Tyrian 2000 is a top-down shooter available for free on Good Old Games (GOG.com) including the epic soundtrack. Just needed a few more spaceships before 2012. First mono episode!
Alexander Brandon
Tyrian 2000 for DOS (1999) – MobyGames
Alexander Brandon’s Bandcamp Page
Part A of 8bitpeoples, a chiptune label featuring some chiptune greats. The next installment in Chiptune Dixember.
From 8bitpeoples’ mission statement:
The 8bitpeoples first came together in 1999 as a collective of artists sharing a common love for classic videogames and an approach to music which reflected this obsession. Our primary interests were to provide quality music for free and most importantly to have fun. In the years since, we have grown in rank and expanded our goals.
Various Artists
“Epic story of a mysterious stranger with a harmonica who joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.”1
1Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) – IMDB
8bitpeoples
Everquest is pretty much the Yin to Ultima Online’s Yang. You can still play both in their old-style, archaic, beautiful madness if you look at Project 1999 and Second Age, respectively.
Rendered from MIDI via FluidSynth, these few songs make a good way to vaguely call back to the last episode while reminding listeners that the feed address is changing, as of December 1st, it will be http://feeds.feedburner.com/4040AD.
Everquest
Ultima Online is such a great game that it continues to be played today, even with the limitations of its engine; the non-online Ultima games are still worth playing through if you can get used to the archaic quirks of DOS, even Akalabeth. It should be noted however, “worth playing” does not necessarily mean “worth beating.”
Someone named Diz made a modern soundtrack for Ultima Online, aptly titled Recall, to improve upon its aging MIDI tracks. In my judgement, Diz has succeeded brilliantly. All the tracks in this episode are freely available for download on Diz’s website.
Diz
The Codex of Editable Wisdom
emptunes
In 1997, New York City became a maximum security prison. Breaking out was impossible. Breaking in was insane. Once a lowly custodian, Mr. Clean’s tolerance for the shortcomings of others has waned. A cop with a war on his hands — his enemy: an army of street killers, his only ally: a convicted murderer. Blood money cleaned and banked, no longer the old, corroded money that once ran the world…
Dr. Brontosaurus
Music and Noise by Dr. Brontosaurus
Fountain Coins on Soundcloud
