Songs in Games

[Chad]

I just realized the Moon Patrol in game music is very similar to the opening of the song by Ray Charles "What'd I say". Anyone else know game themes that sound like songs that didn't appear to be credited in the game or wiki?

[GNU]

Hi Chad,

here's one for you : there is the Vangelis "charriot's of fire" theme at the end of Track and field loops.

[Chad]

Yeah no doubt. The Track and Field runners also mimic what they did in the movie on the beach in attract mode!

Add to that: I just put 2 and 2 togther and jotted down that Pengo (a game I rarely played in the arcades) had one of my favorite songs that got me interested in electronic music = Pop Corn by Hot Butter!

[Weehawk]

Top Roller

Walk, Don't Run - The Ventures

[Q. T. Quazar]

Mikie and subsets were all Beatles music. Not sure how they managed to get away with that.

[Q. T. Quazar]

I'd be guessing Journey might be as well. Just a hunch

[Chad]

Mikie and subsets were all Beatles music. Not sure how they managed to get away with that.

One of Bomb Jack's levels is an clean lady madonna melody.

[Q. T. Quazar]

Just read today that Ken's stage in SF2 is a rip-off of Cheap Trick's "Mighty Wings"

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentalit ... -know-abo/

[dan]

Amidar (Pattern 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH-3-v_EReQ

[AL]

An honorable reverse-mention (i.e games in songs/videos)

Moby - We Are All Made of Stars :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAh6fk0KD1c

Spot those games!


AL

[The TJT]

Nice one Al. They even had Todd Rogers in that video.


What's this game and computer? C64 Scramble?

IN

Blue Öyster Cult - Take Me Away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KhMomoc ... re=related

[BeeJay]

The computer is an Apple IIe. I remember playing the game in question heaps on our Apple II computers at school, but I'm struggling to remember the name of the game at the moment.

It was definitely not called scramble.

Edit: I think it is Star Blazer by Tony Suzuki - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s79Pv0bXua4

[Chad]

The computer is an Apple IIe. I remember playing the game in question heaps on our Apple II computers at school, but I'm struggling to remember the name of the game at the moment.

It was definitely not called scramble.

Edit: I think it is Star Blazer by Tony Suzuki - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s79Pv0bXua4

Wow does youtube mess up that great 1 bit sound! here's a better way to see apple2 Star Blazer

http://www.homeactionreplay.org/search. ... tourney=36

But there were no songs in Star Blazer what are you talking about?

[The TJT]

But there were no songs in Star Blazer what are you talking about?

His post was a reply to mine about Blue Öyster cult song/vid. You can blame Al for "derailing" this topic!

[Chad]

oh ok, trying to make this a games in songs thread, ey? That's impressive that star blazer got that much credit, it was seriously a no namer. God, I love 1980's videos. They are just so awesome. The acting is horrible and the directing is worse, but it all makes up for it in the hair styles and glasses :)