I can't recall if I ever beat Mega Man 2. I got Mega Man 1, 2, and 3 all at the same time when I was about 10 years old, so they all kind of blend together for me. However, I do remember that Air Man's level was a pain in the proverbial petute.
So what does this all have to do with anything? Well, in my last post, I claimed that my favorite song of TomBobBlender's was Robo's theme song. For the past three days, my head has been telling me otherwise.
Reverberating through my skull since Sunday night has been TomBobBlender's rendition of the song from the first part of Dr. Wily's level in Mega Man 2. Tuesday night, I decided enough was enough. As I do when a song is stuck in my head, I played the music in question time and time again until it gets swept away. Except this time it didn't work like that. Because of YouTube's "Related Videos" links, I was sucked into the never-ending spiral that defines my YouTubing experience. Curse you, YouTube!
I listened to rendition after rendition of Dr. Wily pt. 1. Then I found a couple of good renditions of Bloody Tears from Castlevania, a wicked fast rendition of some music from Kirby, and a friggin awesome video of Tetris's C theme for two classical guitars. Beautiful stuff.
It was about the time I was perusing the many variations on Bloody Tears that my wife asked if I could find the music from Castlevania Adventure for Gameboy. I must have gone through everything labeled "Castlevania" on YouTube. This is a transcript of our conversation Tuesday night:
Rockin' Castlevania music plays.
"Is this one it?" I ask.
"No. It goes like this," says Katie.
Katie makes a lot of noise.
"Oh, OK."
I click around for a while.
Rockin' Castlevania music plays.
"Is this one it?" I ask.
"No. It goes like this," says Katie.
Katie makes a lot of noise.
"Oh, OK."
I click around for a while.
Rockin' Castlevania music plays.
"Is this one it?" I ask.
"No. It goes like this," says Katie.
Katie makes a lot of noise.
"Oh, OK."
I click around for a while.
......I think you get the point.
Anyway, one of the times I was clicking around, I ended up doing a Google search for the song she wanted. In doing so, I discovered a site for the ages -- a site to post about.
Check out www.vgmusic.com. It's an archive of midi files for nearly every piece of video game music imaginable. There's even remixes of the popular ones. Enjoy!
