That Game Boy sound chip pushed to its absolute limit. All Sounds of SaGa collects music from the first SaGa games (Final Fantasy Legend in the West), and Nobuo Uematsu and Kenji Ito made four-channel audio feel massive.
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"Fierce Battle" is still one of the hardest boss themes ever squeezed out of a handheld. "Eat the Meat" is iconic for anyone who played the original. And "Boiling Blood" from the later entries shows how much they learned to pull from that tiny speaker.
The progression from the first game's "Prologue" through to "Save the World" tracks the evolution of the whole series. "Ravine of Darkness" and "Pillar of Heaven" have no business sounding this good on 1991 hardware. Essential listening if you want to hear what Game Boy composers did when they refused to accept limitations.