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When a video game repeats certain songs sufficiently frequently, players of that game will associate the song with the game whenever they hear it regardless of circumstance.
This can get distracting.
The [[Trope Namer]] and [[Trope Codifier]] is the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series, most specifically ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'' and ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]''. Before those two games, popular music in video games was rare because of the expensive and [[Copyright|complex nature of licensing it.]] Even securing a single song could prove problematic because the nature of the contracts the music industry uses; bulk discounts are exceedingly rare. Then there were the space restrictions of floppy disks and CDs and the lack of compression. Thus, the most you usually heard was a token song or two, and rarely of anyone famous because songs by famous people cost more.
This changed in 2002. After the success of ''[[Grand Theft Auto III]]'' and the popularity of its (mostly original) radio stations, Rockstar was confident that it could make money on a game with nearly 100 licensed musical tracks from several labels. This proved successful, so it took it a step further in the next sequel and licensed over 150 songs ''without any repeats from the previous game.''
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You can also get a pang of nostalgia from the stuff that some not-so-famous musicians came up with for the first two ''GTA'' games -- "Taxi Drivers Must DIEEEEEEEEEEE!" It's just that you are much less likely to run into those songs if you aren't playing those games.
Other video games have had the same effect (either through causing it or by being a victim of it) to varying degrees.
Not to be confused with the "''[[Guitar Hero]]'' effect"—a phrase meaning [[Revival by Commercialization]] <ref>even though the Grand Theft Auto Effect can occur with songs that appear in ''Guitar Hero''.</ref>
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