Formula one Grand Prix - Intro. Commodore Amiga.

[@jaycee1980]

I had a lot to do with the amiga music ripping scene, back in the day. The music from this and Frontier were the top two requests for rips, but noone could figure them out as they weren't Protracker files! Being an Amiga assembly language programmer, I disassembled F1GP and found the music data + play routine. My version is still on the internet today :) Hope Geoff and Dave are not too mad about it! The file says "F1GP Music ripped by DARKNESS/SYNERGY V1.0 (31/10/96)"... wow, I was 16 then :o

[@ColumbiaGameVideos]

Still the best game intro of all time

[@PeacefulPirate]

Loved this game! From such a great era too. Loved the early 90s F1 cars and the drivers that were competing. They were simply beautiful having been to some Grand Prixs during that era, this game was absolutely magic to play.

[@mrtomlovin]

Such a masterpiece of a game could never have a disappointing music.

[@johnchris4131]

Fleetwod Mac just maybe agree XD

[@mrtomlovin]

@@johnchris4131 wait... Fleetwood Mac? What do you mean?

[@johnchris4131]

@@mrtomlovin I mean the Song Chain. But dont think too mad about me

[@mrtomlovin]

@@johnchris4131 i just don't get what you mean, sorry... you saying this song was inspired by Chain (which i'm pretty familiar with)?

[@TrollDecker]

​@@mrtomlovinYeah, it's based on that song.

[@nyoodmono4681]

amiga. never forget

[@ExigeGT3]

Amiga forever!

[@irishbloke99]

i used to love this intro and music probably the best intro on the amiga.

[@wrh1984]

the percussion work on this tune is brilliant!

[@turrican4d599]

THIS game brought me to simulation driving AND into Formula 1 watching!!! Played it for months on the Amiga till I claimed the title in the Jordan! :)) Then Grand Prix 2 for the PC happened in 1995 and I signed up for Benetton as Schumi's teammate. :) In the meantime I drove Indy 500 (also Amiga), Nascar Racing and Indycar Racing on my PC.

[@alexanderlaniscek7489]

best racing simulation in that time. still love it.

[@lucapatrone6636]

Il mio primo gioco di formula uno che dire mi vengono le lacrime avevo 8 anni

[@Scarecrowdefi]

Idem classe 89

[@Sigurr0s]

I was 10 years old.. Playing this game like a MMMAAADDDDD little kid. Damn, that was good times thou :)

[@mrmotinjo]

This music has instantly brought me back memories of my childhood, and I thank you for that.

[@mrnewton86]

Interesting rendition of the Chain by Fleetwood Mac. Amiga games had some cool soundtracks though

[@Kine81]

Oh man, I just watched James May's Toy Story scalextric-episode and I thought I heard very familiar bass-line at some point during that episode. It turned out to be The Chain by Fleetwood Mac, but I knew I had heard it before on some amiga racing game. I was laying on my bed just now when it finally struck me, it was of course Microprose Formula One Grandprix! I had to come to youtube and listen to this master piece :)

[@teofilled]

I've heard a song in a pub, and I was like, damn, that's some car game, but which one?! Then somehow it got forgotten, and stumbled upon F1GP again, and zapppp :) it was actually the intro tune of the UK Formula 1 show, as turned out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6uQlX1pasuCn68

[@comel2964]

La meilleure intro de tout les temps. Amiga forever

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

I spent a week at Pete Cooke's house working on Microprose Grand Prix. It consisted largely of playing games and going to the pub.

[@Scarecrowdefi]

Super...

[@Kilb-ill]

Jesus, yesterday I've heard fleetwood macs "the chain" on the radio and it took me exactly 24 hours to figure it out😂

[@irvine5084]

Fabulous game, fabulous intro and fabulous music! 🙂

[@comel2964]

Meilleur intro de jeux de tous les temps ! Amiga forever

[@ciucciariellopiagnone997]

A sir Geoff Crammond game I crying a lot

[@claudismad]

long live to floppy disc!!!!! :D

[@ougal84]

I also remember playing for hours, we however I still somehow have my Amiga and we are playing this after a day at 'Lagos... epic! Forza Fernando!

[@dantechgamegeek]

This was one of the absolute best simgame on the Amiga!

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

You've got to love those disk - loading times!

[@Nagassh]

THIS MUSIC!

[@lepouletnoir]

Dave Lowe, who did the music (with a debt to Fleetwood Mac), must have used every drumbeat sample available at the time.

[@PJBonoVox]

Yeah, more than a passing similarity to 'The Chain' 😁

[@denisreghellin275]

Now I cry...

[@FixedPixelYT]

Original song, also the old F1 theme tune is 'Never Break The Chain' by Fleetwood Mac

[@trevorhinkley8483]

This kicks way harder than it has any right to. Remembered it following a conversatoon about video game music and inadvertantly ended up getting me right in the zone waiting for a lift for a recording session with a punk band

[@stefannafets7828]

WHY did they do such great music? Kicks the face out of my head. My Nr.2 right behind XENON II.

[@andrewbryce2707]

Sky TV in the UK are now using this music on advert for F1 channel

[@simbadgo]

jesus cant belivet, best intro ever :)) sooo nostalgic . thanks for this

[@masterofsideways]

Totally agree, that's one cracking tune. Have got the game but never heard the theme music. Will have to dig it out and have a listen.

[@LieorDie24]

yeah really best intro of these days really bringing back memories hail to the king baby

[@NooNoo123]

I seem to remember (from my childhood) that you could insert disk 2 at the boot prompt and bypass all this awesome intro... Not that I did, of course :)

[@LieorDie24]

the 386 dos compatibel pc had this intro too i rember nice times with that pc formula 1 and need for speed 1 were the first raceing games i played and not to forget lotus and stunts

[@FixedPixelYT]

Yeah I actually meant 'The Chain' by Fleetwood Mac, and not that extended version I posted above ;)

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

Thanks - it's better than the PC intro by far. I was still learning 3D at that time, and there was just too much. All of the animation for the ST/AMiga version was sone in Deluxe Paint Anim, I think. Great days!

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

This pic was taken from a step ladder in Steve Hurley's (development manager) office, so yes, it is a MAC, and we digitised the image with something on the ST (name escapes me) which was cutting edge at the time.

[@iwgp4nagata]

What a game!!!!

[@JimboJammy]

When I was younger I had my amiga hooked up to an old TV, the picture wasn't as clear as this, I used to think the driver in the intro was an old man with a grey beard and hair.

[@uollascomix]

fantastic music!

[@tentickles3728]

is it just me or is there a bit of a sudden cut at 0:56 ?

[@TrollDecker]

Possibly a hiccup while the game was loading?

[@georgor1980]

Awsome truck... when home compters had such music, pc users were still on the trees eating bananas dancing on the "bleeping" speaker sound!

[@KayoMichiels]

Unless they forked a couple of hundreds for a soundcard..

[@andrewbryce2707]

The sound capabilities for the Amiga blew away the competition to dust. Crazy to think just how big the jump was back then

[@lepouletnoir]

Created by Sir Geoff Crammond, as Amiga Power magazine used to call him.

[@vizeeee]

I love this game! what a music...what was the sound processor's name? Paula?

[@yesthisisrp25]

that music is just great...:)

[@dan26h]

now I know what has influenced the music of Pendulum haha!

[@montife]

Best game ever. I got so excited about playing gp3 on the PC but was disapointed because you needed to be Ross Braun to set up the car. Yes gp3 had much better graphics but the magic wasn't there. Gaming will never be the like it was in the Amiga days, although the loading times are now roughly the same.

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

Oop, it wasn't John Broomhall, it was Dave Lowe, who I think was the brother-in-law of the publishing director (Paul Hibbard).

[@Nonhuman]

Wooooh, Wooh woowo woho wooooh!

[@mdrio80]

awesome tune

[@Eric4372]

The Stuff of Legends

[@brelio3780]

really thx for putting it up

[@romaneberle]

ah, I didn't know, just saw it in the credits: Pete Cooke - Addidional Programming the man who brought us 'Tau Ceti' and 'Academy' :-)

[@GeriatricFan1963]

You mean the same Roberto Moreno who somehow managed to qualify the rustbucket of an Andrea Moda at Monaco in 1992 and the days of pre-qualifying? Bet Schumi couldn't have done that!

[@fattoria82]

great SONG!!

[@V3rbat1m]

yes its paula :D some people think its agnus or denise, but its paula :D

[@GeriatricFan1963]

Is it me, or does the Helmet the driver puts on at 3:05 look like Mark Webber's Helmet?

[@marcoaugusto5792]

Intro stupenda

[@Nick_TV_Producer]

Those not from the UK may not realise that this music was used for years before this game as their intro to the Formula 1 coverage. How it came to the attention of US based Microprose I'll never know. As used by the BBC: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHS5iqqVirSBgJI My way of playing this game was to race backwards, crash into all my rivals and retire them.

[@mccann82]

Microprose was only really the publisher, the game was developed by Geoff Crammond an Englishman. There was also MicroProse Soccer which was made by Sensible Software who of course later made Sensible Soccer.

[@IMATROLLINGFUULZ]

Tjats so flipping awesome!

[@GhignoTTR]

Meravigliosooooooooooo!!!!!!!

[@elritchie]

oh happy memories! fucking hell i was that sad i had to change all the fake names into the real '91 season's drivers and had to drive with no aids.oh to be 10 years old again! I miss my old atari ST..............

[@benny2194]

hello, do you know any way to rip the samples from amiga game files to use on audio trackers?

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

It's almost the Chain - the composer John Broomhall bastardised it becasue MPS was too cheap to pay for use of the real song.

[@julienbraudel7109]

Who is John Broomhall?

[@jungleboogie1978]

sound soooo much like supercars.... still its a classic!! :)

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

Thanks very much!

[@gclark03]

Did anyone notice that the guy at 1:36 - 1:40 was using a Macintosh?

[@tnralliart2600]

Awesome!

[@pigpenpete]

AMIGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

[@stu1701E]

Could the "Dave Lowe" at 3:44 be David Lowe, composer of the BBC news theme?

[@TrollDecker]

Separate people, unfortunately.

[@lokimojo80]

3:05 - is that Webber getting into a red Ferrari F190? Funnily enough it has a number 2 on it haha

[@gtrdriver27]

3:05

[@gtrdriver27]

It looks Like Roberto Moreno :v

[@ScuddyGuitarsThings]

I came.

[@LoganHunter82]

Someone should remake this intro music :)

[@VeronicaVenatrix]

The original composer just did. I am not sure whether KZbin would allow a link to a commerical thing so I guess all I can say is google "Uncle Art Retrogaming" and check the downloads section of the site.

[@claudismad]

and stunt car racer for Spectrum

[@thumb12829]

i have an amiga i have this game but when i click to play it loeds then it says error.

[@marcsw5000]

What is this song? Sounds familiar............

[@SimonStCool]

The Chain - Fleetwood Mac

[@TrollDecker]

​@@SimonStCoolIt's based on the end part of that song, at least.

[@ougal84]

awesome....

[@farerse]

what is the chain?

[@SimonStCool]

Fleetwood Mac

[@farerse]

@@SimonStCool someone in Fleetwood mac wore this chain?

[@TrollDecker]

​@@farerseIt's a song by the band. The ending part is, for one reason or another, heavily associated with F1.

[@footinmouthindustrys]

I don't know, daft punk sampled from a song made in 1979

[@Fealuce]

Broomhall did VROOOM!, didn't he ?

[@plabba]

same song as ... bbc f1 intro 2009

[@TheViceman]

Beginning of this music reminds me of Bad Religion American Jesus song :D

[@rusakaz3113]

super

[@brelio3780]

thx mate

[@Nostrum84]

lol :D that's a nice link!

[@pigpenpete]

Yes you could, but again, who did that? :)

[@EdgyNumber1]

I was lucky. I had an A1200

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

I'm not sure, sorry.

[@rusakaz3113]

🇵🇱👍👊

[@lesatariens378]

Je l'ai sur atari un jeux super inovant

[@claudismad]

sorry, i don't know :(

[@amphobius]

the hater dude, not you, sorry for any confusion

[@TenBear]

nope that would be Pinball Fantasies Sir

[@GKOBE]

heheh... funny =)

[@cbboegh]

This game is from 1992. Try searching for Daft Punk's "Homework - Da Funk" from 1995. Daft Punk obviously liked this game too - and they must have played it on Amiga, because nobody would get inspired by the PC version - yuck.

[@romaneberle]

haha, yeah! what a shame... ;-)

[@NooNoo123]

who? me, or the hater dude?