Added to rotation: 2009-02-03 08:48:52
Song last played: 2026-05-24 08:22:04
Song last requested: 2024-08-03 12:31:51
Artist last played: 2026-06-08 10:29:12
Number of plays: 511
Requests: 18
Votes: 116
Song length: 02:35

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OTHER REMIXES OF THE SAME SUBTUNE

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SID INFO
HVSC path: MUSICIANS/G/Galway_Martin/Arkanoid.sid
Title: Arkanoid
Composer: Martin Galway
Copyright: 1987 Imagine
Subtunes: 20
SID model: MOS6581

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STIL comment	This is the very first published tune on the C64 that used samples. "Q: How did you get involved with using sampled sounds? MG: I figured out how samples were played by hacking into someone else's code... OK, I admit it... It was a drum synthesizer package called Digidrums, actually, so you could still say I was the first to include samples in a piece of music. [...] Never would I claim to have invented that technique, I just got it published first. In fact, I couldn't really figure out where they got the sample data, just that they were wiggling the volume register, so I tried to make up my own drum sample sounds in realtime - which is the flatulence stuff that shipped in 'Arkanoid'. [...] After the project was in the shops I gained access to some real drum samples, and I slid those into my own custom version of the tune. The one that's in the shops is kind of a collage of farts & burps, don't you think? [...] Later I was able to acquire some proper drum samples and by 'Game Over' it got quite sophisticated." (MG)
SUBTUNE INFO
#1 - Cobra (Title) [from the Spectrum game]
Artist:	Martin Galway
Comment:	"I'm glad you spotted 'Cobra' on the Spectrum, whose tune I was in love with and HAD to use somewhere else...! I figured no-one would complain if I used it a year later [for Arkanoid] on the C64." (MG)
#2 - Hiscore [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
Artist:	Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)
#3 - Intro [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
Artist:	Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)
#4 - Level Start [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
Artist:	Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)
#5 - Boss Level Start [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
Artist:	Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)
#6 - Game Over [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
Artist:	Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)
#7 - Extra Life [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
Artist:	Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)

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OVERALL REMIX64 VOTE:

rotteroy:
One of my Rune Bertils favourite!!
Runesig:
Outstanding!!!
Pepino:
Fantastic. It would be a Nº! Hit, if the synth music was better. It sounds like a children CASIO keyboard.
CharlieC:
A bit to plastic fantastic, and not on your nowadays level 😊 Love the piano, though
nicodaemus:
Maybe a bit too loosely tied to the original. A bit.
Danceaway:
Nice take on a great swing 64 track… Keep them coming…
condor:
Althought not for orange in my book, I give orange because of it's originality & effort you used for remixing this.
brix:
Hey, this makes me swing! A very good Idea and very well executed, what else could I say? This is just what a good remix has to be like.
LaLa:
Great swing arrangement! The instruments could use polishing and/or more effects, because the mix sounds too dry. But kudos for everything else!
agony:
Fantastic song!
infamous:
Unexpected, clever, slightly stiff sounding and definitely cheesier than a explosion in an edam factory but really fun
Mayhem:
Not quite expecting that sort of remix, but I like it!
Amok:
Very nice one. Superb arrangement imho.
Dumper:
Well done for remixing it in such a different way.
prowler:
Not bad at all!😀
k_rostoen:
This would fit perfectly in a sircus act. Perhaps not Doink the clown, but Amadeus the juggler.
Makke:
The sound is a wee bit cheesy and cheap, but the idea, and the fact that Rune-Bertils is a propper Swedish, Astrid Lindgren inspired, dansband adds extra flavour to the curry, and bumps the over all impression up!
Skitz:
SWING!!! Very GM sounding but still like what Rune has done here.