VIDEOGAME TUNES: EUROPE’S LATEST MUSICAL TREND

VIDEOGAME TUNES: EUROPE’S LATEST MUSICAL TREND



HELSINKI, Finland (Wireless Flash) – The future of music may be found in video arcade games? That’s the claim of a video music archivist in Helsinki, Finland, who considers the tunes found on old Commodore 64 computer games are equal to classical music. Harri Granholm runs kohina.com, a website that plays videogame tunes 24 hours a day and he says a lot of music written for arcade games stands on its own. Some of the games that have especially good music include Ghosts ’N’ Goblins and Commando but Granholm says the “Beethoven of Bytes” is composer Ron Hubbard, who wrote the musical themes to games like Zoids, Crazy Comets and Warhawk. Amazingly, cheesy videogame soundtracks are becoming so popular in Finland, that some nightclubs play nothing but the techno toy tunes.

Thu 05-03-01