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Vigil from Mass Effect. I think it's the song playing when you first get the galaxy map, and playing that game and seeing the world open up while hearing that song really put me in a great mood.

There are a lot of good songs, but today I will pick Megalovania by Toby Fox. https://youtu.be/KK3KXAECte4

Tristram from Diablo

Guile's theme from Street Fighter 2

they still play in my head regularly, 30 or so years later

To Zanarkand just does something...

Mick Gordon and Tex Perkins track from Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, called The Partisan. Fantastic end piece to the game.

https://mickgordon.bandcamp.com/album/the-partisan-feat-tex-perkins

Later found out it's steeped in history as it's a cover/adaptation of a 1943 anti-fascist song written in French by Russian-born Anna Marly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Marly

The perfect synchronicity of the Metal song and the player character pumping their shotgun at the end of the opening sequence of DOOM (2016) when they exit the elevator towards the surface of Mars.

Hard to pick just 1, so here's a list of ones I deem notable from a few different games:

• 14.3 Billion Years — Outer Wilds
• Undertale — Undertale
• City of Tears — Hollow Knight
  • (with in-game ambiance)
• Under the Eye of Kibenya — Heaven's Vault
  • No publicly available version of this one; but the game and soundtrack are good, so they're worth a buy
• Private Room — Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
• Tiny's Theme — Mario Golf
• Cleopactra — Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness
• Dive Into the Mellow — Sonic Adventure 2
• Fathomless Tomb — Deep Rock Galactic
• They Might As Well Be Dead — Risk of Rain 2
• xX_TF_CNS_FloatingBits_Mp3_Xx (Floating Bits) — The Finals

Red Alert Hell March

https://youtu.be/e3YzmjmAGoI

Cassette Beasts OST is amazing. "Wherever we are now" is probably my favorite.

I have a new obsession: Sea of Stars

https://youtu.be/Xer_vasWKGQ

I'm partial to the original Dwarf Fortress music

Chemical Plant Zone, Sonic 2.

Sonic 3: Ice Cap Zone Act 1

The entire Megaman 2 soundtrack.

Double Dragon

Punch Out

Ocarina of time - lost woods

NieR: Automata - Weight of the World

This is at first so beautiful, and later on it just hits so hart. And listening to the other versions, japanese where the performer even cries, and chaos (a fantasy language) (video with spoilers, sadly), this is such a great piece of art. The perfect bittersweet song.

Too many to list.

• Main theme from Assassins Creed Valhalla
• OST from both Ori games. Seriously, they're all awesome
• OST from Journey
• Bastion Theme (and all other tracks too)

Bonus:

• Super Mario Galaxy
• Tetris

Plok - Beach

Easily Mythic Power from Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. Especially in the context in-game the track is first dropped, it's incredible.

This is gonna be an old cut but Paperboy the arcade by Atari frickin slaps.

The Great Sea from Wind Waker.

I'm sure nostalgia plays a part, but I'm a sucker for those classic Kondo tracks.

A lot of the old Apple II game sounds mainly due to just growing up playing on an Apple II. The Ultima series had some of the best music. Ultima III Ultima IV

To me it's always been the B version of the original Tetris. This and most of Megaman X

FTL

Mario star sound

Metal Gear Solid ending theme, the best is yet to come.

25 years later, it still gives me goosebumps and tears.

Thank you M. Kojima.

Been getting into bullet hells lately and the OST for Espgaluda slaps so hard, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJSlYmeW_es&list=PL6N1UyX9iZqvHkgNTslgU0ivl2jiLjNk2&index=6

The whole game is a wild, 2000's anime fever dream and worth checking out even if you're not into bullet hells. The primary mechanic involves building up gems from enemy kills that allow you to activate a power up to slow time. When time is slowed, any enemy you kill has their bullets cancelled and added to your score, so it encourages you to build up insane amounts of bullets on screen before going bullet time and killing everything. With this insane, trance-y soundtrack playing in the background it is a V I B E.

'Trial Of Thunder (5-3)' from the 'Crypt of the Necrodancer' (Metal Soundtrack). I'm not a fan of this type of game and have never played it, but Familyjules totally shreds the original 8-bit soundtrack it had.

"I wanna take ya for a riddee~"

Gran tursimo 4 menu music.

Gotta say, nobody knows this game and rare are thoses who even played it, can it even be considered as a video game track, but i will say the first theme from Irisu Syndrome!

Skyrim OST "unbroken road". It fits the open world vibes perfectly.

I really love the Soundtrack from Yoshis Island. Especially the beginning from the second Level. That bass is Burnt into my memories.

Metroid Prime OST, too many good options to pick just one.

I don’t know about “absolute favorite”, but the Spanish Waltz / Shop theme from Castle Crashers routinely loops in my head

https://youtu.be/dLchXp8FCbI

Ooh...I have an entire playlist of my favorite OSTs. Long term, I'd have to say One-Winged Angel, specifically the remake. Also worth mentioning:

Dark Soul 3 main theme

Feel from Lies of P

Dependent Weakling from Nier, specifically this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePXlfGufSjk&t=0

Three way tie:

The Last of US : Horizon Zero Dawn: Morrowind

I remember the Re/Volt track. All their track kinda got me into electronic music growing up.

I don't know why my brain refuses to let it go, but Graeme Norgate's Astrolander from Timesplitters 2 is short and very sweet.

Also theres the opening theme from Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters.

Oh actually also the Italy round of Road Rash 3. I once worked in an Italian restaurant and would whistle this without knowing it was taken from some famous Italian opera, and the owner asked me how I knew the music, and I didn't have the heart to tell him.

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