Tony hawks pro skater series and gta vice city mostly

Tony Hawks proskater.

Do the Guitar Hero games count? Because those

lol… genuinely, DOOM. I grew up with just the radio and a mom who made weird and arbitrary rules about music so my music exposure was terrible. I found a journal from when I was ten talking about how excited I was to listen to the “top ten soft rock hits” of the week with Delilah. Hearing DOOM and going omfg this ROCKS!! made me realize there was other music out there, big music, epic sounds, distortion, heavvvvvy sounds I love it all, I’m also a bass head as it turns out. DOOM opened the door and I’ve spent my adult life exploring all the different kinds of music I never got exposed to as a kid.

Chrono Trigger.

If you put the install disk for Warcraft 2 in a cd player, you had a kick ass orchestral soundtrack.

Fallout Soundtrack is the only reason I know who the ink spots are.

Both let me appreciate styles I had never given a chance.

I honestly think FF7 made get into classical music and contemporary composers.

SuperTux

Megaman 2 aka Rockman 2, baby! So good.

Pick any game in the Final Fantasy series. For me it was the overworld in FF6 and the battle songs from VII and VIII. I Also really vibed with the Uncharted games, which used an orchestra of interesting folk instruments to create a really cool musical soundscape for adventure.

Skate and Destroy, Tony Hawks Pro Skater, GTA 3/Vice City/SA.

Also numerous PSX games are the reason I still listen to that old school drum & bass.

Later, Guitar Hero games.

Need for Speed Underground 2!! All songs were awesome, my favorites were the Riders on the Storm with Snoop and Nobody by Skindred

Myst and Riven. Became homework music for a long time

FF9, Vamo' alla Flamenco taught me I really like spanish guitar.

Damn, I can't believe Halo CE hasn't been mentioned yet. That game was a musical awakening for the entire industry.

StarCraft’s iconic Terran soundtrack is the earliest game where the music really got me hooked into that 80’s synth rock/metal. Of course there’s also Mick Gordon’s Doom soundtracks, but that came in later and I was already listening to metal by that time.

Dave Mirra's Freestyle BMX

Valkyrie Profile and Golden Sun were my introduction to prod-rock (thanks to Motoi Sakuraba).

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, Tony Hawk's Underground 2, Kingdom Hearts II, and GTA San Andreas all come to mind. Also a more recently Lethal League and Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

The 3D zelda games.

That was the point where I prefered soundtracks over singing. I still have the Twilight Princess trailer mp3 I cut almost 20 years ago on my running playlist.

That and the score for Battle for Wesnoth. Classic freeware, peak 2006.

Everything from Supergiant is fantastic, worth a listen even if you don't play the games. Also, Burnout Revenge had such a good soundtrack. Completely shaped my preference for music in highschool.

Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask were pretty foundational for me. I think the fact that playing an instrument was a central game mechanic was a big part of that.

Others that come to mind would be gens 1-3 of Pokémon. Pretty much every track in all of these games are iconic.

Red Alert 2. I did not know what metal was up to then.

Not an awakening per se but Splinter Cell Chaos Theory introduced me to Amon Tobin and the world of weird, experimental electronic music.

ducktales, maniac mansion, and shadowgate on the nes

oh and secret of mana (but especially secret of mana ~ banished)

Hotline Miami.

Mass Effect 1's credit outro song led to a rabbit hole of me getting into electronic music over the next six months. It's not even super dancey but it was enough lol

Symphony of the night of course, bust before that also games like streets of rage (1,2) and thunder force 4.

Diablo/Diablo 2

Though this tune isn't quite part of their soundtrack (that I know of), it highly resembles their style on this otherwise hidden track...

Dawn Of Tears - Blood On Verona (Hidden track timestamp 11:43)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63WxrVmquJw&t=703s

Guitar hero literally got me into real guitar so probably that one

The Sims building music: A great example of music improving the experience without getting in the way but still making a big impact on all players. It opened the door for more instrumental music like Windham Hill records and similar.

I was in a hospital for a few days when I was 8-year-old. I was not allowed to leave my bed. But they had a kind of a moveable shelf with a TV and NES on it.

And therefore, to this day, I've got the Bubble Bobble music as an earworm. A kind of an awakening, right? 🙃

Portal 2. Absolute banger of a soundtrack that I have listened to over and over, and I absolutely loved Exile Vilify by The National, which frustratingly is not on Spotify.

I always liked electronic music but Machinarium made me consciously realize how much I liked ambient music and how much could be done with it.

One Winged Angel, Sephiroth's theme from Final Fantasy 7 blew my mind! I did a report on it in high school I loved it so much!

Test Drive 5 and Hades. Two musical awakenings about 25 years apart.

Both have fantastic sound tracks, but also wildly different.

Ocarina of Time Need for Speed

hey. you asked.