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Dave Warhol needed thirty seconds of music for ice-skating penguins. Two voices. George Sanger got out his guitar and four-track recorder, tried bass lines until one sounded like penguins, then worked on a melody that sounded like skating. He wrote the result out by hand and passed it to Warhol to put into Thin Ice. That was 1983. Sanger, known to game-music fans as The Fat Man, would go on to work… Read more

Change characters in the NES version of Maniac Mansion and you change the music. The mansion is still a terrible place to spend an evening, but now the teenager you have sent into it has brought a different record collection. Bernard gets twitchy electronic energy. Razor gets something with teeth. A few rooms, a few verbs and a handful of little sprites become a house full of personalities. You can spend an… Read more