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Top 10 Video Game Soundtracks

Music engineered to be heard four hundred times and loved more each loop.

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  1. 1

    The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

    An instrument as a game mechanic, a score as a memory.

  2. 2

    Chrono Trigger

    Yasunori Mitsuda wrote time travel you can hum.

  3. 3

    Super Mario Bros.

    The most recognized melody on Earth, probably.

  4. 4

    Tetris

    Korobeiniki, forever falling into place.

  5. 5

    Journey

    A Grammy-nominated desert.

  6. 6

    DOOM (2016)

    Mick Gordon turns a chainsaw into an orchestra section.

  7. 7

    Final Fantasy VII

    One-Winged Angel taught a generation Latin. Sort of.

  8. 8

    Undertale

    Toby Fox, one person, sixty-plus perfect tracks.

  9. 9

    Halo: Combat Evolved

    Gregorian monks in space.

  10. 10

    Minecraft

    C418's quiet piano makes digging holes feel profound.

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