Some gaming memories are written in pencil, easily smudged or erased. Some are written in pen. The music for GoldenEye on the Nintendo 64, at least for me, has been carved in marble. And now you can hear what the music sounds like with no compression, before it was hacked down a bit to fit onto a 12 MB cartridge.
Pretty amazing, huh?
This video is likely taken from files that have long been hosted on composer Grant Kirkhope's page, and he offers some thoughts on the game's score:
"When I first got [to Rare] in October 1995 I was put to work on the Donkey Kong 2 conversion from SNES to Gameboy. I got this out of the way quite quickly and was then asked if I’d like to help out on GoldenEye as Graeme Norgate was doing Blast Corps at...
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