Does the NES being so in vogue make it tougher to express a personal appreciation for it?
While I think it’s great that more people are coming to appreciate music from the days of the NES and Super Nintendo, I don’t think it has really affected my ability to express my affinity for it. I think I’ve always been fairly comfortable telling people how great I think that music is. Back then, composers had very limited space to work with. They couldn’t rely on high-end samples in order to make their music sound good. They had to be creative with the composition itself. That creativity is probably the main reason why there are so many NES/SNES video game remixes out there nowadays—because their main melodies were so wonderfully catchy and memorable. I can’t get over how great some of the music was from the Mega Man games. I’m listening to “Gravity Man” from Mega Man 5 as I type this. These days I think a lot of people feel that good licensed games are few and far in between, but back in the day Capcom did such a great job with their Disney games. DuckTales, Chip ‘n Dale’s Rescue
