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by: Martin Galway
copyright: 1987 Imagine

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CSDb entry: https://csdb.dk/sid/?id=13263

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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)
TITLE: 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)
TITLE: Hiscore [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
ARTIST: Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)
TITLE: Intro [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
ARTIST: Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)
TITLE: Level Start [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
ARTIST: Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)
TITLE: Boss Level Start [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
ARTIST: Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)
TITLE: Game Over [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
ARTIST: Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)
TITLE: Extra Life [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
ARTIST: Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)