I Sanger, That Is To Say I Songed Her (October 25, 2005)

[Bandit LOAF]

St3lt3k reports that Music4Games conducted a new interview with George "The Fatman" Sanger, the man responsible for the original two Wing Commander soundtracks. The entire interview can be found here.

Music4Games: What was the project which caused you to "break through" into a career in game music?

George Sanger: 1983: Thin Ice for Intellivision, then Wing Commander, and then The 7th Guest. Each was a breakthrough to a new level.

... Usually the composer just falls back on copying the style of somebody whose music the client likes. If that's exciting to the musician (as it was to Team Fat when we were the first to imitate John Williams for the game Wing Commander) then that's kind of cool. But that's not enough, you have to do something noble, something elevating, something beautiful, within that context.

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Original update published on October 25, 2005

 

[Mjr. Whoopass]

Wow, he did thin ice for Intellivision, I remember that. I was about 5 years old. I think it had penguins that skated around in squares. When you made a square, the ice fell into the water- the goal of course being to knock the other player into the water.. fun game and I remember it had some wild catchy music.