I’m not sure. A lot of my favourite retro gaming songs come from the Castlevania series but I really didn’t play much Castlevania as a child.
I’m kind of reminded of the Guile theme goes with everything meme. I don’t think that’s a coincidence (try SFIV’s Abel’s theme in the place of Guile’s theme in any Guile’s theme video). The song is engineered to be listened to over and over and over. It’s also engineered to work in varying circumstances. It’s supposed to get stuck in your head.
Familiarity and nostalgia certainly are aspects however to some extent I think it’s just that the tunes people really like are just good. That shouldn’t be surprising because there is a lot of video game music and a lot of it people don’t keep listening to. The selection process for what people want to listen to decades later can’t be ignored. Assuming the music people love is the better songs then there should be something about those songs that are good.
Assuming that’s case because of the restriction to music in older games the relative simplicity of arrangements actually makes more sense that the song endures and people love covers. It must be something really fundamental to the song which makes it appealing.
Anyway this has made me want to go listen to the Super Guitar Bros cover of the Chrono Trigger theme.
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