Positive note about one of these games: Silver Surfer on the NES has one of the most impressive soundtracks on the system. It's masterminded by Tim Follin, an actual musical genius well-known for diving deep into the hardware of whatever system he's composing for and treating it like a genuine instrument.

His ZX Spectrum soundtracks may not be wholly ear-friendly today, but for a system with a 1-bit beeper, they're astonishing, achieving two, three channels (I can't remember if he achieved more, but I wouldn't be surprised) of music from it. Time Trax on the Genesis is considered by some to be the best FM synth programming on the system. Plok on the SNES was so good that Miyamoto himself was convinced that the harmonica in the opening theme was somehow streamed from a recording - and the rest of the music is not only equally impressive but done using only five of the SNES' eight channels.

He brought a similar approach to the NES, cleverly making use of its channels to achieve a rich, full sound out of just two pulse channels, a triangle channel, and a noise channel. His other NES soundtracks are just as impressive: Solstice and Pictionary among them.

GST did a great video which talks about Tim Follin, quoting from reviews, talking about the hardware and technological limitations, with examples of music from across the entire span of his career. It is worth watching and I do say watching: it's all music, with text.