I think the first I heard of it was in another game, Ambrosia Software's top-down scroller Deimos Rising, which came bundled with my Pixar lamp iMac back in the early 2000s.
The soundtrack to that game really stuck with me, as it was installed on the eMacs in our classroom so we played it during indoor recess. Since the addons page is long gone, I threw the soundtrack up on the internet archive.[1] Ben Spees, who did the Soundtrack went on to found the math rock band Mercury Tree.[2]
I mostly remember Ambrosia for the Escape Velocity series though, especially Nova.
