The PC has changed a lot since the first PC games were released. Thanks to the possibility of making upgrades to its hardware, video game music on PC games has
benefited from higher memory available, better sound coming out of the newest sound cards and technologies that saved memory and increased the quality of audio
beyond that found on consoles, which couldn't usually modify their insides. However, a great difference that restricted the sort of games developed for the PC was the
interface used to interact with them: consoles had controllers and PCs had a mouse and a keyboard. Until the early 2000s you couldn't use a controller on a PC
easily, so ports of console games were not made for the PC. Piracy was also a disadvantage against consoles. Still, huge game genres today such as the RTS and
the FPS flourished using the standard PC input methods. Technologies like MIDI helped PCs avoid the low memory problem; composers could create complex music works
for PC games years before it was possible on consoles. Later, with the mainstream adoption of the MP3 standard, all barriers to composing disappeared. Today the
variety of PC games is so large that any kind of music can be expected to be heard on them.
In this page you can download sheet music from PC games in PDF format as well as an MP3 file which plays the arrangement. Click on the name of the theme if you want
to visit its individual page, where you may find more material and information about it. If you are having problems downloading or opening the files, please visit this
link: How to Use this Website.
