Joe Abbati

Joseph S. Abbati

Born	19??-??-??
Birth Place	Unknown
Nationality	American
Website	people.miami.edu/profile/jabbati@miami.edu

Joe Abbati is an American composer and sound designer. He started off in 1988 working in a music store called Peaches Records as an assistant manager. In 1991, he joined the game industry when he worked at Capstone Software. There, he learned sound programming, MIDI, and even got an Ensoniq ASR-10 with Digidesign Session 8 from the company. In 1996, Abbati left Capstone to work at VR Tech as an audio director and programmer. In 1997, he worked at n-Space on their Playstation title Duke Nukem: Time to Kill. Around this time, he composed several titles for Gunnar Games and worked as a freelancer composer up until 2016. Ever since 1998, Abbati is a Lecturer of Music Engineering Technology at the University of Miami. He composed his last video game in 2015 and now no longer works on video games.

Gameography

Released	Title	Notes
1992-??-??	Bridge Master (DOS)
1993-??-??	Bridge Master (MAC)
1993-??-??	Discoveries of the Deep (DOS)
1993-??-??	Grandmaster Chess (CD-ROM Edition) (DOS)
1993-??-??	Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars (DOS)
1993-??-??	Trump Castle 3 (DOS)
1995-05-06	Corridor 7: Alien Invasion (DOS)
1995-09-30	William Shatner's TekWar (DOS)
1995-??-??	Operation Body Count (DOS)
1995-??-??	Witchaven (DOS)
1996-??-??	Witchaven II: Blood Vengeance (DOS)	With Steven Newton.
1998-09-30	Duke Nukem: Time to Kill (PS1)	Sound Design & Audio Programming
1999-??-??	MatchBox Caterpillar Big Dirt Movers (W16)
2001-09-24	Spongebob Squarepants: Operation Krabby Patty (W32)
2001-09-27	Hot Wheels: Mechanix (W32)
2001-11-06	Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (W32)	With Will Pirkle.
2002-04-30	The Worse-Case Scenario Survival Trivial Challenge (W32)
2002-09-23	SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month (W32)
2004-10-27	SpongeBob SquarePants: The Movie (W32)
2004-??-??	Ultimate Mahjongg 5 (W32)
2005-10-19	SpongeBob Squarepants: Lights, Camera, Pants! (W32)
2007-??-??	Ultimate Mahjongg 15 (W32)
2008-09-22	Lost Secrets: Bermuda Triangle (W32)
2008-11-04	Hidden Mysteries: Buckingham Palace (MAC)	Sound Effects
2008-11-04	Hidden Mysteries: Buckingham Palace (W32)	Sound Effects
2009-04-20	Plan it Green (W32)
2009-10-27	Hidden Mysteries: Titanic (W32)
2010-03-16	Hidden Mysteries: Buckingham Palace (NDS)	Sound Effects
2010-08-20	Hidden Mysteries: Vampire Secrets (NDS)
2010-08-20	Hidden Mysteries: Vampire Secrets (W64)
2010-11-10	Hidden Mysteries: Salem Secrets - Witch Trials of 1692 (NDS)
2011-05-13	Hidden Mysteries: Notre Dame - Secrets in Paris (W64)
2011-08-09	Hidden Mysteries: Royal Family Secrets (W64)
2012-03-18	Small Town Terrors: Livingston (W64)
2012-??-??	Castle (W64)
2013-01-25	Hidden Mysteries: JFK Conspiracy (W64)
2013-04-14	Small Town Terrors: Pilgrim's Hook (W64)
2014-07-26	Lost Legends: The Weeping Woman (W64)
2015-03-08	Small Town Terrors: Galdor's Bluff (W64)