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What are your favorite tracks from the NES, Genesis, SNES, TG16, etc. era? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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I love these games and I think the soundtracks are underrated as an essential part of their appeal. I'll Start with one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk72RMv9d0s

Tube of Medusa from Ecco2: Tides of Time.

Personally, I think the Sega CD version soundtrack is... fine, but it has a different composer. If I remember correctly, it;s the composer from the first Ecco. In my opinion, it's inoffensive, but completely forgettable.

EDIT: I have edited the topic to include older stuff.

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[–] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

There are too many. I'll post here some lesser known tracks and games, and no JRPGs. And no CD based tracks, just good old 8-bit and 16-bit chip music. :-) Invidious is a privacy respecting alternative frontend for YouTube, so I have both links to the songs. Also I have a little bit of bias towards SNES.

  • Slime World 1 - Global Gladators by Tommy Tallarico (Genesis / Mega Drive): YouTube | Invidious
  • Stage 03 - Over Horizon by Masaharu Iwata (NES): YouTube | Invidious
  • Track 5 - Monster Max by David Wise (Game Boy): YouTube | Invidious
  • House of the Dead - Addams Family Values by Keith Tinman (Super Nintendo): YouTube | Invidious

Alright, I can't hold it any longer back, here are few which doesn't care my above rules:

  • Battle Theme - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest by Ryuji Sasai (Super Nintendo): YouTube | Invidious
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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

    Mystic Quest has so many bangers. I feel like it's getting the acknowledgement it deserves nowadays, but I remember when it was a pretty deep cut on music posts like this one.

    The Dark King is still probably my favorite final boss theme, and Doom Tower right before it is amazing too.

    Basically the entire soundtrack is way better than it deserves to be for the game that it's in.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    The OST was always decent on mystic quest, but the game itself was not so much. Also, good as the OST was, it was surrounded by (imo) superior OSTs from other Square games.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago* (2 children)

    While I do think anything by Mitsuda beats it, imo Mystic Quest is the best Final Fantasy soundtrack by a healthy margin (but then I also think Uematsu is pretty overrated, so that might not be so surprising).

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    The boss track is also amazing. The soundtrack had no business for being this good, especially so early in the consoles lifetime. This game was also my very first turn based JRPG... it was a bit sad in Europe for RPG fans back then... BTW he did another SNES RPG soundtrack "Rudora no Hihou". It doesn't sound as good off course, but is worth exploring: Strange Encounter

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