Video games use music to support the action on screen - the music often develops as you get further through the game. Today's video games have much more complex music than early ones.
What? Music created specifically for use in a computer game.
Where? All over the world
When? Since the 1970's
Who? Koji Kondo, Junko Tamiya, Jeremy Soule.
Structure - Early computer game music was often extremely short loops because of the limitations on storage from the old computer chips. As computers have got better so has the soundtrack with huge scores similar to that of a movie (Call Of Duty, Journey etc) to personalised soundtracks where you can upload any song you'd like to accompany the game (FIFA 19 etc).
Instruments - Any instrumentation goes in Video game music! In the early games however the music was made by a specific computer chip which would change electrical impulses from computer code into analog sound waves on the fly for output on a speaker. Sound effects for the games were also generated in this fashion. An early example of such an approach to video game music was the opening chiptune in Tomohiro Nishikado's Gun Fight (1975).
What? Music created specifically for use in a computer game.
Where? All over the world
When? Since the 1970's
Who? Koji Kondo, Junko Tamiya, Jeremy Soule.
Structure - Early computer game music was often extremely short loops because of the limitations on storage from the old computer chips. As computers have got better so has the soundtrack with huge scores similar to that of a movie (Call Of Duty, Journey etc) to personalised soundtracks where you can upload any song you'd like to accompany the game (FIFA 19 etc).
Instruments - Any instrumentation goes in Video game music! In the early games however the music was made by a specific computer chip which would change electrical impulses from computer code into analog sound waves on the fly for output on a speaker. Sound effects for the games were also generated in this fashion. An early example of such an approach to video game music was the opening chiptune in Tomohiro Nishikado's Gun Fight (1975).