The Best Retro Game Music - 8bit and above

[bizzgeburt]

One of the best moments in all SEGA's Phantasy Star franchise is discovering this awesome tune when wandering into the 1st dungeon in Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF-skncqEok

[endemonadia]

I never played ZX Spectrum but I love that metallica instrumental orion! What was that game about? I'm shure there's a way to find it ... 

Besides, couldn't it be that instead of the games music creator being inspired by metallica, metallica may have been inspired by this game?  Consider the release year of this album ...

I have no clue whether the game or Metallica did the riff first.  I just remember connecting the two back in the 1980s, that theyre the exact same riff.  From the depths of my memory i think i remember it being on a title screen, probably some kind of D&D or RPG game.

[bizzgeburt]

From the depths of my memory i think i remember it being on a title screen, probably some kind of D&D or RPG game.

Well that actually reminds me of the opening screen theme of Dungeons and Dragons: Warriors of the eternal Sun for SEGA Genesis/Megadrive  that game had rocky tunes in general, but as far as I know, it's music composed completely by one specific guy (who wasn't part of Metallica for sure!  )

Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RidSSq8cxsY&list=PLjipjJrLYWJgwMMMEZU64DUZYf0uahRpq&index=3

[sworddude]

I can hardly imagine it being from a zx spectrum game, the music was kinda barebones. Maybe on an amiga but the zx spectrum was very limited.

[bizzgeburt]

speaking about rocky themes  here's another one of my all time favourite pieces out of an  RPG: Mystic Quest (SNES) - Boss Theme

A piece so good and rocking so hard, even real rock/metal- musicians love to cover it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUGDp39srk0

[bizzgeburt]

Playing Ax Battler: A Legend of Golden Axe on GG, I stumbled upon this piece, that kept flying around my head even after laying down the handheld  It's a theme playing in some of the dungeons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PugpIsFPsDE&list=PLTEEa2-9mZ7b9bUhVayzG6cdCXuqqJ1OT&index=6

Sometimes even small spinoff games provide decent music to listen to while playing.