Lazy Jones (C64) | Retro World

Commodore 64 platform

Take a trip back in time, and listen to some of the work of David Whittaker.

Most times a game will use music from an artists or group, and not an artist using music from a 1984 game. But, back in 1999, Zombie Nation released the single “Kernkraft 400“, that contains the riff from the Lazy Jones in-game song Star Dust (#21). This resulting in Zombie Nation having to pay the programmer and composer David Whittaker, a undisclosed amount of money for this to go away.

The Game

The game itself is not all that great. Lazy Jones consists of fourteen minigames, most of them are clones of existing games of that time – as a tribute. The music plays throughout the game without interruption and will change for each new minigame – totally seamless – giving the impression that this is one song.

Whittaker, Lazy Jones - In-game 1

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Game music from ‘Lazy Jones‘. Game was released in 1984 by Terminal Software.

Fun fact!

David Whittaker did of course have permission to use Nena‘s 99 Luftballons (or 99 Red Balloons) and the part from Visage‘s Fade to Gray, that he used within this game – or did he??

The 99 Luftballons song is, by the way, song #7 and Fade to Gray is song #20 in the list above, if you want to know.

Longplay: @YouTube

Source of inspiration and material: Lemon64