Always interested in this era of game soundtracks - it’s that strange hinterland between the more purely electronic tones that came before and the rise of more traditionally “cinematic” (or at least soundtracks recorded via the same processes as film music / commercially released music forms, etc) that have come since, executed via MIDI sounds that (to me, at least) evoke this time so strongly.
I can see why there’s a nostalgia for this kind of sound that you can see cropping up in a lot of recent electronic music.
