The Best 8-16 bit OSTs?

My Favorite, a creepy OST that can also turn into a disco beat on a dime.

Mega Man X, Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong Country 2, and tons more.

I've been listening to quite a bit of Terranigma recently, and Sonic 3......what the fuck's that Tweet button?

Castlevania is an easy choice, you pulled a good example for that one.

A way to embed tweets, if I were to guess.

People generally make a big deal of Yuzo Koshiro's SoR soundtracks, but I prefer the Revenge of Shinobi one for some reason. Also, I really like the SNES version of the SFII opening despite the Mega Drive one being more accurate. I'm weird like that.

Huh.

Seiken Densetsu 3

To be fair, it's hard to deny how hard this rules.

@video_game_king: It's almost like it goes with everything.

@evilnights:

I was referring more to the SNES version. For some reason, the arcade version's used more in memes and stuff.

It does...

Streets of Rage, Sonic, Revenge of Shinobi, and a bunch of Nintendo games.

Chrono Trigger

Final Fantasy 6

Secret of Mana

Blaster Master

Super Mario 3

Super Mario World

Fez.

Super Adventure Island

Final Fantasy 4 (2 US)

Silver Surfer (NES)

Phantasy Star 2

Actraiser 1 & 2 If you like Classical Stuff

Gradius 3 (SNES)

Axelay (SNES) and Thunder Force 3 (GEN) are only good if you listen to it while playing the game. Some tracks you can enjoy w/o playing, but not all.

Equinox (SNES)

A lot of the Tim Follin 8-bit stuff is good.

Plok (SNES) Beach Theme

Magic Johnson's Fast Break (NES)

Solstice Theme (NES)

If you consider C64 8-bit

Last Ninja 2 (C64)

There's a lot of good Amiga stuff out there as well, but I can't place anything right now, gotta sleep.

Neither of these are 8-16 bit, but close enough. And dammit, I share these soundtracks whenever I can, for that is my duty as a lover of MIDI soundtracks.

I'm not the biggest FFVI fan, but it has great music. Secret of Mana is another one that, while I can't name an individual song I like from it, I tend to really enjoy when I'm playing the game.

Thunder Force 4

@falserelic Yeah Streets of Rage 2!

@zolroyce Yeah BlakeStone! Although Wolfenstein 3D & Doom's music was just as good.

This is a good song from Sonic 3 remixed by a fan.

Other notable OST of the era:

Sonic 1 on Master System 2

Landstalker on Megadrive

uh but to name a few...

X-Kaliber 2097

Megaman 2

For me, Mega Man 2 has the best soundtrack of all time. Actraiser was great as well. That was my first experience with Yuzo Koshiro. I think that Contra has great music. I particularly like the Snow Field level. Can't really think of anything else that particularly sticks out. Castlevania is great. I really liked Duck Tales' music. There is probably better music, but it probably came from a game that I never played. All of Mega Man 2's music is great though, so that gets my vote.

EDIT: I also really liked the elevator-musicy vibe of Pilotwings' music. F-Zero had great music as well. I should also mention that I had a Super Nintendo back in the day so I don't know too much about the Genesis games' music. It is likely that there was better music on that platform than what I mentioned above.

Not a very good game but its tunes is awesome!