The Challenge 27/05/09

Renesongs

andrewjbryson wrote: The Topic for This Week

"ViDeO GaMe bACkTrAX"

Your interpretation of 80/ early 90's video game background music.
Think Nintendo, Think SEGA, Think Atari or the original Arcade Coin Ups.

Very wide range of sounds to go for :

Action / RPG / Puzzle / Sports

As long as you can have this in the background while the game is running...

This could be interesting, I have a pack-man game that has Satriani's Always with me, Always with you as a backtrack

Heath

damn now where did i put that old sound blaster 16 , and what edits .voc files

Spyke

Interesting indeed... hmmmm.. :-\

CDee

Great topic! I love old video games...

Now my only problem is to get a guitar... I'm on holiday and couldn't get my guitar into the car too :'( :'(
Anybody in Port edward area willing to give/sell/pawn/rent me a guitar??? ?

Squonk

Anyone know of any sound effects that I can download.... ???

andrewjbryson

So pretend you have been hired to design background music for a certain level.

The first idea that comes to mind for me is a platform game

Contra , Mario, or the shoot-em ups ?

doc-phil

andrewjbryson wrote: Contra , Mario, or the shoot-em ups ?

Contra was the most amazing game ever!! ?

Lethe

doc-phil wrote:
andrewjbryson wrote: Contra , Mario, or the shoot-em ups ?
Contra was the most amazing game ever!! ?

yeah, what a cool game!

andrewjbryson

Does anyone remember Elevator Action???

Also the Captain America game on Nintendo had killer background music...

Dunno who sat and programmed the tracks, but pure Genius

doc-phil

andrewjbryson wrote: Does anyone remember Elevator Action???

Haha yes I remember it, it was a lot of fun.

Others I enjoyed were Wrecking Crew, Paperboy and Ice Climber.

AlanRatcliffe

He, He ... Good one Andrew! Gives me an excuse to listen to the tracks Bumblefoot did for the WIld Woody soundtrack. ?

Spyke

The only niggle I see with this is the modern games, they all have proper soundtracks - Bullet For My Valentine, Bad Religion, etc... makes it kinda generic. I guess you need to really play something that will get votes though. ?

Squonk

I agree Spyke

Andrew does state "Your interpretation of early 80/90's video games" , So it must sound cheesy/electronic etc.

Must imgine Mario jumping over things ?

Spyke

Ah yes... me reading like a preschooler again... :-[

CDee

Ah... the good old days... California games 2... splatting against the wall with your skateboard... that was fun...
Programming sounds in QBasic...
?

Heath

SO a rocked up , guitar screaming version of the donkey kong theme

andrewjbryson

CDee wrote: Ah... the good old days... California games 2... splatting against the wall with your skateboard... that was fun...
Programming sounds in QBasic...
?

QBASIC!!! Legend!

I used to be such a hack and copy random code from the "HELP Index" and made my own lame ass games

I used to make little songs too , and push my PC Speaker to the MAX lol

Heath

I remember writing games in pascal and using mod files from the then demo scene downloaded from bbs bulletin boards . I made a lpt soundcard that was popular with the mod files with a hand full of resistors and a parrele conector . miss dem days .

SpeedStar

Not sure on the rules, but can I record my guitar over the games midi track? I don't have the time to make the
drum track.

AlanRatcliffe

General weekly competition rules:

Entries must be original compositions. No soloing over someone else's track and no covers.
Only four instruments. Added voice is usually allowed as a "freebie" (in an effort to get our members out of their singing shells).
Duration must be no longer than a minute. This makes it easier for voters to download lots of entries.

Also note that there may be specific limitations or allowances for any particular topic, as laid out by the originator.