The man who scored Doom has died, and a generation still hums every track (legacy.com)
Prince didn't just compose the soundtracks. One reader notes he also did the sound effects for Doom, the gunshots and the snarls people remember as atmosphere.
A computer-science instructor says he's shown Prince's work to students for years as the example of how sound builds a world.
Another grew up with the Macintosh version's MIDI files and only later, hearing Pantera and Slayer, realized what the tracks had been quoting all along.
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