I've had a real love/hate relationship with Anime Music Quiz playing it with the homies, and I'm quite a fan of video game music, so I've always wanted a website that has the simple UX and featureset of AMQ but with a library of video game tracks instead of anime music. VGM Quiz is the closest thing like that to exist, but sweet lord the actual guessing game itself here is blown so completely out of the water by AMQ that it's depressing.

So the main goal of both is obviously that it plays a random song from a random thing and you have to type in what the song is from. AMQ has it so that a song plays on a timer, and during that timer there's an input box where you can input one guess before the timer is up. There's a whole database of suggestions that you need to commit to, so even if you don't know exactly the name of the thing you are searching for you can approximate it and get it right. The timer also makes it so that everyone has equal time to think and it's not just a matter of speed (though there is an alternate gamemode where you can make it speed-based that me and my friends never play). The game shows everyones answers at the end, which can lead to some funny moments of seeing joke answers from clueless people, or funny misunderstandings. VGM Quiz on the other hand has speed at the forefront of its gameplay; all that matters is guessing the game name correctly within the first milliseconds of hearing a song. The UI is one big text log and while there's a database of game titles you have to make sure it's written correctly and that there are NO typos which is difficult when you are trying to type at a trillion WPM in order to get the answer in as quickly as possible. Some games have shortened acceptable titles, but the rules aren't always as consistent and sometimes it does want you to type the whole ass game name like "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations" for it to count. It becomes less of a game of actual song recognition and more a matter of both typing speed and knowledge of what the shortest accepted database term for each game is, which is hella lame. You can't see other players answers due to the speed aspect of it, and due to the fact it's a chat log you are given unlimited attempts to guess a game title which makes it really easy to just brute force a correct answer you otherwise shouldn't have gotten. Something sound like touhou music? Quick, type "touhou 1", "touhou 2", "touhou 3", "touhou 4", "touhou 5", "touhou 6", etc. as fast as humanly possible until you either get it right or the timer runs out.

Though really the true deep appeal of AMQ comes from the fact that there's seamless list integration, where so long as you and your homies have been keeping track of what shows you've seen and have an account on either of the massively popular anime tracking lists, you have the option to tailor-make a room specifically to only include songs that in theory at least one person in the room should know. It creates such an immensely deeper metagame when the matters of what something you haven't heard before COULD come from given the context of what your friends have seen that you haven't, and also encourages every player to broaden their horizons and gives everyone an intrinsic motivation to try out and engage with something that your friends are into for the sake of being better at the game. Naturally, VGM Quiz doesn't have anything resembling that feature. Given the fact that game tracking websites aren't nearly as centralized to one mainstream place as other media types I can't exactly blame them for not having a feature like that (hell I'd consider this place one of the larger game tracking websites and it's still pretty comparatively miniscule). If the VGMQ devs were able to find a way to link the VGDB database to their own music categories they could theoretically add list support for any website that uses VGDB as a backbone (like here!). You can make custom quizzes supposedly so maybe you could just manually add everything that you and your homies have played one-by-one to a specific custom quiz but I wouldn't know because the whole feature is locked behind a paywall in the first place. All you get is completely random picks that potentially nobody could ever get right if nobody has played it. The option to filter between like level themes/menu music/cutscene music/main themes would be nice too, but the only option you get is what genres or platforms a game lies within.

It's just a very boneless quiz game and it makes me quite sad because my game music knowledge is way deeper than my anime music knowledge and the idea of playing AMQ with game music sounds like a wet dream. But hey! At least the opposite is true, they added anime music to this site so if you want to play AMQ with significantly less options and less engaging gameplay, do I have a game for you!

Gonna come clean here. This website is currently holding my friends and I hostage. You know how you know you're too far gone? When you make an entirely separate MyAnimeList/AniList consisting of all the anime you reliably remember the openings/endings to, and haven't actually seen yet. When you do this because the game rewards you more XP when you have a wider pool of obscure, harder to guess songs, which lets you unlock character skins (which in all fairness, I could have gone without). But here I am, spending my free time in Solo mode with a ruleset optimised to grind the most XP so I can get more in-game currency.

My evenings no longer exist. There is just daytime and bedtime. You see a message as innocuous sounding as "wanna amq tonight?", and before you know it, you're getting ready for bed at 5am, with "Raspberry Heaven" from Azumanga Daioh stuck in your head.

Before you know it, all of your friends have started watching a bunch of seasonal shows they weren't actually that interested in, and are making a point out of not skipping the openings or endings.

I've memorised mid as hell songs that only play in one scene, in one episode, in shows I haven't seen yet, out of mere exposure. So many in-jokes have resulted from this thing. My friends are all able to reliably guess Promare's music in every game despite it sounding generic as all hell (sorry Sawano) because I once jokingly called it Imagine Dragons. And the entire voice chat starts laughing once the song no-one got reveals itself to be opening 52 for Detective Conan, a show I kept on my AniList because I saw the first 100 or so episodes as a kid. It's airing its 1025th episode tomorrow at the time of writing.
MyAnimeList says that it has 54 opening themes. My personal favourite right now is opening 25. This shit goes.

Sometimes it's okay to admit that you're a weeb. I don't know if this is one of those times. I get shit for reliably guessing Monogatari and I give people shit for reliably guessing other dumb ass shows. And sometimes God is in his Heaven and all's right with the world when the entire crew is able to guess the opening for Himouto! Umaru-chan correctly. But the important part is that we're all cringe together. And being cringe is fun if it means listening to bangers. I guess that's the moral here?

Anyway, I will now post a bunch of random anime openings and a couple endings that have never left my head thanks to this cursed ass game.
"Duvet" - Serial Experiments Lain
"Guardian Angel" - Texhnolyze
"Groovin' Magic" - Diebuster (Gunbuster 2) (ROUND TABLE is a great band)
"Blue Flow" - Haibane Renmei
"G.P." - Great Pretender
"Hanaji" - Maria Holic
"Cutie Honey" - Re:Cutie Honey (the visuals for this one are pretty shamelessly fanservicey though)
"Morning Grace" - Princess Tutu
"Out of Control" - Psycho-Pass
"Paraiso" - Michiko & Hatchin
"POP TEAM EPIC" - Pop Team Epic
"Spatto! Spy & Spyce" - Release the Spyce
"Truth" - Revolutionary Girl Utena
"Shounen yo Ware ni Kaere" - Mawaru Penguindrum
"Koi wa Chaos wo Shimobenari" - Haiyore! Nyaruko-San W
"The Beautiful World" - Kino's Journey
"sky's the limit" - Persona 4: The Animation
"Bomb A Head! V" - Tenjou Tenge
"Kami-iro Awase" - Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - Despair Arc
"99.9" - Mob Psycho 100 II
"mathemagics" - Owarimonogatari
"Wareta Ringo" - From the New World

great fmv game with a baller soundtrack. the best description i've heard of the music in this game is a youtube comment that said it sounded like a side project by liquid tension experiment. if you heard the music then you could believe this! but actually it's by a guy named Bill King who would later go on to score Michelle Kwan Figure Skating.

anyway this is a good no-nonsense game and a great starter video game for a kid. turn it on, steer to make turns, go fast, do cool stunts, try not to crash. satisfying sound effects when you do well and great environments seen through the eye of a tiny hot wheels car

there's a bit of old game jank - sometimes it's hard to tell whether you'll land flat on the next surface or not, which can be frustrating when you do. i imagine it's also hard to run on a computer these days. those are my only real complaints.