A few decades ago, the idea of using video game music to test out a pair of headphones, your desktop audio system or to see whether or not your new hi-fi system was worth the gaping hole left in your pocket would have seemed laughable.
After all, at a time when composers such as John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith and Ennio Morricone were working on some of the most recognisable themes for the biggest films of the time, video games were still using primitive chiptune technology to squeeze out a few primitive bleeps and bloops to accompany an arcade-bound session of Space Invaders or Pac-Man.
