"Stage 2" from The Humans on the Amiga (1992)
Composers: Barry Lynch & Ian Howe
Album: No Official Release
Publisher: Mirage Technologies
Developer: Imagitec Design
The Humans came out in the time of Lemmings, being a side-scrolling puzzle-based platformer that uses caveman-esque humans with differing abilities coupled with context-specific item usages to reach the end of a stage within a certain amount of time. The game was initially released on the Amiga, but the ports for the SNES and Genesis had the odd setting that required the player to either play with sound effects or music, but not both. I bring that up because music is the whole reason we're here on Wednesdays and we've seen over the years (not decades) how different games manage to cram both music and sound effects into games, often requiring a sacrifice between one of the two options that produce sound on limited sound chips.
Anyway!
All of that preamble because I don't have a lot to say about this song apart from that I like the intro and I find the rest of the song really catchy. It works both on its own and as music that plays during a side-scrolling 2D platforming puzzle game that is less focused on action (in the early levels before Dinosaur enemies are introduced) and seemingly more on entertaining the player while they solve the puzzle. That is, unless you're playing either of the aforementioned ports with the music turned off. Then it's your loss.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
I Will Find the Answer
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