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{{Short description|British chiptune musician}}
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{{Infobox person
| name                = Martin Galway
| image               = Martin_In_Greece.jpg
| caption             = Martin on vacation in Greece, 1987
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| birth_name          = Martin Galway
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1966|1|3}}
| birth_place         = [[Belfast]], Northern Ireland
| death_date          =
| occupation          = Composer}}
'''Martin Galway''' (born 3 January 1966,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.remix64.com/interviews/interview-martin-galway.html|title=An Interview with Martin Galway|website=Remix64.com|accessdate=30 July 2020}}</ref> [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]) is a British composer and one of the best known composers of [[chiptune]] [[video game music]] for the [[Commodore 64]] and the [[ZX Spectrum]]. His works include ''[[Rambo (1985 video game)|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]]''.

== Career ==
Galway was the first musician to get published with [[Sampling (music)|sampled sounds]] on the Commodore, with the theme for the ''[[Arkanoid]]'' conversion.<ref name="sidmusic">{{Cite web|url=http://www.sidmusic.org/sid/mgalway.html|title=Interviews with Martin Galway|website=Sidmusic.org|accessdate=30 July 2020}}</ref> When asked about how he did it, he answered:<ref>{{cite web|title=Interview with Martin Galway (Part 2)|url=https://www.c64.com/interviews/galway_part_2.html|website=C64.com|accessdate=2017-01-09}}</ref>

<blockquote>I figured out how samples were played by [[hacker|hacking]] into someone else's [[Source code|code]]{{nbsp}}... OK, I admit it{{nbsp}}... It was a drum synthesizer package called Digidrums, actually, so you could still say I was the first to include samples in a piece of music. ... Never would I claim to have invented that technique, I just got it published first. In fact, I couldn't really figure out where they got the sample data, just that they were wiggling the [[volume register]], so I tried to make up my own drum sample sounds in realtime – which is the [[flatulence]] stuff that shipped in ''Arkanoid''. ... 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. The one that's in the shops is kind of a collage of farts & burps, don't you think?... Later I was able to acquire some proper drum samples and by ''[[Game Over (video game)|Game Over]]'' it got quite sophisticated.</blockquote>

Galway was appointed as Audio Director at Origin Systems in 1990. He worked at Digital Anvil from 1996.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/12745-Meet-Martin-Galway|title=Meet Martin Galway! - Roberts Space Industries &#124; Follow the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42|website=Robertsspaceindustries.com|accessdate=30 July 2020}}</ref>

Galway's most recent post was working as Audio Director for Cloud Imperium Games on their upcoming PC game ''[[Star Citizen]]'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Meet Martin Galway!|url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen/posts/334166|website=Kickstarter.com|accessdate=24 October 2012}}</ref> created by Chris Roberts of ''Wing Commander''. ''Star Citizen'' was expected to release Q1 2015. Galway has since left this post.{{fact|date=May 2023}}

== Video game music ==
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*''[[Atomic Protector (video game)|Atomic Protector]]'' ([[Optima Software]], 1983)
*''[[Cookie (video game)|Cookie]]'' ([[Ultimate Play the Game]], 1983. An unreleased [[BBC Micro]] conversion, unearthed in 2002)<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.stairwaytohell.com/lostandfound/homepage.html | title = Lost and found: BBC Cookie | publisher=The BBC and Electron Games Archive | website=Stairwaytohell.com | accessdate = 9 June 2007}}</ref>
*''[[Daley Thompson's Decathlon]]''<ref name="sidmusic"/> ([[Ocean Software]], 1984, includes a [[chiptune]] [[cover version|cover]] of [[Yellow Magic Orchestra]]'s "[[Solid State Survivor|Rydeen]]")
*''[[Swag (video game)|Swag]]'' ([[Micromania (video game developer)|Micromania]], 1984)
*''[[Yie Ar Kung-Fu]]'' (Includes a remix of [[Jean-Michel Jarre]]'s "Les Chants Magnétiques part IV", [[Imagine Software|Imagine]], 1985)
*''[[Hyper Sports]]'' (Imagine, 1985)<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap10/martin.html|title=Martin Galway Interview|website=Zzap64.co.uk|accessdate=30 July 2020}}</ref>
*''[[Kong Strikes Back!]]''<ref name="sidmusic"/> (The first C64 song ever [composed in 1984] to use arpeggio which soon became an essential part of C64 sound, [[Ocean Software|Ocean]], 1985)
*''[[The Neverending Story (video game)|The Neverending Story]]'' (Ocean, 1985)<ref name="auto1"/>
*''[[Ocean Loader 1 & 2]]'' (The two different songs were used in several games released by Ocean, playing during the loading sequence of the game. Ocean Loaders 3 to 5 were composed by Peter Clarke and Jonathan Dunn; Ocean, 1985)
*''[[Roland's Ratrace]]'' (Ocean, 1985)<ref name="sidmusic"/>
*''[[Mikie]]'' (Imagine, 1986, like the arcade game, this includes the arrangements of [[The Beatles]] songs "[[Twist and Shout]]", "[[A Hard Day's Night (song)|A Hard Day's Night]]")
*''[[Konami's Ping Pong|Ping Pong]]'' (Imagine, 1986, ZX Spectrum and C64 conversions)
*''[[Comic Bakery]]'' (Imagine, 1986)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.remix64.com/interviews/c64-music-scene-by-steve-drysdale.html|title = C64 Music Scene| date=8 December 2020 }}</ref>
*''[[Stryker's Run]]'' ([[Superior Software]], 1986, includes a chiptune cover of Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Rydeen")
*''[[Terra Cresta]]'' (Imagine, 1986)
*''[[Green Beret (video game)|Green Beret]]'' (Imagine, 1986)<ref name="sidmusic"/>
*''[[Helikopter Jagd]]'' (Ocean, 1986)
*''[[Highlander (video game)|Highlander]]'' (Ocean, 1986)<ref name="sidmusic"/>
*''[[Hunchback II]]'' (Ocean, 1986)
*''[[Match Day (video game)|Match Day]]'' (Ocean, 1986)
*''[[Galaforce]]'' (Superior Software, 1986)
*''[[Miami Vice (video game)|Miami Vice]]'' (Ocean, 1986)<ref name="sidmusic"/>
*''[[Parallax (video game)|Parallax]]'' (Ocean, 1986)<ref name="sidmusic"/>
*''[[Rambo: First Blood Part II (video game)|Rambo: First Blood Part II]]'' (Ocean, 1986)<ref name="auto1"/>
*''[[Short Circuit (video game)|Short Circuit]]'' (Ocean, 1986, contains the cover of "Who's Johnny" by El DeBarge)<ref name="sidmusic"/>
*''[[Arkanoid]]'' (Imagine, 1987)
*''[[Athena (video game)|Athena]]'' (Imagine, 1987)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.retrogamer.net/retro_games80/athena/|title=Athena &#124; Retro Gamer|website=Retrogamer.net|date=4 April 2010 |accessdate=30 July 2020}}</ref>
*''[[Game Over (video game)|Game Over]]'' (Imagine, 1987)<ref name="sidmusic"/>
*''[[Rastan (video game)|Rastan]]'' (Imagine, 1987)<ref name="sidmusic"/>
*''[[Slap Fight]]'' ([[Imagine Software|Imagine]], 1987)<ref name="sidmusic"/>
*''[[Yie Ar Kung-Fu II]]'' (Imagine, 1987)
*''[[Combat School]]'' (Ocean, 1987)
*''[[Crazee Rider]]'' (Superior Software, 1987)
*''[[Wizball]]'' (Ocean, 1987)<ref name="sidmusic"/>
*''[[MicroProse Soccer]]'' ([[MicroProse]], 1988)
*''[[Galaforce 2: Aliens' Revenge]]'' (Superior Software, 1988)
*''[[Times of Lore]]'' ([[Origin Systems|Origin]], 1988)<ref name="sidmusic"/>
*''[[Insects in Space]]'' ([[Sensible Software]], 1989)<ref name="sidmusic"/>
*''[[Wing Commander 2: Vengeance of the Kilrathi]]'' (Origin, 1991)
*''[[Ultima VII: The Black Gate]]'' (Origin, 1992)
*''[[Ultima Underworld|Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss]]'' (Origin, 1992)
*''[[Strike Commander]]'' ([[Electronic Arts]]/Origin, 1993)
*''[[Wing Commander 4: The Price of Freedom]]'' (Electronic Arts/Origin, 1995)
*''[[Wing Commander (franchise)#The Kilrathi Saga|The Kilrathi Saga]]'' (Electronic Arts, 1996)
*''[[Starlancer]]'' ([[Digital Anvil]]/[[Microsoft]], 2000)
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050124194335/http://hvsc.c64.org/ High Voltage SID Collection]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041226101555/http://hafnium.prg.dtu.dk/%7Etheis/stil/html/graph/Galway_Martin.htm Martin Galway] [https://web.archive.org/web/20050206012412/http://hafnium.prg.dtu.dk/~theis/stil/ STIL]
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== External links ==
*[https://www.ocremix.org/artist/14/martin-galway Artist profile] at [[OverClocked ReMix]]
*{{musicbrainz artist|id=29b8e01f-ee0e-4b4e-a3b0-48f465d144b2|name=Martin Galway}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110930215256/http://www.certainaffinity.com/about.htm Information about Martin Galway on Certain Affinity web page]
*[https://www.the-commodore-zone.com/articlelive/articles/16/1/Martin-Galway/Page1.html Legends of the C64 article on Martin Galway]
*[http://www.remix64.com/interview_martin_galway_by_claudio_sanchez.html Remix64 Interview] Sánchez, Claudio (10 July 2003)
*[http://www.remix64.com/interview_martin_galway.html Remix64 Interview] Carr, Neil (28 March 2001)

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[[Category:People educated at Parrs Wood High School]]
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