One Minute of Music from EVERY NES Game

One minute of music from every one of the 716 official Nintendo Entertainment System games. That’s 11 hours 56 minutes of music, shy of the current limit of 12 hours for a YouTube video! Thanks to NSFPlay’s ability to output the music, this was easier to make than it otherwise would be, Zophar’s Domain for most NSF files, and MrNorbert1994 from the NesDev forums for helping me find the rare ones. 00:00:00 - 677 North American games 11:17:00 - 35 PAL region-exclusive games 11:52:00 - 1 Hong Kong-exclusive game (Mah Jong) 11:53:00 - 2 competition cartridges (Nintendo World Championships 1990 & Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991) 11:55:00 - 1 Wii U VC/Switch NSO NES app release (EarthBound Beginnings) There are only official games, none unlicensed. Sorry to fans of Tengen black carts. But you will see/hear Tengen’s Gauntlet, Pac-Man, and . Baseball, and Mindscape’s Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom, because those also came out as licensed grey carts. Namco’s Ms. Pac-Man and Nintendo’s Tetris are different than Tengen’s. Golf is the only game with no music, so I included sounds. Unless copyright strikes force me to remove music, there is something for each minute/game. The Miracle Piano Teaching System also has no in-game music, as it comes from the keyboard, so I recorded my own. The box art (also seen on GameFAQs) is a scan of my own box, probably the cleanest NES Miracle Piano box scan on the whole ’net. For compilation cartridges next to a game that’s included, like Super Mario Bros. followed by Super Mario Bros. Duck Hunt and again with World Class Track Meet, I simply chose the next song so that you wouldn’t hear, for example, Super Mario Bros. for three minutes even if it was the best tune, just to mix it up, as per my brother’s suggestion. Listening to every track of NES music was lots of work. Some games had many great tunes so it was hard to decide. When I couldn’t choose between a few, my brother Jason decided, or picked another one. Other games have nothing but crappy “music“ which was also difficult. If anyone tries to listen to this straight through, I apologize that 10-Yard Fight, 720°, and 1942 are extremely early on (the 3rd-5th games) and are horrible. I regret that it is so early and people might click away, but please stick with it - I can’t help but go with an alphabetical listing! The games are listed by North American names in APA style alphabetization - my preferred style which ignores spaces and punctuation, so “Superman“ comes before “Super Mario Bros.“, unlike how your computer would sort them. When on-box and in-game titles differ, I listed them by the box name - therefore, I begrudgingly listed “Legend Of The Ghost Lion“ as “Ghost Lion“. “Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom“ comes before the two “Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade“ games because of chronology, which I think is a fair overruling of strict alphabetization. “Ikari III“ is after the earlier two “Ikari Warriors“ despite not having “Warriors“ in its title. “Town & Country Surf Designs: Thrilla’s Surfari“ is AFTER “Town & Country Surf Designs: Wood And Water Rage“; though the box art and the in-game title don’t have a number, the opening credits show a “II“. Implied numbers are also what keep “Ultima (V): Warriors Of Destiny“ with the other Ultimas instead of after “Ultimate Basketball“. I chose to put “Bram Stoker’s Dracula“ and “Capcom’s Gold Medal Challenge ’92“ under D and G, to be consistent with disregarding “Hudson’s“ from the “Hudson’s Adventure Island“ games and “Disney’s“ from the various Disney games. I still alphabetized with athletes’ names, like Ivan “Ironman“ Stewart’s Super Off Road, but I couldn’t bring myself to put “Ryne Sandberg Plays Bases Loaded 3“ under R, so it is with the other Bases Loaded games. I could go on, but there’s logic to it all; you should be able to find whatever game you’re looking for. Box art is from The Cover Project ( ); thanks to Jerry Brace for having them all on hand. I did edits like cleaning up scratches and copying over the later games’ top red banner from the official art for EarthBound Beginnings to make them consistent. This video should be a good source of clean NES box art. Cropping the fronts of the covers leaves an image width of 1536 px. The title screenshots (which I captured myself using BizHawk), when enlarged 9x (the largest integer resize that fits in 4K) have a width of 2304. This is a nice/tidy coincidence because 1536 2304=3840, exactly the number of pixels in the width of 4K! Therefore, this had to be in 4K. Due to the size, it is made at 10 fps with no visual transitions/motion. I run : The Video Game Atlas: Learn about Nintendo Quest: Buy a Kickstarter backer version of the Nintendo Quest DVD: