Wise cut his teeth on 1987 winter sports game Slalom, the first title from the Stamper brothers' rebranded Rare studio and the first NES game to be developed outside Japan. I thought 'yes, I've sold another one', so I took them upstairs, started getting the finance papers out - and they offered me a job." I'd written some of the stuff I was demonstrating, told them when they asked, Tim asked if I had an office. This was the early days of MIDI, and the CX5 let you connect keyboards to computers. Two guys came in one day - Tim and Chris Stamper - and I was demonstrating some a Yamaha CX5 music computer to them. "On the way to that pursuit, I was working in a music shop. "Originally I wanted to be somebody like Phil Collins, someone who goes from being a drummer to writing songs and preferably being quite well known for it," he recalls. Hum just a few bars of 'Jungle Japes' wherever nostalgic gamers can be found and they'll be sure to know the tune note-for-note - not a bad legacy for a man who started out selling drums and keyboards. As a third of Rare's trio of ground-breaking composers, he was responsible for the tunes behind Battletoads, Wizards & Warriors, the RC Pro-Am series and countless licensed titles for the NES and Game Boy - plus, of course, the ever-popular earworms that form the Donkey Kong Country soundtracks. On the off-chance that you haven't heard of David Wise, you've almost certainly heard his music.
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