Top Scores: Video Game Music

Fans snap up the music to Minecraft and Red Dead Redemption on vinyl – while concert halls echo to the sound of Nobuo Uematsu’s Final Fantasy score or Koji Kondo’s Legend of Zelda theme (written, as it happens, in a single night after he discovered Ravel’s Bolero was still in copyright and couldn’t be used). “When I did that Mario game over the last couple of years, there’s probably two-and-a-half hours of music [and] every single level had a new theme. “For a long time, I couldn’t see the people who’d listen to the music,” recalls Yoko Shimomura, “but when I joined [games company] Square Enix they put feedback cards in the game box.

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