He's an impresario with a little-boy streak. He plays a guitar shaped like a sniper rifle, keeps pirates by the pool and is one of the world's leading composers of video game music. He can rhapsodize for long stretches about Bugs Bunny, Spider-Man, Rocky Balboa and Beethoven, whose bust, draped in a scarf, looks over a piano in his home in the hills of San Juan Capistrano. "If Beethoven were around today he'd be a video game composer," said Tommy Tallarico, who has worked on more than 300 titles, including "Mortal Kombat" and "Knockout Kings," that have about $4 billion in sales. "Video game music is the most unique in history. When you play a video game, that character is you. His music is...
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