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\n\tBobby Prince<\/a>, the renowned video game composer who scored titles like Doom<\/em> and Wolfenstein 3D<\/em>, has died at the age of 81.<\/p>\n \n\tPrince\u2019s family confirmed the composer\u2019s death, adding that he \u201cpassed peacefully into Heaven\u2019s Musical Gates on June 16, 2026.\u201d No cause of death was provided.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cHis innovative work helped define an era of gaming and influenced generations of players around the world,\u201d Prince\u2019s family wrote in a Legacy.com obituary<\/a>. \u201cThrough his compositions and sound design for landmark titles including Doom<\/em>, Doom II<\/a><\/em>, Wolfenstein 3D<\/em>, Rise of the Triad<\/em>, and Duke Nukem 3D<\/em>, Bobby helped establish video game music as a respected art form. In 2005, the Video Game Industry honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tid Software, the company behind the Doom<\/em> and Wolfenstein<\/em> series, wrote on social media \u201cRest in peace to the video game music pioneer Bobby Prince. Your music lives on forever.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tPrince\u2019s death comes just a month after the Library of Congress announced<\/a> that the composer\u2019s Doom<\/em> score would be preserved in the National Recording Registry, a rare achievement for a video game soundtrack.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe video game Doom<\/em> brought a heavy metal energy to MS-DOS systems across the globe, while at the same time pioneering the ever-popular first-person shooter genre. Key to Doom<\/em>\u2019s popularity was the adrenaline-fueled soundtrack created by freelance video game music composer Bobby Prince,\u201d the Library of Congress wrote in May<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n