Space Quest III - Intro/Opening - (Roland MT-32) MS-DOS Game

Intro cinematic of "Space Quest III - The Pirates of Pestulon"
DOS.1989. Published by Sierra-On-Line.
Music composed by Bob Siebenberg (Supertramp drummer).
Game played and recorded under Dosbox.
Music recorded from a genuine Roland MT-32 (rev.0) device.

[@bbrucet3]

My goodness. My father was a music engineer and ran a digital recording studio in Chicago for years. One day in the early 90’s my best friend and I were playing space quest on his MIDI recording computer and he saw the setup screen said MT32. He said wait... let me set this up for you guys. MY GOD. This was the most incredible thing I’d ever heard in my life. A computer video game with perfect music!

[@Minecraft101ToonLink]

@bbrucet3 That sounds like an amazing moment for you all! I can’t imagine the amount of joy you all had listening to this. (Says the person who was born in 2000.)

[@Memphis229-f6m]

sounds like a great moment says the person born in 2006

[@worldwarmini3919]

amazing story

[@dennyzk1798]

Games from Sierra and Ultima series were the reasons I bought Roland CM-32L (MT-32 version for games) sound module.

[@banhammer3904]

After hearing SQ3, I'm going to have to listen to the Ultima and Wing Commander soundtracks. I have only heard the Soundblaster and PC speaker noises before now.

[@Icesan4096]

I still need to insert a Buckazoid.

[@RJ_MacReady]

UltimateMemeMaster21 Make sure you do. You don't want "collections" coming after you.

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

Icesanity Gonna need an escape pod for that debt!

[@doubledogdare610]

Where can you get buckazoid

[@abdulrahmanmeso846]

4K sound in the 90s

[@Dragonborn-dc4uj]

The highest end tech of the 80s.

[@trumjohannsmancave]

Haha, yup!

[@Alianger]

Besides namco's c140+ym2151 arcades and NEC's PC Engine CD and FM Towns (redbook).

[@eyco]

The best game series ever! I dont know how nobody did a movie about this game.. it will be a fantasy come true.

[@BenieTheDragon]

The music when it kicks on at 0:59.. so much passion. It’s just, so good.

[@jcc3279]

Holy smokes I played the hell outta this on my Childhood 486 DX2 66mhz running Windows 95 i remember my dad drops this MT32 into my lap and goes hook his up. I was only about 5 windows 95 was out. and we piped the audio from my PC into my pioneer home theater system in my room at my old childhood home. MY god did it sound good. dad made the mistake of turning the volume up all the way. the subwoofer was shaking my room during the intro. it was freaking loud but my dad said the smile on my face was freaking ear to ear.

[@noharakun]

same dude i was about 4 or 5 when this was around had the mt32 and the sc55. what a time to be alive

[@jcc3279]

@@noharakun I had an sc55 mk ii also I still got my old 486 pc well its not a 486 anymore the mobo got replaced sometime in 1996 with a pentium 200mhz with mmx. Still got the 486 board too that became my sister's first pc when she was little. But it got a pentium overdrive for her so she could run her cd rom games when she was in pre school.

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

It has been 30 years since Roger Wilco was summoned from the only good sleep he’d ever have. Oh well, at least we got some sick music out of it. Stupid robots.

[@vanjazz2842]

Played this when it came out in the eighties - installed on our 386 from the original diskettes, and was enthralled throughout the journey. Just now listened to this amazing tune after 34 years - I knew I was going to get goosebumps if I remembered it note for note, but I wasn't prepared for how hard 0:59 hit me. Thank you for these amazing memories.

[@Tenraiden]

God, that title music!! I really hope I get to hear it again in a new game someday 😊

[@alexandergauvin8265]

One of the best DOS game intro even better!!

[@PackardKotch]

This just sounds so good...

[@willstanton7823]

Kids these days will never know the struggle of dying a hundred different ways.

[@FightingForceSoulless]

The best thing you could get at that time, this was the peak.

[@morganandrews9428]

Hours and hours of my childhood spent playing this. Happy days! :)

[@jamez_3824]

The one dislike is a guy in space, hes upside-down

[@Kpeters]

I remember the difference in sound coming from pc speaker to this… goosebumps

[@RJ_MacReady]

This theme is so iconic.

[@EverybodyBurts]

This is freaking amazing. Today I have also learned about the Supertramp connection. Thank you for this video!

[@ThinkingBetter]

In the 1980s in my teens I got an MT32 box with an ISA MIDI card, and played these DOS Sierra games using my NAD 3020 amp and my Stax electrostatic headphones being decades ahead on gaming audio fidelity while the graphics was laughable after today's standard.

[@BB-pn2qv]

Mark Siebert. Oh, that’s why the music is amazing... wonder no more

[@barbarianbros]

Actually the main theme of Space Quest III was composed by Bob Siebenberg (Supertramp drummer). But yes Mark Siebert was a great Sierra composer/sound designer.

[@raulaguilar6065]

One of the Best games of the all time

[@plaguis]

Beyond depressing this has barely 600 views, yet any Vevo video will have millions.

[@Shendue]

Indeed.

[@barbarianbros]

feel free to share :p

[@MichaelPohoreski]

That's the _Kartrashian_ society we live in. The majority of people would rather watch _someone else's fake life_ then learn how to improve their own, let alone learn history. _"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."_ -- George Santayana.

[@Luke-ih1oc]

Michael Pohoreski lol let’s not pretend that this video has any more intrinsic value than a video about the Kardashians. This is the intro music for a 20 year old PC game for crying out loud.

[@wawazaza1785]

@@GoopyGato bup

[@raccoon681]

it still sounds god like and it's 1980's music tech

[@JohnPengo]

1:15 how the main theme restart after the bridge, it's awesome!

[@raaabonlaaanon8855]

my fav game intro music

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

Written by Supertramp’s drummer!

[@Tomcat_814]

So much nostalgia!

[@motoboy6666]

This music/game forever in my heart ❤️

[@bimbumbam6305]

"Insert buckazoid"

[@commanderjnm2008]

Fun fact: There is the world's largest McDonalds in Florida where there is a whole floor of arcade games. That's the closest you will get to a Monolith Burger joint. There is no astro chicken though, and no Belcher Combo :D

[@elektronikadlapoczatkujacy2111]

Is there a Duke Burger though?

[@theredbaron057]

I played the hell out of this when I was a kid

[@makzcolanko6310]

It STILL sound good today.

[@poeterritory]

This theme just makes me smile.

[@trumjohannsmancave]

This is lovely!!😀🕹

[@Frungi]

If yours isn’t working, be sure to edit the soundDrv setting in the game’s RESOURCE.CFG.

[@destroyer6470]

zero dislikes like a GOD

[@assassin9314]

This song has space in it I like it

[@gasrim]

MMMMMM MIDI! love it.

[@LuciferSamChannel]

The Two Guys from Andromeda

[@jkapp76]

Very cool... the stereo is backwards though. The trumpet at the beginning should be in the right speaker, not left. And that first drum fill should move from left to right, not the reverse. This is my favorite MT32 tune.

[@MichaelLyakhovich]

waw, i almost forgot how it was.... sounds walks in my ears

[@rmmartins133]

Bob Siebenberg, ladies and gentlemen.

[@pinabo]

Ça c'est du rock !

[@lovemadeinjapan]

Fun to see how the game music from 89 holds up till today, while the graphics and game physics/puzzles are very bad by todays perspective.

[@thejay8963]

~16000 views 260 likes 0 dislikes

[@commanderjnm2008]

370 now.

[@wrightguyz]

so, I guess they didn't have an option to play the sound effect audio ...you can hear 'where am i' on the SoundBlaster

[@barbarianbros]

BrandonX76 Some more recent games had an option to use midi/roland for the music AND digital sfx on a soundblaster card (with a noticeable memory cost). But for SQ3 you had to choose only one sound device.

[@wrightguyz]

thanks, I never could get one (Mt32) back in the day, but a friend of mine told me about it...Thanks for posting and the nostalgia trip. cheers

[@rickyricardo2006]

Yeah, you should watch a video by the 8 bit keys.. He talks about the mt32 in these type of games.

[@TheMedievalNerd]

@@barbarianbros Later Sierra games had the "Roland & Soundblaster CMS" option. Best of both worlds!

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

Personally it’s an acceptable trade off. Sound effects or one of the best soundtracks of the ‘80s?

[@cryptoAlgo]

Hi, great video. I really love the intro music. Unfortunately, I've been trying to reproduce it in DOSBox, but I cannot find the correct version of Space Quest III. All the versions I've downloaded are newer, and have a very short intro, before starting the game immediately. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[@joaonitro5149]

Download the Space quest 1 2 3 collection via freegogpcgames and use the Space Quest 3 rom that comes with it. By the way i recommend using scummvm instead of dos box to play Space Quest.

[@Vednier]

For those who dont know that buckazoid is its basically "money" or "currency".

[@Frungi]

To those who don’t know, I have one question: Why are you even here having never played a _Space Quest_ before? Go play them! You can find them collected on GOG and Steam, both frequently on sale, and you can even get them for free from sites like GamesNostalgia. And be sure to play _SQ3_ and up with an MT-32 (or emulator).

[@Vednier]

@@Frungi Maybe because those games dated horribly, beyond any modern tolerance levels? Yes, they old, but come on! Putting aside good music and occasional jokes they now not worth nor playtime not money and definitely not both at same time. GOG? Yes, they sell it, but honestly at that year those game should be free OR remade completely. Sometimes good old memories should be left laying dormant.

[@Frungi]

Kuribo Kutsu None of which explains why anyone who’s not interested in these games would be interested in this video. I have to disagree with pretty much everything you said here, considering that _The Crimson Diamond_ is a new game that exists. And that’s beside the fact that you seem to be saying only recent things have any value or merit, which is frankly absurd.

[@Vednier]

@@Frungi I disagree. At last in my case its EXACT reason why i was interested in this video - because i was vaguely interested what this game is about, but HELL NO, i'm not going nor to bother with dosbox to play or spend money on it, cause its one time interest. I'm, ofc, have respect to this game but, sorry, its just fossil now. We can dig up dinosaur bones, but that doesnt mean we need to pretend that they alive or to ressurect them. Also, i didnt said that only recent things have any value. I like to play Startopia, Stronghold, even SNES games and i hope that Black&White will eventually make it to GOG, thank you very much. But one have to draw a line and those DOS...games - no. Maybe PONG is still worth playing too? How often you play it now?

[@Frungi]

@@Vednier You are a very confusing man. And I think you’re confused: we were talking about experiencing something for the first time that you’ve never played before, not replaying something that you enjoyed in its time. Going with your dinosaur metaphor: We have a Jurassic Park. Those fossils *have been resurrected* using modern technology so that we can still enjoy them today. I’m not sure what difference you see between throwing a game into an SNES emulator (or maybe even a physical SNES that you keep around) and throwing a game into DOSBox or ScummVM, but maybe you just don’t enjoy adventure games as a whole, regardless of age. And that’s okay, no one enjoys every kind of game. But that again makes me wonder: What on earth got you interested in a game that you never had any interest in actually experiencing?

[@Logan-fh5rr]

Weren't those the times.

[@LoftBits]

Fantastic. Is it the same (better? worse?) as Roland LAPC-1?

[@barbarianbros]

LAPC-I (it's a 'i' for IBM, not a '1', there is also a LAPC-N for the japanese NEC computers) is basically a Roland CM-32L (MT-32 with 32 more instruments) and a MPU-401 (MIDI interface Unit) combined on an ISA PC-Card. Instruments sounds the same as long as the game does not use the CM32L exclusive instruments.

[@DaniPlay912]

How will it sound with the Roland SC-55? Weird questions, you know XD

[@barbarianbros]

I don't know if there is a 'General MIDI' patch for SQ3, GM was standardized 2 years after the game release. Anyway a patch would only 'transpose' instruments channels to nearest GM instrument, with none of the custom instruments created for the MT32.

[@elektronikadlapoczatkujacy2111]

1:51 what is saddam hussein doing in space Quest 3

[@JadenWilkes-lj5vy]

0:36

[@BB-pn2qv]

To think that is Ega... it got impressive before vga

[@Bashar3A]

PICKUP METAL

[@djangofett4879]

I just listened briefly to a sound canvas version of this soundtrack.... it was amazingly bad. And i say this as someone that owns a sound canvas. Its like how the sega genesis games with the best soundtracks sounded awful in their SNES version. (and vice versa)

[@cedriverallen]

another mt-32 kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2StoXeGbauapsU

[@assassin9314]

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[@morganthompson]

2 dislikes

[@assassin9314]

@@morganthompson nooooooo

[@Lunaero]

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