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What鈥檚 your favourite song from a video game?
If you鈥檙e a gamer it鈥檚 an easy question to answer. Heck, you can probably name several.
But it wasn鈥檛 always as easy as that.
In the 8-bit era, music wasn鈥檛 always a strong point in games.
Rob Hubbard is one of the pioneers who changed all that.
A musician by trade, Rob learned to code in the 1980s in the hope of developing educational software which he thought would be the next big thing.
That of course wasn鈥檛 the case, and he ended up trying his hand at making a video game. The title wasn鈥檛 ever released but he says the people who saw it said the gameplay was poor. But the music? That blew them away.
This sparked an incredible career spanning decades. Rob reached out to every game company he could find to see if he could develop tunes for them.
He鈥檚 behind iconic tracks on titles like Skate or Die, International Karate, Desert Strike and Road Rash.
These days he鈥檚 semi-retired but still lives a very active musical life. He鈥檚 held in high regard by the jazz community in his native Yorkshire and has inspired a new generation of musicians who鈥檝e come to his music through games.
