What are your favorite 8-bit NES tunes?

[J T]

Some of the old composers managed to do a lot with just a little sound chip. Here are some of my favorites:

Section Z:


Gumshoe:


The Adventures of Bayou Billy


Journey to Silius


Mega Man 2:


Metroid:


Kid Icarus:


Blaster Master


Ninja Gaiden


Castlevania


Battletoads

[DinnerX]

Smb ground theme.

Maybe it's cheating but, this sounds awesome. http://youtu.be/4SJaF8no9t0

[Gamerforlife]

Ninja Gaiden II Act 3-2


Mega Man II Air Man's Stage


which kind of makes me think of this:

Anamanaguchi Air Base


Spy Hunter theme


TMNT


Batman Stage 1


Gremlins 2 Stage 1


Zelda II Title theme


Double Dragon Billy and Jimmy's Theme


Chip n Dale's Rescue Rangers Stage J

[Hobie-wan]

Recca



This has obviously been ripped out of the ROM and played with an emulator. It sounds a little harsher than it does coming out of a real NES IMHO, but still pretty cool that is is playing samples on top of being a totally manic game with no slowdown.

[fastbilly1]

My two favorite not yet mentioned - apart from the obvious Zelda songs:
Bionic Commando - stage 1:


Mario 2 - overworld:

Which has been turned into a song that I play at alot of weddings:

Spy Hunter theme

I bought the soundtrack for Peter Gunn and Henry Mancini's Orchestra Live on record because of Spy Hunter.

[Evildeadmanwalking77]

I can't access youtube from my work computer so I'll just list my favs for now:

Batman - mostly the Axis Chemical Facotry stages theme but the game as a whole is great as well.

T&C Surf Designs
Contra
The Legend of Zelda
Mega Man 2 - Metal Man's stage mostly
Castlevania
Rush N' Attack
Gremlins 2
TMNT 2: The Arcade Game
Tecmo Bowl
Double Dragon
Ghosts N Goblins

[o.pwuaioc]

NES Golden Titles:

Ghouls and Goblins:


Final Fantasy Prelude:


Mega Man III Snake Man stage:


Mega Man Cut Man stage:


Mega Man Elec Man stage:


Legend of Zelda Dungeon theme:


Legend of Zelda Overworld:


Bubble Bobble theme:


Mega Man 2 Dr. Wily's Castle:


Metroid Brinstar:


Castlevania's music (especially Vampire Killer and Bloody Tears) have been done to death, so I'll skip those.

How about some Game Boy love too?

LoZ: LA Marin singing Ballad of the Wind Fish:


LoZ: LA Color Dungeon:


I'd like to see some Master System stuff grace this list too.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

I'll post a more later, but for now

Power Blade - Sector 3 Theme (woefully unappreciated)

[Stark]

Mega Man III Intro

[Gamerforlife]

Spy Hunter theme

I bought the soundtrack for Peter Gunn and Henry Mancini's Orchestra Live on record because of Spy Hunter.

That's some great stuff. I think they had some remixes of that theme in the 2001 Spyhunter game for the PS2. That was a great game