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The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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695 points atan2 | 1 comments | 13 Nov 24 18:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ChrisArchitect ◴[13 Nov 24 21:07 UTC] No.42130006[source]▶
To me there is/was a natural connection between electronic music and game development just by the sheer involvement with technology. And jungle just happened to be very popular and going thru some major grassroots scene development around the same time. Personally, alongside earlier exposure to popular/underground dance music, my deeper exposure to electronic music came from tracker music and the demoscene which of course went hand in hand with developments in the game industry.
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dylan604 ◴[13 Nov 24 21:30 UTC] No.42130203[source]▶
It's also just a natural thing for a game to make bleeps/bloops/whoomps/booms vs storing raw audio type data.
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1. dpc050505 ◴[13 Nov 24 22:08 UTC] No.42130644[source]▶
I've been playing a bit of 3d pinball space cadet last week and I kept thinking how the game sounds could fit wonderfully into breakcore and acid tekno tracks.