Retronauts Episode 238: Nathan McCree on Composing Tomb Raider Tunes

Retronauts

Technology, Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Composer Nathan McCree reminisces about his groundbreaking work creating the soundtrack for Lara Croft's earliest adventures, the challenges in revisiting that material decades later, and... The Spice Girls?!

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1:58.0	Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of RetroNots.
2:03.1	I am Jeremy Parish and with me this week I have a very special guest on the line from
2:08.5	the Czech Republic if I'm not mistaken.
2:11.7	That's correct, yeah.
2:13.4	Yeah, so this is Nathan McCree, the composer of the first three Tomb Raider games.
2:19.2	And actually why don't you introduce yourself Nathan, tell us a little bit about yourself.
2:23.2	Hi Jeremy, yes.
2:24.2	Yeah, you got my name right.
2:27.4	I started out in computer games back in 1993 writing chip music on the Sega Mega Drive.
2:41.2	And I did a few titles on that.
2:44.6	And of course then the CD consoles came out in 1994.
2:48.4	I think it was the Sega Mega CD, it was the first one I was working on.
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