Mentalechoes

There was a computer game that I came across when I was 16 years old on the C64 called Crystal Hammer. It was this really cool game that looked like it was from the same family as Tetris, and if you don’t know what Tetris is, then you really weren’t into videogames at all, in which case I feel sorry for you, and think you had a cheated childhood. Anyway, Crystal Hammer had this absolutely wicked intro tune, that I used to leave on loop and dance around my bedroom to. I loved it so much, I even filled both sides of a blank 90 minute cassette tape, just so I could listen to it when I wasn’t allowed to have the computer on. It was this intro loop that made me realise, that I was definitely an electronic music lover, and techno-head.

I’d completely forgotten about it, until some bizarre moment this afternoon when I was at the computer doing some work stuff, and the thought came into my head - CRYSTAL HAMMER! Well after a quick search, Google turned up that site, which had the original game mod (computer music file), to download. Seriously listening to that intro loop again for the first time in something like 20 odd years gave me so many happy flashbacks of being 16 again, I haven’t stopped smiling in three hours.

Nostalgia is a funny thing; back there in the day, we were always looking forward waiting for everything to be different, and now in the future, we look back and wish we could have the good old days back again.

Ah you know, bring back the 80’s, and big glam hair! And parachute pants, and…

Andy!

Tags: computergame, crystalhammer, nostalgia