Well, when computers only had a few handful of kilobytes of RAM, we did not rely on samples... (Martin Galway being an exception, see Arkanoid on the C64 - but

Well, when computers only had a few handful of kilobytes of RAM, we did not rely on samples... (Martin Galway being an exception, see Arkanoid on the C64 - but it is Genius and it merged organically with the system, it progressed the technique as opposed to bypassing it.)