The Big VGM Contest Archive
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- 2000s -
2004
🌴 GamingForce Best Song Contest 2
Chrono Trigger - To Far Away Times W-L Metal Gear Solid 2 - Metal Gear Solid Main Theme
2005
🌴 GamingForce Best Song Contest 3
Legend of Mana - Song of Mana ~Ending Theme~ W-L Beyond Good and Evil - Home Theme
2006
🌴 GamingForce Best Song Contest 4
Soukaigi - Fire Wire 43-30 Suikoden V - Wind of Phantom
🌴 GamingForce 2006 Song of the Year
Uncharted Waters II Special Edition - Southern Twilight ~ Dance on a Cape of Good Hope 15-12 Gitarooman Original Soundtrack - The Legendary Theme (Album Version)
2007
🏆 Scars of Time 36-25 Dream of the Shore Bordering Another World, 53-27 Baba Yetu
🍀 2ch 1st “Game Music Best 100”
1. Chrono Cross - Scars of Time (110 points)
2. Dragon Quest III - Hero’s Challenge (90 points)
3. Mother - Eight Melodies (76 points)
🌴 GamingForce Best Song Contest 5
Wild ARMs 5 - The Road to Tomorrow Follows Behind You 30-23 Wild Arms Alter Code:F - Puzzle (disputed by Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War - MERLON)
🌴 GamingForce Best Chiptune Contest
Maniac Mansion (NES) - ‘The Boys Are Still Back’ by Fat Patty (Dave’s Theme) 18-11 Toki Tori (GB) - Home Sweet Home (Fifth Cutscene / Credits)
2008
🏆 Metal Gear Solid Main Theme 44-29 Dragon Roost Island
🍀 2ch 2nd “Game Music Best 100”
1. Dragon Quest III - Hero’s Challenge (24 votes, 157 points)
2. Donkey Kong Country 2 - Stickerbush Symphony (29 votes, 153 points)
3. Baten Kaitos Origins - The Valedictory Elegy (19 votes, 132 points)
🌴 GamingForce Best Song Contest 6
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation - THE LIBERATION OF GRACEMERIA 38-32 Waterworld - Diving
2009
🏆 Reset ~ “Thank You” Version 32-30 Diving
🍀 2ch 3rd “Game Music Best 100”
1. Lufia II - Battle #2 (64 votes, 405 points)
2. Okami - The Sun Rises (68 votes, 374 points)
3. Gurumin - Soaring Through the Sad Blue Sky (61 votes, 333 points)
Final Fantasy Shrine’s Video Game Music Rumble 1
Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone 6-2 Final Fantasy VII - Aerith’s Theme
🌴 GamingForce Best Song Contest 7
Enthusia ~Professional Racing~ - AWAKENING ~Nürburgring Suite~ 32-27 R-Type (C64) - Title
- 2010s -
2010
🍀 2ch 4th “Game Music Best 100”
1. Okami - The Sun Rises (73 votes, 1217 points)
2. Final Fantasy VI - Searching for Friends (39 votes, 619 points)
3. Xenoblade Chronicles - Engage the Enemy (35 votes, 597 points)
Final Fantasy Hackticks Battle of the VGM
(unofficial) Legend of Mana - Those Who Are Shining 7-5 Ys Origin - Beyond the Beginning
🌴 GamingForce Best Song Contest 8
VVVVVV - Potential for Anything 21-14 Pop’n Music Iroha - MAGICAL VOICE SHOWER
🟠 NeoGAF Game Soundtracks of 2010
1. Nier (185 points)
2. Final Fantasy XIII (66 points)
3. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (47 points)
SMW Central Best VGM Tournament
Silver Surfer - BGM 1 19-8 Enthusia Professional Racing - AWAKENING ~ Nürburgring Suite
Starmen.net Video Game Music Tournament
(unofficial) Final Fantasy VI - Dancing Mad 16-10 Mother 3 - Love Theme
2011
🏆 The Extreme 38-35 The Sun Rises
🍀 2ch 5th “Game Music Best 100”
1. Xenoblade Chronicles - You Will Know Our Names (96 votes, 226 points)
2. The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero - Inevitable Struggle (72 votes, 175 points)
3. Xenoblade Chronicles - Mechanical Rhythm (63 votes, 151 points)
🌴 GamingForce Best Song Contest 9
Tower of Heaven - Indignant Divinity 24-15 Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Temporal Tower
🌴 GamingForce Best Best Song Contest Song Contest
Jets’n’Guns - Shop Music 19-18 VVVVVV - Potential for Anything
Hardcore Gaming 101’s Best Video Game Music of All Time
1. Chrono Cross - Scars of Time (56 points)
2. Mega Man 2 - Dr. Wily Stage 1 (56 points)
3. Castlevania series - Bloody Tears (44 points)
Hardcore Gaming 101’s Best Western Video Game Music of All Time
1. Diablo - Tristram (19 points)
2. Monty on the Run - Main Theme (16 points)
3. Solstice - Title (15 points)
🟠 NeoGAF Game Soundtracks of 2011
1. Xenoblade Chronicles (105 points)
2. Deus Ex: Human Revolution (81 points)
3. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (75 points)
2012
🍀 2ch 6th “Game Music Best 100”
1. Okami - The Sun Rises (131 votes)
2. Sengoku Rance - Rebirth the Edge (103 votes)
3. Xenoblade Chronicles - You Will Know Our Names (99 votes)
🌴 GamingForce Best Song Contest 10
Mighty Switch Force! - Whoa I’m In Space Cuba 16-15 Gravity Rush - Pleasure Quarter
Jeuxvideo Best Game Soundtrack
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker 14-11 Chrono Cross
🟠 NeoGAF Game Soundtracks of 2012
1. Journey (304 points)
2. Hotline Miami (231 points)
3. Kid Icarus: Uprising (177 points)
2013
🏆 EXEC_SPHILIA/. 29-24 the executioner
🍀 2ch 7th “Game Music Best 100”
1. Kirby’s Return to Dream Land - C-R-O-W-N-E-D (119 votes, 4437 points)
2. Okami - The Sun Rises (113 votes, 4083 points)
3. Sengoku Rance - Rebirth the Edge (98 votes, 3597 points)
🌴 GamingForce Best Song Contest 11
Return All Robots! - Training Montage 21-9 Super Turrican 2 - Wormland
🟠 NeoGAF Game Soundtracks of 2013
1. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (208 points)
2. The Last of Us (162 points)
3. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (111 points)
2014
🍀 2ch 8th “Game Music Best 100”
1. Kirby: Triple Deluxe - Fatal Blooms in Moonlight (269 votes)
2. Kirby’s Return to Dream Land - C-R-O-W-N-E-D (168 votes)
3. Okami - The Sun Rises (153 votes)
🌴 GamingForce Best Song Contest 12
Musashi: Samurai Legend - Aeolic Guardian 15-11 Kirby Triple Deluxe - Mad Flower Under a Moon the Color of Water
Final Fantasy Shrine’s Final Fantasy Rumble 1
Final Fantasy VI - Dancing Mad 4-2 Final Fantasy X - Decisive Battle
🟠 NeoGAF Game Soundtracks of 2014
1. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (311 points)
2. Shovel Knight (108 points)
3. Mario Kart 8 (102 points)
SMW Central VGM Tourney - Classic
Plok! - Beach 13-4 Silver Surfer - Stage 1
SMW Central VGM Tourney - Modern
Persona 3 - Battle for Everyone’s Souls W-L Super Smash Bros. Melee - Fountain of Dreams
2015
🏆 Seize the Truth! 12-10 Evolution Era
🍀 2ch 9th “Game Music Best 100”
1. Splatoon - Calamari Inkantation (282 votes)
2. Xenoblade Chronicles - You Will Know Our Names (189 votes)
3. Iseki-jima to Nanatsu no Mahou (royalty-free, various) - Banbard ~piano arrange~ (186 votes)
🌴 GamingForce Best Song Contest 13
Shovel Knight - An Underlying Problem (The Lost City) 15-13 The Smurf’s Nightmare - Another World (The Mysterious Planet)
Acclaimed Music Video Game Tracks Bracket
Donkey Kong Country 2 - Stickerbush Symphony 8-2 Mega Man 2 - Bubble Man Theme
🟠 NeoGAF Game Soundtracks of 2015
1. Undertale (284 points)
2. Bloodborne (122 points)
3. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (104 points)
2016
🏆 Despair of ELFERIA 20-20, 24-20 Megalovania
🍀 2ch 10th “Game Music Best 100”
1. Kirby: Planet Robobot - VS. Star Dream (200 votes)
2. Undertale - MEGALOVANIA (180 votes)
3. Iseki-jima to Nanatsu no Mahou (royalty-free, various) - Banbard ~piano arrange~ (167 votes)
🍀 2ch Best of “Game Music Best 100”
1. Okami - The Sun Rises (54 votes)
2. Kirby: Triple Deluxe - Fatal Blooms in Moonlight (32 votes)
3. Iseki-jima to Nanatsu no Mahou (royalty-free, various) - Banbard ~piano arrange~ (31 votes)
🌴 GamingForce Best Song Contest 14
Undertale - ASGORE 10-5 Kirby: Planet Robobot - Credits
🟠 NeoGAF Game Soundtracks of 2016
1. Final Fantasy XV (302 points)
2. DOOM (261 points)
3. The Last Guardian (173 points)
SMW Central Video Game Music Tournament
(unofficial) 999 - Ternary Game 9-6 Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair - Ikoroshia
2017
🏆 Emil / Karma 20-10 Flying Clouds, Drifting Haze
🍀 2ch 11th “Game Music Best 100”
1. Iseki-jima to Nanatsu no Mahou (royalty-free, various) - Banbard ~piano arrange~ (81 votes)
2. Okami - The Sun Rises (76 votes)
3. Undertale - MEGALOVANIA (74 votes)
🍀 2ch “Game Soundtracks Best 100”
1. Undertale (45 votes, 317 points)
2. Xenoblade Chronicles (34 votes, 291 points)
3. SaGa Frontier 2 (23 votes, 185 points)
🌴 GamingForce Best Song Contest 15
Tied (3 votes each):
Sonic Before the Sequel - In Your Eyes - For Star Shores Act 1
Neon Drive - Stardust
Pokemon Sun/Moon - Ten Carat Hill
🟪 ResetERA Game Soundtracks of 2017
1. Nier: Automata (162 votes, 1466 points)
2. Persona 5 (132 votes, 1127 points)
3. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (94 votes, 804 points)
2018
🏆 Sunshine Coastline 21-17 Hidra Heteromycin
🍀 2ch 12th “Game Music Best 100”
1. Rance X - Blood Memories (94 votes)
2. Rance X - Majin-Boss (93 votes)
3. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Counterattack (69 votes)
Quarter to Three Game Music Thunderdome 1
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn 19-8 Brigador - Solo Nobre
Quarter to Three Game Music Thunderdome 2
Outcast - Shamazaar 11-10 Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP - The Prettiest Weed
🟪 ResetERA Game Soundtracks of 2018
1. Celeste (58 votes, 507 points)
2. Octopath Traveler (54 votes, 482 points)
3. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (55 votes, 413 points)
SMW Central 5th VGM Tourney
Waterworld - Diving W-L Lethal League Blaze - AIN’T NOTHIN’ LIKE A FUNKY BEAT
2019
🏆 Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE; 26-23 Revenger
Final Fantasy Shrine’s Video Game Music Rumble 42 (10th Anniversary Encores)
Shadow of the Colossus - Swift Horse 4-2 The Last Express - End Titles
🟪 ResetERA Game Soundtracks of 2019
1. Fire Emblem: Three Houses (32 votes, 248 points)
2. Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers (23 votes, 227 points)
3. Death Stranding (28 votes, 211 points)
🥑 The Avocado Best Video Game Song Tournament, Before 1983
Ms. Pac-Man - Intermission Music 8-7 Moon Patrol - Main Theme
🥑 The Avocado Best Video Game Song Tournament, 1983-1989
Mega Man 2 - Dr. Wily Stage 1 14.5-14 Castlevania II - Bloody Tears
Famitsu Readers’ Best Video Game Song
1. Okami - The Sun Rises (50 votes)
2. Chrono Cross - Scars of Time (25 votes)
3. Final Fantasy X - To Zanarkand (24 votes)
- 2020s -
2020
🏆 Endeavour 25-23 -(ISOLEUCINE)-
🍀 2ch 13th “Game Music Best 100”
1. Okami - The Sun Rises (44 votes)
2. Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna ~ The Golden Country - Battle!! (42 votes)
3. Xenoblade Chronicles - You Will Know Our Names (31 votes)
🟪 ResetERA Game Soundtracks of 2020
1. Final Fantasy VII Remake (34 votes, 316 points)
2. Hades (21 votes, 155 points)
3. Ori and the Will of the Wisps (17 votes, 135 points)
SupraDarky Discord’s Best 2020 VGM Awards
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim - -(Isoleucine)- 28-26 Paradise Killer - Paradise (Stay Forever)
Talking Time’s Best Game Music Forever Thunderdome Remastered
Mega Man 2 - Dr. Wily Stage 1 7-6 Batman (NES) - Stage 1
🥑 The Avocado Best Video Game Song Tournament, 1990-1995
Final Fantasy VI - Terra’s Theme 19-10 Chrono Trigger - Corridors of Time
🥑 The Avocado Best Video Game Song Tournament, 1996-2000
Chrono Cross - Scars of Time 14-4 Chrono Cross - Dream of the Shore Bordering Another World
🥑 The Avocado Best Video Game Song Tournament, 2001-2004
Ico - Castle in the Mist 14-13 Katamari Damacy - Lonely Rolling Star
2021
🏆 resurrectedreplayer 34-33 Id (Purpose)
🍀 2ch 14th “Game Music Best 100”
1. Okami - The Sun Rises (70 votes)
2. Pokemon Sword & Shield - Gym Leader Battle (61 votes)
3. Uma Musume: Pretty Derby - GIRLS’ LEGEND U (59 votes)
Quarter to Three Game Music Thunderdome 3
Disco Elysium - Whirling in Rags (Day) 7-6 Shatter - Kinetic Rags
Quarter to Three Game Music Thunderdome 4
Dark Souls II - Majula 7-6 Return of the Obra Dinn - Main Theme
🟪 ResetERA Game Soundtracks of 2021
1. Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker (26 votes, 252 points)
2. Chicory: A Colorful Tale (22 votes, 176 points)
3. Shin Megami Tensei V (21 votes, 170 points)
SupraDarky Discord’s Best 2021 VGM Awards
Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City - The Lost City 24-20 Far Fetched - Into the Woods!
SupraDarky Discord’s Favorite “Best VGM List” Song
Chrono Cross - Scars of Time 21-17 Donkey Kong Country 2 - Stickerbush Symphony
The Chase VGM’s “Chase’s Choice” 2021
1. Final Fantasy VI - Dancing Mad (11 votes)
2. Chrono Trigger - Corridors of Time (10 votes)
3. Donkey Kong Country 2 - Stickerbush Symphony (9 votes)
🥑 The Avocado Best Video Game Song Tournament, 2005-2008
Portal - Still Alive 19-10 Persona 4 - Heartbeat, Heartbreak
🥑 The Avocado Best Video Game Song Tournament, 2009-2012
Bravely Default - Serpent Eating the Ground 12-3 Final Fantasy XIII-2 - Run
2022
🏆 Passing Through the Forest 34-33 Aquatic Ambiance
🍀 2ch 15th “Game Music Best 100”
1. Kirby and the Forgotten Land - Two Planets Approach the Roche Limit (109 votes, 261.5 points)
2. Okami - The Sun Rises (64 votes, 141 points)
3. Kirby: Triple Deluxe - Fatal Blooms in Moonlight (59 votes, 131.5 points)
Final Fantasy Shrine’s Final Fantasy Rumble 9
Final Fantasy V - Clash on the Big Bridge 6-5 Final Fantasy VI - Dancing Mad
🟪 ResetERA Game Soundtracks of 2022
1. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (57 votes, 518 points)
2. Elden Ring (42 votes, 317 points)
3. God of War Ragnarök (32 votes, 238 points)
SupraDarky Discord’s Best 2022 VGM Awards
Freedom Planet 2 - Dragon Valley (Stage 1) 25-22 Alto’s Adventure - The Spirit of the Mountain
The Chase VGM’s “Chase’s Choice” 2022
1. Chrono Trigger - Corridors of Time (15 votes, 50.9 points)
2. Undertale - MEGALOVANIA (14 votes, 46.71 points)
3. Chrono Cross - Radical Dreamers -Le Trésor Interdit- (11 votes, 46.65 points)
🥑 The Avocado Best Video Game Song Tournament, 2013-2016
Undertale - Hopes and Dreams 10-6 Persona 5 - Last Surprise
2023
🏆 Back in Time 33-32 The Last Specter’s Theme
🍀 2ch 16th “Game Music Best 100”
1. Pokemon Scarlet & Violet - Battle! Zero Lab (109 votes, 242.5 points)
2. Kirby and the Forgotten Land - Two Planets Approach the Roche Limit (69 votes, 159.5 points)
3. Blue Archive - RE Aoharu (63 votes, 152.5 points)
🟪 ResetERA Game Soundtracks of 2023
1. Final Fantasy XVI (73 votes, 638 points)
2. Octopath Traveler II (50 votes, 464 points)
3. Alan Wake II (34 votes, 277 points)
SupraDarky Discord’s Best 2023 VGM Awards
Cassette Beasts - Your Inception 27-18 Pseudoregalia - Outside the Castle Walls (Empty Bailey)
The Chase VGM’s “Chase’s Choice” 2023
1. Chrono Trigger - Corridors of Time (12 votes, 64.02 points)
2. Katamari Damacy - Lonely Rolling Star (13 votes, 62.62 points)
3. Chrono Cross - Radical Dreamers -Le Trésor Interdit- (11 votes, 58.01 points)
🥑 The Avocado Best Video Game Song Tournament, 2017-2020
Celeste - Resurrections 7-7 Celeste - Reach for the Summit
2024
🏆 Mechonis Field 35-24 Suna no Shiro -The Castle of Sand-
🍀 2ch 17th “Game Music Best 100”
1. Okami - The Sun Rises (39 votes, 81.5 points)
2. Kirby and the Forgotten Land - Two Planets Approach the Roche Limit (32 votes, 69 points)
3. Kirby: Triple Deluxe - Fatal Blooms in Moonlight (28 votes, 65 points)
🟪 ResetERA Game Soundtracks of 2024
1. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (90 votes, 849 points)
2. Metaphor: ReFantazio (58 votes, 439 points)
3. Astro Bot (50 votes, 360 points)
SupraDarky Discord’s Best 2024 VGM Awards
Minecraft Tricky Trials - Precipice 25-18 The Hokkaido Serial Murder Case The Okhotsk Disappearance ~Memories in Ice, Tearful Figurine~ - Tokyo
🥑 The Avocado Best Video Game Song Tournament, 2021-2022
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - Brilliant Wings 6-6 Wave Break: Neon Rides - Crystal Waves
The Chase VGM’s “Chase’s Choice” 2024
1. Katamari Damacy - Lonely Rolling Star (13 votes, 67.36 points)
2. Chrono Trigger - Corridors of Time (13 votes, 64.40 points)
3. Chrono Cross - Radical Dreamers -Le Trésor Interdit- (11 votes, 57.80 points)
2025
🥑 The Avocado Best Video Game Song Tournament, 2023-2024
Venba - Kanni Kanini W-L The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Colgera Battle