| DMS 23.03.2020 18:38 |
Hi All Just for fun, anyone know of any Queen related things in computer games? Or other media such as fictional stories? Here are a few to get things going: Chronos: A Tapestry of Time a ZX Spectrum game from1987 contains the lyrics to Tear it Up. Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen a SNES game from 1993, plus the follow up Ogre Battle: Let us Cling Together. The obvious ones: Queen The Eye Rise of The Robots |
| mooghead 23.03.2020 19:07 |
Radio Ga Ga is in GTA V |
| DMS 23.03.2020 19:14 |
Good shout moog, forgot all about GTAV. Did they have One Vision in one of the earlier GTA's? |
| Golden Salmon 23.03.2020 22:27 |
DMS wrote: Good shout moog, forgot all about GTAV. Did they have One Vision in one of the earlier GTA's?It's featured in GTA IV indeed. Any Resident Evil fans? These words on Chris' and Claire's jackets cannot be coincidental. https://twitter.com/resifacts/status/1039856149816856576 |
| stevelondon20 23.03.2020 22:48 |
Golden Salmon wrote:I love Resi.DMS wrote: Good shout moog, forgot all about GTAV. Did they have One Vision in one of the earlier GTA's?It's featured in GTA IV indeed. Any Resident Evil fans? These words on Chris' and Claire's jackets cannot be coincidental. https://twitter.com/resifacts/status/1039856149816856576 The developers were huge Queen fans, hence MIH and LML. |
| JacquesDaniels 23.03.2020 23:02 |
Commodore 64: - Highlander by Ocean Software, 1986. Features "A Kind of Magic". Also available on Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. - Frantic Freddie by CDS, 1983. Features "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". - Frantic Freddie II by Oziphantom, 2019. Features "Don't Stop Me Now". There are some random Queen songs SID'ified for C64 demos also, I've heard at least We Will Rock You, Save Me, Seven Seas of Rhye and Another One Bites the Dust. If I remember correctly, Queen also gets a passing mention in one of the games based on Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole books. There were two games made for the 8-bits. There was also had a rock idol/band managing parody game called Rock Star Ate My Hamster, in which "Eddy Quicksilver" is one of the stars you can have in your group. For more modern stuff, you have the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, probably some karaoke games as well. |
| stevelondon20 24.03.2020 18:48 |
Singstar Queen. |
| stevelondon20 24.03.2020 18:49 |
JacquesDaniels wrote: Commodore 64: - Highlander by Ocean Software, 1986. Features "A Kind of Magic". Also available on Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. - Frantic Freddie by CDS, 1983. Features "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". - Frantic Freddie II by Oziphantom, 2019. Features "Don't Stop Me Now". There are some random Queen songs SID'ified for C64 demos also, I've heard at least We Will Rock You, Save Me, Seven Seas of Rhye and Another One Bites the Dust. If I remember correctly, Queen also gets a passing mention in one of the games based on Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole books. There were two games made for the 8-bits. There was also had a rock idol/band managing parody game called Rock Star Ate My Hamster, in which "Eddy Quicksilver" is one of the stars you can have in your group. For more modern stuff, you have the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, probably some karaoke games as well.C64. An absolute gem. Not a day went by where I never played that when I was younger! |
| princetom 24.03.2020 19:34 |
@JacquesDaniels are you related to the demoscene ? . i recall some tracks like "show must go on" and "scandal" from the HVSC. not the worst arrangements. |
| JacquesDaniels 24.03.2020 22:29 |
@princetom Not particularly, no. I do write a retrogaming blog as a hobby, and articles for an Australian C64-based fanzine called Reset64 whenever I'm called or have time for it, which is probably the closest to a scener credit I can claim of having. My actual dayjob is very much music-based, and I've recently felt like I would like to make some SID music, but I haven't had the time to learn how to go about it, and trackers are a bit weird to operate. |
| princetom 24.03.2020 22:46 |
@jacquesDaniels just DO it ! ... don't long for things... write your own tracker! THAT's the way to do :-) and ...no...just DO it ! attend a certain demoparty...near you. VISIT! :-) gather contacts worth for life. just that. demoscene = unlimited of worthy friends. . apart from THAT ... yes ... there were some tracks covered by some underground-wizards (and some who were not). would that kind of stuff ...ähm... share-able ? dunno. |
| mooghead 25.03.2020 08:21 |
stevelondon20 wrote:Nah, Amstrad all the way boi!JacquesDaniels wrote: Commodore 64: - Highlander by Ocean Software, 1986. Features "A Kind of Magic". Also available on Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. - Frantic Freddie by CDS, 1983. Features "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". - Frantic Freddie II by Oziphantom, 2019. Features "Don't Stop Me Now". There are some random Queen songs SID'ified for C64 demos also, I've heard at least We Will Rock You, Save Me, Seven Seas of Rhye and Another One Bites the Dust. If I remember correctly, Queen also gets a passing mention in one of the games based on Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole books. There were two games made for the 8-bits. There was also had a rock idol/band managing parody game called Rock Star Ate My Hamster, in which "Eddy Quicksilver" is one of the stars you can have in your group. For more modern stuff, you have the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, probably some karaoke games as well.C64. An absolute gem. Not a day went by where I never played that when I was younger! |
| The Fairy King 25.03.2020 09:08 |
Damn, finally an interesting thread between all the flaming. |
| stevelondon20 25.03.2020 10:29 |
mooghead wrote:Amstrad was good but the C64 lead the way Rob!stevelondon20 wrote:Nah, Amstrad all the way boi!JacquesDaniels wrote: Commodore 64: - Highlander by Ocean Software, 1986. Features "A Kind of Magic". Also available on Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. - Frantic Freddie by CDS, 1983. Features "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". - Frantic Freddie II by Oziphantom, 2019. Features "Don't Stop Me Now". There are some random Queen songs SID'ified for C64 demos also, I've heard at least We Will Rock You, Save Me, Seven Seas of Rhye and Another One Bites the Dust. If I remember correctly, Queen also gets a passing mention in one of the games based on Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole books. There were two games made for the 8-bits. There was also had a rock idol/band managing parody game called Rock Star Ate My Hamster, in which "Eddy Quicksilver" is one of the stars you can have in your group. For more modern stuff, you have the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, probably some karaoke games as well.C64. An absolute gem. Not a day went by where I never played that when I was younger! |
| JacquesDaniels 25.03.2020 11:16 |
@princetom: Nah, I'm not a programmer, and never even wanted to be one. Music is my number one thing, but mostly with real instruments. Now, if there was a notation software for the C64 that could save files into .sid format, that would be more up my alley. Just thought of a reversed thing: every game shown in the Invisible Man promo video is automatically Queen-related xD |
| JacquesDaniels 25.03.2020 12:00 |
The corona threat isolation makes you a bit desperate for stuff to do, so in case anyone was ever interested, here are the visible games (cover spines and posters) from the Invisible Man video. GAMES ON THE SHELF, LEFT TO RIGHT: The Tube (Quicksilva, 1987) Star Wars (Domark, 1987) Xeno (A'n'F, 1986) World War (MC Lothlorien, 1987) Double Take (Ocean, 1987) Nightmare Rally (Ocean, 1986) Basket Master (Imagine, 1987) >> The Invisible Man disk << Dark Empire (MC Lothlorien, 1987) Arkanoid (Imagine, 1987) Legions of Death (MC Lothlorien, 1987) ??? something from Ocean, probably Cobra ??? Star Wars (Domark, 1987) - again! -- the rest are undecipherable -- POSTERS: Xeno (A'n'F, 1986) Renegade (Imagine, 1987) TRAP (Alligata, 1985) Lands of Havoc (Microdeal, 1985) Romulus (Quicksilva, 1987) There are couple of other posters on the wall that I can't make out whether they're posters of games or what. Good luck deciphering those from the official potato quality videos. |
| stevelondon20 25.03.2020 13:18 |
JacquesDaniels wrote: The corona threat isolation makes you a bit desperate for stuff to do, so in case anyone was ever interested, here are the visible games (cover spines and posters) from the Invisible Man video. GAMES ON THE SHELF, LEFT TO RIGHT: The Tube (Quicksilva, 1987) Star Wars (Domark, 1987) Xeno (A'n'F, 1986) World War (MC Lothlorien, 1987) Double Take (Ocean, 1987) Nightmare Rally (Ocean, 1986) Basket Master (Imagine, 1987) >> The Invisible Man disk << Dark Empire (MC Lothlorien, 1987) Arkanoid (Imagine, 1987) Legions of Death (MC Lothlorien, 1987) ??? something from Ocean, probably Cobra ??? Star Wars (Domark, 1987) - again! -- the rest are undecipherable -- POSTERS: Xeno (A'n'F, 1986) Renegade (Imagine, 1987) TRAP (Alligata, 1985) Lands of Havoc (Microdeal, 1985) Romulus (Quicksilva, 1987) There are couple of other posters on the wall that I can't make out whether they're posters of games or what. Good luck deciphering those from the official potato quality videos.Great work mate!! |
| al bundy 25.03.2020 18:48 |
In „Asterix and the big fight“ Cacofonix, the bard, sings the line „Stone Cold Crazy“. |
| DMS 25.03.2020 18:53 |
Thanks for the replies, some really interesting finds. Love the Invisible Man observations, I remember seeing the Renegade poster at the time, I loved that game on the speccy! |
| The Fairy King 26.03.2020 07:45 |
The TMNT NES game intro sounds an awful lot like Stone Cold Crazy. |
| stevelondon20 29.03.2020 17:50 |
The Fairy King wrote: The TMNT NES game intro sounds an awful lot like Stone Cold Crazy.Good shout! |
| brENsKi 29.03.2020 17:58 |
had an Atari 800xl - so didn't get to see most of those games |
| Saint Jiub 29.03.2020 21:17 |
The RPG Dragon Age Inquisition has a reference to the Queen II album cover. The Queen II album cover reference is an icon in the multiplayer portion of the game. The icon is for the "Sing-Along" ability of the Virtuoso character named Zither. link |
