N°8: Tyrian: Buy & Sell music

Released in 1995 by Epic Megames ( which later released an obscure game called Unreal Tournament), Tyrian was a really fun shoot'em up. Not only fun, but also well made in every aspect, from graphics to music.
It featured everything: Funny gameplay, cool customizable ships,tons of weapons, eye-candy explosions, humor everywhere and some trolls by the developpers were also built in. Yep, really.
And in this perfection, there is something that got carved in the brain of evryone who played it.
The buy and sell music. Although Tyrian is quite a light-hearted game, this music has dark undertones on it,
and it fits quite well, because it's in this menu that you'll get to read the datas you've gathered. And some of those datas are far from being funny (go play the game, it's free).
So basically, this tune is the perfect representation of Tyrian: it's fun, yet scratch the surface and find the gloomy stuffs. Needless to say, everybody who played it had it stuck in mind for months. In my case I got it stuck in mind for hum, 16 years. Yes, it's that good. Oh also, it has been compsed by Alexander Brandon, you know that guy who worked on some indie games such as Deus Ex, UT99 and so on.

Hope you'll enjoy this tune, and see you later.

-Aliascent

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