Many a dark nights were spent with this foreboding theme of droning keys and melancholy synths echoing through dorm room hallways. The sense of relief that washed over players as soon as this song began to play was like nothing any gamer had experienced before. After holding your breath for the last hour with muttered swear words and sweaty palms, Claire Redfield or Leon Kennedy finally limped their way through a hard fought doorway, past three moaning deadites and six acid spitting tarantuals to finally have this tone great your ears. That moment reassuring you that you are finally safe from the dangers that lurk just outside that very door. And they're gonna be lurking there for awhile because your finally here, and while this tune repeats over and over, you're gonna use the restroom that you've needed to use for the last hour, get yourself a nice glass of much needed oj to replenish the lost nutrients from sweating so much and maybe just maybe you'll take the dog that is crying in the corner with its legs crossed outside like your mother told you to when the sun was still up. All this goes through your mind, until you realize that you used your last ink ribbon two hours ago and never picked up another one... S#$!@!


#2 - "It Might Be Rage Quit Time"
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) - Underwater

You know this level well, you've played it a thousand times, you've got your path through the map down to a science and that ol' NES A button is well worn. But it's that damn seaweed! You've killed superhuman ninjas, giant toads, chainsaw wielding maniacs, purple lobsters and weird flying W's, hell even B-Bop and Rocksteady were all in a days work, (Especially if you had Donatello). Yet this is how it all ends, all four turtles taken out by some damn electric seaweed. If only Krang and Shredder had thought so simple in the cartoons. Forget all the mutated creatures and super bots, all you need is a bucket of electric seaweed and this music. Not only is it enough to kill all of the turtles a million times over. It's also enough to drive any gamer who ever played this level mad. As they curl up in a ball and suck on their thumb tortured by this sick suppressed childhood memory. If ever there was a theme that produced an emotional reaction, this was it.


#1 - "The World Is Mine For The Taking"
Red Dead Redemtion - Entering Mexico

You are John Marston, a lone outlaw of the iconic west. You've wrangled cattle, fought rival gangs, cheated at poker, and even twisted your dastardly mustache as you hogtied a random hooker and placed her forebodingly on some ominous train tracks. Yet, even after all of this, one thing remains shrouded in mystery. The far off land across the river, Mexico. Even with all of your marksmanship training and pedestrian lassoing practice, one thing poor ol' John never learned to do was swim. Forsaking you to a life of looking out across that blue river with only wonder and a dream. Until finally, one day, a dreadful boat ride and about 200 dead random indians later, you cross that dream, landing with nothing more than your trusty steed, the clothes on your back and that setting sun upon the horizon. The beauty is breathtaking, the anticipation overwhelming, and all of this before the song kicks in. If you are a human being and  didn't get chills, you're either A, an alien or B, probably just a really boring person... Sucks to be you...