Game OSTs that defined your childhood

[Daystar Clarion]

If you've played video games for as long as you can remember like me, you've played a metric shit-tonne of them. Some of them memorable, others not so much. But there is always that one game, one of the first you ever played, where even just a snippet of the soundtrack brings memories flooding back in a tidal wave of nostalgia.

Mine is the theme from the Green Hill Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog.
Back when the franchise was a big hitter, back before all the horrible characters were added, back before the move to 3D killed the blue hedgehog.

This is the soundtrack of my childhood, hell, I even have it as the ringtone for my mobile phone, and I just need a dose of the track and I'll be humming it all day.

So, fellow escpastists. What game OST defines your childhood?

 

[SyphonX]

I'd probably have to go with Sonic also.

Was a really punchy and bright soundtrack. Very memorable.

 

[Trolldor]

My childhood was rather varied.

Monster Bash had this as a theme... I think. Or was it Haunted House?
Can't remember. Long time ago now...


Then in the N64 era,

When I was in my teens, this one kicked off something mighty.

 

[Riddle78]

The Legend of Dragoon MADE my childhood. I love that game to bits. Frugel still makes me laugh.

Also,FF VIII.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Snip

Say what you want about the Halo franchise (I think the games have a terrible plot), they certainly have a brilliant soundtrack.

 

[AbstractStream]

I was gonna name FF X, but that wasn't really my childhood. I was already older than. So I'm gonna name Sonic's OST that defined my childhood. As well as Bart's Nightmare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x08YYp0_wh8
And come on! Mario!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgBbRHy8akI&playnext=1&list=PLEF333F334596BA29

 

[ThisIsSnake]

The FFVII soundtrack, if I haer a piece of music from it I can either name it or name locations it plays in.

Also Pokemon and Mario soundtracks, these must do something to my brain because I can hear them after I've turned off the game.

I also have a tendency to associate Music with games, like whenever I hear Bohemian Rhapsody I think of Shadow of the Colossus.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Pokemon. Just Pokemon.

 

[MagisterDark]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW-L4gU9NeY
Ah the Amiga. So many memories.
This game had no sound effects, all it had was it's soundtrack. And it works.

EDIT: Bah, I can't remember how to insert youtube links >.<

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Snip

The Pokemon center theme pretty much defines that game for me.

 

[mireko]

I could do the obvious thing and post the FFVII soundtrack or BG2, but there's something that predates them:

Spoiler: Wario Land for the Gameboy. 1994-ish?

I can remember mentally adding lyrics to the notes whenever I played the game.

 

[VanQ]

If we're talking music that defines my childhood, THIS is first and foremost it. This was the first ever game I played on a console and it will forever have a place in my heart:


Also, this game had an amazing soundtrack, every zone had unique, distinct music and the artwork was fantastic, this game is beyond underrated.

 

[gmergurl]

I'm going to have to go with pokemon, Silent Hill (kinda messed up I suppose) and Mario Bros.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Snip

Crash Bandicoot was the first game I ever had on the Playstation. If I were born a couple of years later, that probably would have been my first game.

 

[HellspawnCandy]

Final Fantasy menu OST. Too lazy to link

 

[Mad1Cow]

Snake Eater...I ate a frog as a child...

OH SERIOUSLY!?! Erm I guess I would have to say...Pokemon...first game I ever played to death besides minesweeper...OH and there's Crash Bandicoot 2 and Spyro...I miss my childhood T_T

 

[Batfred]

Can I be a bit different? What really influenced me was the Transformers the Movie OST. It was the first time I had come into contact with guitar music and I LOVED IT!

If you are going to force me to pick a game OST, then I guess Xenon II. It was one of the first games to get itself a proper soundtrack that wasn't bings and pips and simulated plinky plonky music.

 

[noble cookie]

Final Fantasy VIII, 'twas the second coming of Christ for me, the best game ever, with the best OST. FF8 will forever have a place in my heart, and I haven't even completed it.

 

[dancinginfernal]

Crash Bandicoot and Shadow of the Colossus.

 

[ZeroMachine]

Two for my childhood:



Pretty much anything from those two games.

Try playing them at the same time!

Spoiler

Sounds really crappy, don't it?