Weird Dreams (DOS)

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Weird Dreams
Weird Dreams - DOS - USA.jpg
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

Weird Dreams - DOS - Title Screen.png

The title screen.

Weird Dreams - DOS - Gameplay 1.png

Losing consciousness in the hospital.

Weird Dreams - DOS - Gameplay 2.png

Falling into the dream void.

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Getting the cotton candy.

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I died in my dream.


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 English Country Garden and Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Doommaster1994 knows the Fairground music is a real song but is not sure what the name of it is.

Because there are two different sound cards 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

Composer

Arranger

Length

Listen

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101 Title Screen (WDTITLE) David Whittaker, Barry Leitch Barry Leitch 2:22
Download
102 Fairground (WDFAIR) Unknown Barry Leitch 1:58
Download
103 English Country Garden (WDGARDEN) Unknown 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

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

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Size

File:MUS (Weird Dreams).png File:SND (Weird Dreams).png VGZ.png

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

Releases

  USA.svg   USA
Weird Dreams - DOS - USA.jpg
Title: Weird Dreams
Platform: DOS
Released: 1989-??-??
Publisher: Microplay Software
  EU.svg   EU
Weird Dreams - DOS - EU.jpg
Title: Weird Dreams
Platform: DOS
Released: 1989-??-??
Publisher: Firebird Software


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