Pet peeve: MIDI doesn't sound like anything. I can play a MIDI file through a rack of Roland V-Synths or Korg Kronoses and most people won't be able to tell the difference from live instruments. What a lot of early 90s gamers call "sounds like MIDI" really means "sounds like shitty FM". And the Neo Geo certainly has shitty FM (which is why most games bypass it in favor of the ADPCM samples).