Ben Daglish and The Last Ninja
January 3rd, 2007Ben Daglish was the man behind all those great tunes you heard on your C64 and Amiga systems. Also a vert important composer to chip tune musicians.
Ben Daglish is a composer and musician from the UK, known for creating many soundtracks during the 1980s for home computer games. These include Commodore 64 hits such as The Last Ninja, Trap, and Deflektor. Daglish teamed up with fellow C64 musician,a prolific programmer, Tony Crowther, forming W.E.M.U.S.I.C., which stood for “We Make Use of Sound In Computers”.
He still composes, and plays and performs in a number of UK bands incl. Loscoe State Opera, and regularly performs with violinist madfiddler and the band SID80s at retro computer game events such as Back In Time Live and Retrovision.
Selected game music work for the Commodore 64 by Ben Daglish
* The Last Ninja (with Anthony Lee)
* Ark Pandora
* Alternative World Games
* Auf Wiedersehen Monty (with Rob Hubbard)
* Bulldog
* Biggles
* Cobra (arrangement of the movie theme)
* Deathwish III (1987)
* Gauntlet and Gauntlet II
* Hades Nebula
* Krakout
* Mask III - Venom Strikes Back
* Terramex
* Trap
For the Amiga
* Deflektor (1988)
* Pac-Mania (1988, re-arrangement of arcade game tunes)
* Switchblade (1989)
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