Tim Follin
British game composer who made the ZX Spectrum's beeper sound polyphonic and later pushed NES audio into prog rock.
Tim Follin was a teenager in the mid-1980s when he wrote music in which the Spectrum's one-bit output seemed to play several voices at once — a beeper music feat still cited today. Then came the Commodore 64, the Amiga and above all the NES, where the Silver Surfer soundtrack (1990) is often named the most technically ambitious thing ever wrung from the console's 2A03.
He frequently worked with his brother Geoff Follin, including on Plok. The games were not always as memorable as their music — Silver Surfer is far better to listen to than to play. Follin left the games industry in the mid-2000s.