I enjoyed that in our class discussion, everyone seemed to relate some sort of music from a video game to their own childhood experience. Musical tunes are more likely to stick in our heads over certain phrases or voices, due to their repetitiveness. When Professor Sample played Super Mario without showing visuals, the class was still able to clearly identify each individual movement and area by its sound effects and musical theme. As a child, and even today, playing a video game without the sound on creates a feeling that you are missing out on something. The soundtrack to a game is carefully thought out and is meant to be incorporated into the full game experience. Remove that experience and you remove one of our most commonly used senses from is often meant to be an immersive experience. From simple 8-bit style melodies of classic games to the full selection of popular music available on games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, music has been connected to gaming so fully that removing it by pressing mute often seems rude to the designers. Removing the music is akin to removing the background of a game- impractical, inconvenient, and disrespectful.