General Discussion

[xx_Tooms109_xx]

Can only think of one ...And its this,from the early 90s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaAoTA3t_yk

Original c64/spectrum/amstrad tune (ROBOCOP title screen) by jonathan Dunn,Ocean Software.Around 1988,i think.

Can anyone else think of any others?

Doesnt count if,its advertising a game ....Sorry

[rollandrat]

There was an advert for a car that had an a song from lbp, although I don't think the song was made for the game so I guess it doesn't count.

[dannyjt]

The TV show Spaced used a lot of video game music, especially stuff from Resident Evil.

[xx_Tooms109_xx]

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dannyjt wrote:
The TV show Spaced used a lot of video game music, especially stuff from Resident Evil.

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Thanks,have to look that up.

Me and a group of friends were on about this the other night (music in ads/films) - And the ariston advert is all we could come up with.

Cant get that damn tune out of my head now.

[rancidpunk]

Had the game, remember the advert, but never realised that before!

[ProjectVRD]

I can't think of game music being used for adverts, but I know of a piece of music that became famous because it was used in a game advert. Akkadian Empire. After it featured in StarCraft 2 it's popularity skyrocketed and it was then started to be played on radio stations like Classical FM in UK and others all around the world. And then... hollywood got in the act by using it as music for an Avatar Trailer.

But it was Starcraft 2 that got the classical world's attention to it, it is produced by a group called Audio Machine and it is probably the most epic 2 minute piece of music ever.

[xx_Tooms109_xx]

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rancidpunk wrote:
Had the game, remember the advert, but never realised that before!

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Yeah.

My guess is that it was orinally made for C64 ,because jonathan dunn's machine of choice was the c64 .He took over from martin galway (c64 musician) at OCEAN after he left for sensible software.

It was then converted to the 128k zx spectrum and amstrad (near identical sound chips) ...And later to the GAMEBOY - Which is the version played in the advert.

Link to the c64 version of the tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4dmo05Ys3k