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How 8-Bit sounds became iconic

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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The Sound Design of the PC Gamer

With the commodore 64, they had what they calld a the sid ship that produced the music. Different revisions of that ship came out every few years. If you were to take two machines running the exact same game, you could actually hear that the sound was a little bit different on each machine. Then in the mid eighties, when you playd the system with the most star cade case, you're playing with power, but intentointe tigment system. That's zachare again. Those three for me, on the original ans, were like, wo this is, this is actual theme and its iconic sound design. I asked him, as a sound designer

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