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Video Game: GoldenEye 007
Composer: Grant Kirkhope
Game Developer: Rare
Publisher: Nintendo
Release Date: August 25, 1997
INTERVIEW
Games Radar Interview: Goldeneye Composer, Grant Kirkhope
THE TONIGHT SHOW
Pierce Brosnan Plays GoldenEye 007 with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show
COMPOSER NOTES
GoldenEye 007 was my first big title at Rare (although I didn’t know it at the time!). When I first got there in October 1995 I was put to work on the Donkey Kong 2 conversion from SNES to Game Boy. I got this out of the way quite quickly and was then asked if I’d like to help out on GoldenEye 007 as Graeme Norgate was doing Blast Corps at the same time and was really busy. I knew we had the license to use the original Monty Norman theme so I got started. It was immense fun to write that video games music. I don’t know how many times I listened to all the past theme tunes from the movies, probably hundreds. It was the first time I’d had to do any sound design too, finding lots of gun shots and over the top ricochets was obviously my first task!
Something not a lot of people know is that GoldenEye 007 wasn’t always the fantastic game it turned out to be. Nintendo actually stopped wanting it for some of its development cycle. Rare didn’t tell the team and let them keep making it, confident that Nintendo would change their minds, which of course they did in the end!