The main theme of Papers, Please: https://youtu.be/DbBB1j5qAFs
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Here a little late with some certified bangers in no particular order:
Monty on the Run - Main theme (Commodore 64)
Sonic CD [JP] - Quartz Quadrant (Present)
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Wandering Ghosts
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.
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Baba Yetu - Civ IV (+)
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Hyrule Castle - Breath Of The Wild (+)
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Lorule Castle - Link Between Worlds (*)
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One Final Effort - Halo 3 (*)
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Golem King - Moonlighter
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Song of the Ancients - Nier Series (*)
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Dragonborn - Skyrim
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Far Horizons - Skyrim (+)
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Dragon Roost Island - Wind Waker (*)
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Nate's Theme - Uncharted (*)
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Gusty Garden Galaxy - Super Mario Galaxy (*)
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Korobeiniki - Tetris (+)
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Gerudo Valley - Ocarina of Time (+)
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Colgera Battle - Tears of the Kingdom
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This Song - The Witcher 3 (It's the song Aen Seidhe, but without vocals)
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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
Lost woods.
Honestly anything from OoT, but Lost Woods, Kakariko Villiage, and Gerudo Valley in particular are ingrained into my gray matter.
Literally anything from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
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:
Suicide run, Mass Effect 2.
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.
E1M1 is great, top tier music.
The level clear screen music, E2M8, E1M8, and E1/2M9 tracks are all other top tier track contending for the throne.
Doom II introduced a few more bangers too, but I'm not as able to call the level codes to mind off the top of my head.
I can never pick one, so here's a few:
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E1M1(Doom)
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Hell March(Red Alert)
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Character creation music in BG3
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Megalovania(Undertale)
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Coral Crown(Hades II)
Hell March! The Red Alert 2 version is the best one to me, maybe because it was the first I heard or because it just feels punchier.
The second one isn't bad, but I like the more trash metal style and less overwhelming bass in the first.
Which I guess is why Iove Andrew Hulshult's remake of E1M1
The festival song or cascade theme, both from mario odyssey.
I also really like celeste's soundtrack
NA NANANA NANAANANA NA KATAMARI DAMACY
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.
We All Lift Together from Warframe goes fucking hard.
The Stupendium made an Outer Worlds song called The Fine Print that also goes hard af for either setting imo.
How has no one mentioned the tetris theme? Dum dada dum dada dum dada dum dada dum di da da da
Minecraft by C418 lives rent free in my head. Sometimes i'll start humming it to myself and not even realize
Tetris Theme A.
There are better pieces of music in this thread, but this one is the strongest earworm.
This is one of the songs I hum to myself to get rid of more annoying earworms
It's an old one, but the Outrun soundtrack was proper catchy.
Opening theme of Civ VI. It‘s Songno di Volare nade by Christopher Tin.
Baba Yetu is also great
This guy studies the old magicks
A lot from Undertale. Personal favourite is Spider Dance.
Other than this, The Trumpet 4 is catchy as heck.
Mine Windbag Mine is also incredibly catchy as heck, Darren Korb is super talented.
Does the Wii shop music count as a video game song?
DuckTales (NES) - Moon Theme. The covers are also awesome.
OG Super Mario NES, World 1-1
For some reason the SMB2 theme song is stuck in my head all the time. Something about the jazziness of it.
Those first 6 notes of 1-2 tho...
What kind of overalls does Mario wear?
Denim denim denim🎵
megalovania is one of the badasses in my book
Iwatodai Dorm from Persona 3 Reload was the most recent one that really got stuck in my head, but it happens a lot for me. It’s not always video game music, but probably is a majority of the time.
Ever since I first heard it a few months ago, it has never left my mind for even a second.
Free by Crush 40
Sadly this great song was tied to a spin-off series killing game.
Not what you asked for, but my music taste was shaped massively by Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series
Everything from Grim Fandango.
I feel like Sea Shanty 2 from Old School Runescape is a strong contender. Even if you have never played Runescape there is a good chance you know it.
The entire soundtrack from FTL is fantastic and catchy and full of ear worms.
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