Amiga music: Hired Guns (compilation - Dolby Headphone) 

this is a really great soundtrack :) sounds even better in dolby on a nice pair of Sundaras :D

Born 1974 and listening to this. Oh those golden memories!

This is what I call real game music. Long live Amiga !

Amiga will born again. I just know. I feel it in my veins.

28 years later, worth listening in 2021. Probably still would in 2121.

I’ve owned an N64, PS1, Jaguar, PS2, XBOX, XBOX 360, XBOX ONE abs and XBOX ONE X. My Amiga is still my favourite

I spend countless hours on my A500 learned great deal of stuffs like programming, composing music with trackers. I got a multi-ice cartridge so i was able to freeze current state of memory and dig into games and rip graphics and music :) My friends (we were 14-16 years old kids) learned 68k assembler with almost zero resource (no internet back then) only few books but we got patience to bring down mountains. Good times.

Still worth listening to in 2023

"MOVE!" 😂 Many, many happy hours staring at my corner of screen trying not to get distracted or die stupidly falling off lifts. Can confirm that many a Cheetah Bug met its end firing tungsten shotshells... ❤

Always gave me the chills. This music can bring me back to my parental home, sitting on the floor with the Amiga next to me, 2 mouse were ready to play the game with my late brother. Damn, good old times.

Amazing how this did NOT make the top 100 Best Amiga soundtracks video (either of them!) here on youtube. Someone should march right on over to those videos and remind them of this

This takes me back to my youth - so many brilliant games, so many fond memories. What an amazing machine the Amiga was...

1:37 amazing track. Johnston is such a good musician and should deserve more recognition, I wonder what he did after the Amiga era.

4 player split screen with friends. loved it

One of the best amiga game musics ! :)

Będę uwielbiał do końca mego żywota! Czyli niedługo... :D

Still remember how scary it was to play Hired Guns in the dark, Brrrr :)

computer with soul ....... beast ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember going round to Brian’s house to hear it on an afternoon off from college. Lovely guy, think he was too humble to realise how awesome his music was

I still play this, and try to complete it on winUAE at least once a year. I never found anything that hit the spot until Quake 3 arena came out, and even then it never came close to replicating the atmosphere of horror when you round a corner and turn straight into a Mech and hear BOOM! BOOM! a scream - and the screen goes black.

I have goose bumps listening this. Jesus what a beautiful memories. This music is so cool that i could cry

There arent many standout Amiga tunes....but this is one of them, fantastic.

This game BEGS to be remade..

it's amazing that a computer from 1986 can produce music of this quality

Old times when the games where build for passion and not only for money like now

Love that grunty Amiga sound, nothing quiet like it.

the game music scene never got better than this...

The guy that did this music is awesome, he also did tracks on the lemmings games on Amiga

wow first time hearing this since my childhood. Nostalgia! Its goes from T2 to Doctor Who to Street Of Rage. Back when life was simpler

I understand why Brian Johnston quit the games biz and went to work for Apple but I don't understand why he didn't continue to produce music if his early work was this awesome.

After so many years, still cool music!

Using foobar2000, i'm applying "Convert stereo to 4 channels" and "Dolby Headphone" DSP effects (in that order) to a file that has full stereo separation (i.e. original Amiga stereo image, which alone sounds nasty with headphones). Just recently i did a guide video of sorts to show the process (no talk, but gives a general idea): watch?v=pr7hPclH1cw&hd=1

this music made me get outta my chair and groooooove!

Still as good today.

The peak of the Amgia game scene music-wise

Awesome Game.. Awesome Music

I would argue that this soundtrack is definitely up there with yuzo koshiro's stuff on streets of rage 1 and 2 on the megadrive. i could go on for ages about the relative strengths of the sound capabilities of both machines but can you imagine playing level 1 of sor 2 with some of this music from hired guns?

this game showed off what the amiga was capable off back in the day, the pc version of this game was atrocious

Awesome stories! I can relate to every one I've read on this thread...wow! I'll throw in an especially troubling thought I had before my squad and I broke and ran anywhere but the vicinity of where we were, now. I recall I set up a group of auto-turrets that would fire on enemy creatures if they got within range...and I made sure we were covered from every direction...some of the level was flooded. Anyway, something happened..there was a big boom and I could hear my auto-turrets opening up on something and I grinned...cool, I had used those auto-turrets before and they mowed people/things down! What happened next really made my blood run cold, as I thought I heard a "boom!" and then one less turret was firing then another "boom!" and one less of my turrets was firing, still..then "boom!" (wow, that was closer to us!) another turret fell silent, then "boom!... BOOM!... BOOOM! "What the hell is that?"(Those turrets were folding like wet tissue!) MAN those explosions are coming straight at us "WHAT THE HELL IS IT?!...RUN!!" We BOOKED! Man! We managed to get away (for now)..I just couldn't believe something could have waded through those auto-turrets like that! So...effortless, it seemed! My well-planned defense failed miserably. What a blast, though! Scared the %$#@ out of me! Anyway, thanks for hearing me out! Thanks for the great stories! Hopefully, you'll relate to some of my "Thank God for Depends(tm)" moments. I seriously can't remember what things were coming at us, it being the '80's-early '90's and all...lots of "all night" gaming.... I and my three friends were playing on one computer and it was an experience that really blew my mind! We ended up finishing the game, btw...I think I've really only finished maybe five games in my life.

I played this in 1994 in a dark room with extremely great sound... ah... the memories... thanks for the video (and audio !!!!)

OMG! i loved this game on my A1200! It had a additional sfx due to 2mb of Ram... Great Music! Amiga Rulez :)

LOTTA LOYALTY FOR A HIRED GUN

Great game, Awesome music.

In a class of its own. Stunning music full stop.

Perfect multiplayer game. Oh, memories!

one word EPIC !

Man this sure is bringing back some fond memories. I remember playing Hired Guns obsessively through the long weekends on my Amiga 500! It was even better when you had the upgraded 1 MB Paula audio chip. I had saved a game halfway through and then got the upgrade. About five minutes into the game I was blindsided by a nasty robot. One of my characters had the mounted mini gun and blasted at the thing in panic. For the first time you could hear the rumble and ricochet of the gun. Now THAT was cool.

wow so Brian Johnston when not on tour with AC/DC was creating such music in his free time...(LOL)

Loving the stereo wah guitar - blew my mind when I heard it from my Amiga.

Damnm, splitscreen mode was like multiplayer before internet era, Amiga RULEZ! But this music, daaamn :) YESSS...:) Next stop: Apidya sndtrack :))

Oh wow! These tunes bring back so much memories when I was a kid on secretly played Hired Guns on my brother's Amiga. :D

I'm a mildly spoken person, but as soon as I saw this I went FUCK YEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHH!!!!!!!

i can't believe the quality this is really amazing! thanks Kuokka77 :-D

My absolute favourite game of all time. Music brings back some fond memories! Thanks for the upload!!

would like it 1000 times if i could :D

This is the best thing ever. I have the med files right here, and I even worked on this for a while, doing a mashup of a couple different sections of the music to make my own extended remix. But this...this is perfect. I will be listening to it for hours now.

Best game soundtrack EVER!

"The level loading music has been extended (because it's awesome)" - I couldn't agree more! Awesome effort and great quality!! Thanks.

i love this game 4ever.

Best game Ever on Amiga

@poita: There is a piece about the Brian Johnston and the Hired Guns music in 'The DMA Design Blog' here (dmadesign.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/a-dma-musical-medley/). Funny how DMA Design went on to found Grand Theft Auto

Thank you Kuokka77, you made my day. For me, the best game ever made.

Watch out! Beware! Take Care! MASHEEN is hiding out there somewhere! Don't get mashed now!

Greetings from Tesseract. CIM.

8-channel OctaMED music if memory serves me right. Late in the Amiga mainstream lifecycle (of course Amiga is forever, but as far as its mainstream appeal goes it was late ;)), but just compare this to how Amiga music sounded back in 1987 when the Amiga 500 was first introduced. This music was made 6 years later. It's staggering just how quickly developers learnt how to squeeze every last drop of computational power and power of expression out of that machine. Just think how clunky it sounded back then and how slick and tightly produced this soundtrack sounded at this later stage. How much does art and technology change in 6 years these days? 3:57 : Holy mother of God, could this be the most overpowered stage loading music ever conceived? ;D It's like a shovel smacked straight in your face ;D ;D

I've sadly never played this because i wasnt bor into this age but i still love the music and can imagine what huge effort this took to make

Incredibly Beautiful!

Amazing music on a brilliant game. I love the part at 1m39 where that "weeewoooooo" comes in. Playing the game and having one character up above, and one below in a room, then dropping a grenade or something and seeing it on the other characters view was amazing, really made it feel 3D

When I listen this music again after 18 years, reminds me of Mass Effect. And really this game was the beginning of the Mass Effect era games.I realy liked this games.

Well this is a incredible sound and experience... mi amigo lol I absolutely love this one.. thank you so much...

this fucking rules

un ricordo indelebile di un bellissimo periodo con amici... non so se lo avremo mai finito ma sicuramente ci ha divertito veramente tanto!

Outstanding work on the mastering of the music.

You are sharing very interesting music, loved from my childhood.

Awesome! Thanks for making this :D

Top notch game with (also) top notch music and local MP. And guess what, 2MB was all it needed for enhanced edition.

Fine!! I'll play it again!

Super game and music...

Wooooah, this is amazing!

Thank You very much Kuokka77. Excelent job. Try to create more music from amiga games. I ask for more. Greetings from Poland!

Man!!!!! holy shit this game used to rock!!! One of the first Amiga games I ever really completed. And if I remember rightly it came on 6 or 8 floppies. I swear it was this game. I had a HD for my Amiga and you could install it on the workbech... I've just cried thanks dude

I made a snippet from this into my ringtone ^^

i really loved the thunderstorm . i think it was on the area select screen

Must be listened on a 1084s , trust me

Very good, thanks for sharing this:)

Brilliant stuff

love it

holy SHIT the music is some 2 unlimited style :DDD god i miss this

My music from my game Cudo!

Piękne!

6:50 hmm... An ester egg for Lotus Turbochallenge? :)

Legend!!!

Has anyone ever considered how far ahead of its time this game was? Look at what drives the gaming industry today, not the least the Esports. And look at what they tried to do with this game... and yes, the music is fucking brilliant.

I would boot it up just to listen to the music

You sir rock...

wow..............

Amazing music and sound effects. What happened to Brian Johnston? I love the music from Hired Guns and still have it in my music collection but it's not easy to find what he did next with his career.

i am not sure how you achieved this (i am not into sound/music stuff really), but it sounds superb on on headphones i never heard that awesome turning for headphones +1 for u dude

just 808state and speedballs, like it.

Omg 4x diskette 700kb on Amiga 1200 hired guns "loadnig ehanced sound effects" after that i had hard drive 700mb witch workbench 3.1... and a cd drive ..Dune, Gunship 2000 and much more --- i was god :D