Warrax wrote:

Just a little off-topic inquiry... in which DOS games you've liked music so much, they are your favourite. […]
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Just a little off-topic inquiry... in which DOS games you've liked music so much, they are your favourite.

For me it is:

Daggerfall
Dungeon Master II
Master of Magic
Tie Fighter
Ufo: enemy unknown

Easy. For me by far it was Descent 2. Descent 3s music was a little too toony for me and lost the edge that Descent 2 had.

I also happened to like the music in Mech Warrior 2 Mercenaries.

I dont have any others so I fall 3 short.

Betrayal at Krondor, Ultima Underworld 2, Wolfenstein 3D, System Shock all had wonderful music. That's only four, but oh well.

All the old Sierra games (especially LSL), and most Lucas Arts adventures (Monkey Island, Legend of Kyrandia), especially the MT-32 music of course.
See http://www.queststudios.com/quest/Sierra1.html for some nice Sierra tunes.

JAL

This seems like a poll-style post...

Moving elsewhere...

TOP 5 with my Favourite Music, THATS EASY
1 Crusader: No Regret & No Remorse8)
2 Gothic 1 & 2with NotR (***UPDATED***)
3 CMI : Course of Monkey Island
4 Pinball Illusion (s)
5 Legend of Kyrandia 2: Hand of Fate

That was very easy to answer for me 😁

Haaaa

For me it is music from Arkanoid 2 DOH 😁

PC speaker music: tudididi di didi diiiiiiii tudidi di dyyyyyyyydidi tuditidididi dyyyyyyyyyyyy ...

😵

Oh I am sooooooooo sory, this is right:

beeep bep beeep beep beeeeeeep beep beep beeeeeep bee eee eeep beee eee eeep.

🤣

For me:

+ Bubble bobble (first AdLib sound I heard)
+ Dune (Best AdLib music ever)
+ Eye of the Beholder 1

Hmmm... I'm sure that if I thought long enough, I would think of more, but these are the ones that first come to mind:
I strongly agree with Warrax's choices of:
- X-Com 1
- Tie Fighter

Here are my own to add:
- X-Com Apocaplypse (the combat music is excellent)
- Mechwarrior 1
- Mechwarrior 2 (all series)
- Thexder 1 (hey, when this game came out and I was only 6 or 7, I didn't know they used "Moonlight Sonata"...)
- Doom 2
- Silpheed
- Star Control 2 (my brother and I even recorded the music back in 1993 😀 )
- Wing Commander Privateer

1. Daggerfall
2. Dune II
3. C&C 1
4. Doom 1&2
5. Rise of the triad
6. Warcraft 2
7. Morrowind
8. Settlers 1!!!!!
9. Pinball Fantasies

- X-Wing. First game I played on a computer with a sound card (cousin had an ISA Roland Sound Canvas card and SB Pro - best combo at the time!)
- Firehawk (Thexder 2) - first game I played when I got my own sound card (SB 2.0)
- Dune II
- Betrayal at Krondor
- The Elder Scrolls: Arena (or maybe its sequel, Daggerfall)

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Nice avatar, Keitosha. Counter Strike with b/w polygons. Cool. 😎 🤣

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Ultima IV for the Atari ST is the first that comes to mind.
That was the first game I can remember that used MIDI music. Since the Atari ST had built in MIDI ports it would output to those as well so I would pipe it through to my Yamaha DX7 and Ensoniq Mirage that I had at the time. In 1986 that was about the most impressive music I had ever heard in a game especially when played with real external MIDI devices.

The others would probably be George "Fatman" Sanger works such as
Wing Commander II
Magic Candle II
Savage Empire
Ultima Underworld

PC speaker music: tudididi di didi diiiiiiii tudidi di dyyyyyyyydidi tuditidididi dyyyyyyyyyyyy

Good grief, I actually found myself humming that along.

Best piece of music in a game for me has to be the closing theme of Sierra's Silpheed (the piece that plays during the credits when you've lost yet again). Strangely compelling, whether it's PC Speaker bleeps, AdLib or Roland MT-32. It all sounds so wonderful. (Getting misty-eyed here).

The Dig is #1 for me. Also enjoyed Space Quest 3 with MT-32...

[edit edit: I can't remember numbers! SQ3, not 4!]

Yeah The Dig does have great music (probably the best of any Lucasarts adventure, and I've played most of them - Loom and the Monkey Island games score close). I need to pull out my SQ Collection CD and try SQ3 and 4 with my DOSBox+Munt CVS build. I've only played those old Sierra games on my Sound Blaster cards with OPL music 😒

EDIT: WOW, SQ3 sounds GREAT with MT-32 music! SQ4 is pretty good too.

Speaking of SQ3, I once used a Sound Blaster driver from QFG2 in it and heard Roger Wilco actually say "Where am I?" as a digitized sound. I'll try it again and make a recording when I can get my hands on such a driver.

Speaking of SQ3, I once used a Sound Blaster driver from QFG2 in it and heard Roger Wilco actually say "Where am I?" as a digitized sound. I'll try it again and make a recording when I can get my hands on such a driver.

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