Tony Reed

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Profile - The Master Of Micro Music
- By Tony Reed
- Published 11/20/2006
- Rob Hubbard
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IT'S NOT original to remark upon a similarity between the world of top games programmers and the world of pop music - both with their charts, their overnight success stories, and their sudden failures. But the particular case of Rob Hubbard fits the cliche better than most. Uniquely amongst UK programmers, he has made his name, not through writing the next big thing in platform/arcade/adventures, but in writing the music accompanying them. And what music it is: on bestsellers like Gremlin's Monty on the Run,
on Commando from Elite, or Martech's Crazy Comets, the 64's poor little
3-voice SID chip suddently brings forth great-sounding 5 or 6-part,
original music, doing things you never thought it could.