Warm, slightly haunting NES and FDS tones pulling from deep Nintendo history. Famicom Music Vol. 2 is a 2002 compilation digging into titles most Western players never touched. The "Shin Onigashima" tracks take up huge space here, this Japanese folklore adventure game with music that shifts between whimsical and weirdly moving across its chapters.
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"Metroid" shows up and instantly reminds you how alien and cold that original score was. "Kid Icarus" brings the heroic bounce. And "The Mysterious Castle of Murasame" is this forgotten gem of a track from a game that barely left Japan.
"Doki Doki Panic (Arrange Version)" is basically proto-Mario 2 music reworked. The whole collection is a time capsule for anyone curious about what Nintendo sounded like before the world was paying attention.