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#3872: Infamous - Arkanoid
Added to rotation: 2010-04-14 13:34:55
Song last played: 2026-05-27 18:25:29
Song last requested: 2025-01-01 01:50:12
Artist last played: 2026-06-08 22:17:51
Number of plays: 487
Requests: 36
Votes: 164
Song length: 06:13


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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 commentThis 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)
 




REMIX64.COM
OVERALL REMIX64 VOTE:

Nada:
Although I'm not really a big fun of the genre, I can't help but reckon that this is a BRILLIANT track!
005agima:
I like
NecroPolo:
It is not as obvious as you would suspect but somehow works for me as a background track. Impressive sounds and overall mixing. I'm not fan of the genre either…
Melaure:
Nice
condor:
Clap doesn't fit, it stands in front of everything else… And it's ruining every other great detail.
pelya:
There's no lead in this song, just beats, too plain
LaLa:
Makes me sleepy! It has that hypnotic trance quality. Technically superb, but in all other aspects I am not a big fan of it.