"I don't listen to music for the nostalgia"

With some context, I'm playing Minecraft and I had the music listening mood coming on. So this pc is loaded with James' music. Including vgm I love. However I noticed a lot of my favorable tracks were missing.

So I asked him why isn't there a Star Ocean 2 folder or a lot of Valkyrie Profile tracks or even Xenogears' Omen? He just replied that quote in the title. It made me think about my listening habits. Its true that a lot of excellent vgm were preferred by nostalgia for me... so my question is... am I just imagining things or is that really the case here?

Am I alone in liking vgm for the nostalgia? Or is there something more to this? Is it possible to outgrow vgm?

And for the record, I finally settled to listen to Jeremy Soule's Skyrim From Past to Present which is excellent on loop.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Goldfish from Hell

I thought I was losing interest in music a few years ago, until I upgraded my equipment. I was actually getting depressed because I had a full iPod of stuff I knew I liked and others I would like to listen to, but simply could not get into them. I was also using a pair of IEM's that emphasized bass over the mid range. I feel like with my current portable set-up (Cowon D2+, Digizoid Zo and Brainwavz B2), is much easier to take in and enjoy music. Both old and new. Very warm and dynamic.

This is an good point, newer ways to enjoy sounds are still being improved and allows us to enjoy the classics even more for what they were. There was a time when a lot of tvs' sounds were pretty gimped during the old crt days with dials when I only get hand me downs lol. And I've played a lot of nes and snes games on this darn tv but yet, I still enjoyed the music even then. So yeah, hearing it now with the proper playback tools of today... man.

There's nowhere I can't reach.