Rob Hubbard

Rob Hubbard ( born 1955 in Kingston upon Hull, England) is one of the most famous computer game musicians.

In the 1970s, he was a studio musician. In the self-study, he acquired knowledge of the BASIC programming language and machine code programming. Hubbard developed a music education software and wrote for Gremlin Graphics first music for computer games. From 1984 to 1988, he worked as a freelance computer musician, and from 1988 to 2001, he worked as an Audio Technical Director at Electronic Arts.

Hubbard is best known for the production of computer game soundtracks ( "Chip Tunes" ) for the Commodore 64 sound chip SID. Some pieces were written for CPC, Atari ST and Amiga. The compositions are applied to support the atmosphere of the game. For the background sound of a game he needed by its own account about a week, with deadlines in individual cases only 1-2 days.

Sometimes Rob Hubbard occurs even on live, for example in 2003 in Brighton at an event the event series " Back in Time " in front of about 500 retro fans. 2005 came his music from International Karate on the third Game Music Concert in Leipzig performance. Rob Hubbard was present and made ​​the following autographs.

Games with music by Rob Hubbard (selection)

  • ACE II ( 1987)
  • Action Biker (1985 )
  • Goodbye Monty (1987 )
  • BMX Kidz (1987 )
  • Bump Set Spike (1986 )
  • Commando (1985 )
  • Crazy Comets
  • Delta (1987, inspired by Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon and the music of Philip Glass from the film Koyaanisqatsi )
  • Dragon's Lair II ( 1987)
  • Flash Gordon ( 1986)
  • Hard Nova (1990 )
  • Human Race (1986 )
  • I- Ball ( 1987)
  • International Karate Plus ( 1987)
  • International Karate (1986 )
  • Last V8 ( 1985)
  • Light Force (1986 )
  • Master of Magic (1985, a cover version of the track " Shibolet " of 1981 by Larry Fast )
  • Monty on the Run (1985 )
  • Nemesis the Warlock ( 1986)
  • One Man and His Droid (1985 )
  • Thing on a Spring ( 1985)
  • Samantha Fox Strip Poker (1986 )
  • Skate or Die! (1987)
  • Spellbound (1986 )
  • Thrust (1986 )
  • Warhawk (1986 )
  • Zoids (1986, a cover version of the track " Ancestors " from 1981 by Larry Fast )
Gremlin Interactive Commando (video game) Master of Magic (1985 video game) MobyGames
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