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Posted September 12, 2012
Dear GOG.com users!

We know that you love your video game soundtracks and nothing makes you happier than seeing a GOG.com game bundled with high-quality digital audio album. But how well you actually know the classic musical scores that accompany some of the greatest moments of gaming? We'd like to put your musical knowledge to a little test!

http://youtu.be/Ysorqg3mAsw

The video linked above contains 7 music fragments coming from 7 great classic games. Can you name those games? If you think you can, there's a free GOG.com game in it for you! Just send the correct game titles (in the order that they're presented in the video!) to: contest@gog.com (enter "Music contest" as the topic, please)

The first ten people who email us with all the correct answers put in correct order will receive a bonus code. Another batch of 10 codes will be distributed among the users who sent their correct answers later. The awarded codes will allow you to redeem any GOG.com game with a regular price up to $9.99.

To sum things up:

1. Listen to 7 music fragments
2. Guess all 7 great games
3. Send the names of those games to contest@gog.com
4. ???
5. Profit

This contest lasts until Friday, September 14, 9:59 AM GMT, so put your headphones on, sit back and just go with the flow of the music, while your memories begin to kick in!
Post edited September 12, 2012 by G-Doc
Posted September 12, 2012
Thanks for the giveaway, folks! And a little promotion to it (probably unnecessary, since it is a sticky thread, but ...)

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/how_does_one_make_a_gift_aka_gifting_on_gog_for_dummies/post293

Not a chance to win: several themes ring a bell, but I can't name them anyway...
Post edited September 12, 2012 by Thespian*
Posted September 12, 2012
Great idea for a contest, but you seem to have gone out of your way to make it as obscure as possible. 7 unmemorable bits of classical music, sounding enough alike that they could easily all have come from the same game, or even from different places in the same piece of music.

I don't recognize a single one of them, I must admit.
Posted September 12, 2012
Too many sounding quite similar, can't pinpoint any of them. But the real questions are these:
Are all 7 from games currently on GOG.com?
For those currently not on GOG.com, do you have plans to release them this year?
Posted September 12, 2012
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Wishbone: Great idea for a contest, but you seem to have gone out of your way to make it as obscure as possible. 7 unmemorable bits of classical music, sounding enough alike that they could easily all have come from the same game, or even from different places in the same piece of music.

I don't recognize a single one of them, I must admit.
We already received a submission that gets 6 out of 7 titles right, so we figure we didn't overestimate our users' game music knowledge :-)

I do promise, however, that we'll run another contest soon(ish)--not depending on mad music-recognition skills.
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JMich: Too many sounding quite similar, can't pinpoint any of them. But the real questions are these:
Are all 7 from games currently on GOG.com?
For those currently not on GOG.com, do you have plans to release them this year?
You can safely assume that we only used bits of soundtracks from the games already available in our catalogue.
Post edited September 12, 2012 by G-Doc
Posted September 12, 2012
Damn! All of them sound familiar except for 7, but I can't link any names to them... :(
Posted September 12, 2012
This could take years to get a winner. Plus i almost missed the giveaway. I never pay attention to the sticky threads.
Posted September 12, 2012
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G-Doc: You can safely assume that we only used bits of soundtracks from the games already available in our catalogue.
While I understand the reasons why, you should have left TET to answer this with his usual enigmatic replies. It would have given the rest of us (aka the non-audiophiles) with something to speculate about ;)
Now to start going through the soundtracks, to see if anything gets recognized, damn it...
Posted September 12, 2012
OK, so here's a little hint. All of those fragments have something in common. Once you guess the common denominator getting all the correct answers will get much easier :-)
Posted September 12, 2012
I shamed myself by instantly recognising the areas in which some of those tracks came from...but yeah, it is kind of bizarre how they all sound like they could come from exactly the same game.

'tis a difficult challenge, but doable, I'm sure.

*edit* Ahhhh.^
...no, okay, even possibly knowing the link isn't helping.
Post edited September 12, 2012 by Planeforger
Posted September 12, 2012
I know all but number 2. It is maddening knowing the link but still being unable to figure out the last one...
Posted September 12, 2012
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G-Doc: OK, so here's a little hint. All of those fragments have something in common. Once you guess the common denominator getting all the correct answers will get much easier :-)
Based on the music bits alone, I think I can guess the common denominator, which also goes a long way to explain why I don't recognize any of them.
Posted September 12, 2012
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Wishbone: Great idea for a contest, but you seem to have gone out of your way to make it as obscure as possible. 7 unmemorable bits of classical music, sounding enough alike that they could easily all have come from the same game, or even from different places in the same piece of music.

I don't recognize a single one of them, I must admit.
Same here, most epic music sounds the same to me. Didn't recognize a single one. ;)
If it were midi/midi-similar [like CMF] or a module i'd be all over this.
Posted September 12, 2012
I can't figure out a single one of them :c
Posted September 12, 2012
I think i found the common denominator.
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