One of the most impressive things about this track is the way it gives the impression of more than three voices playing simultaneously. I really like "gladiatorial" sounding bits as well.
Even today, how many fighting games exist can you chop people's head off like this and watch the body fall down. It just never gets freaking old. Wouldn't mind a HD remastering of this game.
Mortal Kombat is a huge fan of it. But I'd say this really needs a deep redo too, regardless, Influenced Prince of Persia and kickstarted the fighting game.
In the world of gaming OSTs - it'd be too easy to start listing off the most widely appreciated ones. Mario/Zleda/Halo - all with good reason. But if I think of a single system's "discography" - with all it's composers - and most of all, the ability to still provoke an emotional response after all these years? I always start here - with the SID Forever a classic - RIP Richard Joseph
I'm 40 years old and i'm still here in 2023, listening to this legendary Commodore 64 game soundtrack 🎵🎶 😼🤘🕹️. I had BARBARIAN for my Commodore 64 as a tape version in a compilation called WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS. I believe, i still have this game for my Amiga 500. Retrospective greetings from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮 😺👍🕹️.
This music, along with the music for the first level of The Last Ninja, are probably the two greatest examples of what the c64 sound chip was capable of. If only more games these days could get such atmospheric tracks on a limited budget and technical limitations.
I loved to play this game on the side that gives the background where you have to save the princess I only managed to do it once, I'm surprised no one's tried to remake the game original soundtrack and all
Mongol General: Conan! What is best in life? Conan: To cut the head of your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the awesome tune of Barbarian in the C64 Mongol General: That is good! That is good.
As an old user of the Amstrad CPC, it's always frustrating to notice that C64 most of the time had better versions! There is a part in this music that didn't even exist on CPC...
This game was sold with a poster of gorgeous page 3 girl Maria Whittaker in a skimpy bikini. I have to wonder, thinking back, how many parents bought 'little Timmy' this game thinking it was all innocent fun, without realising how their kids actually wanted the poster more than the game itself ;)
Always open with the head chop on the second guy (green shirt above), 100% success rate. I could toy with the last black shirt guy but f@&% me I never got close to the wizard.
is there sounds in this track in parts where it sounds like its skipping a bit or is it just me ? its good quality , it just sounds like its skipping in some parts
Ich bin die Glaubenskrieger von Tod und mein Herz ist Hart wie die Stahl bring ich, mein Köpf Konnektivität mit deinem, durch alle Menschen und Hexen, Magie es gibt kein Mächt, mein Svärd Knick Knack Fleischer Schnitt auß dein Leben.
![Rob Hubbard - Nemesis the Warlock [C64]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/kdzfOXkZrY0/mqdefault.jpg)
![Rob Hubbard - Nemesis the Warlock [C64]](/img/tr.png)
![Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax Longplay (C64) [50 FPS]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fdEZuK8PqLg/mqdefault.jpg)
2:15 immediate goosebumps :D
Yes! I'm ready to chop the head of anything! :-D
Yes but it sounded different and then remembered that I used to play this with C64 using different SID chip than this recording
Immediately felt the urge to walk backwards, spamming the button!
Soon 46 and I loved this game as teen.
soon 48 still loving the game
One of the most impressive things about this track is the way it gives the impression of more than three voices playing simultaneously. I really like "gladiatorial" sounding bits as well.
exactly. it sounds orchestral. not just using arpeggio but cleverly swapping patterns in and out.
2 intruments per channel + 1 samples
This tune is still fantastic after all these years
...and it is still today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A true classic that will never fail to please and chill. Thank you, Richard Joseph!
This is just SO massive... This can never be forgotten...
39 and I'm here.
Hey, me too!
33 ur welcome
And now you're 41... need a hand, crossing the street already?
41 ;-)
Dammit Chris! You beat me to it 😡
Even today, how many fighting games exist can you chop people's head off like this and watch the body fall down.
It just never gets freaking old. Wouldn't mind a HD remastering of this game.
Yeah, its freaking awesome.
Mortal Kombat is a huge fan of it. But I'd say this really needs a deep redo too, regardless, Influenced Prince of Persia and kickstarted the fighting game.
5:30!
That fade, shimmering warble!
I love this track, been loving it since I was 7. Seriously it's super awesome and great for all of it's 6½ minutes.
Still giving me the chills when I hear it after so many years!! THANKSSS!!!
In the world of gaming OSTs - it'd be too easy to start listing off the most widely appreciated ones. Mario/Zleda/Halo - all with good reason.
But if I think of a single system's "discography" - with all it's composers - and most of all, the ability to still provoke an emotional response after all these years? I always start here - with the SID
Forever a classic - RIP Richard Joseph
Mortal Kombat has a lot of props to give to this game.
49 in 24 still here for Barbarian.
I so loved this soundtrack, one of the best on c64 if not the best. Damn, it looks like it was yesterday but it's really not XD
defender of the crown, even a masterpiece by richard 🙂
Outta fuckin nowhere today at work this game's music started playing in my head and wouldn't stop
This is music to my ears.
Composer: Richard Joseph & Basil Poledouris (uncredited...)
One of the rare examples, where 144p Quality is actually BETTER.
That would just make it muffled and flat sounding
I'm 40 years old and i'm still here in 2023,
listening to this legendary Commodore 64 game soundtrack 🎵🎶 😼🤘🕹️.
I had BARBARIAN for my Commodore 64 as a tape version in a compilation called
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.
I believe, i still have this game for my
Amiga 500.
Retrospective greetings from
Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮 😺👍🕹️.
Mee too! I’m 47! 😄
Masterpiece.
Incredible music.
This 8 bits view and this sound bring me over the clouds and remind me my happiest era of my life which is impossible to taste again.
A 3 octav masterpiece.
02:15 it really kicks in :D I will chop heads and get the girl >:@
Exactly!
A super complex piece of music by any standard....
2 people got headchopped in Lvl 1!
Who the fuck disliked that? I loved this game. And the fact that you could do a fatality aka decapitation while playing and not in the end!! :D
This music, along with the music for the first level of The Last Ninja, are probably the two greatest examples of what the c64 sound chip was capable of.
If only more games these days could get such atmospheric tracks on a limited budget and technical limitations.
I agree, but I must also point out the SECOND level in Last Ninja, which is also a masterpiece.
@@Erik-vp5bmI agree with you. I think I would also add in Last Ninja 2 central park, Driller, Monty on the run and Auf Wiedersen Monty to the mix
amazing conversion of the conan the barbarian soundtrack
Yeah!
I'm glad I'm not the only one to have noticed that! :)
I play Elden Ring nowadays and this would suit perfectly some boss fights
2:13 is VEEEERY "similar" to the Conan movie soundtrack
Richard Joseph I wish I wasn't born too late, you were the man & will always be ❤
5:22 sounded very different depending of the SID chip you got.
Nostalgic and Brutal.
one of my favorite games ever!!! thanks for the upload, music always ruled!
Heads off... So good so far... 👍
I loved to play this game on the side that gives the background where you have to save the princess I only managed to do it once, I'm surprised no one's tried to remake the game original soundtrack and all
real masterpiece!
Thanks for posting this, brings back the memories.
Mongol General: Conan! What is best in life?
Conan: To cut the head of your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the awesome tune of Barbarian in the C64
Mongol General: That is good! That is good.
Szerettem ezt a játékot.. C64.. King
R.I.P richard joseph.
Awesome and cool, this, rambo theme and delta in-game music are my faves from the good old c64 days.Still have all my old comps, the memories! :)
As an old user of the Amstrad CPC, it's always frustrating to notice that C64 most of the time had better versions! There is a part in this music that didn't even exist on CPC...
@@LarsTragel-zh7ei Yeah that richness of color was something else.
Marco Sfogli done a great cover of this song on his second album.
I just listened, it is amazing! thanks!
chopping of those heads and then see goblin pick them up was probably most biggest awe of my life
quality
one of the best Sid tunes ever......
coudl listen to an endless loop of this one and the last ninja, so epic
A shame that no one yet has attempted to do this theme with a live orchestra.
mitrooper there's something close done by Asterion - Barbarian (Anvil of Death)
Right now, the top suggestion I get from youtube is an orchestral version of a medley including this :)
Oh, the the times, they have changed.
A couple of years late, but I found this one: ua-cam.com/video/7XpERLDlM1A/v-deo.html from 2017. Good stuff
It, like the game, is essentially ripped off from the Arnold Schwarzenegger Conan movies.
They have!
ua-cam.com/video/7IEqsHHbKkw/v-deo.html
I've never beaten the wizard at the end, because nothing prepares you to his pattern of attack.
The ultimate c64 theme
This game was sold with a poster of gorgeous page 3 girl Maria Whittaker in a skimpy bikini. I have to wonder, thinking back, how many parents bought 'little Timmy' this game thinking it was all innocent fun, without realising how their kids actually wanted the poster more than the game itself ;)
Wow, this is lit :O
Immortal Tune
Always open with the head chop on the second guy (green shirt above), 100% success rate. I could toy with the last black shirt guy but f@&% me I never got close to the wizard.
Rad theme
great theme tune
childhood.
Considering this, Monty on the Run, and The Last Ninja 2 , the commodore 64 had some jams.
just a great musician with a great home synthesizer
They could have achieved this
Damn game music has no right being this good
I listened a lot.. ;)
head clipping .. the best!
0:12 Headbang !
There's beheading in this game! Quick, someone create the ESRB!
Bad ass game
Its 2am and i had to learn the notes at 3:48 on bass.
2:20
Heard that kids nowadays play some game called Mortal Combat 11, or something. Anybody know how many floppies I'd need to make a copy?
yesss :D
This music is pretty spiffy considering how primitive computers were then.
Oh yeah I remember...
No prob! :)
Back when I was a kid playing this, my thoughts playing this game were Conan.
is there sounds in this track in parts where it sounds like its skipping a bit or is it just me ?
its good quality , it just sounds like its skipping in some parts
I miss a sidplayer with mixer settings...
@amstrad79b Haha! Yeah! Seems so!
3:49 💀
Your dad bought you this game for the hot Valkyrie on the cover.
@vlefteris Crom approves this Barbarian Theme! ροφλ!
reminds me of gabber, lol
😒 ded
Ich bin die Glaubenskrieger von Tod und mein Herz ist Hart wie die Stahl bring ich, mein Köpf Konnektivität mit deinem, durch alle Menschen und Hexen, Magie es gibt kein Mächt, mein Svärd Knick Knack Fleischer Schnitt auß dein Leben.