When you wanna play some Mega Man 2 but have a rodeo in an hour

One of the best soundtracks to ever come from a video game period.

I beat this game while my brothers watched, cheering me on and rolling on the ground full of anxiety and joy. My favorite times in life were playing these old NES games with them. Thanks for keeping real gaming alive, cowboy.

The world needs more cowboy speed runners.

These old nes play through a are bringing back memories of reading nintendo power for tips and cheat codes

Summer vacations in the early 90's....this game always takes me back.

I feel like this game was ahead of its time, truly a classic!

Came here after seeing your ninja gaiden run, really enjoy your runs. The skill and the down to earth folksy feel have got me enjoying these runs more so than most other runs.

Never trust anyone that doesn't jump into the gates

One of the absolute best 8-bit soundtracks ever!! The music is regularly (randomly) running through my mind!

When your a Nevada gaming commissioner but NES is life.

God I forgot how amazing the music for this game was

Nice job and your uploads always make my day better.

The music in this game never gets old. Best soundtrack ever

One of my first favorite games when I was a kid.

Probably my favorite game. Brings back a lot of memories. Great to see you playing it.

You are awesome! So skillful, and so relaxed, like the Bob Ross of speed running.

Come for the music stay for the Klunk

That dragon fight in Wily Stage 1 is my favorite moment in the classic series. You knock it right out of the park.

Arcus making my day with another greatly enjoyable run

Not only the best music of the Mega Man series, but also the best music of the 8 bit era.

The best Mega Man of them all...great music too...Arcus is the best retro gamer of them all

I remember beating this game over and over at 8 years old. The first walk to Alien Wily was so tense with the lack of music... Best MM ever.

I love that you hum along to the music while playing. NES games had the best tracks.

You can just tell everyone put their all into developing that game from the gameplay to the layouts to the soundtrack…classic

Learned some new tricks here. Thank you!

18:49 hands down, one of the best video game songs of all time.

It was the worst of blams, it was the best of blams

Started watching your speed runs just recently they’re all Awesome I am absolutely shocked with this one particularly cause I’m a huge mm2 fan. Absolutely Awesome

‘And blam, a good blam.’ A happy little accident 🤗

You are damn good and these games bring back childhood nostalgia. Subscribed!

Arcus, I like your speed runs. They're not the fastest but you're entertaining. Aaaaand clunk.

That heat man skip made me like and subscribe. I don’t even like speed runs but that’s a great trick

Good work Arcus, love that bubble man stage music

Watching Arcus speedrun every game I could never beat as a kid is my new favorite thing.

A minute and 31 seconds into the run and my mind is already blown. These games have ALWAYS been notoriously difficult for me and you made the first look like a regular shite enemy. Excellent clunk!

Arcus so wholesome. Can't get enough

Ah, my favorite runner playing my favorite game :) good stuff

country boy that game you just destroyed was my favorite game growing up. Damn good PB. Hope you knab that record

Gotta say, it's great to see your view count jump tenfold in the past few months. You deserve it!

hes got the speedrun down good. i enjoyed this a lot

Phenomenal! This was one of my favourite games in the 90s. “Aaaaand... clunk!” and “Mash mash mash!” now entered in my vocabulary. LOL

This guy still hums the tunes even though he’s probably played this game a million times. That’s how good the music in this game is.

Отличное прохождение 👍

I love your style. I listen to your videos as if it was ASMR.

its so relaxing watch you playing

This guy just suddenly popped up again for the second time; I`m glad he did. I like his manner!!

Used to love this game. Arcus the man

I love MM2! It was the first game I finished. BTW from 2:49, that's some smooth jumping!

I am really embarrassed to admit that i didnt know until i saw this video that Heat man's weapon is chargeable (i used it just like basic pea shooter) and Metal blade can be used in any direction

You beat the games I use to beat coolers apart trying to beat.. God bless you brother

Still remember beating this as a kid, took a while before realizing those damn bubbles had a use lol

Love you lifestyle. Speedy but chilled gaming. Scoped out your Burrito speedrun. You are impressive. All the best.

Facts this soundtrack was lit also megaman 3 and 6 were good ones too

Take a shot every time he says oops

How is it that I've been playing Mega Man 2 since it came out and I never realized you could charge the Heat weapon until now! Thank you Cowboy for showing me the way once again! You have officially become my go-to on how to do shit!

I always remembered that the wood shield works great on Air Man read that in a Nintendo power and the other night I was just playing around with the Heat Gun and found out that one Full charge heat destroys the first Dr Wiley machine and it also works decent on Quick Man too, just a fun game I like to play around with !!!

Good music and sound affects man

I’ve never tried doing flash man first and using his power to go through airman a little faster. I always just start with airman but I like what you’ve done here

Never beat this game or seen beat til now but did love trying..This guy is a monster

Great game dude, hi from Chile :D

19:49 uh oh watchout for that roomba!

I enjoy hearing the "klunks" in this way. Awesome use of the word!

Awesome gameplay man😎👍

I love this game!

Can't get enough of your vids. So chill. Love your sound effects. My favorite speedrunner. Mucho appreciation for your work brother.

Pretty good..ive come close to this before. Maybe 33mins or so. Airman--metalman--woodman--flashman--crashman--quickman--bubbleman--heatman Order I do it in. Good run dude

Nicely performed, Have seen alot of different ways to play-warp and defeat Mega Man 2.. Your game playing-most impressive 👍

Man, I miss these classic games.

Amazing, you are the real Quick Man here. Greetings from Chile :)

What in Tarnation!!

Blam. Good Blam!

Nice run there... Space Cowboy

I keep having this nightmare where I wake up and arcus is standing in my room with no pants on

I can run the game on one life in around 40 minutes without any stage skips. It's crazy I've played this game hundreds of times (since its my favorite NES game) and never knew of those skips. Also learned a few tips from this that will save me more time (without glitches).

Chillest dude in gaming. If Bob Ross did speedruns.

What's up to my man Kevin, You're the man 🍾

Nice job on the speed run. I dunno if you read the comment section here on KZfaq but you can shorten your time down by using air man's weapon on heat man. It's much faster than buster. I say this given your choice of route. Still, a really good speed run with a decent show of glitches.

fun run ! thanks

This is the very first video game I purchased with my own money as a child. I'd been putting $2 away every week for several months so I could afford to splurge on a NES cart in town! I still remember walking around the shops afterwards.. chuffed, but in a hurry to get back home :P

I started watching this and stopped to figure out the theme to air man’s level on guitar. After a day I am back to finish it.

Game addiction is no joke Jim !

Bob Ross of gaming

You’re a legend.

Going back through this game for the first time in at least 25+ yrs. and oh wow, I'm not as good as I used to be! lol

"Blam. Good blam." I love it.

Damn right Arcus rules!

You are the man

It's funny hearing about all the comments about how great the music is because when I was a kid I took my boombox and hit the record button on a bunch of the stages in Mega Man 2. I used to love playing them in my Sony Walkman when I was a kid trying to fall asleep at night. Little did I know at the time that most people consider this one of the best NES soundtracks so now I don't feel as weird about it lol. I really did love that games music as a kid though.

Those are some amazing skips, especially in the Woodman stage! Amazing memories playing this game 👍🏼

I didn't realize the cicadas were in the video. We get them here in Tucson.

Seeing these bosses get destroyed so fast is hilarious. They don't know what's coming

I just watched the world record of MM2 live by cyghfer with a time of 26:32. a couple of weeks ago. Amazing to see the best player in the world play this game.

That crashman stage music ❤️

That had to have been a good schwing.

No idea how you hit the final alien boss that many times so fast...insane

Good boom, solid boom :D

This game literally took me 6 hours the first time I beat it.

this game has cool soundtracks

You can uncle Rico wanna go out and make some sweet moolah after this run?