Part 1 of the Honor Roll begins later in this first post.
Honor Roll Part 2 is here.
Results past the Honor Roll start here.
The final section of the list is here.
User submitted analysis questions are here.
Comment permission share link for the results is here, in order to manipulate the data as you see fit, please make a copy.
Finally, skip ahead to the discussion.
## Meta-Data
### **Submission Statistics**
#### Number of participants submitted: [color=#9432f7]
#### Number of unique games submitted: [color=#9432f7]**304**[/color]
#### Number of games on the Honor Roll: [color=#9432f7]**219**[/color]
#### Number of games on the Official Game & Sounds Ranking: [color=#9432f7]**84**[/color]
#### Number of unique submissions which are not even videogames: [color=#9432f7]**3**[/color]
### **Chronology Based Meta-Data**
#### The oldest game on the list is from: [color=#9432f7]
#### The newest game on the list is from: [color=#9432f7]**The Future**[/color]
#### ...the newest game that has actually been released was out on: [color=#9432f7]**March 16th, 2022**[/color]
#### The average year of release for all unique submissions: [color=#9432f7]**2001**[/color]
#### The average year adjusted to weight games higher for being picked more: [color=#9432f7]**2002**[/color]
QUESTION: What are the best years for videogame music?
ANSWER: For better or worse, it appears that Insert Credit are quite firmly [color=#9432f7]**_90s kids,_**[/color] cursed to remember the 90s forever.
Here is a chart for all unique submissions, by year of release:
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Five distinct years within the 90s have more games represented in the results than the single best years in the 80s, the aughts, 20teens, and the 2020s. Weighting more in favor of the games which were picked multiple times doesn't change the shape of the chart all that much either.
### **Platform Based Meta-Data**
QUESTION: What style of videogame platform has the best OSTs?
ANSWER: Well, this data isn't particularly well organized, but it seems that home consoles are quite dominant in the OST department.
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Essentially, most of the kinds of platforms that contain the submitted OSTs are either home console exclusives, or are on consoles as well as other platforms. Combined that's about 3/4s of all submissions.
### Best Console/Platform by OSTs
I hacked away at the data a bit here, eliminated counting Multiplatform games entirely (with the idea that these OSTSs would have a greater chance of being written with the console and its associated aesthetics in mind), and snipped off anything that got only 1 or 2 submissions on that platform.
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The disproportionately high number of PlayStation and SNES games is a big part of the 90s dominance as well.
### **Geographic Based Meta-Data**
### Best OSTs by Region of Origin
If everyone who submitted lists of 6-10 games from Japan thought "someone else will submit some games from Europe or whatever," well, I'm here to tell you that, no, they did not:
[upl-image-preview url=https://i.imgur.com/FbzIaNw.png]
It would probably make more sense to see what the breakdown is _without_ Japanese games...
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I have a bit of a feeling that this might look a lot like a breakdown of the non-Japanese videogame market, but not exactly.
Also, without further ado, I would like to recognize...
### The Insert Credit Game & Sounds Poll Honor Roll of Countries
Awarded to all countries who made it on to the list with one game:
## Czech Republic (Pictured)
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## Iceland (Pictured)
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## Ireland (Pictured)
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## Mexico (Pictured)
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## Russia (Pictured)
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## People's Republic of China (Pictured)
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## Republic of Korea (Pictured)
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#### **The Official 2022 Insert Credit Game & Sounds Poll Most Honorable Users**
These four users each submitted a list that added **eight** distinct entries to the Honor Roll, the highest number of distinct entries among all participants.
@"chazumaru"#146 @"thebryanjzx90"#62 @"Samograj"#780 @"Karasu"#65
#### **The Official 2022 Insert Credit Game & Sounds Poll Most Idiosyncratic Iconoclasts**
This is a ranked list of users whose submitted entries received the least amount of votes in total. The number directly to the right of the user's name is the total number of votes all of the games they submitted received, combined. The numbers below are the number of games submitted which made the honor roll (as in, they received one vote), plus the number of votes each other non Honor Roll submission received.
Two Time Reigning Iconoclast Champion
@“chazumaru”#146 : 12
8 Honor Roll Games + 2 + 2
@"Fran"#691 : 13
7 Honor Roll Games + 2 + 2 + 2
@"thebryanjzx90"#62 : 14
8 Honor Roll Games + 3 + 3
@"Karasu"#65 : 14
8 Honor Roll Games + 4 + 2
@"copySave"#332 : 16
6 Honor Roll Games + 3 + 3 + 2 + 2
@"connrrr"#502 : 16
5 Honor Roll Games + 3 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2
# **[color=#9432f7]The Honor Roll[/color]**
#### _Games which received one vote._
Game names should be clickable links to Youtube uploads/playlists of the OST in question. These are either user submitted or quickly done, so accuracy in that regard may be lacking.
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| 2006 | PS2 | Namco | Japan | |
| 1988 | PC Engine | Compile | Japan | |
| 2022 | Multiplatform | ThinkingStars | China | |
| 2019 | Multiplatform | Analgesic Productions | USA | |
| 2005 | PS2 | SCEJ | Japan | |
| 1998 | Arcade | Raizing | Japan | |
| 1998 | N64 | Rare | UK | |
| 1993 | Genesis | Vic Tokai | Japan | |
| 2003 | Multiplatform | Ubisoft :/ | France | |
| 2006 | GBA | Skip Ltd, Q-Games | Japan | |
| 2015 | PS4 | From Software | Japan | |
| 2018 | Multiplatform | Dynamic Media Triad | Mexico | |
| 1986 | Arcade | Taito | Japan | |
| 2001 | Arcade | Capcom | Japan | |
| 1994 | Genesis | Konami | Japan | |
| 2003 | PS2 | Konami | Japan | |
| 2008 | DS | Konami | Japan | |
| 1993 | PC Engine | Konami | Japan | |
| 1997 | PS1 | Konami | Japan | |
| 2005 | Gamecube | Skip Ltd., Vanpool, PREMIUM BANDAI | Japan | |
| 1995 | CD/SNES | GUIDO | Japan | |
| 1996 | Arcade | Taito | Japan | |
| 2006 | DS | Grasshopper Manufacture | Japan | |
| 1987 | NES | Konami | Japan | |
| 1992 | SNES | Konami | Korea | |
| 2018 | Multiplatform | Radical Fish Games | Germany | |
| 2019 | Multiplatform | FUTURE MEMORY (Max Krieger) | USA | |
| 2015 | Multiplatform | Brace Yourself Games | Canada | |
| 1993 | SNES | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Japan | |
| 2000 | Arcade | Konami | Japan | |
| 2009 | PSP | Pyramid | Japan | |
| 2015 | Multiplatform | Red Hook Studios | Canada | |
| 2018 | PC | Motion Twin | France | |
| TBA | Multiplatform | Toby Fox | USA | |
| 2001 | PC | Blizzard | USA | |
| 2019 | Multiplatform | Terry Cavanagh | Ireland | |
| 1997 | N64 | Rare | UK | |
| 2014 | Wii U | Retro Studios | USA | |
| 1990 | NES | Chunsoft | Japan | |
| 2004 | PS2 | Level-5 | Japan | |
| 1989 | NES | Capcom | Japan | |
| 2018 | Multiplatform | David Szymanski | USA | |
| 1989 | NES | APE | Japan | |
| 1994 | Genesis | Novotrade International | USA | |
| 2015 | PC | Erik Svedäng | Sweden | |
| 2011 | Multiplatform | Qute | Japan | |
| 2010 | DS | Atlus | Japan | |
| 2012 | 3DS | Atlus | Japan | |
| 2018 | 3DS | Atlus | Japan | |
| 2013 | PC | Paradox Interactive | Sweden | |
| 2003 | PC | CCP Games | Iceland | |
| 2003 | Gamecube | Amusement Vision | Japan | |
| 1998 | N64 | Nintendo EAD | Japan | |
| 1989 | NES | Nintendo | Japan | |
| 2018 | Multiplatform | Okomotive, Miktvision | France | |
| 2004 | Gamecube | Square Enix | Japan | |
| 2000 | PS1 | Square | Japan, USA | |
| 1992 | SNES | Squaresoft | Japan | |
| 2009 | DS | Matrix Software | Japan | |
| 2001 | PS2 | Grasshopper Manufacture | Japan | |
| 2015 | PC | Messhof | USA | |
| 2006 | Wii | Nintendo | Japan | |
| 2009 | Wii | Tri-Crescendo | Japan | |
| 2016 | Multiplatform | The Game Bakers | France | |
| 1997 | Multiplatform | Taito | Japan | |
| 2020 | PC | Eyaura | Japan | |
| 1997 | Game Boy | TOSE | Japan | |
| 1988 | Arcade | Sega | Japan | |
| 2001 | PS2 | iNiS Corporation, Koei Techmo Games | Japan | |
| 2018 | PS4 | Sony | USA | |
| 2004 | PS2 | Polyphony Digital | Japan | |
| 2014 | Mobile | Cygames | Japan | |
| 1997 | Saturn | Game Arts | Japan | |
| 2012 | Vita | Japan Studio | Japan | |
| 1998 | PC | LucasArts | USA | |
| 1998 | PS1 | Arc System Works | Japan | |
| 2002 | Multiplatform | Arc System Works | Japan | |
| 1994 | SNES | Data East Corporation | Japan | |
| 1999 | PS1 | Polygon Magic | Japan | |
| 1990 | NES | Sunsoft | Japan | |
| 1995 | PS1 | Exact | Japan | |
| 2009 | PS3 | Genki | Japan | |
| 2014 | Multiplatform | Studio Pixel | Japan | |
| 2005 | Gamecube | Grasshopper Manufacture | Japan | |
| 1992 | Game Boy | HAL Laboratory | Japan | |
| 1995 | Genesis | Sega | Japan | |
| 2013 | PC | Nigoro | Japan | |
| 1991 | SNES | Konami | Japan | |
| 1996 | Arcade | Taito | Japan | |
| 1992 | Genesis | Climax Entertainment | Japan | |
| 1995 | Saturn | Taito | Japan | |
| 2006 | PC | Nihon Falcom | Japan | |
| 1999 | PS1 | Square | Japan | |
| 2014 | PC | Dingaling | USA | |
| 1994 | SNES | Squaresoft | Japan | |
| 2006 | PSP | SCEJ | Japan | |
| 1995 | SNES | Neverland | Japan | |
| 2002 | PS2 | Garakuda-Studio | Japan |