Memorable Melodies: Title Screen from Mega Man 2

Song: Title Screen

Game: Mega Man 2

Composer: Kenji Yamazaki

I love video game title screens, and the title screen of Mega Man 2 just might be my all time favorite. You pop the cartridge in and the game boots up. Text begins to scroll telling you what's going on and what the game is all about. Then, the screen starts scrolling up while focusing on a building. The music starts soft, but as the screen scrolls up it gets faster and faster. Then, BOOM! You're at the title screen and Mega Man is standing there with the title of the game above him as one of the best songs in all of video games fills your ears.

Every time I watch the video above I get so hype that I can barely contain myself! There's just something about the way the song builds up and then starts to go nuts that gets to me every time. 

Memorable Melodies: Title Sceen from Spelunky

Song: Title Screen

Game: Spelunky

Composer: Eirik Suhrke

When I started streaming I wasn't the best at talking while playing games. I'm still not great at it, but I have definitely improved. In order to hone my speech skills I started streaming myself playing Spelunky daily. It's a challenging game, but there is so much to talk about. The game is dense in a way that I don't think many other games are. There is so much to know, and that's what makes Spelunky great.

I used to have a definitive list of my ten favorite games of all time. Over the past three years that list has been shattered and rebuilt numerous times. At the moment I think that I would put Spelunky on the list.It was the first Roguelike I tried, and it's still my favorite. At this point I don't know that anything else can replace it. If you want to hear more about my love for Spelunky you can head over to the podcast page and give the Spelunky episode a listen.

We're here to talk about music though. When you boot up Spelunky it goes to a title screen like games of old. It stays on screen until you push start, and loops the same melody forever. Every time I hear the title screen song for Spelunky I get psyched. It means that it's time for some runs. Maybe I'll die instantly, or maybe I'll run train on everything. You never know what you're going to get and that's exciting. The title screen song is one of the only constants in Spelunky I can count on, so I'm glad it's great.

SUPER PRESS START

I saw this earlier today and decided that it had to be shared. Youtube user NickSplosionFX has put together every single Super Nintendo start screen and it's an amazing 9 hours and 3 minutes long.

It's amazing how much nostalgia I can feel for a 3-5 second start screen in a video game. When ActRaisers music came on I got a warm fuzzy feeling inside. The second it started playing I knew it was ActRaiser. I didn't even need to see the title card.

Perhaps if you have 9 hours of free time you should check out this amazing video, or you know, just check it out for a bit.