{"id":2809,"date":"2013-10-10T14:54:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T14:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retrovideogamesystems.com\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2014-11-25T19:43:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T19:43:30","slug":"monty-on-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retrovideogamesystems.com\/monty-on-the-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Monty on the Run"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Looks like Monty’s be up to no good!\u00a0 Desperate for his freedom and making\u00a0a daring escape from Scudmore Prison, Monty’s on the Run.\u00a0 Being the successor of Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy, Monty on the Run was written by Peter Harrap and released by Gremlin Graphic in 1985.<\/p>\n

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This is the game that hosts one of the best music scores ever written, the man behind the music\u00a0is no other than the\u00a0Commodore music Legend,\u00a0Rob Hubbard.\u00a0 This track has become famous all around the world being covered from rock bands to full symphony orchestras.\u00a0 The main game theme was, according to Hubbard, inspired by “Devil’s Galop”, the theme tune to the radio serial Dick Barton special Agent from 1951. This score was rated #1 on Skytopia’s list of The All-Time Top C64 Game Tunes and was also rated #2 in Hardcore Gaming 101’s Top 100 Western Video Game Music of all time.\u00a0 I think this goes to show just how powerful the Commodore’s SID chip actually was back then these game\u00a0scores have become.<\/p>\n

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