thumb|upright|Nobuo Uematsu, composer for the Final Fantasy game series When the first electronic games were sold, they had rudimentary sound chips with which to produce music. As the technology advanced, quality increased dramatically. The first game to take credit for its music was Xevious, also noteworthy (at that time) for its deeply constructed stories. One of the most important games in the history of the video game music is Dragon Quest. Koichi Sugiyama, who composed for various anime and TV shows, including Cyborg 009 and a feature film of Godzilla vs. Biollante, got involved in the project out of curiosity and proved that games can have serious soundtracks. Until his involvement, music and sounds were often neglected in the development of video games and programmers with little musical knowledge were forced to write the soundtracks as well. Undaunted by technological limits, Sugiyama worked with only 8-part polyphony to create a soundtrack that would not tire the player despite hours of gameplay.
thumb|upright|nobuo uematsu composer for the final fantasy game series when the first electronic games were sold they had rudimentary sound chips with which to produce music as the technology advanced quality increased dramatically the first game to take credit for its music was xevious also noteworthy (at that time) for its deeply constructed stories one of the most important games in the history of the video game music is dragon quest koichi sugiyama who composed for various anime and tv shows including cyborg 009 and a feature film of godzilla vs biollante got involved in the project out of curiosity and proved that games can have serious soundtracks until his involvement music and sounds were often neglected in the development of video games and programmers with little musical knowledge were forced to write the soundtracks as well undaunted by technological limits sugiyama worked with only 8-part polyphony to create a soundtrack that would not tire the player despite hours of gameplay