Mega Man 2 was one of the first games I fell in love with as a kid. I remember getting it for Christmas when I was 9 or 10 years old. It didn't take long for that game to completely take me over. The freedom to fight the bosses in whatever order you want? NICE. Numerous improvements over the first Mega Man? NICER. Unique level music for each boss? NICEST.
Now, most games have different music for different levels, this was nothing revolutionary. But these tunes were different somehow. They were insanely infectious. I would have them stuck in my head for hours after I had stopped playing.
Quick Man is a good one. Love the scale run at about the :24 sec mark!
The one I'd really like to highlight, however, isn't one that seems to get a lot of attention. Metal Man's Theme, Quick Man's Theme, and especially Dr. Wiley Stage 1 get a lot of praise, and rightly so. They're great themes! But I love the Bubble Man theme. One thing that sets this tune apart is has a rather long build-up before you get to the meat of the theme. You're about :22 sec in before you hear the very vibrato-laden melody. I love how the vibrato in the NES-era games was so overdone. So endearing.
The Mega Man series has always been one of my favorites, despite its sometime crushing difficulty. If you were too young to have played the early games (II-IV were really good), there are two new Mega Mans? Men? on XBOX Live Arcade that are faithful to these early titles, music and all.
I've got Mega Man 9 on my console at home and it just sits there. Taunting me in the fact that I can't beat it. On second thought, that Mega Man is kind of a jerk.
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