Ys & Metroid Item tunes

In the video, the games in order are Ys I & II Chronicles , Ys Origin, Ys The Oath in Felghana, Super Metroid and Metroid (western release). According to Wikipedia, Metroid first released on the 6th of August 1986 for the Famicom Disk System while Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished released in 1987 (no exact date mentioned in wikipedia) for the NEC PC-8801. The item tunes sound similar, whether the Ys treasure box tune was inspired by the Metroid item tune is another matter. According to Wikipedia the sound composers for Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished were Yuzo Koshiro and Mieko Ishikawa. The sound composer for Metroid was Hirokazu Tanaka and the sound composers for Super Metroid were Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano. For the exact PC88 soundtune for the treasure box from Ys I, there is this source containing “treasure box“ from grad1u53 The exact Famicom Disk soundtune for getting an item in Metroid can be found here containing “i
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