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Journey: A Game Composer's Guide

This is the opening track from composer Austin Wintorey's unbelievable Grammy award-winning soundtrack for the 2012 game Journey. Now those are real human beings playing real instruments with all the expressiveness of actual human beings. And that's because due to modern hardware it was possible for them to have a lot of space for the game's files. Back in the 8-bit days in the 1980s when the Nintendo Entertainment System, which I'll just call the NES from here on out, when the NES first came out there was not a lot ofspace for games on each game cartridge.

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