Martin Galway

Martin Galway (born 3 January 1966,[1] Belfast, Northern Ireland) is one of the best known composers of chiptune video game music for the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum.

His works include Rambo: First Blood Part II, Comic Bakery and Wizball's scores, as well as the music used in the loader for the C64 version of Arkanoid.

Galway was the first musician to get published with sampled sounds on the Commodore, with the theme for the Arkanoid conversion.

... After the project was in the shops I gained access to some real drum samples, and I slid those into my own custom version of the tune.

Later I was able to acquire some proper drum samples and by Game Over it got quite sophisticated.Galway was appointed as Audio Director at Origin Systems in 1990.