Now it’s time for the knockout rounds. We’ll be single-elimination from here on out. You can see the bracket here We’ll be doing the entire top 64 this week, 16 songs per day. Feathering groups same as last time, so … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament, 1983-1989: Top 64 (Part 1 of 4)

(Current standings for completed groups can be found here) Now we get to the eliminations. We have 123 songs in this tournament; they have been broken up into 8 groups of either 15 or 16. For the group stage, vote for … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament, 1983-1989: Group 8

(Current standings for completed groups can be found here) Now we get to the eliminations. We have 123 songs in this tournament; they have been broken up into 8 groups of either 15 or 16. For the group stage, vote for … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament, 1983-1989: Group 7

(Current standings for completed groups can be found here) Now we get to the eliminations. We have 123 songs in this tournament; they have been broken up into 8 groups of either 15 or 16. For the group stage, vote for … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament, 1983-1989: Group 6

(Current standings for completed groups can be found here) Now we get to the eliminations. We have 123 songs in this tournament; they have been broken up into 8 groups of either 15 or 16. For the group stage, vote for … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament, 1983-1989: Group 5

(Current standings for completed groups can be found here) Now we get to the eliminations. We have 123 songs in this tournament; they have been broken up into 8 groups of either 15 or 16. For the group stage, vote for … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament, 1983-1989: Group 4

Now we get to the eliminations. We have 123 songs in this tournament; they have been broken up into 8 groups of either 15 or 16. For the group stage, vote for as many songs as you like! The top 4 … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament, 1983-1989: Group 3

Now we get to the eliminations. We have 123 songs in this tournament; they have been broken up into 8 groups of either 15 or 16. For the group stage, vote for as many songs as you like! The top 4 … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament, 1983-1989: Group 2

Now we get to the eliminations. We have 123 songs in this tournament; they have been broken up into 8 groups of either 15 or 16. For the group stage, vote for as many songs as you like! The top 4 … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament, 1983-1989: Group 1

Last time we focused on the absolute earliest songs in the history of the medium (some might say too early!) This time we get a little more sophisticated and a lot more iconic, covering the remainder of the 80s, roughly … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament, 1983-1989: Nominations

Our final round came down to the wire, with only a single vote separating the two. But in the end it was Ms. Pac-Man’s “Intermission Music” that took home the crown. A perfect combination of iconic status and actually being … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament – Prehistory (Before 1983) – Final Results

Current Standings: https://challonge.com/rn7ngazu/standings Last round had some very interesting results. We had two rounds end in a tie; the community couldn’t decide between Jungle Hunt’s “Main Gameplay Theme” and Choplifter’s “Theme”, nor between Pengo’s “Popcorn” and Phoenix’s “Game Start (Spanish Romance). … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament – Prehistory (Before 1983) – Final Round

Current Standings: https://challonge.com/rn7ngazu/standings Round 3 featured some fireworks. Most notably, Super Locomotive’s “Rydeen” (a cover of the Yellow Magic Orchestra song of the same name, rendered in NES-level detail, extraordinarily impressive for a game from 1982) faced of against Dig Dug’s … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament – Prehistory (Before 1983) – Round 4

Current Standings: https://challonge.com/rn7ngazu/standings Round 2 was a lot closer overall than Round 1; even just one round’s worth of sorting was enough to make for a lot more challenging choices for our fellow ‘Cados. There were still some blowouts: each of … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament – Prehistory (Before 1983) – Round 3

Current Standings: https://challonge.com/rn7ngazu/standings Round 1 featured plenty of blowouts, with 11 of the 13 winners doubling up the loser’s votes. Popular titles like Ms. Pac-Man and Donkey Kong did well, but it wasn’t all name recognition, as one of the biggest … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament – Prehistory (Before 1983) – Round 2

This is the first round of our best video game song tournament. Ordinarily, this would be a seeding round, since our nomination process no longer involves upvotes we can’t seed and nominate at the same time. However, we only have … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament – Prehistory (Before 1983) – Round 1

We’ve all had a lot of fun deciding what our favorite Nintendo video games are throughout history. But now it’s time to get real. What are the best game songs? We start with all games released prior to 1983. Unlike the … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament – Prehistory (Before 1983) – Nominations