Hi.

I apologize if this is the wrong section, but I had a question. I'm doing a presentation on Music in Video Games in one of my classes; and I wanted to know, what was the first game that had an orchestral score? I tried searching this up, and I found this page. If you scroll down, it says,

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[font="Tahoma, Arial, Geneva"][size="4"]The Hitmen of Budapest[/font]
[font="Tahoma, Arial, Geneva"][size="4"]The popular Hitman series from Io Interactive launched in 2000, bringing stealthy third-person assassination fun to the whole family. Io initiated what has since become an increasingly popular practice: commissioning an entire orchestra to score the action--in this case, the Budapest Symphony Orchestra.[/font][font="Tahoma, Arial, Geneva"] [/font][/quote]


Is the bolded accurate? If not, could someone tell me which is the first game that used an orchestra for its music?

The score to Outcast by Lennie Moore is sometimes listed as the "first videogame with a full orchestra' That was 1999.

http://en.wikipedia....st_(video_game)

Lennie himself isn't willing to go that far.. It's also hard to define precisely.

Madden '97 used 100% live musicians for the main theme, but it wasnt' an 'orchestra' and wasn't a "score" in the sense that it didn't play while the game was being played..


Brian Schmidt

Executive Director, GameSoundCon

www.GameSoundCon.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Schyman
Game Voyeur (1993)

The developers of Heart of Darkness stated in the making-of video that it was the first video game to have a full orchestral score, composed and conducted by Bruce Broughton.

The score to Outcast by Lennie Moore is sometimes listed as the "first videogame with a full orchestra' That was 1999.

http://en.wikipedia....st_(video_game)

Lennie himself isn't willing to go that far.. It's also hard to define precisely.

Madden '97 used 100% live musicians for the main theme, but it wasnt' an 'orchestra' and wasn't a "score" in the sense that it didn't play while the game was being played..


Brian Schmidt

Executive Director, GameSoundCon

www.GameSoundCon.com

So it's only a score if the music plays during the gameplay?