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  COVERS & REMIXES

Check out Heartcore's stunning live versions of BBC game soundtracks, performed by Ben Mitchell & Josie Warren. Also, keep an ear out for The Weevil's remixed versions of Bug Eyes [2], Galaforce [2] and Spellbinder (my fave!).

And last but not least - a small collection of mp3s courtesy of Streaks: Iono (Mr E Dies), Midnight Summer Dream (Spellbinder Theme), This Is How You Do It (Caveman Capers), Wizadore Jingle.


  GAME THEMES - INTRO

The BBC had 3 sound channels and 1 noise channel. Though it never came close to matching the output of a C64, the beeb did knock out some boppy-enough little tunes.

An MP3 player such as Winamp is required to listen to files in MP3 format.


  BY CHRIS ABBOTT

By Fair Means or Foul
length: 5 mins 46 secs
size: 2712 kb


  BY MARTIN GALWAY

Cookie
cover of: Food Glorious Food
length: 1 min 35 secs
size: 749 kb

Crazee Rider
length: 6 mins 17 secs
size: 2214 kb

Galaforce
length: 3 mins 10 secs
size: 1118 kb

Galaforce 2
length: 2 mins 57 secs
size: 1042 kb

Galaforce 2 (high score)
length: 1 min 30 secs
size: 710 kb

Hypersports
cover of: Chariots Of Fire by Vangelis
length: 2 mins 46 secs
size: 1304 kb

Strykers Run
cover of: Rydeen by Yellow Magic Orchestra
length: 2 mins 33 secs
size: 898 kb

Strykers Run (high score)
length: 1 min 52 secs
size: 877 kb


  BY ORLANDO

Arcadians
length: 6 secs
size: 50 kb

Firetrack (in-game 1)
length: 2 mins 14 secs
size: 922 kb

Firetrack (in-game 2)
length: 50 secs
size: 348 kb

Firetrack (loader)
length: 3 mins 4 secs
size: 1260 kb

Firetrack (loader - remix 1)
bodged by: Dave M
length: 2 mins 41 secs
size: 1104 kb

Firetrack (loader - remix 2)
bodged by: Graham Bissett
length: 26 secs
size: 186k

Frak
cover of: Captain Pugwash
length: 17 secs
size: 140 kb

Frak (level 1)
length: 25 secs
size: 152 kb

Zalaga
length: 4 secs
size: 34 kb


  BY IAN WAUGH

Boulderdash
length: 39 secs
size: 312 kb

Bug Eyes 2
length: 43 secs
size: 338 kb

Future Shock
length: 1 min
size: 472 kb

Goal
cover of: The Stars And Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa
length: 30 secs
size: 236 kb

Indoor Sports
length: 1 min 3 secs
size: 500 kb

Loopz (Tune A)
length: 1 min 16 secs
size: 600 kb

Loopz (Tune B)
length: 1 min 23 secs
size: 654 kb

Phantom
length: 1 min 12 secs
size: 568 kb

Spy vs Spy
length: 1 min 48 secs
size: 742 kb

Summer Olympiad
length: 1 min 2 secs
size: 490 kb

Superman
length: 1 min 36 secs
size: 756 kb


  BY MELVYN WRIGHT

Acid Drops
cover of: Butterflies in the Rain
length: 1 min 4 secs
size: 378 kb

Bird Strike
cover of: Tipperary
length: 2 mins 34 secs
size: 1206 kb

Duck
cover of: La Belle Helene - Waltz (Offenbach)
length: 2 mins 2 secs
size: 957 kb

Epic Software (intro)
length: 6 secs
size: 52 kb

Epic Software (loader)
cover of: Fingal's Cave Overture (Mendelssohn)
length: 4 mins 55 secs
size: 2310 kb

Estra
cover of: Entry of the Gladiators
length: 4 mins 27 secs
size: 2092 kb

Fat Man Sam
cover of: Beer Barrel Polka
length: 2 mins 10 secs
size: 1022 kb

Gold Digger
cover of: Clementine
length: 2 mins 37 secs
size: 1236 kb

The Hacker
cover of:
Blaze Away - March
length: 1 min 29 secs
size: 700 kb

Harvey Headbanger
cover of: Liberty Bell - March
length: 2 mins 29 secs
size: 1166 kb

The Lost Crystal

cover of: Im - D - Zug Gallop
length: 1 min 4 secs
size: 504 kb

Microcosm
cover of: Tiptoe Through the Tulips
length: 1 min 39 secs
size: 782 kb

Mr Freeze
cover of: Air on a G String
length: 3 mins 11 secs
size: 1496 kb

Star Drifter
cover of:
Children of the Regiment
length: 2 mins 54 secs
size: 1366 kb


  POWERHOUSE SOFTWARE

Cute To Kill
length: 3 mins 11 secs
size: 1494 kb

Dunjunz
length: 8 mins 59 secs
size: 4216 kb

Icarus
length: 2 mins 49 secs
size: 994 kb


  BEST OF THE REST

A Maze In Space
composed by: Aileen & Steven Gibbs
length: 1 min 42 secs
size: 798 kb

Alligata Software Theme
length: 1 min 16 secs
size: 596 kb

Arcade Soccer
cover of: Match of the Day
length: 20 secs
size: 158 kb

The Archers
length: 14 secs
size: 117 kb

Balls
composed by: Matthew Spencer
length: 1 min 26 secs
size: 674 kb

Blast
composed by: Allan Theobald
length: 1 min 40 secs
size: 786 kb

Bonecruncher
cover of: Rondo Alla Turca by Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart
length: 1 min 1 sec
size: 360 kb

Brain Teasers
length: 27 secs
size: 218 kb

Bubble Bobble
composed by: Peter Gillett
length: 1 min 39 secs
size: 782 kb

Caesar The Cat
length: 2 mins 25 secs
size: 1138 kb

Castle Quest
cover of: The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas
length: 2 mins 8 secs
size: 1008 kb

Cholo
length: 25 secs
size: 200 kb

Citadel
cover of: Frere Jacques
length: 56 secs
size: 332 kb

Citadel 2
length: 46 secs
size: 316 kb

Clogger
length: 54 secs
size: 320 kb

Clogger (intro)
length: 1 min 43 secs
size: 810 kb

Codename: DROID
length: 54 secs
size: 318 kb

Cops
cover of: Hill Street Blues
length: 58 secs
size: 460 kb

Crazy Caves
cover of: Road To Nowhere by Talking Heads
length: 1 min 4 secs
size: 506 kb

Crazy Painter
cover of: Fig Leaf by Scott Joplin
length: 24 secs
size: 196 kb

Cricket
length: 1 min 24 secs
size: 665 kb

Dare Devil Denis
cover of: Serenade by Joseph Haydn
length: 51 secs
size: 304 kb

Update from Bill Gardner: "The description of the Dare Devil Dennis music is a bit vague ... it's from a string quartet known as Haydn's Opus 3 no 5, but it's actually by a composer called Hoffstetter. Sorry to nit pick but it may be of use to those of us who like to seek out the original!".  Thanks Bill!

Drain Mania
composed by: D J Morgan
length: 1 min 23 secs
size: 656 kb

Doctor Who & The Mines of Terror (intro)
length: 1 min 22 secs
size: 642 kb

Doctor Who & The Mines of Terror (in-game)
cover of: Prelude from Carmen by Georges Bizet
length: 1 min
size: 472 kb

Doctor Who: The First Adventure
length: 21 secs
size: 170 kb

Flip
length: 2 mins 37 secs
size: 1228 kb

Ghouls
cover of: Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme (a cantata by Bach)
length: 39 secs
size: 313 kb

Granny's Garden
length: 13 secs
size: 106 kb

Hostages
length: 32 secs
size: 251 kb

Ice Hockey
length: 31 secs
size: 248 kb

Infinity
length: 1 min 46 secs
size: 628 kb

Jet Boot Jack
length: 11 secs
size: 92 kb

Jigsaw
length: 52 secs
size: 416 kb

Karate Combat
length: 1 min 37 secs
size: 574 kb

Kix
cover of: Scarborough Fair
length: 1 min 52 secs
size: 880 kb

Ledgeman
cover of: The A-Team
length: 36 secs
size: 288 kb

Manic Miner
cover of: In the Hall of the Mountain King from Grieg's Peer Gynt suite no 1
length: 29 secs
size: 232 kb

Megarok (also the loader to Squeekaliser)
length: 1 min 21 secs
size: 638 kb

Mikie
cover of: Hard Day's Night
length: 51 secs
size: 352 kb

Mr Ee
cover of: Can-Can from Orpheus In The Underworld by Jacques Offenbach
length: 26 secs
size: 204 kb

Network
cover of: Fanfare For The Common Man by Aaron Copland
length: 16 secs
size: 130 kb

Nifty Lifty
cover of: The Entertainer
length: 13 secs
size: 106 kb

Olympic Decathlon
length: 12 secs
size: 96 kb

Omega Orb
cover of: Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba by GF Handel
length: 25 secs
size: 152 kb

Pandemonium
cover of: Airwolf
length: 1 min 11 secs
size: 560 kb

Perplexity
length: 55 secs
size: 438 kb

Pipeline
length: 57 secs
size: 338 kb

Pipemania
length: 1 min 30 secs
size: 534 kb

Pole Position
length: 4 secs
size: 38 kb

Psycastria
composed by: Gary Partis (or should that read "reversed by:"?)
length: 1 min 11 secs
size: 492 kb

Psycastria (reversed)
length: 1 min 11 secs
size: 562 kb

Ransack
cover of: The Model
length: 22 secs
size: 180 kb

Ravenskull
length: 27 secs
size: 166 kb

Repton
cover of: Black and White Rag
length: 1 min 27 secs
size: 512 kb

Repton 2
cover of: The Chrysanthemum by Scott Joplin
length: 32 secs
size: 192 kb

Repton 3
length: 39 secs
size: 230 kb

Repton Infinity
length: 1 min 4 secs
size: 506 kb

Return of the Jedi
length: 1 min 29 secs
size: 698 kb

Ripton
cover of: The Entertainer
length: 39 secs
size: 314 kb

Rubble Trouble
composed by: D J Morgan
length: 1 min 58 secs
size: 926 kb

Sabre Wulf
adaption of: Prelude in C Major from book 1 of the Well Tempered Clavier by J S Bach
length: 27 secs
size: 214 kb

Sim
length: 1 min 41 secs
size: 794 kb

Spellbinder
cover of: Midnight Summer Dream by The Stranglers
length: 1 min 35 secs
size: 560 kb

Sphere of Destiny
length: 47 secs
size: 374 kb

Spy Hunter
cover of: Peter Gunn by Henry Mancini
length: 58 secs
size: 400 kb

Squeekaliser
length: 48 secs
size: 382 kb

Star Clash
cover of: The Model
length: 14 secs
size: 118 kb

Sword Master
cover of: Nimrod from the Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar
length: 1 min 28 secs
size: 692 kb

Syncron
cover of: the overture to Mozart's opera, The Magic Flute
length: 41 secs
size: 242 kb

Thunderstruck
length: 33 secs
size: 266 kb

Uridium
length: 36 secs
size: 288 kb

Vertigo
length: 2 mins 27 secs
size: 864 kb

Way of the Exploding Fist
length: 37 secs
size: 292 kb

Who Dares Wins 2
cover of: the theme from The Great Escape by Elmer Bernstein
length: 58 secs
size: 344 kb

XLCR (in-game)
length: 44 secs
size: 350 kb

XLCR (intro)
length: 49 secs
size: 384 kb

XOR
length: 1 min 20 secs
size: 472 kb

Yoyo
length: 10 secs
size: 84 kb

Zenon
length: 57 secs
size: 454 kb

Ziggy
length: 1 min 23 secs
size: 656 kb


  DIGITIZED SOUND & SPEECH (MP3)

Bonecruncher
length: 21 secs
size: 172 kb

Circus Games
length: 22 secs
size: 174 kb

Exile
length: 2 secs
size: 18 kb

Spy Hunter
length: 4 secs
size: 34 kb