Video game music, the Glossary

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1. 461 relations: Academy of Art University, ActRaiser, Ad Lib, Inc., Adaptive music, Alan Wake, All Things Considered, AllMusic, Alpha Protocol, Alternative rock, Ambient music, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Amiga, Analog recording, Anime, AOL, Arcade cabinet, Arcade game, Arcade video game, Architectural acoustics, Ashgate Publishing, Atari 2600, Atari ST, Audiosurf, Baba Yetu, Background music, Baroque, Bass note, BBC Proms, Berklee College of Music, Black & White (video game), BMI Film & TV Awards, British Academy Games Awards, Buckner & Garcia, California, Call of Duty, Calling All Dawns, Cannon Fodder (video game), Capcom, Carnival (video game), Cassette tape, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Charlie Rosen (musician), Chiptune, Chris Huelsbeck, Christopher Tin, Chrono Cross, Chrono Trigger, Cinemaware, Circuit bending, Civilization IV, ... Expand index (411 more) »

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Academy of Art University

The Academy of Art University (AAU, or ART U), formerly Academy of Art College and Richard Stephens Academy of Art, is a private for-profit art school in San Francisco, California.

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ActRaiser

is a 1990 video game developed by Quintet and published by Enix for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, It combines traditional side-scrolling platforming and sections with city building and god game elements.

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Ad Lib, Inc.

Ad Lib, Inc. was a Canadian manufacturer of sound cards and other computer equipment founded by Martin Prevel, a former professor of music and vice-dean of the music department at the Université Laval.

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Adaptive music

In video games, adaptive music (also called dynamic or interactive music) is background music whose volume, rhythm or tune changes in response to specific events in the game. Video game music and adaptive music are video game design.

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Alan Wake

Alan Wake is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Game Studios.

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All Things Considered

All Things Considered (ATC) is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR).

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Alpha Protocol

Alpha Protocol is a 2010 action role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Sega.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s.

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Ambient music

Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.

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The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadcasters, and digital streaming services (music stores).

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Amiga

Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.

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Analog recording

Analog recording is a category of techniques used for the recording of analog signals.

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Anime

is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.

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AOL

AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET.

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Arcade cabinet

An arcade cabinet, also known as an arcade machine or a coin-op cabinet or coin-op machine, is the housing within which an arcade game's electronic hardware resides.

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Arcade game

An arcade game or coin-op game is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades.

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Arcade video game

An arcade video game takes player input from its controls, processes it through electrical or computerized components, and displays output to an electronic monitor or similar display.

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Architectural acoustics

Architectural acoustics (also known as building acoustics) is the science and engineering of achieving a good sound within a building and is a branch of acoustical engineering.

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Ashgate Publishing

Ashgate Publishing was an academic book and journal publisher based in Farnham (Surrey, United Kingdom).

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Atari 2600

The Atari 2600 is a discontinued home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976.

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Atari ST

Atari ST is a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the company's 8-bit home computers.

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Audiosurf

Audiosurf is a puzzle rhythm game created by Invisible Handlebar, a company founded by Dylan Fitterer.

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Baba Yetu

"Baba Yetu" (Swahili: "Our Father") is the theme song for the 2005 video game Civilization IV.

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Background music

Background music (British English: piped music) is a mode of musical performance in which the music is not intended to be a primary focus of potential listeners, but its content, character, and volume level are deliberately chosen to affect behavioral and emotional responses in humans such as concentration, relaxation, distraction, and excitement.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.

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Bass note

In music theory, the bass note of a chord or sonority is the lowest note played or notated.

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BBC Proms

The BBC Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.

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Berklee College of Music

The Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Black & White (video game)

Black & White is a god video game developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows in 2001 and by Feral Interactive in 2002 for Mac OS.

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BMI Film & TV Awards

The BMI Film & TV Awards are accolades presented annually by Broadcast Music, Inc., honoring songwriters, composers, and music publishers in various genres.

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British Academy Games Awards

The BAFTA Games Awards or British Academy Games Awards are an annual British awards ceremony honouring "outstanding creative achievement" in the video game industry.

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Buckner & Garcia

Buckner & Garcia was an American musical duo consisting of Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia from Akron, Ohio.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Call of Duty

Call of Duty is a military video game series and media franchise published by Activision, starting in 2003.

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Calling All Dawns

Calling All Dawns is a classical crossover album by Christopher Tin released in 2009.

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Cannon Fodder (video game)

Cannon Fodder is a shoot 'em up developed by Sensible Software and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment for the Amiga in 1993.

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Capcom

is a Japanese video game company.

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Carnival (video game)

Carnival is a fixed shooter developed by Gremlin and released by Sega in arcades in 1980.

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Cassette tape

The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is a 1997 action role-playing game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn.

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Charlie Rosen (musician)

Charlie Rosen (born July 20, 1990) is an American musician, composer, arranger, orchestrator, musical director, and music producer.

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Chiptune

Chiptune is a style of electronic music made using the programmable sound generator (PSG) sound chips or synthesizers in vintage arcade machines, computers and video game consoles.

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Chris Huelsbeck

Christopher Hülsbeck (born 2 March 1968), known internationally as Chris Huelsbeck, is a German video game music composer.

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Christopher Tin

Christopher Chiyan Tin (born May 21, 1976) is an American composer of art music, often composed for film, television, and video game soundtracks.

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Chrono Cross

is a 1999 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation video game console.

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Chrono Trigger

is a 1995 role-playing video game developed and published by Square.

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Cinemaware

Cinemaware was a video game developer and publisher.

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Circuit bending

Circuit bending is the creative, chance-based customization of the circuits within electronic devices such as low-voltage, battery-powered guitar effects, children's toys and digital synthesizers to create new musical or visual instruments and sound generators.

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Civilization IV

Civilization IV (also known as Sid Meier's Civilization IV) is a 4X turn-based strategy computer game and the fourth installment of the ''Civilization'' series, and developed by Firaxis Games.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Col. Zadok Magruder High School

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ColecoVision

ColecoVision is a second-generation home video-game console developed by Coleco and launched in North America in August 1982.

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Columbia College Chicago

Columbia College Chicago is a private art college in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Comiket

, more commonly known as or, is a semiannual ''doujinshi'' convention in Tokyo, Japan.

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Command & Conquer: Generals

Command & Conquer: Generals is a real-time strategy video game and the seventh installment in the ''Command & Conquer'' series.

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Commodore 64

The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas).

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Compact disc

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.

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ComputeHer

ComputeHer is a band created by Michelle Sternberger in 2005, making music using 8-bit computers and video game console sound chips.

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Computer Gaming World

Computer Gaming World (CGW) was an American computer game magazine published between 1981 and 2006.

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Computer memory

Computer memory stores information, such as data and programs, for immediate use in the computer.

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Container format

A container format (informally, sometimes called a wrapper) or metafile is a file format that allows multiple data streams to be embedded into a single file, usually along with metadata for identifying and further detailing those streams.

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Content ID

Content ID is a digital fingerprinting system developed by Google which is used to easily identify and manage copyrighted content on YouTube.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song.

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CP System

The, also known as Capcom Play System, CPS for short, and retroactively as CPS-1, is an arcade system board developed by Capcom that ran game software stored on removable daughterboards.

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Creative Technology

Creative Technology Ltd., or Creative Labs Pte Ltd., is a Singaporean multinational technology company.

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Czech National Symphony Orchestra

The Czech National Symphony Orchestra (ČNSO or CNSO) (Český národní symfonický orchestr) is a Czech symphony orchestra based in Prague.

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D.I.C.E. Awards

The D.I.C.E. Awards (formerly the Interactive Achievement Awards) is an annual awards show in the video game industry, and commonly referred to as the video game equivalent of the Academy Awards.

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Daley Thompson's Decathlon

Daley Thompson's Decathlon is an Olympic-themed sports video game developed and released by Ocean Software in 1984.

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Dance Dance Revolution

(DDR) is a music video game series produced by Konami.

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Data buffer

In computer science, a data buffer (or just buffer) is a region of memory used to store data temporarily while it is being moved from one place to another.

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David Whittaker (video game composer)

David Whittaker (born 24 April 1957 in Bury, England) is an English video game composer.

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David Wise (composer)

David Wise is a British video game music composer and musician.

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Demoscene

The demoscene is an international computer art subculture focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audiovisual presentations.

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Diatonic and chromatic

Diatonic and chromatic are terms in music theory that are used to characterize scales.

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Dig Dug

is a maze arcade video game released by Namco in 1982.

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DigiPen Institute of Technology

DigiPen Institute of Technology is a private for-profit university in Redmond, Washington.

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Digital distribution

Digital distribution, also referred to as content delivery, online distribution, or electronic software distribution, among others, is the delivery or distribution of digital media content such as audio, video, e-books, video games, and other software.

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Digital Millennium Copyright Act

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998 United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

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Digital synthesizer

A digital synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to make musical sounds.

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Digital-to-analog converter

In electronics, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC, D/A, D2A, or D-to-A) is a system that converts a digital signal into an analog signal.

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Dizzee Rascal

Dylan Kwabena Mills (born 18 September 1984), known professionally as Dizzee Rascal, is a British rapper and MC. He is often credited as a pioneer of British hip hop and grime music and was ranked by Complex as one of the greatest British rappers of all time. His work has also incorporated elements of UK garage, bassline and R&B.

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Dolby Digital

Dolby Digital, originally synonymous with Dolby AC-3 (see below), is the name for a family of audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories.

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Dolby Pro Logic

Dolby Pro Logic is a surround sound processing technology developed by Dolby Laboratories, designed to decode soundtracks encoded with Dolby Surround.

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Dolby TrueHD

Dolby TrueHD is a lossless, multi-channel audio codec developed by Dolby Laboratories for home video, used principally in Blu-ray Disc and compatible hardware.

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Donkey Kong Country

Donkey Kong Country is a 1994 platform game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).

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Doujin music

, also called in Japan, is a sub-category of doujin activity.

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Doujin soft

is software created by Japanese hobbyists or hobbyist groups (referred to as "circles"), more for fun than for profit.

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Dragon Quest

previously published as Dragon Warrior in North America until 2005, is a series of role-playing games created by Japanese game designer Yuji Horii (Armor Project), character designer Akira Toriyama (Bird Studio), and composer Koichi Sugiyama (Sugiyama Kobo) and published by Square Enix (formerly Enix).

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Dragon Slayer (series)

is a series of role-playing video games by Nihon Falcom.

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DragonForce

DragonForce are a British power metal band from London.

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DTS-HD Master Audio

DTS-HD Master Audio (DTS-HD MA; known as DTS++ before 2004) is a multi-channel, lossless audio codec developed by DTS as an extension of the lossy DTS Coherent Acoustics codec (DTS CA; usually itself referred to as just DTS).

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EarthBound

EarthBound, released in Japan as is a role-playing video game developed by Ape Inc. and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Electro (music)

Electro (or electro-funk).

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Electro house

Electro house is a genre of electronic dance music and a subgenre of house music characterized by heavy bass and a tempo around 125–135 beats per minute.

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Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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Electronic music

Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.

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Electronica

Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom.

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Eminem

Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem (stylized as EMINƎM), is an American rapper, music producer and songwriter.

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Eminence Symphony Orchestra

The Eminence Symphony Orchestra founded in Sydney, Australia is an independent symphony orchestra which delves into the classical music featured in video games and anime, as well as film scores.

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Engadget

Engadget is a technology news, reviews and analysis website offering daily coverage of gadgets, consumer electronics, video games, gaming hardware, apps, social media, streaming, AI, space, robotics, electric vehicles and other potentially consumer-facing technology.

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Entertainment Software Association

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is the trade association of the video game industry in the United States.

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Envelope (music)

In sound and music, an envelope describes how a sound changes over time.

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Eurogamer

Eurogamer is a British video game journalism website launched in 1999 alongside parent company Gamer Network.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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F-Zero (video game)

is a racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).

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Fanfare

A fanfare (or fanfarade or flourish) is a short musical flourish which is typically played by trumpets (including fanfare trumpets), French horns or other brass instruments, often accompanied by percussion.

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FIFA (video game series)

FIFA is a discontinued football video game franchise that was developed by EA Vancouver and EA Romania and published by EA Sports.

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FIFA 08

FIFA 08 (titled FIFA Soccer 08 in North America) is a football simulation video game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports label.

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Fifth generation of video game consoles

The fifth generation era (also known as the 32-bit era, the 64-bit era, or the 3D era) refers to computer and video games, video game consoles, and handheld gaming consoles dating from approximately October 4, 1993, to March 23, 2006.

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Final Fantasy

is a fantasy anthology media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi which is owned, developed, and published by Square Enix (formerly Square).

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Final Fantasy concerts

Final Fantasy is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and owned by Square Enix that includes video games, motion pictures, and other merchandise.

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Final Fantasy IV

titled Final Fantasy II in its initial North American release, is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Final Fantasy Tactics

is a tactical role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation video game console.

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Final Fantasy VI

also known as Final Fantasy III from its initial North American release, is a 1994 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Final Fantasy VII

is a 1997 role-playing video game developed by Square for the PlayStation console and the seventh main installment in the Final Fantasy series.

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Final Fantasy VIII

is a 1999 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation console.

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Final Fantasy X

is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square as the tenth main entry in the Final Fantasy series.

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Final Fantasy XI

also known as Final Fantasy XI Online, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), originally developed and published by Squaresoft and then published by Square Enix as the eleventh main installment of the Final Fantasy series.

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Floppy disk

A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk.

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FM-7

The FM-7 ("Fujitsu Micro 7") is a home computer created by Fujitsu.

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Forza Horizon 3

Forza Horizon 3 is a 2016 racing video game developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft Studios for the Xbox One and Windows.

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Four Tet

Kieran Hebden (born September 1977), known as Four Tet, is an English electronic musician. He came to prominence as a member of the post-rock band Fridge before establishing himself as a solo artist with charting and critically acclaimed albums such as Rounds (2003), Everything Ecstatic (2005) and There Is Love in You (2010).

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Fourth generation of video game consoles

In the history of video games, the fourth generation of video game consoles, more commonly referred to as the 16-bit era, began on October 30, 1987, with the Japanese release of NEC Home Electronics' PC Engine (known as the TurboGrafx-16 in North America).

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Frequency modulation synthesis

Frequency modulation synthesis (or FM synthesis) is a form of sound synthesis whereby the frequency of a waveform is changed by modulating its frequency with a modulator.

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Frogger

is a 1981 arcade action game developed by Konami and published by Sega.

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Game Boy Advance

The (GBA) is a 32-bit handheld game console developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo as the successor to the Game Boy Color.

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Game design

Game design is the process of creating and shaping the mechanics, systems and rules of a game.

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Game Developer (magazine)

Game Developer was a magazine for video game creators, originally started in March 1994 by Miller Freeman, Inc as quarterly, later bimonthly, and finally monthly.

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Game Developers Choice Awards

The Game Developers Choice Awards are awards annually presented at the Game Developers Conference for outstanding game developers and games.

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Game over

"Game over" is a message in video games which informs the player that their play session has ended, usually because the player has reached a loss condition.

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Game studies

Game studies, also known as ludology (from ludus, "game", and -logia, "study", "research"), is the study of games, the act of playing them, and the players and cultures surrounding them.

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GameCube

The is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.

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Gameplay

Gameplay is the specific way in which players interact with a game, and in particular with video games. Video game music and Gameplay are video game design.

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Gamer Network

Gamer Network Limited (formerly Eurogamer Network Limited) is a British digital media company based in Brighton.

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Gamer Symphony Orchestra at the University of Maryland

The Gamer Symphony Orchestra at the University of Maryland (often referred to as the GSO, UMGSO, or UMDGSO) is a student-run symphony orchestra and chorus at the University of Maryland.

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GameSoundCon

GameSoundCon is a conference and seminar on video game music and video game sound design.

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GameSpot

GameSpot is an American video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games.

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GamesRadar+

GamesRadar+ (formerly GamesRadar) is an entertainment website for video game-related news, previews, and reviews.

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General Instrument AY-3-8910

The AY-3-8910 is a 3-voice programmable sound generator (PSG) designed by General Instrument (GI) in 1978, initially for use with their 16-bit CP1610 or one of the PIC1650 series of 8-bit microcomputers.

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General MIDI

General MIDI (also known as GM or GM 1) is a standardized specification for electronic musical instruments that respond to MIDI messages.

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Golden age of arcade video games

The golden age of arcade video games was the period of rapid growth, technological development, and cultural influence of arcade video games from the late 1970s to the early 1980s.

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Golden Joystick Awards

The Golden Joystick Awards, also known as the People's Gaming Awards, is a video game award ceremony; it awards the best video games of the year, as voted for originally by the British general public, but is now a global event that can be voted online via GamesRadar+.

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Gradius

is a series of shooter (shoot'em up) video games, introduced in 1985, developed and published by Konami for a variety of portable, console and arcade platforms.

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Gradius III

Gradius III is a 1989 scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Konami, originally released for the arcades in Japan and other parts of Asia on December 11, 1989.

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Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals

The Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals (including its previous names) has been awarded since 1963.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Gran Turismo (series)

Gran Turismo is a series of driving simulators developed by Polyphony Digital for the PlayStation systems, Gran Turismo simulators are intended to emulate the appearance and performance of a large selection of vehicles, most of which are licensed reproductions of real-world automobiles.

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Grand Theft Auto

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is an action-adventure video game series created by David Jones and Mike Dailly.

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Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is a 2009 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar Leeds in conjunction with Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games.

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Grime music

Grime is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) that emerged in London in the early 2000s.

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Groove Music

Groove Music (formerly Xbox Music or Zune Music Pass) is a discontinued audio player software application included with Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11.

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Gun Fight

Gun Fight, known as in Japan and Europe, is a 1975 multidirectional shooter arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released by Taito in Japan and Europe and by Midway in North America.

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Gyruss

is shoot 'em up arcade video game designed by Yoshiki Okamoto and released by Konami in 1983.

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Halo 2

Halo 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox console.

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Hang-On

is an arcade racing game released by Sega in 1985 and later ported to the Master System.

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Harpsichord

A harpsichord (clavicembalo, clavecin, Cembalo; clavecín, cravo, клавеси́н (tr. klavesín or klavesin), klavecimbel, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard.

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Haruomi Hosono

, sometimes credited as Harry Hosono, is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.

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Hirokazu Tanaka

, also known as Chip Tanaka, is a Japanese musician, composer, sound designer, and executive who pioneered chiptune music.

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Hiroshi Kawaguchi (composer)

is a Japanese video game music composer and keyboardist who works for Sega.

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Hollywood Bowl

The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheatre in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Home computer

Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s.

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House music

House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute.

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IBM PC–compatible

IBM PC–compatible computers are technically similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT, all from computer giant IBM, that are able to use the same software and expansion cards.

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IBM PCjr

The IBM PCjr (pronounced "PC junior") was a home computer produced and marketed by IBM from March 1984 to May 1985, intended as a lower-cost variant of the IBM PC with hardware capabilities better suited for video games, in order to compete more directly with other home computers such as the Apple II and Commodore 64.

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IEZA Framework

The IEZA framework is a 2-dimensional framework that describes the auditory environment of video games.

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IMUSE

iMUSE (Interactive Music Streaming Engine) is an interactive music system used in a number of LucasArts video games.

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Independent Games Festival

The Independent Games Festival (IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), the largest annual gathering of the independent video game industry.

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Interactive fiction

Interactive fiction (IF) is software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment.

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International Film Music Critics Association

The International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) is a professional association for online, print and radio journalists who specialize in writing about original film and television music.

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International Karate

International Karate is a fighting game developed and published by System 3 for the ZX Spectrum in 1985 and ported to various home computers over the following years.

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International Mobile Gaming Awards

The International Mobile Gaming Awards ("IMGA") is an annual competition and awards ceremony that honors outstanding games made for mobile devices.

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Interplay Entertainment

Interplay Entertainment Corp. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Los Angeles.

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Ivor Novello Awards

The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and composing.

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J-pop

(often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as, is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.

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Jack Wall (composer)

Jack Wall (born 1964) is an American video game music composer.

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James Hannigan

James Hannigan (born 23 July 1971) is a BAFTA Award winning composer and producer.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.

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John Williams

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932)Nylund, Rob (November 15, 2022).

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Journey (1983 video game)

Journey is an arcade video game released by Bally Midway in 1983.

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Juventino Rosas

José Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas (25 January 18689 July 1894) was a Mexican composer and violinist.

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Kantai Collection

, abbreviated as, is a Japanese free-to-play web browser game developed by Kadokawa Games and published by DMM.com.

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Kesha

Kesha Rose Sebert (born March 1, 1987), known mononymously as Kesha (formerly stylized as Ke$ha), is an American singer and songwriter.

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Key (company)

Key is a Japanese visual novel studio known for making dramatic and plot-oriented titles.

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Kid Icarus

Kid Icarus is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer Disk System in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System in Europe and North America.

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Kilobyte

The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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Kirby Super Star

Kirby Super Star, released as Kirby's Fun Pak in PAL regions, is an anthology action-platform game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1996.

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Koichi Sugiyama

was a Japanese composer, conductor, and orchestrator.

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Koji Kondo

is a Japanese composer and pianist at the video game company Nintendo.

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Konami

, commonly known as Konami,, is a Japanese multinational entertainment company and video game developer and publisher headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo.

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Kotaku

Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network.

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Kow Otani

is a Japanese composer.

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Laser Squad

Laser Squad is a turn-based tactics video game, originally released for the ZX Spectrum and later for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Amiga, Sharp MZ-800 and Atari ST and PC computers between 1988 and 1992.

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Leeds Beckett University

Leeds Beckett University (LBU), formerly known as Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) and before that as Leeds Polytechnic, is a public university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Legend of Mana

Legend of Mana is a 1999 action role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the PlayStation.

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Let's Play

A Let's Play (LP) is a video (or screenshots accompanied by text) documenting the playthrough of a video game, often including commentary and/or a camera view of the gamer's face.

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List of Amiga games

This is a list of games for the Amiga line of personal computers organised alphabetically by name.

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List of best-selling singles

This is a compendium of the best-selling music singles.

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List of concert halls

A concert hall is a cultural building with a stage that serves as a performance venue and an auditorium filled with seats.

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List of sub-regions used in the London Plan

Greater London is divided into five sub-regions for the purposes of the London Plan.

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List of video game musicians

The following is a list of computer and video game musicians, those who have worked in the video game industry to produce video game soundtracks or otherwise contribute musically.

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List of video game soundtracks considered the best

This is a list of video game soundtracks that multiple publications, such as video game journalism and music journalism publications, have considered to be among the best of all time.

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List of video game soundtracks released on vinyl

The practice of releasing video game soundtracks on vinyl records began in the 1980s, fell out of favor in the 1990s and 2000s as vinyl records were replaced by other storage media, and experienced a resurgence of interest in the 2010s due in part to a vinyl revival.

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is one of five permanent symphony orchestras based in London.

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Loop (music)

In music, a loop is a repeating section of sound material.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Los Angeles Philharmonic

The Los Angeles Philharmonic is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California.

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Lost Planet

Lost Planet is a video game series of third-person shooters published by Capcom.

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Lucasfilm Games

Lucasfilm Games (known as LucasArts between 1990 and 2021) is an American video game licensor and a subsidiary of Lucasfilm.

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Ludomusicology

Ludomusicology (also called video game music studies or video game music research) is a field of academic research and scholarly analysis focusing on video game music, understood as the music found in video games and in related contexts.

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Mac (computer)

Mac, short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple.

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Machinima, Inc.

Machinima, Inc. was an American independent multiplatform online entertainment network owned by WarnerMedia.

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Madden NFL

Madden NFL (known as John Madden Football until 1993) is an American football sports video game series developed by EA Orlando for EA Sports.

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MAGFest

MAGFest (Music and Gaming Festival, originally the Mid-Atlantic Gaming Festival) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to make the world a better place through video game art, music, and culture.

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Malmö

Malmö (Malmö,; Malmø) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Skåne (Scania).

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Marble Madness

Marble Madness is an arcade video game designed by Mark Cerny and published by Atari Games in 1984.

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Martin Galway

Martin Galway (born 3 January 1966, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is one of the best known composers of chiptune video game music for the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum.

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Martin O'Donnell

Martin O'Donnell (born May 1, 1955) is an American composer, audio director, and sound designer known for his work on video game developer Bungie's titles, such as the ''Myth'' series, Oni, the ''Halo'' series, and Destiny.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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Mass Effect

Mass Effect is a military science fiction media franchise created by Casey Hudson.

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Mega Man

Mega Man (known as in Japan) is a Japanese science fiction video game franchise created by Capcom, starring a character named "Mega Man".

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Memory Stick

The Memory Stick is a removable flash memory card format, originally launched by Sony in late 1998.

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Metroid

is an action-adventure game franchise created by Nintendo.

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MIDI

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.

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Miki Higashino

is a Japanese video game composer best known for her works in the Suikoden series.

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MIT Press

The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Mixed Mode CD

A mixed mode CD is a compact disc which contains both data and audio in one session.

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MOD (file format)

MOD is a computer file format used primarily to represent music, and was the first module file format.

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Module file

Module file (MOD music, tracker music) is a family of music file formats originating from the MOD file format on Amiga systems used in the late 1980s.

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Montgomery County, Maryland

Montgomery County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Monty on the Run

Monty on the Run is a computer game created by the software house Gremlin Graphics and released in 1985 for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 16, written by Peter Harrap for the ZX Spectrum with the iconic in-game music on the Commodore 64 provided by Rob Hubbard.

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Motorola 68000 series

The Motorola 68000 series (also known as 680x0, m68000, m68k, or 68k) is a family of 32-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) microprocessors.

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MTV Video Music Award for Best Video Game Score

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Video Game Score was only given out in 2006 as a complement to the Best Video Game Soundtrack award.

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MTV Video Music Award for Best Video Game Soundtrack

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Video Game Soundtrack was awarded from 2004 to 2006 as an attempt by MTV to tap into the video gaming community in order to gain greater audiences for its VMAs.

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Music

Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.

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Music director

A music director, musical director or director of music is the person responsible for the musical aspects of a performance, production, or organization.

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Music licensing

Music licensing is the licensed use of copyrighted music.

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Music of Final Fantasy IV

The music of the video game Final Fantasy IV was composed by regular series composer Nobuo Uematsu.

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Music sequencer

A music sequencer (or audio sequencer or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control, and possibly audio and automation data for digital audio workstations (DAWs) and plug-ins.

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Music tracker

A music tracker (sometimes referred to as a tracker for short) is a type of music sequencer software for creating music.

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Music video game

A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs.

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Musicology

Musicology (from Greek μουσική 'music' and -λογια, 'domain of study') is the scholarly study of music.

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Namco

was a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo.

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Narc (video game)

Narc (stylized as NARC) is a 1988 run and gun arcade game designed by Eugene Jarvis for Williams Electronics and programmed by George Petro, Todd Allen, and Eugene Jarvis, with art by Jack Haeger, John Newcomer, and Lin Young.

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National Association for Music Education

The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) is an organization of American music educators dedicated to advancing and preserving music education as part of the core curriculum of schools in the United States.

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NBA 2K

NBA 2K is a series of basketball sports simulation video games developed by Visual Concepts and released annually since 1999.

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Need for Speed: Carbon

Need for Speed: Carbon is a 2006 racing video game and the tenth installment in the ''Need for Speed'' series.

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Need for Speed: Underground

Need for Speed: Underground is a 2003 racing video game and the seventh installment in the Need for Speed series.

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Neo Geo (system)

The, stylized as NEO•GEO and also written as NEOGEO, is a ROM cartridge-based arcade system board and fourth-generation home video game console released on April 26, 1990, by Japanese game company SNK Corporation.

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New England Conservatory of Music

The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) is a private music school in Boston, Massachusetts.

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New York Game Awards

The New York Game Awards is an annual award show honoring video games by nonprofit New York Videogame Critics Circle (NYVGCC).

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States.

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Nightclub

A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment.

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Nihon Falcom

is a Japanese video game developer, best known for their Ys, The Legend of Heroes, and Trails series.

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Nintendo 64

The (N64) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.

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Nintendo DS

The (retroactively referred to as NDS or DS) is a 32-bit foldable handheld game console produced by Nintendo, released globally across 2004 and 2005.

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Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit home video game console produced by Nintendo.

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Nobuo Uematsu

is a Japanese composer and keyboardist best known for his contributions to the Final Fantasy video game series by Square Enix.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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NTSC

NTSC (from National Television Standards Committee) is the first American standard for analog television, published in 1941.

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Obsidian Entertainment

Obsidian Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Irvine, California and part of Xbox Game Studios.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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On the fly

On the fly is a phrase used to describe something that is being changed while the process that the change affects is ongoing.

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Orvar Säfström

Orvar Säfström (born 18 February 1974) is a Swedish musician and writer, and former film reviewer and video game journalist.

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Out Run

(also stylized as OutRun) is an arcade driving video game released by Sega in September 1986.

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OverClocked ReMix

OverClocked ReMix, also known as OC ReMix and OCR, is a non-commercial organization dedicated to preserving and paying tribute to video game music through arranging and re-interpreting the songs, both with new technology and software and by various traditional means.

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Pac-Man

originally called Puck Man in Japan, is a 1980 maze video game developed and released by Namco for arcades.

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Pac-Man Fever (album)

Pac-Man Fever is a 1982 album recorded by Buckner & Garcia.

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PAL

Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a colour encoding system for analog television.

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PC game

A personal computer game, also known as a computer game or abbreviated PC game, is a video game played on a personal computer (PC).

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PC speaker

A PC speaker is a loudspeaker built into some IBM PC compatible computers.

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PC-8800 series

The, commonly shortened to PC-88, are a brand of Zilog Z80-based 8-bit home computers released by Nippon Electric Company (NEC) in 1981 and primarily sold in Japan.

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PC-98

The, commonly shortened to PC-98 or, is a lineup of Japanese 16-bit and 32-bit personal computers manufactured by NEC from 1982 to 2000.

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Performance studies

Performance studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that teaches the development of performance skills and uses performance as a lens and a tool to study the world.

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Personal computer

A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), a vinyl record (for later varieties only), or simply a record or vinyl is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Phozon

is an arcade game that was released by Namco in 1983 only in Japan.

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Pitfall II: Lost Caverns

Pitfall II: Lost Caverns is a video game developed by David Crane for the Atari 2600.

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Pixies (band)

The Pixies are an American alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts formed in 1986 by Black Francis (vocals, rhythm guitar, songwriter), Joey Santiago (lead guitar), Kim Deal (bass, vocals) and David Lovering (drums).

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Planet of Sound

"Planet of Sound" is a song by the American alternative rock band Pixies, from their 1991 album Trompe le Monde.

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PlayStation (console)

The (abbreviated as PS, commonly known as the PS1/PS one or its codename PSX) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America, and March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australasia.

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PlayStation Network

PlayStation Network (PSN) is a digital media entertainment service provided by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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PlayStation Portable

The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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Pole Position

is a racing arcade video game released by Namco in 1982.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Pops orchestra

A pops orchestra is an orchestra that plays popular music (generally traditional pop) and show tunes as well as well-known classical works.

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Popular Science

Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is a U.S. popular science website, covering science and technology topics geared toward general readers.

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Power metal is a subgenre of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with speed metal, often within a symphonic context.

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Pretenders (album)

Pretenders is the debut studio album by British-American band The Pretenders, released in January 1980.

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Programmable sound generator

A programmable sound generator (PSG) is a sound chip that generates (or synthesizes) audio wave signals built from one or more basic waveforms, and often some kind of noise.

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Progressive music

Progressive music is music that attempts to expand existing stylistic boundaries associated with specific genres of music.

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Public domain music

Public domain music is music to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Pulse-code modulation

Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a method used to digitally represent analog signals.

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Quake (video game)

Quake is a first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive.

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Rabbit Software

Rabbit Software was an English software company which produced video games for home computers such as the ZX Spectrum, VIC-20, and Commodore 64 in the early to mid-1980s.

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Rally-X

is a maze chase arcade video game developed in Japan and Germany by Namco and released in 1980.

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Red Bull Music Academy

The Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) is a world-traveling series of music workshops and festivals that was founded in 1998 by Red Bull GmbH.

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Remedy Entertainment

Remedy Entertainment Oyj, trading internationally as Remedy Entertainment Plc, is a Finnish video game developer based in Espoo.

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Republic: The Revolution

Republic: The Revolution is a video game produced by Elixir Studios and published by Eidos Interactive and for Mac OS X by Feral Interactive.

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Resident Evil

Resident Evil is a Japanese horror game series and media franchise created by Capcom.

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Reverberation

Reverberation (commonly shortened to reverb), in acoustics, is a persistence of sound after it is produced.

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Rhythm game

Rhythm game or rhythm action is a genre of music-themed action video game that challenges a player's sense of rhythm.

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Richard Joseph

Richard Joseph (23 April 1953 – 4 March 2007) was an English computer game composer, musician and sound specialist.

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Ridge Racer (1993 video game)

is a 1993 racing video game developed and published by Namco.

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Ripping

Ripping is the extraction of digital content from a container, such as a CD, onto a new digital location.

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Rob Hubbard

Rob Hubbard (born 1955 in Kingston upon Hull, England) is a British composer best known for his musical and programming work for microcomputers of the 1980s, such as the Commodore 64.

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Robyn

Robin Miriam Carlsson (born 12 June 1979), known as Robyn, is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and DJ.

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Roland Corporation

is a Japanese multinational manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment, and software.

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Roland MT-32

The Roland MT-32 Multi-Timbre Sound Module is a MIDI synthesizer module first released in 1987 by Roland Corporation.

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Roland SC-55

The Roland SC-55 (Sound Canvas) is a GS MIDI sound module released in 1991 by Roland.

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Role-playing video game

A role-playing video game, a role-playing game (RPG) or computer role-playing game (CRPG), is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world, usually involving some form of character development by way of recording statistics.

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ROM cartridge

A ROM cartridge, usually referred to in context simply as a cartridge, cart, or card, is a replaceable part designed to be connected to a consumer electronics device such as a home computer, video game console or, to a lesser extent, electronic musical instruments.

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Rooster Teeth

Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC was an American internet media and production company headquartered in Austin, Texas.

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Ryu Umemoto

was a Japanese video game music composer, born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto

was a Japanese composer, pianist, record producer, and actor who pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO).

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Sample-based synthesis

Sample-based synthesis is a form of audio synthesis that can be contrasted to either subtractive synthesis or additive synthesis.

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Sampling (music)

In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording.

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Sampling (signal processing)

In signal processing, sampling is the reduction of a continuous-time signal to a discrete-time signal.

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Sanxion

Sanxion is a horizontally scrolling shooter developed by Stavros Fasoulas for the Commodore 64 and published in 1986 by Thalamus Ltd.

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Sawtooth wave

The sawtooth wave (or saw wave) is a kind of non-sinusoidal waveform.

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Secret of Evermore

Secret of Evermore is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Sega

is a Japanese multinational video game company and subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo.

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Sega CD

The Sega CD, known as in most regions outside North America and Brazil, is a CD-ROM accessory for the Sega Genesis produced by Sega as part of the fourth generation of video game consoles.

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Sega Genesis

The Sega Genesis, known as the outside North America, is a 16-bit fourth generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega.

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Sega Saturn

The is a home video game console developed by Sega and released on November 22, 1994, in Japan, May 11, 1995, in North America, and July 8, 1995, in Europe.

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Semiconductor memory

Semiconductor memory is a digital electronic semiconductor device used for digital data storage, such as computer memory.

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Sensible Soccer

Sensible Soccer, often called Sensi, is an association football video game series which was popular in the early 1990s and which still retains a following.

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Sensible Software

Sensible Software was a British software company founded by Jon Hare and Chris Yates that was active from March 1986 to June 1999.

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Serpent's Tail

Serpent's Tail is London-based independent publishing firm founded in 1986 by Pete Ayrton.

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SF Weekly

SF Weekly is an online music publication and formerly alternative weekly newspaper founded in the 1970s in San Francisco, California.

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Shadow of the Beast (1989 video game)

Shadow of the Beast is a platform game developed by Reflections and published by Psygnosis in 1989.

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Shadow of the Colossus

Shadow of the Colossus is a 2005 action-adventure game developed by Japan Studio and Team Ico, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2.

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Shinobi (series)

is a series of hack-and-slash games created by Sega.

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Shoot 'em up

Shoot 'em ups (also known as shmups or STGs) are a sub-genre of action games.

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Sierra Entertainment

Sierra Entertainment, Inc. (formerly On-Line Systems and Sierra On-Line, Inc.) was an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1979 by Ken and Roberta Williams.

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Singapore Press Holdings

Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH) was an organisation with businesses in property and aged care in Singapore.

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution.

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Snoop Dogg

Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg (previously Snoop Doggy Dogg and briefly Snoop Lion), is an American rapper, record producer, and actor.

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Sobre las olas

The waltz "Sobre las olas" ("Over the Waves") is the best-known work of Mexican composer Juventino Rosas (1868–1894), who first published it in 1888.

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Solid State Survivor

Solid State Survivor is the second album by Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, released in 1979.

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Sonic CD

, simply known as Sonic CD, is a 1993 platform game developed and published by Sega for the Sega CD.

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Sony

, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Sound Blaster

Sound Blaster is a family of sound cards and audio peripherals designed by Singaporean technology company Creative Technology (known in the US as Creative Labs).

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Sound card

A sound card (also known as an audio card) is an internal expansion card that provides input and output of audio signals to and from a computer under the control of computer programs.

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Sound chip

A sound chip is an integrated circuit (chip) designed to produce audio signals through digital, analog or mixed-mode electronics.

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Sound design

Sound design is the art and practice of creating soundtracks for a variety of needs.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound.

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Space Harrier

is a third-person arcade rail shooter game developed by Sega and released in 1985.

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Space Invaders

is a 1978 shoot 'em up arcade video game, developed and released by Taito in Japan and licensed to Midway Manufacturing for overseas distribution.

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Speech synthesis

Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech.

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Spike Video Game Awards

The Spike Video Game Awards (in short VGAs, known as the VGX for the final show) was an annual award show hosted by American television network Spike from 2002 that recognized the best computer and video games of the year.

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Square (video game company)

, also known under its international brand name SquareSoft, was a Japanese video game developer and publisher.

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SSX

SSX is a series of snowboarding video games published by EA Sports.

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Star Fox (1993 video game)

Star Fox, known as Starwing in PAL regions, is a 1993 rail shooter game developed by Nintendo and Argonaut Software, and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.

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Star Wars: TIE Fighter

Star Wars: TIE Fighter is a 1994 Star Wars space flight simulator and space combat video game, a sequel in the ''Star Wars: X-Wing'' series.

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Star Wars: X-Wing (video game)

Star Wars: X-Wing is a space simulation video game, the first of the ''X-Wing'' combat flight simulation games series.

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Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter

Star Wars: X-Wing vs.

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Steam (service)

Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront managed by Valve.

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Stereophonic sound

Stereophonic sound, or more commonly stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that recreates a multi-directional, 3-dimensional audible perspective.

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Stratovox

Stratovox, known in Japan as Speak & Rescue (スピーク&レスキュー), is a 1980 fixed shooter arcade video game developed and published in Japan by Sun Electronics and released in North America by Taito.

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Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network.

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Street Fighter Alpha 2

Street Fighter Alpha 2, known as in Japan, Asia, South America, and Oceania, is a 1996 fighting game originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware by Capcom.

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Street Fighter II

is a 2D fighting game developed by Capcom and originally released for arcades in 1991.

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Streets of Rage

Streets of Rage (titled Bare Knuckle in Japan) is a series of side-scrolling beat 'em up video games.

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Streets of Rage 2

Streets of Rage 2, known as Bare Knuckle II in Japan, is a 1992 side-scrolling beat 'em up video game published by Sega for the Genesis/Mega Drive.

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Stryker's Run

Stryker's Run is a video game designed by Chris Roberts and Philip Meller for the BBC Micro and BBC Master which was published by Superior Software in 1986.

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Super Castlevania IV

Super Castlevania IV is a 1991 action-platform game developed and published by Konami for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Super Locomotive

is a side-scrolling train action video game developed by Sega and released for arcades in 1982.

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Super Mario Bros.

is a platform game developed and published in 1985 by Nintendo for the Famicom in Japan and for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in North America.

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Super Mario Bros. 3

Super Mario Bros.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, commonly shortened to Super Nintendo, Super NES or SNES, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Oceania and 1993 in South America.

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Super Star Wars

Super Star Wars is a 1992 action video game developed by LucasArts and Sculptured Software for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Surround sound

Surround sound is a technique for enriching the fidelity and depth of sound reproduction by using multiple audio channels from speakers that surround the listener (surround channels).

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Sweet Exorcist (band)

Sweet Exorcist were a British music duo consisting of Richard Barratt (DJ Parrot) and Richard H. Kirk.

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SXSW Gaming Awards

The SXSW Gaming Awards were awards given to video games during the annual South by Southwest Festival (SXSW), held in Austin, Texas typically in March of that year.

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Symphonic Game Music Concerts

The Symphonic Game Music Concerts (shortened to: Game Concerts) are a series of award-winning orchestral video game music concerts first performed in 2003 at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany, notable for being the longest running and the first of their kind outside Japan.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Taito

is a Japanese company that specializes in video games, toys, arcade cabinets, and game centers, based in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

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Takeshi Abo

is a Japanese video game composer.

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Tales of Phantasia

is an action role-playing video game developed by Wolf Team and published by Namco for the Super Famicom.

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Techno

Techno is a genre of electronic dance music which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range of 120 to 150 beats per minute (BPM).

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade game)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, released in Japan as and in Europe as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, is a 1989 beat 'em up arcade game released by Konami.

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Tengai Makyō

, also known as Far East of Eden, is a series of role-playing video games released in Japan and Taiwan.

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The Battle for Wesnoth

The Battle for Wesnoth is a free and open-source turn-based strategy video game with a high fantasy setting (similar to J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium), designed by Australian-American developer David White and first released in June 2003.

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The Black Mages

The Black Mages were a Japanese instrumental rock band formed in 2002 by Nobuo Uematsu, Kenichiro Fukui and Tsuyoshi Sekito, who were three video game composers for Square and Square Enix.

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The Game Awards

The Game Awards is an annual awards ceremony honoring achievements in the video game industry.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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The Legend of Zelda (video game)

The Legend of Zelda, originally released in Japan as is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo.

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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Pawn

The Pawn is an interactive fiction game for the Sinclair QL written by Rob Steggles of Magnetic Scrolls and published by Sinclair Research in 1985.

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The Pretenders

The Pretenders are a British-American rock band formed in March 1978.

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The Revenge of Shinobi (1989 video game)

The Revenge of Shinobi, released in Japan as is a hack-and-slash action video game developed and published by Sega in 1989.

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The Wire (magazine)

The Wire (or simply Wire) is a British music magazine publishing out of London, which has been issued monthly in print since 1982.

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Third generation of video game consoles

In the history of video games, the third generation of video game consoles, commonly referred to as the 8-bit era, began on July 15, 1983, with the Japanese release of two systems: Nintendo's Family Computer (commonly abbreviated to Famicom) and Sega's SG-1000.

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Tik Tok (song)

"Tik Tok" (stylized as "TiK ToK" and pronounced as "tick tock") is the debut single by American singer Kesha, who co-wrote the song with its producers Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco.

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Times of Lore

Times of Lore is a 1988 action role-playing game that was developed and published by Origin Systems for several platforms, including PC, Commodore 64/128, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Apple II, NES, and Amiga.

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Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a composition for organ by, according to the oldest sources, German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and is one of the most widely recognisable works in the organ repertoire.

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Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

The, also known as Tokyō (都響), is one of the representative symphony orchestras of Japan.

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon is a series of military tactical shooter video games published by Ubisoft.

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Tommy Tallarico

Thomas Andrew Tallarico (born February 18, 1968) is an American video game music composer, sound designer, and television producer.

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Tomohiro Nishikado

is a Japanese video game developer and engineer.

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Touhou Project

, also known simply as, is a bullet hell shoot 'em up video game series created by independent Japanese ''doujin'' soft developer Team Shanghai Alice.

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Trance music

Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged from EBM in Frankfurt, Germany, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and quickly spread throughout Europe.

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Trent Reznor

Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and composer.

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TurboGrafx-16

The TurboGrafx-16, known as the outside North America, is a home video game console designed by Hudson Soft and sold by NEC Home Electronics.

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Turrican

Turrican is a 1990 video game developed by Manfred Trenz.

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Type-Moon

Type-Moon (stylized as TYPE-MOON) is a Japanese video game company, best known for their visual novels, co-founded by author Kinoko Nasu and illustrator Takashi Takeuchi.

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Ultimate Soundtracker

The Ultimate Soundtracker, or Soundtracker for short, is a music tracker program for the Amiga.

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University of Hertfordshire

The University of Hertfordshire (UH) is a public university in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

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University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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Unreal (1998 video game)

Unreal is a first-person shooter video game developed by Epic MegaGames and Digital Extremes and published by GT Interactive for Microsoft Windows in May 1998.

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Utrecht School of the Arts

The Utrecht School for the Arts (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht) is a performing arts and visual arts educational institution in City of Utrecht, Province of Utrecht, Netherlands.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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VG247

VG247 (previously videogaming247) is a video game blog published in the United Kingdom, founded in February 2008 by industry veteran Patrick Garratt.

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VGMusic.com

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.

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Vib-Ribbon

(stylized vib-ribbon) is a 1999 rhythm video game developed by NanaOn-Sha and published by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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Video Game Orchestra

Video Game Orchestra (VGO) is a Boston-based project that performs its own "rockestral" arrangements of video game music with a rock band, vocals, and orchestra.

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Video Games Live

Video Games Live (VGL) is a concert series created by Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall.

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Visual novel

A visual novel (VN) is a form of digital interactive fiction.

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Walt Disney Concert Hall

The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, California, is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center and was designed by Frank Gehry.

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Warp (record label)

Warp Records (or simply Warp) is a British independent record label founded in Sheffield in 1989 by record store employees Steve Beckett and Rob Mitchell and record producer Robert Gordon.

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Waveform

In electronics, acoustics, and related fields, the waveform of a signal is the shape of its graph as a function of time, independent of its time and magnitude scales and of any displacement in time.

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Wayne State University Press

Wayne State University Press (or WSU Press) is a university press that is part of Wayne State University.

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When They Cry

When They Cry is a Japanese media franchise consisting of visual novel games and adaptations thereof, and may refer to.

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White Zombie (band)

White Zombie was an American heavy metal band that formed in 1985.

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WhoSampled

WhoSampled is a website and app database of information about sampled music or sample-based music, interpolations, cover songs and remixes.

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Wii

The Wii is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.

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Wipeout (video game series)

Wipeout (stylised as wipE′out″ or WipEout) is a series of futuristic anti-gravity racing video games developed by Studio Liverpool (formerly known as Psygnosis).

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Wipeout HD

Wipeout HD is a futuristic racing video game developed by Studio Liverpool and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Xbox (console)

The Xbox is a home video game console manufactured by Microsoft that is the first installment in the Xbox series of video game consoles.

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Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft.

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Xbox network

The Xbox network, formerly known and commonly referred to as Xbox LIVE, is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service created and operated by Microsoft Gaming for the Xbox brand.

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Xenogears

Xenogears is a 1998 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation video game console.

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Xevious

is a vertically scrolling shooter arcade video game developed and published by Namco in 1982.

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Yale University

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Yamaha Corporation

is a Japanese musical instrument and audio equipment manufacturer.

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Yamaha YM2612

The YM2612, a.k.a. OPN2, is a sound chip developed by Yamaha.

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Yasunori Mitsuda

is a Japanese composer and musician.

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Yellow Magic Orchestra

Yellow Magic Orchestra (abbreviated to YMO) was a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals, occasional keyboards) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).

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Yellow Magic Orchestra (album)

Yellow Magic Orchestra is the first official studio album by Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, who were previously known as the Yellow Magic Band.

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Yie Ar Kung-Fu

() is an arcade fighting game developed and published by Konami.

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Yoko Kanno

is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer of soundtracks for anime series, video games, television dramas and movies.

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Ys (series)

() is a series of action role-playing games developed by Nihon Falcom.

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Ys I & II

is an action role-playing game compilation released by Hudson Soft and NEC for the PC Engine CD-ROM² in 1989 and TurboGrafx-CD in 1990.

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Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished

also known as Ys: The Vanished Omens or The Ancient Land of Ys (Japanese title: イース), is a 1987 action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom.

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Yuzo Koshiro

is a Japanese composer and sound programmer.

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3DO Interactive Multiplayer

The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, also referred to as simply 3DO, is a home video game console developed by The 3DO Company.

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53rd Annual Grammy Awards

The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 13, 2011, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

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64th Annual Grammy Awards

The 64th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on April 3, 2022.

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7.1 surround sound

7.1 surround sound is the common name for an eight-channel surround audio system commonly used in home theatre configurations.

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8 Bit Weapon

8 Bit Weapon is an American chiptune music band formed in Ventura County, California, by Seth and Michelle Sternberger.

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See also

Video game design

• 3D modeling
• Adaptive music
• Always-on DRM
• Bushnell's Law
• Buy-to-play
• CG artist
• Console (computer games)
• Context-sensitive user interface
• Elemental tetrad
• Emergent gameplay
• Free-to-play
• Game accessibility
• Game art design
• Game design document
• Game feel
• Game mechanics
• Gameplay
• Hexany Audio
• Input lag
• Interactive narrative
• Loading screen
• Loot box
• MDA framework
• Narrative of video games
• Procedural generation
• QA & UX Manager
• Scrolling
• Second screen
• Sound test
• Toys-to-life
• Types of fiction with multiple endings
• User-generated content
• Video game design
• Video game graphics
• Video game music
• Video game writing

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_music

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