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nikosidis3 years ago (6 edits)

I can promise you that your comment will not stop me for enjoying the game!

We play this game now in the C64 Hiscore challenge.

For June we played Starforce. If you select sfx there is no in game music.

In Mai we played "Xerons" No in game music.

2 great games!!

Others

Zybex, Scramble, Bulldog, Parallax, Gladiators, Sanixion, Subterenia, Zaxxon, Delta, Slayer, Uridium, Zynaps, Armalyte

A lot of the games I mention here even got crap sfx.

Armalyte as many consider the best C64 shmup got nice sfx and with music it could not been that good sfx. I would not change it for music and 1 channel sfx.

R-type got great music but the sfx is crap. Hard to play that way. I get almost no feeling playing the game. Much better on Amiga but there you got 4-channels.

Not saying it is impossible with sfx and music.

Sarah Jane have done it great on C64.

Soul Force, Zeta wing comes to mind.

Nice that you buy and enjoy retro games :)

I buy most C64, Spectrum and Amiga games.

abraxxious3 years ago

:) Well, that's good to hear - no one else's opinion should ever over shadow your personal enjoyment of any particular game.

I am glad you enjoy those other games, and I am happy you consider them "great". They don't have music? I consider them not worth playing, but I guess that just shows we have different tastes and values in games (or at least shmups).

Zybex, Scramble, Bulldog, Parallax, Gladiators, Sanixion, Subterenia, Zaxxon, Delta, Slayer, Uridium, Zynaps, Armalyte - I do not class a SINGLE ONE of these as a good shmup. ;) Again, I am happy you enjoy them, but I am thinking I probably don't like them for the same reasons you DO like them.

I class games like Katakis, Salamander, R-Type, St Dragon, Zetawing, Soul Force, Hades Nebula (remix version), Enforcer etc as great C64 shmups. (I purchased Zetawing and Soul Force as soon as they were released ;) )

A lot of those games don't even have sound effects at all, but they all have pumping soundtracks. The sfx in R-Type sound perfectly fine to me, not great, but not crap.... but the music is wonderful, so who cares about the sound effects? Well, erm.... you obviously do, which is odd, but hey, everyone is different.

All of this shmup talk has got me itching for a good C64 shmup..... with a good soundtrack of course. ;)

nikosidis3 years ago (2 edits)

I just named some shmups without and you are very right that some of them are not very good.

Soul Force is probably the best shmup of all time on C64.

I purchased all games from Sarah. Nautron was the first reason I came back to C64. I think that game is better than Zeta Wing.

If there is no music just put on a CD, mp3 through a mixer. Then at least you have sfx :P

abraxxious3 years ago

Soul Force is very nice, but I think I actually prefer Zeta Wing for some reason.

Neutron was good, has a bit of a Warhawk feel. Have you tried Kobo 64? It would make a PERFECT game for score attack competitions (plus you can select music or sound effects in the options ; ) ).

CD audio is not the same as chip generated tunes.... plus if the CD was any good I would want to turn off the sound effects so they didn't spoil it. :)

nikosidis3 years ago

I have tried Kobo Deluxe but not the C64 version.

I have to check it out. Thanks :)

abraxxious3 years ago

LOVE Kobo Deluxe (and it has a catchy soundtrack too), Kobo64 is pretty amazing for a 16kb game. Enjoy. ;)

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