Capcom fighters really got me going in the 90's and 2000s but to name just one? Street Fighter 2. At this point I have so much I dont how I did without it.

Final Fantasy VII OST did it for me. But also love all the old Donkey Kong music. Oh, it's so hard to decide as there are soooo many great vgm soundtracks out there.

Streets of Rage & Flashback

Motoi Sakuraba.
With musics from Shining Force III, Star Ocean the second story...

That would have to be Fever from Dr. Mario.

What got me hooked was the sixth stage on Blaster Master for Nintendo. I played many many games before, but THAT track just caught my attention like a redhead in a room full of blonds. It really made me sit up and pay attention to the music that was driving me to play the games longer.

Mega Man 2..when i was 5 back in 93'...yeah that's not a joke lol :P As well as Stage 3 from Blaster Master during that same time. I agree futaihikage that stage 6 is really cool but 3 is just so catchy. I have it as my ringtone lol :P

hmmm, the one that did for me was Zone of the Enders 2 intro theme, man that was epic, I still have no idea who composed it or anything

Zelda: Link's Awakening on the old Brick Gameboy.
first game i beat first game i fell in love with and first game that inspired me to play piano

Journey to Silius. Still one of the best I've ever heard. I even recorded it onto a cassette and listened to it on the bus to school on my Walkman. :)

Another huge one for me was the original Starfox. Amazing stuff!

Either some FF VII/X music music I heard on youtube or Silent hill 2 - Promise

Streets of Rage (Yuzo Koshiro)

BATMAN on the nes

Resident Evil did it for me. The ending themes to 2 and 3 were my first VG MP3's and propelled me to search out more of it and hunt for other games as well. Today I have more RE music across the various games and movies than any other series except for Star Wars.

Thinking back.... it had to have been either the sonic the hedgehog trilogy on sega genesis, the donkey kong country trilogy on super nintendo or F-zero on super as well.

Halo! I will always love them all....

Streets of Rage 2 for the Genesis.

I don't know why. I remember going into the music menu and letting that thing play all weekend.

I'm all about the characters and storyline-- but if the music sucks ass--- I can't play it.

Streets of Rage 2 for the Genesis.

I don't know why. I remember going into the music menu and letting that thing play all weekend.

SOR 2 has awesome songs but my favourite one is Fighting in the Streets

Jesus... the first one???? Hmmmm... tough since there are many vgm's I like.... I would have to say River City Ransom did me in with loving vg music. Other games kept my attention with the music, but that was the one that got my love for it and I have never looked back since.

FFVII,
Nightmare Creatures, (got "la BO des Boss" from a magazine)
Sentinel Returns by John Carpenter
Tomb Raider

Not sure which one I heard first exactly.

Contra : Hard Corps, that game had the coolest metal/techno tracks I ever heard. Doom, Castlevania,Road Rash, Megaman Extreme 2

The music from Sonic the Hedgehog 1 I think was what got me hooked on game music. I remember hearing it when the game first came out back in 1991...and then some 5 years after that, I made my very first Gametune Project (which is my own selective group of videogame music).

If I could name one game that has the best composer and the best soundtrack and that is Super Mario 64 by Koji Kondo. He did a great job since I heard the music and my favorite songs in the soundtrack are Metallic Mario, Powerful Mario, and the Star Catch Fanfare. Here we go!!

The Kingdom Hearts soundtrack, hands down! Following that was "Eyes on Me" from FFVIII, which prompted me to search for more Final Fantasy music (Admittedly, I got into the game rather late...pun not intended). The Chrono Cross soundtrack, more specifically "Time of the the Dreamwatch," then opened my eyes to a much broader spectrum of music, though.

Chrono Cross Soundtrack, and it's still one of the best OST's hands down.

Gradius III ac version.

I would sit with my eyes closed to Yasunori Mitsuda's At the Shore of Dreams~Another World from Chrono Cross for hours, just listening to it repeat over and over again. At that time, I knew I was into VGMs.

Nobuo Uematsu's Final Fantasy IV first did it for me. I held a cassette tape recorder up to my tv and made a complete soundtrack of it when I was a kid.

unreal tournament soundtracks much i like specialy from unreal 1 and unreal tournament 99

Gotta say that it was Christopher Lennertz's score for EA's "From Russia With Love". I like that above other game music I'd head up to that point because it's actually played by a real orchestra, rather than using some dodgy synth.

I have to say that the game that got me hooked on Game Music was Kingsly's Adventure on the PS1. I would leave the game on just to listen to the music. It's a shame that there's no official soundtrack release or audio rips...

MEGAMAN X!!!! OMG IT'S Still Insane! Ever since then I have been collecting VGM. I 'm a producer and I make beats as well and I often sample video games. You can hear some here: http://www.soundclick.com/SMTProductions In "The Non-believers" I sampled Chaos Legion and there are several others as well

X2:wolverines revenge when you fight sabertooth for the first time...id like the soundtrack to that now that i thought of it any link supplyers plz? that one song always gets my blood pumping ^^

Mine would probably be either the old school genesis Sonic games, Metal Gear 2 or Metal Gear Solid one. Have fond memories of those soundtracks.

For me it all started with Uematsu (guess i'm not alone with that). FF7, FF8 and so on. I always liked music in games even before these but FF7 especially made me into a VGM addict

I'm going to have to be unoriginal and say Final Fantasy VII. The music is such a huge part of that game (and all other FFs, actually), and I loved it instantly. Haven't stopped loving video game music since.

sonic the hedgehog,golden axe,streets of rage,for sure!

Mine was probably Half-Life or Half-Life 2

To Zanarkand piano :)

Da Ninja Gaiden Themes from The nes, and also Battletoads and TMNT

Lots of game music discussions going on right now. Anyway for me it was Baladium's Drive from Klonoa 1. I had a game save right before the fight with Baladium only so that I could listen to the music... Eventually I began recording the music on audio cassettes via microphone, which sounded horrible. Many years later, I'm here :)

just looked this up and it is awesome! reminds me a lot of celtic-flavored yasunori mitsuda with the energy of motoi sakuraba

for me, the first mp3 i really wanted to track down was maverick hunter zero from megaman x5. but the moment i knew i was hooked on vgm was when i played megaman x at six years old or so. discovering midi at around age 11 blew my mind.. being able to listen to vgm on demand without having to load up a save file is all i ever wanted. i dunno why i never made the connection between vg midis being available and vg mp3s being available until years later.

i definitely recorded music on tape recorders too. did that with x's intro stage from megaman x4 and the saturos battle from golden sun.

Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 has the best soundtracks in the series and they are performed by the Mario Galaxy Orchestra and composed by Mahito Yokota and Koji Kondo.

Possibly when I was around 5 or sixish. I didn't find pop music appealing for some reason. I found myself playing Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (the first game I ever played) and constantly listening over the music in sound text. I lol now when I was trying to remember where the Hidden Palace theme came from. But yeah, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and other games onwards got me hooked on VGM.

Revenge of Shinobi

Contra : Hard Corps for the genesis. Yea that had me in the sound test menu for awhile. I recently fallen in love with technosoft genesis music like ThunderForce (especially number 4) and Devil Crash. Oh and the Music from Doom!

Grandia. No doubt about it.

The Jazz Jackrabbit 1 + 2 soundtrack. Those two masterpieces got me hooked for ever in vg music

since i was a child and played the old dos doom games... however, unreal and unreal tournament were important steps too. the last doubts gets bashed after i listened to grandia and ff8 soundtracks. these stunned me...

Probably Super Metroid.

definitely Elemental Gearbolt. Working Designs was known for porting some great games, but this one takes the cake in my opinion, and in my youth the only way to listen to it on the school bus was to rip it to CASSETTE! The internet is amazing ya?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rWJzqE0mcg&feature=related

Final Fantasy X.

Well it all started with either Chrono trigger or Jet Force Gemini, most likely the former, but it's excelled incredibly since then (used to have like one or to VG tracks on my iPod) and now I've filled my 16GB iPod with dem tracks and need to make room for Okami, 8 Guilty Gear Games and 2 Blazblue soundtracks, plus a load of anime songs. But yeah, my love (ATM) goes to CT, JFG and Okami because... they bring back memories and emotions that 'real' music can't.

The King of Fighters games OST/AST they rocks..

C and C Tiberian Sun

Super Mario Bros. 3, Bionic Commando and Captain Tsubasa Vol.2 (NES), all these tunes stuck in my head when I was a kid.

Chrono Trigger's OST piqued by interest, but Chrono Cross was the one that realized by interest in VGM's. Prior to that I looked towards anime for mellow BGM type of stuff, but I found a lot more variety and interesting compositions within VGMs.

the donkey kong country trilogy when i was little and later on chrono cross, I was hooked from the opening

1985 - Ghosts N' Goblins. I was blown away. I thought there was a harpsichord in the arcade cabinet.

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I don't think there was really a day or moment I decided....to listen to any type of music. I just love what I hear, especially Motoi Sakuraba, Koh Otani, Toshikazu Tanaka, and most especially: the ragtime pieces and other music by Koji Kondo.

Lufia 2 made this irreparable damage

Medal of Honor for PS1 and Medal of Honor Underground

halo 1

Sonic games and from their it was history.

Jeremy Soule made me fall in love with soundtracks... I remember myself back in '02 sitting all day in front of the main menu of Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. It's still my favourite theme today. And now I'm waiting for Skyrim :)

Batman on the Megadrive/Genesis had a rocking soundtrack. It was the Neo Geo that made me realise how good game sound could be!

For me, I think it's a toss-up between Stewart Chatwood's score for "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" and Troels Brun Folmann score for "Tomb Raider Legend". For the longest time, I always thought of Video Game music as catchy "battle tunes" and noise filling in the background and nothing more. But, for whatever reason, I hear SOT and TRL and it suddenly occurred to me how theatrical were. Whenever I replayed them, I couldn't wait to arrive to levels like the Prison or the Baths (in Prince of Persia), or just visit Croft Manson and Nepal to listen to those beautiful themes. At a much later date Kow Otani's score for "Shadow of the Colossus" just solidified my adoration for Video Game Scores completely.

Final Fantasy Tactics.
First video game soundtrack ever that propelled me to actually search out for a legitimate OST (I didn't really know vg osts existed before then).

way too many to list here, but the 4 disgaea soundtracks among many others like "wario land: shake it!" and most final fantasy games have been favorites of mine. Disgaea 4's soundtrack made my soundtrack game of the year this year.

For me it was Silent Hill 2 (Akira Yamaoka), Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Stuart Chatwood), Hitman: Contracts (Jesper Kyd) and BloodRayne (Kyle Richards).

Well I knew i was hooked when i played Wild Arms 1 (4 the ps1) after playing the game i was in love with all of Michiko Naruke's music if not 4 WA1 i think i would still be listening to rap music.

Actually for me, it was always the other way around. Playing games like Super Mario World, Killer Instinct, Street Fighter, Mega Man X, TUrtles In Time, Maximum Carnage, among countless others......listening to in game music made me wish soundtracks were released. At that time, I only knew of a KI soundtrack as it came with the game but disapppointed it wasn't how it sounded in the game (although I did like some of the songs from the cd). When the whole download off the net thing became big, I searched the net for game rips & eventually found this site.

But the answer to the original question may have been Mortal Kombat. I'm not sure of I liked the game or music first. But I remember constantly putting quarters in the arcade machine. But I don't know if it was to keep playing or to keep listening to the Character Selection theme (I kept the choice as Rayden I think. But rather than select it, I let it stay until the announcer just said the character's name as I don't think it had a timer like Killer Instinct. I did this to listen to the theme long as possible), the song I was & still am most obsessed with from MK 1 & 3. Hell for all I know, it could have been both.

Currently, I just put in the video game discs for Ultimate Alliance 1 & 2 and Arkham City for:
Ultimate Alliance 1 - The Watcher cut scene - love the dialogue & music so that's why. It's the sole reason I still have the game.
Ultimate Alliance 2 - Game music (especially Character Selection & Electro/Tanker Man Phase 2). This is why I till have the game.
Arkham City - To beat it & Alternate costumes. But also for the Main Title/Main Menu music. I do have the score. But I can't compare to how it sounds in the game.

My first console was NES. In terms of that system....ExciteBike.

Others came to my head since my last post as possibilities:
Desert Strike; Return To The Gulf )especially the Opening/Main Title Theme

Still can't find THE ONE that hooked me to Game Music. However, I feel like I'm getting close.....

It was between hearing R4 and Tobal 2's soundtracks back in the PS1 days that sealed the deal for me. They are spectacular soundtracks that still stand out now despite more than a decade having passed since their original release. Best OST purchases I have ever made.

Probably Hitman 2 by Jesper Kyd, "47 Makes a Decision" being one of the most epic themes ever composed for a video game.

Followed by MOH: Frontline - "Arnhem"

Chrono Trigger as far as I remember. That credits song almost made me shed a tear.

Gunstar Heroes was the one for me. :)

Max Payne had an incredible effect on my life. I was hooked!

First video game music that I got addicted to was Mega Man 3 on the NES. After that it was a lot of the Mega Man games that I loved the tunes in over other video games. Next in the timeline I played and got hooked on Final Fantasy VII (yes cliche I know right). But the number 1 game franchise that the music has had a huge effect on my life is the Shin Megami Tensei series. There hasn't been many other games that really hooked me. Plus after I started playing RPGs by ATLUS, I put the final nail in my Square Enix coffin and never looked back :P

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Phealan's Zool I and II CD soundtracks for the Commodore CD32. I heard them years afterwards because my dad found them in the attick and I just remember thinking it was so funky. What a day, heard for the first time those 2 cds and also Nigel Mansell's and Brutal Sports Football both also for the CD32.

Since discovered that some music is better as original mod, but usually the CD is better.

For me it had to be Chrono Trigger's soundtrack since it was my favorite game at the time (I was 10-11 years old) and, shortly after, the Jet Rider soundtrack (gotta love that main theme). Abe's Oddisee also had a huge impact on me and made me realize just how important music can be for setting up mood in a game. Of course, being a fan of older games as well, and having a nerdy friend with access to youtube, I quickly graduated to 8 and 16 bit soundtracks.

I really, REALLY like to customize my games (I'm a big fan of mods as well of course) so now, whenever I get myself an free roaming rpg or rts I usually like to try and see if I can replace the songs in the game with the most appropriate songs from other soundtracks.

Case in point: The Oddworld soundtracks are PERFECT for any fallout game.

Ape Escape. Rediscovered the music of Ape Escape much later on from loving the game as a kid. Brought me someways into this world of yours.

I don't know which soundtrack, made me SURE that I loved game music, but I will have to say that when I heard there was game music being played by orchestras, I was hooked, so I would have to say the first orchestral game music concert was what hooked me. That and Katamari Damacy is just plain awesome!

Dark Cloud 2/Dark Chronicle.

I remember it being 2003 and for the first time I'm seriously paying attention to the background music. Still one of my favorite soundtracks. :)

Final Fantasy VII. Specifically, One Winged Angel.

FFVII, without any doubt.
My first encounter with the John Williams of VGM :)

GRANDIA 1 ON PS1 THE SOUNDTRACK WAS SO GOOD IT BROUGHT BE TO TEARS AT TIMES AS A KID IT PLAYED SO WELL WITH THE STORYLINE THAT IT WAS UNDENIABLE.

For me, It was Thunder Force 4. AKA: Lightning Force. Sega Genesis. I know he did'nt. But that games music sounds so much like Yngwie Malmsteen wrote it.

Sample: Thunder Force IV OST 23 - Metal Squad - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTQIiIKummw)

Definitely an old one in my case. I became totally hooked on the Megaman 3 soundtrack. Back then I put a tape recorder in front of my TV so I could record the music to listen to it on my Walkman. My absolute favorite was Spark Man's music.

To be honest? The nintendo-like sounds...I don't know how to express it, I've forgotten the format of the music (someone remind me please??) but it's sounds like Contra: Hard Corps and Langrisser's IN-GAME MUSIC are seriously underrated! They won't sound good in any other way! No real bands, orchestra or anything could replace the goodness those sounds!! They only sound good in that in-game format, which is very surprising for me! I don't know about any older console games who have music that would only sound good in those old console music formats, though.

Virtua Fighter 2 and Nights Into Dreams (sample version) for Sega Saturn.

The Sega Saturn disks back then came with the soundtrack already on the disk so you were able to put it into a CD player and play the music.

Both came with the system and I fell in love with the music immediately. A few years later Super Puzzle Fighter Turbo II and Street Fighter Alpha II would solidify my love for Video Game Music and Fighting Game Music in general but those were probably the first to have a major impact on me.

Virtua Fighter 2 was really impressive. It not only had original themes but their remixes as well. I couldn't stop listening to them and would always obsess over the music when picking stages. It's about 13 years later and now I have the music from the game on my iPod and usually listen to it for inspiration.

Grim Fandango. Even though I was too young (8-9) at the time to know, but I'm sure that was the first game the music of which I really noticed.

"Batman: The Revenge of the Joker" on the NES was what gotten me into game music. It was and still is one of my all time favorite games on the system.

Mortal Kombat when I played it on the arcades

Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door did it for me

Donkey kong land and Super Mario Land 2: 6 golden coins, both for gameboy.

Kingdom Hearts, Tales & Final Fantasy franchise. There's lots of emotions when listening to this game's OST.

The Halo saga

It must've been Mario Galaxy. Since then I've not only been hooked on game music, I also became a huge fan of orchestral music in general.

It was various Sega and Capcom arcade game soundtracks. Arcade games like the Vs. series and Harley-Davidson & L.A. Riders got me into video game music period. Like, I love a Japanese game composer that throws in some cheesy distortion guitar chords into the Roland SC-55 Power drums and fingered bass.

For me it is unreal/unreal tournament soundtrack I still listen to those two soundtracks. And that's how I got into game music

First one? Definitely Butter Building from Kirby's Nightmare in Dreamland. Although that was, like, 7 or 8 years ago, just when I learnt about VBA.

I really started to get into VGM with Skyward Sword's brilliant soundtrack (especially Fi's Theme). After that it was backtracking to Ice Cave from Pokemon GSC, The Minish Cap, and Daft Punk.

Wait, did I say Daft Punk?

Monkey Island 2 :D

from as early i can remember, final fantasy 7 ;D

I'm 24 and video game music never really grasped me until about 2 years ago I think?

Anyway, the one song that stuck in my head for years was the first level on Kid Icarus for the NES. This was back when I was like 5 or 6. I remember enjoying Donkey Kong Country series' and Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie's music a lot as well. There was always the music of Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2, which always made young me feel like a badass while playing it. Lol. Golden Sun's music was also very enjoyable.

My teenage years were dominated by 90's/early 2000's alternative, grunge, metal, etc. so VGM kinda went on haitus for a long time. It didn't help that the only games I played during those years were few, and mostly consisted of Guitar Hero or Rock Band. Not only that, the other games I did play were Runescape (which had terrible music at the time), Morrowind (which had great music, but very little of it, so it was repetitive) and Smash Bros. Plus, I was poor, so I couldn't buy games on a regular basis.

Fast forward to 2010, I start branching my musical interest out via internet radio. Without this, I would never have discovered new artists or sounds that I loved.
In 2012, I finally get a job, so I could pay for games I had missed out on. Starting with my old PS2, I decided to get Xenosaga: Episode I, and that's what did it. That was the first soundtrack I actually purchased, and I still have it today. ^_^

Even though the first score from a game that I got and listened to often was from THE DIG (mid-90's), it wasn't until relatively recently that a game score completely floored me and opened my eyes to what they've been providing for games. I really only played the music from THE DIG if I was GM for a sci fi role-playing game and needed some unobtrusive incidental sci fi music. Or for when I read a sci fi book. And then I heard Age of Conan - The Hyborian Age by Knut Avenstroup Haugen. That score (and the wonderful extras that FFShrine friends provided) actually beat out almost every one of my film scores to become one of my all-time favorite scores ever. It is now in the top 5, along with long-beloved film scores. After that came Age of Conan - Rise of the Godslayer. World of Warcraft, Mass Effect and so on.

So, even though I've collected film scores since I was a little kid back in the 70's, it was Knut Avenstroup Haugen's Age of Conan that got me hooked on Game Music. Although, as with any music, it is a subjective thing. There's a lot that goes into whether or not I'll enjoy it. I don't enjoy it simply because it is game music. No more than if it were film music for a sci fi franchise I happen to love. Also, it needn't be a a full symphonic treatment either. It could be one person with a synthesizer - as long as it is done right. So, it really isn't about "game music" for me, per se. As I suspect it is for many here, it is simply about music...period.

Turrican 2 was the one that did it for me. The tunes were and still are quite catchy and epic, and I like the way how Chris H�lsbeck managed to make the most out of his synthesizers sound-wise. :)

Yup. Agreed :)

Unreal Soundtrack... The "Dusk horizon" track when leaving the prison ship... oh... my... god...

for me, that would be grandia 2, even now, even if i am unable to play the game, just by listening to the music, i could remember my journey.

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I shared a bedroom with my older brother until I was 12 years old or do, maybe, which would have been in 1995. At some point, instead of obediently going to sleep as we had been instructed by our parents, we would play a "game" where one person would hum or beep or mumble out a tune from a video game and the other person would have to identify which. I recall that I was much more interested in this game, and that I eventually gave up trying to get the brother to play it due to his lack of interest (though he went on to actually perform music on real instruments while I at best put little colored squares on a midi grid).
I recall specifically incorporating Megaman 3 and Ghosts n Goblins into my turns, and that I took issue with the brother's pitch choices in replicating the night theme from Castlevania 2.

Also we got the old family television box in the room at some point and could play actual video games instead of sleeping so that may have contributed.

When I had a computer (but before I had internet) I would repeatedly listen to stupid midis that I pulled out of doom wads that I had on a CD instead of actual music off of CDs. Although once I realized Gobliins 2 would play its in-game music on a normal CD player, I probably ruined a few car rides with that.

Years later, Breath of Fire was the first SPC set I downloaded. I do not think there is anything significant about that, but I remember it so I said it. I cannot recall the first nsf for some reason. It was terribly liberating to realize I could listen to music that -I- liked and not have to rely on a store or radio station deeming it fit to be heard.

The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker for sure. Such tranquil atmosphere... Such beautiful music...

Medal of Honor: Underground by Michael Giacchino 14 years ago. Still one of the best orchestral game soundtracks ever made!!!

For me it was definitely the NES era. Super Mario Bros. 1-3 by Koji Kondo, Metroid by Hip Tanaka. It was incredible to see over the years how video game music has evolved from chiptune to digital and now with full live recordings with a symphony or group of musicians!

Air Combat (Ace Combat 1) was my first true entry into the realm of video game music. The fact that you could play the disc on a CD player only solidified its place in my memory.

Dragon Quest, Super Mario Brothers, and Legend of Zelda.

The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Sega Genesis/Megadrive version) by Jesper Kyd sealed the deal for me, back in '95! Runner ups would be Deus Ex and Diablo II on PC, and Ecco the Dolphin for Genesis.
Hope this thread can stay alive...

For me it was heretic, Mech Warrior 1, Hexen and Hexen 2

I think Final Fantasy IX made me realize the emotional importance and significance of themes. If there has to be one soundtrack, that'd be the one. I never really stopped listening to VGM since then. I was 11.

As long as I can recall, I've always had a thing for VGM. Kirby's Adventure was my very first game and that soundtrack still means a lot to me nowadays. I guess when I first started to realize that I liked VGM (or that I had a thing for music in general lol) was with the Super Smash Bros. Brawl OST. As a kid, I used to go into the sound collection menu and just listen and dance to that consequent amount of music. But what really made me get it was SSB4 last year, when I downloaded the full soundtrack. Since then I'm listening to like 70% OST / 30% other music lol

My first soundtrack when I know I will be a game music fan was......tunel b1,Disruptor psx .....

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PS thank you from this post I was read all of reply to know people first OST's and most of them are awesome and I don't have them thanks all of you for inspiration.......

Some combination of Final Fantasy IV, Chrono Trigger, and Final Fantasy VI. I held a cassette recorder up to my tv to capture their soundtracks as a kid.

It's not my favorite OST, but Final Fantasy IX has certain nostalgia (probably the entire game has it) on it that makes you love it.

For me, it would have to be ff6. I can't actually say when it happened... I've been into video game music ever since playing it back as a young adult. i didn't grow up with video games so I didn't really get into video games until after I left high school. I can probably link my interest in all things ff to why I started listening to video game music. Something about 6's aesthetic is so gripping. That's why I endeavour to hear more video game music over the years. Trying to capture that initial euphoria about it.

Chrono Cross absolutely blew my mind when I heard it for the 1st time as a kid. I fell in love with vg soundtracks a couple of times before, but never to that point. Seeing Time's Scar opening for the 1st time... Pure bliss.

For me it was Super Mario Bros., Mega Man and Kid Icarus.

Little Nemo: The Dream Master. One of the NES's best scores.

Definitely The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Heheh. Same for me.

Actually, it might have been Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.
Metroid Fusion?

Oh god, I can't remember!

Hard to pick a particular title... It definitely started toward the end of the SNES era, but was overt when the N64 came out. It might have been Donkey Kong Country?


I held a cassette recorder up to my tv to capture their soundtracks as a kid.

I did the same to music I liked during the N64 days. Recall recording the soundtrack to Killer Instinct Gold that way.