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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.
Video game music (VGM) is the soundtrack that accompanies video games. Early video game music was once limited to sounds of early sound chips, such as programmable sound generators (PSG) or FM synthesis chips. These limitations have led to the style of music known as chiptune, which became the sound of the first video games.
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 ...
In 1984, Haruomi Hosono released the first generally recognized video game soundtrack album, Video Game Music, [4] [5] and the practice experienced its "golden age" in the mid-to-late 1980s with hundreds of releases including Buckner & Garcia's Pac-Man Fever, Namco's Video Game Graffiti, and Koichi Sugiyama's orchestral covers of the Dragon ...
Academic research on video game music began in the late 1990s, [3] and developed through the mid 2000s. Early research on the topic often involved historical studies of game music, or comparative studies of video game music and film music (see, for instance, Zach Whalen's article "Play Along – An Approach to Videogame Music" which includes both). [4]
VGM (Video Game Music) is an audio file format for multiple video game platforms, such as Master System, Game Gear, Mega Drive/Genesis, MSX, Neo Geo, IBM compatibles (Adlib/SoundBlaster), and has expanded to a variety of arcade system boards since its release. The standard filename extension is .vgm, but files can also be Gzip compressed into ...
Adaptive music is music which changes in response to real-time events or user interactions, found most commonly in video games. [1] It may change in volume, arrangement , tempo , and more. Adaptive music is a staple within the role-playing game genre, often being used to change the tone and intensity of music when the player enters and leaves ...