Everybody's linking me to Duty Cycle Generator, the web page of musician Neil Baldwin, where he's cataloguing his complete works of 8-bit chiptune music.
Baldwin generally isn't the first person you'd think of when the subject of NES music comes up, but Duty Cycle Generator makes the case that he probably should be. You can listen to embedded versions of his soundtracks, most of which were for licensed games like Jungle Book, Lethal Weapon 3, and James Bond Jr.
But the game that's getting him the most notoriety these days is Hero Quest, an unreleased title based on the Milton Bradley/Games Workshop fantasy board game. And yeah, the soundtrack's pretty awesome considering the limitations of the technology.
