13 years before Maxis created The Sims, Square ported Activision's Little Computer People over to the Famicom Disk, and Nobuo Uematsu wrote some of his most minimalist music for a video game. In Apple Town Story, the unnamed little girl goes about her daily life with little input from the player. One of the activities that the player can suggest to the girl is to play on her Famicom, and from what I could tell from the playthrough I watched, she'll play one of three generic video games. The only thing that differentiates the three games is the music that plays while our heroine aggressively button-mashes her way to defeat, and this song is the one that stuck out to me the most.
I like the somewhat high-energy drive of the music, and it even reminds me a little bit of "Pushing Onwards" from VVVVVV, but on a much smaller but no less grand a scale. The song only plays for 53ish seconds after all, as you're not actually playing the game, you're just watching the girl play the game, albeit not very well, apparently. Whatever game Nobuo Uematsu had in mind may not have extended beyond "exciting generic video game music," but it works here, and that's all that matters.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
And Sound the Anthem
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