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Mark Van Hecke attended the University of Wisconson-Milwaukee from 1973-1977. He began his videogame music career as a composer at Absolute Entertainment where he worked from 1989 until the company closed their doors at the end of 1995. While at Absolute Entertainment he composed music for many of the games created by their in-house development company, Imagineering, Inc. Although Hecke wrote music for a great deal of games, most of the games were low quality conversions of movies or cartoons that showcase very poor, obviously rushed, music. Aside from composing, Hecke has also been credited as the audio director for several games. He says for his NES music, he used an Atari 1040ST running Dr. T KCS and for SNES he used a Mac running Dr. T KCS.
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Mark Van Hecke attended the University of Wisconson-Milwaukee from 1973-1977. He began his videogame music career as a composer at Absolute Entertainment where he worked from 1989 until the company closed their doors at the end of 1995. While at Absolute Entertainment he composed music for many of the games created by their in-house development company, Imagineering, Inc. Although Hecke wrote music for a great deal of games, most of the games were low quality conversions of movies or cartoons that showcase very poor, obviously rushed, music. Aside from composing, Hecke has also been credited as the audio director for several games.
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==Music Composition==
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Mark says for his NES music he used the program Dr. T KCS (Keyboard Controlled Sequencer) on the Atari 1040ST computer and for his SNES music he used Dr. T KCS on the Macintosh with a Kurzweil keyboard.
  
 
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Revision as of 13:32, 11 January 2010

Mark van Hecke
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Mark Van Hecke attended the University of Wisconson-Milwaukee from 1973-1977. He began his videogame music career as a composer at Absolute Entertainment where he worked from 1989 until the company closed their doors at the end of 1995. While at Absolute Entertainment he composed music for many of the games created by their in-house development company, Imagineering, Inc. Although Hecke wrote music for a great deal of games, most of the games were low quality conversions of movies or cartoons that showcase very poor, obviously rushed, music. Aside from composing, Hecke has also been credited as the audio director for several games.

Music Composition

Mark says for his NES music he used the program Dr. T KCS (Keyboard Controlled Sequencer) on the Atari 1040ST computer and for his SNES music he used Dr. T KCS on the Macintosh with a Kurzweil keyboard.


Gameography

Released

Title

Platform

Publisher

1989/??/?? A Boy and His Blob: Trouble On Blobolonia NES Absolute Entertainment, Inc.
1990/02/?? Destination Earth Star NES Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
1990/04/?? Ghostbusters II NES Activision, Inc.
1990/10/?? Battle Tank NES Absolute Entertainment, Inc.
1990/11/09 不思議なブロビー ～プリンセス・ブロブを救え！～ (Strange Blob: The Rescue of Princess Blobette) GB Jaleco Entertainment
1990/11/29 ふしぎなブロビー ブロバニアの危機 (Strange Blob: Trouble On Blobolonia) FC Jaleco, Ltd.
1990/??/?? Corvette ZR-1 Challenge NES Milton Bradley Co.
1991/02/?? The Simpsons: Bart Vs. The Space Mutants NES Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
1991/02/?? The Simpsons: Bart Vs. The Space Mutants DOS Ocean
1991/05/?? Flight of the Intruder NES Mindscape, Inc.
1991/11/?? Home Alone GB THQ, Inc.
1991/12/?? Barbie NES Hi-Tech Expressions, Inc.
1991/12/?? Home Alone SNES THQ, Inc.
1991/12/?? The Simpsons: Bart Vs. The World NES Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
1991/??/?? Attack of the Killer Tomatoes NES THQ, Inc.
1991/??/?? A Boy and His Blob In... The Rescue of Princess Blobette GB Absolute Entertainment, Inc.
1991/??/?? Race America NES Absolute Entertainment, Inc.
1992/06/26 ホーム・アローン (Home Alone) GB Altron Corporation
1992/08/11 ホーム・アローン (Home Alone) SFC THQ, Inc.
1992/09/?? The Simpsons: Bart Vs. the Juggernauts GB Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
1992/10/?? Home Alone 2: Lost In New York NES THQ, Inc.
1992/10/?? Home Alone 2: Lost In New York SNES THQ, Inc.
1992/10/?? Race Drivin' SNES THQ, Inc.
1992/12/?? Jeopardy! SNES GameTek, Inc.
1992/12/?? The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man NES Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
1992/12/?? Swamp Thing NES THQ, Inc.
1992/??/?? The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle GB THQ, Inc.
1992/??/?? Amazing Tennis GEN Absolute Entertainment, Inc.
1992/??/?? Barbie Game Girl GB Hi-Tech Expressions, Inc.
1992/??/?? Home Alone 2: Lost In New York GB THQ, Inc.
1992/??/?? Mouse Trap Hotel GB Electro-Brain
1992/??/?? Super Battletank: War In the Gulf GEN Absolute Entertainment, Inc.
1993/02/26 バートのサバイバルキャンプ (Bart's Survival Camp) GB Acclaim Japan, Ltd.
1993/04/23 スーパーバトルタンク (Super Battletank) SFC Pack-In-Video Co., Ltd.
1993/06/?? Family Dog SNES Malibu Games
1993/06/?? The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends SNES THQ, Inc.
1993/09/?? Star Trek: The Next Generation NES Absolute Entertainment, Inc.
1993/11/?? The Ren & Stimpy Show: Buckaroo$ NES THQ, Inc.
1993/??/?? Bart Simpson's Escape From Camp Deadly GB Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
1993/??/?? Family Feud SNES GameTek, Inc.
1993/??/?? Super Battletank: War In the Gulf SNES Absolute Entertainment, Inc.
1993/??/?? Toys GEN Absolute Entertainment, Inc.
1993/??/?? Toys SNES Absolute Entertainment, Inc.
1994/11/?? Home Improvement: Power Tool Pursuit SNES Absolute Entertainment, Inc.
1994/11/?? Star Trek: Generations - Beyond the Nexus GB Absolute Entertainment, Inc.
1995/??/?? Star Trek: Generations - Beyond the Nexus GG Absolute Entertainment, Inc.
1996/12/?? Casper SNES Natsume, Inc.
1997/03/14 キャスパー (Casper) SFC Nihon Soft System, KSS

Links

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