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Some More Obscure Video Game Music Landmarks
The history of the Video game library music is a particularly interesting site of innovation. Outsiders are often quick to criticise the early video game for featuring simplistic chip tunes. But with these limited resources, the skilled composers of the more significant titles often came up with quite catchy melodies. Households internationally are haunted by the echoes of Dreams Come True’s Sonic the Hedgehog soundtracks, and decades on, parents who have never even touched a joypad can recognise such tunes. Even now, the grating electronic sound of these early chips is among the many retro-stylings of the modern Indie titles. Though they tend to eskew the single-layered simplicity of 80s and early 90s tunes, games like ‘Super Meat Boy’ feature many of these old sounds in multi-layered soundtracks.
The noughties are widely recognised as the point at which proper audio fidelity was achieved in games, but the nineties featured many notable landmarks. The site of a great deal of this innovation was the PC, which in the 90s was very much at the vanguard of technological progress whilst the incumbent consoles were limited to Midi tables. One of the boldest and earliest endeavours was the dynamic music Lucasarts put into popular point and click adventure ‘Monkey Island 2′. As the player moved from scene to scene, the instruments would neatly segue into the relevant theme. Later in the decade, tracks that were composed in much the same way to electronica production musicwere commonplace. Unreal engine games (‘Unreal’, ‘Deus Ex’) were particularly renowned for their sample sequenced music.
It was around this time that games musicians became more like experimental artists. The use of ethnic chants and instruments defined PC strategy title ‘Homeworld’, its ‘Industrial Arabic’ sound linked to the game’s story of returning desert-planet exiles. The ‘Homeworld’ soundtrack also notoriously featured a choral version of Samuel Barber’s ‘Adagio for Strings’ in its opening sequence, closing with a new song from Progressive Rock dinosaurs Yes.. In just ten years, the audio capabilities of these machines had grown enormously. There was a time when you had to choose between having the music and the sound effects.
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