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For my example I chose to show sound design for games. I remember back in the day the amazing music on the old C64's. One track which I loved more than the others was from the game Myth. I was unable to find any of the original music for this game, but there are a few remixes floating around, including a performance of many other C64 songs by the C64 orchestra, scored by Rob Hubbard himself.

This is a video of the game itself with a remix of the original song.

And this is the live performance of several other C64 songs.

To me the music is very reminiscent of these old games. In any of todays games you would rarely hear soundtracks as amazing as this. For their times the songs were also quite different from common songs, as obviously it sounds more like a classical song, yet in the game it is performed with that 'electronic' 8-bit sound, which gives it a mix between electronica and classical, which is definitely a trademark of older games.