A Quite Jazzy Jackrabbit

So, since I've been working in the labs a lot recently and have been looking for inspiration to keep me awake working in a timely manner, I was on the prowl for new game music to listen to. Most of my favorite soundtracks weren't that great to listen to while sleep-deprived... They were either too high-pitched (Mega Man series), or too quiet and soothing (The Legend of Zelda series), so... I started looking through my tumblr playlist for songs that I'd reblogged to possibly listen to later.

I used an awesome program called trntbl, but I won't talk about that right now. What I need to talk about right now was how I reblogged the Jazz Jackrabbit theme and didn't even realize it.

For some reason up until now my memory of that soundtrack was being very eerie and kind of intimidating, so I barely even thought about it. But after listening to the whole soundtrack three times since last sunday, I think it's had a different impact on my older self.

"Holy crap... what year is this?!"

I loved this game as a kid. I still to this day don't understand how or why it got into my hands (my parents would've never bought me a game like this... probably had something to do with my cousins), but man, whatever great power is responsible for this... I thank them. Greatly. Well, right now, specfically for the soundtrack.

Another thing I learned by doing a bit of research a few days ago was this was actually Epic Games' first release back in '94. Amazing that they started with something so... so... *ahem*

Well, anyways, I'd like to share some awesome tidbits from the soundtrack that I love. Here they are:

Not to be cliche or anything, but some of these actually feel pretty gears of warsy to me. I guess it sort of feels like, consistent with Epic's style, at least.