The absolute origin point of Metal Gear's sound, and it's wild hearing where it all started on MSX2 hardware. "Theme of Tara" is immediately iconic, that infiltration groove built from simple waveforms that somehow communicates stealth better than most modern orchestral scores.
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"Escape: Beyond Big Boss" ramps the tension with urgent, looping patterns that make your palms sweat despite being chip music. Metal Gear 2's "Theme of Solid Snake" upgrades everything, fuller and more confident, showing how much the MSX2 sound got pushed between entries.
The PC-88 and PC-98 versions add fascinating alternate colorings of these same compositions. If you want to hear Kojima's musical DNA before the budgets got massive, this is where it lives.