Category Archives: music

Ben Daglish

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I read the other day, that the music from ‘The Last Ninja‘ is the best chiptune game music – ever.

Ben Dalgish made the music to ‘The Last Ninja‘, together with Anthony Lee and ‘The Last Ninja‘ game and music gave birth to a series of games, that has grown to a cult among old-skool game-nerds. Ben Dalgish also worked together with Rob Hubbard on ‘Auf wiedersehen Monty‘.

Ben Dalgish has made music on a number of different home computer platforms, and for quite a number of games, including:

I believe that ‘The Last Ninja‘ and ‘Auf wiedersehen Monty‘ is by far best work of Ben Dalgish.

Out Run (Arcade)

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Arcade platform Take a trip back in time, and listen to some of the work of Hiroshi Kawaguchi. Game music from ‘Out Run‘. Game made by Sega AM2 and was released in 1986 by Sega. Longplay: @YouTube Source of inspiration … Continue reading →

The Original

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A lot of home computer (C64, Amiga, Atari ST) games are based on official arcade (coin-up) versions, and then ported/converted to the home computer, limited by its capabilities of course.

This also includes the game music. In some games, the music is converted true to the original game music (as possible) and in other games, the music is made from a interpretation of the original game music.

The list of games that have been converted from a arcade version includes:

The list would almost be endless but I’ve limited it to contain games I either played when young or have posted on this site.