For anyone who played coin-op video games at the arcade in the mid-eighties, this will be music to your ears.
“Back in 1982, my best friend had a Sony stereo walkman recorder. Audio was the conventional recording media back then and we recorded all kinds of stuff. One day we were on our way to the arcade ‘Just Fun’ in Ithaca, NY and came up with the idea to record video game sounds.
We recorded video games from 1982 until 1988. Fortunately I managed to save all fourteen audio tapes of video game sounds and arcade ambience which were recorded from a variety of locations in the US. Most of the recordings are from Ithaca, NY, Albany, NY and Ocean City, MD.”