Your wife sounds like an objectively good person.
Those 16-bit soundtracks had such a profound effect on me that I prefer the originals in almost every case (except for Dancing Mad, which I already brought up). Is it actually the strength of the composition or nostalgia that gets me? No idea, and I don’t think there will ever be a way to know.
I kind of go the opposite way from most of you – the fact that these people were able to make these instruments sound anything like real-world instruments makes them more impressive to me than an orchestral arrangement of the same music.