Style: Video game music
Primary Emotions/Themes: zug zug, work complete
Thoughts: Before Blizzard became the mega game corp that it is today. Before they became a profit seeking public traded company with a toxic work culture, they were a small studio that just so happened to release some of the finest strategy games that the world has ever seen.
Warcraft 2 was my first exposure to Blizzard games. This game drove me insane, trying to figure out the best way of winning each scenario with the resources given. Not an easy task. I didn't know of the fabled cheat codes on my first playthrough so I had to do this the way the game was intended to play... and they intended you to do a lot of trial and error.
As I forayed my way through all these scenarios I found myself captivated by the music. This was a CD based game so I would often take the CD out and listen to it on my own after skipping the first track. These songs were stuck in my head with their epic keyboard melodies, as my orcs and humans marched down the fields to battle each other.
This was also the first bootleg record that I ever owned. I traded one of my now good friends for this and even though I don't listen to it as often as I should, it has a permanent place in my collection.
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