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This was a triumph...

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

Tetris Theme A.

OG Super Mario NES, World 1-1

Portal - Still Alive

NA NANANA NANAANANA NA KATAMARI DAMACY

MOON - Hydrogen From Hotline Miami. I'm noticably better at the game when this one is on.

megalovania is one of the badasses in my book

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

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

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

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.

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

https://youtu.be/RmGCFYIrLps

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

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

Hell March from Red Alert

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

The entire soundtrack from FTL is fantastic and catchy and full of ear worms.

Lost woods.

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

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.

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

As far as Pokemon goes, I've always been partial to the Team Galactic battle theme from DPPT. And though "catchy" doesn't quite do it justice, the night theme for Jubilife City, also in DPPT, is tremendous. Walking into that city for the first time at night was one of the defining moments of my video game life.

And the Shiver City theme from Paper Mario is unforgettable.

I don't think anything will ever beat Still Alive from Portal though.

Sonic two when sonic drowns.

Literally anything from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

The Driftveil City Theme from Pokemon B&W pops up in my mind quite frequently, I'd say its up there in the list for catchiest Pokemon tunes. Honorable mention for Cave Story's Main Theme (the wii version is clearly superior from all others and I will not accept any other opinions on the matter)

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.

Everything from Grim Fandango.

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

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 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)

We All Lift Together from Warframe goes fucking hard.

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

Old RuneScape Soundtrack: Harmony

youtube.com/watch?v=JkR7zClEkAo

It's cheating, but there was a track in need for speed carbon that was catchy as hell. Love me or hate me, by Lady Sovereign

Not technically video game music, but it's one of the few tracks in any video game that I went out of my way to find outside of a game.

Not what you asked for, but my music taste was shaped massively by Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series

Suicide run, Mass Effect 2.

The festival song or cascade theme, both from mario odyssey.

I also really like celeste's soundtrack