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System shock 2 techno music10/4/2023 ![]() In 1991, the world of video games fully opened up to me when my older brother bought his own rig: an IBM PC compatible computer with an Intel i386DX 33 Mhz processor. Exploring a Brand New World (The Early 1990s) Tunes so insanely good that I can still sing them today!Īnd while I was lucky enough to discover other games with memorable music at the time (such as Tetris and Super Mario Land on my best friend’s GameBoy), it really was the PC that started it all for me. Working with very limited technical specs, the programmers at the time had figured out a way to make this terrible piece of audio equipment sing memorable tunes with polyphonic harmonies and melodies, arpeggios, and beats. The truly wonderful thing at the time-and this was completely lost to the 7-8 year old me-was how utterly amazing the music sounded even though it all came from a scrappy PC Speaker. (In hindsight, my dad had made the right bet.) But it was on that computer that I played my very first video games-staples such as Tetris, Packman (a shameless Pac-Man clone for IBM PCs), Space Invaders, and Arkanoid. My dad’s computer was an IBM PS/2 286, running MS-DOS, and it was special in the way that it wasn’t really that special: at the time, the only two personal computers my 7th-grade classmates had mentioned were the Macintosh and the Commodore 64. ![]() ![]() In fact-and contrary to what happened to most kids in the 80s-the ‘entertainment’ I experienced then mostly took the form of video games: I was seven years old when my dad brought home our first computer, and with it came the beginning of my life as gamer. My parents did not go to the movies, and we didn’t have a TV at home this explains why my love for cinema only really started when I was of age to go to the theaters on my own. Paris, Late 1980sĪlthough I had been thinking of writing music for movies since I was 12 years old, I didn’t start a cinephile. ![]() This will be my fifth GDC (I attended in 2013, 2014, 20), and I thought it would be a good opportunity to reminisce about my own relationship with video games, and what made this art form take such a special place in my life. This year’s Game Developers Conference is just around the corner, and I’m very excited to make the trek to San Francisco once again. ![]()
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