Right, so there I was last weekend, digging through a box of cartridges my mate Dave gave me when he moved house—you know how it is, "here, take this lot before my missus makes me chuck them out." Most of it was the usual suspects: Sonic, Streets of Rage, couple of FIFA games with players who've been retired for twenty years. But tucked underneath a loose copy of Road Rash was this odd little cart…
The first time video game music made me cry was listening to the ending of Final Fantasy VI on my Genesis. Okay, Final Fantasy VI was only on SNES and this was my American imported Genesis, but you get the point. I believe I was 16 years old. It was 3 am on a school night, and I had finally finished the beast of a game that was 70 hours long. As the credits played…