Clay Johnson, CEO of global B2B licensing company Music Dealers, shares a potted history of music in video games and explains its role and increasing importance in the gaming world:

The song is called Area 1, and it represents my childhood as much as hide-and-seek and Saturday morning cartoons. A rapid 8-bit snare drum keeps time in this militaristic anthem while a fife encourages the rogue gunman onward. No, I was not a child soldier of some underground war, but ...