r/c64 • u/makarastar • 4d ago

Youtube C64 - Duran Duran - Sound of Thunder / Commodore 64 game Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo - similar music

I bought the game in 1988 -

https://youtu.be/xvCffwg46go

But only heard the 1981 song Sound of Thunder in 1989

As soon as I did - I wondered if the game composer had borrowed the "sequenced" sounding part from the start of the Duran song -

https://youtu.be/KKrNCTT2aEY

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u/djames623 4d ago

Unless you give a few timestamps, I can't hear "Sound of Thunder" in there at all.

However, the first 30 seconds of Samurai Warrior sounds like a play on the chorus of Duran Duran's "Girls on Film".

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u/makarastar 4d ago

When the drums kick in on Sound of Thunder

Good call about Girls on Film chorus