Late-era SNES sound hardware pushed to its absolute limit with compositions that feel way too expressive for 16-bit. Treasure Hunter G was Sting's 1996 RPG and the soundtrack squeezes out this incredible range of emotion from the SPC700 chip.
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My Rural Town has this warm, nostalgic quality with layered samples that breathe like real instruments, and then the four Piano Skill Level tracks progressively build in complexity which is such a clever compositional idea.
Go! Go! Kids carries pure youthful energy and The Absence Of My Father From My Childhood is devastatingly tender for a game most people never played. Ponga's Violin Performance wrings genuine feeling out of SNES samples.
If you love late Super Famicom soundtracks where composers were squeezing every last drop from the hardware, this belongs in your rotation.