RIP Ben Daglish :(

BowdonUK · 3 Oct 2018 at 22:31

I just heard that Ben Daglish as died. He helped create a lot of the music for lots of games in the old days, his most famous ones I remember was from The Last Ninja music.

Here is gamefaqs credits on all the games he's helped with: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/credit/20115-ben-daglish

Here he is performing live 2 tracks from the last ninja game.

Neil79 · 3 Oct 2018 at 22:42

All of us at Indie Retro News are deeply upset by this news, one of the most iconic music creators for the Amstrad, C64, ZX Spectrum and even the Amiga. has passed away. Thank you Ben Daglish for all the great retro gaming memories

Housey · 3 Oct 2018 at 22:48

Yup, sad to read this. Generation 1 of the home computer scene are sadly all of the age where life becomes more challenging. I know, I'm one of them.

RIP

vanpeebles · 4 Oct 2018 at 08:19

Housey said:
Yup, sad to read this. Generation 1 of the home computer scene are sadly all of the age where life becomes more challenging. I know, I'm one of them.

RIP

RIP, he did some class speccy tunes

Yes, it's very sad. All kinds of stories, techniques and priceless information is being lost on a daily basis now

I'm trying to track down an old QL author, and it's an impossible task.

Fluffybob · 4 Oct 2018 at 08:32

Oh no ! RIP

Hades · 4 Oct 2018 at 14:45

RIP. Scary to see gen 1 start to disappear.

Edit: Lung cancer

lokiss · 4 Oct 2018 at 15:15

What an amazing era it was! When you can call somebody out for influencing your childhood and you see an eight year age gap.

auf wiedersehen monty, too good.

unKle · 9 Oct 2018 at 01:16

Guys who made 'From Bedrooms to Billions' have released some unseen footage of Ben as a tribute. RIP

Bigpops · 17 Oct 2018 at 21:09

Only just seen this thread. I was gutted. Still am.
I almost cried when I read it on Facebook the other week, and I don't get that way about people I've never even met. Or at least I didn't.

Anthony Lees, who wrote some of the Last Ninja soundtrack along with Ben, also died a few years ago.

It's crazy to think that a lot of the musicians I was in awe of in the mid-late '80s are around my age. Matt Gray is about 3 years older than me. Jeroen Tel, even less than that. They were writing and coding kick ass C64 tunes at 15 and 16 years old. How many 15 year-olds do you know that can code in assembler? Not many I'll bet.

One Vision · 20 Oct 2018 at 16:38

Bloody hell Ben Daglish died, no way. I will always remember The Last Ninja Level, achieved Legendary Status before it was actually released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXtk0Tn7hDY