Yo peoples,
I need the help of a wide variety of people to help me identify 3 tunes that have been bugging me for years, as I know how they go, but I can't remember certain things about them.
Each has a story and each is missing a piece of information, so here goes.
Challenge 1:
First off, a long time ago, when my brother used to collect PC Gamer magazines (and another similarly popular one from the same era (1990s/2000s)) he acquired many CDs full of demos and free games.
I think it was from one of these CDs a few years later (or at least from that era of really old, bad game demos) that I found a futuristic themed 2D real time strategy game with filmed actors giving mission briefings which had some really funky music.
Now, when I came across this game, I was still fairly young and only making games in The Games Factory (programming and DBP hadn't reached me yet) so I delved into the files and took the music from this game to use as the soundtrack to one of my own games. (I was too young to understand copyright and wasn't exactly showing anyone my games anyway, just making them and playing them on my own in my sad little bedroom.)
I forgot about where the music came from, but kept the game I'd made with it to this day. - So all I have is the .midi file (which is still quite difficult to get back out of a games factory game, but never mind)
So this is challenge one, identify what game this music comes from:
Challenge 2:
This next one is again from a game, but we know the name of it. This piece of music was from Monsters and Mayhem by Locatha industries. Now that's fine, you can go and download Monsters and Mayhem as it is freeware now. - But not back in the days of PC Gamer and free demo CDs. The original demo my brother and I played had this piece of music on the levels and the full version available now does not.
The thing bugging me about this piece of music is that I can remember all the notes and the 2 distinguishable parts but we can't find out what it's called or where the original melody came from. - Furthermore, the tune has been used in some popular music as I once heard it being played on a fairly normal piece of up-beat music on a radio. (My brother also tells me it has been used in some electronic/dance music remixes as well.)
To listen to this tune, you've either got to play it on
http://www.virtualpiano.net/ using the following keys:
0,
e.
trer,
w,
0,
0,
e.
trer,
w,
0,
0.
utetutetutetu.
i,
utetutetutute
(Commas are short pauses and fullstops/periods are longer pauses.)
Or hear me playing it really badly on this file:
(Incidentally although it's a long shot, if one of you out there actually has the original demo CD or the demo with this music, that'd be even better.
! I just want to hear the original music. xD)
Challenge 3:
The third challenge is much like the other 2, only not related to a game (at least not in my mind).
I used to hear this tune being played at school in assembly by the piano teacher at the front but again can't remember the name of it. - I think it may have been a hymn and therefore has words which I've long since forgotten as well. xD (Something about knights and St. George rings a bell.)
But again, all I know are the rough notes and pace so you've either got to play it on
http://www.virtualpiano.net/ using:
iopoiyteoooo,
iopoiytetiii,
issdgdspoio,
iopoiytetiii
Or hear me playing it on this file:
Bonus challenge:
Incidentally, both of these sounds files are straight from Creatures (the artificial life game) - Are they from an original piece of music or were they made up specially for Creatures?
