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Best nostalgic videogame music?

For me whenever I hear the the 8 bit music of Lemmings (1991) it really causes an emotional reaction for me - as it was one of the first videogames I played at such a young age. I sometimes find myself randomly humming these songs even today:

1.

[video="youtube;hoEQu11XJwE"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoEQu11XJwE[/video]

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCWL8ES6KqM&index=15&list=UUyQukHgQf7Kdd35HjYQ3Ljg

3. Aladdin (1994)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joSSOJe-tow

4. Deus Ex 1 (1999) - I often get a lump in my throat when I hear this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX0hU7jQ5O4

5. Diablo 2 (2000)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxg5W5wKvLE

6. Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors (1999):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9mxrurGTqo

7. The most modern is this track from Mass Effect 2 - you really need to turn it up or listen in earphones cause I love every little beat and bass string in this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Aw-UpBJR8

Edit: 8. Can't believe I forgot Monkey Island lol...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lTz2nkPNXA
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I don't have a best one. There are many for me:

This was the first ever Tomb raider I played on PC:
[video="youtube;lVaIubv6uDs"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVaIubv6uDs[/video]

My first gameboy game: Mulan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoOSQaVeC_E

Sid Meier's Civilization 2, I played quite a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiKCrDtjxdo

Nostalgic to everyone !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhscMsBhNhw

Tony Hawk!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygYw0Yw9eIo

Tekken...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vnoxc7tNzQ

Has anyone played this game?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MclIvXqkn8

Finally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWv1fhzbvJ0
Amazing Thread idea! Can we all agree to use [noparse][/noparse] tags though? :giggle:

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One more:

[video="youtube;ZQ-wGe2ErO4"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ-wGe2ErO4[/video]
Pokemon Red without a doubt. The music of both the starting location of Pallet Town and the Pokemon Centre always invoke strong feelings of nostalgia for me.

http://youtu.be/cOWRNLaCMJg

http://youtu.be/MjZIjHu0OfY

This one is actually kind of crappy but I spent a lot of time playing Age of Empires 2 as a kid because it was my first PC game. This was the default music when starting a new map and I still listen to it more than 10 years later. :h:

http://youtu.be/CPhJWlURRVM

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For me it has to be:

1. Street Fighter II: End Credits:



2. World Cup 2002: Intro



3. Final Fantasy X: To Zanarkand



4. Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Legend of Zelda - Main Theme



5. Crash Bash: Dot Dash

so many






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Dr Wily's castle- Mega-man
[video="youtube;WJRoRt155mA"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJRoRt155mA[/video]

FF7-battle song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSUlWl27lDk

Super Metroid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vYsVk23oxA
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Original post by Guybrush Sheepgood

6. Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors (1999):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9mxrurGTqo


For nostalgia purposes I prefer the AoK in game track:


I have no idea how many times I've heard it. At least a few hundred and probably more than a thousand for the AoC version.
Original post by Guybrush Sheepgood


7. The most modern is this track from Mass Effect 2 - you really need to turn it up or listen in earphones cause I love every little beat and bass string in this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Aw-UpBJR8


YES, mass effect 2 is in the top 10 games of previous gen for me, the suicide mission was just something else though, Your species has the attention of those infinitely your greater...

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Video game music is one of the things I get most nostalgic about for some reason. I'm not sure how to imbed videos, but basically any music from the Zelda games, especially Wind Waker, really gets me.
GTA 3 and vice city soundtrack
Original post by Dr Pesto
Video game music is one of the things I get most nostalgic about for some reason. I'm not sure how to imbed videos, but basically any music from the Zelda games, especially Wind Waker, really gets me.

Get the URL for the video and then click on the little film icon (between the picture icon and speech bubble) at the top of the reply box, or, if on youtube, use the [ youtube] tags; as for the nostalgia, probably because the music sticks better than other stuff, I suppose partly because you hear it passively so much and because you can actively join in, and then you associate the gameplay or story or whatever with it.


Original post by Ravenous

Ermahgerd, some of the newer tracks are nice, but still miss this one (although not that much because the new version does sound pretty epic)
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There are so many nostalgic video game songs which I have heard when I was playing. Here are some of them:









There are much more! I will post another ones next time.
Original post by Greg Jackson
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[video="youtube;7a7-5WYOKxE"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a7-5WYOKxE&index=60&list=UURa1raJXF22KpZ8IknQpGEw[/video]
Original post by Jammy Duel
Get the URL for the video and then click on the little film icon (between the picture icon and speech bubble) at the top of the reply box, or, if on youtube, use the [ youtube]
tags; as for the nostalgia, probably because the music sticks better than other stuff, I suppose partly because you hear it passively so much and because you can actively join in, and then you associate the gameplay or story or whatever with it.




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Original post by Dr Pesto


Like so?

Something seemed to go wrong there, always easier to just use the buttons and let them do the formatting since you're not on mobile.
[video="youtube;SXGGvsHq6iA"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXGGvsHq6iA[/video]
Ok, the tags used by the button is "video" rather than "youtube", although when I quoted one to have a look at the particular tags it displayed as youtube

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