I already knew Mega Man was awesome. And Mega Man 2? Doubly so. That’s pretty much a no-brainer.The same can be said for the electric guitar, for yea, it is the only object known to man from which pure concentrated awesomery flows. However! You may be unprepared when these two crackling pillars of unadulterated awesomeforce intertwine and mingle into the raw, beating mass of downloadable music known as Mega Beardo. Exclamation point!

I haven’t really made clear what Mega Beardo is, exactly. Anyway, here’s this anecdote:
When I was 10 years old, I once played Mega Man 2 for about 8 hours straight. A friend and I spent all that time methodically mapping out the sequence of evil robot bosses we had to fight. Flash Man’s Flash Stopper beat Quick Man, we learned, and Quick Man’s boomerang beat Air Man, and Air Man’s air shooter beat Crash Man.

Beardo musician and mixer Ryan Postlethwait has almost certainly beaten the Mega Man 2 robot bosses in this order at some point in his life. The songs appear in the same order on Mega Beardo, melting into one another in a continuous fugue of prog-rocking not unlike a multi-hour binge of 8-bit gaming. Per his mission “to allow the listener to experience playing the game from beginning to end with his or her ears alone,” Postlethwait does more than just reinterpret the songs from the ’88 console game, he also recreates the adventure, robo-power lust, and love for tasty guitar licks that comes with knocking down one evil robot after another. But don’t believe me; let your ears do the listening:

Hell yeah, that was in Mega Man 2. Yuh-huh. If you like what you’re hearing, download it for free at Mega Beardo’s official site. Chop chop, before Capcom or Nintendo puts the kibosh on this unauthorized facemelting.