Scott Marshall

Scott Marshall

Gender Male Born Unknown Birth Place Princeton, New Jersey, USA Nationality American   Website mysite.verizon.net/scottathome/

Scott Marshall studied piano when he was 6 years old. Later, he also studied clarinet and percussion. When he was 13, he started composing and arranging music for his school's orchestra. While he attended Princeton High School (the school that Ghoul School (NES) is based on), he studied advanced classical music theory. While he was in the high school band, he played xylophone and timpani. In the '70s, Marshall played and sang in piano bars. In the '90s, he started working for Absolute Entertainment and developed a couple games there: Ghoul School and Space Shuttle Project. Marshall says that his musical influences for his video game music include Philip Glass. For Space Shuttle Project (NES), he says the inspirations for his music were from Glass and the movie "The Right Stuff".

Marshall was also friends with sound programmer Nick Eastridge, and would work on a few projects with him.

While Marshall no longer composes music for games, he does still compose music and is a photographer as well.

Audio Development

Game Boy

Marshall created MIDI files that were converted to his own sound driver.

WWF King of the Ring, Pong: The Next Level and Galaga: Destination Earth uses Nick Eastridge's sound driver.

NES

Marshall composed the music on his Yamaha Clavinova and sequenced them on a DOM-30. Then, he would arrange his music for the NES specifically using Dr. T's KCS on an Atari ST. Then, Marshall used a program called 'muscon' which converted his Dr. T's files to Imagineering's NES sound driver by Stuart E. Ross.

The sequencer Marshall used: [1]

For the title music for WWF King of the Ring, he probably wrote MIDI files on his sequencer. The MIDI files were then sent to Nick Eastridge to convert to his sound driver.

Sega Master System

Marshall coded a sound engine and wrote the music in assembly.

Sega Genesis

On port of Frogger, Marshall coded a custom sound engine and wrote the music in assembly.

Gameography

Released	Title	Sample	Notes
1988-??-??	Touchdown Football (A78)
1990-06-??	R.C. Grand Prix (SMS)
1991-09-??	InfoGenius Productivity Pak: Spell Checker and Calculator (GB)
1991-11-??	Space Shuttle Project (NES)
1992-03-??	Ghoul School (NES)
1992-??-??	R.C. Grand Prix (GG)
1993-09-??	WWF King of the Ring (GB)		Title Screen
1993-11-??	Steel Talons (SNES)		Additional Music
1993-11-??	WWF King of the Ring (NES)		Title Screen
1994-??-??	Star Trek: The Next Generation - Advanced Holodeck Tutorial (GG)		Sound Driver
1994-??-??	Super Battletank (GG)		Sound Driver
1995-??-??	Star Trek: Generations - Beyond the Nexus (GG)		Sound Driver
1998-??-??	Frogger (GEN)		Arranger
1999-11-15	NASCAR Challenge (GBC)
1999-12-??	Pong: The Next Level (GBC)		Arranger
1999-12-??	Tonka Raceway (GBC)
2000-09-23	Frogger II: Swampy's Revenge (GBC)
2000-09-25	Galaga: Destination Earth (GBC)
2000-09-??	Ultimate Paintball (GBC)
2000-12-07	Nicktoons Racing (GBC)
Unreleased	Hellfire Zone (DOS)
Unreleased	Pirate Game (GB)

Picture Gallery

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  Circa 1987 working on Crossbow (A78). Submitted to the VGMPF by himself.

Links

• mobygames.com/person/106718/scott-marshall/ - MobyGames.
• facebook.com/scottathome - Facebook.
• youtube.com/@MisterScott99 - YouTube.