SimCity Jr.
This is a Japan only Super Famicom port of Sim Town, a PC game that was basically SimCity but for kids. It was apparently not that good.
But who cares! I’m here for the music.
10 tracks, ~24 minutes of music. 3 of the tracks are pretty boring - this is because they are straight conversions of the PC game, which only had 3 tracks that were pretty boring. The remaining 7 are shockingly good for the most part.
There’s this cute little bossa nova number that I find deeply charming:
Then there’s this very nice music-box sounding track that reminds me of the RPG Tsukuru 2 OST for some reason:
It’s sweet and mellow but still fairly complex. It’s just good!
But to me, the standout is this 55 second track called “Medal/Achievement Screen:”
I don’t feel qualified to describe this but it reminds me of Knower somehow. It’s just like, the best 55 seconds of music I’ve ever heard? I feel like you could lay an MF Doom vocal over this or something, it’s just this like dripping jazzy weirdness. It really shocked me when I heard it the first time.
This doesn’t reach the highs or consistency of the SNES SimCity OST but it’s super unique and cool. I definitely expected just some fucken clown music, but no. It’s good.