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#110. Weapon X Facility (Action)
Game: X-Men Legends
Nominated: Ed Bellis (June 2012)
Score: #95th [3/3]
Games Rank: 61/61
Time: 3:58
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hdrZ73DqYg

I just want to start off by saying that I am glad I did not embarrass myself nominating VGM for rwlh's current 300 VGM Ranking topic. There will be a lot of these that I am kind of embarrassed by, and one person in particular I did a massive disservice to with my nominations.

As for this, the only reason I can think I nominated this was that I wanted to represent X-Men Legends somehow? The other two nominations aren't atmospheric, and I don't think I was trying for last place as this might actually be the best track in that game.

I enjoyed X-Men Legends quite a bit back in the day, perhaps more than Marvel Ultimate Alliance if we take out the Magma mansion sections. I remember I had the Archangel, Beast, and Nightcrawler wallpapers on my desktop at different times, and kept the strategy guide around for the pictures. It took me over a decade to finally play X-Men Legends 2, and that was a better but less memorable game. But there's no reason this should have been nominated if I wanted to do well.

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#109. Desert
Game: Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage
Nominated: CelticGuardian7 (January 2013 - For Worst Song)
Score: #59th [4/4]
Games Rank: 60/61
Time: 2:43
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mRQjRhzqmk

Now this was nominated for worst song, but didn't make top half. It's a really dull atmospheric track from an objectively poor game. I love Aidyn Chronicles and still need to beat it, but it's not a good game. Listening to this song, while ranking at the very very very bottom, is giving lots of nostalgia and desire to find my N64 and spend a week or two playing.

Someday, if I ever get the confidence and focus, I want to make a D&D campaign for my friends partly based on Aidyn Chronicles with influences from Illusion of Gaia, Secret of Evermore, Everquest, Secret of the Stars and other nostalgic underplayed games. We had some extra time a few months ago where I did my first sort of improv behind the DM Screen of my two friends searching for Kendall and ending up fighting the goblin poisoner. It was... scary, but I wasn'[t completely put off. Oisin Forest is a great early map to get totally lost in. Mmm...

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#108. Go Ninja Go Ninja GO!
Artist: Vanilla Ice
Nominated: Bospsy (January 2013)
Score: - [6/6]
Standard Rank: 49/49
Time: 4:26
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_K6971WmAs

I nominated a few TMNT songs here, and while I have no idea how this did, it better have been towards the bottom. This NINJA NINJA RRRAP is awful. "Lyrics... fill in the gap." At least Vanilla Ice seems super into this insanity and is giving it his all.

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#107. Secret Star
Game: Mario Paint
Nominated: CelticGuardian7 (January 2013 - For Worst Song)
Score: #37th [3/4]
Games Rank: 59/61
Time: 1:08
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rm-CF_g08Y

This sounds like being on Star Hill during a meteor storm. Just constant stars spinning and crashing, blasting out Galaxy-style star bits that someone is constantly collecting in your ear.

I don't remember the star in Mario Paint. I remember the mosquito game, the sounds cats and dogs and pigs make, and making some pretty... okay Secret of Mana sprites.

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#106. Men in Black
Artist: Forever the Sickest Kids
Nominated: tazzyboyishere (April 2012)
Score (Out of 100): #21st [5/5]
Standard Rank: 48/49
Time: 3:05
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScendFzCBkY

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I have no memories of this song, or why I thought it would be a fun song to nominate... or how it scored so high in tazzy's rankings. 2012 was a different time for sure. The chorus sounds great, but everything else is cringey.