What was the first time travel role-playing video game in the series that eventually included music by the man sometimes referred to as the "Beethoven of video games music"?
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Music of Chrono Trigger The "Chrono" series is a video game franchise developed and published by Square Enix (formerly Square). It began in 1995 with the time travel role-playing video game "Chrono Trigger", which spawned two continuations, "Radical Dreamers" and "Chrono Cross". The music of "Chrono Trigger" was mainly composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, with a few tracks composed by regular "Final Fantasy" composer Nobuo Uematsu. The "Chrono Trigger" soundtrack has inspired four official album releases by Square Enix: a soundtrack album in released by NTT Publishing in 1995 and re-released in 2004, a greatest hits album published by DigiCube in 1999, published in abbreviated form by Tokyopop in 2001, and republished by Square Enix in 2005, an acid jazz arrangement album published and republished by NTT Publishing in 1995 and 2004, and a 2008 orchestral arranged album by Square Enix. Corresponding with the Nintendo DS release of the game, a reissued soundtrack was released in 2009. An arranged album for "Chrono Trigger" and "Chrono Cross", entitled "To Far Away Times", was released in 2015 to commemorate the 20 year anniversary of "Chrono Trigger".
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Nobuo Uematsu Nobuo Uematsu (植松 伸夫 , Uematsu Nobuo , born March 21, 1959) is a Japanese video game composer, best known for scoring most of the titles in the "Final Fantasy" series by Square Enix. He is considered to be one of the most well known composers in the video game industry. Sometimes referred to as the "Beethoven of video games music", he appeared five times in the top 20 of the annual Classic FM Hall of Fame.
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Early history of video games The history of video games spans a period of time between the invention of the first electronic games and today, covering a long period of invention and changes. Video gaming would not reach mainstream popularity until the 1970s and 1980s, when arcade video games, gaming consoles and home computer games were introduced to the general public. Since then, video gaming has become a popular form of entertainment and a part of modern culture in most parts of the world. The early history of video games, therefore, covers the period of time between the first interactive electronic game with an electronic display in 1947, the first true video games in the early 1950s, and the rise of early arcade video games in the 1970s ("Pong" and the beginning of the first generation of video game consoles with the Magnavox Odyssey, both in 1972). During this time there were a wide range of devices and inventions corresponding with large advances in computing technology, and the actual first video game is dependent on the definition of "video game" used.
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Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, first released in 1985 for the Apple II, is the fourth in the series of "Ultima" role-playing video games. It is the first in the "Age of Enlightenment" trilogy, shifting the series from the hack and slash, dungeon crawl gameplay of its "Age of Darkness" predecessors towards an ethically-nuanced, story-driven approach. In 1996 "Computer Gaming World" named "Ultima IV" as #2 on its Best Games of All Time list on the PC. Designer Richard Garriott considers this game to be among his favorites from the "Ultima" series.
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Chrono (series) The Chrono (Japanese: クロノ ) series is a video game franchise developed and published by Square, and is currently owned by Square Enix. The series began in 1995 with the time travel role-playing video game "Chrono Trigger", which spawned two continuations, "", and "Chrono Cross". A promotional anime called "Dimensional Adventure Numa Monjar" and two ports of "Chrono Trigger" were also produced. As of March 31, 2003, "Chrono Trigger" was Square Enix's 12th best-selling game, with 2.65 million units shipped. "Chrono Cross" was the 24th, with 1.5 million units. By March 2011, the two games sold over 5.3 million units combined. The games in the series have been called some of the greatest of all time, with most of the praise going towards "Chrono Trigger". The series' original soundtracks, composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, have also been praised, with multiple soundtracks being released for them.
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Shadow Hearts Shadow Hearts (シャドウハーツ , Shadōhātsu ) is a 2001 role-playing video game developed by Sacnoth and published by Aruze in Japan and worldwide by Midway. It is the first official game in the "Shadow Hearts" series and is the sequel to "Koudelka". "Shadow Hearts" follows the adventures of Yuri Hyuga, a Harmonixer guided by a mysterious voice in his head. He finds himself thrown into the conflicts prior to World War I where he must save the world and the woman he loves from destruction.
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Unlimited Saga Unlimited Saga (アンリミテッド:サガ ) is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation 2 as the ninth game in their "SaGa" series. Originally released in Japan in December 2002, the game was later made available for North American players in June 2003 and in Europe the following October. The game was designed by series veteran Akitoshi Kawazu who is given a byline on the cover of the game's packaging, with music composed by Masashi Hamauzu who had previously provided the soundtrack for the game's predecessor, "SaGa Frontier 2". A special limited collector's edition was made available exclusively in Japan and was released alongside the regular edition.
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Traveller (role-playing game) Traveller is a series of related science fiction role-playing games, the first published in 1977 by Game Designers' Workshop. Marc W. Miller designed "Traveller" with help from Frank Chadwick, John Harshman, and Loren K. Wiseman.
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Alucard (Castlevania) Adrian Fahrenheit Ţepeş (アドリアン・ファーレンハイツ・ツェペシュ , Adorian Fārenhaitsu Tsepeshu ) , better known as Alucard (アルカード , Arukādo ) , is a character in Konami's "Castlevania" series of video games. His first appearance in the series was in the 1989 game "", but he is best known for his role in the critically acclaimed "", released in 1997. His design in "Symphony of the Night" was created by Ayami Kojima, marking her first contribution to the "Castlevania" franchise.
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Chronos Twins Chronos Twins is an action-adventure game released in Europe on October 12, 2007. It was also released in North America on January 18, 2010 and in Europe on May 14, 2010 as a download for the Nintendo DSi system. The game puts a different perspective on time travel than most games. Instead of revisiting an area in two different times, both screens show the same setting during two eras as gamers explore the land with a present-day hero. Chronos Twins was originally planned for release for Game Boy Advance, but after the rise of the Nintendo DS, the game's development switched to that system. An enhanced version for the Wii console entitled Chronos Twins DX was released in North America as a WiiWare download one week prior to the Nintendo DSi release. It was later released in the PAL region for WiiWare on April 2, 2010.
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Beethoven (I Love to Listen To) "Beethoven (I Love to Listen To)" is a song by the British pop music duo Eurythmics, released in October 1987 as the first single (in the UK) from their seventh album, "Savage".
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Music from the Lonely Planet Music from the Lonely Planet, which was later released as Globe Trekker: Ambient Journeys, is a collection of world music from the titular series.
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Cruise Chaser Blassty Cruise Chaser Blassty (Japanese: クルーズチェイサーブラスティー , Hepburn: Kurūzu Cheisā Burasutī ) is a science fiction role-playing video game developed by Square for various Japanese computers, including the NEC PC-8801, PC-9801, and Sharp X1. The game featured mecha originally designed by Mika Akitaka and musical contributions by Nobuo Uematsu, being the very first video game he wrote music for. The game had an unusual battle system, which involved the player controlling a customizable mecha robot from a first-person view. It followed a group of young people from Earth caught up in a war between a solar-system spanning government and a group of rebels. After release, the game's story was adapted to a manga and serialized, then released as a pair of standalone books. The manga received a sequel, though the game itself did not.
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Grandia: Digital Museum Grandia: Digital Museum (グランディア ～デジタルミュージアム～ , Gurandia Dejitaru Myuziamu ) is a role-playing video game developed by Game Arts and published by ESP Software for the Sega Saturn. Released exclusively in Japan in May 1998, the game is a spin-off of the company's first "Grandia" title, and is designed to be more of an extension of the original than an independent game, featuring character graphics, textures, and music lifted directly from its predecessor. Players can also swap save data between the two games on the Saturn memory card.
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Music of Xenosaga The "Xenosaga" (ゼノサーガ ) series is a series of science fiction role-playing video games developed by Monolith Soft and published by Namco Bandai on the PlayStation 2. The series began with the 2002 release of "Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht", which was followed in 2004 by "Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse" and in 2006 by "Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra". The music of "Xenosaga" includes the soundtracks to all three chapters, as well as the music for its spin-off media. These include "Xenosaga Freaks", a set of minigames set between the first two chapters, "Xenosaga I & II", a Nintendo DS remake of the first two chapters, and "Xenosaga: The Animation", an anime series covering the events of the first game. "Episode I" was composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, "Episode II" was split between Yuki Kajiura and Shinji Hosoe, and "Episode III" was composed by Kajiura alone. "Xenosaga Freaks" reused some of the music of "Episode I" by Mitsuda while also including new work by Satoru Kousaki and Hiroshi Ohkubo, while "Xenosaga I & II" and "Xenosaga: The Animation" used new pieces composed by Kousuke Yamashita.
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Music of the Final Fantasy VII series "Final Fantasy VII" is a role-playing video game developed by Square (now Square Enix) and published by Sony Computer Entertainment as the seventh installment in the "Final Fantasy" series. Released in 1997, the game sparked the release of a collection of media centered on the game entitled the "Compilation of Final Fantasy VII". The music of the "Final Fantasy VII" series includes not only the soundtrack to the original game and its associated albums, but also the soundtracks and music albums released for the other titles in the collection. The first album produced was "Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack", a compilation of all the music in the game. It was released as a soundtrack album on four CDs by DigiCube in 1997. A selection of tracks from the album was released in the single-disc "Reunion Tracks" by DigiCube the same year. "Piano Collections Final Fantasy VII", an album featuring piano arrangements of pieces from the soundtrack, was released in 2003 by DigiCube, and Square Enix began reprinting all three albums in 2004. To date, these are the only released albums based on the original game's soundtrack, and were solely composed by regular series composer Nobuo Uematsu; his role for the majority of subsequent albums has been filled by Masashi Hamauzu and Takeharu Ishimoto.
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Retro Force Retro Force is a Shoot-'em up game that is published and developed by Psygnosis Ltd. It is set to be based in the future where 4 brave pilots must travel back in time in order to bring back the lost pieces of the holy artifact, "Retro Force" was released on March 1999 which is only released in Europe, The soundtrack to the game was composed By Gary Mckill.
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The King of Dragons The King of Dragons (Japanese: ザ・キングオブドラゴンズ ) is a 1991 side-scrolling hack and slash video game by Capcom that allows players to choose from five characters in order to travel through the kingdom of Malus and defeat the monsters that have taken over, as well as their leader, the red dragon Gildiss. It features a level advancement system, allowing character attributes to be upgraded as players progress through the game. The setting is very similar to that of "Dungeons & Dragons" and other medieval fantasy worlds, with familiar monsters such as Orcs, Gnolls, Harpies, Wyverns, Cyclopes, and Minotaurs. The music in this game was composed by Yoko Shimomura.
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Just Dance (video game series) Just Dance is a rhythm game series developed and published by Ubisoft. The series' title is derived from the Lady Gaga song of the same name, which also appears in the fifth game. The first game in the series was released in 2009 in North America, Europe, and Australia.
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Alice in Wonderland (2010 video game) Alice in Wonderland is an action-adventure video game published by Disney Interactive Studios. It was announced on July 23, 2009, that a video game based on the film would be released in the same week as the film for the Wii, Nintendo DS, Windows PC and Zeebo, with the soundtrack being composed by video game music composer Richard Jacques. The Wii, DS, and PC versions were released on March 2, 2010.
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Commander Keen Commander Keen is a series of side-scrolling platform video games developed primarily by id Software. The series consists of six main episodes, a "lost" episode, and a final game; all but the final game were originally released for MS-DOS in 1990 and 1991, while the 2001 "Commander Keen" was released for the Game Boy Color. The series follows the titular Commander Keen, the secret identity of the eight-year-old genius Billy Blaze, as he defends the Earth and the galaxy from alien threats with his homemade spaceship, rayguns, and pogo stick. The first three episodes were developed by Ideas from the Deep, the precursor to id, and published by Apogee Software as the shareware title "Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons"; the "lost" episode 3.5 "Commander Keen in Keen Dreams" was developed by id and published as a retail title by Softdisk; episodes four and five were released by Apogee as the shareware "Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy"; and the simultaneously developed episode six was published in retail by FormGen as "Commander Keen in Aliens Ate My Babysitter". Ten years later, a homage and sequel to the series was developed by David A. Palmer Productions and published by Activision as "Commander Keen".
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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. The original Final Fantasy video game, published in 1987, is a role-playing video game developed by Square, spawning a video game series that became the central focus of the franchise. The primary composer of music for the main series was Nobuo Uematsu, who single-handedly composed the soundtracks for the first nine games, as well as directing the production of many of the soundtrack albums. Music for the spin-off series and main series games beginning with "Final Fantasy X" was created by a variety of composers including Masashi Hamauzu, Naoshi Mizuta, Hitoshi Sakimoto, and Kumi Tanioka, as well as many others.