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The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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Re: The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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Related to this is the Buck Bumble[1] theme song[2]:

> “That’s the whole point of it, we didn’t want to do sort of boring techno stuff as well, or jungle, so we picked speed garage, it’s funkier than house and garage.”[3]

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Bumble

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8FQ-N0zb2U)

[3]: https://archive.org/details/64-magazine-15/page/n39/mode/1up

Re: The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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When I read jungle music I totally thought about Diddy Kong Racing or the Donkey King games for SNES.

Nah. It's more in the direction of whatever this is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isiVdlz8bDY

It's educational, reference real events and you may have a laugh at the same time ;)

Re: The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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post #4

When I read jungle music I totally thought about Diddy Kong Racing or the Donkey King games for SNES.

Nah. It's more in the direction of whatever this is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isiVdlz8bDY It's educational, reference real events and you may have a laugh at the same time ;)

This is the video I cam here to see. This guy's a wizard. Here's two of my other favs (the second is more my speed, but the first is more fun):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqpa418gcKc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDKpQQ4NoNA

Re: The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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I've been having a lot of fun learning trackers as a little hobby in the past year with a cheap portable midi keyboard and some samples to play around with. There's just so many resources to learn from these days on youtube which didn't exist 5-10 years ago and I guarantee you if you have the time for it you can go from downloading renoise and a bunch of samples to bumping out some songs within a week or two of learning. There's also a lot to be said for the kind of sound you get out of older hardware, you have kids who are like 20 years old picking up these things and doing shit like emulating the DSP in there to create a VST for use on modern systems for those who don't want to drop a bunch of money on getting an amiga 500 shipped to their door [1], but you also have people pretty much just doing that and busting out octamed or protracker. Lots of cool clips out there [2]. If anyone is looking to have some fun with all this I suggest bizzy b's channel [3], the 'groovin in g' channel [4], as well as stranjah's channel on youtube [5]

[1] https://potenzadsp.com/plugins/amigo/

[2] https://www.instagram.com/p/C0Pf1bNPgWy/?hl=en

[3] https://www.youtube.com/@TheBizzyBScience

[4] https://www.youtube.com/@groovining

[5] https://www.youtube.com/@STRANJAH

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