Feature: “He Is Truly One Of A Kind” – A Celebration Of Nobuo Uematsu, The Maestro Of Video Game Music

“For me, in a way, he’s the best music teacher there is”.

I first heard Nobuo Uematsu’s music in 1997, when I was only five. To give you some background, I was standing in the hallway of my childhood home when my older brothers excitedly darted down the stairs, about to head to the nearest video game store to buy a mysterious new role-playing game they had read about: Final Fantasy VII.

Like many kids in the UK, I didn’t know what a “Final Fantasy” was (only a small handful of the previous games had been released in the PAL region). But I could tell from the excitement in their voices that, whatever it was, it was something special that I didn’t want to miss out on. So, as all annoying younger brothers do, as soon as they got home from the shop, I hounded them to let me sit in the room as they loaded the game into the PlayStation disc tray.

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“For me, in a way, he’s the best music teacher there is”.

I first heard Nobuo Uematsu’s music in 1997, when I was only five. To give you some background, I was standing in the hallway of my childhood home when my older brothers excitedly darted down the stairs, about to head to the nearest video game store to buy a mysterious new role-playing game they had read about: Final Fantasy VII.

Like many kids in the UK, I didn’t know what a “Final Fantasy” was (only a small handful of the previous games had been released in the PAL region). But I could tell from the excitement in their voices that, whatever it was, it was something special that I didn’t want to miss out on. So, as all annoying younger brothers do, as soon as they got home from the shop, I hounded them to let me sit in the room as they loaded the game into the PlayStation disc tray.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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