Poll:
https://linkto.run/p/370OSWBI

Home computers only, no other platforms.

Consider creativity, sound chip limitations and technical achievement, composition (melody or hook, progression, complexity), dynamics (range between quiet and loud, soft/diminuendo and hard/crescendo), pitch range, punch, instrument and instrument envelope variety and quality, and so on. We're going by original release dates.

Try to say something about your favorite(s), it's more fun to read!

Music links (multiplatform list - if a game you want to vote for isn't in the poll list then do a search here with ctrl+f, it's probably included and not forgotten about. If I did miss an OST though then please mention it in the thread):
https://minirevver.weebly.com/vgm-1994.html

Previous winners:
1987: Ys 1 followed by The Last Ninja 1
1988: Last Ninja 2 and Ys 2 followed by IK+
1989: Ys 3 followed by Quest for Glory
1990: Secret of Monkey Island followed by Lost Patrol
1991: MI2 followed by Turrican 2
1992: Ultima VII followed by Monkey Island (CD ver.)

I was going to pick Top Gear 2 on the merits of the SNES soundtrack, but the formation of the entire tracks on the Amiga versions just don't quite have the tempo or slap bass of the SNES edition.

So I picked TIM 2.

Easy : Jazz Jackrabbit

after browsing the '94 gamelist i can only say " we need operation wolf remastered on gog!"

I'll go with Colonization for this one.

Gone with Ruff n Tumble on the Amiga, as tempted as I was to pick Sensible World of Soccer.

The Lotus Collection by far.

One Must Fall: 2097

Warcraft, but not with the Soundblaster music, but Roland Sound Canvas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3nCFyx493o&list=PLavKabWyl5jPG5zETHP_3lrHsRypM9Oud&index=4

While I prefer the CD ver. of War1's instrumentation and overall mixing, only the the first track seems to use stereo mixing oddly enough. So the GM one has its advantages.

Here we go now! You may be reaping some of the benefits that STEREO can provide!

One Mustn't Fall. But I'll vote for it when you do 1995 :P.

Colonization. Without any doubts

Speaking of sound chips, I still have my Dragon 32 (AY-3-8910) and Atari 7800 (Amy) boxes but I was so disappointment in these that I largely waited until the 486/Pentium came. While the Atari 7800 offered far better games it wasn't something I used too much time on. I wish my parents bought me an Amiga instead of these terrible gaming consoles....

But, I have to say, up until around early 90s Commodores Paula and SID have largely dominated the OST scene with their tracker like music. While pure FM synthesis (OPLx) was both cheap and good enough, it seems GM Midi ruled the scene for a while, were Roland and Yamaha dominated this expensive marked with their dedicated hardware boxes. (Personally I think Yamaha was/is the best overall since they offered better basses, while it seems Roland had better guitar.). The Gravis Ultrasound actually offered a middle way since it was based on pre-sampled wavetables in terms of quality.

Anyway, regardless of chip used into the 90s, tracker type music was SOOO good it can almost make any game good by judging the music alone (although several games sounded good on OPL3 too), and since I'm having trouble finding my way through your messy list since it isn't alphabetically, or even by architecture, I'm just going to pick a game my memory.

Based on pure joy and it's composition I just have to choose Jazz Jack Rabbit.

PS: I did manage to pick up a strange entry in your list - Descent wasn't released before 1995. It was registered trademarked in 1994 and the shareware (demo) version was released late 1994, but full version 1.0 was released in 1995. Wikipedia, MobyGames, Youtube and Steam says 1995 (and for some odd reason, GOG says March 13 1996 which is the same as Descent II). Why some youtubers maintain it's 1994 is beyond me...