Hypa-Ball / Mission A.D. / Doctor Who at BIT LIVE 2023

Somehow the same game company released two very different games in the same year, but both had this shuffle-feel tune. They weren’t even composed by the same guy. (You can also watch the entire concert:    • PRESS PLAY ON TAPE at BIT LIVE 2023   )

We added the Doctor Who theme to the original arrangement for a gig at a science fiction convention in Copenhagen in 2007. Minutes before we went on stage, the organizers announced an all-you-can-drink vodka party in another part of the building, so turnout was “sparse”. But the one guy attending it actually recorded this first ever performance:    • PRESS PLAY ON TAPE - Hypa-Ball   .

Hypa-Ball / Mission A.D. / Doctor Who
Arrangement: PRESS PLAY ON TAPE
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE, 2007
© PRESS PLAY ON TAPE

Medley of:

Hypa-Ball
Original: https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/M...
Keith Tinman
Odin Computer Graphics, 1986
© Keith Tinman
(I was really good at this game when I was a kid. I mean, really good. I could beat everybody at the club. No, it wasn’t a nightclub.)

Mission A.D.
Original: https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/M...
Fred Gray
Odin Computer Graphics, 1986
© Fred Gray
(When this concert pre-premiered at the Transmission 64 online demo party, one guy in chat had been talking about how great Mission A.D. was and that we should play it. He was over the moon when it came along!)

Doctor Who
Original:    • Doctor Who (1963) -  Original Theme music ...  
Ron Grainer, Delia Derbyshire
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, 1963
© BBC
(I think what happened was that the Doctor traveled forward in time to 1986 and visited Odin Computer Graphics. It’s the only explanation that makes sense.)


This live event with PRESS PLAY ON TAPE was recorded at BACK IN TIME LIVE in Bergen, Norway on November 3rd 2023. We were invited by BitNinja to play at the two-day event together with the mighty FastLoaders, Martinland, Fluke, Glenn Rune, ziona and SLAY Radio.

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PRESS PLAY ON TAPE is

Martin Koch on the green guitar
André Glacius Tischer on the black and white keys
Jesper Holm Olsen on the brown guitar
Søren Trautner Madsen on the white drums
Uffe Friis Lichtenberg on the the black bass
Theo Engell on the invisible keyboard†

† Backing tracks on Das Gamer, Master of Magic, and Uridium