Ghouls ' n' Ghosts (Amiga)

The of Ghouls 'n' Ghosts has one of the most iconic and fun soundtracks of the era (anyone not merrily humming the opening grav🌳eyard tune right now, take a long hard look at yourself), but the music w♊ritten for the Amiga port is on a whole other level. Composed by Tim Follin (there's that man again), it's a vastly more experimental and complex work that makes use of dark atmospherics, traditional folky sounds and all-out noise to create something far more interesting and totally unexpected. Check the rest of it out.

Gremlins 2 (NES)

There was just something about the synth sound and echo effect that came from the NES sound chip that meant that it did fun and creepy music �𝄹�fantastically well. Few licenses inspired fun and creepy like Gremlins, and so the resulting game sounded brilliant.

Jet Grind Radio/Jet Grind Radio Future (Dreamcast/PS2/Xbox)

Plok (SNES)

Follin time again, folks. This time it's a co-production from Tim and his brother Geoff. Software Creations' Plok was one of the finest western-developed platformers on the SNES. It was brilliantly fun, quirky blue-sky gaming of the 𒀰highest order, and its soundtrack is a perfect fit.

Secret of Mana (SNES)

Okay, Mana's music is rightfully exhalted by those in the know as some of the best ever written for a console. And as a result it comprises some of the most ꦫremixed pieces produced by the online game music community. But the fact is that when most people think of Square-Enix music, they th𝔍ink of Nobuo Uematsu and Final Fantasy, not Hiroki Kikuta and Secret of Mana. So it deserves its place on this list as well as any. Simply stunning stuff.