{"id":12917,"date":"2024-01-12T14:37:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T13:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/people-laughed-at-it-the-unlikely-story-behind-the-music-of-crash-bandicoot\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T14:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T13:37:44","slug":"people-laughed-at-it-the-unlikely-story-behind-the-music-of-crash-bandicoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/people-laughed-at-it-the-unlikely-story-behind-the-music-of-crash-bandicoot\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People laughed at it\u2019: the unlikely story behind the music of Crash Bandicoot"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many, the game became the sound of the 90s \u2013 but Josh Mancell tells us how the music for PlayStation\u2019s first mascot game originated in Kraft cheese and Kraftwerk<\/p>\n

\u2018When people are playing video games, they want to have fun,\u201d Josh Mancell, composer for Naughty Dog\u2019s early Crash Bandicoot games, tells me. It\u2019s a simple statement, but one that laid the foundations for everything the PlayStation\u2019s most famous mascot would come to represent. Even when players were banging their heads against their CRT TVs in frustration as the paranoid, eerie music of Slippery Climb began playing again for the hundredth time, Crash Bandicoot was fun. And Mancell\u2019s soundtrack was there, from beginning to end, to remind you of that.<\/p>\n

The characteristically eccentric, manic energy that fuelled Crash\u2019s madcap platforming adventures didn\u2019t come out of nowhere, though. \u201cAs I was working on the game, I was definitely throwing stuff against the wall to see what would stick,\u201d Mancell says.<\/p>\n

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\nFor many, the game became the sound of the 90s \u2013 but Josh Mancell tells us how the music for PlayStation\u2019s first mascot game originated in Kraft cheese and Kraftwerk
\n\u2018When people are playing video games, they want to have fun,\u201d Josh Mancell, composer for Naughty Dog\u2019s early Crash Bandicoot games, tells me. It\u2019s a simple statement, but one that laid the foundations for everything the PlayStation\u2019s most famous mascot would come to represent. Even when players were banging their heads against their CRT TVs in frustration as the paranoid, eerie music of Slippery Climb began playing again for the hundredth time, Crash Bandicoot was fun. And Mancell\u2019s soundtrack was there, from beginning to end, to remind you of that.
\nThe characteristically eccentric, manic energy that fuelled Crash\u2019s madcap platforming adventures didn\u2019t come out of nowhere, though. \u201cAs I was working on the game, I was definitely throwing stuff against the wall to see what would stick,\u201d Mancell says. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For many, the game became the sound of the 90s \u2013 but Josh Mancell tells us how the music for PlayStation\u2019s first mascot game originated in Kraft cheese and Kraftwerk \u2018When people are playing video games, they want to have fun,\u201d Josh Mancell, composer for Naughty Dog\u2019s early Crash Bandicoot games, tells me. It\u2019s a …<\/p>\n

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