DOS Games: The Legendary Bobby Prince

Last week, I had a hankering to get some new arrangements done, and I was surfing Youtube ideas for new tunes to arrange; after listening to music from more widely known titles (Castlevania, Mario Kart, etc) I randomly thought of the games I had played when I was a kid, the really old stuff for DOS computers. My dad had a whole CD of free or shareware games, and my siblings and I played them endlessly. I Youtubed one of them, which I barely remembered was called "Bio Menace." It was like stepping back into my childhood, hearing and remembering the catchy tunes from fifteen years ago! I spent a good afternoon on Youtube, looking up other games, and discovered two things: 1) My dad's CD was almost entirely made up of Apogee games, and 2) THE SAME GUY wrote the music for almost ALL of the games I had played! Bio Menace, Word Rescue, Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, Doom, Wolfenstein, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure...the list goes on and on. Bobby Prince was his name, and man was he a talent. His compositional voice varies so much from game to game, it truly amazed me to find out that he had scored all of these games! I hope I meet him someday; his music is truly the voice of my childhood.

Enjoy the new arrangements for Duke Nukem II, Word Rescue and Bio Menace! More are on the way!