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AMIGA & C64 Music Book Reaches Kickstarter Target

by on January 5, 2015
 

Here is a story we don’t see crop up very often. A kickstarter campaign with a target of $10,000 has smashed its funding target in just 66 minutes, and now stands at a massive $66,000. Nostalgia is a powerful thing, no more so when that nostalgia is provided by music. Video game music in particular has a way of grabbing the attention of long time gamers, taking them back to a time when a given tune accompanied a game they played for hours on end, long ago.

Gamer nostalgia seems to have powered this particular score-book Kickstarter project to success, with C64 and AMIGA composer Chris Huelsbeck penning some of his most well known songs to paper. “The Piano Collection” contains piano arrangements of the best known Huelsbeck classics from C64 and Amiga, played by pianist and Huelsbeck fan Patrick Nevian (Germany). Scores confirmed so far to be featured within the book include The Great Giana Sisters (Medley), R-Type Theme and Apidya. The book (or eBook) will ship with a CD or digital download.

Check out the Kickstarter page for more information, if you are interested, and be sure to give one of the included tracks a listen, below, it’s an R-Type classic!