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First post, by Jo22

Posted on 2018-03-01, 19:51

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Good evening everyone,

Yesterday I was listening to an early recording of the famous Popcorn song.
The music video which I saw was a short snippet of an episode of a british show named Top of the Pops.

This made me realize that there was more than the popular version I used to know.
I also noticed that especially the old version had a charming, analogue sound.

When I read through the comments on those videos,
I found out that someone created a Popcorn fan site of some sort. 😀

That site is available at http://www.popcorn-song.com/

I hope you find it as interesing as I do.

Best regards,
Jo22

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Reply 1 of 9, by Beegle

Posted on 2018-03-01, 20:17

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whoah, I never knew there were so many versions of this. I still own the original 45 of it.

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Reply 2 of 9, by Stretch

Posted on 2018-03-02, 00:33

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There is also an adlib rendition called POPCORN.S3M included with Adlib Tracker II.

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Reply 3 of 9, by Cyberdyne

Posted on 2018-03-02, 06:59

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Jean Michel Jarre version is the best for everyday listening, I still listen it in my 4x100 plus 1x500 RMS car, and shock the pedestrians 😎

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Reply 4 of 9, by reenigne

Posted on 2018-03-02, 09:10

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It's also notably the main soundtrack for the game Digger by Windmill Software. This was probably the first piece of software to do something with the PC speaker more than just square wave beeps. And it was able to do so without glitching while the game (with PC speaker sound effects) was going on in the foreground. And the game was actually good and fun to play too! A seriously impressive feat on such primitive hardware, even today.

Reply 5 of 9, by shamino

Posted on 2018-03-08, 07:56

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This song was used for "line dancing" when I was in high school.
So I hate it.

Reply 6 of 9, by Errius

Posted on 2018-03-08, 08:18

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It was in Pengo (1982) first. That's probably what inspired the creators of Digger (1983) to use it.

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Reply 7 of 9, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

Posted on 2018-03-08, 10:05

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reenigne wrote:
It's also notably the main soundtrack for the game Digger by Windmill Software. This was probably the first piece of software to do something with the PC speaker more than just square wave beeps. And it was able to do so without glitching while the game (with PC speaker sound effects) was going on in the foreground. And the game was actually good and fun to play too! A seriously impressive feat on such primitive hardware, even today.

Ah, yes. Digger. Among the first PC games I played. The song, however, is quite annoying! 🤣

Never thought this thread would be that long, but now, for something different.....
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