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Video game music that makes the nostalgia swell up inside you
- Thread starter Benzychenz
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How do I get this to play in the game ? Whenever I use mine it plays the normal theme
Since so many of my picks including Wave Race 64 and Sonic Adventure 2 were already mentioned I want to add these:
The Mario 64 File Select music just evokes a magical dreamy wondering in me, the SimCity SNES title-screen always makes me tear-up almost because it's so soothing and brings back a flood of memories and ACDC Town in any variation somehow always makes me feel like I'm "home" and happy without a worry in the world.
A special mention goes to Dragon Valley from Freedom Planet 2, the game isn't even out yet but the tune makes me feel super nostalgic for whatever reason which should be impossible but yet it does:
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The Mario 64 File Select music just evokes a magical dreamy wondering in me, the SimCity SNES title-screen always makes me tear-up almost because it's so soothing and brings back a flood of memories and ACDC Town in any variation somehow always makes me feel like I'm "home" and happy without a worry in the world.
A special mention goes to Dragon Valley from Freedom Planet 2, the game isn't even out yet but the tune makes me feel super nostalgic for whatever reason which should be impossible but yet it does:
Freedom Planet 2 OST: Dragon Valley
This is the music from Sample demo of the game i do not know if its gonna change in final release but i recorded it just in case
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Some great choices, might I add.
But there hasn't been a two media limit for quite some time.
GBA-DS Pokemon and The Sims 1 are easily the most nostalgic to me. So many hours spent, simpler times. Pokemon makes me happy, whilst The Sims had absolutely fantastic sound direction, not a single bad track in the game - such a variety of emotions in there too.
Pretty much anything from the 16 bit era. Probably the golden age of platformers or gaming in general for me. To be more specific though anything from Yoshi's Island or Sonic 2.
I've NEVER played Duck Tales, and yet the Moon Theme for me is nostalgia made tangible.
That made me think "nostalgia" is not always a quality related to things you experienced, but can be tricked out and maybe manipulated.
Or maybe Duck Tales Moon just encompasses the experiences I had with GB/C games and is a shorthand for that nostalgia.
That made me think "nostalgia" is not always a quality related to things you experienced, but can be tricked out and maybe manipulated.
Or maybe Duck Tales Moon just encompasses the experiences I had with GB/C games and is a shorthand for that nostalgia.
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Literally teared up listening to this the other day, the Pokemon craze in 90's were the days man
This gets me every time! Loved it as a kid, still holds up. Reminds me of sitting on the floor with my C64.
I just realized the other day, a bit to my surprise, that the Wild Arms intro makes me feel feelings.
It's my 28th birthday and I'm not at all ashamed to say that the Pallet Town music just made me cry
Good lord! Just wanted to say I haven't listened to this soundtrack since I found out my Grandma had died back in 2002. I was playing this game when I got the news and I was really close to her and haven't had the heart to replay it. That first song is so lush.
Great game :)
And to contribute I'd say Unreal Tournament 99 menu song gives me huuuuge nostalgia! I'm sure someone has already mentioned it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX5CpBfTg4o
Just about any music from an SNES Square game. Especially the medieval world map theme from Chrono Trigger.
That's the one! Brings me to tears almost every time...I highly recommend listening to the album "Light" by Project Destati if anyone hasn't already. You will be moved through time and start to wonder...is any of this for real, or not?
Since so many of my picks including Wave Race 64 and Sonic Adventure 2 were already mentioned I want to add these:
The Mario 64 File Select music just evokes a magical dreamy wondering in me, the SimCity SNES title-screen always makes me tear-up almost because it's so soothing and brings back a flood of memories and ACDC Town in any variation somehow always makes me feel like I'm "home" and happy without a worry in the world.
A special mention goes to Dragon Valley from Freedom Planet 2, the game isn't even out yet but the tune makes me feel super nostalgic for whatever reason which should be impossible but yet it does:
Freedom Planet 2 OST: Dragon Valley
This is the music from Sample demo of the game i do not know if its gonna change in final release but i recorded it just in case
Came here to post the Super Mario 64 File Select music. Lots of video game music makes me nostalgic, but that one really hits me hard and transports me back.
Basically every song from Undertale even though I only played it for the first time in 2017.
Makes me feel like a kid with dreams.
Makes me feel like a kid with dreams.
There's a quite a few tunes that'll trigger my nostalgia, but I'll just post this one.
Lost Patrol, Amiga, 1990.
Lost Patrol, Amiga, 1990.
There are other songs from Earthbound that I mean even more fond of, but this seems to be the one that pulls me into what it felt like to play my first jrpg.
