Matt Gray

Matthew Gray

Born 1970-05-?? Birth Place Kent, England Nationality British   Aliases Matt Grey Website Unknown

Matt Gray is a British composer who has composed music and sound for numerous games at Codemasters and System 3. Some of his prominent works include Last Ninja 2 and Driller.

Music Development

Commodore 64

Initially, Gray used Soundmonitor and the Ariston driver, sometimes optimized by game programmers and at that sometimes with declined quality. Soon after, the founders of Codemasters convinced him to write his own driver. Following that, he jammed on a Casio MT-45 and typed the data in assembly.

NES

According to Gray, he had to compose the music in 6502 assembly. He used a sound driver by Gavin Raeburn. In most of the games he works on, he is often uncredited or listed as "Matt Grey".

Gameography

Released	Title	Sample	Notes
1987-??-??	Driller (C64)
1987-??-??	Fruit Machine Simulator (C64)
1987-??-??	Hunter's Moon (C64)
1987-??-??	Mind-Roll (C64)
1987-??-??	Quedex (C64)
1988-??-??	Driller (AMI)
1988-??-??	Last Ninja 2: Back With a Vengeance (C64)
1988-??-??	Pogo Stick Olympics (C64)
1988-??-??	Professional BMX Simulator (C64)
1989-??-??	4 Soccer Simulators (C64)
1989-??-??	Dominator (C64)
1989-??-??	Maze Mania (C64)
1989-??-??	Motocross (C64)		Main Theme was shortened and reused for The Ultimate Stuntman (NES).
1989-??-??	Treasure Island Dizzy (C64)
1989-??-??	Tusker (C64)
1990-??-??	Deliverance: Stormlord II (C64)
1990-??-??	Vendetta (C64)
1990-??-??	Professional BMX Simulator (NES)		Music ported by Gavin Raeburn.
1991-??-??	Big Nose the Caveman (NES)		Miscredited as "Matthew Grey".
1991-??-??	The Ultimate Stuntman (NES)		Not credited.
1991-??-??	Micro Machines: The Original Scale Miniatures (NES)
1993-??-??	Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy (NES)
2003-08-14	Seiklus (W32)		Converted Driller from Amiga version
2005-??-??	Stuck in Castle Nessenstein (NES)		Cover of Mansion Loader from Last Ninja 2
2010-07-31	VVVVVV (C64)		Reused Driller from Commodore version

Picture Gallery

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  September 11, 2014; Gray's Facebook.

Links

• mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,35229/ - MobyGames.
• facebook.com/MattGrayC64 - Facebook Official Fan Page.
• twitter.com/MattGrayC64 - Twitter.
• atlantis-prophecy.org/recollection/?load=interviews&id_interview=188 - Interview from November 18, 2014.
• c64.com/gt_display_interview.php?interview=36 - Interview from November 28, 2014.
• retrogamesmaster.co.uk/matt-gray-interview/ - Interview from 2017.