Music popularity is never too far from music piracy, and vinyl records aren't immune to the problem. With music consumption up for the fifth year in a row, more and more video game publishers are working with labels to release their soundtracks on vinyl - but not all of them. In 2019, 4.3 million LPs were sold, with sales up for the 12th year in a row, according to the British Phonographic Industry. And while CDs may have reigned supreme throughout the '90s, the vinyl format has proved to be the king in 2020. More than 100 video game soundtracks were released on vinyl throughout the 1980s, mainly in Japan, according to the Video Game Music Database. Sega, Namco, Nintendo, Konami, Sony, Capcom, and many more have spent the last 30 years experimenting with the weird and wild, ranging from an F-Zero arrangement album featuring Marc Russo of the Doobie Brothers on saxophone, to live festival performances from Sega's in-house SST band. "The last two or three years it's really exploded" Frederik Lauridsen, Blip Blop Hosono's fusion of electronic music and video game music posed an important question, the possibilities of which are still being explored by game companies today: what happens when we take the music from the video games that people spend hours playing every day, and present it to them in a format outside of the game? Six years later, band member Haruomi Hosono released a ten-track LP featuring music from games such as Pac-Man, Dig Dug and Galaga - the world's first release of a video game soundtrack. The relationship between video game music and vinyl goes as far back as 1978, when Japan's genre-defying Yellow Magic Orchestra released their revolutionary self-titled album, which capitalised on the buzz of a rapidly-growing arcade scene by being the first album to sample video game music and sound effects. While the vinyl boom of the 2010s contributed to the formation of several new startups specialising in video game records, it isn't a recent phenomenon. Apparently it's a popular game down there.Your favourite video game soundtracks can also be listened to as vinyl records. It's a retro-feeling racing game for mobile phones that was developed by a Brazilian dev house that grew up with a fanatical love for Top Gear. Incidentally, that same episode of Pixelated audio features a new game Leitch composed for called Horizon Chase. They really sound amazing, given that information.
#Dig dug arrangement soundtrack series#
Leitch ended up having to recycle some of his tracks from the Lotus series as a result of the short lead time, and that's why the Top Gear tracks use very few instruments.
I believe that's the only reason why Masuno's name is in the credits, although he could have done sound effect design I don't know. When Gremlin approached Kemco about the lack of any music support(the music dev kits were something like $25,000 at the time), they gave Leitch a few samples from their library and that was it. Leitch had a ridiculously short time to compose the tracks, and Kemco didn't provide them with any sort of dev kit. Kemco farmed out the game to Gremlin on account of their work on the Lotus games. So based on that interview, I can add the following: His name is pronounced "leech", and I'm almost positive he was the sole composer. So about the Top Gear track.There's a really good episode of the Pixelated Audio podcast() where they actually get to interview him. Momotarou Dentetsu Jr.: Zenkoku Ramen Meguri no Maki - Kazuyuki Sekiguchi, Kazuaki Miyaji - gameplay - Hudson Soft/Make - Game Boy (Japan) - 1998 Legends of the Diamond: The Baseball Championship Game - unknown - gameplay - TOSE/Bandai - NES - 1992īatman: Return of the Joker - Naoki Kodaka, Nobuyuki Hara, Shinichi Seya - Stages 3 (Dangerous Ways) - Sunsoft - NES - 1991 Top Gear - Barry Leitch, Hiroyuki Masuno (arr.) - Frankfurt - Gremlin Graphics/ Kemco - SNES - 1992 Pro-Am - David Wise - Unknown A - Rare - Game Boy - 1991įire Emblem: Thracia 776 - Yuka Tsujiyoko - In-Chapter: Sara - Nintendo - Super Famicom - 1999 Life Force - Miki Higashino, Hidenori Maezawa (arr.), Shinya Sakamoto (arr.), Satoe Terashima (arr.), Atsushi Fujio (arr.) - Power of Anger (Stage 1) - Konami - NES - 1988
Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing - Patrick Phelan - Race Over - Gremlin Graphics/GameTek - Genesis - 1993 RoboCop - Jonathan Dunn - Missions 1, 5, and 7 - Ocean - Game Boy - 1990Ĭocoron - Yoshiji Yokoyama, Takashi Tateishi - Stage Theme II - K2/Takeru - Famicom - 1991 Super Mahjong Taikai - Fiori Wakakuwa - Theme of Nobunaga Oda - Koei - Super Famicom - 1992 Game - Composer - Song - Company - Console - Year (North American release unless otherwise indicated)
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