For me, it's because it sounded so, hm, generic and bland. Maybe it's because i'm not that much a soundtrack man and the only one that stuck out for me was number 6, because of those low trombones [probably not trombones, aren't they?]. With midis, sids and mods, music was made to stand out a bit more i guess, today 'epicness' is enough.

I seem to be in the opposite situation as a majority of people. I have had the benefit of actually listening to the soundtracks of 5 of these 7 games regularly (read: just about every day for years), so after confirming all of those and figuring out the other 2 (based on instrumentation, obvious melodies, and such), I submitted my entry.

As a number of people have pointed out, this contest appeals very much to game soundtrack aficionados and even then only to a small subset of them. But as with any content-based contest, it all comes down to your tastes, habits, and skills and whether they match with the contest. I may seem to have a bit of an upper hand for this contest, but if this was any sort of art submission contest I would have absolutely zero chance of winning.

So to everyone attempting the contest, I say, "Good luck." To everyone who has given up or never held any interest in it, I am sorry this contest was not your cup of tea. I can only hope that maybe this has brought video game music more to your attention. There can be some truly fantastic music in some of your favorite games.

I seriously have no idea and I love my game sound tracks!

I'm not sorry at all, I dislike contests in general anyway. I enjoyed listening to the music posted as it was mysterious to not know the titles but now I really want to know them though, hope they post the answers after the contest.

I am pretty sure I only ever heard #5, and I don't even know the game it comes from.

Unfortunately I noticed this contest too late and from work I can't make researches (I feel they are song from Jeremy Soule since I think I heard that "sound" in many classic RPGs, but I have no time to dig it).
Good luck to everyone trying ;)

Well, this was pretty fun and almost killed my work day. The first 3 were difficult for me, but I hope it will be the good answer !

Really Gog, put several challenge like this, even with no gifts to congratulate people.

It is fun, and it enables us to remember of genius videogame composers :)

First sounds familar but I doubt its what I think it is
Can't listen to rest at the moment due to buffering :(

WILD IDEA! Is this topic leads us to announcement with BG Enhanced Edition release @ GOG.com? ;)

So how do we send the answers...

E-mail

Preeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaeeeeeee, give us some extra time, i have 6 fragments completely identified, preeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaeeeeeee.

With a contest like this, where only a few people will really participate, I don't think they wanted to make everyone read about it. It was announced on their twitter feed.