News — Historical Perspectives

The EAvolution of Rob Hubbard - pt 4 Project Hubbard: 1992-mid 90s. The Road Rash years... and Sherlock Holmes. This article is sponsored by Project Hubbard, The official Rob Hubbard Kickstarter, and gives an idea of the kind of topics we will cover in the associated book "Rob Hubbard - The Official Reference" - except with more supporting interviews and facts. The definitive MT32 soundtracks from some of these games should also be on "The Rob Hubbard archive" album on "Project Hubbard Standard". Read part 1 of this series of blog posts here. Read part 2 of this series of blog posts here. Read part...

"Rob Hubbard - The Official Reference" will contain the most detailed look yet at the timeline and content of Rob's releases on the Atari 8-bit machines (POKEY) and Atari ST (YM2149) The "Project Hubbard" project also contains remixes of various tunes on this page, some by Rob himself, and a whole bank of unreleased Rob Hubbard tunes not tied to any chip. The remix albums are based on the music rather than the sound of the SID and can be enjoyed by all. Pre-Driver The first three Rob tunes that made it onto the Atari were The Last V8, Action Biker and...

The EAvolution of Rob Hubbard - pt 2 Project Hubbard: 1989/1990, Bye Bye SID, hello PC - and Rob hits the Amiga.  If you want to be nice to Rob _and_ hear amazing C64 pieces played with a huge orchestra for CD, back 8-Bit Symphony Pro This article is sponsored by Project Hubbard, and gives an idea of the kind of topics we will cover in the associated book "Rob Hubbard - The Official Reference" - except with more supporting interviews and facts. The definitive MT32 soundtracks from some of these games should also be on "The Rob Hubbard archive" album...

Part 2 is here Project Hubbard: 1988: Rob Hubbard hits EA with a bang. And sports. C64, Tandy 1000, Adlib, NES. Rob Hubbard was the king of music in EA games from 1988 until the mid-90s when they started licencing music... and covered Commodore 64, Amiga, NES, Tandy Jr, PC, 3DO and even MSX. "Rob Hubbard - the Official Reference" has a section devoted to his career at EA, and some of his archive album also covers this.  Much of his work was overlooked by SID fans (though not Skate or Die!), so here's some YouTube videos for "What Rob Hubbard did in...