Super Meat Boy: Level Intros & References

I captured all the video from the games except for two clips:
- The clip of the Internets opening came from • Super Meat Boy - World... because I only have the PC version.
- The clip of Street Fighter II came from • Street Fighter II Vari... because I couldn't get it working on any damn emulator I tried.
Enjoy!

[@_autumnshot_]

5:00 Imagine a parody game where it's like normal Mega Man 2 until Wily kicks Mega Man off the building

[@boinamedrex_69]

Fun Fact: In Japan, Mega Man was called Rockman, but Joseph Morici decided to change the name because he said it sounded terrible.

[@_autumnshot_]

@@boinamedrex_69 Yeah I know lol

[@idiotuk]

@@_autumnshot_ ok unlovable basil (worst omori character)

[@leosamurai1910]

6:10 the start of a pink-coulored nightmare

[@incognito9813]

Thats not hard. TRY to achieve the inmortal trophies in cottom alley and you'll see what a real nightmare looks like.

[@treot]

ghosts 'n goblins is very fitting

[@martinlizana1909]

No te lo dije mil gracias a todos bien gracias

[@user-xh2fr2pv1s]

0 7

[@keanujack605]

dont know if you guys gives a damn but if you are stoned like me during the covid times you can watch all of the new movies on Instaflixxer. Have been binge watching with my brother these days :)

[@Jaymez2012]

The remix to the intro music of Street Fighter 2 is hands down one of the best remixes of any video game song I have ever heard. Like it couldn't have been done any more perfectly.

[@buttermargarine6819]

0:00 Bubble Bobble 0:30 Street Fighter 2 The World Warrior 1:08 Castlevania™ 1:28 Adventures of LoLo™ 2:38 Ninja Gaiden™ 3:52 Megaman 2 5:12 Pokemon™ Blue Version 5:48 Ghosts'N Goblins™

[@Baburun-Sama]

My own Game? Simple!

[@aidanschaeffler4809]

2:39 my favorite intro in the game

[@doralipalacios8073]

Aidan Schaeffler mine too

[@killgore375]

"the year is 200X" that means the megaman was set in 2010

[@smof1]

any chance we could get a video of where the warp zone title screens are references too

[@UoirLocer]

2:00 seizure warning

[@robloxian68]

ok

[@GregoryMom]

uro?

[@jeffindecheirobom8436]

@@GregoryMom nope

[@Helicopter7]

@@GregoryMom nop

[@nathanjohnpalaogaming4872]

@@jackinci3542 i dunno, mayb uhhh, nreakdancing and, being stunned...?

[@ImperatorGrausam]

The Pokemon one looked familiar, and I was like "Hmm.. looks familiar but I don't know from where." oh.

[@p-body9506]

Lel... I thought that was the only reference they had

[@yusukeelric]

The SF2 made laugh so hard every time i started the first world...

[@chee.rah.monurB]

SF2?

[@Sleepieztheadzeverzlolz]

@@chee.rah.monurB sf2 means street fighter 2

[@chee.rah.monurB]

@@Sleepieztheadzeverzlolz Ah,thank you.

[@SlyHikari03]

I love how their adventures of lolo reference has the flashes reduced so it hurts the eyes less. Smart move.

[@gwz]

Never realized exactly how much 8-bit love that was put in this game. I even played most of them. Thanks!

[@dylanmichael1734]

0:48 SO AWESOME!

[@eziostone1109]

5:21 Soo you want your girlfriend? TAKE IT! My favorite :D

[@darkdisguise8945]

I love Dr. Fetus more than Meat Boy 🖕😡🖕

[@Deathlikesensation]

Ahh man I love it so much. I hope Super Meat Boy: Forever has a bunch of references like this too

[@somerandomhandle]

it does

[@goldenboyjr7]

5:13 everyone knows that this is pokemon

[@mariannmariann2052]

2:00 Epilepsy warning!

[@Kahez]

Super meat boy is a giant tribute to video games and that's why it's such an excellent game.

[@Chromeno]

i like how the color scheme of the characters in the ninja gaiden is so perfect

[@Metroidam11]

Whoa! I had no idea that all of these intros were video game references.

[@bestyoshi]

I love how the Meat Boy clip is in sync with the original music from MM2.

[@Callofthevaffles]

I can't believe the amount of effort they put into this game. In my first play through I was blinded by frustration and could not see the beauty and crude yet hilarious humor in this game. A true gem, the high reviews don't lie. The references and characters that are actually worth unlocking put the icing on the cake.

[@ivanperez7647]

The Pokemon reference took the cake for me LOL

[@ngradrian]

Now we only need a Portal reference in the game and this will be my favorite game ever.

[@thefatfighter3263]

There was an unused portal themed cutscene, it had GlAdoS creating dr fetus

[@KilledByHaunted795]

ngradrian glados creating dr fetus

[@JosukeWF]

Warp Zones

[@MercurySG3M]

ngradrian they reference classics only. From childhood.

[@Chromeno]

well super meat world references portal here

[@RottenLegacy]

Because I have probably played less than 50 (full-priced) video games in my life, and I've never owned any sort of console other than a PC (among many, many other reasons), I never understood any of these references. Thanks for making this video!

[@flipmeeyes3642]

idk but i cried whem the megaman music kicked in. 😢😢😢 childhood memories. it was and still is my favorite game. 😢😢😢

[@godofthecripples1237]

How are you feeling about Mega Man 11?

[@KilledByHaunted795]

lmfao about the megaman 2 reference

[@superstarjonesbros]

Ghosts 'N' Goblins reference was also in the beginning of the Flash game Meat Boy.

[@MrSuperlobo200]

Fun Fact : Edmund McMillen And Florence Daven Created All Of Those Game References On The Binding Of Isaac

[@Blade205]

4:00 got it first thing

[@WalkersWonderland]

Thanks for the awesome vid! I had understood all these references while playing other then the adventures of lolo.

[@user-kc8ug4sz9c]

Played most of this,but got just a couple of them playing Meat Boy.My life was a lie...

[@Michael-kd1uc]

Scrolling up the tower was obives to megaan

[@jsnlxndrlv]

Good job putting this together. Shame about Egger not showing up properly-Adventures of Lolo was the first game I got with my NES, so it was cool to see SMB reference it like this.

[@supermario00001]

The Cotton Alley: Wow, got it at first. The Forest: Was pretty obvious. The Hospital: OF COURSE >:O The Salt Factory: HOW I NO RECOGNIZE ADVENTURES OF LOLO! D: Hell: Never played... The Rapture: Obvious... The End: 6 words: How. I. Didn't. F******. Recognize. Pokémon. D:

[@supermario00001]

The Flipside. Okay, thanks, I will play it ^^

[@supermario00001]

The Flipside. Ahh, great, need NES emulator.

[@supermario00001]

The Flipside. I do have a Wii, but no, I don't want to buy it, i like emulators (trains) :D

[@supermario00001]

The Flipside. Save states? What do you think I am, a cheater? I hate using save states. I don't really use them in a game, but, the problem is...I don't have a nes controller.

[@supermario00001]

The Flipside. Okay, I think I'm a little good using Keyboard cause I beat Brownie on my first time IN ONE TRY. Wish good luck to me! :3

[@shanic1411]

I only got the street fighter, castlevania,lolo and megaman on my own

[@GarketMardener]

How did i not even get the MegaMan II one

[@gangstatoad6837]

Me neither :O

[@robloxazo]

Well,its epic music makes it reconogizible

[@anamaria57513]

0:30 My favorite ☺

[@blitzu6501]

3:56 NO SHIT ITS CANT BE!!!!! MEGAMAN!!!!

[@lazuardialdi2646]

Now I Really Hate You DR. FUCKTUS

[@lazuardialdi2646]

Aidan Penaherrera HUUUUH But dis is different....

[@friskthe700thcommanderofhu9]

Jojo reference: "Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!"

[@BlazingGlaceon]

So much awesome music in one video x3

[@Gagolog_y]

if you are fan of kirby you recognize this boss 1:59

[@SomePotatoMan]

Bruh that game came before the boss

[@DahHourglass]

True but still

[@TigerKirby215]

You have to admit, most of these things are obvious, with the exception of the adventure of Lololo, witch was kinda expected cause... well, they had to have a Kirby reference somewhere! :D

[@TheTintedHalo]

Wow, I knew about a lot of these, but the Pokemon reference just dropped my jaw. I've been playing this game for a looooong time, and finally got 106%, but never ONCE, did I catch that. ... Clever girl...

[@Fayssal4]

Someone: breathes Dr. Fetus: *flips you off*

[@Kirbybobo]

You know, I just realized. They used Ghosts'N Goblins as the reference point...for Cotton Alley Fitting? Of course.

[@conorneligan7694]

Having beaten GnG I'd say Cotton Alley could be harder. Then again I never had much patience for it.

[@electronicgameboy6631]

4:55 perfect timing

[@p-body9506]

Oh damn

[@Ericventiladores]

D

[@lakie92]

Epicly done man!, Gratz on the SMB twitter mention :P

[@1KonArtis]

awesome job dude!!

[@pigeonmanx4655]

Man i love all of those references

[@nathuxx4829]

No worries, you're not alone!

[@SandroFrancisMiranda123]

I LOVE SUPER MEAT BOY AND I DID NOT EVEN KNOWN THAT THOSE SCENES ARE REFERENCES TO OTHER GAMES

[@FluffyGameplay]

There's a Mortal Kombat reference too.Reptile randomly gives clues, so does Meat Ninja.They both say "Look to la luna." as well.

[@jess648]

Super Meat Boy Forever continues the tradition of references

[@breadgerd]

Awesome best video ever!

[@seiyuch.]

Most of those scenes can be seen in I Wanna Be The Guy too.

[@buzzlightyearpfp7641]

THAT MEGA MAN WAS SO OBVOUIS and pokemon

[@hacsakalllar4038]

+Bennett Taylor and ninja gaiden. Those 3 were pretty obvious references but i didnt knew about the others.

[@hacsakalllar4038]

+Bennett Taylor i didnt counted pokemon. It wasnt that obviois tbh.

[@toooydoeur]

Adventures of lolo and bubble bobble were easy also

[@christymarersma9852]

Otto will be missed whoever watches zachscottgames

[@charlesajones77]

Thank you. The only one I totally didn't recognize at all was the Lolo one, and that's been bugging me. I only played that game once, and it was a rental. The only other one I didn't get right away was Pokemon. Hard to believe, but I've never owned a Gameboy of any kind.

[@pedrobueno8265]

4:16 Like ;D

[@richbichrich]

5:00 seeing Dr Fetus kick Meat Boy in the corner made my night.

[@ardians8241]

5:00

[@Theendbest88]

Castlevania, street fighter and pokemon references are so gold.

[@SireShigeru]

In the epilogue, when the castle is destroy, we can see the castle explose and we can heard a remix of "where is my mind" by Pixies ... I'm sure that's a reference to the end of "Fight club" ...

[@shiroshi9747]

I loved these old game Refrence

[@darthrevan3342]

I knew they where a lot of reference but Buble boble my firts game ever..

[@ShadowNekoG]

When i saw gamefreak logo i was like oh no -_- its pokemon

[@antoniomolinet]

i cant believe they played thoose good games like pokemon or ninja gaiden

[@Arbitrary6104]

The reason he did this like that is because there are different music sounds. So the first time you hear the Super Meat Boy music and sounds, and the second time you hear the original game's music and sounds.

[@blazingdude11]

Before I only got the castlevania and megaman 2 references, I didn't know they all referenced something.

[@manboahshareletskay9862]

2:00 wait.. are those characters from kirby?

[@kingofgrunder5494]

+Manboah Shareletskay Yeah! In fact HAL made them before Kirby ever existed!

[@CarolinaLopez-hg4qo]

Umm yes

[@serris4452]

@@kingofgrunder5494 wow, didn't even know this game existed.

[@kingofgrunder5494]

@@serris4452 Cripes you just made me read a comment I made when I was a dumb lil boy heheh.

[@DylanDude]

King Caden It happens after over eight years of commenting.

[@LuckyBird551]

The more amazing thing is that since Kirby got more and more popular than Lolo and Lala, Lololo and Lalala became more popular than them, even appearing as supporting characters in the Kirby animated series (Kirby: Right Back at Ya!) but there they were called Fololo and Falala, for some reason.

[@theevilguy6636]

4:22 OH! THAT A REFERENCE ON "IWANNABETHEGUY"! *4 seconds later* *That is Megaman* FUCK

[@plocky401]

i love this game

[@Anjrew62]

SMB referenced mega man on lvl 5 - the same level you unlock the kid from IWBTG on, but IWBTG parodied the exact same reference as their title cut-scene. Plus, the kid warp zone is on level 7, the number of bosses on IWBTG.

[@agunsson]

at the end with the red blob thing it is a thing about sponebob or another thing were squidward gets hit in the face and turns beautiful

[@GameGalaxyTM]

Sort of ironic, actually, how The Binding of Isaac references a lot to Super Meat Boy, also by Edmund McMillen, and Super Meat Boy references to a lot of other games as you can see in this video, so The Binding of Isaac is sort of referencing to a reference itself.

[@CitrusThings]

I was never able to beat enough levels to get that last one

[@Manzana1C]

I'm amazed how I played ALL these games and not reconigsed not even a single reference when I played SMB

[@VGMastr125]

No, Lolo was a character from a completely different series, but when HAL released Kirby's Dreamland few years later, they created two characters based of Adventures of Lolo, Lololo [based off Lolo] and Lalala [based of Lala, Lolo's girlfriend]. God, I sound like such a nerd.

[@SergTheKing]

awesome vid :D

[@SoloWingSpitfire]

The Ghosts n' Goblins one was the best one, because cotton alley was just as hard!

[@erikgmez]

everyone should know where 5:12 is from lol

[@Gojiro7]

what pisses me off is when this game came to PS4, they altered the music for these level intro's and almost completely destroyed what they were parodying

[@MxPokirby]

I knew the Ninja Gaiden one, Adventures of Lolo, Pokemon, Castlevania and Mega Man 2. I would've known about the Ghosts and Goblins one two, but I've never seen that cutscene in Super Meat Boy before.

[@pacothemajestic]

I immediately knew the Street Fighter, Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, Megaman 2, and Pokemon ones.

[@FluffyGameplay]

Ones that I found by myself: Bubble Bobble, Street Fighter II, Castlevania, Mega Man, and Ghosts & Goblins. And if you include Meat Ninja, then Mortal Kombat.

[@mrluckyy77]

I just realized the Original Meat Boy (flash version)'s intro was a direct homage to Ghosts and Goblins' intro.

[@juno9241]

02:26 I got for the LOLO get it?

[@irfanafendi4837]

I'm in LOVE with the Lolo!

[@LunarM4ngo]

Adventures of LOLo ('3')

[@LittleBigKilla]

lolo, megaman and pokemon were the only ones i noticed by myself

[@FAZEDIE56]

4:35 that's the begging of I wanna be the guy!

[@pitosh717]

The Mega Man reference is so Fu!#&@n good!

[@TheDragonLord12341]

I have 14 years and I play with pokemon red edition and I want to play them again

[@SS-vm8uc]

referencias muy obvias y yo olvidandome de esas referencias xD

[@tocininelcerdito]

+Sonic Saiyan lol eres tu

[@EpicFrazz]

I knew that was Pokemon! :D

[@PurpleRupees]

I knew quite a few of these. I knew Castlevania, MM2, Ninja Gaiden, and Ghosts n Goblins right away. I somehow failed to see Generation I Pokemon intro though.

[@WexMajor82]

So, no one else noticed Bubble Bobble beginning at the first try...? I am getting old.

[@syrebi]

WexMajor82 Yes

[@FrenziedGarchomp]

The pokemon reference was the only one I got lol but I knew those were references I just didn't know the game it was to

[@Norex7777777]

sounds about right

[@ZedLore24]

Bubble Bobble (Internet Reference) Street Fighter II (Forest Reference) Castlevania (Hospital Reference) Adventures of Lolo (Factory Reference) Ninja Gaiden (Hell Reference) Mega Man II (Rapture Reference) Pokemon Blue Ver. (End Reference) Ghosts 'N' Goblins (Cotton Alley Reference)