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Revision as of 08:44, 12 September 2012

Jonathan Dunn
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Aliases
  • J. Dunn

Jonathan Dunn was a British programmer and musician who was the main sound designer at Ocean Software.

His video game music career started back in 1987 when he worked for Imagine Software which he eventually left to work for Ocean Software in 1988. He stayed after Infogrames bought Ocean in 1998 and then left in 2000. He worked at Electronic Arts after that before finally retiring from his video game music career. Jon liked to compose music on the Commodore 64 because he made the Ocean Software drivers and it is the computer he began making music on. In the 90's, Dunn liked creating his music on the SNES. The soundtrack that Jon composed that he likes best is Total Recall (C64). He is known for his outstanding work in Platoon and Rambo 3 for the C64, Jurassic Park on the NES and Robocop for the Amstrad CPC.

Music Composition

C64

Jonathan created sound drivers on the Commodore 64 and programmed the music in assembly using hexadecimal numbers.

NES

Jon had this to say about his NES music composition:

"It was compiled from data statements in assembly. That way I could use labels to make it easier to come back to."

While a great deal of the NES games he composed did not have credits, his name can be found in the ROM text for most of the games which all say:

MUSIC DRIVER V1.0 (C)JONATHAN DUNN & OCEAN SOFTWARE



Gameography

Released

Title

Sample

1987/??/?? Platoon (C64)
1988/??/?? Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge (AMI)
1988/??/?? RoboCop (ZXS)
1988/04/?? Target Renegade (C64)
1988/12/?? Platoon (NES)
1988/??/?? Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja (C64)
1988/??/?? Operation Wolf (C64)
1989/??/?? Batman (AMI)
1989/?//?? The New Zealand Story (AMI)
1989/?//?? The New Zealand Story (C64)
1989/??/?? Operation Thunderbolt (AMI)
1989/??/?? Rambo III (AMI)
1989/??/?? The Untouchables (C64)
1990/??/?? Battle Command (AMI)
1991/??/?? The Addams Family (ZX)
1991/??/?? Bart vs. the Space Mutants (AMI)
1991/??/?? Darkman (AMI)
1991/??/?? Darkman (C64)
1991/??/?? Darkman (CPC)
1991/??/?? Hook (AMI)
1991/??/?? Parasol Stars: Rainbow Islands II (NES)
1991/??/?? Rainbow Islands: Bubble Bobble 2 (NES)
1991/01/?? The Untouchables (NES) Sound Driver
1991/04/02 RoboCop 2 (NES)
1991/10/?? Darkman (NES)
1991/12/?? Hudson Hawk (GB) Sound Driver
1991/12/27 Hudson Hawk (NES) Sound Driver
1992/??/?? The Addams Family (C64)
1992/??/?? The Addams Family (CPC)
1992/??/?? The Addams Family (SMS)
1992/??/?? The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt (SNES)
1992/??/?? The Addams Family (C64)
1992/??/?? The Addams Family (CPC)
1992/??/?? The Addams Family (SMS)
1992/??/?? The Legend of Prince Valiant (NES)
1992/??/?? Push-Over (AMI)
1992/01/?? The Addams Family (NES)
1992/03/?? The Addams Family (SNES)
1992/04/?? Hook (NES)
1992/06/17 The Addams Family (AMI)
1992/12/?? Darkman (GB)
1993/06/?? Cool World (NES)
1993/11/?? Jurassic Park (SNES)
1994/??/?? The Addams Family (GEN)
1994/??/?? The Shadow (SNES)
1995/02/?? The Flintstones (SNES)
1995/02/?? Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf (GB)
1995/12/?? Waterworld (GB)

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