Best NES/SNES era videogame soundtracks?

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

Yeah, those are some pretty great soundtracks. Always was fond of this Enigma ripoff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdloNuj-RhE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IIKv9e6q4

Not sure if this quite the right thread, but, man, I always dug the Last Ninja soundtrack but I'm not really sure how far I ever made it as a kid and the second level ("Wilderness") theme is blowing my mind right now. The sounds they got out of the SID chip!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RsRszs2_9U

I remember Kirby's Adventure having a pretty ahead-of-its time soundtrack, all blippy and minimal, and unless my TV's audio is weird, surprisingly deep bottom end on some tunes

these are pretty amazing. Wolvertine Adamantium Rage for SNES and Genesis both have mind-blowing OSTs in completely different ways. Genesis has some kind of fantastically noisey slowcore industrial stoner metal thing going:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcV4lduB1uQ

SNES has some really crazy electro drum kit sounds and samples of thing like record scratching and someone going w-w-w-w-wolverine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBwVsgLYP9Y

lol Wolvertine

https://laurelrusswurm.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/maxhead.gif?w=320&h=200

B-be-be sure to drink your W-w-Wolvertine

Genesis had some pretty epic soundtracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7-AHModlMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTQIiIKummw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2-PtDDS2Lw

most of the Terranigma score is generic, but it has some pretty weird / worthwhile moments like this one

https://youtu.be/J3vk5N8TyYU?t=51m3s

god i love that Genesis synth sound

NES

duck tales
bugs bunny birthday blow out
bubble bobble
meagman
castlevania
battle toads
river city ransom
pac-man
contra
dr. mario
legend of zelda
kirby's adventure
ghosts n' goblins

The Gunstar Heroes soundtrack is my all-time favorite Genesis OST, but you almost don't notice it when you're playing because the game keeps you busy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjuyQP__4kI

You all ought to check out Smooth Mcgroove’s acapella (probably autotune assisted) covers of videogame classics. There’s almost a hundred of them so here’s a sampler with my three favorite game songs:

Ducktales - Moon
https://youtu.be/Nhy2aNEPshw

Chrono Trigger - corridors of time
https://youtu.be/JtKCt8Afk9s

DKC2 - Stickerbrush symphony
https://youtu.be/_fxEPM8OKFU

xpost to Moka, that guy rules

yeah wow this is a major songwriting step up from the last couple of AC records