Super Meat Boy: Level Intros & References 

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

6:10 the start of a pink-coulored nightmare

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

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.

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™

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

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

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

2:00 seizure warning

2:39 my favorite intro in the game

0:48 SO AWESOME!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

5:13 everyone knows that this is pokemon

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

2:00 Epilepsy warning!

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

The Pokemon reference took the cake for me LOL

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!

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

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

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.

lmfao about the megaman 2 reference

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

So much awesome music in one video x3

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

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:

Man i love all of those references

0:30 My favorite ☺

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

awesome job dude!!

No worries, you're not alone!

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

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

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...

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" ...

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.

I loved these old game Refrence

Awesome best video ever!

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

Scrolling up the tower was obives to megaan

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

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

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.

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.

Castlevania, street fighter and pokemon references are so gold.

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

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

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

Super Meat Boy Forever continues the tradition of references

awesome vid :D

THAT MEGA MAN WAS SO OBVOUIS and pokemon

4:00 got it first thing

i love this game

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

awesome work here. thank you , but what song is played as while the intro of adventures of lolo is playing (intro world 3)?

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

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.

4:55 perfect timing

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.

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

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

How did i not even get the MegaMan II one

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Otto will be missed whoever watches zachscottgames

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

Meat boy es uno de mis juegos favoritos despues megaman cx,mario 64 last impat y mario odissey

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

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

@mainyufd in fact,the final ending and the fall of dr.fetus kinda looks like bowser falling into the pit of lava

@Eragarev You do know that these intros are parodies of the openings of the other games?

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.

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

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

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

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

Sadly, the Ghosts and Goblins reference was the only one I didn't get, hence viewing this video to find out, lol. I'm also guessing the Super Meat World intro is a reference to Star Wars Episode III?

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.

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

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

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

ive never seen the bubble bobble reference. is it from the regular meat boy?

referencias muy obvias y yo olvidandome de esas referencias xD

@Jorbs3210 Portal GlaDos is in the background.

4:16 Like ;D

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

why doesn't the GnG ref use the music of the meat boy flash intro?

sounds about right

You know it's sad when people see the Mega Man reference and say it's an IWBTG reference.