The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/ThatisSketchy on 2025-03-12 21:34:44.

Big fan of the Fallout series since the very first. When New Vegas came out in 2010, I was really excited to play it and as soon as I could, I bought the game for the Xbox 360. Let me tell you, I played that game for hours and the entire time, the soundtrack of my life was Radio New Vegas. I knew all the songs by heart, “Ain’t That a Kick in the Head?”, “Big Iron”, “Heartaches by the Number” and the rest of them. All great songs.

One day, while playing, I heard a rare song “Orange Colored Sky” by Nat King Cole. I thought, “Wow! I haven’t heard this one before, but I love it!” I remember the exact moment I heard it, because I just found my first grenade launcher and started blowing up enemies to the song. I even ended up adding it to my own personal New Vegas Spotify playlist. This was the first time I heard the song and I don’t think I heard it again in the game.

Initially, I thought that it was super rare, like how Johnny Guitar accidentally plays twice as often due to a cut song. I just thought that Orange Colored Sky had a really really low chance of playing.

Now I’m researching it and it turns out that New Vegas never had “Orange Colored Sky” in the game and was likely one of the cut songs.

It has been used in Fallout 4, 76, and the tv show since (which I watched and made me think of this post) and I definitely remember listening to the song for the first time while playing New Vegas and not Fallout 4 and 76. There’s enough years in between those releases that I’m confident that I’m not confusing those.

Also apparently, there was New Vegas ad in the UK that featured this song and this seems like the most plausible reason for the confusion but I’m not from the UK and I just watched it on YouTube and none of it seems familiar to me. I have a very distinct memory of playing the game while listening to the song and thinking about how rare it was.

What do you guys think? Am I tripping, or did I somehow play New Vegas from an alternate universe where “Orange Colored Sky” was not cut from the game?