[quote=vancexentan]
Personally there is no best but games like Gears, Payday, Halo, Dragon Age, Star Wars KOTOR, Crusader Kings (Though it can get grating after repetition), Dynasty Warriors, Fallout, Command and Conquer, Super Robot Wars, and Assassin's Creed tend to have good soundtracks.Of course there's a lot of more but these are off the top of my head. The classics like Link and Mario still stand the test of time.
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The only pre-ESRB games you mentioned were Mario and Link/Zelda, and only if you mean their pre super-NES incarnations.

Pretty much, [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-4XCZ-qQs0]any pre-ESRB game that came as hardware-shareware is engraved into the minds of 20-30 year olds everywhere.[/url]
-There's even a chance you've heard music from games you've never played.

Now do a barrel-roll.