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The Pokemon GSC OST is the big one for me. Mostly town themes, especially Goldenrod City. The city itself just has that flashback/nostalgia look to it.

Soul as red as a ground cherry from Touhou 6 makes me miss that feeling of exploration when I first discovered the series.

Shin Onigashima and Butter Building from SSBB reminds me of that game's pre-release days. Those were the best. Brawl in general has this feeling now, parts of the main theme if I haven't listened to it in long enough too. It finally being released was the definitive end of something although it's hard to be precise about what. I miss the overwhelming optimism and enthusiasm I was surrounded with during the pre-release days, good dojo updates, collectively mocking bad dojo updates, trailers, flash movies, old YT streams full of ytps/yugioh abridged/Japanese reuploads/dumb fads, looking into Nintendo franchises I was less familiar with while waiting, early online and all that.
It's the best argument for not knowing what you have until it's gone, at the time 2007/half of 08 were like huge obstructions to what was supposed to be the best game ever's release and they couldn't go end fast enough but sooner than later...