One Must Fall 2097 - Soundtrack

[@JisengSo]

Tracks: 0:00:00 Main Menu 0:06:22 Stadium 0:12:34 Danger Room 0:16:04 Power Plant 0:18:54 Fire Pit 0:21:56 Desert 0:24:20 Ending

[@derivious2012]

anyone who played this as a kid had a great childhood

[@rooneyfire9901]

played this with my dad when he was in med school

[@steve122288]

haha, nice way of seeing it. This was more badass then we realized :D

[@yosefyonin6824]

i didnt play as a kid, i decided to play at very recently, and by god, it stood the test of time, freakin awsome

[@mikegaming4924]

Master Pack I played it back then

[@urmo345]

I played it, but i was already late teens

[@rooxg]

Man, it is so clear now why i love these types of old synths nowadays and how it actually influenced the music i would make 20 years later. Didn't realize how cool this shit was as a child!

[@philippschneidenbach]

This song is pure geometry. For me, this is nearly 30 years past and still bangs like it was yesterday.

[@amdkala]

For me this and the original killer instinct stuff... I am to old.

[@ardenharan2201]

I hear the power plant theme and my instincts go THROW THE DUDE INTO THE LIGHTNING! God, my childhood, it is twinging mightily right now.

[@Raphaeluberzor]

​@@ardenharan2201 haha now I've found where my foundness for electronic music comes from

[@ChristMetalMayhem]

This game needs a remaster in the worst way so they can take my money!

[@Thijs_NL]

after 25 years.. this song sometimes still pops up in my head.. when Im in a elevator or something.. what a soundtrack!

[@Hdx64]

That happens to me with the power plant level. Out of nowhere i start humming the song and making the percussion haha

[@Misbehave]

One of the best fighting games ever made and has an absolutely dynamite soundtrack.

[@Darkdaej]

+Misbehave Definitely one of the best(if not the best) of the Win 3.x era. I still play it every once in a while. The Tournament Mode has a lot of replayability given that your robot can be upgraded from an insanely slow and clunky piece of metal to a blazing-fast death machine :P I always loved that anime newscaster detailing the match after each fight. But your repair crew chief is a dick. Take more than 25% damage and he bitches at you.

[@MajorKreissack88]

+Some One I always thought that was your coach, he said things like you have to learn to block, or you didnt do bad but you could have done much better. it was stupid that he'd say stuff like that if you beat the world championship haha

[@Darkdaej]

MajorKreissack88 Well he's your repair crew chief, since he complains that he'll be working all night if you get too much damage. He's supposed to be a former competitor, however, as he claims if he were younger, he'd show you a thing or two if you get a near-perfect win.

[@MajorKreissack88]

+Some One yeah! I remember that comment, which is why I thought he was your coach! I don't understand it either way, you're paying him to repair your robot, the more damaged it gets, the more you pay him O_o

[@fep_ptcp883]

Some One "Milano looked great tonight. Ibrahim and his Electra were a little more than a punching bag"

[@current9300]

This really is one of the games that really made me fall in love with gaming back in the day. To this day, this is the soundtrack that takes me back in the days when it felt like games were much more than "just" games. While gaming has evolved in many aspects, no experience of 2019 can make up for soul of this game. It was something unique that could only exist in it's time, and I'm grateful to have experienced it then.

[@iliariano3126]

Unique: of course if you had SB AWE 32 or Gravis Ultrasound :-)

[@rashoietolan3047]

W

[@zydian_]

the keyword in your text is 'soul' Even indie games nowadays are a parody or inspired by these old games but the soul is totally different or totally lacking. Not even gonna mention the triple A industry where almost every game looks the same esthetically bcs everything needs to look as real as possible, with such bland soundtracks, no distinction whatsoever. and B-games are sadly no thing anymore either. Don't get me wrong the games of nowadays are amazing in their own right but widely WIDELY different to the feeling and artistic freedom "mainstream" games had back in the day.

[@Yuri_Yslin]

@@zydian_ This is why retro gaming is so great. There are literally hundreds, maybe even thousands of games out there that were made with heart and passion over 20+ years. More than you can possibly play through during your lifetime. As far as I am concerned, they (developers) can stop making new games altogether and I will still have plenty of gaming ahead of me for the rest of my life.

[@csanadavans9406]

Exactly!! Striking comments

[@jasomcox]

What a game, what a soundtrack. Missing my MS-DOS days.

[@PerseEki69]

I just came to revisit this song with hifi DAC and headphones. I'm crying. 😭❤️ Thank you uploader.

[@JisengSo]

I'm glad you appreciate the quality. I always try to maximize the audio quality for soundtrack videos. I upload with PCM or FLAC audio!

[@Kratt1313]

I feel you man, I loved this soundtrack back in the day. I'm listening to this on K5 Pro DAC and HD 6XX cans now and it sounds so good.

[@miguelzavaleta1911]

@@JisengSo Unfortunately I'm sure KZbin compresses the files anyway. Not like humans can actually hear the difference between high-bitrate compression and actual FLAC, to be honest.

[@JisengSo]

@@miguelzavaleta1911 KZbin definitely compresses. Everything you stream from KZbin is AAC or Opus these days. Still, it's better to go from FLAC -> lossy compression than lossy compression -> lossy compression.

[@da-voodoo-shuffle]

What I love about 90s game music was the variance of how the tunes sounded on different sound cards. I think this version is the superior version.

[@derivious2012]

before days of KZbin this song was only a legend stuck in my head

[@anothergamingchannel2656]

Right? Thank God for the internet. Making it possible to relive these memories that we otherwise wouldnt have

[@Ghtshronis]

I remember making a .wav file of this sound track back in the day!

[@xMarty182x]

I see you've stumbled your way past the grunts but you're going to have to dance with fire to beat me.

[@OSLP]

Raven.

[@unearth1640]

@@OSLP Pyros main be like

[@QMarkMan]

Man, 20+ years later and this song still slaps.

[@COLtengoku]

this company made awesome soundtracks! the jazz jackrabbit was superb too!

[@anothergamingchannel2656]

Omg I forgot about that game! I didnt realize the same company made both games

[@kuromifan10]

And then they made fortnite, a literal downwards spiral

[@gaussminigun]

@@kuromifan10 not in terms of the money they made unfortunately

[@jakal911]

Agreed

[@Flem100DK]

Especially the christmas theme for the expansion or whatever it was :)

[@damarbl3]

Right in the childhood. 10/10 would live through the 90s again.

[@da-voodoo-shuffle]

When I was a kid I would sit and listen to the menu music on repeat. While pretending to play the drums... Or keys... Same goes for Epic pinball Super Android. Fond times

[@antti9018]

When you arrive to the biggest freaking techno party and Power Plant kicks in, you know you are in the right place

[@2097Pyros]

First time I saw that, I just went "no freaking WAY Power Plant played there".

[@RicouNiet]

What ? They played this track at a techno party ? Hahaha excellent ! Where was it ?

[@urielpuertas9899]

@@RicouNiet it is a reference to Freeman's mind, where the scientists were blasting this in a room.

[@totoriri6973]

Kenny Chou is the boss WTF!!! Still in love with this theme 25 years later!

[@iivarilappalainen9836]

Definitely one of the most memorable soundtracks ever. Cant remember anymore just how many times i finished the career mode :)

[@florinduta1461]

I was born in 1990 january, i played this game as a kid, started from the age of 6, and i still listen to this song every year, last year i had installed it to play it again. Best soundtrack game of the DOS period

[@SherlockT1985]

This is what we called Classic.

[@FLAME4564]

heh amen to that :3. Power to the classics

[@ldfgbnghcfhgvjbkhn]

When did you call that classic? Because I remember just calling it a game.

[@wolfsmiguel]

I remember! I played it on a 486 PC in the 90's. I have this song engraved in my memory.

[@NetVoyagerOne]

80 more years.

[@megaman133]

Jesus christ I'll be 108 years old at that time

[@weiss1377]

77 now! i'd be a 110 :)

[@jamesrather1510]

73 to go lads

[@clovenbullet]

every so often i start to whistle this tune for weeks on end, I don't think I'll ever forget this

[@motzkopf9364]

Ordered this game by telephone after playing a demo of it. Best years

[@Xonatron]

My favourites: 0:16:04 (Power Plant) and 0:00:01 (Main Menu)

[@bluedistortions]

You and everybody

[@lisa_squared]

I wish they’d remake this game but keeping the first track exactly the same, no remixing or updating required. It still sounds so good 20-something yrs later!

[@teknicron1080]

They kinda did a remake of the game, but it's a shame it fell flat due to poor development.

[@Aardcore]

I'd put money down on a bet that if Mick Gordon got behind scoring an OMF:2097 remake, it would easily bring this game back into the limelight and reintroduce it like it deserves

[@sergioiglesias6783]

They need to hire Japanese 2d fighting game devs and focus on single player.

[@teknicron1080]

@@Aardcore Heavy metal when you're mashin metal. XD

[@Aardcore]

@@teknicron1080 I mean he did an amazing job for Killer Instinct! Another classic brought back to life from my childhoob.

[@nullpointerworks4036]

Damn.. didn't think I'd stumble on this 26 years later.. this game has stellar music and design!

[@SlippyMcDervish]

If you remember this game, you had the most fun ever (in the 90s)

[@bluespaceman7937]

The music really made the game far more memorable. Great stuff.

[@NicolaAcoust]

35, on a 486. It ran very well! Making this gem sound thru the lil´soundblaster "compatible" speakers was the bomb. Thx to the sound devs who made this game easy to configure.

[@nafslee]

I'll never get tired of this theme song, even after all these years. Still one of the best and most memorable .

[@Brioshie]

This ONE MUST get a remake!

[@mrperson3885]

dude, I'll be honest this used to just be a theme of a song... this now means so much to me its ridiculous. I could dance till i die with this song I feel as if if this was brought about today with kanye or sum shit people would eat it up its an amazing soundtrack that could be on loop forever and it would be my heaven. No doubt. 100%

[@MikeDCray]

To this day, still one of the best pieces of video game music ever.

[@chrisyuri4187]

yes! YEEES! this game was such a big part of my childhood, and ofc I became synthwave fanatic, I never stood chance growing up with awesome music and games like this

[@jpegl]

I was born in power plant

[@primegoat]

This game was so badass

[@spiritofthewolf15x]

This and Tyrian deserve current gen console re-releases.

[@dipshitdoodah]

Since you like Tyrian, you should try out Jets n' Guns.

[@beatpeitsi6853]

@@dipshitdoodah And Stargunner

[@MiReiGi1984]

30th anniversary this year. Cheers to you, One Must Fall 2097, I'll probably still be replaying you 30 years from now.

[@RABBITAxANNIE]

childhood game man time flies so fast the time i'm still sitting on my father's lap while playing OMF

[@jareza]

One of the first games I played with on my 486 dx2 with a creative multimedia package that included a sound blaster 16 , CD-ROM (4x) and a pair of two creative speakers.... Those were the times!

Yeah! And multimedia was the word back then!

[@shableep]

What blew my mind about this tracker based music back in the day was home much BETTER it sounded than MIDI, which was the standard for years before this. It was also 5 years before any games would use MP3s for their game music.

[@Omen7grind]

So much nostalgia... such a great game and an awesome sound track. Miss this game a tonnage

[@FalsPals]

Not just the nostalgia. A lot of these tracks go HARD

[@iliariano3126]

Sweet memories of my childhood! Thx a lot Epic MegaGames, you were great!

[@SeverMican]

Ho-leeee shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit! I only played the shareware version which had only a few robots and one tournament. I dreamt of having the full game as a kid. Time to go back in time.

[@Jayzon666]

Dude, OMF 2097 is freeware now. Fire it up on Dosbox and delve into childhood dreams!

[@apheirox]

Yup, seriously, it's still worth playing for that nostalgia trip. What it lacks in graphics and advanced features it makes up for in atmosphere - which hasn't aged a day. Giant robots never go out of style...

[@RetroWill]

It's free now. Power up that DosBOX :)

[@0rderSol]

OpenOMF, if you want native support and proper controller support. Can't give light on the quality of the game, this is my SF2/MK, so anything I say about it is totally biased.

[@frmelo]

Me too!!

[@permethious]

The sound of my childhood, love it

[@apheirox]

"YOU WIN" [bot raises arms in victory dance]

[@IRObot2II3]

I still find myself humming the main menu theme from time to time, hah.

[@2PM.2024]

i have the same braindamage developed over 20 years ago in my room playing katana ;D

[@unearth1640]

The game is already a quarter of a century-year-old; this comment is five years old. Still holds true. This song is fucking timeless... a masterpiece. So, so good. I'm here for the same reason you all are.

[@nullpointerworks4036]

Got the same thing. Sometimes find myself beat-boxing the power-plant track.

[@Leispada]

My fav game from that era! Glad to see so many other lucky people here

[@LuPaObi1]

Oh the memories! Still rocking its music.

[@arturoth]

My favorite fight game all the time ... Idea, history, custom modes, anything of this game always remember me when i was a child

[@ytdlgandalf]

Imagine playing this on a decent amp and speakers in the 90s, doing it right now and sounds so good.

[@jpegl]

Long live Kenny Chou!!! Still playing on 2022

[@frmelo]

The main and desert soundtracks are awesome!

[@gabrieleliasdeaquino8989]

Seconded

[@NightTerrorGameplays]

the 2 things that made me love this game so much. you could throw each other in the walls. the other thing i loved so much in the options you could increase the amount of shrapnel that falls each fighter after every hit

[@arturoth]

I love my ms-dos days when i configure the sound card until sounds good, solve problems with memory and when windows 98 are a great eater of ram when we had SIMM slots modules. What a great times !

[@lukeb2473]

Jaguar, Chronos, I still have fond memories of this game and of this track blaring with the robots in the foreground. Classic.

[@barbarabercsenyi3528]

still one of my favorite games

[@Quemaqua]

You are a hero for putting these together, man. Thank you. More people should have the pleasure of listening to this stuff.

[@patin9]

Great Music, I still remember this game. Good times. Thanks for upload.

[@Yatzo]

ALL HAIL TO THE GREATES GAME COMPOZER _ KENNY CHOW 

[@paulban889]

Epic soundtrack from an unforgetably amazing game.

[@myriadmediamusings]

Torn about how I want this game to go for the future. On the one hand, with the progression of fighting games these days, seeing a modern OMF with the same bells and whistles such as advanced graphics, modernized designs, fleshed-out characters, a story mode, etc., would be cool to see. It would be unique since we don't currently have a robot fighting game. On the other hand, OMF has been free for decades. Making it require payment now would be a dick move.

[@OzDeaDMeaT]

One of the greatest Sound Tracks of a fighting game EVER. That title song was an absolute belter.

[@Velo222able]

Man I completely forgot about this game until now. Just watched a gameplay video of it again. The music was epic. Listening to it now, it's still some of the best game music like 20 years later..... lol. The graphics were amazing back then too. I'm glad I remembered the name of it. Someone needs to do a remake......well I could actually because I'm a game programmer/designer. BUT getting the rights to it.......I don't even know where to start.

[@boyanpenev9822]

+Velo222able There were a lot of games with surprisingly awesome music back then. Remember Star Control, esp. Star Control 2? That was incredibly fun game and it sounded absolutely gorgeous on a Sound Blaster. Dune 2 and the first C&C were also groundbreaking.

[@Darkdaej]

+Velo222able Indeed, I don't know if Epic Games is the same company as Epic Megagames that released so many awesome PC titles back in the day (Jeebus just Epic Pinball was incredible), but if so, they still own the rights and obviously aren't interested in reviving the franchise (or just forgot they have this awesome title they could revive)

[@dwaynevenzon643]

this sounds futuristic and nostalgic at the same time

[@Centurion0081]

i had this tune in my head today, and had to hear it again, Epic games should make this again

[@DR4C44N]

Oh wow... Now THIS is a good recommendation KZbin! I forgot about the game for years...but the music...the music still haunts me...specially the main theme and the power plant

[@Leadblast]

The strafing jetfighters in the Desert stage. The memories. Oh and I was playing this back in 1996 :)

[@rapiqui]

This game was a LOT OF FUN playing vs friends, and the soundtrack is simply marvelous, even today :D For me, this will be always remembered as "One Mustafá" as we called back in the day. Good memories.

[@PlanarCollapse2]

Anyone surprised this never made it to console, cause if it did, it would have sold like hotcakes.

[@TheAmishStig]

They did try to make a sequel [OMF Battlegrounds], but it was ahead of its time in a big way, which made it really clunky to play. Over the shoulder, full 3D, but kept the 'forward/back to change hit strength' mechanic, and added a 'each limb has its own attack button' mechanic. Had they borrowed more heavily from War of the Monsters [released the same year on PS2], waited for decent gamepads to come to PC [it would've worked great with the Xbox 360 pad], or tried to be less ambitious about the control scheme, it could've cemented the Fighting / 3D Beat-em-up hybrid as a genre. Hard to believe that beta was almost 15 years ago now [2002/2003]...

[@PlanarCollapse2]

I remember that horrible game! I was thinking more along the lines of OMF 2097 for consoles.

[@TheAmishStig]

That wouldn't work in 1-button mode; OMF used the 'jab/strong/fierce' paradigm from Street Fighter, but instead of 3 buttons did it with back+button, button, and forward+button. Two button mode it'll work great, that's how it was set up anyway...imagine it never got an amiga port if only because Diversions Entertainment was four guys working out of the one's garage.

[@ldfgbnghcfhgvjbkhn]

Yeah and it would have also been a steaming pile of shit.

[@technoguyx]

DOS-era games were generally produced by what you'd call "indie" developers nowadays - a handful of people working at a small office (or someone's home) and distributing their games themselves as shareware and by mailing copies themselves to buyers. So not surprised, but that doesn't mean it's of a lesser quality than what the industry did back then.

[@michaelscottpettis]

Dude, I've been trying to find this music for years, thank you!

[@LaurentheFlute]

Thanks for posting such a wide assortment of soundtracks. I'd never even heard of this game, but it turns out I love demoscene music, so I'm excited to come across more. :)

[@KeithFeickert]

Demoscene music is awesome! :)

[@cristiangiagante]

+Lauren the Flute play it, You will love it

[@LaurentheFlute]

I might just! Thank you for the suggestion :)

[@MaruHieta]

Absolute, timeless gem! Once I let my sister play with my fully leveled character who changed it to another, resetting all attributes back to lvl 1. I almost cried. All those times beating Raven for nothing.

[@marcelloqueiroz7793]

I remember when i played back then... I enabled th re-hit mode... so i could land a lot of awesome combos!!! Love the game!

[@miguelzavaleta1911]

Re-hit mode made the game 100x better. Dunno why that wasn't enabled by default.

[@aphelionravi]

Those tracks were ahead of their time!!! Such lovely memories!

[@McSquiddington]

I remember the Shareware of OMF shipped with a demo disc associated with the Gravis Gamepad. For years, my experience with PC gaming consisted of that CD's contents, Mahjong Great Moments, the PC port of the first Multimedia remake of Pitfall, an FMV game called Silent Steel, Encarta '95's MindMaze, Explorapedia '95 and some sort of cartoon-creating software using Felix the Cat branding. It's sort of hard to believe that the same Epic that's now snagging exclusives left and right is technically the same that started out with Jill of the Jungle, Jazz Jackrabbit or Raptor: Call of the Shadows. That last one is still the best top-down shooter I've ever played.

[@steffromfrance5453]

3d polygons games and soundtrack ! Yess i will always remember. Like doom or alone in the dark

[@Northaxe]

main menu theme is such a banger when playback speed is set to 1.05 or 1.1

[@JosephWeidinger]

My older cousin gave me CD with a bunch of 'demo' version games on it and this was on there. You could only play Power Plant and could only select a few heros unless you bought the full version, which I never did. I played it occasionally from ages 8-12 or so. Then I forgot about it until I was 23 in a hostel in Germany. I needed a taste of home, of my childhood. This music popped into my head but I couldn't remember the actual name of the game. I asked some random forum community I was a part of what this game might be called and described it in a paragraph. Someone answered One Must Fall 2097. I YT'ed the menu music and the nostalgia washed over me. Damn.

[@infraredviewer]

Stadium is such an amazing track

[@RyleeStrange]

the bass synth in desert still knocks my socks off.

[@uberphawx8305]

13 years later and still gives me shivers God bless Kenny Chou

[@1.N.Decent]

This game was nominated for best shareware, best beat-em-up and best soundtrack, in my imagination.

[@Mellence]

We really need to archive the description box somewhere more permanent than youtube. Your work here is fantastic

[@YoureWrongImRightGetOverIt]

I used to play the bejesus out of this when I was a kid, just redownloaded it in 2021, what a great game!!!!

[@ReveriKeenani]

After all these years I have not heard any better main theme song for any game than this had.

[@henkgj72]

Time forward this game stunning and with a great soundtrack capturing that anime feeling superbly.

[@FeniaMM]

This was a game made with love. Also all the combinations how you could end the fight. Just for nice extra. Could and still can listen to the theme for hours

[@gopodge]

Has demoscene melodies all over it. Love it!

[@ELTomeq]

There are games.... And there are legends !!!

[@Glowblue1]

I had the shareware version and didn't play the entire game until years and years later, but even after hearing the rest of the soundtrack, Power Plant is STILL the best tune.

[@cthrekgoru]

Great game . Music / Graphics plus scenario. Every char had backstory, had its own universe . Reasons behind building those robots. Really a complete game...

[@ryuhaneda]

This theme between 2:52 and 2:59 is... electrifying... so much win. Katana.

[@nobi-the-solo-master4132]

Memories! One of the best Beat em up- Games ever.

[@barakkozia8828]

37 years old, play this on 486 dlc. And then upgrade to 486 dx2... was huge diffrents... hehehe... best times. Miss it...

[@alexojideagu]

I was lucky my first PC was a Pentium 66 mhz to play this

[@davelasertie4967]

35 years old, in my case was on a Pentium 133 (Pre-MMX days) 32MB RAM (MB not GB) came to discover it due to a Windows 95 Massive Failure (What else is new?), and fooling around in MS-DOS I ran into a folder C:\DOSSTUFF\OMF2097, I ran the exe and I was inmediately hook, The WIN95 Reinstall can wait... and it waited nearly 3 hours... My sis really needed the comp and she was really a sweetheart to let me play this masterpiece for that long, so I reinstalled WIN95, and set some bonus special apps for her, she earned it, ohhh now that was the days. My sis is in heaven now, so I am kinda teary now for remember this, but it was worth it.

[@miscmails1898]

@@davelasertie4967 You mean your sister?, I'm sorry to hear that what happened?

[@penzija26]

386 40 mhz 8 mb ram running good

[@verdadeiroWolfRAC]

I also had the legendary 486-DX2, but when I played OMF for the first time in late 90s, my father upgrade the PC to a Pentium-100Mhz, OMF runs nice, identical as 486 I believe

[@Tilstrom]

When I heard that intro music for the very first time, I just knew that I was going to LOVE this game.

[@SimianScience]

its weird hearing this now and seeing how different it is compared to back then

[@Abelhawk]

I looked everywhere for the name of this game. I only had vague memories of it as a kid. It inspired a lot of my drawings at the time, especially Pyro and Flail.

[@guywithbadenglish]

best fighting game ever + soundtrack

[@Samulisami]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I remember playing this with my cousin! It was so good! We always laughed at the funny looking news reporter lady after every match :D Good times!

[@venni82]

oh my, thank you thank you thank you.. I still hum the opening theme sometimes, after all these years :D