Found this covered by a couple news websites, although none of the game music blogs have picked it up so far:
Redbull Music Academy is publishing a series on the history of Japanese game music
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.jp/jp...g-in-the-carts
the first episode is online already and I have yet to watch it. More episodes follow and it looks like the usual famous composers are onboard.
In order to view the episodes I had to use another link:
http://www.redbull.com/de/de/music/s...arts-episode-1
With so many projects on the history of game music coming up, the fact that Red Bull chose this game music topic for their annual event (this year in Tokyo) is pretty cool. Not like we're extreme athletes or anything :-)