Games composer Richard Joseph passes away

Posted Mar 5, 2007 at 6:28AM by QJ Staff Listed in: News, Titles Tags: BAFTA, Richard Joseph

Richard Joseph. Taken from http://www.remix64.com/images/gallery/bitlive/richard_joseph_2.jpg - Image 1

It's another sad day for gaming, folks, as yet another games sound composer has passed away. Euro Gamer reports that Richard Joseph, one of the industry's pioneers, passed away just yesterday after a brief battle with lung cancer. He was 53.

Richard Joseph was a legend in the gaming industry, with over 20 years in the business. He's known as one of the earliest users of real voices in games, as well as being noted for being one of the first users of interactive music in games. Joseph also won an award for Best Audio from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) for his audio in Theme Park World, a feat which, to date, hasn't been repeated by a small-format soundtrack.

Suffice it to say that he was a big part of gaming when our parents were gamers, and remained a faithful mainstay of gaming music till his untimely passing. Gamers, let's give him a heartfelt salute, for he shall be missed by all who heard music in games.

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# R.I.P Mate — Guest 2007-03-05 01:37

Sad, Rest In Peace Buddy.

# Ah, that sucks... — Guest 2007-03-05 02:12

That really sucks. Theme Park World was an amazing game, too. A sad loss.

R.I.P.

# FIRST~~~~~ — Guest 2007-03-05 02:38

FIRST MOFO TO SAY FIRST!!!!! +D

# :( — Guest 2007-03-05 02:47

What a loss, and at that age too :(.

# Hmmm — Guest 2007-03-05 03:48

A think your mistaken, a posted 1st and if ur gonna post bs dont post at all right? :)

# lol — Guest 2007-03-05 06:04

lol just ignore me.. im gay *****got ;) you rox

# a sad time — stephenb5203 2007-03-05 08:33

Chaos engine and speedball 2 had some of the best music ever. A great talent who will be sadly missed.

# Very sad — Guest 2007-03-05 10:25

Oh man this is so sad. I always liked his music, going all the way back to C64.

# Cauldron II — Guest 2007-03-05 10:42

That is a Great tune! Playing it right now.. Sad...

RIP man.

# cannon fodder — Guest 2007-03-05 11:11

that soundtrack owned, and his picture was on the openening.

# RIP — Shatterdome 2007-03-05 12:39

Yeah it really saddens me when something like cancer takes a brilliant soul.

I'd like to think it's natures way of culling the heard and that possibly useful creatures would be left out, but it doesn't seem to be the case....

Of course artists have to smoke like crazy....

# Listened to it earlier today... — Guest 2007-03-05 18:49

I loaded up CF in UAE, the Amiga emulator, and watched the intro then sat and listened to that awesome music on the main screen with a tear in my eye.

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