I didn't come here to hear a great public speaker. I came to listen to a legend.

This guy made a quantum leap in C64 music - his legendry status is lost on the gits who take games tunes for granted. Compaired to a lot of the shite on 8 bits in the 80's - this guy (amongst some others) sticks out a mile. Hope this guy is remembered in 300 years - some masters are appreciated well after their active period.

A god damn LEGEND!!!!!! Thank you for everything Rob!

Absolute legend. His tunes has become an important part of my childhood. When I hear those old c64 tunes I immediately transport back to the eary 80's.

Your music is part of my childhood. International Karate, Spellbound, Skate or Die, Thrust are my favourite tunes. Thanks Mr Hubbard!

Rob Hubbard just plain RULEZ.

Thank you Rob for giving us this speech. Still the most detailed and fascinating commentary on the early days of video game business. I was there at the party but sadly missed your presentation! Very much regret it.

Idols don't realise they are till they move on. Will we wait till he passes on till we actually acknowledge this guy was thee first, the one that made C64 games so unforgettable! Name a game that you remember more than the music he made? He needs more recognition! xxx

rob you are the fucking MASTER!

This guys proper genius, i can make music using computers now because i can use a sequencer, sampler etc. but this dude made music from scratch using proper mind boggling programming. games like the human race on c64 funky beats and basslines galore.

Chimera baby! The greatest game bassline ever! Masters of Magic-The Last V8- He had a melody, bassline, drums, and special sfx all going with 3 channels! Genius!

love his music amazing gifted man. nice to watch this again after all these years.

Yep some of the melodies were lifted but that introduced me to artists had not heard of at the time. My brother and I bought a game if you knew Hubbard was doing the tune

why are people moaning about public speaking? he is an interesting man with stories to tell, i dont need him to pump his fists and shout like a motivational speaker

this man is a modern GENIUS !

Loooved the music of this man! Awesome stuff!

...like Skate or Die (1988)? Even when I was losing, I was enjoying all its tunes.

Even Rob Hubbard says the SID tune "Lightforce" is not one of his best tunes, it´s maybe the most loved tune from the C64 freaks. Great that you did post this video´s. 5*

Thanks for all your effort and the many hours of listening pleasure I got from every c64 title I purchased simply co's it had your music in it. I would then take this music and write a few machine code routines to demo the c64 around it.

I had most of the games he composed music for on the c64. He was an insperation to me when I started with computer music. Still play C64 games today. Why? the games are well made and have something I think kids of today just fail to apreciate. SYS64738 :)

What a music maestro. I had a C64 back in the 80s and he always delivered the goods. I used to buy ZZAP! 64 and I rem one issue, from '87 i think, came with a free Hubbard music cassette which sounded great. It was actual music he had composed on the keyboard/synth etc. Cheers for posting.

I made my own mix tape of Rob's tunes when I was a youngster. My friends thought I was wierd for listening to computer generated music. How the times have changed.

i used to make up tapes up with c 64 tunes when i was a kid. some of them was like proper early rave tunes.proper rocking!

thanks for the upload :)

Rob Hubbard is an utter legend. My memories of my C64 mean so much more with his soundtracks. He's obviously not an experienced public speaker but I think he is allowed to um and ahh as much as he likes.

The fact I searched for this speaker is a testament. Even some 25 years later, out of the blue, I looked him up. Hubbard was a big shot, almost mythical.

I grew up with Rob Hubbard's musical genius and yet this is actually the first time i've ever heard him speak!

Rob Hubbard = where my love of music start Good job Rob!

Rob, I grew up with your Music^^ Love you... cheers!!! *Friendship Rules!*

Aw, he's so nervous. His music on the C64 was my main awakening to music, he's my hero!

It was Rob Hubbard's game music along with the music for Space Quest and Kings Quest that made me want to compose music back when I was in my early teens :-) Finally (after years of doing it part time) its starting to become something like a full time occupation :-)

Thanx a lot!

I love this video!! Rob Hubbard 4 ever! :)

thanks for sharing

This is hilarious. My name is Rob Hubbard and i got linked this. Wow.

U are legend also, i remember urs stuffs from Myth. Excellent work for only four channel sound system :)

This living Legend is a coeval of us, that makes me smile ;-) Great!

Rob Hubbard is the BEST!

So nice to hear the Hull accent ;) You're a legend Rob. Grazey/PHF

Don't forget the Mighty Bogg who did excellent freeware renditions of famous pop tunes (never used in games though) and Benn Daglish (Suicide Express, Loco) also did some good tracks. Rob Hubbard was everywhere at one point though!

brilliant dude.. :)

fantastic

Love the name! Great game! x

Damn, I miss these days with monstrous 20" monitors on a small standing table. 😄

The Best composer for the C64!!!! Rob Hubbard Rules!!!!

Genius

He's a legend :)

Rob Hubbard - the best composer in computer reality

accidentally typed Ron Hubbard when I searched for my favorite computer game composer ;)

@Phacioco89 You're right. The last soundtrack of a modern game I fondly remember is God Hand on PS2. Nowadays there are so many average tunes in games. 20 years ago there were 1-2 tunes in a game but they kicked ass. And 10-15 year old PSX tunes still kick the the shit out of PS3 music. Innovative and memorable compositions are worth much more than technical capability.

Rob is a C64 GOD !

very interesting.

I feel exactly the same, I have about 4 or 5 different remixes all packed on a CD that I play in the car during traffic Jams.

Genious!

It was recorded at the Assembly demoscene party in 2002.

@RomeoKGT you are damm right, sometimes I loaded C64 games only to listen the Hubbard´s or galway´´s soundtrack... :D

@RomeoKGT absolutely agree 100% with that. I can still remember getitng up on a saturday morning to go into town in leicester, just after the latest ZZAP64! came out, just to hear the music on dragons lair2, thrust, thundercats, etc. youd buy some of these games, strictly cause the music was so amazing. id love to meet them both, and have a drink or two..legends!

It's astonishing how 64k of memory was once considered HUGE! It's equivalent to 3 empty Word documents! We are now on the verge of talking about a terabyte as the standard memory size.

Rob Hubbard and Galway really deserve to be millionaires for what they gave us.

Love Rob Hubbbards music, used to record them on tape and play them back. He is exaggerating quite a bit on the 45 minutes to load though - admittedly the tape drive was slow, but his source (which was no doubt plain machine code dumps) would likely have taken just a few minutes to load really.

Oh my.... Is this taped during the Game Developer Conference in San José California back in 2000?! The T-shirt Rob is wearing is making me think it is... If so... I missed a lecture with one my favourite C64 composers... :/

lol...i like the sys. there was also SYS64760. the cheapest way of forcing a temp mem reset was shoritng one of the pins on the cassette port at the back with a paperclip, typing in the pokes and THEN the sys command would take you back into the game.

Rob Hubbard gets the number one spot for producing LightForce in my book. I would like to put Reyn Ouwehand (Last Ninja 3, Flimbo's quest and many remixes) up there with this elite group as well.

Great ! GREAT !!!!!! super !!!

2 or 3 slap heads in the audience, by the by, downloaded SID on android with all Mr. Hubbards Cooool muzak, yesss, great stuff!!

4:45 lol love this

+ Tim Follin and Jeroen Tel

THE BEST COMPUTER MUSIC COMPOSER EVER! Mkz/Tcom

ROB... The GOD!

Tim Follin , Jeron Tel... there are many.. the mighty bogg made a re-appearance after many years.. people are trying to get him to do new tunes =)

Commando forever!

Of course every electronic musician likes to claim thanks to people like Kraftwerk (Hi Karl&Wolfgang!), Jarre, Tangerine Dream etc. And to some degree that's of course true for me as well. But the gentleman in the clip above definitely is my *very* first influence for my own music, which I started making on the C64 as well. :)

I think the thing is that he's wearing a tie mic and there's no way the crowd's gonna leak into that. You can actually see some heads bobbing up and down when he's firing his lines.

@Hertje73 there is a halfway point between stone cold silence and the audience of Jerry Springer, you know.

@zyxlamonde I definitely bought One Man And His Droid just for Hubbard's theme. The game itself was only so-so.

if a crap game is worth buying it´s because Rob Hubbard´s Music.

he is a GOD

@INoodleClock If he was saying "and, like..." you wouldn't even have noticed.

*bows for Rob*

God Hubbard.

Talking about accents.. Ive loved hubbards works since their original releases in the 80's! and only recently found out he was born in the same town as I grew up in! thought that twang sounded familiar!!. Does anyone know what part of Hull Rob was born in?

Rob rulez.

Hear hear! This is fantastic. When was it, do you have a date?

@jackcarterful I read in Wiki that he is working as operations/production manager and audio director of Certain Affinity, an Austin, Texas based software company.-....snif... no SID chip tunes anymore... :-(

Rob Hubbard is amazing! The other commenters here are right though, the audience is pretty dead and have no idea who this guy is :/ I love the way he says BASIC! ^_^

this is GOD

can u use a gr 20 to make music for games.

Ocean Loaders FTW!

haha so freaking panicking :D this man is a live legend! think SID, live SID

This is true. In new games you hear either beat&bass or boring ambient.

I'm surprised that no one picked up the pot shot he took at Maniac Miner with that bit about the badly done version of Blue Danub(I know it's misspelled so so me)

My evil girlfriend came up with a drinking game based on every time Rob says 'you know', it's not good. It really is not.

JT your as well known, turbo outrun etc.. BUT as much as you and Rob are well known, I do rate Tim Follin / Martin Galway and a few just as highly =) . Can't get you out of c64 retirement to do some new c64 tunes with digi's ,can I ? hehe

LOL - well, he could use a presentation training, but it was still interesting to me

which i never did :-D

They don't do these type of kits these days, so young ones can;t get a full feel for how the sound is created and where its coming from. They just want some1 to just give it to em

Robs accent is a bit of a mix, can definately hear the twinge of "Hull'ian" in it.. especially in the later parts "inner'ups" :) wonder where exactly in Hull he was from!?? Im a local see..

source?

Does Rob Hubbard have his own youtube channel? And I do mean the c64 musician ofc and none else :P

i think it's a wee bit crazy of you to count it.