasies/illusions
Truely classic game scores on amiga, forgot about Awesome game tune. My Top 5 (1) Turrican (2) Turrican 2 (3) Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (4) Nitro (5) Blood Money When did the Amiga die for me? After playing Doom 1 deathmatch on 486 PC's on a 3-way serial link. I remember it said in the readme, cross your fingers, it only sometimes works LOL. That was it, i was converted, X-wing helped too.
Shadow of the beast still beats any side scroller today, even back then Shadow of the beast was using something like 9 seperate scrolling bakgrounds with no slow down on a incy 7mhz machine. Show me just 1 game that does just half that today ?
The SNES came out in 1990, if you want to compare it to the Amiga, I suggest you compare to the 1990 Amiga. The Amiga 3000, 25Mhz 68030, 1440 × 580 262 ,144 colors of Multitasking muscle. As far as the original Amiga chipset, it featured Hardware accellerated scrolling. So the Parallax background was no big deal. The 4096 color pallete, (which could be fully displayed on screen), was a huge step forward. And remember, you can edit video ect. on it, the SNES could only play games.....Sluggo
it also shows the problem with paralax on the amiga. it was paralax and nothing else. the amiga's paralax modes were too restrictive. real shame it couldn't to 4bpp fg+2bpp bg, only 3+3. you needed a 4bit playfield for decent definition in sprites, IMO.
@ZroDfects Depends what's meant by "toppled". By the mid-90s, you could play games on a 1995 PC that were broadly superior to a 1985 Amiga. Is that impressive? (Shrugs.) Not really. Note also that many of the graphics cards coming out for the PC copied ideas from the Amiga's custom graphics chipset. The Amiga was an amazing machine, years ahead of its time, mishandled for the most part by Commodore, and also perhaps so far ahead that the world wasn't ready for it.
woot. Someone else played Projectyle. The game rocked so much and not one single clone or anything during the years. Forget Angry birds. make this game again and it will rock the casual market.
The shadow of the beast tune is very good, it reminds me some good times ! But you forget to put the best amiga game tunes ever : 1) Dune : Ecolove 2) Dune : Freemen 3) Vectorballs (amiga demo) available here : h t t p : / / kengy.free.fr/samples/vectorballs.mod 4) Many soundtracks from lemmings 5) Twintris (all levels, even intro)
3bp+3bp = 15 colours total 4bp+2bp = 19 colours total , same bandwidth i know some games used the sprite trick (copper repositioning sprites to repeat a bitmap across) but if they had the 4+2 option you'd still have the sprites free.. and it wouldnt have consumed copper instruction bandwidth. imo, the best 16colour games look better than 3+3 .. eg i prefer turrican1,2 to turrican3
Katakis was basically a rip off of R-Type, and ended up getting removed from shelves. However, Activision were so impressed with what Factor 5 were able to do on Amiga with Katakis, they gave them the chance to do the official R-Type conversion, which they did.
Chris Hülsbeck rules! I had and have the honor to work together with him on many game soundtracks. Great list! Musical greetings, Rapture
What game system did you work with Hulsbeck on ?. I like this top 10 lists from people that played the amiga, their personal picks. It got me thinking that really any personal list i would draw up would preface with the fact i consider C.Hulsbeck the best composer of the era, even if none of his themes were on the list. Seams back then literally every piece he done, even tiny segments, are very memorable, from playing the games back then.
@@m.p.jallan2172 Yes, on Amiga and C64, Chris' tracks were very memorable, even tiny side music tracks! I listened to Chris Hülsbeck's music and played games with his music in 80s already as pupil in elementary school! I played C64 in 80s and Amiga in 90s. I met Chris in 1995 so that was already after C64/Amiga era. Game systems I worked on with Chris include PC (Windows 95 to Windows 10), Playstation 3/4, Xbox 360/one, Wii U, Switch, and more. I always wanted to make music for 8/16bit systems but I was kid & teen in 80s and 90s. :)
@@RaptureMusicOfficial I heard your Gadget tunes and think they have aged well, its cool how one of the those tunes has reached a new audience. Did Vision Meda just do the one game ?. I wondered if you worked on any more ps1 games.
@@m.p.jallan2172 Yes Vision Media just did this one game and it's the only PS1 game I worked on. Thanks for your comment!
Awesome video.. 10 songs aren't enough! :)
As someone else on here has also said: the day I realised the Amiga days were over was after playing a deathmatch serial link up of Doom. The Amiga is always gonna be a huge part of my life and I still get shivers watching these vids.
The name "Amiga" is apt.. it's like remembering your first girlfriend.
Yeah, I remember playing deathmatch Doom with two pc's. It changed gaming forever.
Shadow of the Beast holds memories for me - the music and graphics were just amazing back in the day.
Before I watched the video I said to myself, "If Blood Money isn't in it, the list is Fail!" Good thing is was there. ;) Great stuff!
Some good amiga tunes there. Were so many good ones to choose from. Nice one.
Chris Huelsbeck = legend.
Indeed!
Very good top quality xselection.
You obviously like your flying shoot 'em up's.
Thanks for sharing!
Project X, Apidya, Overdrive (I had forgotten about that!) and Turrican! But I owned Turrican II and that soundtrack kicks ass still to this day! -- Lovely video.
@ZroDfects If I recall, Shadow of the Beast (simply called Beast on the title screen) was originally just a tech demo to show variable scrolling sections that somebody decided to make into a full game. And the music was just as awesome.
Shadow of the Beast and Turrican two of my all time favorites!...and at 1:52 epic track!! Thumbs up all the way.
Oh yeah Apidya! I often starts the game just to listen to the music from Meadows Edge and The Pond. If this game comes out for the virtual console I will difinately buy it, just to listen to the music!
And then, when I listened 3 or 4 hours I will play that awesome shooter again! I really loved this game!
I absolute love this compilation!
ah man so many games I played there, bringing back a lot of memories! cheers!
Nice video! Also your cool selection since it is different from what i'd expect to be the best music on Amiga. A top ten without out the Jaguar Xj220 hmmm?. Apidya's track was a funny choice since you show us the level : "the pond" but chose Meadows edge as your favorite. the actual song from the pond is 10 times better in my opinion but hey! Everybody his own taste right?! Thanx a lot!
Watching some of these videos makes me wish i had have got an Amiga when i was a kid.. I was a c64 person..
Oh my God. I totally forgot that Project X existed. I remember getting the floppy disc for DOS, at Hi-School Pharmacy, when I was a kid.
@HelloFade2 That was a common problem on the Amiga - it had amazing sound chip, but not enough sound channels for sound FX and music together in many games :(
great comp!
These are all great music tracks! And does anyone else agree that most Amiga games are better looking than today's 2d games?
Few people know this, but it was _also_ due to Chris Huelsbeck. Not only did he create some awesome and memorable soundtracks like Turrican, R-Type, Apydia, etc. he is also the inventor of the very first "modtracker" that actually allowed to create such distinct ahead-at-its-time music in the first place.
@rotokka now that you mention it, it doesn't sound quite as I think I remember it, but I don't know. It was recorded with the video and audio recorders built into winuae so perhaps the emulation or the compression breaks the music a bit.
It is humanly impossible to create a top 10 best Amiga music collection since there are hundreds and hundreds of awesome tracks out there that make current gen consoles sound like a pocket watch.
That Shadow of the Beast tune is by far the best of the bunch.... The Amiga was and still is.. a brilliant machine... It'll always be cool.
Shout out to Amiga's Heimdall by Core Design/Martin Iveson. Loved that music track.
Loved every sountrack posted on this video. Golden axe is my personal favorite, everyone liking this video should take a look at GAxe
To be honest, I feel like when they were creating the game "Awesome", that they all sat around a table and one guy said to the group, "We need to create a game with awesome graphics and awesome gameplay otherwise we are screwed"... to which Tim Wright replied... "how about instead I just pack it with several untouchable awesome music tracks and the rest of the game won't matter"... and the rest is history.
blood money !!! great intro !!!
@Thiima52 yep, it just got a revamp
My favourite one out of your list is the scrolling shooter one.
How I miss the scene....Iceman of Zylon/Alpha-Flight on the scroller here ;)
I love Project X ! Vive l'Amiga
Entertaining list! I had never heard the Overdrive soundtrack, sounded awesome! I made a list of my own a while back, lets compare :)
@Thiima52 It was close, however. Thanks to you I could find the right game. Saint Dragon was the game. Nostalgic.
Street Fighter 2 on the SNES' 1 MHz processor had multiple scrolling backgrounds.
Out of these 10 games, I've only played Project X and Turrican and they are one of my favorite games on the Amiga. I personally think there is better music than this on the Amiga, but I give it 5 stars because the list is well presented and has some good ingame video ;)
i have amiga cdtv and i love this machine toady too its my first love
@heikkint Couldn't say it better myself. All the way to the sentence "woot someone else played projectyle". The game was damn good, fresh idea and so much fun with a friend!
Big fan of the Blood Money tune !
and to think the Amiga was made in 1985, it was way ahead of its time!!!
In fact the Denaris/Katakis and the Amiga-version of R-Type were made by the same developers (Factor 5).
Great selection, but I miss the Turrican 2 intro music, Pinball Dreams saga (all great), Lotus Saga... From my point of view, the best songs of your selection are Overdrive and Project X.
Actually, the SNES had a CPU that could run at different rates up to 3.58Mhz and a nice PPU which I believe pulled its clock from the CPU speed. But it did some nice parallax scrolling, true...Of course it was released 5 years after the Amiga and you'd expect some great graphics features for games, as its a console.
word up
The music in Awesome was just Awesome
@Geekzon But wasn't there also a game called St Dragon?
Is there a MIDI version of this Shadow of the Beast track? :)
some of the songs are, the sound of the future :D
I remeber a game where you are a big dragon, that covers the most of the screen. And you shoot fire at enemies. What was the game called? Simular to Project X, but instead a massive dragonsnake. kinda.
I remember Zool had the same song as Lotus Challenge or wahtever it was. maybe the 3rd Lotus game
katakis is from factor 5. At the time they tried to move famous arcade and console titles onto the home computer. So, Giana Sister for Mario, Katakis for R-Type....imho
@deftones1007 Yup, the in-game music was spectacular. Psygnosis was the best...Blood Money, Awesome, Shadow of the Beast series, Denaris, Menace....all great games with killer soundtracks!
except for shadow the beast (and at first, the intro, in fact), my ears are crying and you definitively weren't born at that time ^^
What about Xenon 2 Megablast and Pinball Fantasies??
leander stage 1 , agony title are so good
It was. Factor 5 made the R-Type Clone Katakis and were sued by Activision who had the rights for R-Type computer-versions because of the similarity of the games. So Katakis was withdrawn from sale and later re-released as Denaris with reworked levels.
But Activision was impressed by the game and the abilities of Factor 5, so they contracted them for the official Amiga conversion of R-Type.
Thanks! St.Dragon was the game!
Anyone looking for old games should join the lemon amiga forum. It's quite active with like minded people and any questions regarding "i remember a game with,... what was it?" can easily be answered most of the time :P
Good choice, but i would have put Battlesquadron Super cars 2 Gods Xenon 2 or even ghouls n ghost instead of overdrive.
R-Type looks exactly like Denaris (aka Katakis). Are the games related in a any way?
Yep, Shadow of the Beast was the undisputed king of parallax. It still looks better than any Amiga game today.
its sort of strange listening to this just after dubstep, this is what new-age electronica evolved from. like the amigas gonna die out though ;) live long AMIGA!
when I die I wanna be burried with my amiga
Me too
I've ended Apydia without losting =) Good memories... !!!
My list in no particular order: Alien Breed 2,
shadow of the beast (all of them),
leander,
fury of the furries,
chaos engine,
chuck rock 2,
cannon fodder,
stardust,
full contact,
wiz n liz,
honourable mentions:
Gods,
wicked,
north and south,
superfrog,
james pond 2,
pinball dreams/fantasies/illusions
One of the lotus 3 tracks is the same as the main theme for the original zool
Shadow of the beast was just awesome, made the amiga really stand out.
The start of Project-X sounds little wierd =(? What did you use to record these?
Even after all these years many of the amiga games of my past have better graphics & better music then probably half the inde games on steam.
r-type is the same of katakis...?
@Geekzon it's saint dragon
Truely classic game scores on amiga, forgot about Awesome game tune.
My Top 5
(1) Turrican
(2) Turrican 2
(3) Lotus Turbo Challenge 2
(4) Nitro
(5) Blood Money
When did the Amiga die for me?
After playing Doom 1 deathmatch on 486 PC's on a 3-way serial link. I remember it said in the readme, cross your fingers, it only sometimes works LOL. That was it, i was converted, X-wing helped too.
Shadow of the beast still beats any side scroller today, even back then Shadow of the beast was using something like 9 seperate scrolling bakgrounds with no slow down on a incy 7mhz machine. Show me just 1 game that does just half that today ?
OMG. Project X map from Superfrog and its music is a parody of an actual game called Project X?!
It was called St. Dragon.
Good themes.
The SNES came out in 1990, if you want to compare it to the Amiga, I suggest you compare to the 1990 Amiga. The Amiga 3000, 25Mhz 68030, 1440 × 580 262 ,144 colors of Multitasking muscle. As far as the original Amiga chipset, it featured Hardware accellerated scrolling. So the Parallax background was no big deal. The 4096 color pallete, (which could be fully displayed on screen), was a huge step forward. And remember, you can edit video ect. on it, the SNES could only play games.....Sluggo
Thanks !
Was it just me or did you feel like you were playing the future when playing the Amiga???
Excuse me , Turrican 3 , the best music intro.....EVER!
@Geekzon saint dragon?
it also shows the problem with paralax on the amiga.
it was paralax and nothing else.
the amiga's paralax modes were too restrictive. real shame it couldn't to 4bpp fg+2bpp bg, only 3+3. you needed a 4bit playfield for decent definition in sprites, IMO.
OH SHIT! BLOOD MONEY!
Even at the age of 34, the music from Shadow of the Beast still feels me with sheer terror.
Is that the music from Project-X SE? Because the original music was much better imho.
GO CHRIS HÜLSBECK!
@ZroDfects
Depends what's meant by "toppled". By the mid-90s, you could play games on a 1995 PC that were broadly superior to a 1985 Amiga. Is that impressive? (Shrugs.) Not really.
Note also that many of the graphics cards coming out for the PC copied ideas from the Amiga's custom graphics chipset. The Amiga was an amazing machine, years ahead of its time, mishandled for the most part by Commodore, and also perhaps so far ahead that the world wasn't ready for it.
Super Cars II???
woot. Someone else played Projectyle. The game rocked so much and not one single clone or anything during the years. Forget Angry birds. make this game again and it will rock the casual market.
@Thiima52
lol does not even sound close to alien breed, sounds like saint dragon.
The shadow of the beast tune is very good, it reminds me some good times !
But you forget to put the best amiga game tunes ever :
1) Dune : Ecolove
2) Dune : Freemen
3) Vectorballs (amiga demo) available here : h t t p : / / kengy.free.fr/samples/vectorballs.mod
4) Many soundtracks from lemmings
5) Twintris (all levels, even intro)
@Geekzon Sounds like DragonBreed
Hulsbeck's stuff sounds very Tangerine Dream influenced (80s-era).
Yes, Chris mentions Tangerine Dream as one of his main inspirations of his 80s and 90s compositions!
wtf, the graphics are so amazing, why was the NES so overhyped over the Amiga? maybe the price=?
3bp+3bp = 15 colours total
4bp+2bp = 19 colours total , same bandwidth
i know some games used the sprite trick (copper repositioning sprites to repeat a bitmap across) but if they had the 4+2 option you'd still have the sprites free.. and it wouldnt have consumed copper instruction bandwidth.
imo, the best 16colour games look better than 3+3 .. eg i prefer turrican1,2 to turrican3
Amazing tracks and there are a lot more of them but my top ten Amiga music are all from Chris Hülsbeck especially ⋆✴∗* ℸurrican II *∗✴⋆
I had Overdrive DEMO! imagine that. fucking from .. jesus.. Amiga format magazine
The first game sounds a bit like a happy hardcore tune
Not the best AMIGA musics (for me ;-) ) but really cool !!!
Katakis was basically a rip off of R-Type, and ended up getting removed from shelves. However, Activision were so impressed with what Factor 5 were able to do on Amiga with Katakis, they gave them the chance to do the official R-Type conversion, which they did.
As much as I hate to admit, i've never played ghouls and ghosts, or heard the tune :(
No flashback????