Posts tagged: top 10. console music

Gaming music has evolved over the years from the 70s and upwards Chiptune and 8 Bit music from Cinematic to everyday life and everything in between. Some games require a settle sound to it like the new but old Crash Bandicoot and open world shoot them up games seem to require what I call every day music you know mostly stuff we have heard of what I mean is famous songs uncharted and charted belters. It does help like Rockstar and Grand Theft Auto to go with the famous music to make it seem more real and more importantly of that era. Grand Theft Auto and later games like Saint Rows, Scarface and True Crime pushed the boundaries of what defined a good gaming soundtrack and to pick the ones that suits all people and their needs.  By having famous music it was more easier to paint the picture and be innovated by being the first couple but Rockstar gets all the credit for being first of the first couple but they were the first couple of games to use non traditional gaming music which by the arrival of the PlayStation 1 in 1995 and the game Tomb Raider 1 it was either cinematic or traditional chiptune or what I call adventure music. I think the Tetris theme played a big part in the big push of gaming music and why it’s heavily used in games to this day. The ever so annoying catchy theme which gets stuck in your head and the brightness of the theme has been repeated many times over from all the old school top games like Sonic, Donkey Kong, Crash Bandicoot and many other retro games. Also noted the Alex The Kidd music which was on Sega Master Drive and one of my favourite gaming soundtracks to play as it makes me happy and has a lot of nostalgic memories. The PlayStation which is what I’ll be concentrating on came out and already had so much superiority over anything that came out before and also backed up as a DVD player/CD player and me and mostly my friend still use it as a DVD player. It had that virtual world which no one or hardly a lot of people went on not to be quote unquote not to be weird and enough ram to fit quite a heffty amount of songs on in the games. Grand Theft Auto 3 was the turning point of how gaming music was perceived which if people remember the music came after and was originally classical music which did help me concentrate and I found set the scenes beautifully. The shift in Pop music what I know it’s short for popular music and music they may of not heard of or in passing opens up a whole new listening experience which is why I respect Rockstar and Grand Theft Auto as it broadens your taste or gives you music you like but for example you pretend you don’t like or you are snowed under with your own type of music which you enjoy more or favour when it comes to sticking on some tunes.