Doddsy wrote:An idea or inspiration for a certain style after listening to a sid tune. Some I'd like to do as they were classics back in my day - Ocean Loader, One Man And His Droid, Thing on a spring etc but most have been remixed heavily so its difficult to add anything new.
Martin, how did appreciation for the classics build in your day? As an avid C64 gamer up until about 1988 who admittedly had a heavy bias towards RPGs, I didn't know about many of these songs or composer names until relatively recently getting into listening to C64 remixes. I think I maybe had one Ocean game but didn't remember the tune.
Were you a musician for C64 games? Part of the "demo" scene?
Although I appreciate them in retrospect, I wouldn't have gone out of my way to buy a coin-op style action game like Crazy Comets, or a platform game that would have been more at home on a Nintendo -- I'd spend my limited money on something like Below the Root, M.U.L.E., Text Adventures, Strategy Games or the Ultima series instead. Games that required keyboard interaction to some degree. I always felt those were the types of games that made the most of the Commodore 64. Now I realize that in places like the UK there was a huge market for low-budget games like those of the Dizzy series, and those had some wicked little tunes in them. I can see how those would be popular.
In the States I recall no such market for budget titles, but then again I was a kid with limited cash being saved up for some big-budget expensive RPG with a cloth map and a lead ankh and 10 diskettes.
I remember having a disk of SIDs that a friend gave me, but they were mostly covers of pop songs by Cyndi Lauper or Michael Jackson or something like that. Heck, they might have been in that .MUS format! There was no way I was going to be exposed to many of the "classic" tunes so often in the C64Audio.com roster.
I guess I feel like I missed out, and am wondering what that "scene" was and who comprised it....?
