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1980s video game music hits

1980s video game music hits

by CGP Staff
August 21, 2026
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Travel back to the pixelized age of 1980s computer graphics. The early years of video games gave birth to highly creative software as well as easily recognizable melodies, which took advantage of improving sound capabilities in computers such as the Commodore 64 (and later the Atari ST and Amiga).

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A talented piano player from the US has made available great versions of some songs from those years: Archon, M.U.L.E., Spy vs. Spy, Spelunker, Defender of the Crown, Druid and Pitfall II, among others.

The videos also offer a glimpse of what it was like to interact with a computer that only offered a command line to load software and had no native desktop UI.

More songs on Paul Nelsen’s YouTube channel.

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