Review Fix Exclusive: Dren McDonald Talks About Why Video Game Music Matters

February 6, 2014 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music, Video Games 0

Review Fix chats with Bay Area composer Dren McDonald about why video game music matters. His classic video game music album, “The String Arcade.” Reimagined for the a string quartet, McDonald puts a cool twist on some of your favorite gamer tunes. “The String Arcade” spans a few decades in video game history, from stand-up arcade classics (Galaga, TRON), through the 8- and 16-bit eras (Legend of Zelda, Sonic the Hedgehog, Altered Beast, Ecco the Dolphin) and the golden age of 1990s adventures (Monkey Island 2, Outlaws), to more recent hits (Portal 2, Minecraft), indie favorites (FTL — Faster Than Light, Scurvy Scallywags), and mobile/social games (graBLOX, Pettington Park, Ravenshire Castle).

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Review Fix Exclusive: Dren McDonald Talks About Why Video Game Music Matters

Check out a sample track from his new album below:

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is the Founder, Editor-in-Chief, Master Jedi and Grand Pooh-bah of ReviewFix.com and is the author of the book, "The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews with Cult and Classic Video Game Developers," from leading academic and non-fiction publisher McFarland and Company. He is currently the Assistant Director of the Journalism Program at Kingsborough Community College and is a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and a National Video Games Writer at the late Examiner.com. He has also had articles and photos published in The New York Times, The New York Daily News, Complex and The Syracuse Post-Standard. Love him. Read him.

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