Return of Classical Music as a genre...through video games?

Could Classical music find its way to becoming much more popular by the late 2000s or early 2010s using video games as a medium?
 
Maybe a bigger push towards western RPG's which tend to use classical influences in their soundtracks?
 
Considering how many "standard snippets" of classical music remain ingrained in popular culture partly due to video games IOTL, what's the qualifier for the allohistory?

I mean, people can still recognize Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, or Khatchaturian's Saber Dance, or Holst's The Planets suite.
 
Do you mean popular in the sense that they'd incorporate existing classical pieces into videogames, as per Tetris, or that they'd push orchestrated versions of existing video game tunes much more into the mainstream than IOTL?

If the former, I've no idea. I guess if Nintendo – for some near-ASB reason – fired all of their composers at the end of the NES era and hired folks to find and sequence public domain tunes in their first-party games without composing original tunes, that'd probably make their consumers a lot more interested in classical music, especially when the SNES came about.

If the latter, Squaresoft (and later Square Enix) could push orchestrations of FF/DQ tunes to classical stations in the early 90s, and they might actually get significant airplay. (Heck, they should've done this with To Zanarkand IOTL, but they didn't.) If they were successful, they would encourage more developers to orchestrate their tunes, and eventually orchestrated game scores could become as ubiquitous on classical radio as film scores.

Otherwise, I can't exactly see video game music becoming mainstream or classical music replacing original compositions in games.
 
Good point. And it won't be just video games.
The anime Legend of Galactic Heroes is (among many other things) notable for its exclusive use of 19th century classical music instead of any original soundtrack. You'd take a mindset like that and apply it to video games, since there's plenty of compositions that would work to illustrate particular levels, cutscenes, etc.
 
Could Classical music find its way to becoming much more popular by the late 2000s or early 2010s using video games as a medium?
That is OTL, videogame saved orchestras in USA and other regions, the only other thing would be they adopt CD early(a more sucessful NEC?) and add Classical Music as...
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If the former, I've no idea. I guess if Nintendo – for some near-ASB reason – fired all of their composers at the end of the NES era and hired folks to find and sequence public domain tunes in their first-party games without composing original tunes, that'd probably make their consumers a lot more interested in classical music, especially when the SNES came about.
http://www.altoriot.com/ravels-bolero-could-have-been-the-theme-to-the-legend-of-zelda/ The Irony, as Miyamoto wanted Ravel Bolero as the zelda theme but the copyright would not expire till much later the game would have been shipped
 
That is OTL, videogame saved orchestras in USA and other regions, the only other thing would be they adopt CD early(a more sucessful NEC?) and add Classical Music as...

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Indeed, so how we can make the effect larger, earlier, and more widespread?
 
A somehow even more successful Halo series? But again, refining the Halo main theme to be even better at making people's arm hair stand up would be a challenge...
 
Indeed, so how we can make the effect larger, earlier, and more widespread?
As Say Before if videogames adopt CD earlier(the earliest was the NEC PC-ENGINE IN 1988) would help, specially if companies, western and japanese one adopt classic music for RPG and Adventure games
this was the first game with CD soundtrack even if PSM based, with Redbook audio you could put mozard or bethoven in the overworld.
A somehow even more successful Halo series? But again, making the Halo main theme even better at making people's arm hair stand up would be a challenge...
Unless Multi, Halo is as Popular as possible
 
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