/vr/ - Retro Games

Sim City SNES - the "Goodbye" screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL6FsGp2HHw

I can't be the only one who was bothered by this as a child, can I? There was something cold and frightening about the melody that I just couldn't stand to listen to more than a few seconds before shutting the system off. As an adult I still hear it, although it's also taken on a sad quality as well, and I can now articulate what it makes me feel: like the universe is frigid and cruel, like life is too short and I'm just a meaningless blip in history. I think of fires burning and animals dying and the world evolving in the vast nothingness of space.

I'm not a pessimistic person by nature, but these are the thoughts I contend with if I force myself to listen to this one song on loop.

>>5962026
Fuck, that hit me hard. Although I think there are songs in LA that hit me even harder for the same reasons you mentioned (wanting Marin to be real, not wanting Koholint to disappear), particularly the songs that play during the ending sequence (including the credits! It's happy sounding, and yet I cry everytime).