Since my first childhood experiences with arcade machines and old cassettes, there's an aspect that I haven't paid much attention to, but has shaped the way I enjoy video games: music. In a world of constant graphic innovation, new gameplay mechanics and elaborate stories, the thing that remains with me are those soundtracks that bring to life those video game universes.
Last Friday I had the chance to pay a tribute to the forgotten heroes. Paying respects to the sound designers and composers that lifted certain titles to world-known tunes. What a better way to bring back joystick memories than with other geeks and gamers at the Royal Festival Hall in the SouthBank Centre in London? Such a great initiative deserved a post here.
The talented composer Andrew Skeet had the privilege of conducting none other than the London Philharmonic Orchestra, interpreting 25 songs from the video game world that have marked history. Presented by the witty Iain Lee, who writes for Retro Gamer, the show included some short introduction about the tracks played, little known facts about the game creator or how a particular piece was chosen for the video game.
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