Tributes paid to Ben Daglish, 1980s video game music legend who has died age 52

Tributes are being paid to Ben Daglish, the influential composer of many video games from the 1980s, who has died aged 52.

Daglish composed the music for a number of games released in the 80s, including Cobra, Trap, The Last Ninja and Deflektor, on all three major 8-bit computers of the time: the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC.

According to a message from Sarah, Ben Daglish's wife, posted to Facebook, the composer died on 1st October from complications associated with lung cancer.

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