The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

https://pikuma.com/blog/jungle-music-video-game-drum-bass

Jungle music was found in countless games from the early 90s. This article goes over what jungle is, where it comes from, and why it was the perfect match for PlayStation & Nintendo 64 games.

27 points · 4 comments · view on lemmy.world

4 Comments

Jayb151@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d

That's actually a very interesting article. While living in the times, I wouldn't have put my finger on it. But reading this decades later, these jungle soundtracks very much exemplify the time.

frankenswine@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d

awesome read! thanks for posting!

noxypaws@pawb.social · 2 pts · 255d

immediately Rollcage comes to mind. that game undoubtedly introduced me to jungle and d&b.

and the spiritual sequel Grip kept that going with a banger soundtrack too

MrPnut@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 148d

Unreal tournament (1999) got me into dnb originally