Robert Prince, also known as Bobby Prince, is a 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...

 and sound designer. He has worked as an independent contractor for several gaming companies, most notably id Software

Id Software

Id Software is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...

 and Apogee/3D Realms

3D Realms

3D Realms is a current video game publisher and former video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987...

.

He has created music and sound effect

Sound effect

For the album by The Jam, see Sound Affects.Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media...

s for Commander Keen 4-6

Commander Keen series

Commander Keen is a series of video games developed by id Software in the early 1990s. The series focuses on the adventures of Billy Blaze, an 8-year old boy who travels through space and assumes the identity "Commander Keen". The series was successful at replicating the side-scrolling action of...

, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure is a video game programmed by Todd Replogle and published by Apogee Software in 1992. It is a two-dimensional side-scrolling platform game produced for the PC platform, and features 16-color EGA graphics at 320×200 screen resolution...

, Pickle Wars

Pickle Wars

Pickle Wars is a platform DOS game created in 1993 by Karen Crowther through Redwood Games and published by MVP Software. The script was written by Ellen Beeman. A planet gets invaded by aliens . The player goes on a journey to find hidden weapons...

, Catacomb 3D

Catacomb 3D

Catacomb 3-D is the third in the Catacomb series of video games , and the first of these games to feature 3D computer graphics...

, Wolfenstein 3D

Wolfenstein 3D

Wolfenstein 3D is a video game that is generally regarded by critics and gaming journalists as having both popularized the first-person shooter genre on the PC and created the basic archetype upon which all subsequent games of the same genre would be built. It was created by id Software and...

, Spear of Destiny

Spear of Destiny (computer game)

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, Blake Stone, Doom, Rise of the Triad

Rise of the Triad

Rise of the Triad: Dark War is a first-person shooter video game that was first released on February 17, 1995 and developed by Apogee Software . The members of the development team involved referred to themselves as "The Developers of Incredible Power"...

, Doom II, Duke Nukem II

Duke Nukem II

Duke Nukem II is a platform game developed by Apogee Software and released December 3, 1993. The game consists of four episodes , the first available as shareware...

, Duke Nukem 3D

Duke Nukem 3D

Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter computer game developed by 3D Realms and published by GT Interactive Software. The full version was released for the PC . It is a sequel to the platform games Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II published by Apogee...

, Abuse

Abuse (computer game)

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, Demonstar

Demonstar

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, as well as other games. He has also composed music for commercials and independent films. In 2006, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by his fellow game composers.
He is currently composing sound and music for the game Wrack (formerly Last Bastion).

Prince is a lawyer who passed the bar in 1980. He was a 1LT platoon leader in Vietnam 1969-70.

Doom

Prince's best-known and most enduring work is the soundtrack to the original Doom. The Doom soundtrack grew extremely popular among gamers, with fans doing various cover versions and remix projects more than 15 years after the game's release. It is one of the most popular soundtracks on the 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...

 website.

Several tracks from the game are arrangements of various songs from popular Heavy Metal

Heavy metal music

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 bands, such as Pantera

Pantera

Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas. Formed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell in 1981, bassist Rex Brown would join in late 1981 with vocalist Terry Glaze. Looking for a new and heavier sound, Pantera had Terry replaced in 1987 with Phil Anselmo as...

 and Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987 by guitarist and songwriter Jerry Cantrell and original lead vocalist Layne Staley. The initial lineup was rounded out by drummer Sean Kinney, and bassist Mike Starr...

. John Romero

John Romero

Alfonso John Romero is a game designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry. He is best known as a co-founder of id Software and was a designer for many of their games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Dangerous Dave, Doom and Quake...

, a co-developer of Doom, claims that Bobby used his knowledge of copyright law when creating the music because he "knew the legal amount of sampling that he could do without getting into trouble."

External links

• bobby prince Music Entry Point - Official website
• Interview at The Adrenaline Vault - Only the first page is available
• 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...
  
  
• Doomworld: Doom music - MP2 versions of the full soundtracks for Doom and Doom II, and some anecdotes from Prince
• http://vega.skulltag.com/ - Game Robert Prince is composing music for