Weird Dreams (DOS)

Weird Dreams

Platform: DOS Year: 1989 Developer: Best Ever Games

Weird Dreams is a game by MicroProse which centers around the main character Steve who has been severely poisoned and is taken to the hospital. He falls into a coma and must overcome his dreams to wake up again. This includes avoiding a cotton candy stick, a giant wasp in the fairgrounds, man-eating soccer balls and flowers, and other random things.

Screenshots

The title screen. Losing consciousness in the hospital. Falling into the dream void. Getting the cotton candy. I died in my dream.

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Music

The game features a short soundtrack of five songs. These were all done by Barry Leitch. Barry used AdLib Visual Composer to make the music. According to Barry, the game developers wanted him to recreate David Whittaker's soundtrack from the Amiga/Atari ST versions and make the title screen music sound similar. David did the PC-Speaker version of the soundtrack. Aside from that, the game also contains some real music such as Country Gardens and Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Barry said that the Fairground music is based on The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, but it appears to be an original song.

Because there are two different sound outputs supported for this game, the AdLib/SoundBlaster soundtrack starts with a 1 and the PC Speaker starts with a 2, which still needs to be recorded. In parentheses are the songs' filenames.

Recording

#	Title	Filename	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
101	Title Screen	WDTITLE	David Whittaker, Barry Leitch	Barry Leitch	2:22		Download
102	Fairground	WDFAIR	Barry Leitch	Barry Leitch	1:58		Download
103	English Country Garden	WDGARDEN	Barry Leitch	Barry Leitch	0:42		Download
104	Piano Theme	WDPIANO	David Whittaker, Barry Leitch	Barry Leitch	2:18		Download
105	Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy	WDFAIRY	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Barry Leitch	0:58		Download

Credits

• Ripper: Doommaster1994
• Recorder: Doommaster1994
• Game Credits:
  • Uncredited Composer: Barry Leitch
  • Uncredited Composer: David Whittaker
  • Uncredited Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

(Source: Verification from composer; game lacks credits.)

The game itself does not contain credits, but they may most likely be found in the instruction manual. Barry has confirmed working on the game.

Game Rip

Format	Download	Size
	Download	18 KB

The game contains .MUS and .SND, both of which are installed in the game's directory. The .MUS files are the songs while the .SND files contain the instrument information for each song. Each of these songs can be played at the title screen by renaming both the .MUS and .SND file to WDTITLE.MUS and WDTITLE.SND. The music has been logged into .VGZ format and was played back in Winamp.

Audio Devices

Music
Sound

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Releases

USA Title: Weird Dreams Platform: DOS Released: 1989-??-?? Publisher: Microplay     EU Title: Weird Dreams Platform: DOS Released: 1989-??-?? Publisher: Rainbird Software

Links

• mobygames.com/game/dos/weird-dreams - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.com/pc/951174-weird-dreams - GameFAQs.

View Weird Dreams
Weird Dreams	•  •  •
Notable Songs	Title Screen
Notable Personnel	Barry Leitch • David Whittaker • Axel Brown
Notable Companies	Rainbird Software • Microplay Software