Mä piirsin itse fanitaidetta vanhasta SHADOW OF THE BEAST- pelilogosta. Mä piirrän suurimmin osin furry-taidetta 😺🐰🦊. I drew a fan art of the old SHADOW OF THE BEAST game logo. I draw mostly the furry comic arts 😺🐰🦊. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jmqhLeoiagw.html
I am 44 years old and I feel all the emotions of my childhood, I see myself in my brother's room playing Beast I & II !!! Time travel is definitely possible. I have tears rising...
this music is killing me inside, this sense of nostalgia, where everything was just simpler, easier and better just hurts so bad. It's so bitter-sweet, I am so happy that I had a chance to live these days and enjoy it, but it also brings massive MASSIVE emotional pain, as I knot that that time is long gone and will never return.
This comment so resonates with me. You couldn't have summed it up better. I miss my childhood, my teen years. Being an adult brings a great set of challenges, equally good times but a lot of pressure. Back then times were so simple. Going round to a mates house playing Amiga games, or Saturday mornings where you could just wake up and switch the Amiga on and play. Buying computer magazines from the newspaper shop. I miss it so much it hurts. I just wish I savoured it more back then. As young teens we never realise at the time that one day things will be a distant memory that we'll look back on with joy. I am grateful I had these amazing times, I am forever grateful to my wonderful parents (RIP Dad) that gave me a fabulous life. Heres to all of you who feel the same. ❤
I agree wholeheartedly to this comment. But I don't think it was just nostalgia. Back then we didn't know what we were feeling, but now when I look back it looks like there was magic in the world, things that gave you goosebumps out of joy or fear. But I think those experiences were carefully constructed by people who knew what they were doing, who had to push as much emotion as they could in the limited mediums they had. In Shadow of the Beast soundtracks, for instance, I can swear that the flutes we hear are made out of the bones of the enemies we kill, and the drums are made out of the skin of the beast that you lure to a spiked rock in SotB2. The music, the instruments, belong to the environment that you play in. Only Hans Zimmer does things like that today.
When the music faded out and you heard the disk loading... absolutely filled you with dread. Then that giant skeleton thing rolls onto the screen and you just about shat yourself... you'd die instantly and then that game over screen haunted your dreams...
It’s Xmas day 1989 and I’ve just got my Batman Pack Amiga. BEST GIFT EVER! When my dad hooked it up to his stereo and we played this game the music blew us away. The best days 10:55 gets the juices flowing!
The sample based tracker-style arrangement gives it a "punchiness" that's just lacking in the pre-recorded version. The FMTowns version (like many such "enhanced" CD-based soundtracks on the Towns, such as CinemaWare's stuff) has too many synth clichés, with too much sustain and reverb. Overall, the Towns version was inferior to the Amiga; while the Towns had impressive video hardware, it relied on an 80386SX to drive that hardware (IIRC, it didn't have a separate displaylist style state machine hardware). Given that games were trying to drive 8 and 16bit color depths (sometimes with mixed video pages), the 386SX just wasn't powerful enough. The result was games that looked marginally (if at all) better than their Amiga counterparts, but tended not to play as well. Very quickly, standard PC's, using regular VGA (with modeX tricks) and far more powerful CPU's, rapidly made the concept of the FMTowns proprietary x86 machine obsolete.
I'm 35 years old, with a fiancé, a son, a house, a car and a full-time job, and yet the moment I hear those first few notes I am immediately transformed back into an 8 year-old absolutely shitting myself. This was without doubt the most eerie thing in my childhood, and ridiculously I tried to play this once very late at night with the lights off, my Dad in bed asleep and my Mum dropping my brother's friend off home. Just that image of the Beast's skeleton in the swamp at 18:45 when he dies still fills me with terror.
I concur, this is beautiful... for me, it was Art class in High School, we had an Amiga with DPaint II for 'educational' purposes, then one day some kid brought in a few dodgy disks from his brother, Stunt Car Racer, Batman the Movie, all incredible, then... he pops in SOTB, hairs on the back of your neck moment.. suffice to say, that Xmas there was a Miggy sitting under the tree... gameplay questionable but a true system seller, incredible times!!! - I almost feel sorry for kids now with their iPads and Piggys ;)
@Pamela May It's 2021 and I've still never used surround sound. I've got stereo speakers and a subwoofer. It I have headphones. Never has a center channel or rear left/right speakers.
Must admit I always found the graphics and music to be far better than the gameplay in the SOTB series, but easily one of the best soundtracks of the Amiga era
Yeah. The game difficulty and variations through different ports and licenses made each one either easier or more difficult. But the main things remained. It was immersive The music was great across all platforms The game play wasn't great
It was basically a "memory" or trial and error game, just keep playing and dieing untill you know where the enemies cos from. Not alot to it, but that soundtrack...
i was a little kid and all my friends had c64 and all i wanted was to play giana sisters. then one day it happen dad got a computer but what was it ? O_o there it was a amiga 2000 which later grew into a 2 mb chipram 16 mb fast ram picasso 4 pc hardware emulator board 3 hard disks with around 246 MB combined and more discs then hair on my head.. i had no idea what to do with it since i only know load *.* ,8,1 .. but here it started and this music was part of my time discovering a new machine no one of my friends had. was a great time and it gives such a nice fuzzy feeling. all those memorys i can imagine the smell of the room i was sitting in at that time the feel of the chair how it felt to click my joystick button. thanks for the quality upload
Playing this as a child, no game case, no manual just a mystery cartridge handed down with cousin's Sega, was a surreal and unforgettable experience. An adventure in to an 'alien' land. The furthest I got as kid was a couple screens into the castle... Way too many unpredictable enemies... Good times. It's great to hear this in objectively better quality than the Sega version I grew up with.
I am a teenager and still when i fired up the game a couple of days ago I got a weird feeling of nostalgia. I don't know how. I grew up on snes ports and 90s pc games. But man that feeling of nostalgia never hit me when i played em back. SOTB is something special
Ohhh nostalgia. Over the years, I've made many searches for this soundtrack on RU-vid and it just never gets old. Thanks for showing the intro sequences too! I'm sure everything has been said about this amazing score but man, the artwork was so inspired! I don't know if this game was a financial hit but I do know it has made a significant mark in the memory of everyone who played it. Definitely a cult classic.
Only turned 18 and Amiga is my beloved computer. I remember when my dad showed it to me for the first time. Shadow of the Beast was one of the first game I ever played on it. Such amazing piece of hardware and amazing game
I'm in the minority who never had a PC until much older. I played this on SEGA GENESIS and understand there are concessions made on each soundtrack and some even for frame rate. I hear the woodwinds samples greatly on this one and it's tremendous. Always heard the GENESIS bit through clustered angry far BLEAKER tones and it was creepy as shit. You can never forget this soundtrack it's damn near cinematic. Hopefully someday these and some notables get their due regard
Marvelous! This beautiful game was often used in shops in demo mode to display the true big power of the underlying hardware! It was magic even just watching at it!
Watching it was more fun than playing it. Most Pygnosis games were like playable demos, beautiful graphics and sound that showed off the Amiga's hardware but were shit game with completely rubbish level design.
Thanks for taking time and effort to give me chance to time travel back to the happiest time of my life. Amiga games was a big part of my younger days. When I was playing these games I was young, "immortal" and without any worries about the next week. Now I am "old" 55+ , have more money, running my own well-established IT-company but full of worries. For those over 30 reading this. “I’ve learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. To everyone: Enjoy life, stay close to your loved ones. Live it to the fullest.
really making use of the additional space of stereo channels, ha haaa. it becomes a bit too pronounced on my studio monitors as we speak. but hey... i'm not complaining though!
Thank you for this! I grew up with this great game and the haunting visuals and music never really left me. Just added it to my Shellshocked Radio Recommendation List: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sHtZT3XHNEY.html
Remember the t-shirt that came with shadow of the beast. Amiga will be forever in my heart , seeing this game and hear those tunes as 11 year old child was like traveling to universe
I'm 60 and in the early 90ties I played Lemmings. In one later Levels this one was the backgroundmusic. My Mind was blown up. I played the Level again and again, der just to listen to the music. I'm talking about the introtune.
Yeaahhh!!! Lemmings! The music was so great! My mother ( 44 y/o by then ) and me (10 y/o by then) use to bet over who would past a lever faster! 😂 😂 ...sometimes she was cooking while playing and everything burnt out !!! 😂😂😂 A lot of fun !🎉 Now i am 44 y/o and would love to.play that again!!!!❤
Personally it bugs me that this was recorded with Maya22 USB @ 96kHz, which later proved to be inferior to Juli@'s 88.2kHz recording (Juli@ really is a remarkable soundcard considering its age, especially its ADC). The difference is audible. So this could've been even better quality wise.
Once again weekend, a couple of drinks, headphones and nostalgia... Kuokka77 channel for the win! Just clicked somewhere in the middle of this one and almost landed on my absolute favourite part of the entire music of the game... 07:32. Gives me goosebumps everytime. I do not think the musician of this tune understood at that time how powerful that part is. I should collect a medley of all the super great parts in tunes I love and put them together and loop it over and over again in total euphoria. Thanks Kuokka for dolbyfying this and all the rest of the stuff you put up.
I remember playing this on a ROM as a kid. For some reason the Plains music was replaced with the title music, and I remember looking for that theme for years back in the day. The melody of the Title theme inspired me so much, even today when I write music I mostly think back of that specific track and the DKC soundtrack. Amazing song.
Good morning ,i have been a little high on the weekend and was going trough your whole channel.i really like what you do ,such a nice channel, i always loved chiptunes and wasnt aware of the amiga at all because i had an c64 back then.i Think i have watched all your videos through the weekend^^keep the good stuff coming .Greets from Germany =)
I used to play this game with pokes only to hear the soundtrack..the level of difficulty bad adjusted as many games of this times..a critic that can also be done to the spectrum games...they lose a lot because they were almost imposible to finish...
Thanks, tankdriver23! Check out my "Inside The Tree" metal tribute to David Whittaker: www.remix64.com/track/xxdustyxx/shadow-of-the-beast-inside-the-tree-metal-tribute/
Funny that you got the same cracked beast-version, that i do. But meanwile these Intros belong to those brilliant games as the game itself. TWO THUMBS UP - Great Sound
Agreed! I tried to recreate it in 6 channel AY using Vortex Tracker II for a Spectrum Next demo I was working on - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HMmASvAcPLM.html
can't beat full printed map of Pirates... don't have it anymore, cry. But still have full 500 pages Falcon4.0 manual user... in french, cry, again.... good times.
LOL.. Gotta have the Paranoimia cracktro... sadly for Psygnosis and Reflections, 99% of the copies of SOTB had that cracktro. Then again, Reflections (now Ubisoft Reflections) went on to prosper (along with their sister studio, DMA, now known as Rockstar North).
The best music from David, the game graphics are TOP as PSYGNOSIS never failed into that , but the gameplay sucks, ím 50 years old, this brings back some memories
This game was too hard for me back in the day, but I sometimes just stood there listening to the music. My cousin still has my Amiga 500 from back in the day, one day Ill sit down ad play it...one day.
The youth these days is so prone of challenges, I think i have hard one: Create a track (at least 10 minutes; loopable) thats fits on 2x 3,5" discs (~3mb) besides a game that entertaines you for at least an afternoon if not a whole weekend!
Hey! me again 🙂! long time ago. still like what you´re doing! it´s so awesome that you refiilled old amiga games with new spirit! always in my superduperplaylist! never forget!
I wonder why does it sound so good with 8-bit samples. I got ripped modules with that soundtrack, but my player produced somewhat worse sound quality (either noisier or duller depending on some options).
I was in highschool when i had the amiga 500.. the best thing about owning a commodore computer be that CUT or the Amiga 500 was that you never bought games your friends would give you a copy.... Shadow of the beast was a hard hard game 😆 but the music was amazing
