00_TWRSII (Beginning Mod) 1994_Eric L. Richardson
8/16 bit music from the 1990's. Originally written/composed in 'MOD' format on the Atari Falcon 030 using 'ProTracker ST' but coverted to MP3 here. I'm an original 'Tracker' artist and only recently was made aware of this.
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Story behind the song
The music for the game was finished in December of 1993, the game was finished and ready for publication/marketing in early 1994.
Unfortunately it took the developers’ (JV Games Inc.) 2 years of offering it at NAMM before it was picked up by Telegames, by that time a lot had changed and the game (at that time) was considered a bit 'dated' for the audio and audio engine, as well the games 3d engine. Via the Atari 'BBS' days (Bulletin Board Systems)I had down/loaded the original 1st version called Towers: Plight of the Stargazer. I liked it so much that I called JV games to register for my 'key' to unlock the upper levels. In talking with Vince Valenti - Programmer Extraordinaire, I mentioned that I was a musician and that I had just purchased my Atari Falcon 030 for recording digital audio (years before PC's did) I had the 'full' whopping 4mb memory (they had only 1mb on their machine).
Vince asked if I would like to try composing music for the new Falcon / Jaguar version - Towers II. I jumped at the opportunity and told him how I always wanted to have a 'video theme' type of music in 'what was then considered' an RPG game. So it was in 1994 that this music was finished and available, but unfortunately I missed my 'props' for my idea and effort, as it took another two years before it was published....there, is that enough trivia for ya?
E. L. Richardson / aka EMU from emustudios.com
Music composer for JV Games of the following titles:
Towers II
Atari Falcon, Atari Jaguar, PC, Game Boy
Medieval Chess
PC, Atari Falcon
BackTrack
PC, Atari Falcon, GameBoy Advance
James Bond: NightFire
GameBoy Advance
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