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Top 10 NES Original Soundtracks (OSTs) [top ten]
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And we’re back, this time with my top 10 NES original soundtracks! Yeah yeah I know, I’m doing things out of order here, sue me. Awhile back I posted my Top 10 SNES Original Soundtracks (OSTs), because the SNES is the best thing ever and its music was doubly so, but I felt like the good ol’ classic 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System deserved its day to shine as well. So here we are. I’m not going to go into another long spiel about my connection to and appreciation of video game music as a whole, you can read about that in my top 10 SNES original soundtracks list. The quick version is that I have been a musician since my youth, I’m working on my own video game soundtrack, and I love video game music, a lot. This is where it all began.I also love the NES, which was really the first time that I began to see the true potential in video games. Sure, I had played many video games before it, from arcade games to Atari games to TI computer games and more, but the NES came along and changed everything, due in no small part to a little plumber named Mario. I may view the Super Nintendo as my favorite system of all-time, but the NES still has a special place in my heart. Anyway, you didn’t come here for this, you came here for music. So let’s get to the list! Like last time, I have a self-imposed rule for this list; I will only choose one soundtrack per franchise. Otherwise a few key franchises (Mega Man) might overrun the entire list, and that would not be fun, would it? I’m also choosing one song to post with each soundtrack, but this is not a best songs list, it is a best soundtracks list. The chosen song is meant only to give a taste of what the soundtrack has to offer. So let’s go already!
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09/25/13, 23:09 Edited: 09/26/13, 02:51
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I’m going to be totally honest here, I’ve never actually played Blaster Master. Well, I might have tried it out once way back in the NES days, but I honestly don’t remember playing it, so I’ll just stick with “I haven’t played it.” One thing that I do know, however, is the music, because Blaster Master’s soundtrack has transcended the game and become the kind of thing that you stumble upon everywhere (at least, when you’re into classic gaming), in videos, podcasts, etc. In researching this top 10 list I was a bit surprised not just at how many of the songs from the Blaster Master soundtrack that I recognized, but at how excellent they all are. A quality soundtrack through and through.
Even if you are like me and have never played the game, I’ll bet that you have heard the song that I chose. This is one of those classic NES tracks that makes a lot of “best of” lists, and for good reason.
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Ah, Punch-Out!!, my favorite boxing game about an underdog going up against a bunch of ethnic stereotypes! Sure the characterizations of your opponents were a bit overdone (even more so in the arcade game, Vodka Drunkenski anyone?), but that was half of the fun, and the other half was pretty tight boxing gameplay that just felt right. To be honest, I probably would have put this soundtrack a lot higher up in my list, but it only has a handful of songs. Yet what awesome songs indeed! This song will probably be pretty familiar to you, doubly so if you ever hung out on YTMND.Com. It’s more cutscene music than gameplay music, but that still counts, right?
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Hate me if you must, but I have to admit, I have never been the biggest fan of the traditional Kirby platforming games. I love a lot of his other stuff, from alternative platformers like Canvas Curse and Epic Yarn to non-platformers like Avalanche and Dream Course, but most of his traditional platformers have been merely “ok” to me. The NES game, however, is definitely one of my favorites. And the music in his games is always phenomenal, with his first NES outing having what may just be the best Kirby soundtrack of all-time.
Again, there were way too many songs to choose from, so I went with what is perhaps one of the most well-known. Even my not-a-hardcore-gamer (but Kirby fan) girlfriend, upon hearing a few intro bars, yelled out “That’s Kirby!!!” (She also told me that I’m not allowed to make it less than number one on my list… oops...)
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09/25/13, 23:09 Edited: 09/26/13, 02:51 |
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