CHIPTUNNED: MEGA MAN 2

I’ve come to the conclusion that 85% of recent edm producers were inspired by video game music. So why not explore video game music?


Chiptuned pt1: Mega Man 2





Mega Man was not a big enough success to warrant an immediate sequel, it was a rogue production that the team during their free time while working on a baseball game. The result of this labor of love was one of he best action platform games on the system, and arguably the best game in the mega man series.

The music was the work of three different composers, Takashi Tateishi, Manami Matsumae and Yoshihiro Sakaguchi, the latter also composed music for Duck Tales and Final Fight.







I feel like the intro coupled with the song makes Mega Man look about as much of a bad ass as a tiny blue robot in spandex is going to look. The song is pretty epic… It is debatable as to if it is more epic than the mega man 3 title theme… But as a whole mega man 2 is more epic just because the mega man title screen sucks. (More on that in the future)







The thing about video game music is the songs are usually about a minute to 2 minutes long, and they repeat for as long as the stage lasts, so they have to be catchy as all fuck, which I imagine wasn’t an easy task since they only had 5 channels to work with, especially when you figure in that they probably had 2 channels for sound fx.







So anyways, you basicly fight your way through 8 differently themed levels in any order so you can move on to the last 4 stages of the game, which feature on of the best stage themes in the game. Great game, great soundtrack.