Same with me but Megaman 2. I always loved how frantic and energetic the music is in these games

@@Marionettetc Quickman’s theme!

@@TheLevelsEdge quickman's theme was almost like a weird samba too, the composers for Megaman just smashed all sorts of genres and tempos together! Very exciting to an 8 year old who has never heard anything like that.

Which music did you end up to create yourself?

Shhhh...keep it down..Magnet Man tiiime!

💯Been saying this

I personally prefer 2, but both are great games!

I couldnt agree more 🙏🏾 I love 3 so much!

Mega Man 2 > Mega Man 3 No one will change my opinion

I think 2 vs. 3 is the great classic Mega Man debate. I doubt either is objectively better than the other, but 2 makes me happier.

i really fell thath bro

You should see Brentalfloss's cover. The music sounds happy, but it's actually mocking you lol

Whoa….

i mean, the game cant say you suck at games if it can be challenging for good players

Genius

Fuck that I'd wake up in tears every day because it's so beautiful.

Oh... Thats good idea.thanks♥

That's a perfect alarm!

Go listen to mm3snake.

I don't think you know how long a decade is

@@nicolasickovic7432 I stand by what I wrote, because, between the both of us, *I am obviously the one who actually understands English.* But hey - try to prove me wrong... and I'll actually show you how much of a fool you truly are. Seriously, for your sake: delete your comment - you sound like a complete moron.

@@nicolasickovic7432 we are indeed in the 4th decade since the game was released, so it's correct (1990's, 2000's, 2010's and 2020's). There's no need for 40 literal years to pass in order to use that expression.

@@uberdriven it's not an expression. "Literally 4 decades" would be 40 years. Are you the kind of person that says 4 inches when it's really 3 and 7/8?

@@nicolasickovic7432 nah, I get your point, but I think he meant that this has been in their head across 4 different decades. But yeah, you're mathematically right 😅

Yeah bud, takes us all back too "simpler" times, so nostalgic and peaceful. Simple and elegant.

41 year old here! I listen to it like twice a year ha.

No.... I turn 40 in June. :p

40 in July, but yes, absolutely.

At the river at night with my bluetooth

It is an incredible game. And it holds a lot of memories for me.

Same

For me it was Mega Man 2 which was the first one I played. When I was a kid I thought you were able to pick the characters and play as them. It was my first exposure to then I realized it was something different. Loved it ever since.

Das könnte ich geschrieben haben! Bei mir war es genauso! Gänsehaut… Sascha, ich hab dich lieb! R.I.P.

I think its the better game but MM2 soundtrack stands out so much more. Every boss music in MM2 hits harder, 3 lots of the stages are very average IMO. Wily's castle in 3 is epic though i will say that

Adrian Elicegui I always thought the ending cutscenes did a good job highlighting that in 1-4 watching Mega Man walking home, alone with his thoughts. 1's version of this was portrayed as more upbeat but all of those made you really want to get in his head and wonder what he's thinking after such an ordeal, which of course is counter to how we're supposed to see a robot.

billny33 great interview withe the real creator of mega man highlighting some of these themes. shmuplations.com/megaman/

As if you're Megaman saying... "Do I really have to keep fighting this fight... again?" The reluctant hero's lament type thing.

I always felt a strong sense of longing and loss, which is so incredible from early video game scores...

I noticed! especially the epilogue song. it sounds almost like saying goodbye to an old way of life. it still pops into my head at moments in my life like this.

Yup it always made me feel on a mission to do something epic lol! Same with Storm Owl’s track from the X4, very patriotic

Sure ampharous

For me it's best weapon upgrade theme of the entire series!

Ikr

Dude you can basically choose any section in the game and the soundtrack will be 10/10

same with the wily castle intro, it's probably the best intro theme in the series but only a fourth of it plays ingame...

Me 2! Ohhh the feels

Im almost on my 40s too and still love with all my soul this soundtrack, it was my first MM game back then and i beaten all 11 classic games and every X entry, but this keeps being my absolute favorite, every track is a banger.

@@feiwong3634 they need 2 remake xenogears and xenosaga DARN IT!

@@feiwong3634 their remastered chrono cross and final fantasy tactics

@@isaacmettle Yeah but Xenogears without Tetsuya Takahashi would be a fail, and Namco has the rights to Xenosaga, it would be cool to have a collection HD

総合点高過ぎよな。 瞬間最大風速は２か勝つけど、３はトータルで勝つ

@@oscarjimenez3435 uf es hasta sorprendente el contraste de los 2 recuerdos! jaja espero ahora estés mejor :)

When I just listened to it, it immediately brought a smile to my face

me too.

Me 3

That's a pretty cool father :)

For me 2, 3 and 5 are the masters of the NES era what comes to music :D

I have to give the Kudos to my mom. She got me into these game masterpieces! She didn’t like playing them much, but she loves the music, or at least can derive a track is a “Mega Man”. We would play Gradius and Bubble Bobble together many afternoons/nights when I was a kid!

@@ethandarner MM9 is absolute fire, and my second favorite in the entire ip. my comment referred to 8-bit, but yes, MMX is legendary, and has some of the best tunes on the snes. MM2 really started it all for capcoms amazing sound reputation and was crazy good. but imo, its kinda over-rated. theres some awesome tracks on that ost. but i think capcom topped it with MM3 personally, and even MM4 and MM5 are brilliant. we dont talk about MM6- garbage. MM9 blew me away, but isnt true 8-bit technically i guess. MM2 is still solid as fck tho, cant argue that. not a single bad tune in there. i guess to me, its over-played and over-rated. and i like what they did with later titles, refining the sound and the melodies. either way, think we can agree MM2, MM3, MM9 and MMX are pretty much the pinnacle of megaman soundtracks. even MM7 had some bangers. its hard to choose favorites from this franchise, and ive made a couple video lists here on yt. but its never perfect lol.

I personally prefer the soundtrack of 10, but all the others listed absolutely slap, too.

@@ethandarner you fogor mega man 4

Totally agree

MM2 Flash man will always be the track I think of most for original MM games

After starting with those tunes it's like, "My body is ready!" I still don't get why people say Mega Man 2 is a better OST than Mega Man 3. Mega Man 2 is great, don't get me wrong, and its Wily Fortress 1 is still one of the top 5 NES tracks of all time, but 3 is just better in so many other ways.

Dargonhuman 3 just has a consistently amazing soundtrack, even for the typically throwaway Stage Select, Weapon upgrade and Password themes. 3 also has riveting Wily stage themes. Aside from 2s Wily Stage 1, it only had one other, weak Wily theme. So taken as a whole, 3 wins out.

Ears: Uuuuugh~!

I'm neutral about this, but maybe it's because 2 was such a huge step-up from 1 overall, including in the music - besides, 2 is the best-selling Mega Man game as of now. Imagine if you go to, say, the circus and you see an okay trapeze act, then you go the next week for some reason (go with it plz); this time, though, you see the best trapeze act you've ever seen in your life. That moment is more impactful after the week before than the NEXT week, where you realise you like this particular trapeze act and go and see it again. Even if week 3 is marginally (or quite a bit) better than 2, you will always cherish 2's performance 40 years later because of nostalgia. (Weird illustration, I know, but it was the first thing that I thought of. Yep.)

I used to play in a clonic console. My first game was a 3 in 1 cartridge what contained Rockman 3, Adventure Island 3 and Double Dragon 3. Well, I only purchased this for the great music and the detailed logo in the start of the first game, I never played a Mega Man classic game before and seeing this in a 8-bit console was impressive. I moved to another city and I lost the cartridge, I feel so sad and nostalgic for that. Since that I always stick around to try to encounter one similar.

I know what? This is my favorit song maybe in all Megaman soundtracks!

Best track in the entire franchise.

My favorite too

@@NumanBaba Shhh, they are going to eventually come and find this comment. We must hide. Who are they? The people who realize that after 8 years of listening to MM2 OST on repeat decided to click on MM3 and realize its the superior one. Especially Wily's Castle 2.

That song is very sad, but is my favorite at the same time

I agree, to find out the mysterious robort is your older brother!

ohh protomans theme. i love it bro XD

I love this song

agree

Cool but man does it hurt my ear

Same here. One of the best 8 bit BGM ever.

Next to Spark Mans.

same!

Def brings me back

Ya kiddin' me, friend? I mean, Magnet Man's theme was the first song I ever Kazaa'd~ we had this when I was a little guy, my dad and me beat it together. He'd defeat the Reboot Master levels, then I'd take over for the Wily Stages.. ALWAYS loved hearing that boss music!!

Nickel The Wise I used to beat the game so I could listen to the best song ever “mega man 3 ending credits song”!!

En castellano plis

I don't know why but my bro and I always sang the lyrics "No pub-licity, no pub-licity.. No Publicity NOW!!" to that song.

Apparently she only did 3 of these tracks before going on maternity leave: Needle Man, Gemini Man and Staff Roll. Those tracks also sound different from the rest, which are made by Yasuaki Fujita (they are not related). Her tracks are good, but Yasuaki had several strokes of genius here and made something for the ages.

The key to this seemingly lossless soundtrack rip is a ton of reverb being applied. The music generally sounds worse on real hardware after listening to Grad1us's edited and equalised rips.

Михаил Михайлов The reverb sounds nice. It sounds more like what you would hear from a TV.

@@one_step_sideways I wonder how it would sound if someone mixed the music with adjusted frequencies. Lower Bass, crystal clear highs, and some punchy drums

This comment aged like milk : /

@@pug_lover_6450 I mean, that's inevitable at some point. I generally got a knack for that.

Brandon Ginsburg I seriously can’t think of a better video game song, ever.

Yeah I love spark man

@@happygodavid megaman V wily stages/MaGMML2 tier 8 level - escape sequence

LittleBalla Productions 9 is not bad

Funny thing is, I suffer from a very severe misophonia (kind of a "intolerance" to certain sounds) and one of my "triggers" is whistles, specially in a tune practically identical to this song. The effects on me is having all of the body reactions to pain with psychological/cognitive adverse effects on top of it. To make it simple, whistles makes me "feel pain" and all the reactions related to it, from my body to my mind... But somehow this single song never triggered it. Instead I love it to pieces since the very first time I managed to beat this game and even today, 3 decades later, I still love it. The magic of great art, I think.

磁石ステージも良いですし、タップマンステージなんかも聴けば聴くほど味が出る、そんな曲が3には多いですね。

​@@gamemusic-30minutes-2ndseason あと硬もそう言える

アンタ分かってるな！ サビからメロに戻るときの繋ぎ方が信じられないくらい斬新でカッコいい

I would spend several minutes at a time between levels listening to Weapon Get and the stage select screen, just enjoying the music.

Did the music have an emotional effect on you too? Like almost like a reluctant hero having to fight a repeating battle over again but never giving up or giving in... it just fit with the game.

Looks like someone has excellent taste

Wow, what an insightful interpretation. I was way too young to think about those two games in that manner!

I think their base simplicity also has helped them age extremely well. They are just good NES games. Yet despite that they also are very innovative with the non-liniear structure, ability to use your enemy's power ups and the traversal powers. It really feels they first made a simple but very solid base and then build on top of that. This is in contrast to a lot of modern games that are just a bunch of overly complicated ideas thrown together.

Can't stop the top! Don't shoot me when I'm dancing! Dodge bullets when I'm spinning! Can't stop the top!

haha u aint the only one

Wily Castle 2 is dramatic which is perfect for being a boss stage theme. It's my favorite along with Spark Man & Hard Man.

agreed

Nonononono... HARD man is underrated! Gemini man’s theme might be too. Spark man’s stage is probably one of the most popular mm3 robot master themes.

Agreed

FISH STIKS agreed, i always think spark man theme when i think mega man 3

thnx a lot Japanese for this great game c:

２よりも総合点高い。 特にハードマンは随一

GB version is superior

ikr

Never thought of it in quite that context before, but you make an excellent point. I always did appreciate and respect the amount of talent and skill that went into making such great, memorable and varied music on such limited hardware but I didn't really consider *why* they went through so much effort to so definitely craft and shape our childhoods with these games; it had to be a labor of love for them.

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Yeah. Sound chips only had a limited number of sounds you could play at the same time as well as what types of waves you could use. Square waves, triangle waves, noise. Arcades had more sophisticated chips in the mid to late 80s, but were too costly for home consoles of the era. It's also why, whenever I dabbled in pixel art, I loved working with limited palettes like that of the Commodore 64 or IBM's ega graphics card. Try to use the limited resources you're given to make something awesome. Takes so much skill and love to create something memorable in the 8 or 16-bit era, even moreso to try and push a console or early computer to its limits, graphically or otherwise.

Imagine how good you had to be as a musician in order to get a job composing for a company with the stature of Capcom in the 80s! And it wasn't just one person, but usually multiple composers credited for each game. They must have each spent a lot of time composing just a few songs on each game, but clearly those songs had to be fucking GOOD by the time the game went out the door.

@@mariano3182 u sure you're 37?

Agreed. That track is merciless and hopeless. Very dramatic and fitting.

Gives me the chills! Great song!

It was my first Megaman game too. I played 3 before 2. Then 1. 1 was more brutal to me when I was a kid. (oh so many pits and spikes 😱)

Same. My first MM, and my favorite one.

same here! i was 10

This soundtrack definitely has blues influence.

@Ashwin Ash The title track is blues, through and through. And you can pick up hints of it in many of the other tracks.

Not to mention Proto Man's Japanese name is Blues.

@@RandomMcSomethin That's right!

Melancholic, but it's also upbeat. Most of the tracks have a "things are tough, but let's fucking do this" vibe. If anyone has any recommendations for other soundtracks like this let me know.

Super Mario Galaxy would like to have a word with you

@@pug_lover_6450 this is the biggest joke i've ever read

@@mika_iran thank you. While I do think Galaxy's soundtrack is amazing, I mostly said this as a j o k e. So thanks for the compliment bud

@Всё интересное oh yeah both soundtracks of Sonic CD are top tier. My personal favorite one is the Japanese one

@Всё интересное my favorite tracks are D.A Garden and Tidal Tempest Present. Stardust Speedway Present is a good listen tol

Same (was younger than 13 lol)

This tune reminds me of vetrex4life. Remember watching his videos about forgotten games.

I'd say it's the game over music for me at 1:27 lol

@@rip93ford That, too. lol

Wait really?

私も途中までしか聞けないと思っていたんですが、弟の友人がおそらく同じ方法で最後まで聞かせてくれました。 それをビデオ録画して大事に保存してましたね

Im 13 and i love megaman (i Have played it since 4years)

Yeah!!

You got: Sued

Better yet, there needs to be a video game radio station.

@@JayByrd83 I'd listen lol

He has added echo.

dunno man, just think it sounds better than the upload by the guy with the power glove

I like his work sometimes, but it's definitely nice to have a clean and more accurate version available to enjoy - especially for this OST in particular

Not only does use to much reverb, but I never liked how he mixed or panned each channel. As someone who knows how to do this myself, I find gradu's uploads closer to I listen to NSF soundtracks.

Yea grad1u52' are way more accurate/high quality

Totalmente de acuerdo contigo

X 3 yo amo el megaman 2 y el 3

....momentos invaluables....