Track 1: Awakening – Xenogears, Yasunori Mitsuda, PSX, 1998 Aaaaaah Xenogears. If you haven't played this game.......shame on you! The best Japanese RPG I4ve ever played. Great characters, great anime cutscenes (with awful American dubbing), plot that is out of this world!! and of course, great soundtrack by Mitsuda. I still cannot decide if on its own my favorite soundtrack from him is Xenogears or Chrono Cross (every time I listen to one I put it on top of the other) but if I consider soundtrack and game at the same time then Xeno beats the crap out of Cross and leaves a bloody mess behind. As usual with Mitsuda you can feel the ambiance and the feelings are everywhere. This is actually the final boss tune (btw if you haven't played the game do NOT read ANY FAQs, guide or whatnot, you will spoil your ass to world's end) and not you typical boss music but oh so sweet.
	Track 2: Boss – Castle of Illusion, Kamiya Studio, Genesis, 1990 Let's go old school!! this is the game that actually made me buy a Genesis. I saw it covered on a TV show and was blown away (my jaw literally dropped) so I got the console and played this game....I can't even count, it must have been a hundred times. The graphics are enchanting, the soundtrack is great and....it's Mickey!! what more can you ask for? The boss track is very cool and engaging, nice pumping beat. A shame it's too short because I could listen to it looping for a while.
	Track 3: Still More Fighting – Final Fantasy VII, Nobuo Uematsu, PSX, 1997 Hey look it's FFVII again! Now while Xenogears is my favorite RPG...by far, FF VII is till my first and like girls, you may get married to X but you always have a soft spot for your first. And this boss music is just freaking sweet! To me this is the best boss music ever, the same way that Chrono Trigger's regular combat tune is the best. It's so engaging you want to kick the boss's ass till kingdom come and when it loops you're pumped again!
	Track 4: Holders of Power – Ys, Falcom Sound Team J.D.K., PC-Engine, 1989 Woohoo (if I do say so myself). First of all it's Ys (best game series EVER!) then it's Sound Team JDK (possibly best soundtrack group ever, battling it out with Kukeiha) and then well... listen to this rocking boss tune! You can rock out to this for hours and it's a good thing too because some bosses in Ys will have you try several times! But with this music in the back you always want to go back and beat them up!
	Track 5: Last Battle ~ T260G – SaGa Frontier, Kenji Ito, 1997 Now I freaking love this tune!! It's a PSX game but it has this tune feeling from the 8-16bit era, albeit a nice upgraded tune quality. I've never played the game but every time I listen to the OST and this track comes  up I flip. It's just that good. The way I understand it you can play the game as several heroes and each heroes obviously has a different ending, and a different last battle tune! Good beat, great opening build-up, good melody, good variations and bridges and shit like that. Bob the head, clap yo' hands and let it rip!

	Track 1: Fighting – Final Fantasy VII, Nobuo Uematsu, PSX, 1997 This had to be in first place as FFVII is the first RPG I ever played! I have no clue why that is as I love the genre but I guess I was just introduced to it late, during the NES days I was too young and I didn't have a SNES so... Either way this game blew me away instantly and it still holds a very soft spot in my heart. I can still hear the slash of Cloud's sword or the aura build up of the limits when I listen to this....and it's been 11 years!!  Also of note is the fact that this was the first break in battle music. All the battle tunes from II to VI have very similar melodies and this one broke the mold (aside with the 3D) so it deserves this place.
	Track 2: Battle for the Fields – Rudora no Hihou, Ryuji Sasai, SNES, 1996 This game is not widely known in the US sadly. Mostly because it came out in the hey-days of the SNES when FF VI and Chrono Trigger came out and killed every one. Also I'm not sure it was actually released in the US. I never played it but I would really like to someday as it has an amazing soundtrack and a friend told me it rocks. Also of note is that one track on the cd is very reminiscent of one of Baten Kaitos on the GC....ummmm interesting.
	Track 3: Battle 1 – SaGa Frontier, Kenji Ito, PSX, 1997 One of the lesser know franchise of Squaresoft (yes I know), SaGa also has some amazing soundtracks. I never actually played the game but my best friend did some and told me it was pretty hard as hell :p You can play 7 heroes who coexist in the same world I believe (kinda like Suikoden III). I hope to play it someday but I have many other priorities on my list.  Wait for next week when I throw the final boss track. It's amazing!
	Track 4: Battle 1 – Chrono Trigger, Yasunori Mitsuda, SNES, 1995 Quite possibly THE best battle track ever made. Even thought you have the option to avoid enemies why would you? I could fight monsters and level for hours thanks to this music, it's that good. There's not much I can say about Chrono that isn't already known but I'm suspicious this track was actually made Nobuo Uematsu. It is well known that he helped Mitsuda on this game as it was Mitsuda's first soundtrack (nice way to come out no?) and you can feel on certain tunes that it has more of a Uematsu touch.  So yeah if anyone actually knows for sure well let me know.
	Track 5: Battle 1 – Grandia, Noriyuki Iwadare, 1998 Would you look at that?? a non-Squaresoft game! :p There were a bunch I wanted to throw in actually but I have to say most of these had great boss music but the regular combat tunes didn't live up to Square epicness. Grandia managed to find a nice niche when it came out because it was much less serious than the other Squaresoft and Enix that came out at the time. In the beginning you would actually fight enemies with a frying pan!  Anyway,the fight track is really cool.  I enjoyed the drums in this one.