Best NES/SNES era videogame soundtracks?

No Ecco the Dolphin love?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLk04DibLWs

Plok! (SNES) had fucking great music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jbJSftFr20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzRjk6Ioqd0

lufia 2 was doooooooope

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

Another personal fave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8A6dKv62hc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pis_Y2bkPhY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd9Ufvc3vcw

this is such a pimp ass thread

SMB2, Blaster Master and Jackal all seconded.

BTW, this is off topic, but what is the deal in Jackal, when you finish a level but don't really kick ass, instead of showing you the image of the dudes in the jeep going top speed and yelling "YEAHH!!" the game displays the dudes kind of rummaging through the jeep asking... "Here?" That always baffled us as kids. Are they trying to remember where they stowed their lunch?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtLVxW0T9HE

whoa theres actually stuff in that thats not in the game..

The song that plays when you lose the game (after you die 3 times) is pretty awesome also.

I woke up with this stuck in my head the other morning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY60LfUyGD4&feature=PlayList&p=A8687A01480F0DDE&index=11

Maybe it's because I played this as an impressionable young child but the music from the end of Metroid II is straight up haunting.

Ducktails NES moon theme

― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, November 25, 2009 5:38 AM (1 month ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L6c0GkpsgA&feature=PlayList&p=A024CD20E2B13667&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=41

still occasionally haunts mah dreams

Nevermind that it's a Power Rangers game, I always loved this theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3LY4TtJjo8

Jim Power: Impossible game; great music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkplK2KnQ2E&fmt=18

Not from nes/snes but keygen and chiptune at that but I couldn't find any other thread to post it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp1mVv8lgGk

happy to see blades of steel here, that is some boogie shit

I never know if I hate or love keygen music.

A friend showed me this game, an R-Type-y vertical scroller, just for the music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wy7WT-s8OI&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2A4CdbRDow&feature=related

<3 super aleste

soooo many youtube links

i always dug the music in the original TMNT game. so hip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYL1ZVsIM_4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV6Y59-jYhE&feature=related

Star Tropics 2

I remember having my mind blown the day someone revealed that the title theme in the NES TMNT game was actually "Stone Cold Crazy."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NWygbzmQrA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnGaEk0rZdU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB6XeZrYjf0

Got a projector the other day, and it's a bit old so the resolution isn't all that, but it is PERFECT for playing emulated NES, SNES, and Genesis games. Suddenly something that was bleeping out of a tiny box is larger-than-life and devastatingly cinematic. When i have the projector going (an InFocus DLP, $200 used on amazon) I crank the volume and have a drink and a smoke and last night when I tried Ninja Gaiden 2 the opening cutscene blew my freakin' mind. The sound is a little crappy on that youtube video but with bass boost on a stereo the drums are nearly perfect old school metal. I use NesTopia, which allows you to mix the individual sound channels, and turn down the square waves just a little bit.

I was having a great time w this game until i got to level 2 or something and the eagles started and i ran into a half hour straight of cursing "I hate the effing eagles!" before quitting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAfTLSGxFxc&list=PLB0xooEkKbSY6eXEfztYHdFLKokmN13vU

This is a brilliant song in the Genesis Castlevania when you are at the character select screen. Some killer drums here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOg0GZZuCak

One last one. I learned how to play this on a piano. Play it at half speed and it sounds like a Yma Sumac backing track.

I'm sitting down w Megaman 2 theme music trying to figure it out and damn if it doesn't start off sounding really close to Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning". You have the droning bass notes (pretty much playing the exact intervals and timing of John Cale's viola) and a responding arpeggio up a few octaves that starts on the 1&.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRPXRHS4XNQ

all u ever need

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAD0E16116DDDFB9E

amazing music throughout though

the music in rare's games was often great

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wise_(composer)

man what a genius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4guZ5SozW8&list=PLC600EF6ACFCD6654

It sort of makes sense that Ecco The Dolphin would have a killer soundtrack. But this song is just devastatingly cool.

Charlie Brooker brought my attention to this one. pretty nice eh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ-02RffS0E

i ran into a half hour straight of cursing "I hate the effing eagles!" before quitting

take it easy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fnTJ5SF2uM

This ambient synth jazz could have been written by Angelo Badalamenti. Someone photoshop a Moogle dancing w the drawf in the Black Lodge.

robocop otm, was the same on the amstrad...best thing about the game by some distance iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx-BhyAkDdY

Here is another song from Final Fantasy VI that has a really great bass line. The bass sound is wonderful in this game, it almost sounds like a live take rather than sequenced. To me, it's a very Sgt. Pepper bass line!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsxJyJ-SLiA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1nKAZ1uJY8

Hah I've been playing along to my friend playing Super Mario Bros. I guess I should've grabbed a fedora and filmed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSW4M28XQg&list=PL2A1A350EBB242BDF

Really insanely cool guitar solo on this one. Hard to believe it isn't a real guitar!

a lot of Treasure games have good soundtracks but Dynamite Headdy's is the most slept-on, it's so theatrical and suits the world perfectly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhGKsDze8gs

sometimes i'll fall into a k-hole where i just listen to this credits music for half an hour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn_onEJ82rk

There was a time when video games (especially NES/SNES ones) were my life when I was a kid.

These were cool:

*Goonies II - guide song (NES)
*Goonies II - first-person mode (NES)

But my ultimate favourite, which I was pretty much beyond obsessed with was Metroid for the NES. Every. Single. Song.

I hear it now, and it's like a hundred memories hit me. Place, time, smells (!), environment, touch, everything. It's insane. There was probably something wrong with me.

Metroid's escape scene (NES):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2k01qmi99k

Metroid's ending (NES):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFUGG6SFiQQ

I was also into bands porting the tunes into traditional rock instruments. Even though The Advantage is one of my favourites, the Metroid Metal tunes really nail the intensity for me:

Escape:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OK09_eyiQs

Ending:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKXGYx4BRBs

Also, T&C Surf was cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciigfD7Li0U

And another fave was Punch Out's training theme

for those about to metroid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuzzV6xtSFE&t=2m35s

is that liz lemon's agent?

Journey To Silius
Mega Man 2 & 3
Demon's Crest
Super Metroid
Chrono Trigger
All The Castlevanias
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Yoshi's Island
Zelda: A Link To The Past & Link's Awakening
Strider
F-Zero

I also love modern throwback games that have 8/16-bit inspired soundtracks, like Fez, Super Meat Boy & VVVVVV

One time on my birthday a friend gave me a CD with the complete Streets of Rage 3 soundtrack. Some of it is absolutely crushing industrial techno.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0UG6auhzs&list=PL0D7D875A11C51ECE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZnIWJA0WN0&list=PL0D7D875A11C51ECE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofmHCsZMMjw&list=PL0D7D875A11C51ECE