Wally Beben

Wallace Beben

Gender Male Born 1953-09-05 Birth Place Unknown Nationality English   Aliases Hagar Wal Beban Wal Beben

Wally Beben is an English former video game musician. He is perhaps best known for his works on the Commodore 64 and Amiga, in which he contributed music and sound effects for numerous games for the platforms and more.

In addition, Wally Beben is perhaps best known for composing the theme to Tetris (C64), which is one of the longest songs ever written for a video game, clocking in at about 26 minutes in length.

In August 1991, Beben was running the BBS Sounds Digital from Thetford, Norfolk.

Audio Development

Amiga

Beben said this about his Amiga music, in particular about Pool of Radiance:

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I wrote it (if I remember) initially using soundtracker for which I had a little program I'd written to convert the data into blocks that I could use within my own player that I'd migrated/converted from my C64 player. It was difficult using soundtracker stuff in those days since memory was at a premium, and using self-penned player code was always the most efficient both in terms of processor usage and memory!

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Atari ST

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Commodore 64

Beben helped Ian Crabtree to write Ariston. He used the SID chip's unstable filter on only one game, namely Total Eclipse (C64).

Gameography

Released	Title	Sample	Notes
1987-1?-??	I-Xera (C64)
1987-11-??	R.I.S.K. (C64)
1987-11-??	Starforce Fighter (C64)
1987-11-2?	Winter Challenge (C64) Winter Olympiad 88 (C64)		Four songs.
1987-1?-??	Devon Aire in the Hidden Diamond Caper (C64) Inside Outing (C64) Raffles (C64)
198?-??-??	Octapolis (C64)
1987-??-??	Winter Challenge (AMI) Winter Olympiad 88 (AMI)
1988-01-??	Tetris (C64)
1988-01-2?	Knight Games 2 - Space Trilogy (C64)
1988-0?-??	Moonshadow (C64)
1988-0?-??	Starslayer (C64)
1988-0?-??	Ransack (C64)
1988-07-??	Dark Side (C64)
1988-0?-??	Summer Challenge (C64) Summer Olympiad (C64)
1988-0?-??	Vector Ball (C64)
1988-09-??	Oops! (C64)
1988-11-??	Scuba Kidz (C64)
1988-1?-??	Total Eclipse (C64)
1988-12-??	Superman - The Man of Steel (C64)
1988-??-??	Foundation's Waste (AMI)
1988-??-??	Futuresport (AMI)
1988-??-??	Hawkeye (AMI)
1988-??-??	Hyperdome (AMI)
1988-??-??	SDI (AMI)
1988-??-??	Street Fighter (AMI)
1988-??-??	Superman - The Man of Steel (AMI)
1988-??-??	Winter Challenge (AST) Winter Olympiad 88 (AST)
1989-07-??	Aaargh! (C64)
1989-??-??	Colossus Chess X: The Ultimate Chess Program (AMI)
1989-??-??	Dark Side (AMI)
1989-??-??	Dark Side (AST)
1989-??-??	Elite (AMI)
1989-??-??	Lancaster (AMI)
1989-??-??	Quartz (AMI)
1989-??-??	Sanxion: The Spectrum Remix (ZXS)
1989-??-??	Superman - The Man of Steel (AST)
1989-??-??	Total Eclipse (AMI)
1989-??-??	Total Eclipse (AST)
1990-04-??	Hammerfist (C64)
1990-??-??	Hellhole (C64)
1990-??-??	Hammerfist (AMI)
1990-??-??	Mr. Do! Run Run (AMI)
1990-??-??	Pool of Radiance (AMI)
1990-??-??	Time Machine (AMI)
1990-??-??	Total Eclipse (CP4)		Arranged by Ferenc Soós.
1991-04-??	Total Eclipse 2 (CP4)		Arranged by Unknown.
1991-0?-??	The Ball Game (C64)		No new music.
1991-??-??	Airmania! (AMI)
1991-??-??	The Ball Game (AMI)
1992-??-??	First Samurai (C64)		No new music.

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Links

• mobygames.com/person/177514/wally-beben/ - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.gamespot.com/games/credit/26461-wally-beben - GameFAQs.
• facebook.com/wally.beben - Facebook.