You know when you come full circle, and cyberspace tends to love that feeling of completing the journey in record time. Consider this: Back in the early nineties, Alex Seropias, and Jason Jones start a small video game development company called Bungie (mostly for the Mac). Fast forward ten years, and the same small company gets picked up by Microsoft, and we have the birth of the first Halo game re-purposed for the Xbox video game console. 20 million copies later, a trilogy of Halo games, and many more spin-offs, we now have the Halo soundtrack released a few days back.
Didn't we used to produce video games as the last tier of consumer consumption related to a cultural phenom? Consider this: Book gets written, becomes instant classic. Movie script is written, produced, and consumed by a mass market; soundtrack is released. Given sufficient time, DVD is also released, usually in time for some shopping holiday. Lastly, a video game version is produced given some semblance of reasonable fortitude with the book's subject matter.
Ranting aside, I'm keen to blog about the soundtrack. I've just received my copy today, and will be giving it a listen over the next couple of days....expect a post on my comments in a few.
