Videogame soundtracks refer to the music and sounds that play while you are playing a video game.
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Kawai's contributions to
videogame soundtracks include 2007's Folklore for Playstation 3, a collaboration with Hiroto Saitoh and SuperSweep musicians Shinji Hosoe and Ayako Saso.
It's a warmly melodic, family - friendly spirit that's much like Debney's affable personality, growing from the small screen to apply his lavishly fun orchestral sound to such live - action and animated fantasy epics as «Inspector Gadget,» «The Ant Bully,» «The Scorpion King,» «Evan Almighty,» «Zathura» and «Lair» — a lavish orchestral score that arguably
put videogame soundtracks on the map as a musical contender.
An experienced sound designer, he has mastered a number of
videogame soundtrack albums for 5pb Records, including the 2007 EXTRA Live album, Etrian Odyssey II Original Soundtrack, and Yuzo Koshiro Best Collection Volumes I & II.
Sporting colourful graphics, upto 3 simultaneous players via Multitap, an engaging storyline and one of the most critically
acclaimed videogame soundtracks composed by Hiroki Kikuta, the game has made it into several Top 100 game lists, and continues to hold a replay value that has fans constantly hoping for a new title in the series to live up to the grandieur of Secret of Mana.
IGN termed the Chrono Trigger soundtrack «one of the best
videogame soundtracks ever produced» and said that the music was a large part of the game's ability to «capture the emotions of the player».
The score for BioShock, composed by Garry Schyman, has reached an enormously wide audience for
a videogame soundtrack.
I was a relatively late bloomer as regards music, not buying my first album until age 17, but I'm quite sure that my tastes have been informed by a myriad of
videogame soundtracks.
Other bits and bobs include
videogame soundtrack, indie games and general geekery.