R.I.P. Richard Joseph

Posted by Cybergoth, 13 March 2007 · 9 views

Hi there!

Richard Joseph, one of the most famous computer game musicians died on 4th March 2007 :sad:

From his early C64 tunes for Palace, over his Amiga work for Sensible Software, the Bitmap Brothers and many more, up to Oblivion in 2006 - it's impossible that one hasn't heard some of his compositions while playing video games.

To get an overview of his impressive lifework check out his Rap-Sheet at Mobygames.

Greetings,
Manuel

LarcenTyler
Mar 13 2007 10:04 AM

May not have been well known to a lot of people, but still a great contributor. Nonetheless, he will be missed.

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Mezrabad
Mar 14 2007 8:55 PM

What shocks me is that I haven't played a single one of the games for which he's written music, though Oblivion is at the top of my "most wanted".

Quite a rapsheet on Moby. It sucks when the industry loses a talent (not to mention families losing a loved one), but that's a pretty impressive legacy. Looks like he got to do a lot of what he probably enjoyed.

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Cybergoth
Mar 15 2007 2:04 AM

Mezrabad, on Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:55 AM, said:

What shocks me is that I haven't played a single one of the games for which he's written music, though Oblivion is at the top of my "most wanted".

He did a lot more, the moby list is a good start though.

Here's a more complete list of his Amiga works for example:
http://www.exotica.o...ard_Joseph.html

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SpiceWare
Mar 15 2007 8:18 AM

I've played The Chaos Engine, Gods and Speedball 2.

Wizkid - The Story of Wizball II?!? didn't know there was a sequel to Wizball.

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Cybergoth
Mar 15 2007 8:33 AM

SpiceWare, on Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:18 PM, said:

Wizkid - The Story of Wizball II?!? didn't know there was a sequel to Wizball.

It's got almost nothing to do with Wizball unfortunately. It's not even a shoot 'em up! I only played it for like 10 minutes, it seemed to be some kind of strangely mutated Breakout