720°
720° was the name of a skateboard game, brought to the arcades in 1986 by Atari Games Corporation. Actually I had never heard of the game until I bought the January 1988 issue of Computer and Video Games. The magazine came with an audio tape stuck to the front cover, containing the soundtracks of both Sega's Outrun (one of the hottest games around at that time) and Atari's 720°.
| Track 1 | 24.92 sec | 99,320 bytes |
| Track 2 | 39.97 sec | 159,328 bytes |
| Track 3 | 29.51 sec | 117,624 bytes |
| Track 4 | 27.49 sec | 109,512 bytes |
| Track 5 | 28.45 sec | 113,568 bytes |
| Track 6 | 66.55 sec | 264,992 bytes |
| Track 7 | 47.13 sec | 187,824 bytes |
| Track 8 | 48.33 sec | 192,504 bytes |
| Track 9 | 33.55 sec | 133,744 bytes |
| All tracks + playlist | 1,336,664 bytes | |
At first, I felt the music of 720° was just a lot of noise. But after listening to it a couple of times, I really came to enjoy it!
Nowadays, it is possible to play 720° on a PC using MAME. But the sound is not as good it was on that tape, and being chased by cars, punks and killer bees, you don't get much of a chance to actually listen to it! To prevent all this beautiful noise from getting lost forever, I sampled the tracks from tape and included them here as MP3 (MPEG-2 audio layer 3) files (mono, 32 kbit/s).
To hear these files, you'll need an MPEG player. There are many freeware and shareware programs for this at www.download.com and www.shareware.com. One very popular program for Windows is Winamp.
