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Those old DOS shareware demos? The soundtracks went hard as a motherfucker!

Stay Up Be Easy

Stay Up Be Easy

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Dec 31, 2017
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Pops used to go to Gibraltor Trade Center/flea market every month. I ate real good off the demos.

Some of these electronic soundtracks are burned into my memory just as much as the classic console franchises as far as what video games sound like.
The harshness adds something absent from even NES games.







Just something so dark and moody about even the colorful platformers.
 
lazygecko

lazygecko

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Oct 25, 2017
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Major deja vu moment on that Galactix intro. I remember playing that game on some CD stuffed full of random shareware in the 90's and that poorly made TV news segment stuck with me for some reason.
 
MrCunningham

MrCunningham

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Nov 15, 2017
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Really depended on the audio hardware your computer had in those days. My parents old 386 had nothing but a PC audio speaker, and would let out some nasty "bleeps and bloops". The first PC I had with a MIDI audio out was the Creative Sound Blaster Live PCI /128. Which had a pretty good MIDI sound to it, I don't know if it was one of the best MIDI output cards though, but it did come out near the end of DOS/ MIDI era in 1997 and was a good cheap solution for the time.



The thing about MIDI is, different PC hardware had their own distinct sound, which made tracks sound different on different hardware.
 
roguesquirrel

roguesquirrel

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Oct 29, 2017
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the best track in Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is the one that plays during the "Buy the full version!" spiel in the shareware demo:
 
Hayeya

Hayeya

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Configuring your sound blaster and making it work with Dos games was a process in itself, i love my childhood.
 
cognizant

cognizant

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There's a game I can't remember the name of, where you're on a type of skateboard, the view is top down, you're traveling on train tracks or something, you can jump from track to track. It's either set in the future or a wasteland. I still remember the music to this day.

I'm on my phone right now but will try and Google it later. Think I played it on Atari ST in the 90s.
 
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