Sid Meier's C.P.U. Bach
C.P.U. Bach is an interactive music-generating program designed by Sid Meier and Jeff Briggs for the 3DO. It can create Baroque music in the style of Bach for various keyboard, wind, or string instruments and…
Sid Meier's C.P.U. Bach is a music developed by MicroProse Software, Inc., released 31 December 1994 on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer.
What Sid Meier's C.P.U. Bach is
Sid Meier's C.P.U. Bach is a music game developed by MicroProse Software, Inc. and released in 1994. It is available on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
C.P.U. Bach is an interactive music-generating program designed by Sid Meier and Jeff Briggs for the 3DO. It can create Baroque music in the style of Bach for various keyboard, wind, or string instruments and in a variety of forms (e.g., concerti, fugues, minuets, chorales). The compositions are then performed by the software with synchronous 3D graphics on screen showing the virtual instruments being played. The name of the program is a pun on the initials of one of Bach's actual sons, C.P.E. Bach, and "CPU".
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Sid Meier's C.P.U. Bach launched on 31 December 1994, within three weeks of Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw and Mario Andretti Racing.
Released around the same time: Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw, Mario Andretti Racing.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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