I have a love for the Mega Drive era of music, stuff like Streets of Rage and Hang On.
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I'm surprised no tracks from mainline Final Fantasy have been posted! So many too choose from, but my personal favourite is Battle at the Big Bridge from FFV.
Also, it's usually overlooked, especially in comparison to other games from the same era, but I do love the soundtrack from Super Mario World.
I'm very surprised no one mentioned Earthbound/Mother 2 yet. The whole thing is just banger after banger, but this one's my favourite:
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Chrono Trigger has a few bangers
Guardia Millennial Fair and Frog's Theme are absolutely brilliant
Turtles in Time for the SNES, every song is a banger
Yoshi's Island for the SNES was great I still hum some of those
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I'm pretty fond of David Wise's work. The easy pick is Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2 for the SNES, but he also worked on Iron sword: Wizards and Warriors II for the NES which has some great tracks too. Also the entire Battletoads and Snake Rattle n Roll soundtracks if I recall correctly (I was a Nintendo kid, if it isn't obvious).
If it isn't stretching too far forward, Einhander on the PS1. It's still the side scroller I judge others against and the soundtrack just feels "right" from start to finish.
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Mega Man II.
Dr. Wily's castle stage 1.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8tRMB0J4rM&pp=0gcJCYsCo7VqN5tD
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Mega Man 2 still has the most consistently awesome soundtrack of any video game ever. Just banger-after-banger.
Sonic 2 - Mystic Cave Zone
Ducktales NES Moon Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF32DRg9opA
R-type. Specifically the tg-16 version.
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:
The Spring Yard and Starlight Zones from the original Sonic game.
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Top Gear - SNES:
https://youtu.be/cxAXTHBxgTw?si8nO81VKWhW6JohvY
This was better than a lot of electronic music available in the US at the time. Absolute bangers.
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Bloody Tears is the most iconic Castlevania tune for me.
Best Piano Version I've heard: https://youtu.be/u9GRIrHtM8U
OG NES VERSION: https://youtu.be/e2oZtvjg5oA
Deep Blue immediately comes to mind:
But a deeper more interesting cut would be the entire Pictionary OST:
That game's soundtrack goes so much harder than you'd think it should.
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@bilb Jurassic Park 2 has a surprisingly good soundtrack. Barely played the game other than listening to the .spcs though
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This is my cellphone ringtone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-B3Q0cRrY
But I really like Road Rash 3 speed metal soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZVx18ONA5M&list=RDMZVx18ONA5M
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People know about the bizarrely complex prog rock intro theme from Sosltice (NES) but in case you don't, listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gObHt1uZA
Wanna also highlight the theme song for Phantasy Star 4: End of the Millennium. Amazing game. Way ahead of its time! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMplusdva5k
I've chosen two Genesis/Megadrive songs, even though I'm generally a SNES guy, lol.
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