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26 February 2002, 06:35
Tapping the wisdom...
In the early-or-mid nineties, a friend of mine showed me a game on his HD-equipped A1000 whose intro I'll never forget. Whether the game was HD or Floppy, shooter or strategy, I don't know. Just that it had a very stylistic intro with beautiful MOD music.
It seems there was more than one shot in the intro, but it's this one that haunts me:
We see a closeup shot of a man in the cockpit of the vehicle. The shot is dark and somewhat monochromatic. The 'camera' is somewhere in the lower center part of the cockpit. It's hard to tell exactly what kind of vehicle it is, but we get the impression it travels through a tunnel lit by fluorescent tube lights. What impresses this upon us is the nice effect of the fluorescent tubes whizzing by overhead, reflected in the man's round mirrored sunglasses.
The music started off atmospherically... Most prominent was a chilling saw lead alternating with an upwardly sweeping white noise-type sound, supported with a synth choir. At some point the drums kick in at a moderate tempo and a synth bass and stacatto melody join the synth choir. The stacatto melody alternates with the saw lead for a few phrases, then the song breaks down to just drums and a kind of metallic reverse-clang percussion effect. Then the stacatto melody comes back...
...And that's all I can remember. The game must not have worked, or not been any good. But it is a great intro! So, please, throw some suggestions out. I'll try each and every one! Anything except for Running Man. That wasn't it. Or, is there more than one Running Man?
If I'm just imagining all this, I've got to sequence this song and call it my own! :)
In the early-or-mid nineties, a friend of mine showed me a game on his HD-equipped A1000 whose intro I'll never forget. Whether the game was HD or Floppy, shooter or strategy, I don't know. Just that it had a very stylistic intro with beautiful MOD music.
It seems there was more than one shot in the intro, but it's this one that haunts me:
We see a closeup shot of a man in the cockpit of the vehicle. The shot is dark and somewhat monochromatic. The 'camera' is somewhere in the lower center part of the cockpit. It's hard to tell exactly what kind of vehicle it is, but we get the impression it travels through a tunnel lit by fluorescent tube lights. What impresses this upon us is the nice effect of the fluorescent tubes whizzing by overhead, reflected in the man's round mirrored sunglasses.
The music started off atmospherically... Most prominent was a chilling saw lead alternating with an upwardly sweeping white noise-type sound, supported with a synth choir. At some point the drums kick in at a moderate tempo and a synth bass and stacatto melody join the synth choir. The stacatto melody alternates with the saw lead for a few phrases, then the song breaks down to just drums and a kind of metallic reverse-clang percussion effect. Then the stacatto melody comes back...
...And that's all I can remember. The game must not have worked, or not been any good. But it is a great intro! So, please, throw some suggestions out. I'll try each and every one! Anything except for Running Man. That wasn't it. Or, is there more than one Running Man?
If I'm just imagining all this, I've got to sequence this song and call it my own! :)