Hawkeye (Jeroen Tel, 1988)

aliases Hawkeye

created 2026-08-30 · updated 2026-08-30

The 1988 C64 game score jeroen-tel calls his first — "The first game music I wrote was composed for the game Hawkeye, at the age of 14/15" — an early maniacs-of-noise job, dated 1988-08 in VGMPF's gameography, with charles-deenen credited for music, "Mix-E-Load" and sound effects (sources: s-gamesart-jeroen-tel-interview, s-vgmpf-maniacs-of-noise).

Facts#

Released 1988-08 in the MoN C64 gameography, between cybernoid (1988-03) and Scorpion (1988-09) (source: s-vgmpf-maniacs-of-noise).
Tel's "first game music … at the age of 14/15" claim comes with the summary's own caveat: he was 14/15 in 1986–87, the game shipped August 1988, and VGMPF's gameography has Battle Valley (1988-02) released first (source: s-gamesart-jeroen-tel-interview).
VGMPF's Deenen page credits Deenen on Hawkeye with music, "Mix-E-Load" and SFX (source: s-vgmpf-maniacs-of-noise; chip-samples notes the Mix-E-Load credit too).
Among Tel's best-known C64 games in the Wikipedia biography that Hugi quotes (source: s-hugi38-interview-jeroen-tel).
One of the games the young company itself named in C=Lehti's 1989 profile, when MoN counted about 60 compositions (source: s-c-lehti-maniacs-of-noise).
One of the soundtracks remade in Tel Me More (2015), Tel's Indiegogo campaign of "remakes of his most memorable Commodore 64 video game soundtracks" (source: s-sidin-news-digest).

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