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The Video Game Music Archive, also known as VGMusic.com or VGMA, is a website that archives MIDI sequences of video game music, ranging from tunes of the NES era to modern pieces featured in Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch and PS5 games. Currently, there are over 30,000 MIDI sequences hosted on the site across approximately 47 gaming platforms.
The award was introduced to recognize the impact of music specifically written for video games and other interactive media. This is a sister category to the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, which previously honored scores written for film, television and video games, though Journey in 2013 was the only game ever nominated.
Entered the graphics chip industry after becoming the second source for NEC's μPD7220 in 1982; entered the discrete GPU market with the Arc series in 2022 iXMicro: United States: 1994: 2000: Bankruptcy: Produced graphics cards for Macintosh and Macintosh clones: Jingjia Micro: China: 2006: Active: China's largest producer of GPUs Matrox ...
Video game soundtracks considered the best Year Game Lead composer(s) Notes Ref. 1985 Super Mario Bros. Koji Kondo: The Super Mario Bros. theme was the first musical piece from a video game to be inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry. [1] [A] 1988 Mega Man 2: Takashi Tateishi [B] 1989 Tetris: Hirokazu Tanaka: Game ...
25th Japan Game Awards October 2, 2021 The Game Awards 2021 December 9, 2021 [2] 11th Annual New York Game Awards February 1, 2022 [3] 25th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards February 24, 2022 22nd Game Developers Choice Awards March 23, 2022 18th British Academy Games Awards April 7, 2022; Game of the Year: Ghost of Tsushima and Monster Hunter Rise: It ...
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One of the first examples of digital distribution in video games was GameLine, which operated during the early 1980s. The service allowed Atari 2600 owners to use a specialized cartridge to connect through a phone line to a central server and rent a video game for 5–10 days. The GameLine service was terminated during the video game crash of 1983.
Some of the earliest video games were text games or text-based games that used text characters instead of bitmapped or vector graphics.Examples include MUDs (multi-user dungeons), where players could read or view depictions of rooms, objects, other players, and actions performed in the virtual world; and roguelikes, a subgenre of role-playing video games featuring many monsters, items, and ...