Even today, it's hard to consider video game music as a simple “musical genre”, as it has long since broken down every conceivable stylistic barrier, keeping pace with the technical evolution of machines.Its inexhaustible catalog has produced many masterpieces, and while we'll certainly have to wait years before seeing the works of Nobuo Uematsu, Jeremy Soule or Chris Hülsbeck included in the pantheon of our musical heritage, gamers know that recognition will come sooner or later.The 100 essential soundtracks presented in this book look back over almost thirty years of game music, each of them having contributed, in its own way and on its own scale, to the evolution of the genre both technically and purely musically.Language of the book: French.