The Blues Brothers by Titus

[Marty_Blues]

I don't know if everybody knows about this, but there was a Blues Brothers dos game developed by Titus. And I found it on this, uh, website, see. And, I don't know, the game is Blues Brothers related and I says to me, "Why isn't this game downloadable on everybody's favorite Blues Bros. website?" and I answers me, "Maybe they don't know where to, uh, obtain it."

So I'm here to give yous guys the web address.

http://www.abandonia.com/games/31/do...s_Brothers.htm

The game's completely free to download and I'd also like to humbly request for a gaming section to be added. While there aren't many, there was that one, uh, N64 game based on BB2K, you know. ANd then theres this one, see.
Thanks.

[blackat]

Haha, that is awesome! I'm downloading it right now.

Chris is working extremely hard on this website, so no promises on whether he'd be able to come up with a gaming section. But fingers crossed!

Edit: I've just been playing this game, and my God, it's addictive! I haven't got past level 1 yet, but I let the demo run, so I could see the other levels and hear the music. The music is the best part - all of the Blues Brothers songs in MIDI form haha.

[beacky278]

I found this a few months ago and downloaded it, your right, it is addictive. Is till play it. But I cant get past lvl 1 either lol

[YicklePigeon]

Actually in both the early 90s Titus produced Blues Brothers games (The Blues Brothers and The Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventures) music is in the Amiga MOD format. I actually have those files directly ripped from the game and will post them if y'all would like them.

For information purposes only: MOD files (and other sample based files such as XM, IT, S3M etc) contain individual pre-recorded sounds (such as a guitar riff or a piano chord) played at certain times with other variables specific to the file formats (such as panning from left to right, tempo etc). This also means the music sounds exactly the same regardless of your hardware - which is how they came into being.

MIDI, however, is basically a file that contains instructions only to send to your soundcard's midi wavetable/synthesis. Seeing as each soundcard comes with different midi libraries (indeed, your typical modern era SoundBlaster can have entirely different midi libraries), music will sound very different from one make of card to another.

I'm fortunate that I've got the retail copies of both games (along with other Titus produced games) since I was young. The real challenge for you all is playing BOTH Jake & Elwood and alternating between the two during the course of the game.

The game plays out almost exactly like Titus The Fox (distributed under a different name and character in France, I forget now), there isn't any killing and you get rid of enemies by throwing inanimate objects at them.

In the original (as linked to), there's roughly 5 levels. The 6th level (if I remember right) is simply getting Jake and/or Elwood to the concert.

The sequel (jukebox adventures) may as well be Titus The Fox. You collect records to spin at the enemies in the game...and the game seems to go on and on forever.

If y'all are new to platformers on the PC - I would suggest Commander Keen, Bio Menace, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure and the first two Duke Nukem games. They're all early 90s, so running them under XP without emulation (VDMSound, DOSBox etc) will most likely result in failure. Most Win2k users will be able to play these early Apogee/3DR games immediately but without sound - there still may be some issues with certain hardware configurations however. I'd still strongly recommend full emulation.

The above games have a small learning curve, but give hints.

Links:-

3D Realms download section - This is where demos of Bio Menace, Duke Nukem and the others mentioned are located.

Blues Brothers Jukebox Adventure - the sequel.

Blues Brothers Jukebox Adventures music game rip - NOTE: This is NOT the music from the original Titus game as linked to in the original post. This music is from the sequel.

Seeing as I can't find a site with the full game music rip of the original game, I will upload it and post it later.

Regards,

Yickle.

[YicklePigeon]

As promised: The Blues Brothers game music from the original game.

Oh and Marty_Blues, yeah they're fairly well known. But 1) There's no search function yet on the forum and 2) the "blus bros. game?" thread where the SNES version is mentioned - given the way that thread title is worded, unless you looked, you wouldn't have known. So don't worry about it :}

There are other threads, but they're pretty much buried in the past.

Suffice to say, The Blues Brothers game appeared on: Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, PC (DOS), the Amstrad CPC, NES & SNES and the GameBoy. And it's sequel "Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventures" appeared on: PC and Gameboy (the Gameboy version in grayscale!) - I cannot remember other platforms that "Jukebox Adventures" appeared on if at all.

Regards,

Yickle.