Editing Rob Hubbard (section)

==Early life and career==
Hubbard was born in 1955<ref>''ZZAP!'' 64, October 1985</ref><ref>''Happy Computer'', July 1986</ref> in [[Kingston upon Hull]], [[England]].<ref name="c64.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.c64.com/interviews/hubbard_part_2.html |title=For the best in C64 nostalgia |website=C64.com |access-date=2016-06-20}}</ref> Hubbard first started playing music at age seven. Whilst at school he played in bands. After leaving school, he went to music college.<ref name="ReferenceS">{{cite web|url=http://www.c64.com/interviews/hubbard.html |title=For the best in C64 nostalgia |website=C64.com |access-date=2016-06-20}}</ref>

In the late seventies, before scoring games, he was a professional studio musician. He decided to teach himself [[BASIC]] and [[machine code]] for the Commodore 64.<ref name="sidmusic.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.sidmusic.org/sid/rhubbard.html |title=Interview with Rob Hubbard |website=Sidmusic.org |access-date=2016-06-20}}</ref>

Rob explained how he acquired his first computer, the Commodore 64, and why he chose that specific computer in an interview, "The buzz that was around at the time was that musicians are gonna have to get into computers." He ended up with a Commodore 64 specifically over any other computer because the others he knew of only had 8k or 16k of memory.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OxRyOSTHDM&t=250s |title=Rob Hubbard - C64 Musical Wizard - Retro Tea Break Interview |date=2019-11-11 |last=The Retro Collective |access-date=2025-03-30 |via=YouTube}}</ref>