The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

There was a game called “SILENT THUNDER: A-10 TANK KILLER II” my father had in his collection that I’d ruffle through as a kid.

While the gameplay (brutal flight sim) wasn’t that compelling to child me, it had a full soundtrack made of multiple genres that lives in my brain to this day, especially “Monk’s revenge”. In fact, I think it was setup so that you could put the disk in a CD player and have it play as an audio disk. No idea if any of it counts as “jungle”, but it’s very much 90’s electronic game music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9c6PPlkvBE&list=PLc3TVNLOqs...

Jungle has breakbeats, whereas that music is four-on-the-floor.

Wow this lead me to rediscover this dnb (sry not jungle) cd from 24 years ago: a1 sound carrier ii by dj tonic [0]

Never really liked the CD but there are some unique, weird tracks on there.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D94YaTCeZlU

Lots of games in that era just put the game data as track 1 and then filled the rest of the disc with audio tracks, so that they could command the disc player to handle all playback for them

Rock raiders too