Netherworld - Unique Awesome Commodore 64 Game Music By Jori Olkkonen

Title music from the game Netherworld. Unique, fantastic music by the Finnish maestro Jori Olkkonen. Jori created music to a few Finnish made computer games in the 1980s and he was/is also a demoscene musician known as Yip of Pure-Byte. Pure-Byte was the first Finnish internationally known Commodore 64 demogroup.
The song itself runs on Jori Olkkonen's custom coded music routine and it is truly excellent example of using sampled sounds on C64 hardware. Very CPU intensive too.
Published by Hewson Consultants Ltd.
Released 1988
Designed by: Jukka Tapanimäki
Written by: Jukka Tapanimäki
C64 music by: Jori Olkkonen
You are trapped in Netherworld. With your space ship you have to make your way through different levels with a hostile environment. Under a time limit you have to collect diamonds to get to the next level. The game is filled with dragons, moving mines, acid spitting creatures and lots more. Your space ship is able to shoot, furthermore you can collect several power ups, such as sand glasses to ease the time limit, shield restore or items that give you invulnerability.
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[@akuankka321876]

Huge respect to AVGN for bringing up this awesome Finnish game in his episode ❤️ 🇫🇮

[@chrisgude1091]

Great

[@SIedgeHammer83]

AVGN made me relive and remember my childhood of old games.

[@BadBoyBird]

yes

[@aaronlyttle775]

That's why I'm here!

[@TheSmartboy64]

It is thanks to him we have gathered once again.

[@nosfonader8792]

Props to the new Angry Video Game Nerd episode for having this game. I had no idea Commodore 64 can have this type of music. Definitely one of the most badass themes I ever heard in a video game!

[@iriamuguillermo9678]

I picture a team of Space Marines walking towards the camera in slow motion as the Alien nest burns in the background.

[@nosfonader8792]

@@iriamuguillermo9678 This music plays as they storm the nest of hostile aliens

[@Shinobu_Hinata]

If you like this, give some of Jeroen Tel's compositions a shot. He made some great music for C64 games like Myth. I recommend Myth's title theme.

[@nosfonader8792]

@@Shinobu_Hinata Thanks I will

[@Windclaw]

My thought that is that video game music is truly art unto itself. The chipset in the C64 had some muscle that few think about. Kind of how the GBA music chip had a slap-ton of hidden power too.

[@neonnwave1]

I hope someone makes a clear version of this. Even with the muzzled sounds it's rad as hell.

[@iriamuguillermo9678]

I can just picture a team of badass Space Marines walking slow mo at the camera while the Alien nest burns in the background.

[@samzilla567]

I'd be down for youtube musicians to do covers and remixes of this with modern hardware.

[@Hotshotter3000]

The C64 chipset adds a certain charm to it.

[@seife41]

Finn's are good at music

[@nightadmin283]

this game wasn't on the spot before but after AVGN this game will have better reputation

[@william7182]

If I had played this game back in 1988, the music would blew my mind. This game should be in the video game hall of fame just for the kickass sound track alone. Kudos to AVGN.

[@qlcrane8019]

At least the Finnish video game museum has this game showcased and it specially mentions the music in the game

[@TheRealmDrifter]

AVGN got me here

[@coreylineberry8557]

Prepare to see that.

[@NotFenriz]

X2 my friend

[@marvelcomicsnerd4196]

Same bro. I'm not even finished with his video, I paused it just to listen to this song

[@C.J...]

20XX OST goes off

[@Wubsy96]

Me too.

[@GH0STRIDEZ]

Im here because of the new Avgn episode, and im rocking out!!!!!

[@svartfrasr9755]

Well this being Finnish makes a whole lot of sense. You guys have always had a great metal scene lol.

[@pelikopteri]

Jori was not a metalhead though, but guitar walls make always sense. :)

[@charlie4christ536]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5LXeq2nrKdlmqM Christ died for your sins and rose on the third day, showing that anyone who trusts in him for salvation, will have everlasting life. (John 11:25-26) "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" (John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@Semper-S3XY]

@@charlie4christ536 idc about your god. Hail satan

[@svartfrasr9755]

@@charlie4christ536 Can I get some biscuits with that?

[@JamietheEmperor]

Weirdos

[@jpwolf1701]

The C64 had the mighty SID chip which allowed programmers to make awesome chip tunes like this.

[@viznut]

Digitunes like this are mostly based on CPU-banging, so the features of the soundchip don't really matter that much. An AY or POKEY chip would do fine.

[@Nicholas_Steel]

In this case though it's using audio samples, not the synthesizer. So the experience is along the lines of what you got with a SNES video game (which supports 16 audio samples at the same time while this Amiga game plays 4 at a time).

[@GiulerPowerGamer]

AVGN you have a great taste on music 👍

[@PegasusBrill]

Damn, I wish I knew about this sooner, this kicks ass.

[@vahlok1426]

For anyone coming here from the recent Nerd video, and you're interested in some more awesome C64 music, look up the work of Rob Hubbard. His arrangements are the stuff of legend. Also, give the soundtracks of the Last Ninja games a listen.

[@raledeadpool6455]

AVGN just did a The Last Ninja episode😅

[@vahlok1426]

@@raledeadpool6455 Indeed, but he covered the botched NES port. It didn't even have the soundtrack of the C64 version, or even an approximation of it.

[@raledeadpool6455]

@@vahlok1426 i remember nes version as a kid i played once...years later i tried it again and it was SHIT. Good episode though

[@newwaveknight1]

Game Developers: "Okay, Jori, this is a new thing called a 'video game'. This may not go well, so no need to go too hard on this soundtrack." Jori: (a stream of fire comes out of each ear of his headphones as he removes them) "I'm sorry, did you guys say something?"

[@alexskibicki2262]

This sounds killer for a Commodore 64 tune. 😎🤘🏻🎸

[@risingdawn5259]

Here's to AVGN and freakin awesome Commodore sound tracks

[@SIedgeHammer83]

I bought this game just for the music alone.

[@Oswald_Official]

you could have just looked up OST's for the game instead. i found a site for it, if you want it i will post it here on my comment.

[@pelikopteri]

Just fyi, this is the 1:1 original PAL speed version of the song. As it is meant to play :) Netherworld is one of the early masterpieces of Finnish commercially released games and the game is displayed in the Finnish Museum of Games as one of the cornerstones of the whole Finnish industry. www.vapriikki.fi/en/pelimuseo/ The song itself runs on Jori Olkkonen's own custom coded music routine and it is truly excellent example of using sampled sounds on C64 hardware. Very CPU intensive too, so no chance of running it during gameplay. Also, see below the composer's (Petrik) comment:

[@petriksalovaara2805]

The music routine was coded exclusively for Netherworld, and has not been used in any other release. It started out as an experiment - I wanted to find out if it was possible to play more than 1 sample simultaneously. It was. Netherworld has 4 (drums + bass + 2 guitars). I played + recorded the distorted guitar samples myself, and snatched the bass and drums from somewhere (don't remember the source).

[@pelikopteri]

@@petriksalovaara2805 Thanks Yip. Everyone, that guy, Petrik, is the original composer & coder for the Netherworld soundtrack you're loving so much here.

[@arandomflyingcat6254]

@@pelikopteri You might want to pin this comment so everyone can read this before this comment drowns in a sea of other comments

[@everythingsalright1121]

@@petriksalovaara2805 youre awesome lol its so neat to see how people pushed something to its limits and make something cool (commodore was long before i was born)

[@kentuckyfryedstalin]

@@petriksalovaara2805 massive respect to you, man. You, Huelsbeck, Liljedahl, etc. are the entire reason I got into music production in the first place. If you can make some insane shit like this masterpiece with just a SID chip, anything is possible.

[@LordClydeofOMAR]

Man, this is urgent! I hope someone does a metal cover of it!

[@akuankka321876]

This

[@iriamuguillermo9678]

Thats an a million+ view video right there.

[@Kiboune_YT]

We need to send this track to LittleVMills ! He makes great metal covers

[@spookymulder945]

Rex Viper?

[@ezraleddy7697]

@@spookymulder945 I don’t know Why But The Netherworld Soundtrack Would be a Perfect Sample For a Video game Type beat

[@amonzinmelhorgordalltime9541]

A few more than 500 views before Avgn. let's see where this goes...

[@jallerlepine3596]

almost 2700 right now

[@YunTaeGoO]

@@jallerlepine3596 nearly 5700 now :D

[@magografico]

11, 500 so far XD

[@moonlightact1792]

15200

[@Nyah420]

@@moonlightact1792 21,000. This tune is doing numbers. I wish all great tracks like this got special shout outs. The numbers show the audience is there; they just don't know the tracks exist.

[@div-atl6414]

One of the finest digi tunes.

[@lovelya72]

AVGN fans, unite!

[@ZyxthePest]

James air drumming to this made my day.

[@kelendalkazama9926]

This Power Rangers-ass theme song is amazing. Some Jeroen Tel shit going on here.

[@NIDELLANEUM]

Is this what inspired Go Go Power Rangers?

[@YungReg88]

So, someone else noticed it too...

[@AtheistBelgium]

Amazing to see how many people actully looked this up after watching AVGN haha.

[@thatgamingauthor]

Haha, right? I looked it up for the same reason and was quite surprised by how many people in the comments came from that video. It's a great song!

[@KarlXII1718]

Fond memories of listening to this masterpiece while reading the manual for game Decision in the Desert

[@PissBoys]

Well I suppose everyone that's watching this in late 2021 is here because of the AVGN.

[@ahmadzahraniAAZ]

Yes

[@blazingonyx9252]

Yes

[@aceone2156]

You already know!

[@GabrielF430]

yep

[@Nic5Cyprus]

This song is a testament to how good the C64 soundchip was

[@lentoytranquilo]

soon there ill be avgn fns around here great ost!

[@atanii4513]

we are here already :D

[@lentoytranquilo]

@@atanii4513 i mean the "horde"

[@blazingonyx9252]

Iam avgn fan

[@michaelbremer35]

Anybody else here after the AVGN video?

[@omegamaximus1727]

Avgn bought me here.

[@i.l.l.l.l.]

Thank you, AVGN!

[@sc0ttschannel]

AVGN sent me here

[@didaibr1]

Speed up to 1.25x and rock on!!! Hope someone with talent can remake this song with better quality and chiptone

[@colinburke8389]

You're right, that does make it even better!

[@jallerlepine3596]

For some reasons, I just imagine Johnny Lawrence rocking to this song for the 80's vibe

[@FalkorStranix]

AVGN sent me here, awesome tune!

[@clownymoosebean]

Somebody, PLEASE do a metal cover of this! It bops, it slaps, and it's an absolute banger!

[@terminationforcemetal]

Wanna hear a thrash metal take on this awesome track?! Please check out our song "Netherworld", from our newly released EP. Https://kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3nWo42gg6iDmrc

[@clownymoosebean]

@@terminationforcemetal yo dawg das dope

[@solidskullz5736]

Now that’s a bop if I’ve ever heard one

[@TheAuron32]

even with the hardware limits, they made THIS sound so good, props to the music team.

[@pelikopteri]

It is just one guy. More info in the description :)

[@TheAuron32]

@@pelikopteri thats even more amazing!

[@Anty-ie3ft]

lol people just started commenting on this from the new AVGN vid

[@TheRafaelRamos]

Sounds so crisp and metal-like! I love it!

[@julienbraudel7109]

Awesome track. Finnish composers were some of the greatest on computers in the 80s-90s.

[@laurentderrien]

Great job Jori ! Finally your talent got recognized worldwide !

[@daibonehead]

His highscore tune for BMX Kidz is amazing,

[@MacChuck]

Fuck, those drums are heavy! Nice!:- P

[@StoicNatsoc]

I knew SID chip was capable of some serious feats, but this...this is on a whole new damn level.

[@pelikopteri]

Takes quite a bit of creative coding and using most of the CPU for just the sound routine.

[@maytheprincessofhoenn619]

The new AVGN episode is what brought me here. And I can't get it out of my head.

[@CustodialDaniel]

Thanks for sending me here James, y’all got good taste in music

[@TheStickCollector]

Sounds lovely. Imagine if every newer game company cared this much about music

[@odioalospoopers]

Most game composers do, just that tech is good enough so they don't need to reinvent the wheel just to get good sound, so now they experiment on new things of using the music to express what you're doing like in the doom reboot, to immerse you in the world like elder scrolls, or to simply complement the worldspace they belong to like most modern games

[@JenkemSuperfan]

Namco

[@ScottE-2]

AVGN sent us.

[@ziemiak11]

AVGN

[@aeoninfinity247]

"Haha, fart bass...HOLY SHIT THIS RULES" (*furious headbanging*)

[@IidosGamingDen]

Even with this quality, the music sounds amazing. I wonder if there's any chance an uncompressed, original version exists somewhere... that would be a treasure to find.

[@pelikopteri]

hvsc.csdb.dk/MUSICIANS/Y/Yip/Netherworld_preview_2.sid

[@gamegenie4617]

@@pelikopteri How do I open a SID file?

[@Sososaure]

Very very impressive for a 1982 hardware considering how the other versions (DOS : 1990) sounds bad Completely crazy to have done such a song for a title screen, ppl are used to skip it after 4 seconds lol Ty AVGN to have made us discover this work of art

[@pelikopteri]

Back at that time the title screens often had the best musics. People did stay and listen to those. The musics during gameplay had to compromise more with the raster time and sound effects, so the composers couldn't go full throttle then. But they could throw everything they could to the title song!

[@StCreed]

I used to wait on the title screen until the song ended, if it was a good one. And play to get into the high scores for the same reason. Parallax a case in point, as well as Rambo.

[@walnzell9328]

The original speed: Intense 80's Sci-Fi film score. The sped up version from AVGN's Commodore 64 episode: 64k RAM Super Sentai Theme Song

[@coolcatdrummer]

AVGN brought me here. Thanks nerd

[@DanTheManCalter]

I had no idea the C64 could ever sample sound like this. This is amazing! I'm getting some awesome Jim Power vibes

[@jigglykirby]

Getting some real Natural Killer Cyborg from Mother 3 vibes on this one. Legit banger right here

[@dudeisodumb]

Beautiful OST, thanks for posting!

[@C.J...]

AVGN also I had to hear the whole thing lulz

[@Grankajunagordo]

Came here from AVGN, IT ROCKS.

[@GrumpyCat97]

me too

[@mihailos8701]

Thanks AVGN, this truly rocks

[@lilwyvern4]

The SID chip was capable of some incredible feats, but are those recorded samples in there? How did he pull that off? That's incredible!

[@pelikopteri]

C64 is indeed capable of playing back samples. Not in very high quality but still. Jori coded his own music routine and used it to perfection here.

[@kaijulover8094]

Huh, this game is the same age as me.Go figure.

[@mrwerauchimmer8814]

Thanks!

[@cosmosofinfinity]

A more epic title screen than even most of today's games, holy shit

[@kevmccormick1767]

Some wrestler needs to use this as their theme song

[@SkiKoala]

This has a very "final stage" sound.

[@mrbauer0770]

Pov: you are here from the c64 avgn episode

[@vixenoreos]

i want this song to get remade today without the fuzziness i would pay for it

[@vixenoreos]

hell i would pay 500 or more idc what the cost is JUST SOMEONE MAKE THIS SONG WITHOUT THE FUZZIENESS

[@speore]

For those who want to hear more good sample work done on a C64 I would recommend giving All You Know (Is Wrong) by Fanta a listen.

[@goddammit4213]

Watching AVGN once and this shows up in my recommendation

[@kherubim1]

The Nerd sent me here. This music is awesome.

[@RealGateGuardian]

RIP Jukka Tapanimaki, this game will be remembered. Also, BIG thank you Jori Olkkonen for making a rad theme.

[@pasikymalainen7478]

BESTNESS !!!!!!!!

[@meatballmeatwad5730]

Thank you Avgn for telling us about this

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

The Angry Video Game Nerd sent me here

[@foxman1998]

When you want to be Slayer but your parents told you to be a game developer.

[@bakagemu1190]

AVGN brought me here and i'm happy he did. This track is just pure energy from the 80's!

[@Shanatan9]

Hidden gem from yesteryears ❤️

[@etherealrat1818]

This song is bussin

[@jonplaud]

Thank you AVGN!

[@user-tj7gd7ek8l]

Вот это музон, настоящий heavy metal!!!🎸🤘🤘

[@RoseSupreme]

Of course I get recommended this after watching AVGN's video. =P

[@patrickhahn533]

Great Stuff!!!

[@teotest3255]

Thanks AVGN!

[@LVPictures]

only 3459 view??? James sent me here

[@GrumpyCat97]

i remembered it was 500 views in yesterday

[@omegamaximus1727]

Set the video 1.25 and it sounds way more awesome.

[@thesparxeffect9734]

Commodore 64's music/sound chip is beyond the word amazing.

[@halolasomaster3900]

Very surprised how few views thos has for such a historical ost

[@stephenr0500]

2k views, let's see where AVGN fans bring this

[@firstnamelastname8534]

A game from 1988 shouldn't have this banger but it did

[@FukiMakai]

How the heck this work anyway? Is this 3 PCM channels and one wave channel? Edit: never mind, its 1 PCM and 3 waves, the PCM does a lot of work, it does both guitar (two guitars) and drums. Waves does bass and harmonies.

[@notsofatmike1]

This is great! And all I have done is enter my name! *THRILLHO*

[@Mil89GR]

Angry video game nerds video sent me here

[@LegoGBlok]

The Nerd brought me here. Thank you James, without you this hidden gem would have stayed hidden

[@caballero_de_plomo9868]

I need a HD cover!!

[@weozet]

This... Is... Awesome! Thanks AVGN

[@odessa888]

This is wow!

[@gracecardoso7513]

I think I hurt my head headbanging to this lol. Thanks AVGN for introducing me to the BEST SONG EVER

[@JoCaTen]

they had no right to go this hard

[@_SixthDay_]

And added to music playlist