SimCopter Soundtrack [Jazz Tracks]

[@FromZeroToZed]

I remember playing this in elementary school/middle school and I still hum half of these songs, this soundtrack along with Sim City 2000 set me on a path to become a professional musician. I can't give thanks enough to the composers of these tracks

[@WayOutGaming]

That is a very cool story!

[@Hausbrauen]

Same here! Part-time musician here, but the rest of your experience mirrors mine completely. There was/is something so powerful and inspirational about these brilliantly-crafted soundtracks, and we're living proof!

[@inckeeper]

opening track, hangar theme, pulls me back insanely

[@kylehill3643]

Me too all the way to Bob's temps. Remember waiting for that busasorus rex going from the rings of fire into your seat?

[@jahcreator]

Almost makes you wanna boot up Windows 98 again lol

[@nickpeterson8592]

There’s a 63 Ford Thunderbird down the street from my apartment. Every time I see it I think of the one in the sim copter aerodrome and streets of sim city.

[@foxhound1147]

@@jahcreator Absolutely

[@Anderg07]

@@whitetim01 Return to your homes, friends, and favorite television shows!

[@ThePolandball]

The composition of this music was the product of a time when video games were limited by technical constraint. This bred enormous creativity to create a gaming experience that did not lean on graphics before gameplay and sound. I know each of these songs note by note to this day, 20 years after playing them on my Dell Dimension 333SP. Thanks for posting these, a nostalgic experience that stands the test of time!

[@WayOutGaming]

Thanks for watching! I'm just glad to see this game is still popular. It's really a good game who's only real downfall was being rushed through production.

[@mknlb50]

Takes me back to the 90's where I would spend all day watching my big brother play this on our one and only 166mhz Pentium computer. This makes me feel like everything is going to be okay.

[@akkito1911]

I miss games like this. It's a shame what happened to Maxis.

[@RoundenBrown]

Glad I could experience it back in the day before they sold out.

[@teamafrican]

I wish there was a talented super fan that could remaster these...

[@hubzcaps]

its possbile to upconvert these n dee hiss em

[@saiyanjohn9212]

There is a way to remaster these soundtracks

[@alexparsons3708]

There is a guy who is making patches so the original game works on the newer versions of windows now. Simcopterx

[@foxhound1147]

Yeah, as Alex was saying. There is also a discord link on their site.

[@azs7000]

Great flying, pilot. Let's hope it stays quiet for awhile.

[@roflopoulos1633]

They need to remake this game, was amazing

[@John-bd7bq]

Yeah, when I was an elementary school student, I played this game and when fly the night city with this background music, I felt like become city police in the sky. it feels really good that time. thanks a lot who posting this music and reminding my precise memorise.

[@kylehill3643]

Who hears their airship starting up and getting ready to ascend to their mission? (Some guy gets stuck in a weird section of roof that is impossible to get to)

[@incouragement]

HILARIOUS 😆

[@sebounart3068]

I played this game when I was young. As a french, I didn't understand commercials, but now I know english better I find them so hilarious ! (especially the big .wav files jokes)

[@incouragement]

The soundtrack of my childhood!

[@fanmaxis3004]

a couple of theses songs sounds like they were later reworked for use in "SimCity 3000"

[@WayOutGaming]

Actually, it's funny you say that, because I'm pretty sure the same guy that created these tracks made the soundtrack for SimCity 3000.

[@michaelborrego6165]

Jerry Martin, of SimCopter, Simcity 3000, Simcity 4, and The Sims

[@shanedeleon5376]

@@michaelborrego6165 and Streets of SimCity

[@k-leb4671]

@@WayOutGaming I think SimCopter was Jerry Martin's first Maxis game actually.

[@dvar23]

This must have been inspiration for some vaporwave tunes out there

[@user-is1xk9zv5k]

simdog at river boundary: aa ao ao!!(titanic gesture), sims at building boundary: he hi he hm!!

[@landoc5026]

I was raised on this music

[@lotusbandicoot]

The one that starts at 11:39 used to terrify the daylights out of me as a kid, mostly when it got to those really minor chords

[@Chris-Kay]

Totally Love this flashback to flying and listening to jazz

[@kylehill3643]

Let's work for Bob's temps!

[@jahcreator]

If tmobile had this as their hold music I could wait for an agent forever! Man I miss this game and the music took me back at first note. Always cheated to unlock all the copters

[@SeniorMordecai]

old memories.

[@qwellen7521]

I remember as child not really getting the mechanics, though I do vividly remember discovering the “eject passenger/wounded” button.... needless the say there where a lot of dead Bodies falling from the sky :D

[@SpencerLemay]

You can make easy money by taking healthy people to the hospital and dropping them from a height wounding them. You lose less money throwing them out the helicopter than you gain by taking them to the hospital.

[@HikikomoriDev]

It sounds so compressed... I love that

[@HikikomoriDev]

11:51 SimCity 2000 drive mode on the PlayStation.

[@NerdNoiseRadio]

17:10 is where my favorite track in this lot starts. At one point, there was a KZbin video just for this track. I was going to post it to twitter, when I found that it had vanished. :-( May just have to make my own vid.

[@WayOutGaming]

I can see why. These are some really good jazz tracks, especially the one you mentioned. I'm glad I could help.

[@kevinwoodard6571]

Same here! I used to play this computer game from 1999-2003. I got as far as the 10th level on Sim Copter.

[@NerdNoiseRadio]

I'll definitely check them out, then! Thanks! :-)

[@Geforce2187]

The trick to beating this game is, make a *separate* save after every level... Because there's one level about 2/3 of the way through the career mode that always crashes no matter what computer you play it on, and if you save at the beginning of that one over your old save, you have to start from the beginning

[@markyshiba3507]

the first song reminds me of the music from simcity 3000

[@WayOutGaming]

Actually, the same composer worked on both games

[@Hausbrauen]

@@WayOutGaming Yep, was about to say the same thing. They also had a lot of their classic works in the first Sims.

[@SASardonic]

Add a few filters and this is basically vaporwave

[@DoomieGruntVentures]

Every single track is great. Even that one at the beginning that doesn't seem very jazzy, and seems impossible to find anywhere else. EDIT: If anyone can find that track for download, let me know.

[@HikikomoriDev]

5:49 SimCity 3000.

[@radiosnmore]

i have taken this and upped the sample rate it slaps

[@toxicddevil007]

I swear, there was one track in this game that sounded like Shawn Michael's intro music. Gotta find it...

[@thuggeegaming659]

I remember playing the demo of this and the only song it had was Ride of the Valkyries. Is that in the full version too?

[@WayOutGaming]

Yes they are! I split the music up to cut down on upload times since most of the songs are long. You can hear the classical tracks here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGeZqHyYqLhoitk

[@thuggeegaming659]

@@WayOutGaming Ty!

[@dunveganbeast]

0:11 to 0:24 sounds like the beginning of Ray Charles's What'd I Say

[@JG_Parker]

28:23

[@mraiwa1000]

I recognize this tune from elsewhere.. what is it?

[@PolskiModziarz]

mraiwa1000 Probably from SimCity 3000

[@AllGamesAllMusicAllTime]

The Hangar BGM is not part of the Jazz radio frequency.

[@smellincoffee]

SimGolf spot! 6 years before release...

[@radiosnmore]

this and tycoon bro fax

[@RoundenBrown]

First song sounds like Simcity 3000 music.

[@WayOutGaming]

If I remember correctly, both games' soundtracks were composed by the same guy, at least for the Jazz music.

[@vettafaene]

Neil deGrasse Tyson, is that you?

[@AckzaTV]

lol Sounds like Neil De Grasse Tyson

[@link01742]

Didn't the pressurized water commercial thing kind of happened with smart water

[@kylehill3643]

Someone had these songs years ago but the channel got deleted somehow.

[@WayOutGaming]

Yeah, I think I remember them. I've been meaning to upload more of these. I have the rock tracks uploaded as well if you want to check them out. EDIT: I have all the music tracks up now. Just uploaded the Classical and Techno Tracks.

[@kylehill3643]

What causes channels to mysteriously delete. When searching on Google all I wind up with is people on their phones asking "How do I delete my channel or why did Google prevent me access to my channel which is still there" and things not even related. Google is the random search engine now.

[@AckzaTV]

i just love seeing all the old comments...hey try using archive.org 's WayBackMachine ?

[@kalm5220]

Does anyone know what these jazz songs are? I think I recognize "La Fiesta" by chick corea

[@WayOutGaming]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think these songs were created specifically for the game.

[@kylezachrich1027]

So cool! what a great set of tracks.

[@StanRain]

It'd be amazing if we could get our hands on high quality versions of these tracks.

[@WayOutGaming]

There might be some on Itunes. An independent group remade a lot of the Streets of SimCity Soundtracks and put them on Itunes.

[@mraiwa1000]

Sadly this is the highest quality. On the original l game I remember the quality sucking bad

[@MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr]

Why does it sound like note blocks and the Windows XP ding sound

[@kylehill3643]

I'm still thirsty!

[@kylehill3643]

You forgot the techno and classical.

[@melissasmith6762]

The hangar music is not jazz.

[@gabrielescobar263]

everything is jazz

[@kylehill3643]

This reminds me of the days when our sun used to be yellow and I could play for hours without getting sunburned which we live in Oregon now but in California I never got sunburned and didn't even know what this sunscreen lotion stuff was as a kid as I never used it. Here in Oregon sometime in the early 00s I started noticing the change effects and figured it was just global warming. . The sun is now like a heatlamp. I just did a bicycle ride in the morning before the lip of the sun was all the way up and as it came up I could immediately feel the *heat lamp* effect. 10 years ago this would've been no problem as the morning hours were always nice and cool till 11pm.

[@Joachim01]

Ye bro same thing here in Poland. I remember that 20 years ago summer's top temperature during summer was 25°C and it was considered a heat wave. Now in July it's 35°C for weeks.

[@federicovilas1285]

👆😀

[@federicovilas1285]

27:40 👌

[@Bierederoute]

I headbanged at that moment! And then I saw your comment hahaha