A 3-hour playlist of relaxing SNES soundtracks

ASMR didn’t exist in the 90s but new age music did. It’s a genre that gets a bad rep but if Enya made video game soundtracks, maybe they’d sound like some of these tracks.

For all its technological advances, the SNES’s music is seriously underrated. Video game YouTuber SNES drunk compiled a playlist of “relaxing Super Nintendo Music” and it’s 3 hours of bliss.

The usual suspects are there: Donkey Kong Country’s Aquatic Ambience and Chrono Trigger’s Secret of the Forest. But the opener comes from Waterworld, which is probably the highest accolade for any form of media named Waterworld. And of course, Mario features (twice) and there’s an EarthBound track in there too.

Stream the playlist below and check out the tracklist at the bottom.

Tracklist

• [0:00] Waterworld, “Map”
• [1:54] Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu, “Calling of Peace”
• [4:02] Energy Breaker, “The Voice of Awakening”
• [6:21] Donkey Kong Country, “Aquatic Ambience”
• [9:43] Tetris Attack, “Walk on a Rainbow”
• [14:57] SimCity, “Village”
• [17:48] Chrono Trigger, “Secret of the Forest”
• [22:25] The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, “End Credits”
• [26:17] Equinox, “Overworld”
• [33:41] EVO Search For Eden, “Mother Earth”
• [35:45] Vegas Stakes, “Hotel Room”
• [38:38] Ardy Lightfoot, “Overworld Map”
• [39:20] Bahamut Lagoon, “Epicedium”
• [41:12] Star Fox, “Sector Y”
• [44:03] ActRaiser, “North Wall”
• [47:03] Breath of Fire, “Underwater”
• [48:45] Jim Lee’s WildCATS, “Opening”
• [52:17] Final Fantasy VI, “The Mines of Narshe”
• [54:59] Seiken Densetsu 3, “Harvest November”
• [59:21] Terranigma, “Sad”
• [1:02:20] Super Castlevania IV, “The Library”
• [1:03:56] DoReMi Fantasy, “The Guardian’s Lair”
• [1:05:55] 7th Saga, “Lux Tizer”
• [1:08:24] Illusion of Gaia, “World Map”
• [1:11:17] Donkey Kong Country 3, “Frosty Frolics”
• [1:14:09] Arcana, “Reinroll, Generous Hermit”
• [1:16:52] Chaos Seed, “Cave”
• [1:20:57] Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen, “Fortune Teller”
• [1:22:08] Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts, “Ice Forest”
• [1:24:55] EarthBound, “Winter Boarding School”
• [1:27:47] Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse, “Snow Valley”
• [1:29:32] Rudra no Hihou, “Crime of the Heart”
• [1:32:44] Secret of Evermore, “Ebon Keep Town Theme”
• [1:34:54] Super Mario All-Stars, “Lost Levels Title Theme”
• [1:37:47] Final Fantasy V, “Lenna’s Theme”
• [1:40:38] Paladin’s Quest, “Unknown Theme B”
• [1:43:31] Jurassic Park, “Ocean”
• [1:46:31] Dark Half, “Town”
• [1:47:19] Bassin’s Black Bass, “Intro”
• [1:48:41] Secret of Mana, “A Wish”
• [1:49:40] Breath of Fire II, “Memories”
• [1:51:05] Super Mario World, “Underwater”
• [1:54:14] Waterworld, “Menu”
• [1:56:52] Romancing SaGa, “Lost in the Forest”
• [1:58:35] Smart Ball, “Moon”
• [2:01:26] Donkey Kong Country 2, “Stickerbrush Symphony”
• [2:05:44] Tales of Phantasia, “Forest Theme”
• [2:08:38] Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals, “Deep Blue”
• [2:10:29] Final Fantasy VI, “Phantom Forest”
• [2:13:41] Chrono Trigger, “Memories of Green”
• [2:17:21] Super Metroid, “Lower Maridia”
• [2:20:15] Robotrek, “The World of Quintenix”
• [2:22:03] Violinist of Hameln, “Inside the Crimson Castle”
• [2:25:23] Terranigma, “Credits”
• [2:28:17] Seiken Densetsu 3, “Breezin”
• [2:33:30] Final Fantasy IV, “Welcome to Our Town”
• [2:34:13] Equinox, “Atlena”
• [2:35:56] Star Ocean, “Calm Time”
• [2:38:29] Donkey Kong Country, “Northern Hemispheres”
• [2:40:52] Tactics Ogre Let Us Cling Together, “Fortune Teller 2”
• [2:42:50] Super Mario RPG, “End Credits”
• [2:46:25] Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, “Story Time”
• [2:49:45] Tetris Attack, “Water World”
• [2:51:54] EVO Search For Eden, “Overworld Theme”
• [2:53:28] Phalanx, “Ending”
• [2:55:41] Secret of Mana, “Fear of the Heavens”
• [2:56:55] SimCity, “Good Night, See You Soon”