How I Fixed Atari’s Awful Music
And Got Over My Fear of Out-of-Tune Game Toons
5 min readNov 9, 2020
When I first saw the Atari 2600 and played a few of the early games, one of the things that stood out to me was just how bad it sounded when a game attempted to play music.
Before I started developing for the machine, as a consumer, I never questioned why it sounded so bad; I just knew that the music was…