Chiptunes

[Caydr]

What's your favourite chiptune?

(A chiptune refers to low-tech music such as you got on anything up to the NES generation of consoles, possibly up to SNES/Genesis era depending on how cheap a developer was.)

My favorite that I can remember right now is from a little-known C64 game called Duotris. It was a decent tetris clone with the added benefit of being able to get a bomb as a bonus from time to time. The bomb would clear out a bunch of columns. More interesting was that it included a cooperative 2-player mode, the first and last of its kind afaik. Two people would play tetris in the same playing field, there'd be two blocks falling at all times into a common pit. You had to cooperate. Of course... well I've never seen it played cooperatively, it mainly turned into a match of "who can block the other person's tetrominos most effectively". Still really cool idea.

Gameplay music:
http://www.aaspring.com/theme.m4a

Whoever wrote the music must be a famous name in music by now, this tune really stood out from just about anything else on the C64, he/she did an incredible job with so little to work with. I think when I finally get around to learning how to compose original music, one of my first projects will be to make a modern version.

[jcnossen]

IIRC i found it on some MOD file site, so it probably wasn't used in a game, but it's still chip.

[BrainDamage]

monkey island 1 & 2 main theme

[[Krogoth86]]

Well I think you should exclude SNES and that stuff as it's way superior and has so many great soundtracks (Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Starwing, Super Mario Stuff of all kinds, Zelda and the list goes on and on)...

When it comes to old games I can't really pick a favorite but I really enjoyed the Summer Games theme tune, Zak McKraken and music from Megaman games although there probably are more to credit...

[nemppu]

i like virt

[REVENGE]

Crack group stuff is what I've listened to mainly.

[Teutooni]

Great Giana Sisters

EDIT: oops, typo

[KDR_11k]

Play Seiklus.

[Machiosabre]

the word "chiptune" pisses me off to no end, and this is the first time I've read it.

[Tribulexrenamed]

http://www.videlectrix.com/songs/stinkoman_level1.mp3

That.

[Caydr]

Great Gianna Sisters

The "underworld" theme was definitely awesome in that game. Did you ever play the Mario sprites hack?

[nemppu]

http://www.last.fm/music/virt

[Snipawolf]

Crack group stuff is what I've listened to mainly.

Yeah, a while back I heard a razor 1911 one that was awesome.

[Teutooni]

Nah, haven't actually played GGS. Love the sound of c64 SID, though.

[KDR_11k]

Great Gianna Sisters

The "underworld" theme was definitely awesome in that game. Did you ever play the Mario sprites hack?

Mostly did because I had that in a version that included a trainer .

[Teutooni]

Now that I had the chance to hear these tunes out... Amazing. Duotris theme sure is epic win.

[reivanen]

Acid Jazzed Evening, even timbaland thinks its so hot that he stole it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Timba ... ontroversy