Games

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

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.

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

Megaman 2 Wily stage 1

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

Hell March from Red Alert

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

for me it’s perhaps Metro Exodus end scene.

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

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

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

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

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

Here a little late with some certified bangers in no particular order:

Bomberman Hero - Redial

Deus Ex - VersaLife

Monty on the Run - Main theme (Commodore 64)

Sonic CD [JP] - Quartz Quadrant (Present)

System Shock - Executive

System Shock 2 - Engineering

Jet Set Radio - Sneakman

Max Payne 3 - TEARS

Mega Man 3 - Shadow Man Theme

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Wandering Ghosts

Sparkster [Genesis/MD] - Stage 1-1

Kirby 64 - Rock Star

Lost woods.

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

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

Tim Follin:

Solstice

Silver Surfer

Time Trax

Pictionary

NA NANANA NANAANANA NA KATAMARI DAMACY

Portal - Still Alive

Literally anything from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

This was a triumph...

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.

Tetris Theme A.

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

https://youtu.be/RmGCFYIrLps

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:

• Guile theme for SSF2
• Rip & Tear from DOOM (2016). A modern day classic, imo
• Brinstar from the original Metroid
• Hail to the king, baby

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

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

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

OG Super Mario NES, World 1-1

Opening theme of Civ VI. It‘s Songno di Volare nade by Christopher Tin.

It's an old one, but the Outrun soundtrack was proper catchy.

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)

DuckTales (NES) - Moon Theme. The covers are also awesome.

Suicide run, Mass Effect 2.