One game that caught me by surprise is Maniac Mansion, whose music I never really noticed, but some of you seem to love it. Some notable games missing from this list are Shadowgate and Gyruss, which I hear discussed sometimes. It was nice to see Dragon Spirit on the list somewhere too, as that has some great Namco music. Well, onwards to the individual songs...

My #5 choice really is Megaman 1, because it has some great songs. But I felt I had to include Tim Follin's work somewhere, because it is far more amazing than MM1's music. As for my individual song choices, well, I recommend that you check out the game and play it to listen to the music from the stages/endings that I mentioned. Then, you'll get a good idea of what I meant. Basically what I did was search through my memory for the songs that were the most memorable, the ones that I listened to the most often, either on cassette tape, in an NSF, or just by playing the game on my NES. I have lots of great memories of taping 15 minutes worth of just one song, or just turning on my NES to a certain song, and letting that blare through my room while I do other things. None of my family members ever understood...

You can probably guess that I'm a Capcom fan. Well, that's true because Capcom games are my favourites. But I still think that as a company, Sunsoft had the best game soundtracks, always putting through their distinctive jammin' style. But the purpose of this entire poll is not to narrow down your musical repertoire, but rather to expand it. Print this entire page out, and take the time to listen to some of the less-celebrated game soundtracks. I'm sure you'll find a true gem!