I’ve bought a CD with featured music selections from Fallout 4. I’m a sucker for game soundtracks and this CD looks nice on my Fallout shelf. I’ve got Fallout 1, 2 and 3 and New Vegas on there and not 4. I have a physical copy of part 4 for PS4, but that is on the shelf with PS4 games. There is no big box edition of Fallout 4 and I don’t have space for the Collector’s Edition on the Fallout shelf. Maybe I will someday buy a copy for next to the Mini Nuke.

There are only five tracks on the CD. Which is fine. I don’t remember much of the music of the game anyway. Most of the time I listened to Diamond City Radio. When I think of the music from Fallout, I automatically think of the classic songs that were played on the radio station, like from the Ink Spots.

Playing the CD reminded me of other soundtracks that I listen to every once in a while. Most recently to the music from Dune and before that from Return to Monkey Island. I wondered how many soundtracks I have and decided to take stock.

I have music from all three Witcher games, from the Divinity games and from Divinity: Original Sin, from Zelda, from the Revolution games like Broken Sword, etcetera.

One of my most loved soundtracks is for Morrowind, albeit also just a few tracks. I would love to have the 4-disc spanning Skyrim soundtrack someday, as I listen to that on YouTube quite a lot. My holy grail would be an Oblivion soundtrack, but I don’t think that was ever released.

Other soundtracks that I don’t think were ever released officially, but I would like to have are for the Ultima Underworld games, for the Might and Magic VI-VIII games (although the games discs have redbook audio that I listen to), Wings, Divinity: Original Sin 2, the games from Gemlin, like Lotus and Super Cars and the games from Pinball games from Digital Illusions.

Some soundtracks I have but haven’t listened to yet, because I haven’t played the games yet, are from Torment: Tides of Numenera and Baldur’s Gate 3.

While typing this I cannot help but wonder about other games with great music, like The Dig, Grim Fandango, Ultima (there seems to be an original soundtrack CD for Ultima IX in the Dragon Edition and an Enhanced CD) and Chrono Trigger.

I took pictures of all the soundtracks that I have in my collection. I only counted those on CD and not the ones on DVD. There are more of that, like the one for Neverwinter Nights 2. There’s on record (from Rocket Ranger) and two on cassettes. The one from Loom is in the picture. But I forgot the one from Out Run!