Prom 21 – Gaming Prom: From 8-Bit to Infinity

Part of the BBC Proms.

Like the film industry before it, gaming has inspired a whole wave of composers who have created new sound-worlds to match the medium’s ever more richly imagined visual realms. Returning after his Pioneers of Sound and sci-fi film music Proms, Robert Ames conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for the first-ever Gaming Prom. The Royal Albert Hall is transformed into a vast sonic chamber in a mini history of gaming, from classic console titles of the 1980s to the latest release in the Battlefield franchise.