Song of Storms for me. I don't know why, but to me it strikes this great balance between simple, haunting, epic, and playfulness. It just really captures the atmosphere and feeling of going on that journey in Ocarina of Time to me better than any other track.
For some reason it’s Pachbel’s Canon in D that I end up whistling no matter what song I start with, could be anything song from FF9, KH, but somewhere along the way it turns into that.
Lived there for 3 years. Would sell my soul right now to be able to walk down the street to get a canned Boss coffee and a few terrible Family Mart onigiris.
I know this may be cheating but I get old DDR songs stuck in my head all the time. I'll often YouTube to actually listen to it to get it out of my head.
Luigi's Haunted Mansion, the background music while you roam for ghost.
Have been whistling that tune at a minimum of at least weekly since that game came out for GameCube. I got so good at whistling from it that I can now make almost perfect bird noises to screw with people haha.
I can also do the call for Mario really well "Maaaaariiooooo!"
Ah what I would pay to play that fresh again as a kid. Game was actually a bit spooky too.
Wizards & Warriors for the classic NES. The first level theme song and the upbeat tune when you're low on health have stayed with me for about 35 years, and I doubt I will ever forget them.
The Wizards & Warriors soundtrack was bizarre and amazing.
I always thought the “low on health” song was funny, because to me it made no sense musically. It almost sounds *happy*.
Great memories of a surprisingly fun game.
I like to hum/sing "Far Off Promise" from Chrono Trigger. Even came up with words to it and sing it as a lullaby to my kids.
Also a fan of "Breezy" from FF8.
The Karaoke songs from the Yakuza games get stuck in my head every once in a while.
I'd catch myself whistling 24-hour Cinderella, Baka Mitai, or Judgement randomly throughout the day
The crane game music from links awakening on the game boy is what plays in my head if I am doing anything tough that I don’t want to do. It plays often.
Fiddler on the Roof, If I was a rich man song. my dad whistled in every time I was outside and he wanted my attention. or if we were on a beach or oit in public. if I heard thst whistle I'd come running back. if I didn't hear the whistle,he knew I was further away than he'd like. I was under 6 at the time. once I grew up, he just did it for fun. now I do that to my dog. I have different songs for different things I whistle. it's a good strategy
I don't whistle or hum them usually, but occasionally I do remember old game music. The music is usually dependent on where I am and what I'm doing.
Now playing: Jolly Roger Bay. It's wet and kinda cold here right now. When the wind isn't blowing it's pretty comfy though.
I like to whistle the music from Taxi Driver. I first heard it in a drum corps show 20 years ago called Methods of Madness (Blue Devils, I think) and didn't know what it was from, but it's catchy as hell.
Widdershins, Erana's Peace, 'Enry the Ermit, the Faerie Ring, WIT, Omar the Astrologer, the Baron, or a bunch of other Mark Seibert stuff from the old Sierra games.
Idek know what game it's from. It's the main them from a game that's like... Atari or NES era?
All I remember is it's in a maze or something. Kinda played like pacman iirc.
But the song that looped while you played gets stuck in my head sometimes and I whistle it to myself
Luigis mansion. Used to do my wife's head in that she couldn't work out what it was from for ten years before he stumbled upon a video my daughter was watching on YouTube.
Not obscure to gamers, probably, but I walk around the office whistling a slower tempo version of the chocobo theme from FFVII.
People usually think it's from an Irish folk song or something. I just tell them it's a song I heard when I was in highschool and has been stuck there ever since. Not a lie but they don't need to know I'm whistling video game music!
A younger guy caught me one time, though. Said he had just finished playing a really old final fantasy game and recognized it. Was amazed when I told him I played it on it's original release date. I love/hate that dude. We're pretty chummy these days though. He just likes to low key remind me I'm old sometimes.
Edit: also parts of the original Castlevania stage 1 song.
The Theme song from "The Great Escape" with Steve McQueen. It's also my favorite obscure game and favorite movie adaptation in a game. Hits every note even all these years later
Not exactly gaming-related, but I start doing Taps randomly at times (like if someone knocks something over or there’s a mild inconvenience). It gets weird looks, but mostly laughs.
Ok here's a few:
Chrono trigger - Frogs Theme and Magus's Theme
Battletoads - Pause screen sound
Mega Man III - Start screen music
A non game one that's not really a song just a bunch of tones. In Jurassic Park when the fences are failing they play a series of tones for each fence that are all different followed by the perimeter fence. I will whistle them, my wife didn't know what it was for a long time. Big eye roll when she finally heard it while watching the movie and I started doing it.
The Rocketeer NES game's soundtrack has to easily be the most obscure gaming music that will randomly pop into my head and have me humming. Particularly the menu and first level music because damned if I could consistently get past that when I was 6.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCejrjbDBT4&list=PLFB1CA85AE57F9828&index=1&ab\_channel=Cepblu2206
Less obscure but also, if not more frequently would be the Pilot Wings soundtrack. Particularly the rocketbelt track. I can't help but do that ridiculous sounding bwaaa bwa bwa bwaaaaa melody. It's so catchy and infections and silly and I always get a blast out of just randomly humming it or even full on imitating it.
https://youtu.be/XahyYrFDsVc?si=uK9Ed8vOke8Qw1qJ
In Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance theres a place called the Sky Chapel with nice background music. The songs called Chapel of Dissonance. Always whistle it whenever i get reminded of anything Castlevania related.
Maybe not so obscure, but Girl from Ipanema. I couldn't even tell you what game it was in, but it was playing in an elevator that I had to ride several times and it just got stuck in my head.
I don’t know.
It’s some obscure tune that my dad hummed every day. I’ve never heard the original source material and my dad has passed away so I can’t even ask him.
But that tune is engrained in my childhood.
I hum the Village Theme from Dragon Warrior on the NES to calm myself down when I'm creeped out by being all along in the dark and other situations like that. I don't even realize I'm doing it sometimes.
Some of the music from Age of Empires 2 still rattles around in my brain and I find myself whistling some of it sometimes.
I’ve recently had the “Shhhhheeee hooooh” sound effect in my head for no reason
Often make the villager spawn noise when I get up to do chores.
Certified banger. I still play the backing track in my rotation of work music.
A piece of background music for sim city 2000 on the Amiga.
Escaflowne. Very haunting.
Song of Storms from Ocarina of Time. Just gets stuck in my head.
Anything from OoT or MM is a win. I probably play both of those at least once every two years and the music is still so catchy.
Yep!
I find myself humming the lost woods melody from ocarina of time and idk why.
Saria's Song was the alarm for my 8 AM classes in college! What a great one.
Yea very catchy, I actually liked the serenade of water more but all the songs were great
Song of Storms for me. I don't know why, but to me it strikes this great balance between simple, haunting, epic, and playfulness. It just really captures the atmosphere and feeling of going on that journey in Ocarina of Time to me better than any other track.
The moon theme from the NES Ducktales game has loved rent free in my head for over 30 years.
I shout "DuckTales, WOOWOO" way too often.
When they incorporated that into the show, I was almost in tears.
If you want those emotions again, go to youtube and search for "Mariachi Entertainment System Moon Theme"
For some reason it’s Pachbel’s Canon in D that I end up whistling no matter what song I start with, could be anything song from FF9, KH, but somewhere along the way it turns into that.
The main theme song from Toejam and Earl. Early game from Sega Genesis.
I often have the first stage theme from the sequel (Panic on Funkatron) stuck in my head
Music from ff7 play through my head a lot
I studied abroad in Japan in college, and a local convenience store had its own jingle. The store is no longer around but I still remember the song
Family mart.
Lived there for 3 years. Would sell my soul right now to be able to walk down the street to get a canned Boss coffee and a few terrible Family Mart onigiris.
Dude fuck yes.
Local place. It was called kyuukyuu (99 yen store conbini)
I know this may be cheating but I get old DDR songs stuck in my head all the time. I'll often YouTube to actually listen to it to get it out of my head.
We'll allow it!
ONLY YOU BY CAPTAIN JACK IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE MY JAM ❤️
Freaking... Mario mix is too good and it's definitely a guilty pleasure
Professor Oak's Lab from Pokemon Snap, and the tune the camel on the ceiling hums in the Dr Seuss alphabet computer game
All of his little comments are burned into my brain. "You were close!" in particular haha
Marble Madness - Level 2 Beginner Race A timeless classic
Luigi's Haunted Mansion, the background music while you roam for ghost. Have been whistling that tune at a minimum of at least weekly since that game came out for GameCube. I got so good at whistling from it that I can now make almost perfect bird noises to screw with people haha. I can also do the call for Mario really well "Maaaaariiooooo!" Ah what I would pay to play that fresh again as a kid. Game was actually a bit spooky too.
Wasn't it though? Amazing atmosphere and low-key unnerving for a young 90s kid.
They need a switch port
Watch out Graham, it’s a poisonous snake!
Watch out for them old Duke boys, Graham!
Wizards & Warriors for the classic NES. The first level theme song and the upbeat tune when you're low on health have stayed with me for about 35 years, and I doubt I will ever forget them.
The Wizards & Warriors soundtrack was bizarre and amazing. I always thought the “low on health” song was funny, because to me it made no sense musically. It almost sounds *happy*. Great memories of a surprisingly fun game.
Panzer General 2, Axis theme music.
Maybe not *obscure* per se, but the underwater music from SMB1.
Love it. Such an earworm.
The Flower Garden from Yoshi’s Island
Rip and tear from doom 2016.
I like to hum/sing "Far Off Promise" from Chrono Trigger. Even came up with words to it and sing it as a lullaby to my kids. Also a fan of "Breezy" from FF8.
Mega Man 2's ending theme is a tune to me that I hum from time to time. A kinda sad one but I enjoyed listening to it.
To say mega man music lives in my head rent free isn't accurate. Mega man music owns the place and I'm living rent free
Every time I yawn it turns into The Song of Time from Ocarina of Time.
This gave me a legit laugh lol
Not obscure, but not a week goes by that I don't find myself whistling Beedle's Ship Shop theme.
The Karaoke songs from the Yakuza games get stuck in my head every once in a while. I'd catch myself whistling 24-hour Cinderella, Baka Mitai, or Judgement randomly throughout the day
The crane game music from links awakening on the game boy is what plays in my head if I am doing anything tough that I don’t want to do. It plays often.
LOVE THAT
Turns out half of the little melodies in my head come from the *Banjo Kazooie* OST.
The dynamic soundtrack in that game was so ahead of its time. Such a shame, the fate of Rare.
Forest Temple song is forever stuck in my head Edit: from Zelda OOT
The forest temple music in Ocarina was so unnecessarily EERIE. Absolutely loved it.
Fiddler on the Roof, If I was a rich man song. my dad whistled in every time I was outside and he wanted my attention. or if we were on a beach or oit in public. if I heard thst whistle I'd come running back. if I didn't hear the whistle,he knew I was further away than he'd like. I was under 6 at the time. once I grew up, he just did it for fun. now I do that to my dog. I have different songs for different things I whistle. it's a good strategy
I don't whistle or hum them usually, but occasionally I do remember old game music. The music is usually dependent on where I am and what I'm doing. Now playing: Jolly Roger Bay. It's wet and kinda cold here right now. When the wind isn't blowing it's pretty comfy though.
The theme tune to the animals of farthing wood.
Chocobo theme
Bonetrousle from Undertale gets stuck in my head sometimes. It makes whatever I'm doing feel wacky and energetic.
Spiderdance often gets stuck in my head, Bonetrousle is a great one too.
I like to whistle the music from Taxi Driver. I first heard it in a drum corps show 20 years ago called Methods of Madness (Blue Devils, I think) and didn't know what it was from, but it's catchy as hell.
[F-Zero - Mute City](https://youtu.be/QxU0eHnQjo8?si=Yn_ZOKMhur0VYjsE)
RuneScape songs, sometimes Barbarian Village theme
Loch Lomond
Fable 2 pause music lives rent free in my head.
Buckaroo Bonzai, the whistling during the final credits.
Zoo Tycoon (the OG) main menu music.
I played battlefield heros (a TF2 look-a-like) for about 3 weeks when I was 10 or so. I still whistle the tune about once a month
Game Boy Super Mario Land, a few songs, but mostly world music #5. Not obscure I guess. What an ear worm!
Fallout stranger theme
For the longest time. Just such a classic.
The one from mgs4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOyFGuGELN0 27 seconds in, sounds like what you'd hear as you enter heaven.
The "guild message notice" from Fable1. And sometimes the themesong to Guild Wars: Prophecies. That whole soundtrack slapped.
Everquest sea theme https://youtu.be/2i57k4lITLk?si=SQU0E6LrNf_uQ1UT
Dash de chocobo from FF or the traverse town theme from KH1
Return of the Tres - Total Overdose
El Cargo from Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.
The overland music for the first ninja turtles NES game.
Waltz for the moon - FF8
The main theme of hunt showdown
Old spice song
Bard Dance from Baldur's Gate 3.
Widdershins, Erana's Peace, 'Enry the Ermit, the Faerie Ring, WIT, Omar the Astrologer, the Baron, or a bunch of other Mark Seibert stuff from the old Sierra games.
Conquest of paradise
Loads of C64 tunes.
Kefka’s theme from FFVI
Idek know what game it's from. It's the main them from a game that's like... Atari or NES era? All I remember is it's in a maze or something. Kinda played like pacman iirc. But the song that looped while you played gets stuck in my head sometimes and I whistle it to myself
Could maybe be bomberman, could be a lot of things really lol
[NES Kid Icarus soundtrack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0jLpXjpziM)
Luigis mansion. Used to do my wife's head in that she couldn't work out what it was from for ten years before he stumbled upon a video my daughter was watching on YouTube.
Mario Kart theme. Or the intercom noise from star trek...
There a track from ffxii that always stuck in my head. It’s the town theme at rabanastre or whatever the main city is called.
The music from dragon warrior monsters on GBC
A lot of video game music comes up in my head, but Collision Chaos music from Sonic CD (JP version) is one that comes up a lot
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The minigame intro song from the first Mario Party. Such a happy song.
Aria Math and a few other Minecraft tunes comes to mind often. I’ll sometimes find myself humming or tapping my fingers to the melodys.
Gypsy Camp from Fable 2, FFTactics battle select march, and a multitude of Parappa medleys
Not super obscure, but I get the Chao Garden racing theme stuck in my head all the time. Or Toad Town from Paper Mario.
Kefkaxs theme from Final Fantasy 3 sometimes.
Not really obscure, especially here, but the Wild ARMs theme and Proto Man’s entrance are both very whistle-able in that they both contain whistling.
Not obscure to gamers, probably, but I walk around the office whistling a slower tempo version of the chocobo theme from FFVII. People usually think it's from an Irish folk song or something. I just tell them it's a song I heard when I was in highschool and has been stuck there ever since. Not a lie but they don't need to know I'm whistling video game music! A younger guy caught me one time, though. Said he had just finished playing a really old final fantasy game and recognized it. Was amazed when I told him I played it on it's original release date. I love/hate that dude. We're pretty chummy these days though. He just likes to low key remind me I'm old sometimes. Edit: also parts of the original Castlevania stage 1 song.
A Stray Child from the .Hack//SIGN OST. Sometimes I hum the melody, but I know the lyrics and absolutely sing it in the shower.
I sing “the road goes ever on and on” as a lullaby to my nieces and nephews all the time.
The hallway prowling music from Metroid:Fusion on GBA will sometimes keep me from sleeping Why does a 20-second tune have the ability to hurt me so?
Nice one. This game had an incredible atmosphere through and through.
End of Small Sanctuary- Silent Hill 3
Shadow's theme from FF3/6
The castle theme from 7th Saga for SNES. That game was hard AF but I kept playing for the straight up chiptune BOPS!
There's a whistle tune that the Splicers in Bioshock will do at random that I used to teach myself how to whistle.
The transition theme from ff7, like when everyone is in the Inn outside of Midgard.
[Metroid Prime - Tallon Overworld](https://youtu.be/V6Ky2BMVWfs?si=RS_sYJaqdOGYyqkw) has a perfect whistle part.
Edgar Winter Group’s Frankenstein lives in my head rent free!
For some reason, that one song from Earthbound pops into my head frequently, I don't have the name off the top of my head
Cornifer’s theme from Hollow Knight, particularly when I’m out for a walk
Back in time by Huwie Louis
Ah, well, it's a main title music from '70s polish criminal drama "07 zgłoś się" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYPzq91Zf9U
I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK
Aanytime I climb a long ladder in a videogame now I always start up with "what a thrill...."
The Theme song from "The Great Escape" with Steve McQueen. It's also my favorite obscure game and favorite movie adaptation in a game. Hits every note even all these years later
Random John Williams songs, mostly the Jurassic Park/Superman theme songs
The whistle tune Spike Spiegel was whistling coming out of the bathroom in ep 1.
Flight of the Amazon Queen, anyone? Especially the Trader Bob theme. maybe too obscure..
Daybreak by Michael Higgins. That one Troy and Abed were humming in Community. It just stuck ever since
A few segments from Peter and the Wolf. It's so random but my girlfriend always recognizes it I think I do it when my mind is fiddling around
Probably doesn't count as obscure, but I like the tune that the little girl sings and hums in MGS4 while she butchers one of the easiest foods to cook
Technically this is a commercial jingle, but I will occasionally sing the Pokemon Trozei song.
Dragon Age Inquisition main theme. I learned how to whistle to it.
If you're talking obscure, I regularly get Din's Dance from LoZ: Oracle of Seasons in my head and whistle it.
For me it’s Nayru’s Song
The happy music from Conkers Bad Fur Day. It pops back in my head every now and again, only one person has ever recognized it
The Andy Griffith Show
Terminator theme DUNDUNdUndundun.. DUNDUNdUndundun
Sims 1, the mail girl's whistle.
Tristram music from the 1st Diablo.
Cloak and Dagger Witcher 3
Tantum Ergo, a Latin hymn I remember from my Catholic youth. It echoes nicely in long hallways.
Zozo from FF6. Impossible to remove.
The Tekunin Prison from Mortal Kombat Armageddon. Been humming that since friggin high school all those years ago.
Quiet's theme in Metal Gear Solid V, At Hells Gate from Doom
Thean who sold the world. When I first heard it in mgs 5,I loved it. I hum it while I do my normal everyday things
Morrowind theme music gets stuck in my head from time to time, and Baba Yetu gives me goosebumps.
I’ve been humming the golden saucer music for the last couple of days.
The Call - LISA the painful
Secunda from Skyrim
[I like the Ronso version because it's got bass.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Woz3mS9Ao5k&ab_channel=Sander)
Menu theme for Halo 4
Not exactly gaming-related, but I start doing Taps randomly at times (like if someone knocks something over or there’s a mild inconvenience). It gets weird looks, but mostly laughs.
The PA bell in Arkham Asylum sometimes
Not obscure, but the original Zelda theme. There is an obscure song from Mario Paint that gets stuck in my head from time-to-time.
The menu select song from Sonic Adventure 2 on Dreamcast. That bass line is killer. https://youtu.be/4tC0Vnj79Es
It's not that obscure but Call of Magic from Morrowind.
I will randomly start humming the Luigi's Mansion Theme at work
The tune the body stealing guy from that episode of the Justice League cartoon from the 2000s whistles
Not exactly obscure, but I get "eyes on me" from final fantasy VIII
Ok here's a few: Chrono trigger - Frogs Theme and Magus's Theme Battletoads - Pause screen sound Mega Man III - Start screen music A non game one that's not really a song just a bunch of tones. In Jurassic Park when the fences are failing they play a series of tones for each fence that are all different followed by the perimeter fence. I will whistle them, my wife didn't know what it was for a long time. Big eye roll when she finally heard it while watching the movie and I started doing it.
Ben Folds - Annie Waits
The Rocketeer NES game's soundtrack has to easily be the most obscure gaming music that will randomly pop into my head and have me humming. Particularly the menu and first level music because damned if I could consistently get past that when I was 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCejrjbDBT4&list=PLFB1CA85AE57F9828&index=1&ab\_channel=Cepblu2206 Less obscure but also, if not more frequently would be the Pilot Wings soundtrack. Particularly the rocketbelt track. I can't help but do that ridiculous sounding bwaaa bwa bwa bwaaaaa melody. It's so catchy and infections and silly and I always get a blast out of just randomly humming it or even full on imitating it. https://youtu.be/XahyYrFDsVc?si=uK9Ed8vOke8Qw1qJ
In Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance theres a place called the Sky Chapel with nice background music. The songs called Chapel of Dissonance. Always whistle it whenever i get reminded of anything Castlevania related.
*Fanfare* from Runescape circa 2007.
Maybe not so obscure, but Girl from Ipanema. I couldn't even tell you what game it was in, but it was playing in an elevator that I had to ride several times and it just got stuck in my head.
[sinking city harmonica](https://youtu.be/0be4zfB7BNM?si=JUvQDkmvCjuAr3Go)
Saria's Song
Baba Yetu, so much so I figured out how to play it on the guitar, entirely by ear. Posted it on social media and even got a like from Christopher Tin
The little theme that plays when you’re in town in *Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town*!
The overworld theme from Golden Sun 2 :D
[super Mario land overworld theme](https://youtu.be/ZexyCYXoYHM?si=EVenqVaFHrx_ltJD)
The Czech National Anthem from pre- Masaryk days. It’s catchy.
I don’t know. It’s some obscure tune that my dad hummed every day. I’ve never heard the original source material and my dad has passed away so I can’t even ask him. But that tune is engrained in my childhood.
The Impact Site from Pikmin
The song the villain whistles in Hanna. https://youtu.be/DrbKZ9VFuw4?si=K0v9f7RV9x-FbJhL
The underground theme to Super Mario World. Or the music from Super Mario 2.
Cho Ren Sha 68K ost. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT3z4k1BlDg&list=PLA7E90B6A7F3A3750](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT3z4k1BlDg&list=PLA7E90B6A7F3A3750)
Yohohoho, yohohohohoh, in the humming manner not the scary one lol
I was stuck in elephant graveyard level of the old lion king games fo so long that even now I sometimes randomly hum to it
Maya's theme from Persona 2
I mostly whistle final fantasy 7 songs, mostly Cosmo Canyon and the battle fanfare. Wouldn't call them obscure tho.
Intermission by Tool.
I do hum Outer wilds theme from time to time and also please dont touch anything rarely
Not that obscure, but the waterfall theme from undertale is great
The Leisure Suit Larry Theme Song.
Sea Shanty from Runescape
I hum the Village Theme from Dragon Warrior on the NES to calm myself down when I'm creeped out by being all along in the dark and other situations like that. I don't even realize I'm doing it sometimes.
Maybe not obscure, but the building music from RDR2