Game:

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)

Duration: 17:12

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14 critics, 296 votes, 186 games, ~five decades!

I aggregated over a dozen critic rankings of the best ever video game music, assigned a point for each vote cast, and then tallied up the winners! Full list available in a comment, below.

0:00 Introduction
0:29 Honorable Mentions
1:11 Super Mario Bros. (1985)
1:46 Mega Man 2 (1988)
2:20 Street Fighter II (1991)
3:12 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
3:53 Halo (2001)
4:33 Katamari Damacy (2004)
5:22 Hotline Miami (2012)
6:33 Undertale (2015)
7:24 Persona 5 (2016)
8:16 NieR: Automata (2017)
9:24 Streets of Rage 2 (1992)
10:42 Chrono Trigger (1995)
11:42 Bastion (2011)
13:00 Journey (2012)
14:11 Epilogue

Reddit discussions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTimeStrategy/comments/ox7ygg/as_a_huge_fan_of_the_starcraft_and_homeworld_osts/

https://www.reddit.com/r/MMORPG/comments/owmjyf/as_a_guild_wars_fanboy_i_was_sad_to_see_that/