Space Quest III - Intro/Opening - (Roland MT-32) MS-DOS Game 

@bbrucet3 That sounds like an amazing moment for you all! I can’t imagine the amount of joy you all had listening to this. (Says the person who was born in 2000.)

sounds like a great moment says the person born in 2006

amazing story

Games from Sierra and Ultima series were the reasons I bought Roland CM-32L (MT-32 version for games) sound module.

After hearing SQ3, I'm going to have to listen to the Ultima and Wing Commander soundtracks. I have only heard the Soundblaster and PC speaker noises before now.

UltimateMemeMaster21 Make sure you do. You don't want "collections" coming after you.

Icesanity Gonna need an escape pod for that debt!

Haha, yup!

Besides namco's c140+ym2151 arcades and NEC's PC Engine CD and FM Towns (redbook).

same dude i was about 4 or 5 when this was around had the mt32 and the sc55. what a time to be alive

@@noharakun I had an sc55 mk ii also I still got my old 486 pc well its not a 486 anymore the mobo got replaced sometime in 1996 with a pentium 200mhz with mmx. Still got the 486 board too that became my sister's first pc when she was little. But it got a pentium overdrive for her so she could run her cd rom games when she was in pre school.

Actually the main theme of Space Quest III was composed by Bob Siebenberg (Supertramp drummer). But yes Mark Siebert was a great Sierra composer/sound designer.

Written by Supertramp’s drummer!

Indeed.

feel free to share :p

That's the _Kartrashian_ society we live in. The majority of people would rather watch _someone else's fake life_ then learn how to improve their own, let alone learn history. _"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."_ -- George Santayana.

Michael Pohoreski lol let’s not pretend that this video has any more intrinsic value than a video about the Kardashians. This is the intro music for a 20 year old PC game for crying out loud.

@@GoopyGato bup

Is there a Duke Burger though?

370 now.

Download the Space quest 1 2 3 collection via freegogpcgames and use the Space Quest 3 rom that comes with it. By the way i recommend using scummvm instead of dos box to play Space Quest.

BrandonX76 Some more recent games had an option to use midi/roland for the music AND digital sfx on a soundblaster card (with a noticeable memory cost). But for SQ3 you had to choose only one sound device.

thanks, I never could get one (Mt32) back in the day, but a friend of mine told me about it...Thanks for posting and the nostalgia trip. cheers

Yeah, you should watch a video by the 8 bit keys.. He talks about the mt32 in these type of games.

@@barbarianbros Later Sierra games had the "Roland & Soundblaster CMS" option. Best of both worlds!

Personally it’s an acceptable trade off. Sound effects or one of the best soundtracks of the ‘80s?

And 2 have appeared.

@@Apjooz oh no!

To those who don’t know, I have one question: Why are you even here having never played a _Space Quest_ before? Go play them! You can find them collected on GOG and Steam, both frequently on sale, and you can even get them for free from sites like GamesNostalgia. And be sure to play _SQ3_ and up with an MT-32 (or emulator).

@@Frungi Maybe because those games dated horribly, beyond any modern tolerance levels? Yes, they old, but come on! Putting aside good music and occasional jokes they now not worth nor playtime not money and definitely not both at same time. GOG? Yes, they sell it, but honestly at that year those game should be free OR remade completely. Sometimes good old memories should be left laying dormant.

Kuribo Kutsu None of which explains why anyone who’s not interested in these games would be interested in this video. I have to disagree with pretty much everything you said here, considering that _The Crimson Diamond_ is a new game that exists. And that’s beside the fact that you seem to be saying only recent things have any value or merit, which is frankly absurd.

@@Frungi I disagree. At last in my case its EXACT reason why i was interested in this video - because i was vaguely interested what this game is about, but HELL NO, i'm not going nor to bother with dosbox to play or spend money on it, cause its one time interest. I'm, ofc, have respect to this game but, sorry, its just fossil now. We can dig up dinosaur bones, but that doesnt mean we need to pretend that they alive or to ressurect them. Also, i didnt said that only recent things have any value. I like to play Startopia, Stronghold, even SNES games and i hope that Black&White will eventually make it to GOG, thank you very much. But one have to draw a line and those DOS...games - no. Maybe PONG is still worth playing too? How often you play it now?

@@Vednier You are a very confusing man. And I think you’re confused: we were talking about experiencing something for the first time that you’ve never played before, not replaying something that you enjoyed in its time. Going with your dinosaur metaphor: We have a Jurassic Park. Those fossils *have been resurrected* using modern technology so that we can still enjoy them today. I’m not sure what difference you see between throwing a game into an SNES emulator (or maybe even a physical SNES that you keep around) and throwing a game into DOSBox or ScummVM, but maybe you just don’t enjoy adventure games as a whole, regardless of age. And that’s okay, no one enjoys every kind of game. But that again makes me wonder: What on earth got you interested in a game that you never had any interest in actually experiencing?

LAPC-I (it's a 'i' for IBM, not a '1', there is also a LAPC-N for the japanese NEC computers) is basically a Roland CM-32L (MT-32 with 32 more instruments) and a MPU-401 (MIDI interface Unit) combined on an ISA PC-Card. Instruments sounds the same as long as the game does not use the CM32L exclusive instruments.

I don't know if there is a 'General MIDI' patch for SQ3, GM was standardized 2 years after the game release. Anyway a patch would only 'transpose' instruments channels to nearest GM instrument, with none of the custom instruments created for the MT32.

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@@morganthompson nooooooo