{"id":388,"date":"2013-04-07T20:31:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T20:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/?p=388"},"modified":"2013-04-07T22:05:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T22:05:35","slug":"references-in-videogame-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"References in videogame music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My post about the Agent X II theme reminded me of something else that&#8217;s interested me for a while.  The music in computer games back in the 80s and 90s clearly contained some major pop culture influences, but I wonder how often it was completely subconscious, and how often the composer set out to copy the feel (or even the notes!) of an existing piece of music?  We had a much more relaxed attitude to copyright back then!<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, the influences ranged from the utterly blatant:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d8-asCGh2mo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\ncf.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F_aeniTnMJM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Or the stunning (for 1990) game over music from Shadow of the Beast II on the Amiga, and a piece of incidental music from Miami Vice:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I-qaW2mLEsA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But sometimes it was a little more subtle.<br \/>\nTake for example, Rob Hubbard&#8217;s C64 music for One Man and His Droid:  Listen to the section 3:05 into this:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/37-BHvlrtsI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nand compare with the passage 2 minutes 40 seconds into this:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yRYFKcMa_Ek\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, sometimes it works in the opposite direction!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M4KX7SkDe4Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So how many more examples are there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My post about the Agent X II theme reminded me of something else that&#8217;s interested me for a while. The music in computer games back in the 80s and 90s clearly contained some major pop culture influences, but I wonder &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/?p=388\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}