THE GANTHEM [AR - City] Ganthem was written at Datamost while Phil and I were being courted to sign a contract allowing them to distribute "The Tail of Beta Lyrae" (our first game), have Phil do copy protection for them and me to write game music for their other releases. Phil was checking out the place and I found a spare Atari and sat down and wrote Ganthem. At the time I wasn't sure what it would be for. The inspiration for it was the slave powered boats in the Ben Hur movie. I could picture that guy setting the rowing pace by pounding the drum below decks. Aside from that, I wanted to write an anthem. Well, it didn't turn out to sound like an anthem, so I put a "G" in front (I wrote it) and figured nobody would know what the title meant... I was safe :)