Video game music. History[edit] Early video game technology and computer chip music[edit] While this allowed for inclusion of music in early arcade video games, it was usually monophonic, looped or used sparingly between stages or at the start of a new game, such as the Namco titles Pac-Man (1980) composed by Toshio Kai or Pole Position (1982) composed by Nobuyuki Ohnogi.[6] The first game to use a continuous background soundtrack was Tomohiro Nishikado's Space Invaders, released by Taito in 1978.
Konami's 1981 arcade game Frogger introduced a dynamic approach to video game music, using at least eleven different gameplay tracks, in addition to level-starting and game over themes, which change according to the player's actions. Home console systems also had a comparable upgrade in sound ability beginning with the ColecoVision in 1982 capable of four channels. VGMusic - 30,519 Game Music MIDI files. OverClocked ReMix - Video Game Music Community. RPG Music – Listen to Video Game Music and OST Soundtracks.