Allister Mark Brimble is a video game music composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

. Allister has written music and sound effects for the videogame industry since the mid 1980s for a vast array of games, such as Driver

Driver (video game)

Driver is a series of mission-based driving video games developed by Reflections Interactive , and originally published by GT Interactive and later by Atari. The gameplay consists of a mixture of action, driving, and third-person shooting in open world environments...

, Project-X

Project-X

Project-X is a scrolling shooter game for the Amiga computer released in 1992. It was also ported to DOS.Developed and published by Team17, it was regarded as one of the best shooter games for that platform at the time, both for its technical excellence in graphics and sounds, and for its difficult...

, Superfrog

Superfrog

Superfrog is a 2D Platform game developed for the Amiga by Team17 Software in 1993, then converted for the PC by Bubball Systems in 1994. The Amiga version was popular enough to spawn an Amiga CD32 version, which could also be played on some Amiga computers fitted with a CD drive.- Story :The...

, Alien Breed

Alien Breed

Alien Breed is the first in a series of science fiction computer games played in the form of a top-down shooter for one or two players. It was released in 1991 by Team17 for the Commodore Amiga and later in 1993 by MicroLeague for MS-DOS.-Gameplay:...

, Assassin

Assassin (video game)

Assassin is a video game for the Commodore Amiga system. It was developed by Psionic Systems and published in by Team 17. The game is an action game that has platform and shoot 'em up type gameplay. Assassin was updated and re-released in as Assassin: Special Edition.-Development:Assassin was...

, Colonization

Colonization (computer game)

Sid Meier's Colonization is a computer game by Brian Reynolds and Sid Meier released by MicroProse in 1994. It is a turn-based strategy game themed on the early European colonization of the New World, starting in 1492 and lasting until 1850...

, Descent II

Descent II

Descent II is a 3D first-person shooter video game noted for popularizing the use of true 3D rendering technology and providing the player with six full degrees of freedom to move and to look around....

, Dizzy series

Dizzy series

The Dizzy series of computer games, published by Codemasters, was one of the most successful European computer game brands of the late 1980s. The games were based around a central figure: an intelligent egg-like creature called Dizzy...

 (except the first game, Dizzy

Dizzy - The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure

Dizzy, or Dizzy – The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure, was the first video game featuring the character Dizzy, an anthropomorphic egg. The game was designed by two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver, frequently referred to as the Oliver twins...

),Slightly Magic

Slightly Magic

Slightly Magic is an arcade adventure computer game published in 1991 by Codemasters for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. It was written by Colin Jones, author of the rock star management game Rock Star Ate My Hamster...

on the ZX Spectrum

ZX Spectrum

The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd...

 and the Amiga

Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities...

. On the Amiga alone, he is credited for over 100 games, of variant styles, who comes up to show the versatility as a composer. More recently, he has composed music for the games RollerCoaster Tycoon

RollerCoaster Tycoon (series)

RollerCoaster Tycoon is a trilogy of computer games that simulate amusement park management. Each game in the series challenges players with open-ended amusement park management and development, and allowing players to construct and customize their own unique roller coasters.RollerCoaster Tycoon...

 1

RollerCoaster Tycoon

RollerCoaster Tycoon may refer to:*RollerCoaster Tycoon - a series of video games in which a player must manage an amusement park**RollerCoaster Tycoon - the first game, which came out in 1999...

& 2

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 is a construction and management simulation computer game that simulates theme park management. Developed by Chris Sawyer and published by Infogrames, the game was released on October 15, 2002. It is the sequel to RollerCoaster Tycoon and is the second game in the...

. and Glover

Glover (video game)

Reviews were mixed, mostly pointing out the interesting game mechanics and variety, but also noting the bland storyline and confusing controls.The N64 version was praised by IGN, specifically on its gameplay and sound. Comically, they wrote "In addition to your standard bouncing balls, Glover --...

. For Chris Sawyer's Locomotion

Chris Sawyer's Locomotion

Chris Sawyer's Locomotion is a computer game by independent game developer Chris Sawyer. In his words, it is "the spiritual successor to Transport Tycoon"....

, he created a couple of songs out of different eras, from 1900 to present day. He also produced various audio tracks, as "Brimble's Beats", that were distributed on coverdisks of magazines including CU Amiga and Amiga Format

Amiga Format

Amiga Format was a British computer magazine for Amiga computers, published by Future Publishing. The magazine lasted 136 issues from 1989 to 2000. The magazine was formed when, in the wake of selling ACE to EMAP, Future split the dual-format title ST/Amiga Format into two separate publications...

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Allister currently works as a freelance musician and sound designer for the games and console industry alongside colleague Anthony Putson at "Orchestral Media Developments".

Recent works of interest include:

• An updated version of the Alienbreed Title theme for the Xbox 360 game Alien breed
  Alien Breed
  Alien Breed is the first in a series of science fiction computer games played in the form of a top-down shooter for one or two players. It was released in 1991 by Team17 for the Commodore Amiga and later in 1993 by MicroLeague for MS-DOS.-Gameplay:...
  
   Evolution. This track is heard during the credits.
• The theme tune for an indoor theme park in Abu Dhabi and MIDI/XM remixes of classic Sega tunes for the DS version of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
  Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
  Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is a racing game in the Sega Superstars series produced for Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS and Microsoft Windows, featuring characters from many Sega franchises. It is being published by Sega and developed by Sumo Digital...
  
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• Hydroventure/Fluidity for the Nintendo Wii

External links

• Orchestral Media Developments
  • Allister Brimble's profile
• Allister Brimble's page at ExoticA with downloads for his Amiga Music and CD albums.
• Artist profile at OverClocked ReMix
  OverClocked ReMix
  OverClocked ReMix, also known as OC ReMix and OCR, is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and paying tribute to video game music through arranging and re-interpreting the songs with new technology and software, as well as by various traditional means...
  
  

Interviews

• "An Interview with Allister Brimble" Remix64: Carr, Neil (Jun. 13, 2001)
• "Interview with Allister Brimble" Baker, Ben