Do you have any particular favourite Commodore Amiga Games or gadgets?

Sorry for the slow replay- I must be missing something on hubpages, I only today found your question...To answer, oh, yes. My top favorite games are Elite (possibly my favorite game of all time! ), Bard's Tale (I, 2, and 3, but mostly 1) and the free-ware game Battlemech by Ralph Reed.

I actually sent him money for the luxury version! It's funny that I found your question today. I've just spent the last 3 days on my Amiga Emulator playing Elite from Harmless up through Average.

I think I'm close to Above Average. I just bought my military laser, which makes those nasty Thargoids a more reasonable proposition. You can kill them with the little baby laser that comes with your Cobra, but it takes so long, I usually get attacked by at least 2 more groups before finishing.

Without the docking computer, you just can't quit fighting long enough to get in the space station. Boy, those were the days. You remember the Amiga competitions with big prize money to the victor?

I actually wrote an Amiga game called Sword of the Warlock... it was a Bard's Tale clone. I still have the discs, but no Amiga, so I don't even know if the discs are any good any more. I'm seriously passionate about the Amiga, and always enjoy your hubs.

Thanks for the question, and sorry again it took me so long to answer.

Steve Burke is a freelance game music composer with over 11 years experience in the video games industry. Previously working at Rare Ltd. In England for nine years, Steve has worked on many video game projects for Nintendo, Microsoft, and also smaller independent developers.

He was gracious enough to answer a few questions on his work and the process of bringing music to games! Only kewl doods need apply. Did you always want to make music for games?

Did you ever want to be a traditional composer, or be in a band? I'd always been interested in game music, right back from the early days of music on Commodore 64 and Amiga games. Those were the most impressionable games for me, and it was a time when I'd buy a game because of the composer attached to it.

I studied the piano since around 10 years old, and joined orchestras playing the clarinet and tenor saxophone, and overall my musical background was more classical than playing in a band. I went to study music at King's College London, and it was around that time that I really became interested in composing.

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