Games I Associate With System of a Down Albums

There was a phase in middle school/first half of high school where all I did was listen to System of a Down and play Gamecube and N64 games. The result of this is that when I listen to these albums now I cannot help but remember the games I was playing while listening to them. Sorted by album release order.

Self-titled. It was the first time I was listening to that album and I was playing through Boggly Woods, so whenever I hear the song "P.L.U.C.K" I think about Mario power bouncing on a Pider. I also associate the Storaged Melodies bootleg compilation with a lot of parts of this game.
Toxicity. Specifically Sonic 3, but since this is how I played those games for the first time anyway I thought I would just put this collection here. I was actually struggling to remember which game I associated with this album until I listened to "Forest" and saw Sonic in Marble Garden Zone.
Steal This Album! It was during my second or third playthrough when I was trying to fill out the entire Pictograph museum and at the time this was my favorite SOAD album so I was just playing it over and over while doing this very long and tedious side-quest. I can't listen to "Innervision" without seeing myself sailing around Forest Haven.
Mezmerize. I played through all of Gelato Beach while listening to this album, and I can't think of the song "Radio/Video" without thinking of the Sandbird level. Also I associate this game with some of the songs on the self-titled Scars on Broadway album.
Hypnotize. Specifically the level Angry Aztec because I felt like I was just walking around there forever, especially once I unlocked all the Kongs. The weird thing is the imagery I get when listening to this album is very specifically Chunky Kong doing a long jump in a specific part of this level, my brain just decided to keep that visual forever.
Technically not a System of a Down album but I associate parts of Serj Tankian's Elect the Dead with playing through the beginning of this game.

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