González would continue his work as sprite designer and musician for New Frontier's future titles with games such as North & South, which garnered great reviews. González's first published game was Hostages, released in 1990, in which he did the sprites design and the soundtrack. The company officials liked what they saw, and hired the young designer the very next day. González began his official career in the video game industry at the age of sixteen in 1988, as a graphic designer at the small Spanish developer New Frontier, after knocking on their office door and showing his ZX Spectrum designs. Through this work, González had his music featured in MSX ports of a few Spectrum titles released exclusively in the Spanish market by MCM Software, including Altered Beast, Snoopy, Power Drift and Ghostbusters 2. His interest in programming also led him to begin program his own sound drivers with the Z80 assembler. Despite having no formal musical training, González had a good ear for melody, and began to compose video game music. ![]() Īs a teenager, González was introduced to a music software application on the ZX Spectrum titled Wham! The Music Box, which was lent to him by a friend. His first program was a pixel graphic program. ![]() González first began his interest in programming video games at the age of eleven, when he received his Casio PB-700, and began to write small programs and games in BASIC.
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