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I thought of this post entirely because I have the Pokémon Center theme from Pokémon HeartGold SoulSilver stuck in my head, and it has wriggled in over and over for months despite me hearing and actively playing other music.

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[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 31 minutes ago

bfg division? maybe the katamari theme song.

i play a lot of shmups and their songs are often stuck in my head, most recently some stuff from raycrisis. fire emblem warriors songs get stuck in my head as well.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

...there's one clear victor and it's not even close...

[–] LongboardingLad@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

Forgot about this one! You are correct

[–] con_fig@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

Turtle Woods from Crash Bandicoot 2 has never left me ever since I first played it on the PS1.

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 hours ago

Megaman 2 Wily stage 1

[–] goombakid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I've got 3 that I randomly hum in my head every now and then.

  1. Mega Man 2 - Airman stage
  2. Jet Set Radio - Humming the Baseline
  3. Castlevania II: Simon's Quest - Daytime Town Theme
[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 3 points 9 hours ago

All versions of moon over the castle from the gran tursimo series, the version from GT4 goes hard.

[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago

for me it’s perhaps Metro Exodus end scene.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 9 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] CodeBlooded@programming.dev 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah that's why I didn't link it. I can hear the riff and even play the riff on guitar on a moments notice

Friend says "play me something" and I immediately play that riff

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

I'm locking my answer in on the old Minecraft music. Literally EVERYONE knows it.

[–] Metju@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

Iunno how this wasn't mentioned, but Payday 2 has a lot of catchy / going-hard songs.

Gonna leave 3:

  1. Hot Pursuit
  2. Evil Eye
  3. The Mark
[–] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Hang On main theme tune is excellent. The soundtrack to Hang-On and Super Hang-On are both top tier.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHfvmJtB2gs&pp=ygUSaGFuZyBvbiBtYWluIHRoZW1l

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Naaaaa na-na-na-na-na-naaaa na na, na na na-na naaaaaaaa!

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Also Unbreakable Determination from Ninja Gaiden 1.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

My time has come. As someone who almost exclusively listens to instrumental soundtrack from movies and games, including from games I have never played, these are the ones that most often get stuck in my head (in no particular order). A plus "+" indicates a song that got stuck in my head regularly before I ever played the game, while an asterisk "*" indicates a song that still gets stuck in my head, despite being from a game I have never played at all.

  1. Baba Yetu - Civ IV (+)

  2. Hyrule Castle - Breath Of The Wild (+)

  3. Lorule Castle - Link Between Worlds (*)

  4. One Final Effort - Halo 3 (*)

  5. Golem King - Moonlighter

  6. Song of the Ancients - Nier Series (*)

  7. Dragonborn - Skyrim

  8. Far Horizons - Skyrim (+)

  9. Dragon Roost Island - Wind Waker (*)

  10. Nate's Theme - Uncharted (*)

  11. Gusty Garden Galaxy - Super Mario Galaxy (*)

  12. Korobeiniki - Tetris (+)

  13. Gerudo Valley - Ocarina of Time (+)

  14. Colgera Battle - Tears of the Kingdom

  15. This Song - The Witcher 3 (It's the song Aen Seidhe, but without vocals)

  16. Bloody Tears - Castlevania (*)

But finally, the song that I credit with making me obsessed with instrumental soundtrack, because I fell asleep with it playing on repeat for a whole night at the age of 5, and then lost the game cartridge, so I forgot what it was from, and which I would get stuck in my head roughly once a month throughout my entire childhood until I finally found the song THIRTEEN YEARS LATER:

Ω) Town Theme - Final Fantasy II

[–] gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago
[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Tim Follin:

Solstice

Silver Surfer

Time Trax

Pictionary

[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

The main theme of Papers, Please: https://youtu.be/DbBB1j5qAFs

[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 7 points 17 hours ago

Lost woods.

Honestly anything from OoT, but Lost Woods, Kakariko Villiage, and Gerudo Valley in particular are ingrained into my gray matter.

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 17 hours ago

Literally anything from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

[–] hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 3 points 13 hours ago

Man the soundtrack alone could get me to play Katamari games. I got a birthday gift card recently and was deciding what game to get, when one of the OSTs came up on YT Music and I listened to it for like a week straight. Immediately got We ❤️ Katamari + DLC on 80% sale.

Could scream that shit in my car honestly.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago

I recently obtained a unicorn of a CRT and have been replaying this

[–] Guidy@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Doom E1M1 on my soundblaster and my Roland MT-32, all pumped through my surround sound system in my concrete dorm room in late 1992 and I won’t hear otherwise.

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 15 points 22 hours ago
[–] HarvesterOfEyes@piefed.social 6 points 19 hours ago

I can't pick just one, honestly. Aside from the Tetris theme and World 1-1 from the original Super Mario Bros., I consider these to be not only catchy but also iconic:

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

Easy answer for me, chemical plant zone from Sonic the hedgehog 2

https://youtu.be/RmGCFYIrLps

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago (6 children)
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[–] Sciaphobia@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

There are better pieces of music in this thread, but this one is the strongest earworm.

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

This is one of the songs I hum to myself to get rid of more annoying earworms

[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago

Minecraft by C418 lives rent free in my head. Sometimes i'll start humming it to myself and not even realize

[–] AgentRocket@feddit.org 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

How has no one mentioned the tetris theme? Dum dada dum dada dum dada dum dada dum di da da da

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Back when groceries were cheaper, I would hum that while putting items on the belt to get scanned.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

Does the Wii shop music count as a video game song?

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

I can never pick one, so here's a few:

  • E1M1(Doom)

  • Hell March(Red Alert)

  • Character creation music in BG3

  • Megalovania(Undertale)

  • Coral Crown(Hades II)

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[–] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Suicide run, Mass Effect 2.

[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

OG Super Mario NES, World 1-1

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