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Think about your favorite video game growing up. You can probably imagine exactly how it sounded and even hum some of the tunes.

As it turns out,\xa0a lot of the iconic video game scores of the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s were created by a group of women, young Japanese composers - sometimes just out of college. This music has such a strong legacy -\xa0but it\u2019s almost impossible to find information about the women who wrote it.\xa0

So for this episode of Get Wired, Host Lauren Goode talks to Dia Lacina--a writer and video game music expert. Dia recently went on a journey to find out more about this group of composers\u2014who they were, and what they worked on\u2014and ultimately, how these women shaped the scores we know so well, despite working in a male-dominated gaming industry.

And then later on in the show, we hear from E\xedmear Noone, a conductor who has brought 8-bit video game music to the symphony.