Musician (video game)

Musician
DeveloperPhilips
PublisherPhilips
DesignerJon Shuttleworth[1]
ProgrammerPeter van Twist[1]
PlatformPhilips Videopac G7000
Release
GenreMusic

Musician is cartridge number 31 in the official Magnavox/Philips line of games for the Philips Videopac. It came in a cardboard box roughly double the size of a standard Videopac game box, containing a keyboard overlay in the style of a piano keyboard;[3] the cartridge, in a standard Videopac box with a single sheet where the manual would usually be; and a landscape format manual, over double the size of a standard game manual.

The purpose of the set is to turn the user's Videopac into a musical keyboard. It supports recording and editing sequences of up to 81 notes, although there is no way to save apart from writing a composition down on music manuscript. In the manual there are the following pieces of sheet music:

References

  1. 1 2 Cassidy, William (12 March 2001). "Interview: Jon Shuttleworth". Classic Gaming. Archived from the original on 2 July 2001.
  2. ↑ "Philips Videopac 31 - Musician". Centre for Computing History. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  3. ↑ "Video Screen". Computer & Video Games. No. 2. UK: EMAP National Publications, Ltd. December 1981. p. 25.


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