best nes music?

personally, I think river city ransom had the best music.

Mega Man 2

Rygar

Strider

Shadowgate...

...All had awesome music.

Mega Man

Zelda

Ninja Gaiden I - Level 2-1 intro.

Faxanadu - Overworld theme

Legend of Zelda - Overworld theme.

Gumshoe - Pretty much all of it.

Castlevania 2 - Theme just before encountering Dracula.

Megaman has a lot of good tunes.

Many others...

Ninja Gaiden III

Duck tales

Castlevania

Ninja Gaiden

Zelda

Metroid had a couple of good tunes, as well.

Metroid, Zelda, Mega Man 3, Kid Icarus

http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/nes/Albatros.mid

Bionic Commando no question.

Punch Out!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPWKlpbGtHE

Zelda 2 (especially the temple theme)

and fever from Dr. Mario.

Astyanax....HANDS DOWN.

Opening Theme

1st Level Epicness

Another Awesome Song

Love this game!

I'm gonna go with the following:

Blaster Master, Contra, Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden 2, Bionic Commando, and perhaps the most underplayed/underappreciated...The Guardian Legend.

I like the music in Mega Man 2 and Mega Man 3. In fact, I like almost all the music from all six NES Mega Man games, with the exception for Centaur Man's theme in Mega Man 6. That shrill noise is what I use it as the song that plays on my alarm each morning. :|UltimateXShadow

Lol, thanks for the idea. I think i'll burn some 8-bit music and wake up to it each morning :D

Pffft. Most of people's answers here are due to nostalgia alone. I listen to NES music more than I usually like to admit. I can pick out the games with catchy tunes surpassing just simple familiarity. Now I'll have to admit most of these I played when I was younger, so I can't compare to a lot of the obscure ones mentioned. Still, that won't stop me from being haughty about other people's answers!

Some otherwise unmentioned ones, from least awesome to most awesome...

Legendary Wings, Crystalis, WWF WrestleMania Challenge, Magician, Double Dragon II, Power Blade II

Yes indeed, Power Blade II has remained at the very top of my list for years now. There are lots of filler tracks for cutscenes and such, and those aren't very good, but the main tracks are the bomb. I'm usually only able to listen to a game's music so long before it grates on my nerves with its shrill instruments andembarrassinglybrainless melodies, but this one is very refined. It's one of the later NES game releases, and I think someone put a lot of love into it. (Actually, I just looked this up... it was composed by the same person who did Castlevania I music too. So, she had several years of NES music under her belt when Power Blade II came out)

By the way, I also agree with these that people have mentioned:

Rygar, Shadowgate, MegaMan 2 (definitely!), Ninja Gaiden III, Faxandu, River City Ransom

Pffft. Most of people's answers here are due to nostalgia alone. I listen to NES music more than I usually like to admit. I can pick out the games with catchy tunes surpassing just simple familiarity. Now I'll have to admit most of these I played when I was younger, so I can't compare to a lot of the obscure ones mentioned. Still, that won't stop me from being haughty about other people's answers!

Some otherwise unmentioned ones, from least awesome to most awesome...

Legendary Wings, Crystalis, WWF WrestleMania Challenge, Magician, Double Dragon II, Power Blade II

Yes indeed, Power Blade II has remained at the very top of my list for years now. There are lots of filler tracks for cutscenes and such, and those aren't very good, but the main tracks are the bomb. I'm usually only able to listen to a game's music so long before it grates on my nerves with its shrill instruments andembarrassinglybrainless melodies, but this one is very refined. It's one of the later NES game releases, and I think someone put a lot of love into it. (Actually, I just looked this up... it was composed by the same person who did Castlevania I music too. So, she had several years of NES music under her belt when Power Blade II came out)

By the way, I also agree with these that people have mentioned:

Rygar, Shadowgate, MegaMan 2 (definitely!), Ninja Gaiden III, Faxandu, River City Ransom

TheJohnnyDude

Again what other considers catchy is subjective. I personally donot like the music in Double Dragon 2, but I prefer the music in the Legendary Wings. Also the Conquest of the Crystal Palace, and Guardian Legend have some excellent music. Again its susbjective I donot agee wtih your list, and Wrestlemania would personally be no where near any of my top NES music list. But again thats just me.

Ninja gaiden 1

Ninja gaiden 1

CptJuancho

Double Dragon II: The Revenge

contra and bubble bobble

Castlevania, I was always horrible at this game when I was a kid, but the music kept me playin' it =D

Also Blaster Master, I've actually only recently played this game. The first level music gives me involuntary head bops. I made it my Windows startup tune =D

Mega Man 2

Batman has awesome music. Kirby's adventure is full of great tracks as well.

Soundtracks by one or more of the Follin brothers, such as Silver Surfer (2, 3) Treasure Master, Solstice, Target: Renegade (2), Sky Shark and Wolverine. And Alien 3, Robocop 3, Overlord (inferior to the C64 versions, but still) by Jeroen Tel.

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Bionic Commando no question.

Chyropraise

Indeed. The level with the slime things that would carry you away had some great music. Mega Man 2 has some great music as well.